SME101 - Measurement and Instrumentation

Teachers

• Lectures: Johan Carlson (johanc@ltu.se), Office: A2219.
• Lab work: Jesper Martinsson & Johan Carlson (jesper.martinsson@ltu.se).
• Problem demonstration: Jesper Martinsson, Office A2208.

Office hours

• Johan Carlson, office A2219: After the lectures, Mondays and Thursdays 15:30-16:30 unless otherwise posted here or outside A2219
• Jesper Martinsson, office A2208: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 15:30-17:00.

Course schedule

• LTU campus schedule. Deadlines posted below.
• Distance student's schedule. Hand in the reports before Christmas.

Extra exam for exchange students

There will be an extra exam for exchange students that will leave Luleå before Christmas. The exam will be on Tuesday, December 19. Other students can also sign up for this exam if they wish. I can not, however, guarantee that the exam will be graded before the original exam in January, so do not sign up for both!

Lab work

The practical part of the labs can be performed in groups of 2-3 students, but the written report and the homework assignments must be done individually. The reason for this is that the lab work is part of the overall examination of the course.

Here you can find MATLAB files needed for the labs.

For those who need an introduction to MATLAB, try this.

• Lab 1: Navigation using a 2-D accelerometer.
  Deadline: Friday, Nov. 17, 17:00.
• Lab 2: Deflection bridges and strain gauges.
  Deadline: Friday, Dec. 1, 17:00
• Lab 3, and MATLAB files for homework: Temperature measurement.
  Deadline: Friday, Dec. 15, 17:00.

Course plan

Lecture	Chapters	Exercises
Lecture 1	1-2	2.1-2.4 2.7-2.17
Lecture 2, example, and MATLAB files	2-3	2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4-3.9
Lecture 3 (updated)	4	4.1-4.4, 4.7, 4.9
Lecture 4 (updated), examples	5	5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.8-5.9
Lecture 5	6	6.1 & 6.2
Problem demonstration 1	1-4	none
Lecture 6 and notes	6	6.3-6.5
Lecture 7 (updated Nov. 20)	8.1 & 9.1	Homework of Lab 3
Lecture 8	8.2-8.10	8.14-8.18, 8.3, 8.4, 8.11
Lecture 9	10.1, 12.1	None
Lecture 10		12.3-12.6
Lecture 11	16	None
Lecture 12	14 (cancelled)	14.4
Problem demonstration		none
Problem demonstration		none
MATLAB slides and MATLAB zip file		none

Old exams

• Dec. 20, 2005: Exam and draft solutions.
• Jan. 13, 2006: Exam.
• March 14. 2006: Exam.
• August 19, 2006: Exam.

Some words about cheating

I was hoping never to have to say this, but some students cheat. I want to make it perfectly clear that I do not beleive any of you will do this, and simply by mentioning a thing like this can offend some students. In no way do I want to offend you, and I always assume that you are all honest, hard-working and ambitious students that are here because you want to learn.

Nevertheless, sad things happen and for legal reasons I am obliged to clearly state what is not allowed. I consider it to be cheating if, apart from the obvious in trying to cheat at the written exam:

• You hand in a written report in your name, that is obviously a copy of someone else's work.
• You copy copyrighted material from the web (such as text and figures) without proper references to the original work. In some cases it is even required to have the written consent from the copyright owner.

All this said, I sincerely hope that I never have to mention it again. I am here to help you learn the material. I also strongly encourage that you work together as a group. Discussions are helpful to everyone during the process of learning new material. I am definitely not interested in taking this away. If you work as you have always done, I am sure none of the above will never become an issue.

Sincerely,
Johan Carlson