Student Learning Objectives
By the end of this semester, the successful student should be able to:
- Use single-sample and multiple-sample uncertainty analysis to design an experiment and to evaluate the validity of experimental results.
- Describe the measurement chain and estimate the following errors for a variety of measurement systems: process unsteadiness errors, calibration/data acquisition errors, physical errors, and conceptual errors.
- Estimate amplitude and aliasing errors in dynamic measurements.
- Utilize design techniques for reducing the errors described in (a) and (b) through iterative analysis.
- Be able to propagate an individual measured variable uncertainty to a result for measurement system design and for the reporting of a final result.
- Describe the basic principles and techniques for temperature, pressure, strain, and flow rate measurements.
- Conduct experiments with computer aided data acquisition equipment.
- Use the language, media, resources, formats, styles, and techniques of mechanical engineering and bioengineering effectively and persuasively.
- Demonstrate fundamental best practices of writing in mechanical engineering and bioengineering.
- Critically read mechanical engineering and bioengineering scholarly and professional texts in order to describe ways of thinking, writing, and researching specific to engineering.
- Use mechanical engineering and bioengineering scholarly and professional texts as models for writing projects.
- Prepare technical reports with clear, correct prose and professionally formatted figures and tables.