Course unit, curriculum year 2023–2024
BBT.028
Measurement B, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Active in period 1 (1.8.2023–22.10.2023)
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Active in period 5 (1.6.2024–31.7.2024)
Course code
BBT.028Language of instruction
FinnishAcademic years
2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2023–2024Level of study
Intermediate studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Mikko PeltokangasResponsible organisation
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology 100 %
Coordinating organisation
MET Studies 100 %
Core content
- Basic concepts and specialities related to the physiological measurements and biomedical engineering
- Measuring scales, SI system, basic terminology of measurement technology and metrology, measurement standards, the structure of a measurement system.
- Measurement uncertainty, calibration, metrological traceability, and legal verification.
- Static and dynamic performance of a measurement system, measurement error, frequency response.
- Sensor for most common quantities (e.g displacement, temperature, pressure, acceleration, force) and their physical principles
- Use of multimeter and oscilloscope
- Generation of measurement signals, difference between analog and digital signal, AD conversion, Nyquist's sampling theorem, noise, interferences, measurement cards
- Basic use of numerical data analysis software, basics of data analysis (e.g. linear regerssion)
Complementary knowledge
- Develpment of measurement standards
- Siginifcance of calibration, metrological traceability, legal verification and measurement uncertainty analysis
- Link between frequency and time domain presentations
- Properties and unidealities of sensors
- The loading effect of measurement, basic unidealities of electrical measurement devices
- Signal conditioning
- Image based measurements
Specialist knowledge
- Link between measurement uncertainty and information theory
- Laplace-transformation, the mathematical analysis of the dynamics of measurement systsems
- Basic electrical circuits for sensors
- Electrical equivalent circuits
- Origin and coupling mechanisms of noise and disturbances
Learning outcomes
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Accepted exam, laboratory works and exercises.
Completion of all options is required.
Participation in teaching
08.01.2024 – 10.03.2024
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Participation in teaching
04.03.2024 – 29.04.2024
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Exam
12.09.2023 – 12.09.2023
Active in period 1 (1.8.2023–22.10.2023)
28.02.2024 – 28.02.2024
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
10.04.2024 – 10.04.2024
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
08.05.2024 – 10.06.2024
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Active in period 5 (1.6.2024–31.7.2024)
10.05.2024 – 10.05.2024
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)