PDP Study plan Calendar
	Instrumentation and Data Acquisition, Spring 2010 Zheng-Hua Tan, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Tel: +45 9940-8686, Email: zt@es.aau.dk, URL: http://kom.aau.dk/~zt Office: Room A6-319, Niels Jernes Vej 12
	Course description and outline: The course will enable the student to understand - in theory and practice - how to acquire, process and output data with computers. For more details refer to the course description in Danish.  Course type and load: Product & Design Psychology (PDP) 4th semester, PE course, 2ECTS (1 studiekreds, 1 selvstudium)  Literature: Slides will be made available prior to each lecture and the following books/articles can be used as a reference.  Jacob Fraden, “Handbook of modern sensors: physics, designs, and applications” Springer, 3rd edition, 2003. Steven W. Smith, "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing", California Technical Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-9660176-3-3. http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm (You can download the entire book!) Data Acquisition Toolbox User's Guide Chapters 1 and 2. Lecture notes: · Lecture 1 Introduction o Slides  o Readings: Jacob Fraden, “Handbook of modern sensors: physics, designs, and applications” Springer, 3rd edition, 2003. · Chapter 1, “Data acquisition”. · Lecture 2 Circuit concepts and sensors o Slides o Readings: Direct current circuit concepts How strain gauge works · Lecture 3  Sensors, signals, ADC and DAC o Slides o Readings: Jacob Fraden, “Handbook of modern sensors: physics, designs, and applications” Springer, 3rd edition, 2003. · Chapter 14 and 16. Steven W. Smith, "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing", California Technical Publishing, 2007. · Charpter 3, “ADC and DAC”. · Lecture 4 Digital representation and data analysis o Slides o Readings: Steven W. Smith, "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing", California Technical Publishing, 1997. · Chapter 1, "The breadth and depth of DSP". · Chapter 2, "Statistics, probability and noise", pp.11-28 · Lecture 5 Noise, precision and accuracy  o Slides o Readings: Steven W. Smith, "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing", California Technical Publishing, 1997. · Chapter 2, "Statistics, probability and noise", pp. 29-34. Jacob Fraden, “Handbook of modern sensors: physics, designs, and applications” Springer, 3rd edition, 2003. · Chapter 2, Section 2.2-2.6.