ME 170A Syllabus

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
Spring Quarter 2015
Instructor

Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti

Email: fabiopas@engr.ucr.edu
Office Hours: M-W 1:30 - 2:30 pm, Bourns A309 (email first)

Teaching Assistants

Mikalie Lai
Email: mlai007@ucr.edu
Lanlan Zhong
Email: lzhon002@ucr.edu
Duncan Ashby
Email: dashb001@ucr.edu

Lectures

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 3:10 - 4:00 pm

Room: HMNSS 1501

Labs

M 11:10 - 2:00 pm; T-R 2:10 - 5:00 pm; R 6:10 - 9:00 pm;
F 8:10 - 11:00 am
Room: BRNHL B213AA

Textbook

Experimental Methods for Engineers (eighth edition)

Author: J. P. Holman

Further readings

Theory and Design for Mechanical Measurements

Authors: Richard S. Figliola and Donald E. Beasley

Homework

Assigned weekly or bi-weekly and typically due on Friday

(not graded)

Lab Reports

Typically assigned weekly with 1 week time

Grading

Your final grade will be based approximately on 40% lab,

30% midterms (2), and 30% final

Final exam

June 9th 2015, 7-10 PM, HMNSS 1501

Collaboration Policy

You are encouraged to work with other students on your

assignments. Working in groups of more than four people
is discouraged. The material you turn in for course credit
must be a fair representation of your work. You are responsible for understanding and being able to explain and
duplicate the work you submit. Academic Dishonesty will
not be tolerated in any form.

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Topics covered
Week
1

Topic
Introduction to measurement
systems and signals
Error analysis and statistics

Chapter LAB
2 & 15
No Lab
3 & 16

Instrumentation

A/D conversion and sampling rate

Electrical circuits and transient

response
Midterm; Digital devices

RC circuits

Temperature measurement

8&9

Operational amplifiers and wheatstone bridge

Pressure and velocity measurement

Temperature
coefficient

Strain measurement

10

Pressure and hydraulic measurement

Midterm; Beam theory

11

Strain measurement

Mechatronics; Vibrations

11

No lab

10

Flow measurements

No lab

2
3

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and

heat

transfer

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