Electronic Measurement Science and Technology

Course developed by: Pere Joan Rius Costa, Ramon Bragos Bardia, Electronic Engineering Dept, UPC 
Contact: pere.riu@upc.edu

Course Description

This Master’s course aims to train students in methods of design, implementation and operation of advanced instrumentation and sensor systems. This includes instrumentation and sensor networks, recovering of signals in noisy environments, advanced sensor conditioning methods, smart sensor systems, information codification in non-analog domains and advanced uncertainty analysis.

After this course, the student will know the physical principles and manufacturing technology of advanced sensors; how to design and manage network measurement systems; know how to design virtual instrumentation and automatic test systems, and how to design the measurement and processing blocks of IoT devices.

The course includes labs sessions in which the student will develop of a sensor based on impedance spectroscopy for biotechnological application. The student will construct and characterize the sensor. Through the labs, system-level design approaches for Frugal Design will be introduced, with emphasis in the mediating role of measurement systems and their applications in sustainability.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, students are able to …