Area: | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
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Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** | |
Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Other: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
Syllabus: | Introduction to measurements for scientific and engineering applications: principles of measurement; standards; calibration; causes and types of errors in measurement; uncertainty analysis; statistical analysis of experimental data; regression analysis; curve fitting techniques; generalised performance characteristics of instruments; order and response of instruments; measuring instruments for force, torque, strain, motion, humidity, noise and vibration, pressure, flow, temperature, and heat flux; optical measurement methods for heat and fluid flow; measurement of combustion products; data acquisition and processing. |
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** | |
Field of Education: | 030701 Mechanical Engineering |
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Essential *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Area External | Central External | Fully Online |
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2010 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y |
Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External