An Electronic Instrumentation Course as Part of a Multidisciplinary Learning Project

Abstract

This paper describes a final year undergraduate course on electronic Instrumentation. This course is part of multidisciplinary collaboration that involves several assignments of a last year undergraduate course in Electrical Engineering: Computers, Electronic Instrumentation, Automatic Control and Business Administration. The students must propose a new product, elaborate a market survey, etc. to create a new enterprise following the same steps than in a real case. As respect to the assignment of Electronic Instrumentation, the students must design a prototype of the electronic system or subsystem of the product they propose. The main goal of this course is to cover and to integrate the disciplines involved in instrumentation within a framework that provides highly motivating work and to integrate this learning with other assignments of the same course. The proposed solutions to achieve this goal, the laboratory support, extra work, course costs are described in this paper.