Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the needs and opportunities for education in modern instrumentation systems. The educational scene must, therefore, take cognizance of these new developments in instrumentation system discipline and reflect the needs by incorporating the appropriate topics in the curricula. At its simplest, a transducer is an energy conversion device, and may be looked at as a device for converting optical energy into electrical heat into electrical, mechanical into electrical energy, and so on. Modern transducers need to be associated with some analog and analog-to-digital signal processing in what are known as smart sensors. They are likely to be of integrated circuit design, and therefore these two topics require an educational content that covers transformation of energy matrix, analog, and integrated circuit design, principles of digital electronics, and signal processing, study of filters, and filter design. These are all the subjects taught in most electrical engineering courses but without any reference to the needs of modern instrumentation system technology.
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