MECH 1304 — INSTRUMENTATION
Pre-requisite: MATH 1073 or MATH 1023, and MECH 1404 This course prepares students to recognize and understand how to measure things such as pressure, temperature, pH, volume, speed, flow, and density. It discusses the basic measuring devices and how these are used in industry. It then moves into control systems such as manual, automatic, proportional, integral, and derivative control loops, feedback and feed-forward control systems, cascade, split range, ratio control and distributive control systems are covered. Process analyzers, digital controls and programmable logic controllers are taught.