WTT 280 - Fundamentals of Data Acquisition

1. Use terminology related to test and measurement and verify the functionality of the training hardware.
   1. Demonstrate an understanding of company introduction
   2. Demonstrate an understanding of expected background
   3. Use related terminology
   4. Practice setting up and testing hardware
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of operation of commonly used sensors, transducers, and instruments.
   1. Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of operation and limitations of common measuring instruments
   2. Demonstrate an understanding of fundamental programming logic transferable to other programming languages
   3. Write programs based on an industry-standard graphical programming language
   4. Practice interpreting technical specifications and selecting sensors and transducers for a given application
   5. Demonstrate an understanding of terminologies associated with instrumentation systems (e.g., range, sensitivity, dynamic response, calibration, hysteresis, error, accuracy, precision, data uncertainty, mean and standard deviation)
   6. Practice    developing computerized instrumentation systems for industrial processes using multiple sensors, interface electronics, data acquisition card, and GPIB and serial instruments
3. Demonstrate an understanding of instrument controls and how they can be used for communicating and controlling hardware instruments.
   1. Describe instrument control applications
   2. Explain instrument control components
   3. Create a GPIB object
   4. Demonstrate an understanding of communicating with the instruments
4. Demonstrate the ability to collect and analyze data.
   1. Use data acquisition software and hardware to collect and analyze data from a physical system