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Olli Aumala
NETWORKING FOR MEASUREMENT EDUCATION
IMEKO TC1 has started a series of On Line (virtual) Workshops and a Portal for joint use of educational material. The aim of this activity is to help educators in organizing good co-operation and getting benefit of synergy in their work. The educators’ work includes classroom teaching and supervising of students, but also developing and collecting educational material, and preparing textbooks, lecture notes, exercise collections, demonstrations, etc. for educational use. Transferring new scientific results into a new form suitable for education is not a minor duty. The paper presents experience from the first Workshop and discusses needs, difficulties and methods in development of networking.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Dariusz Buchczik, Witold Ilewicz
TEACHING OF MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES FOR SPECIALITY OF MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS IN THE INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL
Ability to prepare, perform and process data obtained during an experiment is essential skill for engineers. At Measurement System Group at the Silesian University of Technology run the speciality Measurement Systems. At this speciality there is a course on Measurement Procedures. The course is performed for students of the 8^th semester. The half-year lecture course is supported by classes and laboratory classes at the same semester. The lecture shows the procedures and fields of their applications. It is intended to show variety of procedures and complexity of process of choosing a proper method to the task. The aim of classes is to illustrate the lecture. There are solved hypothetical problems that refer to selected sections of the lecture. The laboratory classes are intended to develop self-reliant proficiency in using procedures on real and simulated data. Students solve problems, perform computations, comment and interpret results.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Krzysztof Chrzanowski
SOFTWARE FOR EVALUATION OF UNCERTAINTY IN MEASUREMENTS
Software ASSISTANT enabling calculation of uncertainty of measurements is presented in this paper. Mathematical algorithm used by Assistant was developed according to recommendations of European Co-operation for Accreditation. Assistant is equipped with a user friendly interface and offers its users a series of examples of uncertainty calculations. Reports generated by Assistant can be saved, printed or exported to popular formats: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excell or RTF. All these features make Assistant a useful tool in centres that implemented quality systems, in scientific laboratories or in teaching metrology.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Stanislaw Dlugosz
MODELLING OF TECHNICAL OPERATION IN RELATION TO MEASURING MEANS
One can notice a great need of improvement in designing quality. This problem concerns also a specific branch of factories that produce electronic measuring instruments. We are using new generation electronic circuit, for example: the microprocessor system. They are further called "functors". Their application to get unified functional scheme of measuring instruments. Their use simplifies assembling. A short term "measuring means" is proposed in order to search uniformity of terminology. It describes technical means for measurement purposes. The MM's is created as a result of realisation of multistage process of technical operations. The process can be divided into to parts. The first one contains "creations" and another contains "products". The model presented can be useful for training future engineers with respect to creation and understanding the creation process.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Ewa Dziuban
HUMAN BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT-CLASS PROGRAM
Training class concerning "Human body temperature measurement" supports adequate part of lectures on Medical Measurements led by author on IX semester of speciality Metrology and Measurement Systems, faculty of Electrotechnics and Computer Science at Technical University of Rzeszow.
Author established the program of class with the aim of familiarising students with IR radiation thermometers (pyrometers): their basic principles (infrared theory), construction and basic metrological problems (spectral range, field of view, resolution, accuracy and errors). Recently the infra-red ( IR) radiation thermometers for medical application are intensively advanced and wildly distributed.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Christian Eugene
WHAT AND HOW TO TEACH AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL IN A BASIC ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS COURSE THROUGH A PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING APPROACH?
A completely new engineering curriculum has been introduced in 2000-2001 at our University with a modern pedagogical approach, the keywords of which are problem-based learning, project-based learning, active learning. The lecture will, as an introductory part, present the why’s, what’s and how’s of this revolution.
This new context of teaching, which privileges the knowledge acquisition through practice better than theory, certainly favours creativity and especially motivation. But consequently, the place for formal, traditional courses is reduced to a small portion of the curriculum.
It is in particular the case for the courses in electrical measurements and instrumentation, of concern in this lecture, in the new curriculum of students in electrical engineering. Furthermore, the necessary rigour inherent to any training programme in this discipline becomes difficult to achieve in a pedagogical method enhancing the selftraining.
It is in this context of limited time budget that a recentering is needed on what is essential to keep in a basic training in electrical measurements and instrumentation for every student in electrical engineering. A rapprochement with the course of electrical circuits is also a new accent to be emphasised.
The lecture will draw up a list of uncircumventing topics which will be commented often through very simple examples. Only low frequency measurements (below 1 MHz) are here considered.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Ludwik Finkelstein, Kenneth T. V. Grattan, Sanowar H. Khan
PHYSICAL SCIENCE IN MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION EDUCATION
The paper presents arguments for the place of physical science in the teaching of measurement and instrumentation as a systematic discipline. It is argued that the discipline should be taught as general transferable concepts and principles, based on the science of information and systems. It is shown, however, on the basis of a model of the architecture of a measurement system that the concepts of information and systems alone are inadequate to treat sensors, the observed system, the interaction between them, and also the problems of inferential measurement. It is argued that these components and processes require to be described, analysed and designed using also the concepts and principles of physical science. The essential role of physical experimentation in the laboratory in the teaching of measurement and instrumentation is discussed. The place of physical science in measurement and instrumentation curricula is discussed, and it is argued that physical science should form a particularly important role in the education of specialist designers and developers of measurement and instrumentation systems.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Jerzy Fraczek
ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ASSESMENT OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF TECHNOLOGY
After couple years of discussions, on different levels, at different academic centres and academic institutions, the very important decision was undertaken concerning the Teaching Quality Assessment. As a result of the act of July 20th 2001, regarding changes to the act of higher education and the act of polytechnic school, the National Accreditation Commission was created – the statutory organ of higher education working for the quality of education. According to the expectations and demands of the academic community the whole higher educational system is evaluated by equal set of standards.
The National Accreditation Commission completely takes over the duties regarding the evaluation of applications for opening new schools, studies and giving rights to train for a masters degree. The Commission has the rights to estimate the quality of training and the conditions of higher studies in all polish universities: public, not public, academic and vocational. The last task will lead to many inspections and controls.
According to “The Status of the National Commission of Accreditation”: "The Commission cooperates with national and international organisations that assess the quality of education and accreditation". In the field of cooperation the following questions have to be discussed:
How to compare accreditation results of the National Accreditation Commission in Poland with the rules concerning:
1) Accreditation of Colleges and Universities in the Middle States Region of the United States of America
* Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Automatic Control, Akademicka 16 str., 44-100 Gliwice, Poland, e-mail: jkf@oak.ia.polsl.gliwice.pl 2) The Teaching Quality Assessment conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
3) FEANI Register of European Engineers
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Jerzy Fraczek, Roman Wyzgolik, Stanislaw Walus, Dariusz Buchczik
HOW TO TEACH ABOUT MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS - EXPERIENCES FROM THE INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION
Since 1999 the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science offers studies in English in: Automatic Control and Robotics, Electronics and Telecommunication, Computer Science, with various specializations. Lectures and laboratory classes are in English. The idea of this paper is to present our contribution in this new programme as the Measurement Systems Group, which is a part of the Institute of Automatic Control. We started with our lectures, untitled "Measurement Systems", in the last year (2001), for students which have completed three half-year semesters. After the half-year lecture course, students have begun laboratory classes.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Bogdan A. Galwas, Remigiusz J. Rak
VIRTUAL LABORATORY - A FUTURE PART OF THE NEW WEB-BASED MODEL OF UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDIES DEVELOPED BY WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
The article gives a review of reasons for developing and adopting a new web-based model of studies by Warsaw University of Technology. That is followed by a description of the Internet and multimedia - based educational model, known as SPrINT. The article presents also a structure of the four-year engineering studies offered by Electrical Engineering Faculty, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology and Faculty of Mechatronics for given specialization. Then follows a description of the structure and tools of the electronic books. One of the subjects common for all students of the three Faculties is Virtual Laboratory. Virtual Instruments, as well as networked and distributed measurement systems, are the natural tools, which can be used in a modern didactic process for creating virtual laboratories.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Anna Golijanek-Jedrzejczyk, Dariusz Jedrzejczyk, Ludwik Referowski, Dariusz Swisulski
EDUCATIONAL LABORATORY STAND FOR REMOTE MEASUREMENT SENSORS’ DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS
This article presents a laboratory stand that enables one to test properties of temperature sensors over Internet. The measuring system lets determine dynamic characteristics of the sensor. It was designed for didactic applications, which can be used by extra-mural or ill students although some solutions may be used by industry.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Kenneth T. V. Grattan, Sanowar H. Khan, Ludwik Finkelstein
PHOTONICS AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT: EDUCATION FOR TODAY’S ENGINEERS
The paper presents an illustration of the use of photonics and optical measurements in today’s engineering world and emphasizes the need for and value of the field which is seen as a key subject for current engineering education. The paper emphasizes the place of photonics when viewed within a systems approach to measurement and instrumentation, but also stresses the value of the appreciation of the fundamentals of physical science to achieve a full understanding of modern devices of this type. The relationship of photonic measurement systems to optical communications systems is stressed, as is the commonality of the approach to the two. The role of modelling as a key tool in the system design is emphasized, and an illustration given of a modern fibre optical measurement system to exemplify the points raised.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Jan Holub, Radislav Šmíd
LABORATORY EXERCISE ON COMPLEX MEASUREMENT TASK: VOICE TRANSMISSION QUALITY MEASUREMENT
The laboratory exercise dealing with voice transmission quality of service measurement in mobile networks that is being designed in Czech Technical University in Prague is described in the paper. The final experiment that is made during the exercise is based on measurement of voice quality of the GSM connection established between student’s GSM terminal and remote GSM station of measuring system. The measurement is performed by means of measurement system that has been developed at the University. The remote station can work either in fully automatic mode or can be controlled via web interface. Deeper understanding of exercised topic is expected in comparison with plain simulations. On the other hand, all the exercise takes less time in comparison with excursion to telecommunication switch where similar measurement systems can be found and tested.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Krzysztof Jellonek, Malgorzata Kotulska
NEW CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN EDUCATION OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Modern university education is very strongly based on computer techniques, which provide necessary computational power to develop specialized software. Very intuitive graphical programs became indispensable tools for word and graphics processing, data storage, and advanced computational tasks. An increasing role of information availability from the data stored on web pages and network accessible data bases can be observed. This immense potential source of information requires appropriate searching tools and algorithms. In this situation a well-scheduled track through computer science courses, for students of various specializations, is an essential issue. This problem is especially acute in education in Biomedical Engineering since application of computer methods to medicine, computational biology, and bioinformatics requires an approach that differs from classical methods. We discuss concepts and techniques in teaching computer science courses, comparing three specializations from the Faculty of Basic Problems of Technology in Wroclaw University of Technology: Biomedical Engineering, Computational Physics in Science and Technology, and Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Barbara Juroszek, Ewa Dziuban
MEASUREMENT OF PROPERTIES OF BIOMEDICAL SUBJECT - COGNITIVE TARGETS FOR STUDENTS AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES IN WROCŁAW AND RZESZÓW
Authors compared courses related to biomedical measurements at Wrocław University of Technology, where they are a base of speciality education and at Rzeszów University of Technology, where they are merely a supplement on measurements of living organism for students of Metrology. This comparison revealed that there is a "canon" of the necessary and common knowledge offered to students.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Wlodzimierz Konecki, Jakub Konecki
TEXPRO – THE EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE MODELING OF TEXTILES PROPERTIES
The new worked-out computer program, named TEXPRO, for modeling of textiles properties is presented. The program is written in C++ language and built in form of handbook divided into particular exercises. It is designed for students doing the laboratories from subject "Structure of Yarns and Textile Fabrics".
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Jerzy M. Korczynski, Andrzej Hetman
CALCULATION OF EXPANDED UNCERTAINTY
The main purpose of the paper is to present a method of calculation of the expanded uncertainty at required confidence level. It is elaborated as a piece of software with the main intention for metrology and quality engineering courses. The definition based algorithm is used and convolutions of different probability density distribution are precisely calculated. The uniform, triangular, normal and t-Student distributions are implemented in the software. One of the advantage is no limitation of encountered measurands.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Maarten Korsten, Paul Regtien
COMPUTER SUPPORTED LABORATORY REPORTS OF EXPERIMENTAL WORK
Reports on experimental work should be based on a well-documented laboratory report. With the laboratory report we mean the logbook, kept during the experiments. Making such a laboratory report is an important part of the practical courses at our Electrical Engineering faculty in Twente. Nowadays our students write their report on paper. We consider the option to write it directly on the computer so that it can be integrated with managing the measurement results. Doing this however will pose severe requirements to the user friendliness of the software environment. In this paper the idea of an integrated computer environment for doing experimental work is discussed, together with some problems.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Robert Lukaszewski, Wieslaw Winiecki
NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN MEASURING SYSTEMS DESIGNING
The paper presents an influence of new information technologies upon measuring systems designing and proposes a new course that covers new trends in measuring systems designing. Distributed structure of modern measuring systems requires the use of special software technologies for design software of such systems. Possibilities of applying some modern information technologies for these purposes are considered. In the second part of the paper a program of a new course, concerned measuring system software designing, is presented. An example of student project, designed in the frame of the course, is presented.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Jarosław Makal
EDUCATION OF METROLOGY IN ELECTRONIC AND TELECOMMUNICATION STUDIES AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIAŁYSTOK
In this paper the general description of the schedule of studies on Electronic and Telecommunication at Technical University of Bialystok from the point of view of delivering metrology knowledge is presented. Also three typical subjects of metrology like the base of metrology, surveying of electronic and technique of experiment are underlined. The attempt of qualification the profile of graduate is one of the final conclusion of this work.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Zbigniew Moron
SENSORS – WHAT AND HOW SHOULD WE TEACH?
There is no question 'if' or 'why' we should teach sensors. The contemporary world cannot operate without them. A basic understanding, principles of choice and principles of application of sensors in instrumentation systems are of fundamental importance in all disciplines of engineering. Fascinated by information processing people often forget that the function and also properties of every instrumentation system are defined by both the sensor and the software support provided. This paper presents some basic information on sensors and sensing, and the main problems faced when teaching them. It is intended to be a platform for discussion.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Ludwik Referowski, Ryszard Roskosz, Dariusz Swisulski
NEW POSSIBILITIES IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS
In the paper are presented the possibilities of preparations modern, educational tools which in the form of virtual instruments are very helpful for educational process in electrical measurements. These dynamic instruments enable to perform during the lectures demonstrations which explain better lectured theory of electrical measurements, especially when some kinds of phenomena are presented in slow down time scale. Another group of virtual instruments enable to simulate measuring sessions which are realized later in the university laboratory. The third group of virtual instruments explain the idea of remote measurements with help of modern technologies. These measurements are realized on different industrial objects. The paper presents several solutions of educational virtual instruments designed by the team of Technical University of Gdansk. They were realized using the software LabVIEW of National Instruments.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Shigeru Takayama, Komyo Kariya
LEARNING METHOD OF MEASUREMENT ENGINEERING THROUGH USER NAVIGATION INTERFACE OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT
This paper describes the extensional function of user navigation interface of virtual measuring instruments which supports user’s self-learning in experiment. The extensional function is presented by representation of knowledge database through internet browser. It is very effective for user to learn and investigation the knowledge of measurement engineering with training of operation of real or virtual measuring instruments in experience. The knowledge exploration by hyperlink through HTTP presents new heuristic learning method for user comparing with systematical learning method by lecture.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Stanislaw Walus, Janusz Zelezik
THE MASTER'S THESES ON THE ESTIMATION OF METROLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF MEASURING INSTRUMENTS ON THE BASE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS AND THE MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
The students of the Department of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science are preparing their master's theses in Measurement Systems Group of Institute of Automatic Control. They include the experimental investigations in Institute laboratory of various measuring instruments and also the mathematical modelling of primary devices of flowmeters and other instruments. Some results of master's theses were published in Polish scientific newspapers and in international conference proceedings. The measurement system for identification dynamic model of thermometers by "in-situ" method was elaborated. The measurement system enables identification of dynamic models of resistance thermometers by three methods: classical step-input method and two in-situ (internal input) methods. The mathematical modelling of distorted velocity distributions enables the investigation of errors of sampling flowmeters. On the base of the experimental data from rivers the modelling investigations for sampling flowmeter used for open channel were made.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Roman Wyzgolik, Dariusz Buchczik
INTEGRATED SOLID STATE SENSORS IN ENGINEERS EDUCATION – EXPERIENCES AND PLANS FOR FUTURE
The measurements of non-electric quantities with electric methods have a long-standing tradition at the Silesian University of Technology. In this paper we would like to present the main idea and topics of the lectures and briefly describe the laboratory exercises. We also discuss the plans for the future.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Madiar Zaripov, Irina Petrova, Victoria Zaripova
PROJECT OF CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE BASE ON PHYSICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EFFECTS
In the new millennium the change of technological and technique generations occurs in a temp unprecedented earlier. Therefore in order to train high-qualified engineers able to quickly, efficiently react to society’s new needs it is necessary for them to upgrade their knowledge permanently.
Indicators consumption increase both in quantity and in nomenclature needs an acceleration of production rate owing to automation of design process. The problem is that a description of various physical processes on which the principle of indicators action is based, is being carried out with the use of physic-mathematical apparatus, appropriate to this class of phenomena. It hampers the design process automation, increases new indicators development time and their cost. The article considers a united system approach in the field of sensitive elements theory, invariant to the physical nature of phenomena and processes used and in the field of methods and instrumental means of these elements structural designing with following process automation.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

Janusz Zelezik, Stanislaw Walus
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS AS THE SUBJECT OF MASTER'S THESES FROM METROLOGY OF NON-ELECTRICAL QUANTITIES
The students of automation and robotics, electronic and telecommunication are preparing their master's theses in Measurement Systems Group of Institute of Automatic Control. They also include the projecting and constructing of measuring instruments and measuring systems. These are dedicated to the laboratories in the Institute, as well for industry. The pocket radiometer was projected and constructed. It consists of the primary device with Geiger-Müller counter, the secondary device and of the power supply. The radiometer has series connections RS232C. The calibration stand for rotameters based on the soap film flowmeter principle was projected and constructed and put on the market. The digital measuring interface was projected and constructed for investigating of the piezoresistors (for strange gages, pressure gages, ...). The universal interface for transducers UTI and the microcomputer AT89C52 are used. The sensors can be used in the bridge or half-bridge, and for the resistance of 120 - 10000 ohms. The results of measurements are displayed on LCD display. The instrument is connected with help of the RS 232C interface with computer.
Symposium on Education in Measurement and Instrumentation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002

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