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A web‐based software educational tool for electronic instrumentation teaching
Author(s) -
Poncela Alberto
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.20564
Subject(s) - instrumentation (computer programming) , computer science , software , complement (music) , software engineering , process (computing) , java applet , java , software system , multimedia , programming language , biochemistry , chemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype
This article presents a new software tool for electronic instrumentation teaching. The software is concerned with the main concepts underlying instrumentation systems. It is based on Java applets and organized as a tutorial. It acts as a visual tool for interactive simulations. The tool covers, in a practical manner, all the stages of a basic electronic instrumentation system, the sensor, the signal conditioning, and the analog to digital conversion. It must be meant as a complement to classical teaching methodologies based on lectures, not as a substitute of such pedagogical strategies. The software helps students in learning principles of measurement systems, to improve the teaching–learning process in the discipline. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 21:E62–E72, 2013