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 Postgraduate Course: Applications of Integrative Sensing and Measurement (ISM) (PGEE11127)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | College | College of Science and Engineering |  
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | Availability | Not available to visiting students |  
| SCQF Credits | 20 | ECTS Credits | 10 |  
 
| Summary | The course covers a representative range of applications of integrative sensing and measurement. Five applications are covered in taught material, each application being addressed over a 2-week period comprising typically five to six lectures, one case study and one tutorial or examples class. In addition an assignment, spread through a large part of the semester, covers at least one additional application. |  
| Course description | The syllabus will cover 5 or more applications of ISM (typically 4 by taught delivery, 1 or more by assignment) each year. By way of example, it is proposed that the applications to be covered in the 1st year of delivery include - 3D, astronomical, automotive, autonomous motion, environmental, homeland security, in-vivo, microfluidic. 
 Sample Lecture Syllabus for Academic Year 2014/15:
 
 Week 1: Introduction to Applications of ISM
 Weeks 2,3: ISM for autonomous motion
 Weeks 4,5: Environmental ISM
 Weeks 7,8: ISM for homeland security
 Weeks 9,10@ In-vivo ISM
 Week 11: Revision classes
 
 Assignment
 Week 1: Introduction to assignment - Automotive ISM
 Weeks 2-10: Assignment is carried out
 Week 11: Assignment due
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |  | Co-requisites |  |  
| Prohibited Combinations |  | Other requirements | None |  
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) | Quota:  None |  | Course Start | Semester 2 |  Timetable | Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | Total Hours:
200
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 Lecture Hours 22,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
 Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
 Formative Assessment Hours 1,
 Summative Assessment Hours 1,
 Other Study Hours 4,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
156 ) |  
 
| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) | Guest Lectures |  
| Assessment (Further Info) | Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 % |  
 
| Additional Information (Assessment) | Coursework (100%) |  
| Feedback | Not entered |  
| No Exam Information |  
Learning Outcomes 
| By the end of the course the student should be able toż: 
 - Prepare or assimilate a detailed ISM system specification or application requirement.
 
 - Compare, contrast and select the most appropriate ISM technique(s) to meet the requirements of an application or range of applications.
 
 - Design an ISM system to meet an overall system specification or application requirement.
 
 - Integrate the results of a range of ISM modalities to provide a 'whole is greater than the sum of the parts' picture of a system.
 
 - Understand and appreciate the constraints and limitations of a given ISM system in a given application or range of applications.
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Reading List 
| The Measurement, Instrumentation and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition: Two-Volume Set, Ed John G Webster, Pub CRC Press. ISBN-13: 978-1439848838. 
 Further reading TBF by application topic.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | Not entered |  
| Keywords | Applications; Sensing; Sensor; Transducer; Transduction; Measurement |  
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Prof Ian Underwood Tel: (0131 6)50 5631 / 7474
 Email: Ian.Underwood@ed.ac.uk
 | Course secretary | Mrs Katharine Morris Tel: (0131 6)50 7815
 Email: Kate.Morris@ed.ac.uk
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