Design of measurement and data acquisition laboratory for instrumentation engineering course

Abstract

This paper presents design, development, implementation and assessment details of a low-cost educational laboratory setup which can be used to teach the basic and advanced principles of measurement as-well-as data acquisition system in instrumentation engineering course. With the help of this laboratory the students can understand the operational principles of different sensors, signal conditioning circuit, computing device and communication media. The laboratory course uses open-source software, open-source hardware tools integrated with information and communication technologies.