Industrial Measurements is a course for Master students in Mechanical Engineering taught in English. Thanks to a theoretical and practical approach, at the end of the course students will develop the ability to implement principles of mechanical and thermal measurements in practical applications for industry.

Test engineer is an important and widely diffused profile in industry. He/she is in charge of applying theory and methodologies of metrology for product quality assurance, process monitoring, process control and optimization. This course builds on knowledge acquired during the Mechanical and thermal measurement course, and extends it on the practical aspects that lead engineers to the complete development of testing and control platforms for industrial application.

After an introduction on characteristics and use of transducers, the course focuses on signal processing techniques, and finally on the digitizing process of a signal. Analog to digital conversion boards will be explained in all theoretical and practical aspects, to understand a fundamental part of modern test engineering, based on PC processing and visualization of measurement information.

During the second part of the course two core parts of knowledge of NI LabVIEW software, a widely used object-oriented programming environment, specifically developed for test engineering, will be taught. In parallel, the course will teach students on the use of an A/D board for signal acquisition directly running on their own laptops, the NI myDAQ board. Lab sessions will be a consistent part of the course and will enhance practical ability of students in test engineering.

Lab sessions will concern a wide range of physical quantities, specifically focusing on temperature, distance and rotation. Experience in using thermometers, Infra-red distance sensors, encoders and IMUs will be achieved.