The aim of this course is to provide the students with the basic theoretical knowledge and practical skills, which are useful for facing some important technical problems related to experimental measurements of the main physical quantities of mechanical and energetic interest, on engines and fluid machines in general.

As a consequence of this course, each student should be able to understand, design and organize the kind of experimental activities which are usually carried out within the laboratories of the Universities, the Industries, and the Research Institutes.

The students attending this course should be acquainted with basic knowledge of mathematics and physics; electricity and fluid-dynamics; mechanics, thermodynamics and heat-transfer, along with Fluid Machinery in general, such as the Internal Combustion Engines, hydraulic pumps, air impellers, and so on.

The main course subjects of the theoretical and applied lectures are:

1) International System of Measurements (SI)
2) Measurement Methods and Experimental Errors
3) System Dynamic Models (zero, first and second order)
4) Statistical Data Anlaysis
5) Basic Electrical Principles (Electrical Components, Bode Plot, Bridges, Operational Amplifiers, Filters)
6) Data Acquisition Systems
8) Temperature measurement
9) Pressure measurement
10) Flow measurement
11) Power measurement
12) Measurement of Combustion products
13) Measurement of displacement
14) Stress and strain measurement

Experimental Methods for Engineers - J. P. Holman - McGraw-Hill Inc.

Measurement, Instrumentation and Sensors Handbook - J.G Webster - CRC Press

The student must attend to an oral examination