Data acquisition topics include signal conditioning analog to digital conversion and digital signal processing. Data transmission will also be discussed. Design methodologies including design of interactive facilities. Introduction to application generators. Security systems, conversion and maintenance factors.
Team projects to be developed.
Students prepare reports and presentations to professional standards. Consideration of pertinent socio-economic and environmental aspects. Preparation of useful new computer code. Digital Process Control Design Design, analysis synthesis and simulation of process control and automation systems. Automation hardware, process compensation techniques and P.I.D. controllers, design and dynamics of final control elements, computer control and the microprocessor.