Electrical Measurements Revisited — Experiences from Modernizing the Course

<p>In this paper, a modernized sophomore level course in Electrical Measurements is described. The course is customized to electronics majoring students and recognizes the fact that computers influenced electrical measurements: most of the instruments are microcontroller based nowadays, and all the measurement data are processed by computers, at least to type them down. Eight novel laboratory exercises are described, and all of them involve the use of computers at some level. All of the exercises are computer centered, starting from pure data processing, progressing towards automated measurement systems. Experiences from teaching the course are shared, and a suggestion confirmed by a student poll to move from eight to ten exercises is proposed. Basic idea is that for a course to survive it should respect technological improvements as they are applied in everyday practice. All of the software used in the course is free software, available both to students and universities with its source code.