About Sensor manufacturing and process control course
The Sensor Manufacturing and Process Control course can also be credited toward ECEA 5343 in CU Boulder's Electrical Engineering Master of Science program. This is the fourth course in our Sensor and Motor Embedding specialization. To get the most out of this course, you should first take our first course, Sensors and Sensor Circuits, our second course, Motor and Motor Control Circuits, and our third course, Pressure, Force, Motion, and Humidity Sensors. Our first course provides you with instruction on using the hardware and software development kit that we have selected for our labs. In the second and third courses, we give you three hands-on lab experiments using the kit. The third course assumes that you already know how to use the kit. You will learn about sensor signal characteristics and manufacturing technologies, as well as how to optimize sensor accuracy. You will also learn about more advanced sensors, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, and how this method is used to create a closed-loop feedback system with a sensor. After completing this course, you will be able to: ● Understand how sensor manufacturers characterize and calibrate their sensors ● Tune a PID control loop and access the PID control feature of the Cypress PSoC Development Kit for a motor control application
