Measurement and Instrumentation

ME 371 is about turning physical phenomena into trustworthy numbers — understanding how sensors respond, how signals behave in time and frequency, and how much you can actually believe a reading once noise, drift, and uncertainty are accounted for. Expect a steady rhythm of lectures paired with hands-on labs where you'll wire up bridge circuits, op-amps, and thermocouples on an oscilloscope, plus written exams, a lab exam, and a project that ties the analysis chain together. It sits between your math and circuits background and later experimental or control-heavy courses, and the uncertainty-and-DAQ instincts you build here carry directly into thesis work, industry test labs, and basically any moment you need to defend a measurement.