Introducing a course in test and measurement at Texas A&M University - Kingsville

Author

Montiel, Claudio M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Inf. & Bioeng., Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

2014

fDate

Dec-14

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

25

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to describe a graduate level electrical engineering course offered at Texas A&M University - Kingsville (TAMUK). Mixed-Signal IC Test and Measurement (T&M) is a special topics course designed to introduce electrical engineering students to the technical issues involved in integrated circuit (IC) high-volume, high-throughput, production testing. Universities around the world offer courses and programs in instrumentation and measurement (I&M) as part of their engineering curricula [1] - [4]. Because I&M is a broad multi-disciplinary field, these courses have tended to emphasize transducers, controls, statistics, signal analysis, and data conversion [5] - [8]. In this theoretical framework, this course is similar. However, in the context of application, this is different.

Keywords

educational courses; electrical engineering education; further education; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; production testing; TAMUK; Texas A&M University-Kingsville; electrical engineering students; engineering curricula; graduate level electrical engineering course; instrumentation and measurement; mixed-signal IC test and measurement; production testing; technical issues;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-6969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIM.2014.6968926

Filename

6968926