INSTRUMENTATION - 2021/2

Module Overview

This module introduces the student to the basic concepts of instrumentation, with a focus on medical instrumentation. It provides a critical understanding of the principles underpinning medical equipment development.

The student is required to conduct a mini project in which an appropriate initial design of a measuring system for a specific medical signal is presented, explained, and discussed. Synthesis of information from the lectures supplemented with the review of relevant literature is an essential part of the project.

Module provider

Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Module Leader

ABASOLO Daniel (Mech Eng Sci)

Number of Credits: 15

ECTS Credits: 7.5

Framework: FHEQ Level 7

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Semester 1

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

Normal entry requirements for the Biomedical Engineering MSc degree programme.

Module content

Indicative content includes:

* Introduction to Instrumentation.

* DC and AC circuit analysis.

* Measurement equipment: voltmeters, current meters and oscilloscopes.

* Operation and function of semiconductor devices and power supplies.

* Amplification. The operational amplifier. Differential amplifier. Instrumentation amplifier.

* Introduction to filters.

* Digital electronics: number scales, combinational logic and sequential logic, counters and memory blocks.

* Data acquisition and control: analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversion, sampling theory.

* Function and operation of computers.

* Examples of medical instrumentation.

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

Not applicable.

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate understanding of medical instrumentation principles as well as the ability to analyse analogue and digital electronic circuits in the final examination. The coursework assignment allows students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the fundamental concepts of medical instrumentation, presenting, explaining and discussing an appropriate initial design of a measuring system for a specific medical signal. Synthesis of information from the lectures, supplemented with the review of relevant literature is an essential part of the project.

Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:

·         Coursework    [Learning outcomes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10] (40 hours)       Deadline W11 {40%}

·         Examination   [Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9]    (2 hours)                                 {60%}

 

Formative assessment and feedback

·         Formative verbal feedback is given in tutorials

·         Formative Multiple Choice Tests are available on SurreyLearn to give feedback on the understanding of circuits and instrumentation principles

·         Written feedback is given on the coursework assessment

Module aims

• A critical awareness of the importance of medical instrumentation.
• A thorough understanding of: fundamental analogue circuit laws, basic instrumentation building blocks, and their limitations, fundamental digital circuits and their limitations, the importance of noise and its sources, and amplification and filtering circuits.
• A critical awareness of the relevant concepts underpinning the design of medical instrumentation devices.
• An awareness of the limitations of medical instrumentation and future challenges.
• The critical knowledge to evaluate medical instrumentations systems.
• The ability to specify design requirements for instrumentation systems to be used for the recording of different signals in a medical context. 

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy is designed to:

Introduce basic medical instrumentation principles through theory with worked examples. This is delivered principally through lectures and tutorial classes. In the latter students will have to design and simulate electronic circuits with Multisim.

The learning and teaching methods include:

• 2 hours of lectures per week x 10 weeks


• 2 hour Multisim-based tutorials x 10 weeks


• 2 hours revision lecture

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: ENGM186

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2021/2 academic year.