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About the Course

"Sensor Manufacturing and Process Control" can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5343, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. This is our fourth course in our specialization on Embedding Sensor and Motors. To get the most out of this course, you should first take our first course entitled "Sensors and Sensor Circuits", our second course entitled "Motor and Motor Control Circuits", and our third course entitled "Pressure, Force, Motion, and Humidity Sensors". Our first course gives you a tutorial on how to use the hardware and software development kit we have chosen for the lab exercises. Our second and third courses give you three hands-on lab experiments using the kit. This third course assumes that you already know how to use the kit. You will learn about sensor signal characterization and manufacturing techniques and how to optimize the accuracy of sensors. You will also learn about more advanced sensors, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, and how this method is used to give you a closed loop sensor feedback system. After taking 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 function of the Cypress PSoC development kit for a motor control application. ● Understand manufacturing methods used to build electro-mechanical and micro-machined sensors. You will need to buy the following components to do the two course projects based on the videos in this module. Note that if you have already purchased the PSOC 5LP PROTOTYPING KIT, you do not need to buy it again. These parts may be purchased off the Digikey web site, www. Digikey.com. Or, you may obtain the specs from the site, and purchase them elsewhere. All are quantity one except for N107-ND where you need three, and 493-15371-ND where you need two. 428-3390-ND P14355-ND FQU13N10LTU-ND N107-ND 1N5393-E3/54GICT-ND RNF14FTD1K00CT-ND P0.62W-1BK-ND 493-15371-ND Additional equipment needed: • Wire - various gauges and lengths • Breadboard • Oscilloscope – suggested models are: o PICOSCOPE 2204A-D2 available on www.digikey.com or o Digilent 410-324 | OpenScope MZ available on www.newark.com Depending on your budget, you can also investigate these models: o Hantek HT6022BE20MHz - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009H4AYII o SainSmart DSO212 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074QBQNB7 o PoScope Mega50 USB - https://www.robotshop.com/en/poscope-mega50-usb-mso-oscilloscope.html o ADALM2000 - https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/analog-devices-inc./ADALM2000/7019661...

Top reviews

GQ

Apr 12, 2021

This program is exceptional and really practical. Challenging computations in Process Control and Instrumentation .Awesome

PR

Sep 20, 2022

F​ull course is very useful for me and for my job also.

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By MEKALA V P

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Feb 9, 2025

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By DALAVAI S

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Jan 28, 2025

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By SK N I

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Sep 22, 2023

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By Ivan M

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Jun 13, 2022

nice

By ESAKKIPRASATH N

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Oct 5, 2021

good

By waheed k

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Aug 2, 2021

best

By Sreehari V

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Jul 12, 2021

GOOD

By Sangram N

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Jul 2, 2021

good

By GUDIPELA N

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Aug 5, 2025

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By Smile C

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May 2, 2022

Very good course, i really enjoyed it and get so much experience. Now I know how sensors are working and understand so many non-trivial things. But there is one problem. I try to confirm the identifier in order to get the certificate, but i don't get my certificate. The website makes me to confirm the identifier once more and it looks like a cycle. I am looking forward to hearing from you and i hope you will help

By SUJITHA R

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Oct 5, 2021

Its too hard to get our certificate.

By Abhigyan T

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May 29, 2022

very detailed and precised course .

By YASH S

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Feb 18, 2023

good

By MOKA N S R

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Mar 20, 2025

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By Om A M

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Feb 8, 2025

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By METTA R K R

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Jan 20, 2025

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By E B K C

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Jan 19, 2025

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By AGRAHARAM R

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Jan 10, 2025

good

By S R S

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Aug 20, 2021

good

By DINESH K G

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Jun 7, 2021

good

By Deleted A

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Aug 3, 2021

learned a lot of things

By BOTLAGUNTA R T

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Jan 19, 2025

it was useful

By MANGALI L A

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Jan 9, 2025

good

By MANDLI N

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May 15, 2025

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By Kenneth C

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Feb 13, 2021

Not a lot of process control, and you really need the NScope to get a functional understanding of this stuff, but Nscope is no longer sold. those videos should be updated with a product that is less likely to go away.