Thread by @DrChrisCombs

MEASUREMENTS MEMES

The semester is quickly winding down & I figured the @UTSA students in my undergraduate Measurements & Instrumentation class could use some extra credit, so I had them make memes about the class!

Main rules were to keep it clean, relevant to the class, & fun

Needless to say, as this class involves a lot of circuits & statistics, not all of our Mechanical Engineering students are starting from the same place...

The math and statistics were not always easy

And learning to use a micrometer is a bit of a rite of passage for Mech. Eng. undergrads

We learned about correlations (and covered the finer points of r^2, which I am not entirely confident got across)

We covered the Nyquist theorem

Then learned a lot about filter circuits

Unfortunately things covered in lecture don't always go as planned in the lab

There was much fun had with Wheatstone Bridge circuits, which apparently were simultaneously over-complex and underwhelming 😂

There is also clearly a difference of opinion on analog vs. digital data acquisition, which I can respect

I even took some time to introduce optical diagnostic techniques, and it seems to have gone over well

In summary, this is a very fun class (for me at least) and I can't wait to teach it again. I'm glad the students are taking away some valuable knowledge that will translate to their engineering careers