A12 -Sensors and Transducers(1 and 3 Modules)

Course Number: 15
Contact Hours per Week: 4T
Number of Credits: 4
Number of Contact Hours: 64Hrs.
Course Evaluation: Internal – 20 Marks + External – 80 Marks

Course Outcomes:
The students will be able to
 CO1 Explain resistance, inductance and capacitance transducers.
 CO2 Perceive the concepts of temperature and pressure transducers

 CO3 Perceive the concepts level transducers such as and flow transducers
 CO4 Explain Electromagnetic transducers and radiation sensors
 CO5 Explain force and torque transducers and sound transducers

Text Books:

1. D Patranabis, Sensors and Transducers, PHI, 2nd Edition.
2. Murthy D.V.S―Transducers and Instrumentation, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited,
New Delhi, 2010.

Reference Books:

1. E.A. Doebelin, Measurement Systems: Application and Design McGrawHill, NewYork
2. A.K. Sawhney- A course in Electrical & Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation, Dhanpat Rai and
Company Private Limited.
3. S.Renganathan―Transducer Engineering, Allied Publishers, 2005