Performance-based Sensor Selection

Participants will learn how to interpret transducer specifications, to define necessary performance characteristics for specific applications, and how to select the best transducer for their specific applications.

• Basic transducer mechanisms
• Transducer performance characteristics:
  • System performance envelope, phase response, linearity and nonlinearity, range & dynamic range, sensitivity, frequency response, stability, electrical characteristics, performance limits
• Transducer environmental effects:
  • Thermal sensitivity shift and thermal zero shift, thermal transient response, vacuum effects, shock, vibration and acoustic effects, acceleration effects, mounting effects, EMI & RFI effects, humidity, corrosion, contamination, sand & dust, environmental limits
• Cabling and interconnection concerns
• Signal conditioning considerations:
  • Compatibility, input impedance, common mode rejection, noise and grounding participants’ specific problems

• You want to assure accurate transmission of valid data from an appropriate transducer
• You are a user who also has experience marketing transducers rather than a manufacturer
• You are an engineer, program manager, or a technician

• Copy of PowerPoint presentation in course binder
• Certificate of attendance for completion of CEUs

Jon Wilson