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Contemporary Measurement Concepts is an introductory engineering technology textbook intended to support a study of measurements, controls and common physical variables encountered in the process automation and experimental testing fields. The text employs real-world applications of pressure, stress/strain, level, flow and temperature apparatus to investigate contemporary sensing, transmitting and control principles. This is an excellent text for integrating and balancing inter-disciplinary two-year and four-year engineering technology curricula with contemporary product testing and process measurement/control concepts. The text is 10 chapters and 600 pages in length. Chapters contain introductory physical principles, application examples, example problems and real-world application-based homework problems. Chapter topics include measurement and control concepts; standards, symbols and diagrams; applied physics; stress/strain; pressure; level; flow; temperature; displacement; control loops and control modes.

Linear IC's as Sensor Signal Conditioning Amplifiers is an advanced application-based engineering technology textbook introducing operational amplifiers as sensor scaling circuits. The text employs a unique single circuit approach to develop signal conditioning amplifier design from the common single-ended inverting amplifier through multi-stage differential instrumentation-grade amplifiers. Text chapters address linear sensors, measurement systems; op amp circuit design; gain, offset and calibration considerations; and specification interpretation of strain gauges, load cells, accelerometers, thermocouples, pressure and other low-level sensors commonly employed in product testing applications. The text is nine chapters, 535 pages, includes fifteen operational amplifier lab experiments and is suggested for sophomore or junior-year engineering technology students and practitioners of sensor-based data acquisition as commonly applied in experimental testing, research and product development.