The unified approach to the engineering of measurement systems for test and evaluation-a brief survey

Over the last two to three decades there has been an increased recognition in industrial and governmental organizations that the educational establishment is not producing engineers who are measurement-aware, measurement-conscious or measurement-oriented. The need is especially acute in the Measurem...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stein, P.K.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Data engineering
Distortion measurement
Energy measurement
Instruments
Pollution measurement
Sensor systems
System testing
Systems engineering and theory
Time measurement
Transducers
Online Access:Request full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
cited_by
cites
container_end_page 28 vol.1
container_issue
container_start_page K1
container_title
container_volume 1
creator Stein, P.K.
description Over the last two to three decades there has been an increased recognition in industrial and governmental organizations that the educational establishment is not producing engineers who are measurement-aware, measurement-conscious or measurement-oriented. The need is especially acute in the Measurement for Test and Evaluation community. Numerous national and international conferences have discussed ways of remedying the situation by organizing or re-organizing curricula. The author has participated in a number of those. The common consensus is that it is only a matter of selecting a menu of lectures and courses from among existing ones to achieve this aim. It has not been generally recognized that there exists a basic core of knowledge which is unique to the discipline of the Engineering of Measurement Systems, especially for Test and Evaluation and shared by no other discipline, and that this body of knowledge must form the skeleton to which contributions from other disciplines can be attached as necessary. This skeleton is missing from all existing proposals. The author has developed this "Unified Approach" for the past 40 years to the point where the Engineering of Measurement Systems can stand alone as its own discipline, self-contained, with a whole set of new concepts not previously existing, which unify the thousands of transducers/sensors and signal conditioning which exist in all disciplines, into a single, systematic, logical and cohesive body of knowledge. There are over 15 such sets of new concepts, all critically important to this new approach. The author describes several of these and presents their distilled essence.
doi_str_mv 10.1109/IMTC.1996.507188
format conference_proceeding
fullrecord <record><control><sourceid>ieee_6IE</sourceid><recordid>TN_cdi_ieee_primary_507188</recordid><sourceformat>XML</sourceformat><sourcesystem>PC</sourcesystem><ieee_id>507188</ieee_id><sourcerecordid>507188</sourcerecordid><originalsourceid>FETCH-ieee_primary_5071883</originalsourceid><addsrcrecordid>eNp9jjFrwzAUhAWh0KTNHjK9PxBXsutYnkNKO3Tzbl6bk60SS0aSA_73MbRzbzn4jg9OiJ2SmVKyfvn4bE6ZqutjVspKab0SG1lpWRSFyvWj2Mb4I5e8lmWuq7VA04MmZ43FhXgcg-fvnpKntHC4zjogWNeRNzSA4xQwwCWKc0wYIhkfKCEmYnch3Pg6cbLeHZi-goWhRbhhfhYPhq8R279-Evu3c3N6P1gA7RjswGFufw8X_453ZXlGcw</addsrcrecordid><sourcetype>Publisher</sourcetype><iscdi>true</iscdi><recordtype>conference_proceeding</recordtype></control><display><type>conference_proceeding</type><title>The unified approach to the engineering of measurement systems for test and evaluation-a brief survey</title><source>IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings</source><creator>Stein, P.K.</creator><creatorcontrib>Stein, P.K.</creatorcontrib><description>Over the last two to three decades there has been an increased recognition in industrial and governmental organizations that the educational establishment is not producing engineers who are measurement-aware, measurement-conscious or measurement-oriented. The need is especially acute in the Measurement for Test and Evaluation community. Numerous national and international conferences have discussed ways of remedying the situation by organizing or re-organizing curricula. The author has participated in a number of those. The common consensus is that it is only a matter of selecting a menu of lectures and courses from among existing ones to achieve this aim. It has not been generally recognized that there exists a basic core of knowledge which is unique to the discipline of the Engineering of Measurement Systems, especially for Test and Evaluation and shared by no other discipline, and that this body of knowledge must form the skeleton to which contributions from other disciplines can be attached as necessary. This skeleton is missing from all existing proposals. The author has developed this "Unified Approach" for the past 40 years to the point where the Engineering of Measurement Systems can stand alone as its own discipline, self-contained, with a whole set of new concepts not previously existing, which unify the thousands of transducers/sensors and signal conditioning which exist in all disciplines, into a single, systematic, logical and cohesive body of knowledge. There are over 15 such sets of new concepts, all critically important to this new approach. The author describes several of these and presents their distilled essence.</description><identifier>ISBN: 0780333128</identifier><identifier>ISBN: 9780780333123</identifier><identifier>DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.1996.507188</identifier><language>eng</language><publisher>IEEE</publisher><subject>Data engineering ; Distortion measurement ; Energy measurement ; Instruments ; Pollution measurement ; Sensor systems ; System testing ; Systems engineering and theory ; Time measurement ; Transducers</subject><ispartof>Quality Measurement: The Indispensable Bridge between Theory and Reality (No Measurements? No Science! Joint Conference - 1996: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference and IMEKO Tec, 1996, Vol.1, p.K1-28 vol.1</ispartof><woscitedreferencessubscribed>false</woscitedreferencessubscribed></display><links><openurl>$$Topenurl_article</openurl><openurlfulltext>$$Topenurlfull_article</openurlfulltext><thumbnail>$$Tsyndetics_thumb_exl</thumbnail><linktohtml>$$Uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/507188$$EHTML$$P50$$Gieee$$H</linktohtml><link.rule.ids>309,310,780,784,789,790,2058,4050,4051,27925,54920</link.rule.ids><linktorsrc>$$Uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/507188$$EView_record_in_IEEE$$FView_record_in_$$GIEEE</linktorsrc></links><search><creatorcontrib>Stein, P.K.</creatorcontrib><title>The unified approach to the engineering of measurement systems for test and evaluation-a brief survey</title><title>Quality Measurement: The Indispensable Bridge between Theory and Reality (No Measurements? No Science! Joint Conference - 1996: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference and IMEKO Tec</title><addtitle>IMTC</addtitle><description>Over the last two to three decades there has been an increased recognition in industrial and governmental organizations that the educational establishment is not producing engineers who are measurement-aware, measurement-conscious or measurement-oriented. The need is especially acute in the Measurement for Test and Evaluation community. Numerous national and international conferences have discussed ways of remedying the situation by organizing or re-organizing curricula. The author has participated in a number of those. The common consensus is that it is only a matter of selecting a menu of lectures and courses from among existing ones to achieve this aim. It has not been generally recognized that there exists a basic core of knowledge which is unique to the discipline of the Engineering of Measurement Systems, especially for Test and Evaluation and shared by no other discipline, and that this body of knowledge must form the skeleton to which contributions from other disciplines can be attached as necessary. This skeleton is missing from all existing proposals. The author has developed this "Unified Approach" for the past 40 years to the point where the Engineering of Measurement Systems can stand alone as its own discipline, self-contained, with a whole set of new concepts not previously existing, which unify the thousands of transducers/sensors and signal conditioning which exist in all disciplines, into a single, systematic, logical and cohesive body of knowledge. There are over 15 such sets of new concepts, all critically important to this new approach. The author describes several of these and presents their distilled essence.</description><subject>Data engineering</subject><subject>Distortion measurement</subject><subject>Energy measurement</subject><subject>Instruments</subject><subject>Pollution measurement</subject><subject>Sensor systems</subject><subject>System testing</subject><subject>Systems engineering and theory</subject><subject>Time measurement</subject><subject>Transducers</subject><isbn>0780333128</isbn><isbn>9780780333123</isbn><fulltext>true</fulltext><rsrctype>conference_proceeding</rsrctype><creationdate>1996</creationdate><recordtype>conference_proceeding</recordtype><sourceid>6IE</sourceid><recordid>eNp9jjFrwzAUhAWh0KTNHjK9PxBXsutYnkNKO3Tzbl6bk60SS0aSA_73MbRzbzn4jg9OiJ2SmVKyfvn4bE6ZqutjVspKab0SG1lpWRSFyvWj2Mb4I5e8lmWuq7VA04MmZ43FhXgcg-fvnpKntHC4zjogWNeRNzSA4xQwwCWKc0wYIhkfKCEmYnch3Pg6cbLeHZi-goWhRbhhfhYPhq8R279-Evu3c3N6P1gA7RjswGFufw8X_453ZXlGcw</recordid><startdate>1996</startdate><enddate>1996</enddate><creator>Stein, P.K.</creator><general>IEEE</general><scope>6IE</scope><scope>6IL</scope><scope>CBEJK</scope><scope>RIE</scope><scope>RIL</scope></search><sort><creationdate>1996</creationdate><title>The unified approach to the engineering of measurement systems for test and evaluation-a brief survey</title><author>Stein, P.K.</author></sort><facets><frbrtype>5</frbrtype><frbrgroupid>cdi_FETCH-ieee_primary_5071883</frbrgroupid><rsrctype>conference_proceedings</rsrctype><prefilter>conference_proceedings</prefilter><language>eng</language><creationdate>1996</creationdate><topic>Data engineering</topic><topic>Distortion measurement</topic><topic>Energy measurement</topic><topic>Instruments</topic><topic>Pollution measurement</topic><topic>Sensor systems</topic><topic>System testing</topic><topic>Systems engineering and theory</topic><topic>Time measurement</topic><topic>Transducers</topic><toplevel>online_resources</toplevel><creatorcontrib>Stein, P.K.</creatorcontrib><collection>IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings</collection><collection>IEEE Proceedings Order Plan All Online (POP All Online) 1998-present by volume</collection><collection>IEEE Xplore All Conference Proceedings</collection><collection>IEEE Xplore</collection><collection>IEEE Proceedings Order Plans (POP All) 1998-Present</collection></facets><delivery><delcategory>Remote Search Resource</delcategory><fulltext>fulltext_linktorsrc</fulltext></delivery><addata><au>Stein, P.K.</au><format>book</format><genre>proceeding</genre><ristype>CONF</ristype><atitle>The unified approach to the engineering of measurement systems for test and evaluation-a brief survey</atitle><btitle>Quality Measurement: The Indispensable Bridge between Theory and Reality (No Measurements? No Science! Joint Conference - 1996: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference and IMEKO Tec</btitle><stitle>IMTC</stitle><date>1996</date><risdate>1996</risdate><volume>1</volume><spage>K1</spage><epage>28 vol.1</epage><pages>K1-28 vol.1</pages><isbn>0780333128</isbn><isbn>9780780333123</isbn><abstract>Over the last two to three decades there has been an increased recognition in industrial and governmental organizations that the educational establishment is not producing engineers who are measurement-aware, measurement-conscious or measurement-oriented. The need is especially acute in the Measurement for Test and Evaluation community. Numerous national and international conferences have discussed ways of remedying the situation by organizing or re-organizing curricula. The author has participated in a number of those. The common consensus is that it is only a matter of selecting a menu of lectures and courses from among existing ones to achieve this aim. It has not been generally recognized that there exists a basic core of knowledge which is unique to the discipline of the Engineering of Measurement Systems, especially for Test and Evaluation and shared by no other discipline, and that this body of knowledge must form the skeleton to which contributions from other disciplines can be attached as necessary. This skeleton is missing from all existing proposals. The author has developed this "Unified Approach" for the past 40 years to the point where the Engineering of Measurement Systems can stand alone as its own discipline, self-contained, with a whole set of new concepts not previously existing, which unify the thousands of transducers/sensors and signal conditioning which exist in all disciplines, into a single, systematic, logical and cohesive body of knowledge. There are over 15 such sets of new concepts, all critically important to this new approach. The author describes several of these and presents their distilled essence.</abstract><pub>IEEE</pub><doi>10.1109/IMTC.1996.507188</doi></addata></record>
fulltext fulltext_linktorsrc
identifier ISBN: 0780333128
ispartof Quality Measurement: The Indispensable Bridge between Theory and Reality (No Measurements? No Science! Joint Conference - 1996: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference and IMEKO Tec, 1996, Vol.1, p.K1-28 vol.1
issn
language eng
recordid cdi_ieee_primary_507188
source IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings
subjects Data engineering
Distortion measurement
Energy measurement
Instruments
Pollution measurement
Sensor systems
System testing
Systems engineering and theory
Time measurement
Transducers
title The unified approach to the engineering of measurement systems for test and evaluation-a brief survey
url http://sfxeu10.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/loughborough?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_tim=2025-01-01T20%3A27%3A43IST&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=infofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rfr_id=info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com:primo3-Article-ieee_6IE&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=proceeding&rft.atitle=The%20unified%20approach%20to%20the%20engineering%20of%20measurement%20systems%20for%20test%20and%20evaluation-a%20brief%20survey&rft.btitle=Quality%20Measurement:%20The%20Indispensable%20Bridge%20between%20Theory%20and%20Reality%20(No%20Measurements?%20No%20Science!%20Joint%20Conference%20-%201996:%20IEEE%20Instrumentation%20and%20Measurement%20Technology%20Conference%20and%20IMEKO%20Tec&rft.au=Stein,%20P.K.&rft.date=1996&rft.volume=1&rft.spage=K1&rft.epage=28%20vol.1&rft.pages=K1-28%20vol.1&rft.isbn=0780333128&rft.isbn_list=9780780333123&rft_id=info:doi/10.1109/IMTC.1996.507188&rft_dat=%3Cieee_6IE%3E507188%3C/ieee_6IE%3E%3Cgrp_id%3Ecdi_FETCH-ieee_primary_5071883%3C/grp_id%3E%3Coa%3E%3C/oa%3E%3Curl%3E%3C/url%3E&rft_id=info:oai/&rft_id=info:pmid/&rft_ieee_id=507188&rfr_iscdi=true