INSTRUMENTATION (SEMM3242) PROJECT (40%)

FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA

SEM 2023/2024-1

Title:
Development of Instrumentation System for System Monitoring and Data Logging.

Objective:
1. To design and develop and instrumentation for system monitoring and data logging.
2. To calibrate the proposed instrumentation system.
3. To investigate the accuracy of the developed instrumentation system.

Project Rules & Regulation:

This is an individual project and everyone should submit his/her own project report, and the report
should not contain any plagiarism. Please take note that individual project outcomes need to be
different from the others in the following perspectives:
 Instrumentation system selection and design.
 Material selection and fabrication.
 Sensor calibration charts and graphs.
 Instrumentation system accuracy.

However, student is encouraged to work in group for information sharing and project discussion.

Assessment:
1. Report – 30%
Every student needs to submit the project report at the end of semester. The report should
consist of:
 Chapter 1 (3%) – Project Background: introduction, objective, scopes, review on most
recent technologies used in the selected instrumentation system.
 Chapter 2 (5%) – Mechanical Design: overall system description (block diagram), physical
design of enclosure, engineering drawing with proper enclosure dimensioning, material
selection and fabrication techniques used to produce the enclosure.
 Chapter 3 (10%) – Electrical Design: sensor selection, signal conditioning system design
(sample calculation, schematic diagram, circuit drawing), components selection and
remote monitoring system setup.
 Chapter 4 (5%) – Sensor calibration procedures and results (calibration charts / graphs).
 Chapter 5 (5%) – Instrumentation system accuracy testing procedures and results
(accuracy charts / graphs), analysis and discussion of instrumentation system accuracy.
 Chapter 6 (2%) – Conclusion.
 2. Presentation (In Class / Video) – 10%
In 3 – 5 minutes, each student should present the following information clearly:
 Project background
 Instrumentation system design and how it works.
 Functionality demonstration of the instrumentation system.

LIST OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR THE PROJECT

Hardware:
 Jumper wires.
 Breadboard 830 holes points.
 AAA Batteries + battery holder (x2)
 Resistors (depends on design)
 Operational Amplifier (741)
 Arduino UNO / NANO
 SD card module
 Multimeter

Software:
 Arduino IDE (C-Programming platform): https://www.arduino.cc/en/software
 Tinkercad (for simulation): https://www.tinkercad.com/join