Talk:Instrumentation

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[edit] Instrumentation Engineering Merge

Instrumentation Engineering is a stub, and highly redundant to the main article. If there's some obvious direction to expand it so that it says something more than "engineers who specialize in the science of instrumentation", then it would make sense to have its own article. I, however, have no idea what that direction would be. Sanguinity 18:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Merged. Instrumentation engineering was merged a mere month ago, so I hope merging Instrumentation Engineering before the four week window lapses is not considered premature, nor would be perceived as acting in bad faith. Sanguinity 18:48, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I would place all information referencing measurements under a single heading of Measurement Science. Measurement Science is the art of making a valid measurement on a physical parameter. A valid measurement is one that can be defended to the fundamental laws of physics. In essence, making measurements of physical systems is applied physics. We can elaborate on the difference between a sensor, transducer ,detector, instrument etc. Under the best scenario we may develop a more standard language that can decipher the "specmanship" of manufacturers and the fundamental basis of error in physcial measurements. We could also elaborate on validation tools i.e. spectral analysis, correlation. In closing, my defininition of noise is simply "unwanted data" that is generated by many energy sources i.e. electrical, acoustic , mechanical,thermal etc:Measurement 19:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Sources and Smart Instrumentation

I think that more sources are necessary for this article, and some information on Smart Instrumentation should also be included. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zeruski (talk • contribs) 17:53, August 22, 2007 (UTC).