University of Colorado Boulder
Embedding Sensors and Motors Specialization
University of Colorado Boulder

Embedding Sensors and Motors Specialization

Experience Sensors and Motors in an IoT World. Master sensor and motor theory, and program these devices in a microprocessor system.

James Zweighaft
Jay Mendelson

Instructors: James Zweighaft

Sponsored by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

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4 months
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.6

(1,159 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Study a lab experiment or production process and understand how to specify the proper sensor solution for taking real-time process data

  • Implement the sensor into an embedded system in both hardware and software

  • Modify existing hardware schematic to add sensors and all support circuitry needed to implement the signal chain in existing microprocessor system

  • Create hardware and firmware to process the sensor signal and feed data to a microprocessor for further evaluation

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Specialization - 4 course series

Sensors and Sensor Circuit Design

Course 131 hours4.6 (1,158 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Use the core features of the Cypress PSOC development kit.

  • Choose the right temperature sensor, rotary sensor and amplifier for an application.

  • Interface sensors, LCD, and ADC to the PSOC development kit.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Electrical Engineering
Category: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Category: Electronic Systems
Category: Embedded Systems
Category: Embedded Software
Category: Computer Systems
Category: Electronic Components
Category: Electronic Hardware
Category: Mechanical Engineering
Category: Thermal Management
Category: Computer Engineering
Category: Debugging
Category: System Software
Category: Hardware Design
Category: Computer Science
Category: Computer Programming
Category: Software Systems

Motors and Motor Control Circuits

Course 236 hours4.7 (1,383 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Understand how to specify the proper AC or DC motor for a machine design

  • Integrate the motor to a machine, based on analysis of motor equations for voltage, current, torque and speed

  • Implement the motor and accompanying rotary sensor into a motor control circuit in both hardware and software

  • Create hardware and firmware to process motor feedback data to a microprocessor for further evaluation

Skills you'll gain

Category: Electrical Engineering
Category: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Category: Electronic Systems
Category: Mechanical Engineering
Category: Machine Controls
Category: Basic Electrical Systems
Category: Torque (Physics)
Category: Mechanics
Category: Engineering

Pressure, Force, Motion, and Humidity Sensors

Course 323 hours4.7 (237 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Choose the right pressure, force, strain, position, motion, acceleration, occupancy, and humidity sensor for an application.

  • Design these sensors into an embedded circuit. 

Skills you'll gain

Category: Electronic Systems
Category: Electrical Engineering
Category: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Category: Computer Systems
Category: Computer Science
Category: Embedded Systems

Sensor Manufacturing and Process Control

Course 455 hours4.6 (275 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Understand how sensor manufacturers characterize and calibrate their sensors.

  • Tune a PID control loop and access the PID control function of the Cypress PSoC development kit for a motor control application

  • Understand manufacturing methods used to build electro-mechanical and micro-machined sensors.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Process Engineering
Category: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Category: Process Control
Category: Mechanical Engineering
Category: Electronic Systems
Category: Electrical Engineering
Category: Machine Controls
Category: Geometric Dimensioning And Tolerancing
Category: Hardware Design
Category: Mechanical Design
Category: Mechanical Drawings
Category: Engineering Drawings
Category: Computer Engineering
Category: Engineering Tolerance
Category: Manufacturing and Production
Category: Industrial Engineering
Category: Manufacturing Processes
Category: Embedded Systems
Category: Computer Systems
Category: Engineering

Instructors

James Zweighaft
University of Colorado Boulder
4 Courses94,832 learners

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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Colorado Boulder. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹

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