ABSTRACT
The laboratory, measurement, and instrumentation are essential parts in an engineering curriculum. From past experience it was difficult to teach a laboratory course, other than routine testing, without some background in measurement and instrumentation, and equally difficult to teach a meaningful course in measurement without an associated laboratory. The experiments are written for semi-self-pacing, and semi-self-contained. The former will alleviate the instructor's time and congestion in the laboratory. The latter relieves the burden of referring back and forth in the text, and allows the experiments to be taught as an independent laboratory course with the text material as reference. Students should be sympathetic to the fact that it is difficult to sequence the experiments exactly with the concurrent lecture course. It is strongly urged that students prepare the data sheet before conducting an experiment, and the original data must be a part of the laboratory report.
