Course code MašZ2004
Credit points 2.25
Measuring Technique
Total Hours in Course60
Number of hours for lectures8
Number of hours for laboratory classes16
Date of course confirmation20.10.2011
Responsible UnitInstitute of Engineering and Energetics
Course developer
Inženiertehnikas un enerģētikas institūts
Daina Kanaška
Dr. sc. ing.
Course abstract
The objective of Course is to give students knowledge in history of development of technical measuring, classification and characteristic of measuring methods as well as measuring instruments, their classification and usage. Students obtain skills in metrological parameters of measuring instruments, measuring errors and the possibilities to eliminate them, basics of measuring instrument choice.
Learning outcomes and their assessment
Knowledge: the fundamentals of metrology, the regularities of precision of gauges as well as measuring results and determination factors, the fundamentals of measuring methods as well as working principles of gauges;
Skills: to make engineering metrology, to make calibration of gauges as well as evaluation of errors, make the analyses of measuring results;
Competence: Selection and justification of appropriate measuring equipment and method, analysis of errors of gauges and measuring as well as, evaluation of geometric paramete
Compulsory reading
1. Šīrons E. Detaļu ģeometrisko parametru mērīšana. – Rīga: RTU, 2007. 344 lpp.
2. Šīrons E. Vispārīgās metroloģijas pamatkurss. Rīga: RTU, 2008. 242 lpp.
3. Savstarpējā apmaināmība, standartizācija un tehniskie mērījumi: Metodiskie norādījumi laboratorijas darbiem / LLU: Sast. A. Čukure, J. Čukurs. Jelgava, 2000. 78 lpp.
4. Šīrons E. Tehniskie mērījumi. Rīga: RTU, 1993. 618 lpp.
Further reading
1. Tehniskie mērījumi: Laboratorijas darbu žurnāls / LLU: Sast. A. Čukure, G. Aizsils, I. Dukulis. Jelgava, 2001. 20 lpp.
2. Savstarpējā apmaināmība, standartizācija un tehniskie mērījumi: Metodiskie norādījumi kursa darbu izpildei / LLU: Sast. A. Čukure, I. Dukulis. Jelgava, 1991. 67 lpp.
3. Product Catalog. Measuring instruments and sensors – AHLBORN, 2009.
Periodicals and other sources
1. Kvalitāte : žurnāls par kvalitāti un kvalitātes vadīšanu. Rīga : Latvijas Kvalitātes asociācija. ISSN 1407-7671.