EI25C02 Transducers Engineering – Semester III – EIE / ICE R-2025

Subject Code & Name: EI25C02 – Transducers Engineering

Regulation: R-2025

Semester: III (Third Semester)

Branch: B.E. Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (EIE) / B.E. Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICE)

Credits / L-T-P: 3 Credits | L-T-P: 3-0-0

Course Objectives

• This course introduces the fundamentals of measurement systems, classification and selection of transducers, and analysis of their static and dynamic characteristics.
• Students will understand the principles, construction, and application of various resistive, inductive, capacitive, and modern transducers.
• The course also covers signal conditioning circuit design and advanced sensor technologies including MEMS and smart sensors.

Full Unit-wise Syllabus

Unit I – Science of Measurements And Classification of Transducers

Units and standards, Static calibration, Classification of errors, Limiting error and probable error, Error analysis, Statistical methods, Odds and uncertainty, Classification of transducers, Selection of transducers.

Unit II – Characteristics of Transducers

Static characteristics: Accuracy, precision, resolution, sensitivity, linearity, span and range. Dynamic characteristics: Mathematical model of transducer, Zero, First and Second order transducers, Response to impulse, step, ramp and sinusoidal inputs.

Unit III – Variable Resistance Transducers

Principle of operation, construction details, characteristics and applications of potentiometer, strain gauge, resistance thermometer, thermistor, hot-wire anemometer, piezo-resistive sensor, humidity sensor.

Unit IV – Variable Inductances

Inductive transducers: Principle of operation, construction details, characteristics and applications of LVDT, Induction potentiometer, Variable reluctance transducers, Synchros, Microsyn.

Unit V – Capacitance Transducers

Characteristics of capacitive transducers: Types, signal conditioning, Applications: Capacitor microphone, Capacitive pressure sensor, Proximity sensor.

Unit VI – Other Sensors and Transducers

Piezoelectric transducer, Hall effect transducer, Magneto elastic sensor, Digital transducers, Fiber optic sensors, Smart sensors, Film sensor, MEMS and Nano sensors, LASER sensors, Environmental monitoring sensors (Water quality and air pollution).

Course Outcomes (COs)

• CO1: Explain the fundamentals of measurement systems, units standards, classification of transducers, and error analysis including static and dynamic characteristics.
• CO2: Analyze and interpret datasheets and experimental results to evaluate the static and dynamic characteristics of resistive, inductive, and capacitive transducers.
• CO3: Design and implement signal conditioning circuits for resistive, inductive, and capacitive sensors to enhance measurement accuracy and response.
• CO4: Examine and apply the working principles, construction and characteristics of variable resistance, inductive capacitance, piezoelectric, and Hall effect sensors.
• CO5: Understand and evaluate advanced sensor technologies including MEMS, smart sensors, fiber optic sensors environmental monitoring sensors, and their practical applications.

Assessment Pattern (Quick Note)

• Weightage: Continuous Assessment 40% | End Semester Examinations 60%
• Internal methodology: Assignments (20%), Solution to application-oriented problems using software (20%), Review of GATE questions (20%), Internal Examinations (40%)

Source: Official Anna University – B.E. Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering R-2025 Curriculum
Last Updated: September 2026