Measuring and Quality TechniqueLaajuus (3 cr)

Objective

Measurement and quality management are an essential parts of work-shop manufacturing. You will learn the basic knowledge and skills of measurement and be able to use the most common workshop measuring instruments in a way that takes into account the factors that cause measurement uncertainty. Your competence will grow in understanding quality management as part of normal work. Additionally, you will understand how quality thinking with measurements supports sustainable development.

Knowledge and understanding
You are familiar with the basic measurements in the workshop: you are able to use the most common measuring instruments in a way that takes into account the most significant factors causing measurement uncertainty. You understand the basic thinking of quality management and sustainable development: the main quality definitions, continuous improvement, and the idea of the ISO 9000 series.

Investigations and information retrieval:
You can select and use suitable measuring equipment to solve measuring problems.

Engineering practice:
You can calculate the most common measuring errors from your own measuring which you have make in the laboratory. You can analyze the results and make conclusions.

Content

Calculation of the most common measurement errors, measurement uncertainty, and their reduction, selection of measuring instruments, and quality management. Quality thinking and sustainable development as part of it.

Qualifications

Handling exponents and square roots, simplifying expressions, applying trigonometry to right-angled and oblique triangles, solving linear equations and root equations, as well as systems of equations. SI unit system, unit conversion, and calculation of quantities.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment consists of exam 80% and learning assignments 20%.

Sufficient (1): You understand the basics and terminology, but you have significant shortcomings in interpreting key concepts. You can solve simple measurement problems satisfactorily and identify quality principles adequately.

Satisfactory (2): You understand the basics and terminology, but you have limitations in applying key concepts. You can solve measurement problems that deviate from the norm satisfactorily and identify quality principles and their relevance to sustainable development.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3): You master the key aspects of the course, which include under-standing basic workshop measurement methods and making informed choices among them holistically. Additionally, you can use the most common workshop measuring instruments in a way that mostly considers factors causing measurement uncertainty. You are familiar with the significant factors causing measurement uncertainty and can determine combined measurement errors in complex situations. You can assess and analyze measurement results from the perspective of measurement uncertainty. You understand the basic thinking of quality management and its relationship to sustainable development.

Very good (4): You master the necessary key aspects and can apply them critically and innovatively in solving moderately demanding measurement problems and in analyzing and evaluating results, such as in laboratory work and the practical application of quality principles

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5): You have a command of the key concepts and can apply them critically and innovatively in solving demanding and complex measurement problems, such as in laboratory work, and in applying more advanced quality principles. You are capable of generating new solutions critically while evaluating their impact on sustainable development.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Accepted:
You understand the basics and terminology, but you have shortcomings in interpreting key concepts. You can solve simple measurement problems satisfactorily and identify quality principles adequately.