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Socratic Instrumentation

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NEW: I am developing a new set of open-source learning modules on electricity and electronics. This is called the ModEL Project, with each module being a self-contained document complete with introduction, review, tutorial, question sets, and projects/experiments. Like everything on this website, all ModEL Project documents and files are "copylefted" under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license.



Worksheets for "INST" courses taught at BTC

1st Year, 1st Quarter:
(pending open-source development)
1st Year, 2nd Quarter:
(pending open-source development)
1st Year, 3rd Quarter (INST14X):
Digital, Motor Controls and PLCs
2nd Year, Summer Quarter (INST23X):
Protective Relays
2nd Year, Fall Quarter (INST24X):
Measurement
2nd Year, Winter Quarter (INST25X):
Control
2nd Year, Spring Quarter (INST26X):
Networks and Systems

A short document describing academic standards and expectations in the Instrumentation program, useful for anyone wishing to understand the philosophy of education applied here.


Lessons In Industrial Instrumentation textbook

Version 3.01 (stable): [PDF]

Click here for older versions and more information.


Career Guide

Click here for the career guide ``So You Want To Be An Instrument Technician?''

Additional study materials

Click here to access special worksheets designed
to sharpen your skills on essential topics.
Click here to access public-domain textbooks on
subjects related to industrial instrumentation.
Click here for photo examples of how not to do instrumentation.

Video resources

Click here to go to the BTC Instrumentation YouTube channel. All videos on this channel are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License Click here to view a short film produced by the US Bureau of Reclamation on a technical challenge faced at Glen Canyon hydroelectric dam during 1983-1984. It is an example of cavitation on a massive scale! This video is public-domain, being a production of the US Government released for public viewing.

Hardware and Software

Click here to access open-source hardware designs and software useful in building instrumentation systems
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Source code

Click here to download a large archive file containing the source code for the Lessons In Industrial Instrumentation textbook. This file is intended only for developers and authors who wish to sample from my work in order to create their own derivative book(s). This file contains all of the graphic images used in the textbook in addition to all of the text, and all of the Makefiles and compilation scripts as well (for use on computers running the bash shell, also requiring sed and LaTeX). This file is encoded in .tar.gz format.
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Click here to download an enormous archive file containing all the source code for both the Socratic Instrumentation worksheets and the Lessons In Industrial Instrumentation textbook. This file is intended only for developers and authors who wish to sample from my work in order to create their own derivative works. Beware, this file is several hundred megabytes in size, and it contains all of the graphic images used in these documents in addition to all of the text, and all of the Makefiles and compilation scripts as well (for use on computers running the bash shell, also requiring sed and LaTeX). This very large archive file is encoded in .tar.gz format.
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