2015 Faculty Course Development Award: an introductory graduate course in sensors and systems

This article outlines the delivery of a graduate-level course in sensors and systems of sensors at Kansas State University (KSU). We developed this course after receiving the Faculty Course Development Award from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society in May 2015. Several departments at KSU research and develop sensors and sensor systems for extreme environments, including those in agriculture, industrial process control, nuclear-reactor control, aerospace, and the rural environment. A coherent basis for selecting and applying sensors was needed as a foundation for developing complex systems. The course that we developed and offered through KSU's department of electrical and computer engineering (ECE)-ECE 690/890 "Sensors and Systems"- provides just that basis.