This document describes a teaching experience using an experimental apparatus developed by the authors. This apparatus has a pedagogical nature and has been in use for five years, so some conclusions may now be attained. It incorporates several sensors and actuators in two small tanks of water, and is intended for training the development of signal conditioning electronic circuits and programming control algorithms. It may be observed as a small scale reproduction of an industrial process. Students develop the signal conditioning circuits and interface them to a microcontroller. In one specific course context, the development, study and experimental testing of those circuits is the main focus of the student’s work, however the system has polyvalence to be used in other courses.
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CEDET DEETC Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa SEA
