Electronics Engineering

GENERAL The module gives the basis on the operation and the features of integrated sensors in the More Than Moore paradigm. Through laboratory exercices, it develops the student ability to make sesnors electronic interfaces, collect and transmit data with proper techniques customized for the specific application chosen. The module also enriches students of managing and communication skills, necessary in company or research team jobs. SPECIFIC • Knowledge and understanding: Understanding the operation principles of integrated sensors, the manufacturing process, the main features in terms of sensitivity, linearity, noise, signal-to-noise ratio, power consumption, power supply, cost, invasiveness, availability on the market. • Applying knowledge and understanding: Using practically methodologies of analysis and design in sensing technology, through experimentala ctivity in the laboratory • Critical and judgmental skills: Understanding the specific needs to be faced from the sensor viewpoint, the best way to collect data in specific condition and environment, adjusting the electronic interface and data transmission techniques to the problem under study. • Communication skills: The module uses the flipped strategy of teaching, which implies that each student (guided by the teacher, of course) manages, classifies, syntesizes the sources and the material, and finally make them available to the teacher and the class, as they were data-sheets. In the laboratory activity, students are divided into groups of three and each group develops a project proposed by the group itself. Each student learns how to propose and valorize her/his own ideas to the other two of the same group, discussing and mediating any choice, achieving shared solution regarding the sensing components and architectures. At the beginning, the group proposes a time scheduling of all the activities, which is updated every week and critically judged after each updating. This allows students to achieve consciousness and responsibility in programming their committments and in fixing the time to be devoted. All these skills are fundamental in team jobs both in research, in developments and in manufacturing companies. At the end, the group discusses the objectives of the project, le adopted solutions, the difficulties encountered in the implementation, advantages respect to state-of-art. The goup will use audiovisual media, films, images and concludes with an evaluation of costs versus benefits. Sometimes, the projects applied to national contests and two projects have received an award. • Learning skills: Each student learns how to propose and valorize her/his own ideas to collegues and superiors, discussing and mediating any choice, achieving shared solutions. The time scheduling of all the activities is updated every week and critically judged after each updating. This allows students to achieve consciousness and responsibility in programming their committments and in fixing the time to be devoted. All these skills are fundamental in team jobs both in research, in developments and in manufacturing companies.