RF and Microwave Uncertainty Workshop
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| Date(s): | 16 February 2010; |
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| Times: | The workshop begins at 9am (registration and coffee from 8.30 am) and ends at approximately 5pm. |
| Venue(s): | Alan MacDiarmid Centre - Lower Hutt; ; |
| Cost: | $650 + GST, includes tuition, lunch, refreshments, and study materials. |
| Contact: | Blair Hall |
Course Overview
This one-day course provides an introduction to the topic of measurement uncertainty for RF and microwave measurements. It covers basic notions of measurement uncertainty, with emphasis on complex quantities. The course will explain how to interpret uncertainty statements, how to identify and describe sources of measurement uncertainty, how to combine and propagate uncertainties and how to formulate an uncertainty statement for a measurement result.
The course is relevant to anyone making or designing measurements involving RF or microwave quantities. In particular, staff operating under ISO 17025 "General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories" will benefit from this course.
Programme Outline
Topics include
- Basic uncertainty concepts
- Uncertainty statements
- Type-A and Type-B uncertainties
- Measurement units and uncertainty
- The uncertainty of complex quantities
- Polar coordinates and phase uncertainty
- Simple network theory
- Propagation of uncertainty
Other Relevant MSL Courses
The MSL Course "Measurement, Uncertainty and Calibration" is recommended as a prerequisite to this RF course.
Presenter Profile
Blair Hall is project leader of RF and Microwave at the Measurement Standards Laboratory. He has 11 years experience in the field and has authored a number of key research papers on the subject of measurement uncertainty. He is a member of the IEEE P378 Working Group ("Recommended Practice for Scattering Parameter Measurements and Uncertainty Analysis using Network Analyzers") and is an invited lecturer at the 2009 NIST/ARFTG Microwave Measurement Short Course.