The course “UNC201 - Uncertainty Analysis of Complex-Valued Measurands” has just been added to the course catalog.

This course deals with the uncertainty analysis of complex-valued quantites, and with measurement equations that contain complex-valued quantites. The prerequisits for this course are “UNC102 - Basic Uncertainty Analysis” and “MATH110 - Introduction to Complex Aritmetic“.

Complex-valued measurement quantities occur frequently in RF and microwave measurements, optics, acoustics, and many other fields. They are often associated with wave phenomenon. When dealing with such measurements, a slightly different approach has to be used for uncertainty analysis. This is what the course is about.

The course “MEAS104 - SI Units - The kilogram” has been added to the course catalog. This is the third in a series of four courses on the SI units. It covers, naturally, the SI unit for mass, the kilogram. This is probably going to be the shortest course in the series. It has as prerequisites MEAS101, MEAS102, and MEAS103.

Happy new year! With the end of 2006, we are nearly ready to start our video podcast. Things have been going slower than we have expected. For one, it took awhile to get all the hardware that we ordered for that purpose, that is all resolved now. I anticipate we will start in the new year with our new podcast.

There are two courses that have been left in the course catalog, MATH119 and MATH120, while they are under development. MATH120 is near completion, but we are interested in feedback on both these courses. What do we still need to add? What would you like to see?

We are still looking for ideas and interviews for the podcast. If you want to be part of our consultant network, you will be entitled to an interview on the podcast to describe what services you can offer. We also are interested in test equipment manufacturer’s doing demonstrations of their new products and services. If you are in a technical field, and will be in the Las Vegas area, let us know if you would like to be on our podcast. If it would be appropriate, we will put you on.

We really would like suggestions also on what course content to develop. We currently are planning to develop some video-based courses to supplement the on-line courses. If you have a training need in a technical area, please let us know at webmaster@learningmeasure.com.

Finally we would like some feedback on how to allow learningmeasure.com to continue. The plan was to charge a subscription fee to access the course materials of $60/year or $5/month. We would like your opinion on that. For an alternative, we could try placing ads in the course content, something we have avoided so far, and see if that would generate sufficient revenue to allow us to grow and develop content at a faster rate. Again e-mail us, or comment on this post if you want your response to be public.

UNC102 - Basic Uncertainty Analysis has just been added to the course catalog. This is the second in a planned series of four courses on general uncertainty analysis. This course covers the basics of uncertainty analysis and suggest a process to follow when developing uncertainty analysis. The course requires one concept from calculus, the derivative, but that will be introduced in the course in a short section on the concept.

Please feel free to comment on the course, or any other of our courses. Feedback from our users will allow us to make the site a better resource.

Just added a new course to LearningMeasure.com, MEAS105 - SI Units - The Ampere. This is the fourth in a seven part series on the SI Units. Please comment on this, and any course you might take, as that is how they will be made better.

With the ongoing saga I am having with Prestige Camera, they finally agreed to ship what I ordered. They even said they would upgrade what I ordered. I should have what I need to start producing my video podcast in a few days.

I am still learning wordpress, and am currently trying to figure out how to match the look of this site to learningmeasure.com. Slow going, but I will keep everyone posted here until I have everything working.