Metrology education in a Quality Engineering Undergraduate Study Program

摘要

A four-year undergraduate study program has been developed at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in close cooperation with three other universities: (1) Vienna University of Technology, Austria, (2) Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK, and (3) Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Germany, in order to provide a formal educational program for measurement/metrology related activities and quality, with the emphasis on metrology. Metrology, measurement techniques and instrumentation science - all of which are fields related to quality production, quality services and other quality aspects - have to date mainly been taught in the context of other technical disciplines, but never as an integral study program. Some other institutions do, however, already provide various forms of basic metrology education/training such as Brunell University in the UK, Ecole Centrale (Lyon) and Ecole des Mines (Saint-Etienne) in France, and the German Academy of Metrology, DAM. This entire project (defining the curriculum, writing syllabuses, preparing relevant experiments, tutorials, etc.) has been supported by the EU in the framework of the Joint European Project JEP-TEMPUS 9886-95 project "Quality Engineering".