Section 14 of 21
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Control
Sensors, sampling, uncertainty, and control systems
- p219-228page range
- 10pages long
- 4subsections
- 20drill items
What the section holds
Measurement including the standard sensing elements, sampling, measurement uncertainty, and control systems with the block diagram and stability material.
Why it matters for your exam
Examined as its own knowledge area on the Mechanical and Other Disciplines specifications, and the control systems material is what Electrical and Computer candidates need even though their own section is elsewhere.
How to navigate it
This is a short section wedged between heat transfer and engineering economics, which is an easy place to scroll past. Electrical candidates in particular should note that control systems live here and not in the electrical section.
Search terms that land here
strain gauge | thermocouple | measurement uncertainty | control system | block diagram
Subsections, in handbook order
These are the headings the handbook itself uses. The page number beside each is where it begins.
- Measurementp219
- Samplingp224
- Control Systemsp225
- Measurement Uncertaintyp225
Disciplines that use this section
Page numbers here are read from handbook version 10.5 (seventh printing, April 2025), which runs to 502 pages. NCEES revises the handbook and page numbers move with it, which is why the drill asks which section a topic lives in rather than which page. Check the version of your own copy, downloaded free from NCEES.