Measurement and Calibration Overview  I. Introduction to Measurements, Fundamental & Derived Units                 A. Introduction to Metrology                                 Need for measurements                                 Importance of Calibration                                 Early measurements and metric system                 B. Principles of Metrology                                 7 Fundamental SI Units ? Length, Mass, Time, Electric Current,                                 Thermodynamic temperature, Luminous intensity, Amount of substance                                 Derived Units ? Examples (resistance, capacitance, pressure, etc.)                                 Prefixes and Multipliers (use of milli, micro, nano, etc.)                                 Measurement Terms: True Value, Accuracy, Precision, Resolution, and Bias                                 Traceability ?    What is it? Relation to NIST. II. Dimensional Standards, Measurements, Calibration                 A. Measuring Instruments Micrometers, scales & rules, squares, protractor, calipers, depth gage          B. Dimensional Calibration Standards - gage blocks  III. Physical Metrology Terminology, Instruments, Calibration                 A. Types of Measurements - Mass, Force, Pressure, Flow, Humidity                 B. Calibration Physical standards IV. Thermodynamic Temperature Devices                 A. Types of Measuring Instruments                                 General applications of glass thermometers, thermocouples, thermistors, PRT, pyrometers                 B. Introduction to Temperature Calibration Principles  V. Electrical Metrology                 A. ELECTRICAL METROLOGY                                 Metric prefixes                                 Basic electrical units ? volt, ampere, ohm                                 Analog vs. Digital measurements                                 Classical types of errors                                 Electrical calibration ? Application of Derived units                                 Noise and grounding VI. Standards Organizations and Document Standards                 A. STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS                                 ISO, IEC, ANSI, ISA, PMA, NCSL, DOD        B. Documented Standards                                  ANSI/NCSL Z540-1-1994                                  ISO/IEC 17025                                  Laboratory Accreditation                                  Accrediting Organizations                      VII. Calibration Systems                 A. Calibration procedures                 B. Calibration methods                 C. Calibration practices and regulations                 D. Calibration environments                 E. Calibration processes (includes establishing calibration intervals)                 F. Document control  VIII. Measurement Uncertainty                 A. Statistics and measurements                 B. Types of distributions ? normal, rectangular, triangular, U shape                 C. Type A and Type B Uncertainty, Combined Expanded Uncertainty                 D. What is GUM?                 E. Factors that introduce errors into measurements                     F. What is an Uncertainty Budget?