James Zweighaft

James Zweighaft is an instructor at University of Colorado Boulder, where he created and teaches the graduate course Embedding Sensors and Actuators. Prior to joining the faculty, Jim worked over 30 years as a servo engineer in computer tape drives and robotic libraries at Storage Technology, Exabyte and Benchmark. In addition, he has worked with X-ray Computed Tomography systems for Imtec and 3M corporations. Jim holds Bachelors (Stony Brook University) and Masters (Cornell University) degrees in Electrical Engineering. He has authored 28 US utility patents.

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Pressure, Force, Motion, and Humidity Sensors (Coursera)

This is our third course in our specialization on Embedding Sensor and Motors. To get the most out of this course, you should first take our first course entitled Sensors and Sensor Circuits. Our first course gives you a tutorial on how to use the hardware and software development [...]

Sensors and Sensor Circuit Design (Coursera)

After taking this course, you will be able to: understand how to specify the proper thermal, flow, or rotary sensor for taking real-time process data; implement thermal sensors into an embedded system in both hardware and software; add the sensor and sensor interface into a microprocessor based development kit; [...]

Sensor Manufacturing and Process Control (Coursera)

This is our fourth course in our specialization on Embedding Sensor and Motors. To get the most out of this course, you should first take our first course entitled "Sensors and Sensor Circuits", our second course entitled "Motor and Motor Control Circuits", and our third course entitled "Pressure, Force, [...]

Motors and Motor Control Circuits (Coursera)

This is our second course in our specialization on Embedding Sensor and Motors. To get the most out of this course, you should first take our first course entitled Sensors and Sensor Circuits. Our first course gives you a tutorial on how to use the hardware and software development [...]