The shape measurement of technical cylinder mantle surfaces requires special measures to obtain a spatially low frequency interferogram indicating the shape deviations from an ideal cylinder surface. For this purpose the use of diffraxicons is proposed and demonstrated. The surface roughness is sufficiently eliminated by grazing incidence interferometry for high quality surfaces becoming more and more essential for high accuracy applications as e.g. in the nanotechnology and modern lithography.

Flatness of an active surface of the lap has an essential influence on the shape accuracy of lapped surfaces. Profile wear of the tool is not uniform along the radius because of the kinematics of lapping process. Changing the kinematic parameters, e.g. rotational velocity of the lap or position of the conditioning rings together with the workpieces can be used for correcting the profile of an active surface of the lap or for obtaining required convexity or concavity. This paper presents results of a study into the influence of conditioning rings positioning on the wear of the lap as well as the influence of the shape of an active surface of the lap on the flatness of lapped surfaces. Vickers impressions were the bases for measuring the profile wear of the tool and the optical method, based on fringe pattern analysis, was used for measuring the shape of lapped surfaces.

Indicators consumption increase both in quantity and in nomenclature needs an acceleration of production rate owing to automation of design process. The problem is that a description of various physical processes on which the principle of indicators action is based, is being carried out with the use of physico-mathematical apparatus appropriate to this class of phenomena. It hampers the design process automation, increases new indicators development time and their cost. The article considers a united system approach in the field of sensitive elements theory, invariant to the physical nature of phenomena and processes used and in the field of methods and instrumental means of these elements structural designing with following process automation.

The adaptation of the curricula at German Universities to the Anglo American standards like Bachelor of Sciences and Master of Engineering is the most ambitious political goals of the ministers for higher education of the federal countries in Germany. This new frame work for higher education increases the opportunities for the Universities of Applied Sciences for more application oriented education and research work, and also enables the graduates of their Master courses for the continuing PhD. studies e.g. in field of measurement and Control Engineering and energy management in the faculties of mechanical Engineering.
Exponential growing in application of intelligent and sophisticated measurement Instrumentation & Control (MI&C) systems in all part of techniques, but also in research and development is a significant indicator for demand of well trained engineers at the Universities of applied sciences . Based on 10 years of experiences of the author in teaching of (MI&C) engineering in the faculty of mechanical engineering at the University of applied Sciences Cologne, this paper introduces a new curricula in Bachelor of mechanical engineering and an upgraded Master of engineering in Energy management systems.

Many high quality Hall-type magnetic field sensors of advanced technology are customary available. We have experienced the use of Hall type sensors in non-destructive testing of material volume reduction due to corrosion and abrasion of iron tubes of different diameters as used for the heat exchangers, and gas pipelines.
Some results achieved by using a prototype assembly are presented. This consisted of a mechanical sensor moving support and a PC based measurement set for data recording and processing. Data gained are interpreted from the diagnosis point of view as the loss of ferromagnetic material and/or the thickness reduction. A program enabling to calculate distorted magnetic field has been developed with the aim to improve the design of sensor and to provide the measuring system with a sort of built-in intelligence for the evaluation of tests results.