Technical universities have some other involvements additionally to the task to teach students and to generate competent engineers, who shall be able work in the wide area. Universities have great specialists capability and know-how to carry out research work and this allows to solve various applied science task for the industrial infrastructure. Above two tasks have in some moments contrary application, especially to give the widely accepted assurance of the testing result, including measurements, is under suspicion. Now-a-days assurance of testing is mainly in the form of the accreditation or the certification from the third parties. In some cases other principles, like proficiency testing, can be used.
Main goal of this study work was to find testing and measurements assurance main rules in technical universities and give some conclusions, what shall be done to give more assurance to the test results. Study work includes the estimation of possibilities for measurements quality assurance for universities testing and calibration laboratories, analyse of the accreditation assessments results and the found non-conformities. Given conclusions, which can help better to solve the quality problems by measurements in practice.

We present a system for teaching different serial communication protocols used in instrumentation laboratory. The system is implemented using XESS prototyping boards (XSBoards) each one equipped with either a Xilinx FPGA or CPLD and an 8031 microcontroller (µC) and several intelligent sensor types. The system was used for implementing and testing the I²C, SPI, 1-Wire and other company specific protocols. The communication protocols were tested by implementing measuring systems where a sensor or a network of sensors is configured and controlled by a microcontroller.

In the paper the authors propose an original solution to perform the remote control of measurement instrumentation, with the aim of realizing the experimental section of an E-Learning portal of Electrical and Electronic Measurement courses, based on Web Services implemented in Visual Basic.Net. The .Net technology proves to overcome drawbacks typically affecting most of the techniques for remote instrument control till now adopted, allowing, at the same time, the integration among different softwares and communication protocols and the connection to measurement stations only by means of a common browser. Web Services use, in fact, XML language, that is well understood by each program, and SOAP protocol, which is recognized by any software environment supporting communication over Internet. Details of the implemented Web Service are given in the following, focusing the attention on the utilities provided by Visual Basic.Net for the management of connections (as queuing procedure, reading of UDDI registry, polling of the administered servers) and implementation an E-Learning portal.

The new implementation tendencies of multimedia techniques in all areas that involve the communication and data transfer as and the interface man-engine found applications in instrumentations area also. The orientation of techniques, methods and measurement devices toward digital equipments does the multimedia methods utilisation to be easy and allows a facile and efficacious using of equipments along with the appearance of virtual instruments with specialised functions.

The paper presents a virtual instrument completely based on LabVIEW for remote monitoring of electromagnetic field across the local area network or Internet environment. As our primary intention was to implement a virtual instrument able to measure and display directly the E-field strength values, the access to the instrument is simply performed via the LabVIEW built-in web server.