Class Pages:
Credits: 4.0 units [3.0 units lecture + 1.0 unit laboratory]
Course Description:
Analysis of DC and AC Circuits. Ideal Transformers. Motors and Generators, characteristics and Methods of Control. Diode and Transistor Circuits. Digital Circuits and Logic Gates. Transducers and Transducer Circuits. Operational Amplifiers. Motor Control. Feedback Control Systems. Introduction to Digital Control. Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers.
Prerequisites: Physics 72/Physics 102, and ES 21/Math 121.1 or equivalent
Goals:
The course is designed to make students:
- Understand basic electrical and electronics engineering concepts, laws and principles
- Appreciate the applications of electrical and electronics engineering concepts in relation to their chosen field of study
Objectives:
At the end of the course, the students are expected to:
- Describe the basic laws and principles of electrical circuits
- Solve AC and DC circuits using fundamental circuits analysis techniques
- Describe the operating principles and characteristics of transformers and AC and DC machines and their applications in industry.
- Solve simple diode and transistor circuits and identify and appreciate their use in simple practical applications
- Analyze, design and implement simple digital logic circuits
- Differentiate the different types of transducers and their applications in industry
- Illustrate the use of signal conditioning and data acquisition circuits in digital control
- Analyze, design and implement simple op-amp circuits and describe their applications
- Describe and appreciate the basic operation of feedback control systems and their applications in industry
- Describe the operation and applications of Programmable Logic Controllers in industry.
- Create ladder diagrams and implement simple application programs on the Programmable Logic Controller.