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Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Unit Catalogue 2009/10


EE20184: Introduction to electrical & electronic engineering

Click here for further information Credits: 6
Click here for further information Level: Intermediate
Click here for further information Period: Semester 1
Click here for further information Assessment: EX100
Click here for further informationSupplementary Assessment: Supplementary assessment information not currently available (this will be added shortly)
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Description: This unit is only available to students transferring from North China Electrical Power University (NCEPU).
Aims:
Appreciation of fundamentals of Digital Electronics, Electrical Systems and Control and Microprocessor Interfacing.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this unit students will be able to:
(i) analyse and design simple combinatorial and sequential digital electronic circuits using gates and bistable devices;
(ii) understand the operating principles and characteristics of separately excited d.c. motors;
(iii) demonstrate the connection between measured system signals and control system performance, use the concept of feedback to modify system performance, identify system performance criteria such as stability, response speed, damping and steady-state error;
(iv) describe the use of modern microprocessor devices as embedded sub-systems within engineering applications;
(v) demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of machine-code/micro-code and how microprocessors can be interfaced with peripheral devices.

Skills:
Numeracy; problem solving; working independently.

Content:
Digital Electronics: Boolean algebra and minimisation of functions. Digital gates, combinational logic and simple digital circuits. Sequential logic, flip-flops and simple counters.
Microprocessor Systems: Registers, ALUs, special function units, control unit and CPU. Unit communication and synchronisation. Interfacing embedded microprocessors to external devices. External bus structures and protocols. RAM, timers, parallel and serial ports, mass storage devices.
Electrical System & Control: Performance of simple first and second order dynamic systems: natural frequency of oscillation and damping performance measures, system performance representation using the Laplace operator, pole/zero diagrams. Concepts of open loop and closed loop systems. Closed loop control for system performance modification, root locus diagrams.
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