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EE22004: Core engineering concepts

[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Credits: 20 [equivalent to 40 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 400
Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Period:
Academic Year
Assessment Summary: EXOB 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Examination (EXOB 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit, you will be able to:
  • Describe the behaviour of semiconductor devices and design simple practical circuits (such as amplifiers) based on these devices
  • Model the dynamic behaviour of electronic/electrical systems using Laplace and Z-transforms
  • Analyse and predict the steady-state and transient response of various control schemes
  • Describe and solve basic problems involving signal processing such as spectral analysis, filtering and the transfer function
  • Describe and solve basic problems involving the fundamentals of power electronics, electrical power systems and their contribution to affordable and clean energy.
The unit contributes to the following AHEP 4th edition learning outcomes: C1,C2,C3,C6,C13.


Synopsis: This unit introduces you to semiconductor devices, signal processing, control theory, and power electronics, machines and power systems. You'll design simple circuits involving semiconductor devices, model the behaviour of systems and circuits, and analyse their response to various control schemes. This will build your digital, problem solving and analytical skills.

Content: Electromagnetics (including time varying currents and fields in conductors) Electromagnetic devices such as transformers, motors and actuators and the relevant mathematics Electrical machines, power systems and power electronics (including introduction to 3 phase theory) Essential communications principles (including sources and properties of noise and concepts of modulation) Semiconductor devices & circuits (including semiconductor device types, principles of amplification and basic amplifier circuits) Introduction to Control Systems (including continuous and discrete time analysis) Signal processing (including information theory, digital spectral analysis, fundamentals of signal sampling and fundamental concept of analogue and digital filtering)

Course availability:

EE22004 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
  • UEEE-AFB20 : BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB20 : BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB22 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB22 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB21 : BEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB23 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science and Technology (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB23 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science and Technology with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB24 : BEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB24 : BEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB25 : BEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB25 : BEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM20 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM20 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM22 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM22 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM23 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science and Technology (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM23 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science and Technology with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM24 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM24 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM25 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM25 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
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