Introduction to Electronic Engineering (ELEC0002)

This is the core Electronic Engineering course in term 1 for our first year students. It aims to cover a wide range of Electronic Engineering topics, providing the foundations necessary for the remainder of their degree programmes. The aim of the module is to provide an introduction to a range of fundamental topics in electronic engineering, including energy sources, analogue and digital circuits, and communications systems, along with the associated practical skills including the use of test tools/instruments and the design, construction and troubleshooting of electronic circuits.
By the end of the module students will:
• Understand the different types of energy and fuel and the relations between force, energy and power; Carnot and endoreversible efficiencies.
• Apply Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws to calculate currents and voltages in passive linear circuits and perform circuit transformation using Thevenin and Norton equivalent sources.
• Understand capacitance, inductance and their relationship to impedance.
• Understand the requirement for maximum power transfer.
• Apply phasor and complex algebra in circuit analysis.
• Understand, analyse and design simple filters and resonant circuits.
• Understand and analyse simple three-phase systems and synchronous generators.
• Understand binary number systems and perform binary arithmetic, including Boolean algebra.
• Understand combinational logic functions including adders and comparators.
• Know how to program microcontrollers such as the Arduino Uno.
• Know how to use the peripherals of such microcontrollers.
• Understand the operational amplifier (op-amp) and design and construct a range of op-amp circuits such amplifiers, integrator and differentiator.
• Describe mathematically periodic signals, including use of the Fourier series.

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