This course intends to provide a basic understanding of linear electronic principles and devices. It gives a balanced coverage of analogue devices and circuits, with emphasis on small and large signal amplifiers, operational amplifiers, filters, wave-shaping circuits, feedback, and stability.
MATLAB® is a programming platform designed specifically for engineers and scientists to analyze and design systems and products that transform our world. The heart of MATLAB is the MATLAB language, a matrix-based language allowing the most natural expression of computational mathematics.
Applied Electricity is a fundamental course that engineering students of almost all disciplines
have to undertake in the first semester of their programme of study. It is needless to state
that our world is heavily dependent on electricity in our day to day life. A reasonable
understanding on the basics of applied electricity is therefore important for every engineer.
Apart from learning dc and ac circuit analysis under steady-state conditions, and signal
waveforms, you will learn basic working principles and analysis of transformers, dc
machines, and induction machines.
Objective
This course gives an introduction to the basic theory, construction, design, operation and use of electrical machines and how electrical machines fit into the larger context of power systems. Emphasis is put on understanding the basic concepts of electromagnetic laws governing the working of electrical machines including motors, generators and transformers. Practical analytical models for most types of electrical machines commonly used in industry will be developed, and the models will be used to analyse power requirements, power capability, efficiency, operating characteristics, control requirements, and electrical demands of these machines.
Content
Overview and application domains of AC Machinery. Induction motors, Induction generators, Synchronous generators, Synchronous motors, Special purpose machines, single phase AC machines, linear AC motors, AC tachogenerator, reluctance and hysteresis motors, switched reluctance motors, BLDC motors, AC servomotor, Stepper motors: Classification, constructional features, Principle of operation, Equivalent circuits, No-load and short circuit tests, machine characteristics, starting, speed and torque control, voltage regulation, power factor control, losses and efficiency.
Objective
This course gives an introduction to the basic theory, construction, design, operation and use of electrical machines and how electrical machines fit into the larger context of power systems. Emphasis is put on understanding the basic concepts of electromagnetic laws governing the working of electrical machines including motors, generators and transformers. Practical analytical models for most types of electrical machines commonly used in industry will be developed, and the models will be used to analyse power requirements, power capability, efficiency, operating characteristics, control requirements, and electrical demands of these machines.
Content
Overview and application domains of transformers and DC machines. Transformers, DC generators, DC motors, DC tachogenerator, DC servomotor, High torque motor: classification, constructional features, Principle of operation, Equivalent circuits, No-load and short circuit tests, machine characteristics, starting speed control, voltage regulation, losses and efficiency, connection diagrams, troubleshooting and maintenance. Parallel operation and load sharing of transformers.
This course provides students with the basics of computers and their application in business. It exposes students to the operating system, input devices, output devices and storage units and their interrelationships. The course also introduces students to the use of the computer for processing of data and searching information on the internet.
This course presents introduces students to the control and conversion of electrical power by power semiconductor devices. Topics covered include uncontrolled rectification, thyristors and controlled AC-DC conversion, DC-AC converters, DC-DC converters, AC-AC converters and power converters for electric drives.
This course gives students an introduction to the basic building blocks of modern communications systems. The student is taught the basics of analog and digital modulation techniques and the principles underlying the transmission of information signals from the transmission end to the receiver through a communication channel.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- explain the basic building blocks of a digital communication system;
- understand the principles of operation and application of a representative
range of communications and broadcasting systems;
- demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of communication principles,
including analogue and digital signals, the radio spectrum, modulation
techniques;
- apply a systems approach to the analysis and design of communication systems;
- show confidence with the use of measurement equipment such as signal
generators and oscilloscopes;
MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a fourth-generation high-level programming language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization and programming.
This course is intended to introduce postgraduate students to the basic concepts of computers and computer science.
Emphasis is on understanding how computers really work, starting with a single switch, and showing step by step how to use just that one kind of part to build the most interesting human made machine.
It also addresses some essential limitations of the computer as well as future prospects for artificial intelligence and on line access to the world’s knowledge.
The Communication Skills II aims at furnishing students with how to use the English Language efficiently as a communicators. It builds on what was started in semester I and will focus on how to construct excellent paragraphs, craftily woven together into good essays using appropriate transitional markers, and registers. Documentation will also be explored to toughen students up as young academics so to function efficiently in their field of research.
This course presents the essential first steps in NI LabVIEW learning path. It provides students the chance to explore the LabVIEW environment, dataflow programming, and common LabVIEW development techniques in a hands-on format. In this course you will learn to develop data acquisition, instrument control, data-logging, and measurement analysis applications. At the end of the course, you will be able to create applications using the state machine design pattern to acquire, process, display, and store real-world data.