TEC3275

Industrial electronics and instrumentation

Lecturer to be advised

4 points · 24 lectures, 24 laboratory and tutorial hours · First semester · Caulfield. · Prohibited combinations: TEC3225, TEC3226.

Objectives To develop basic skills in design and analysis of electrical circuits, application and analysis of semiconductor devices, digital logic circuits, transducers, sensors, signal transmission and conditioning, and the elements used in analog devices.

Synopsis Electrical components in circuits. Voltage and current sources. Kirchoff's and Ohm's laws Nodal and mesh circuit analysis methods. Thevenin's theorem. Transient and steady state response of first-order circuits. AC theory. Semiconductor devices. Amplifier principles. Concepts of feed forward, feedback, stability and oscillations. Binary number system and fundamentals of digital logic circuits. Transducers and analog to digital converters, their properties, usage, advantages and selection criteria. Transducer bridges and amplifiers and types used in measurements. The use of fibre optics in the transmission of digital data. Operational amplifiers and various types of signal conditioning and non-linear applications.

Assessment Examination (3 hours ): 70% · Tests and assignments: 30%

Recommended texts

Boylestad R L and Nashelsky L Electronics: A survey 5th edn, Prentice Hall, 1997
Johnson C Process control instrumentation technology Prentice-Hall, 1993

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