Prohibition: ELEC1001 Introductory Electrical Engineering, ELEC1101 Foundations of Computer Systems, ELEC1102 Foundations of Electronic Circuits, ELEC1103 Fundamentals of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ELEC2001 Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ELEC2003 Electrical and Electronic Engineering A

Offered: Semester 1

Classes: 2 hours lectures, 1 hour of tutorial and 1 hour of lab and 1 hour E-Learning per week.

Assessment: Log book 12%, Assignment 13%, Mid-Sem Exam 50% and Final Exam 25%.

This unit of study assumes a degree of basic research skills and ability to grasp engineering principles; information literacy; personal and intellectual autonomy; communication skills.

The following topics are covered. Introduction to circuits: current and voltage, power, Kirchhoff´s Laws, sources and resistors, Ohm´s Law, series and parallel connections, voltage divider, equivalent circuits. Inductors and capacitors: capacitance, inductance, inductors in series/parallel, RC circuits, RL circuits, transient and steady state, introduction to RLC circuits. Power transmission: sinusoidal signals, phasors, power in ac circuits, balanced 3-phase circuits. Transformers: characteristics of ideal transformers, introduction to magnetisation and non-ideal behaviour. Electromechanical energy conversion: machine types, DC machines, field connections, introduction to ac and induction machines. Operational amplifiers: ideal op amp, inverting amplifier, noninverting amplifier, design and gain-bandwidth product, simple filters. Logic circuits: basic concepts, number representations, combinatorial logic circuits, sequential logic circuits, introduction to CMOS digital circuits. Introduction to microprocessors: organization, memory, process control, instruction sets, addressing and interfacing.

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