Electronic Engineering - with Industrial Experience (5 Years) [MEng]
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Availability - Course (Compulsory/Elective)
Requisites
| Pre Requisites | |
| Satisfactory completion of the second year of one of the degree programmes of which this unit forms part, or some other qualification deemed equivalent by the School | |
Aims
The programme unit aims to:
Introduce the student to the research methodologies and techniques used in Electrical Energy Conversion Systems. The topic and the project Specification are arranged jointly between the student and his/her project supervisor.
Brief Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT
(1) Introduction: Overview of sensors, overview of instrumentation.
(2) Fundamental Sensor Concepts: Sensor characteristics: transfer function, range and sensitivity, errors and calibration, accuracy and precision, linearity, hysteresis.
(3) Sensors for position, displacement, level and flow, occupancy.
(4) Sensors for velocity, acceleration, force and strain.
(5) Sensors for radiation: sources, detectors, optical circuit components.
(6) Sensors for temperature: reference points, thermoresistive and thermoelectric sensors.
(7) Sensor interfaces: bridge circuits, capacitance-to-voltage and light-to-voltage converters
(8) Sensing electronic circuits: input characteristics, excitation circuits, overview of amplifiers, amplifier noise (mechanisms, noise figure, noise model).
(9) Signal conditioning: instrumentation amplifier, phase-sensitive modulation/demodulation, signal averaging, ratiometric detection.
(10) System architecture and performance: voltage- and current-transmission systems, noise generation mechanisms and characteristics, external noise coupling and suppression.
(12) System design: quantization error, sampling frequency, aliasing frequency, design practice; commercial DAQ products.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- Explain the principles of operation of the main types of sensors
- Utilise the merits of various types of sensors for a wide range of applications
- Understand the limitations in the performance of instrumentation systems
Intellectual skills
- Analyse the specifications of various types of sensors
- Understand the main characteristics of sensors
- Integrate instrumentation systems
Practical skills
- Select appropriate sensors for a given application and design simple electronic sensor interface systems
- Select components for instrumentation systems
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- Assimilate and communicate a technical understanding of modern sensor and instrumentation systems
- Acquire independently and critically evaluate data to conclude of state-of-the art.
- Present written material
Teaching & Learning Process (Hours Allocated To)
Lectures |
Tutorials/Example Classes |
Practical Work/Laboratory |
Private Study |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 4 | 0 | 76 | 100 |
Assessments
ASSESSMEN
Unseen written examination
There are four questions, answer all questions
The duration of the examination is two hours
Calculators are permitted in this examination
The examination forms 80% of the overall unit assessment
Course Work
Coursework 1: Design study - Sensors
Issued: Monday Week 2
Submission: Friday Week 10
Coursework 1 forms 10% of the overall unit assessment
Coursework 2: Data sheet study - Instrumentation
Issued: Thursday Week 6
Submission: Friday Week 9
Coursework 2 forms 10% of the overall unit assessment
Staff Involved
| Prof Krikor Ozanyan | - | Lecturer |