| CODE | TET1003 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Foundations of Electrical Theories for Technology | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Technology and Entrepreneurship Education | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This is an introductory unit into the domain of electrical and electronic knowledge. It starts by presenting learners with a taxonomy of knowledge concerning electrical and electronic devices and, the concepts and methods by which electrical and electronic circuits can be understood. The unit presents qualitative and quantitative methods by which circuits can be envisioned, simplified, modelled and simulated thus giving insight into their behaviour under different conditions. Emphasis is placed on learning the art of envisioning circuit behaviour through adopting processes of distributed cognition e.g. by the use of qualitative tangible mechanical models or qualitative software visualization and animation. Some of the devices, concepts and methods covered are the following: resistors, capacitors, inductors, various signals and device behaviour under different conditions, circuit reduction methods. Study-Unit Aims: 1. To envision and describe representations of electrical signals verbally, graphically and mathematically; 2. To explore the characteristic behaviour of circuits composed of passive components namely: the resistor, the capacitor and the inductor; 3. To explore reduction methods for transforming complex circuit configurations into simpler ones that are more amenable to analysis; 4. To introduce simple methods for circuit analysis; 5. To provide students with opportunities to design electrical functions involving passive components only for example attenuation, filtering and timing. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Envisage device and circuit behaviour through the use of qualitative analogies together with mathematical and graphical representations thereof; 2. Produce creative representations for expressing circuit behaviour (e.g. concept cartoons, qualitative software animations and mechanical models) alternative to traditional representations through mathematical equations, graphs and diagrams only; 3. Take a multifaceted approach to explaining circuit behaviour and use a variety of representations working together to achieve a comprehensive explanation of the dynamics of circuit behaviour; 4. Adopt a visual analysis procedure of structure-chunking and structure-behaviour-function relationship observations to analyse a circuit in addition to mathematical analytical methods; 5. Categorize devices and circuits by appropriate criteria. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Recognize components by their visual appearance, and by analysing their characteristic behaviour; 2. Simulate circuit behaviour with the use of a software package. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Scherz, P. and S. Monk 2013. Practical Electronics for Inventors, McGraw-Hill Education TAB. - FLOYD, T. L. 2007. Electronic Devices, Conventional Current version, Pearson International Edition. - HUGHES, E. 2012. Electrical and Electronic Technology, Prentice Hall. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Co-requisite Study-units: TET1001; TET1004. | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Independent Study, Lecture, Practical & Tutorials | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Sarah Pule |
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