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What will I learn on this module?
You will learn on module key technical content around two themes that of analogue electronics and instrumentation. These are important topics for electrical engineering covering the key basics of analogue design and the use of analogue signals used in instrumentation. Amplifiers and signal conditioning devices will be covered that convert the sensor output into usable signals for typical process control platforms. Operational amplifiers will be used extensively in the module, leading up to an understanding of discrete electronic transistor design.
Operational Amplifiers - Operational amplifier applications applied to instrumentation signals, active filter circuits, and instrumentation amplifiers. Filter considerations including magnitude and phase bode diagrams, and compensation methods.
Sensors - Temperature, strain and light sensor systems looking into devices and signals. Additional sensors considered may also include slot encoders, accelerometers and hall-effect devices.
Instrumentation - Amplifiers and signal conditioning demonstrates the ability for signal conversion and used in real world environments. Operational amplifiers will be expanded upon with the design of the instrumentation amplifier to highlight the performance improvements. Noise analysis will be introduced to show how instrumentation techniques reduce this phenomenon.
Discrete Electronics - Operational amplifiers are made from discrete elements; these building blocks will be explained include the Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs) and the Field Effect Transistor (FET). Transistor applications may include current sources, current sinks, and differential input stages.
How will I learn on this module?
You will learn on this module via a combination of lectures, workshops, and directed and independent learning materials. Your lectures will apply an integrated approach to learning, followed by your opportunity to practice the application of knowledge to a real world engineering problem, using a problem-based learning approach. Classes will be instructed to read ahead in the notes and to use the reading lists for background reading. Furthermore, this module provides the recorded topic-based videos into the learning such that examples are rich in providing self-paced learning and the ability to repeat content as needed. Lectures may also provide a formative approach to assessment with integrated quizzes and problems to solve.
Workshops are in smaller groups and can provide a rich feedback framework based on problem based learning, where the learner can contextualise theory in practice in an appropriate lab session. This session also provides the appropriate learning tools, possibly electrical hardware (breadboards, oscilloscopes, signal generators etc.) or software based (LabVIEW, OrCAD, MATLAB). These enhance students skills for future employment.
How will I be supported academically on this module?
You are supported on the module specifically in lectures, seminars and workshops. These provide the key academic support framework for you to learn.
Workshops, supported by lab tutors, effectively provide verbal feedback and comments throughout the session. Such comments may be generic and applicable to all students, typically noting procedures or some technical guideline or could be may be more directed to the individuals learning. Your key to workshop activities is to question the results, and attempt to link the work performed to your theoretical study.
The most appropriate use of blackboard (an online platform) is made in the module where your taught content is provided along with links to both the reading list support, relevant professional body related web sites showing relation of the theory to the industrial context.
Additional support is provided in this module in the form of recorded topic-based videos. These provide support for the development of key skills in using software tools (specifically OrCAD) and some support in tricky derivations or circuit theory examples such that you can observe not only the problem but also the process and the thinking behind the examples.
What will I be expected to read on this module?
All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.
What will I be expected to achieve?
Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Demonstrate the application of knowledge in the design of instrumentation, and sensor systems with reference to real world problems. (AHEP 4, C1,)
Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
2. Mathematically model system-level and circuit solutions for instrumentation and analogue electronic systems AHEP 4, C3 )
3. Simulate, build and test circuitry using simulation and practical lab equipment (AHEP 4, C12, M12 )
4. Analyse the specification and performance requirements necessary for sensors, instrumentation and general circuit operation within a regulatory framework
(AHEP 4, C2, C13, M13)
Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
How will I be assessed?
Summative assessment will include:
- Cousework (CW1) report (50%). This will cover all aspects of the theoretical material, together with application of knowledge in a laboratory situation for analogue electronics.
- Cousework (CW2) report (50%).
- This will cover all aspects of the theoretical material, together with application of knowledge in a laboratory situation for instrumentation.
Formative assessment will take the form of: quizzes in the seminars and some use of case studies in the lecture to promote a more interactive learning environment; formative testing in the workshops to provide regular opportunities for the student to assess their own learning.
Verbal feedback will be provided during the workshop (laboratory) sessions. . Written feedback for the coursework report will be provided where appropriate, following the normal processes to show generically strong or weak results against the assessment criteria.
Pre-requisite(s)
KC4010 Engineering Maths (or equivalent knowledge)
KD4010 Electrical and Electronic Principles (or equivalent knowledge)
Co-requisite(s)
N/A
Module abstract
Analogue electronics is a crucial part of almost all electronic products, and in some form analogue signals are used everywhere from audio reproduction through to sensors in industrial control environments. You will learn some depth in analogue electronics, to enable you to design transistor level circuitry, through to operational amplifier filter design. You will be using our specialist purpose laboratories along with industry standard CAD tools for example OrCAD in all aspects of analogue design. You will also be shown Instrumentation design, from sensors and their application, through to the linearization maths using CAD packages; for example, you may use MATLAB to model industrial systems.
You are taught in this module using a combination of lectures, additional electronic resources (typically Blackboard, YouTube), and workshops using our specialist purpose laboratories.
Your assessment on this module is consist of two coursework reports: Analogue electronics (50%) and Instrumentation (50%).
Course info
UCAS Code H605
Credits 20
Level of Study Undergraduate
Mode of Study 4 years Full Time or 5 years with a placement (sandwich)/study abroad
Department Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Location City Campus, Northumbria University
City Newcastle
Start September 2024 or September 2025
All information is accurate at the time of sharing.
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