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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Electrical Engineering 1B

  • Unit Code

    ENS1253

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Yamaan Esmiel Majeed AL-SHAMMARI

Description

This unit further develops the topics introduced in the preceding unit, ENS1162 Electrical Engineering 1A, and introduces some higher level concepts including impedance, first order system response, AC circuits, AC power, and semiconductor devices.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed ENS1162. Students must have passed MAT1137 or MAT1236 or must have achieved a scaled score > 49.99 in ATAR Mathematics Method or ATAR Mathematics Specialist or WACE MAT3C/3D or equivalent.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS1252

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse simple AC power systems.
  2. Apply fundamental circuit analysis concepts to determine the operation and predict the performance of simple DC and AC linear circuits.
  3. Conduct experiments on simple DC and AC electrical systems, and analyse and interpret the results of those experiments.
  4. Undertake problem identification, formulation, solution and solution verification of small-scale DC and AC electrical circuits.

Unit Content

  1. AC circuit analysis - phasor diagrams, resonances, instananeous and average power, maximum power transfer, AC superposition.
  2. AC circuits - sinusoidal waveforms, sinusoids and phasors, sinusoidal steady-state circuit behaviour.
  3. AC impedance - the impedance concept, impedance and admittance, resistance and reactance, impedance calculations, transfer functions and frequency response.
  4. AC power systems - real and reactive power, power factor, three-phase systems, balanced and unbalanced loads, power measurement.
  5. Capacitance and inductance - capacitors, inductors, DC steady-state behaviour, equivalent inductance and capacitance.
  6. First order systems - RL and RC circuits, time constants, transient and steady state responses.
  7. Transformer circuits - inductance and mutual inductance, ideal transformers, real transformers.
  8. Transistors - structure and operation, large signal DC circuit models, universal curves, simple transistor circuits.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkLaboratory work and reports25%
AssignmentCircuit design project15%
TestMid-semester theory test10%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Electrical Engineering 1B

  • Unit Code

    ENS1253

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    4

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Douglas Kian CHAI

Description

This unit introduces a range of concepts that are fundamental to the fields of electrical and electronic engineering. Students will develop their conceptual and analytical understanding of electrical circuits and systems through lectures, tutorials and laboratory work.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS1252

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply fundamental circuit analysis concepts to determine the operation and predict the performance of simple DC and AC circuits.
  2. Analyse simple DC and AC electrical circuits and systems.
  3. Undertake problem identification, formulation, solution and solution verification of small-scale DC and AC electrical circuits.
  4. Conduct experiments on simple electrical systems, and analyse and interpret the results of those experiments.

Unit Content

  1. Electrical fundamentals – charge, current, voltage, resistance, energy, power.
  2. Circuits – elements, constructions and measurements.
  3. Resistive circuits – Ohm’s law, simplification of resistive networks.
  4. Circuit analysis – Kirchhoff’s current law, Kirchhoff’s voltage law, voltage dividers, current dividers, node and mesh analysis.
  5. Circuit theorems – Thevenin, Norton, source transformation, maximum power transfer, superposition.
  6. Alternating current and voltage – sinusoidal waveforms, sinusoidal voltage and current, angular measurement and phase, non-sinusoidal waveforms.
  7. Capacitance – equivalent capacitance, behaviour in DC and AC circuits, capacitive reactance, RC circuits, applications.
  8. Inductance – equivalent inductance, behaviour in DC and AC circuits, inductive reactance, RL circuits, applications.
  9. Second order systems – RLC response, underdamped, overdamped and critically damped responses.
  10. Diodes – Semiconductors, ideal and real diode characteristics and models, diode circuits, light emitting diodes.
  11. Power systems and transmission lines – power in AC circuits, three-phase systems, generation and distribution of AC power.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProblem sets30%
Laboratory WorkLaboratory work and practical test20%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseVirtual laboratory activities20%
AssignmentProblem sets30%
AssignmentSummative assessment of unit content50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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