MEng Electronic Engineering / Course details

This unit will cover the following:

• Electrical quantities and circuit variables: charge, current, voltage, resistance, power, energy and associated units.
• Basics of circuit modelling: ideal voltage and current sources, basic circuit elements, resistors, Ohm’s Law and Kirchoff’s Current and Voltage Laws.
• Circuit reduction techniques: combining resistors in series and parallel, application of voltage divider and current divider rules, source transformation.
• Circuit analysis techniques: mesh current method and node voltage method.
• Circuit theorems: Superposition, Thevenin/Norton, Maximum Power Transfer.
• Energy storage circuit elements: characteristics of inductance and capacitance.
  Transients: natural and forced responses of RL, RC and RLC circuits.
• AC circuits: sinusoidal waveforms, phase, RMS values.
• AC circuits: phasors and phasor diagrams, reactance and impedance, susceptance and admittance, Kirchoff’s laws.
• AC circuits: complex power, real and reactive power, power factor.

The course unit aims to:

• Introduce the fundamental theorems and analysis techniques for problem-solving in electrical circuit theory.
• Provide students with the knowledge and intellectual skills necessary to model and analyse electrical and electronic systems using circuit theory.

On the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

ILO 1 - Apply Ohm’s Law, Kirchoff’s Current Law and Kirchoff’s Voltage Law to electrical circuits. [Developed] [Assessed] 

ILO 2 - Simplify and analyse complex circuits using transformation and combination techniques. [Developed] [Assessed] 

ILO 3 - Apply Mesh Current and Node Voltage methods to analyse DC and AC circuits. [Developed] [Assessed] 

ILO 4 - Apply Superposition and Thevenin/Norton theorems to analyse DC and AC circuits. [Developed] [Assessed] 

ILO 5 - Explain and analyse simple transient behaviour in RLC circuits. [Developed] [Assessed] 

ILO 6 - Employ concepts of phasor and impedance to solve AC circuits and draw corresponding phasor diagrams. [Developed] [Assessed] 

ILO 7 - Calculate complex power and associated power factor in AC circuits. [Developed] [Assessed] 

DC Circuits

How and when is feedback provided: Online submission in Blackboard, individual performance feedback is provided once all students submit their answers.

Weighting: 6%

“Home Network” Coursework Assignment

Length: Up to 8 hours self-study

How and when is feedback provided: Online submission in Blackboard, individual performance feedback is provided once all students submit their answers.

Weighting: 8%

AC Circuits

How and when is feedback provided: Online submission in Blackboard, individual performance feedback is provided once all students submit their answers.

Weighting: 6%

Tutorial questions

Length: Weekly activity delivered as part of Personal Tutorials

How and when is feedback provided: Weekly submission to Personal Tutor, feedback provided 1 week later by Personal Tutor.

Weighting: 10%

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“Electric Circuits”, James W. Nilsson and Susan Riedel.

“Introduction to Electric Circuits”, Richard C. Dorf, James A. Svoboda