IST 222: Electronics II (Applications)

Credits 5 Lecture Hours 33 Lab Hours 44
Construct and analyze operation of analog and digital electronic devices, circuits, and systems using schematic diagrams, test equipment, and logical trouble shooting procedures.

Prerequisites

IST 221 or instructor permission
Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:

  1. Demonstrate electrical safety practices required for troubleshooting in the industrial environment.
  2. Evaluate electronic circuits for proper operation using oscilloscopes, and digital meters.
  3. Explain basic principles of operation for industrial solid state circuitry.
  4. Explore operation of circuits used in today’s industrial processes.
Course Content Outline
  1. Week 1: Introduction:
    Objectives
    Electrical safety
    Test equipment familiarity
    Constructor operation
    Lab
  2. Week 2: Semiconductors:
    Construction.
    Power rating and heat sinking
    P-N junction
    Operation
    Testing
    Light-emitting diode
    Lab
  3. Week 3: Rectifiers
    Single phase
    Half wave
    Two diode
    Bridge
    Lab
    Polyphase
    Half wave
    Bridge
    Average voltage calculations
    Applications
    Lab
  4. Week 4: Filters
    Choke
    Capacitors
    Lab
    Zener diode
    Transistors
    History
    Identification
    Operation
    Testing
    Current flow
    Lab
  5. Week 5: Transistor switch
    Operation & applications
    Transistor amplifier
    Operation
    Applications
    Biasing
    Lab
  6. Week 6: Darlington amplifier
    Operation, industrial uses
    Construction
    Advantages
    Lab
    Field effect transistors
    FET, MOSFET,E-MOSFET
    Operation
    Testing
    Lab
  7. Week 7: Current generators
    Function
    Uses
    Construction
    Lab
    Unijunction transistors
    Construction
    Applications
    Testing
    Lab
  8. Week 8: SCR’s
    Operation
    Construction
    A/C and DC applications
    Lab
    Phase shifting
    Lab
    UJT Phase shifting for SCR’s
    Construction
    Lab
    SCR control of full wave rectifier
    Construction
    Lab
  9. Week 9: Diac and Bilateral switch
    Purpose
    Construction
    Operation
    Lab
    Triac
    Purpose, applications
    Operation
    Testing
    Lab
    Phase shifting the Triac
    Applications
    Operation
    Lab
  10. Week 10) Methods of A/C voltage control
    Applications
    SCR operation
    Triac
    Thyristors
    Lab
  11. Week 11) Review and Final.