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