First Semester — 104 lectures, 78 tutorials and 40 hours of laboratory work.
Second Semester — 68 lectures, 78 tutorials and 40 hours of laboratory work.
SYLLABUS
Section 1, comprising about 104 lectures of core material, is compulsory for all students. Most of the Section 1 lectures will be given in the first semester.
Section 2, comprising courses of about 26 lectures, provides for further study in one of two major professional areas of electrical engineering. Students will be required to take one only of the two courses offered in this section.
Section 3 makes up the remainder of the lectures, and consists of a number of elective courses. These electives are directed to more specialized topics or aim to advance knowledge of areas introduced in the core course (Section 1).
Students will be required to select three of these option courses.
Supplementary notes, expanding on the organization of the course for that year and including details of the Section 1 lecture and laboratory arrangements, will be available at the beginning of first semester. Details for Sections 2 and 3 will be made available during the semester.
Sections 2 and 3 of the course will be given in Semester 2.
Section 1 Control Systems:
State space description of systems. Multivariable control system theory.
Introduction to optimal control theory. Transducers and actuators in industrial control systems. Computer control.
Machines and Power Systems-
Advanced rectifier/inverter circuits, high voltage d.c. transmission. Synchro- nous machines', considerations of steady state analysis for cylindrical rotor and salient pole machines; synchronous machine equations, two reaction method of analysis, transient behaviour and reactances. Short circuit studies under conditions of balanced and unbalanced faults.
Analogue Circuits:
Design and stability of feedback amplifiers, Band pass amplifiers, power pulse circuits and oscillators.
Signal and Communications Theory:
Filter design methods, passive and active, common realizations. FM, PCM, and delta modulation.
Digital signals. Antennas, waveguides, strip lines, coupled transmission lines.
Terrestrial electromagnetic propagation.
Digital Systems:
Computer hardware and architecture, state machines, interfacing hardware, digital instrumentation.
Digital Computer Applications:
The use of mini and micro computers for instrumentation, measurements, data processing and the control of systems.
Section 2
Students are required to study one of the following:
Communication Systems or
Real Time Control of Dynamical Systems Communication Systems
(a) Study of the factors influencing the choice of particular communication systems, including the constraints imposed by technological limitations of the transmission medium, and of electronic devices and systems. The economics of large capacity communication systems.
Topics to be considered, and from which a small selection will be made for in-depth study, include:
Cable, radio, microwave and optical transmission channels.
Multiplexing methods, telephone and data.
Repeater performance.
High data rate systems — synchronization and error control.
Detection methods.
(b) A complete design study and proposal for solving a particular communica- tion problem.
Real Time Control of Dynamical Systems:
(a) Power System Modelling:
Power and Frequency control, reactive power and voltage control.
System stability, transient models, effect of controllers on stability.
(b) Real Time Operation of Computers:
Input output programming under an operating system, device manage- ment. Multi-tasking, real time operating system. Computer interfacing, transducers, data acquisition. Development of real time control algo- rithms, parameter identification.
(c) Multivariable Control Systems:
Multivariable process control design methods. Controllers with deter- ministic disturbances. A number of realistic processes will be pre- sented or modelled for controller design exercises.
Output feedback controllers and realization of state observers.
Section 3
The elective units to be offered will be notified to students towards the end of the Core course (Section 1). The following list of electives offered in the past is included as an indication of the amount of choice usually available. The units listed may not all be presented in any one year, depending on staffing and demand. Approval of the chairman of department must be obtained for the electives selected. Some restriction on choice may apply and students may be directed to particular electives. Each elective will be a 14-lecture unit.
Bioengineering
Control Engineering Applications Microwaves and Optoelectronics Electrical Power Systems Digital Signal Processing
Network Synthesis and Filter Design Power System Dynamics
Computer Control and Identification Principles of V.L.S.I. Design Electronic Circuit Design
Optical Fibre Systems and Components Information and Coding
Practical Work LABORATORY WORK
In first Semester there will be 6 hours per week devoted to experiments related to the Section 1 syllabus. Additional time will be taken up in presenting verbal reports related to these laboratory periods. During the remainder of the year, students will be expected to undertake project work under supervision, requir- ing about 8 hours per week including consultation with the supervisor.
TUTORIALS
There will be about three 1-hour tutorials per week devoted to topics associ- ated with lecture courses and practice classes. Practice classes must be submitted as required. Compulsory excursions may also be held from time to time.
REPORT
Each student is required to submit a report on vacation experience by the end of the second week of First Semester.
THESIS
Each student will be required to write a thesis during the Second Semester not exceeding 5,000 words, on a topic in electrical engineering to be determined after consultation with staff. Two typed copies are required to be submitted by the end of September.
NOTE
No student will be admitted to the annual examination without evidence of satisfactory work during the year in all the above practical work. A practical examination, or resubmission of work, may be required in doubtful cases. All the above work will be used in assessing the examination results.
ASSESSMENT
There will be up to seven 3-hour papers, or the equivalent in time, for pass and honours. Some of these examinations may be held at the end of the First Semester. Additional tests may be held during the year and given some weight in assessing the final examination results.