Thursday, 30 November 2017

HNC Electrical & Electronic Engineering - Assignments


Institute      : Teesside University (TU), delivered by Middlesbrough College (MC)
Programme : Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Subject       : Electrical and Electronic Engineering OR Instrumentation and Control Engineering

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Year of Study: 2
Module: Utilisation of Electrical Energy (UofEE)
Assignment 1 : "Transformers and Induction Motors"

Operation and construction of power transformers. Operation and construction of a poly-phase induction motors.

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Mark Nailis

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Year 2: Utilisation of Electrical Energy (UofEE)
Assignment 2: "Illumination"

Description / operation of various types of lamps. Explanation of lighting terminology. Illumination requirements of an industrial workshop.

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Mark Nailis

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Year 2: Utilisation of Electrical Energy (UofEE)
Assignment 3: "Circuit Protection and Tariffs"

Construction and operation of circuit over-current protection devices and high power circuit breakers. Construction and operation. of ELCB and RCD devices. Definition of energy tariffs - two part structure. Effect of Power Factor on tariff

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Mark Nailis

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Year 1: Analogue and Digital Devices
Assignment 1: "Power Supplies"

Design of Linear and Switched Mode Power Supplies. Load Regulation. Comparison of Switched Mode vs. Linear supplies

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Walter Ditch

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Year 1: Analogue and Digital Devices
Assignment 2: "Operational Amplifiers (Op-Amps)"

Design of various operational amplifier circuits.

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Walter Ditch

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Year 1: Engineering Science
Assignment 1: "DC Theory"

Thévenin's and Norton’s Equivalent circuits. Principles / operation of DC Motors and Generators.

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Susan Armstrong

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Year 1: Engineering Science
Assignment 2: "AC Theory"

Circuits using resistors (R), capacitors (C) and inductors (L). Peak/RMS voltage and current. Circuit impedance (Z), capacitive reactance (Xc) and inductive reactance (Xl).
Bandwidth, resonant frequency and Q factor of signals.
Triangular and square waves.

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Susan Armstrong

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Year 1: Programmable Logic Controllers
Assignment 1: "Programmable Logic Controllers"

Operational characteristics of programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
Specification of Compact, Modular and Rack Mounted PLCs.

Tags: operational, characteristics, programmable logic controllers, PLC, specification, compact, modular, rack mounted, plc, cpu, LAN, ethernet, comms, communication, SCADA, RS485, bus, input, output, i/o, ROM, RAM, EEPROM, scan, scanning

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Susan Armstrong

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Year 1: Programmable Logic Controllers
Assignment 2: "PLC Controlled Traffic Lights"

Specification, design, ladder-logic implementation and test results.

Tags: programmable logic controllers, PLC, plc, ladder logic, specification, design, safe, traffic lights, cross roads, pedestrian, crossing, vehicle

Grade received: MERIT
Tutor:  Susan Armstrong

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Year of Study : 1 (One)
Module           : Programmable Logic Controllers
Assignment 3 : "Networks and Communications"

Investigate the signal processing within the CPU of the PLC and the various signals. Investigate the communications involved with modern systems regarding the PLC-PLC and PLC-LAN systems using HMI interfaces or SCADA with varying manufacturers.
Input/output I/O. Binary, hexadecimal and octal to denary conversions. Data Integrity: Longitudinal Redundancy Check (LRC), Cyclical Redundancy Checking (CRC). RS232 and RS422 signal communications. Networking topologies: star and bus.


Tags: programmable logic controllers, PLC, plc, signal, comms, i/o, analogue, digital, communication, asynchronous, transceiver, RS232, RS-232, bus, star, RS422, RS-422, RS485, RS-485, BIN, bin, HEX, hex, OCT, oct

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor:  Susan Armstrong

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Year 2: Electrical & Electronic Principles
Assignment 1: "AC Theory"

Circuits with complex impedances. Polar and rectangular manipulation.
Thévenin and Norton's equivelant circuits.
Delta and wye conversions.
Bandwidth, resonant frequency, Q factor and half-power frequencies.
Dynamic Resistance
Transformers, coils and dot notation.

Grade received: MERIT
Tutor:  Daniel Still

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Year 2: Electronics
Assignment 1: "Noise"

Cause and effects of noise in electronic systems/components. Use of dB (and dBm).
Investigate/measure the noise in parallel conductors. Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR).

Grade received: MERIT
Tutor:  James Cleves

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Year 2: Electronics
Assignment 2: "Amplifiers"

Operational Amplifiers and feedback.
Class-A and class-B amplifiers.

Grade received: MERIT
Tutor:  James Cleves

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Saturday, 23 April 2016

Maker Faire




Today we are visiting the Maker Faire at the Centre for Life

Maker Faire UK

Geek Heaven!

Lords of Lightning

Two blokes, each standing on top of a Tesla Coils. Huge tracks of lightning (plasma) from one to the other. They are protected inside chain mail shark diving suits.

The Tesla Coil was invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891.

Tuesday, 29 April 2014

ADD - Assignment 3 - Hand-in

Assignment Details:

Analogue and Digital Devices - Assignment 3: Electronics
Logic families - TTL, CMOS.
Logic circuits - AND, OR, NOT, NAND.
Design of a four-stage ripple counter.
Design of a Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) counter.
Karnaugh maps and state tables.

Grade received: DISTINCTION
Tutor: Walter Ditch
Institute: Middlesbrough College
Programme: Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

A copy of this assignment can be purchased:

Directly from me - In the "Useful Links" section (top-right of the page), click on "My HNC Assignments". Follow the instructions at the bottom of the page.

Or from the NoteSale website. Follow the link then search for "Electronics". The price is higher via NoteSale because they take a cut.

HNC - EEE - WK27

Analogue and Digital Devices - Assignment 3 due at midnight today