Module Description

MODULE TITLE:

Introduction to Electrical Systems

MODULE CODE:

EAEI 123

EFFECTIVE FROM: ( Year)

Year 1

ECTS CREDIT:

6 ECTS credit points

SEMESTER:

Spring 2015

MODULE CO-ORDINATOR:

Alexander Ruderman

TEACHING STAFF RESPONSIBLE

FOR MODULE DELIVERY:
HOURS:

Email:
alexander.ruderman@nu.edu.kz
Alexander Ruderman Email:
Nicolas Rognin
alexander.ruderman@nu.edu.kz
nicolas.rognin@nu.edu.kz
Indicate total notional student effort hours and their
division between lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical,
private study, etc (25 workload hours = 1 ECTS credit).
Total direct contact hours should be around 50 hrs

TOTAL WORKLOAD HOURS:

Lectures

28 hrs

Seminars

0 hrs

Tutorials

14 hrs

Practical

8 hrs

Independent study
(including assessment)
150 hours

100 hrs

RATIONALE
This is an introductory fundamental course on Electrical and Electronic Engineering

MODULE AIMS
1. To explain the principles of electrical and electronic engineering.
2. To develop problem solving skills to provide a basic body of knowledge
to serve as a foundation for more advanced studies in electrical and
electronic engineering.
3. To analyse basic electrical and electronic circuits and manage linear
solver (WIMS) and circuit simulation software (PSIM).
MODULE DESCRIPTOR
1. Electrical quantities, Kirchhoffs laws, resistive, capacitive and inductive
circuits, transformers, Thvenin and Norton equivalent circuits, steady
state sinusoidal analysis, three phase circuits, transients, frequency
response, Bode plots and resonance.
2. Amplifiers and operational amplifiers, circuits based on operational
amplifiers - summers (adders), integrators, differentiators, filters.
3. Boolean algebra and logic circuits.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
Mapping the Module Learning Outcomes with UK Engineering Council Higher
Education Outcomes
UK Higher Education Outcomes

3
4

X
X

a. Assessment Task Details

1
2
3
4

ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK

Type of
assessments and
(number of them)
Lab report (4)
Midterm Exam (1)
Assignment (4)
Final Exam (1)
Total

Intellectual Abilities

Knowledge and Understanding

Design

General transferable skills

To have an understanding of
electrical engineering principles
and applications
To have a knowledge of the circuit
theory and analysis, analogue and
digital electronic systems,
magnetic circuit and transformers
To construct and analyse simple
RLC-circuits, operational amplifier,
and logic circuits
To use computer aided design tools
to design and simulate electrical
and electronic circuits

Practical skills

Engineering Practice

Module Learning Outcomes

General

Economic, social and

environmental context

Engineering Analysis

disciplines Underpinning science

and mathematics, and
associated engineering

Specific

Weighting (%)

Due Date
(week)

20
20
20
40
100

5,8,12,15
9
4,7,10,14
16

Module
Learning
Outcomes (#)
3,4
1,2
1,2,4
1,2,3

b.Minimum requirement to pass this module of study

In order to achieve a pass in this module of study, a student must obtain at least 50% of possible
marks in the course work and 35% of marks in the final exam.
c.Submission of assignments and laboratory reports

Assignments (4) have to be submitted in 2 weeks after a distribution (according to announced

submission deadline) as a hard copy (no electronic submissions please).
Laboratory reports (4) have to be submitted in 1 week after a lab completion (according to
announced submission deadline) as a hard copy (no electronic submissions please).
d.Tutorial attendance

Not mandatory but highly recommended because Tutorial material complements Lecture one and
is most useful for midterm and final exam preparations.
e.Exam sheets requirements

Please use no more than 3 significant digits in the final results (you can use 4 in intermediate
calculations).
Exam sheets must be kept as accurate as possible and present solutions in a logical way. Crossed
out sheets followed by several lines of solution without internal logic, sufficient explanations etc
will be considered as cheating even if the results are correct.

Learning and Teaching Structure

Week #

Lecture Topic

Intro to EEE, Circuit

Elements, KVL & KCL,
part 1

Intro to EEE, Circuit

Elements, KVL & KCL,
part 2

Hambley, Ch. 1

Tutorial #1

Resistive Circuits

Hambley, Ch. 2

Tutorial #2

Capacitance, Inductance

Hambley, Ch. 3

RC, RL, RLC Transient

Circuits
Part 1
RC, RL, RLC Transient
Circuits
Part 2

Hambley, Ch. 4

Tutorial #3

Hambley, Ch. 4

Tutorial #4

Reading
Materials
Hambley, Ch. 1

Labs

Tutorials/
Projects

1. Kirchoffs
Laws (AC &
DC)

Steady State AC,

Phasors
Part 1

Steady State AC,

Phasors
Part 2
Mid-Term Exam
Frequency response,
Bode Plots, Filters

Hambley, Ch. 5

11

Mutual Inductance,
Magnetic Circuits,
Transformers

Hambley, Ch. 15

12

Project week

9
10

13

Logic Circuits, Boolean

Algebra

14

Amplifiers; Operational
Amplifiers

15

Review

2. Thevenins
and Nortons
Equivalent
Circuits

Hambley, Ch. 6

Hambley, Ch. 7

Hambley, Ch. 11,

13, 14

Tutorial #5

3. Transient &
Frequency
Response
Tutorial #6

4. Operational
Amplifier
Circuits
Tutorial #7

READING LIST
Required Textbook:
Hambley, A.R., 2014 (2011). Electrical Engineering: Principles and Applications, 6 th (5th) ed.
London: Pearson Higher Education.

Additional Recommended Textbooks:

Svoboda J.A. and Dorf, R.C., 2014 (2010). Introduction to Electric Circuits. 9 th (8th) ed.
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Disclaimer
The Instructor reserves the right to change the syllabus and the schedule as required.
The students will be informed of changes either on the Moodle or by email or both.