Electrical Engineering

i.

Paper-I Marks-100

ii.
iii.

Series and parallel RL, RL and RLC

circuits
Nodal and mesh analysis
Application of network theorems in ac
circuits
Circuits with non-sinusoidal
excitations
Transients in ac circuits
Passive filters

iv.

1. Electrical Circuits:
Circuit variables and elements:
i.
ii.
iii.

Voltage, current, power, energy

Independent and dependent sources
Resistance
Basic laws:
i.
ii.

Ohms law
Kirchhoffs current and voltage laws

v.
vi.

Resonance in ac circuits:
i.
ii.

Series and parallel resonance

Magnetically coupled circuits

Analysis of three phase circuits:

i.
ii.
iii.

Three phase supply

Balanced and unbalanced circuits
Power calculation

Simple resistive circuits:

i.
ii.
iii.

Series and parallel circuits

Voltage and current division
Wye-delta transformation

Techniques of circuit analysis:

i.

Nodal and mesh analysis including

super node and super mesh

Network theorems:
i.
ii.

iii.

Source transformation
Thevenins, Nortons and
superposition theorems with
application in circuits having
independent and dependent sources
Maximum power transfer condition
and reciprocity theorem.

Energy storage elements:

i.
ii.

Inductors and capacitors

Series parallel combination of
inductors and capacitors

Responses of RL and RC circuits:

i.

Natural and step responses

Sinusoidal functions:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
ix.

Instantaneous current
Voltage
Power
Effective current and voltage
Average power
Phasors and complex quantities
Impedance
Real and reactive power
Power factor

Analysis of single phase ac circuits:

2. Electrical Machines:
Transformer:
i.

Ideal transformer-transformation ratio

No-load and load vector diagrams:

i.
ii.

Actual transformer-equivalent circuit

Regulation, short circuit and open
circuit tests

Three phase induction motor:

i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.

Rotating magnetic field

Equivalent circuit
Vector diagram
Torque-speed characteristics
Effect of changing rotor power
No-load test
Blocked rotor test
Starting and braking and speed control

Single phase induction motor:

i.
ii.

Theory of operation
Equivalent circuit and starting

Synchronous Generator:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.

Excitation systems
Equivalent circuit
Vector diagrams at different loads
Factors affecting voltage regulation
Synchronous impedance
Synchronous impedance method of
predicting voltage regulation and its
limitation

Parallel operation:

i.
ii.

Necessary conditions
Synchronizing, circulating current and
vector diagram

Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor
(MOSFET) as circuit element:
i.

Synchronous motor:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

ii.
iii.

Operation
Effect of loading under different
excitation condition
Effect of changing excitation
V-curves and starting

iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
ix.

DC generator:
i.
ii.
iii.

Types
No-load-voltage characteristic
Effect of speed on no-load and load
characteristics and voltage regulation

Operational amplifiers (Op-Amp):

DC motor:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.

Torque
Counter EMF
Speed to-que-speed characteristics
starting and speed regulation

Introduction to wind turbine generators

Construction and basic characteristics of solar cells

i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.

i.
ii.

i.
ii.
iii.

i.
ii.

Half wave and full wave rectifiers

Rectifiers with filter capacitor
Characteristics of a Zener diode
Zener shunt regulator
Clamping and clipping circuits

iii.

Current components
BJT characteristics and regions of
operation
BJT as an amplifier
Biasing the BJT for discrete circuits
Small signal equivalent circuit modes
BJT as a switch
Single stage mid-band frequency BJT
amplifier circuits

Different types of latches

Flip-flops and their design using ASM
approach
Timing analysis and power
optimization of sequential circuits

Modular sequential logic circuit design:

Bipolar junction transistor:

iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.

Boolean algebra
Combinational logic design
Minimization of combinational logic

Sequential circuits:

Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) as a circuit

element:

i.
ii.

Properties
Basic topologies
Feedback amplifiers with different
topologies
Stability
Frequency compensation

Basic logic functions

Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors

Operational principle of p-n junction
diode

Diode circuits:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.

Non-inverting and inverting amplifiers

Inverting integrators
Differentiator
Weighted summer
Other applications of Op-Amp circuits

Negative feedback:

3. Electronics:
P-N junction as a circuit element:

Structure and physical operation of an

enhancement MOSFET
Threshold voltage
Current-voltage characteristics of an
enhancement MOSFET
Biasing discrete and integrated MOS
amplifier circuits
Single-stage MOS amplifiers
MOSFET as a switch
CMOS inverter
Single-stage and cascaded amplifiers
Frequency response of differential
amplifiers

i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.

i.
Shift registers
ii.
Counters and their applications
BJT
MOSFET
SCR
IGBT
BTO
TRIAC
UJT
DIAC

Rectifiers:

i.

Uncontrolled and controlled single

phase and three phase.

Regulated power supplies:

i.
ii.

Linear-series and shunt

Switching buck, buck boost, boost and
Cuk regulators

AC voltage controllers:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

Single and three phase

Choppers
CD motor control
Single phase cycloconverter

Inverters:
i.

Single phase and three phase voltage

and current source
AC motor control
Stepper motor control
Resonance inverters
Pulse width modulation control of
static converters.

ii.
iii.
iv.
v.

Electrical Engineering
Paper-II Marks-100
1. Power Systems:
Network representation:
i.

Single line and reactance diagram of

power system and per unit

Line representation:
i.

Equivalent circuit of short, medium

and long lines

Load flow:
i.

Gauss-Siedel and Newton Raphson

Methods

Tap changing transformer

Phase shifting
Booster and regulation transformer
Shunt capacitor

Symmetrical components
Sequence networks
Unsymmetrical fault calculation

Protection:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

Introduction to relays
Differential protection and distance
protection
Introduction to circuit breakers
Typical layout of a substation

Load curves:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.

Demand factor
Diversity factor
Load duration curves
Energy load curve
Load factor
Capacity factor
Plant factor

Transmission lines cables:

i.
ii.

Overhead
Underground.

Stability:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
ix.

Swing equation
Power angle equation
Equal area criterion
Multi-machine system
Step by step solution of swing
equation
Factors affecting stability
Reactive power compensation
Flexible ac transmission system
(FACTS)
High voltage dc transmission system.

Power quality:
i.
ii.
iii.

i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.

Harmonics
Sag
Swell

Short circuit current and reactance of a

synchronous machine

General layout and principles

Steam turbine
Gas turbine
Combined cycle gas turbine
Hydro and nuclear
Power plant instrumentation.

Selection of location:
i.

Fault analysis:
i.

i.
ii.
iii.

Power plants:

Power flow control:

i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

Symmetrical fault calculation methods:

ii.

Technical, economic and

environmental factors
Load forecasting

Generation scheduling:

i.
ii.

Deterministic
Probabilistic

Pulse modulation:
i.

Electricity tariff:
i.
ii.

Formulation
Types
ii.

2. Telecommunication Systems

iii.

Communication systems:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.

Basic principles
Fundamental elements
System limitations
Message source
Bandwidth requirements
Transmission media types
Bandwidth and transmission capacity

i.
ii.

Source
Characteristics of various types of
noise
Signal to noise ratio

iv.
v.

Noise:

iii.

Digital modulation:
i.

Information theory:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.

Measure of information
Source encoding
Error free communication over a noisy
channel
Channel capacity of a continuous
system
Channel capacity of a discrete
memory less system

ii.

iii.

Communication systems: Analog and digital

Continuous wave modulation:
i.
ii.

iii.

Transmission types
a. Base-band transmission
b. Carrier transmission
Amplitude modulation
a. Introduction
b. Double side band
c. Single side band
d. Vestigial side band
e. Quadrature
f. Spectral analysis of each type
g. Envelope and synchronous
detection
Angle modulation
a. Instantaneous frequency
b. Frequency modulation (FM)
c. Phase modulation (PM)
d. Spectral analysis, demodulation of
FM and PM

Sampling
a. Sampling theorem
b. Nyquist criterion
c. Aliasing
d. Instantaneous and natural
sampling
Pulse amplitude modulation-principle
a. Bandwidth requirements
Pulse code modulation (PCM)
a. Quantization principle
b. Quantization noise
c. Non-uniform quantization
d. Signal to quantization error ratio
e. Differential PCM
f. Demodulation of PCM
Delta modulation (DM)
a. Principle
b. Adaptive DM
Line coding
a. Formats
b. Bandwidths

Amplitude-shift keying-principle
a. ON-OFF keying
b. Bandwidth requirements
c. Detection
d. Noise performance
Phase-shift keying (PSK)
a. Principle
b. Bandwidth requirements
c. Detection
d. Differential PSK
e. Quadrature PSK
f. Noise performance
Frequency-shift keying (FSK)
a. Principle
b. Continuous and discontinuous
phase FSK
c. Minimum0-shift keying
d. Bandwidth requirements
e. Detection of FSK

Multiplexing:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.

Time-Division multiplexing (TDM)

principle,
Receiver synchronization
Frame synchronization
TDM of multiple bit rate systems
Frequency-division multiplexingprinciple
De-multiplexing
Wavelength-division multiplexing
Multiple access network-timedivision multiple-access, frequencydivision multiple access; code-division
multiple-access (CDMA)

ix.
x.

Spread spectrum multiplexing

Coding techniques and constraints of
CDMA

Communication system design:

i.
ii.

Design parameters
Channel selection criteria and
performance simulation

Mobile Cellular Telephone:

i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.

Concept
Evolution and fundamentals
Analog and digital cellular systems
Cellular Radio System
Frequency reuse
Co-channel interference
Cell splitting and components

Mobile radio propagation:

i.
ii.
iii.

Propagation characteristics
Models for radio propagation antenna
at cell site and mobile antenna
Frequency management and Channel
Assignment

iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.

Fundamentals spectrum utilization

Fundamentals of channel assignment
Fixed channel assignment
Non-fixed channel assignment
Traffic and channel assignment.

Handoffs and Dropped calls:

i.
ii.
iii.

Reasons and types

Forced-handoffs
Mobile assisted handoffs and dropped
call rate

Diversity Techniques:
i.
ii.

Concept of diversity branch and signal

paths
Carrier to noise and carrier to
interference ration performance

Digital cellular systems:

i.
ii.

iii.

Global system for mobile

Time division multiple access
Code division multiple access