Engineering & Technology, Notes

Revolutions in sound recording

ways in which technology has influenced the music industry and how this has changed the way we listen to music and buy records, brief history of the recording industry from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century, changes in technology highlighted

Sound for Music technology

concept of sound and be introduced to the physics behind travelling pressure waves as the physical manifestation of sound. You will also learn about the subjective perception of pitch and loudness, in particular their relationship to frequency and amplitude.

Structure and Interpretation of Systems & Signals

mathematical modeling techniques used in the design of electronic systems, Systems are defined as mappings on signals, notion of the state, Feedback systems and automata, equivalence of automata and concurrent composition. Hybrid systems, Difference and differential equations, frequency domain models for signals and frequency response for systems, Sampling, Applications (communications systems, audio, video, and image processing systems & control systems): Resources, Instructor guide

Course Materials

electrical science and linear circuits, electric circuit study applets and interactive examples and exercises, EIT review slides

Online Postgraduate Courses for the Electronics Industry

  • Microelectronic Design - Integrated Circuit Design Process, Microelectronics Fabrication Process, Integrated Circuit Packaging, Integrated Circuit Realisation, Computer Aided Design

  • Microelectronic Technologies and Applications - CMOS Digital Logic, Time Delay and Power Dissipation Considerations, SPICE Exercise
  • Advanced Electronic Design Automation - Introduction to electronic design automation & SPICE concepts, Semiconductor modelling in SPICE
  • Digital IC Design - Best practice digital design, Digital designers guide, Control circuitry design, Full custom design

Courses

  • Electrical Networks 1 - Current, Voltage, Power, Passive Sign Convention, Resistive Networks, Ohm's & Kirchhoff's Laws, Nodal and Loop Analysis, Op-Amp Circuits, Operational Amplifiers, Superposition, Thévenin's and Norton's Theorems, Capacitance and Inductance, First and Second Order Transient Circuits, AC Steady-State Analysis

  • Circuits - basic analysis, design and measurement of linear analog systems important across engineering disciplines, AC steady-state analysis, Laplace transforms, linear circuits
  • Electrical Networks 2 - AC Steady-State Analysis, Steady-State Power Analysis, Polyphase Circuits, Magnetically Coupled Networks, Variable Frequency Network Performance, Laplace Transform & Application
  • Electrical Power Plant - Nuclear, fossil and solar energy sources, Analysis and design of steam supply systems, electrical generating systems and auxiliary systems, Power plant efficiency and operation

Vehicle Design

lecture notes: design factors which influence design of vehicles for passenger transport, performance, off-road & other purpose built vehicles, design process of systems & total vehicles with multiple design constraints including legislative regulation, alternative & hybrid power systems, team organization & planning

Engineering Materials

iron-carbon diagram in detail, Steels, non-ferrous alloys, composites, non-metallic materials, corrosion and the principles underlying the selection of materials in mechanical design, processes taking place during heat treatment of metallic alloys and how they influence their microstructures and properties

Manufacturing Processes

processes which are involved in the manufacturing of parts and products, relating these processes to basic engineering concepts, product designs and practices: lectures (phase diagram, heat treatments, casting & injection modeling, plastics product manufacturing, processing of particles for powder metallurgy, layered manufacturing, metal forming, machining, tolerance & quality control)

Engineering Mechanics (Course Related Materials)

  • Engineering Dynamics - notation & units, rectilinear & curvilinear motion, coordinates, motion, Newton's 2nd law, work-energy relation, potential energy, momentum, impact, rigid bodies, instantaneous center of velocity, moving frames, inertia, Euler's laws, work-energy relations

  • Engineering Statics - Notation and units, Vectors, Equilibrium equations for a particle, Moment of a force, Equivalent force-couple systems, Equilibrium for rigid bodies, trusses, Frames and machines, Internal forces, Dry Friction, Wedges and screws, Belts, Moments of Inertia, Equation sheet for exams
  • Mechanics of Elastic Bodies - How materials carry load, Hooke's law and factor of safety, Extension of bars, Thermal strain, Torsion of a circular shaft, Area moment of inertia, Pure shear and power transmission, loads, bending moment diagrams, Pure Bending, Shear stress in beams. Beams with axial loads, Plane stress, Mohr's circle, Hooke's law, Pressure vessels, Deflection of beams, Buckling of columns
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