2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
PDES2525 Advanced Electronics for Product Design
20 creditsClass Size: 54
Module manager: Dr Jordan Boyle
Email: J.H.Boyle@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2015/16
Pre-requisites
PDES1365 | Basic Electronics for Product Design |
Module replaces
PDES 2520 Electronics for Product DesignThis module is not approved as a discovery module
Objectives
On completion of this module, students should be able to:1. Interface sensors and transducers to microcontrollers or similar devices of which facilitates digital and analogue input and output channels,
2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of programming microcontrollers or similar devices using off-the-shelf software,
3. Design products that incorporate electronic sensing and control elements,
4. Decompose a design problem into smaller and solvable tasks;
5. Build and operate proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate solution principles of their own designed products using standard electronic parts;
6. Identify ethical issues related to electronics products.
Syllabus
- Using pulse width modulation (PWM) to drive direct current motors, servo motors and loads
- Charging and discharging of capacitors
- Resistor and capacitor (RC) circuits and band pass filters
- Using operational amplifiers (Op Amp), inverting and non-inverting applications, Schmitt trigger, relaxation oscillator, analogue computation
- Using accelerometers and Hall effect sensors
- Boolean logic AND, OR, NOT, XOR
- Using block diagram as a design tool
- Incremental testing approach to build complex systems
- Iterative programming structures, while loop, for loop, case structure
- Data acquisition and data manipulation
- Simple programming and debugging
- Finite state machines
Teaching methods
Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
Lecture | 22 | 2.00 | 44.00 |
Practical | 10 | 2.00 | 20.00 |
Tutorial | 7 | 1.00 | 7.00 |
Private study hours | 129.00 | ||
Total Contact hours | 71.00 | ||
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200.00 |
Private study
Private study will be a combination of lecture, practical and tutorial preparation and review (51 hours), completing the two coursework items (66 hours), and revision and exam preparation (12 hours).Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Students will have regular design reviews as part of their practicals, which will give the opportunity for direct feedback from academic staff.In addition, students will have six tutorials (three per semester) and will receive feedback on their two assignments, giving the opportunity to apply their learning to the next assessment.
There will also be regular example sheets to allow students to assess and review their learning.
Methods of assessment
Coursework
Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
In-course Assessment | Class test | 20.00 |
Report | Prototype demonstration and 5 page report | 30.00 |
In-course Assessment | Class test | 20.00 |
Report | Prototype demonstration and 5 page report | 30.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 16/03/2016
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