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UNIT TITLE: Electronics Fundamentals CREDIT POINTS: 20 FHEQ LEVEL: 4 UNIT DESIGNATION: Traditional UNIT CODE: MED406 ACADEMIC SCHOOL: Media Arts Technology Delivering School: Media Arts Technology Date validated: May 2014 Date last modified: N/A Unit delivery model: CD Max & Min Student No: N/A and and TOTAL STUDENT WORKLOAD Students are required to attend and participate in all the formal scheduled sessions for the unit. Students are also expected to manage their directed learning and independent study in support of the unit. PRE-REQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES: None UNIT DESCRIPTION This unit is designed to introduce students to a range of fundamental electronic components and their operational characteristics. Students will consider key properties in the context of audio and visual electronic systems. Digital concepts shall be introduced including how to express and design basic control circuits. LEARNING OUTCOMES On successful completion of the unit, students should be able to: Knowledge and Understanding K1 Describe the properties and behaviour of electronic circuit elements under AC and DC conditions. K2 Use appropriate equations to analyse circuit behaviour. Cognitive Skills C1 Design analogue and digital systems to a given specification. Practical and Professional Skills P1 Investigate and test a range of electronic systems. P2 Evaluate electronic components using test data and device specifications. Transferable and Key Skills T1 Record information and make appropriate use of data. AREAS OF STUDY Basic Electricity: voltage; current; resistance; EMF; Ohm’s law; electrical charge; electrical Energy; power; DC and AC; RMS. Test Equipment: bench supplies; function generators; oscilloscopes; multi-meters. Analogue Components and Circuits: identification and units; Resistors; series and parallel; Kirchoff’s laws; Thevenin theorem Capacitors: charging; coupling circuits; testing. Inductors: electricity and magnetism; inductive reactance; mains and audio transformers Semiconductor devices: the PN junction diode; Zener diode; operational amplifiers; introduction to BJT transistors. DC power supplies: linear regulated power supplies; rectification; regulation: zener. Digital circuits: binary coding schemes; simple logic gates; Boolean representation; combinational; sequential; bi-stable lathes. LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGY Lectures will introduce new concepts and terminology that will be supported and reinforced through small group tutorial activities and laboratory investigations. Seminar sessions will typically involve problem solving and self-study questions, whilst the laboratory sessions will present students with realistic practical problems to encourage both theoretical enquiry and practical discovery. ASSESSMENT STRATEGY The assessment process is designed to assist learning by providing each student with timely and regular formative feedback. The in-class timed assessment comprises four 30 minute short-form tests. These will be open book (limited to 2 sides of A4 hand written notes) to encourage students to take notes and review material. Students will be prepared for the assessment by formative feedback on typical questions during seminar sessions. The laboratory sessions present students with a series of practical exercises and projects throughout the unit. Typically these will contain a number of questions to be answered or results to be obtained. Initially students will be tasked with writing a practice report to provide formative feedback. Towards the end of the year students will be assessed on a final report. The report will be informed by the results and learning outcomes from a number of the lab activities and will document the investigation and calculation required to solve a design problem. ASSESSMENT AE1 weighting: assessment type: length/duration: online submission: grade marking: anonymous marking: AE2 weighting: assessment type: length/duration: online submission: grade marking: anonymous marking: 60% In-class Timed Assessment 4 x 30 minute No No No 40% Report Maximum 1,000 words Yes Yes Yes Aggregation of marks The marks for each element of assessment will be aggregated to give an overall mark for the unit. Re-assessment Arrangements An alternative paper will be made available for students needing to re-sit AE1. An alternative report brief will be made available for students needing to re-sit AE2. Access to laboratory facilities will be made available for resit work. Unit Author: Paul Bourne Date of version: May 2014