1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
3. winter term 2023/2024
4. Management and Production Engineering - First-cycle studies leading to Engineer's degree
5. Fundamentals of automation and electrical engineering

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Fundamentals of automation and electrical engineering - course description

Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to provide information on the basic laws of electrical engineering, developing the ability to analyze and measure basic parameters in simple electrical circuits. Obtaining basic knowledge in the field of control and automatic regulation of simple automation systems.

Prerequisites

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High school level physics

Scope

Lecture

1. Basic concepts, similarities between gravitational and electric fields, basic electrical quantities, measurements of electrical quantities.
2. Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's 1st and 2nd law, structure of an electric circuit.
3. Switching elements of industrial automation, logic functions, implementation of logic functions in relay technology.
4. Designing combinational circuits, minimizing logic functions.
5. Designing sequential circuits, the use of flip-flops.
6. Introduction to pneumatic systems, basic elements, used symbols, diagrams of pneumatic systems.
7. Introduction to control and regulation systems.
8. Final test.

Laboratory

1. Occupational health and safety guidelines. Laboratory equipment: measuring devices, power supplies and auxiliary devices.
2. Wiring simple electric circuits.
3. Measurements of basic electrical quantities with analog and digital meters.
4. Study of Ohm's law in DC circuits.
5. Investigation of Kirchhoff's laws I and II in DC circuits.
6. Wiring simple switching systems in relay technology.
7. Implementation of logic functions in relay technology.
8. Design and implementation of simple combinational circuits in relay technology.
9. Design and implementation of complex combinational circuits in relay technology.
10. Design and implementation of simple sequential circuits in relay technology.
11. The use of flip-flops to implement simple sequential circuits in relay technology.
12. Basic elements of pneumatic systems.
13. Direct and indirect control of single and double acting actuators.
14. Implementation of logic functions using pneumatic elements.
15. Implementation of the selected automation system using the discussed pneumatic elements.

Teaching methods

Lecture: a conventional lecture

Laboratory: practical classes in the laboratory

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture: a positive result of the assessment via a written test

Laboratory: the average of grades obtained from written tests and lab reports.

Final grade: the condition for passing the course is to pass all its forms, the final grade for the course is the arithmetic mean of the grades for individual forms of classes.

Recommended reading

1. Ebel F., Idler S., Prede G. , Scholz D., Fundamentals of automation technology, Technical book, Festo Didactic GmbH 2008.
2. Hacker V., Sumereder C., Electrical Engineering : Fundamentals, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019.
3. Johnson C.D., Process Control Instrumentation Technology, Pearson Education Limited 2014.
4. Kories R., Schmidt-Walter H., Electrical Engineering A Pocket Reference, Artech House, 2007.
5. Rauf S. B., Electrical Engineering for Non-electrical Engineers, The Fairmont Press, Inc. 2016.

Further reading

1. Bhattacharya S.K., Rastogi K. M., Experiments in Basic Electrical Engineering, NEW AGE International Publishers. 2017.
2. Love J., Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Theory and Practice, Springer, 2007.
3. Manesis S., Nikolakopoulos  G., Introduction To Industrial Automation, Taylor & Francis Inc, 2018.
4. Martin P., Gregory H., Automation Made Easy : Everything You Wanted to Know About Automation and Need to Ask, Research Triangle Park, NC: International Society of Automation [ISA], 2010.

Notes

Modified by dr inż. Grzegorz Pająk (last modification: 03-05-2023 11:15)