Electricity and Electronics Laboratory (H7118)

15 credits, Level 3 (sub-degree)

Spring teaching

This module provides a rigorous introduction to the basics of experimental physical science with engineering relevance, particularly within the context of simple electricity and electronics experiments.

You will practice preparing and planning for experiments, conducting experiments, and analysing and interpreting the results. Among the specific skills practiced, you will demonstrate your ability to keep proper laboratory notebooks, understand and calculate uncertainties in experimental measurements and data, and apply linear least squares fitting procedures appropriately.

You will also develop school-to-university transition skills: through the module you will be encouraged to reconceptualise yourself as an independent learner, and self-reliant scholar, who is capable of the deep learning and higher-order thinking expected in Higher Education.

The module is designed with intra- and inter- module synchronicity, such that learning is supported through Kolb learning cycles for students of all learning styles, both within the module itself, and in partnership with the other modules of the Foundation Year programme.

Topics include:

• capacitance concept, series and parallel connections of capacitors
• resistance and its thermal dependence, series and parallel connections of resistors
• digital electronics and Logic gates
• operational amplifiers (op-amp), amplifications, matching, and filtering.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Engineering (with a foundation year) BEng