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Electronic System Design (ELEN90053)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 2
Overview
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AIMS
This subject will explore the design of various electrical and electronic systems and provide students with a range of common and practical design techniques and circuits in the context of a guided laboratory based project.
INDICATIVE CONTENT
Subject may cover specific concepts surrounding the design and implementation of:
- Design process;
- Design for manufacture and assembly;
- Advanced PCB design;
- Oscillators;
- Phase-locked loops and frequency synthesis;
- Base-band signalling schemes and clock recovery;
- Mixers and logarithmic amplification;
- Automatic gain control;
- Filters;
- Synchronous detection;
- High-speed analog-digital conversion;
- High-frequency amplification;
- Low noise amplifiers;
- Power supply design;
- Batteries, battery charging systems, and management;
- Test and measurement;
- Sensors.
Intended learning outcomes
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (ILOs)
Having completed this subject the student is expected to:
- Apply practical knowledge of a range of standard electrical and electronic subsystems
- Quantitatively analyse and design the behaviour of standard electrical and electronic subsystems
- Integrate standard electrical and electronic subsystems
- Select, design, implement and test a range of standard electrical and electronic subsystems
Generic skills
Upon completion of this subject, students will have developed the following skills:
- Ability to apply knowledge of basic science and engineering fundamentals;
- In-depth technical competence in at least one engineering discipline;
- Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution;
- Ability to utilise a systems approach to design and operational performance;
- Capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning;
- Openness to new ideas and unconventional critiques of received wisdom;
- Ability to function effectively as an individual and in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, with the capacity to be a leader or manager as well as an effective team member;
- Ability to communicate effectively, with the engineering team and with the community at large.
Last updated: 3 November 2022