Course Content and Outcome Guide for EET 255
- Date:
- 19-MAY-2010
- Posted by:
- Sanda Williams
- Course Number:
- EET 255
- Course Title:
- Industrial Control Systems
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab hours:
- 0
- Lab hours:
- 30
- Special Fee:
- $12
Course Description
Industrial Control Systems Introduces electronic feedback control systems using analog and digital methods. Topics include temperature control, motor speed control, and servo systems. Lab exercises will include the interfacing and programming of a microcontroller IC. Prerequisite: EET 241 or EET 242. Prerequisite or concurrent: EET 222.Addendum to Course Description
Students will measure the operating characteristics and performance of power control devices and feedback control systems in the associated laboratory.
Course Activities and Design
Concepts and theories presented in class are demonstrated in the laboratory. Lab experiments are synchronized with the lectures.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Assessment methods may include midterm and final exams, homework, lab evaluations, and projects
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Signal Conditioning, transmission, and interface circuits. Switches, relays, and power semiconductors. Position, angular velocity, and temperature sensors. Feedback Control Principles: on-off, proportional, integral, and derivative control modes. Analog PID controllers. Control system performance criteria.
Permanent-magnet motors, DC motor control circuits, brushless DC motors, stepper motors.