Course Content and Outcome Guide for EET 273
- Date:
- 11-MAR-2011
- Posted by:
- Curriculum Office
- Course Number:
- EET 273
- Course Title:
- Electronic Control Systems
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture hours:
- 20
- Lecture/Lab hours:
- 0
- Lab hours:
- 30
- Special Fee:
- $12
Course Description
Covers electronic control systems, open-loop and closed-loop, proportional, integral, derivative, PI, and PID control modes, power control devices, relays, transistors, thyristors, and sensors. Topics include temperature control, DC motor control, and stepper motor control. Lab exercises include temperature control and motor control circuits. Prerequisite: EET 222. Audit available.Addendum to Course Description
Students will measure the operating characteristics and performance of power control devices and feedback control systems in the associated laboratory.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students must be able to:
1. Operate and troubleshoot open loop and closed loop control systems.
2. Use transfer functions to predict the correct operation of control systems.
3. Measure and evaluate the performance of basic open loop and closed loop control systems.
4. Operate and troubleshoot switch mode power supplies, converters, and motor drives.
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: onoff, proportional, integral, and derivative control modes. Analog PID controllers. Control system performance criteria.
Permanentmagnet motors, DC motor control circuits, brushless DC motors, stepper motors.