Electrical Engineering: Possibilities and Limitations
Elektroteknik: Möjligheter och begränsningar

EIT200F, 7.5 credits

Valid from: Spring 2024
Decided by: Maria Sandsten
Date of establishment: 2024-01-22

General Information

Division: Electrical and Information Technology
Course type: Third-cycle course
Teaching language: English

Aim

The overall goal of the course is to give an understanding to what possibilities and limitations basic knowledge, as well as the rapid development, gives in the areas of electronics and communications. The main part of the course is aimed at giving a qualitative understanding of phenomena related to electronics and data transfer, and how this is related to design considerations. By using the concepts and ideas taught in the course, the students should be able to conduct a constructive discussion with an engineer.

Goals

Knowledge and Understanding

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

• have knowledge about basic possibilities and limitations within the field of electrical engineering
• have knowledge about basic concepts within the field of electrical engineering
• be able to use principles from the filed of electrical engineering when developing new design concepts

Competences and Skills

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

• have the ability to use the possibilities of electrical engineering in industrial design work
• have the ability to judge the reasonableness of concepts containing parts from electrical engineering
• have the ability to have constructive communication with an electrical engineer

Judgement and Approach

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

• feel acquainted with the terminology within the area
• be able to understand novel results within the area and to a certain extent judge their applicability in relation to a given design concept

Course Contents

The course will present basic concepts important for designs containing electronics and communicating devices. Such concepts are for instance current, voltage, power and frequency. Depending on the desired functionality of a design, the designer has to take various considerations and make different trade-offs. During the course it will be discussed what is possible given a certain set of criteria and what the future might bring. For example, it will be discussed how a design is affected if it is battery operated or connected to a fixed power network. The course main part is a larger project where electronics and design concepts are studied together.

Course Literature

Course literature is given out during the course.

Instruction Details

Types of instruction: Lectures, seminars, project. Lectures will be given remote to facilitate international attendance. Final project work will be done as a workshop on site.

Examination Details

Examination formats: Written report, miscellaneous. Oral project report and demonstration.
Grading scale: Failed, pass
Examiner:

Admission Details

Admission requirements: The course is aimed at PhD-students who do not have a background in electronics or computer science, and primarily towards architects and industrial designers.

Further Information

Course responsible: Anders J Johansson ajn@eit.lth.se

Course Occasion Information

Contact and Other Information

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