3176 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Course information
- Title
- Introduction to Electrical Engineering
- Course number
- 3176.23
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 7.50
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- Science and Tecnology
- Educations
- BSc in Engineering
- Prerequisites
- The students are expected to be well versed with complex number calculation and have passed a university course in electromagnetism.
- Language of instruction
- The course is taught in Faroese.
- Registration
- Students on the 4th semester of B.Sc. in Engineering are automatically enrolled. Applicants for an individual course must apply via the Student Affairs Office.
- Beginning date
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025
- End date
- Thursday, May 22, 2025
Academic content
- Purpose
- To enable students to understand basic electrical engineering including electric circuits, electric power, and the electric installation in a house.
- Learning outcomes
- After the course the student shall be able to: - Define voltage, current, and power. Describe independent and dependent sources. - Describe and use basic electrical laws. - Analyse serial, parallel, and mixed combinations of resistors. Apply voltage and current division rules. - Use superposition and Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorem. - Describe the connection between electrical current and voltage in L and C circuits. Calculate currents and voltages in RC and RL circuits. - Calculate stationary DC solution to circuits with R, L, and C. - Calculate the stationary AC-solution to circuits with R, L, and C, including series and parallel combinations. Use phasors and complex calculations. - Calculate three phase circuits. - Calculate active, reactive, and apparent power. - Understand the electrical installation in a house. - Draw frequency caracteristics (amplitude and phase) for simple filters. - Describe diode models: ideal model, piecewise linear model. - Describe rectifier circuits and know the ratio between AC and DC current. - Understand the impact of harmonics in power supply
- Content
- Kirchoff’s laws and systematic circuit calculations. Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems and superposition. Resistances, capacitors and inductors. Voltage and current sources. Time varying voltages and currents. Stationary voltages and currents. Phasors and complex number calculation. 3-phase systems. The electrical installation in a house. Periodical functions and harmonics. Frequency caracteristics and filters. Diodes and rectifier circuits.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Lectures, group work, problem solving and laboratory projects with reports.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Written examination during the exam week. Laboratory work has to be approved before the test.
- Examination (internal/external)
- External
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The written exam is set for week 23, 2025. The reexam is set for week 33-34, 2025.
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Benadikt Joensen
- Teachers
- Benadikt Joensen