School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

Semester 2, 2018
Course Outline

ELEC2133 Analogue Electronics

COURSE STAFF
Course Convener: Dr. Aron Michael, MSEB 648, [email protected]
Tutors: Dr. Aron Michael, MSEB 648, [email protected]
Prof. Chee Yee Kwok, MSE750, [email protected]

Laboratory Contact: Mr. Ian Chuang, [email protected]

Consultations: You are encouraged to ask questions on the course material, after the lecture class times
in the first instance, rather than via email. Lecturer consultation time is on Tuesday from 3pm to 4pm.
Other consultation times may be arranged with the lecturer but prior appointments must be made via
email. You are welcome to email the tutor or laboratory demonstrator, who can answer your questions on
this course and can also provide you with consultation times. ALL email enquiries should be made from
your student email address with ELEC2133 in the subject line, otherwise they will not be answered. In this
course, Moodle will be used as an online learning and teaching platform. The course page on Moodle can
be accessed at https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/login/index.php. Students are also encouraged to post
their questions on Moodle for discussion among their peers and academic staffs of the course.

Keeping Informed: Announcements may be made during classes, via email (to your student email
address) and/or via the course page on Moodle. Please note that you will be deemed to have received
this information, so you should take careful note of all announcements.

COURSE SUMMARY
Contact Hours
The course consists of a total of 3 hour lectures, an hour tutorial, and a 3 hour laboratory session each
week. Lecture will begin in week 2. Tutorials and laboratory sessions will start in week 3 and week 5,
respectively.

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Lectures Day Time Location
Tuesday 12pm - 2pm Physics Theatre
Thursday 3pm - 4pm Physics Theatre

Tutorials Tuesday 2pm – 3pm OMB G2

Thursday 11am – 12pm OMB G2
Thursday 2pm – 3pm ChemSc M11
Thursday 4pm – 5pm OMB G2

Laboratories Monday 9am – 12pm ElecEng214

Monday 12pm – 15pm ElecEng214
Tuesday 9am – 12pm ElecEng214
Wednesday 11am – 2pm ElectEng214
Wednesday 3pm – 6pm ElectEng214
Friday 9am – 12pm ElectEng214
Friday 12pm – 3pm ElectEng214

Context and Aims

Analogue circuits are integral parts of any electronic system. They are used to realize important signal
processing and conditioning functions such as amplification, comparison, waveform generation,
analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversions. Analogue circuits consist of transistors and
diodes active circuit elements in addition to resistors, capacitors and inductors passive circuit elements
often in an integrated circuit form. In previous courses, students were introduced to circuit analysis and
synthesis techniques involving passive circuit elements. This course endeavors to build on this
knowledge and further expand students’ skill in analyzing and designing analogue circuits involving
transistors and diodes. The first half of the course covers: (i) the basic principle operations and device
characteristics of diodes, Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), and Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field
Effect Transistors (MOSFET) that underpin the analysis, design and implementation of analogue
circuits; (ii) multi-stage linear amplifiers, operational amplifiers, effects of feedback on the performance
and stability of amplifiers. The second half of the course deals with nonlinear circuits such as Schmitt
triggers, waveform generators, comparators, A/D, and D/A converters. Therefore, the aims of the
course are

 To further develop skill and knowledge in analysis and design of analogue circuits such as
amplifiers, operational amplifiers, comparators and wave form generators.

 To introduce the basic principle operations, device and circuit characteristics of diodes and BJT
and MOSFET transistors

 To develop a more thorough understanding of why analogue circuits behave in a certain way
and how performances can be improved when feedback is applied.

 To develop intuitive feel for circuit analysis and design

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 To introduce various A/D and D/A conversion techniques and their limitations

Indicative Lecture Schedule

Period Summary of Lecture Program
Week 1 Introduction and revision
Operational Amplifiers
Week 2
Assignment I released
Week 3 Semiconductor Devices for Electronics
Transistor Amplifiers (BJT): DC and small signal
Week 4
Assignment I due
Transistor Amplifiers (MOSFET): DC and small signal
Week 5
Assignment II released
Week 6 Frequency Response of Amplifiers
Feedback in Amplifiers (Part I)
Week 7
Assignment II due and mid-term exam
Feedback in Amplifiers (Part II)
Week 8 &9
Assignment III released
Break
Week 10 Stability and Compensation in feedback amplifiers
Week 11 Non-Linear Circuits – Waveform generation
Digital-Analogue Interface (part I and part II)
Week 12
Assignment III due

Indicative Laboratory Schedule

Period Summary of Laboratory Program
Week 5 Lab I: Operational amplifier – Design and Pspice simulation
Week 6 Lab I: Operational amplifier – Gain and frequency response
Week 7 Lab I: Operational amplifier – Frequency compensation
Week 8 Lab II: Two stage amplifier – Design and Pspice simulation
Lab II: Two stage amplifier (open loop)- input impedance, output
Week 9
impedance, gain, and bandwidth measurement
Break
Lab II: Feedback amplifier: two stage amplifier(close-loop)-input
Week 10 impedance, output impedance, gain and bandwidth with various
feedback factors
Week 11 Lab III: Waveform generators – Schmitt Trigger
Week 12 Lab III: Waveform generators – VCO
Week 13 Lab Exam

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Assessment
Laboratory practical experiments (including reflections 5%) 20%
Laboratory examination 5%
Fortnight online quizzes (must be completed) 0%
Discussion forum 5%
Assignments 15%
Midterm exam(1 hour) 8%
Final exam (2 hours) 47%

COURSE DETAILS
Credits
This is a 6 UoC course and the expected workload is 10 – 12 hours per week throughout the 13 week
semester.

Relationship to Other Courses

This is a 2nd year course in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. It is a core
course for students following a BE (Electrical) or (Telecommunications) program and other combined
degree programs. It is a pre-requisite course for ELEC3106, ELEC3117, and ELEC4603.

Pre-requisites and Assumed Knowledge

The pre-requisite for this course is ELEC2134, Circuits and Signals. It is essential that you are familiar
with fundamentals of circuit analysis techniques those concepts covered in ELEC1112 or ELEC1111 in
addition to advanced techniques introduced in ELEC2134 before this course is attempted. You are
strongly advised to revise those circuit analysis techniques from ELEC1111(2) and ELEC2134 in their
own time to get yourself ready for this course. It is also further assumed that you are familiar with use
of laboratory equipment such as oscilloscope, signal generator, power supply and multi-meters and
have a good computer literacy.

Following Courses
The course is a pre-requisite for ELEC3106 (Electronics), ELEC3117 (Electrical Engineering Design)
and ELEC4603 (Solid State Electronics).

Learning outcomes
After successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
1. Demonstrate the use of operational amplifiers in realizing various analogue functions.
2. Analyze and design various analogue electronic circuits based on operational amplifiers.
3. Explain the basic principle of operations of diodes, BJTs and MOSFETs.
4. Demonstrate the use of circuit models of diodes, BJTs and MOSFETs in the analysis and
design of electronic circuits.
5. Analyze, design, and implement various multi-stage linear amplifier circuits.
6. Identify various feedback topologies for amplifiers and explain their advantage and
disadvantage.
7. Analyze, design and implement feedback amplifiers.
8. Explain the behavior and applications of oscillators.
9. Analyze, design and implement waveform generators and voltage control oscillators using
Schmitt trigger.
10.Describe and identify the operations of various D-A and A-D convertor circuits.

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11.Analyze and design typical D-A and A-D convertor circuits.

This course is designed to provide the above learning outcomes which arise from targeted graduate
capabilities listed in Appendix A. The targeted graduate capabilities broadly support the UNSW and
Faculty of Engineering graduate capabilities (listed in Appendix B). This course also addresses the
Engineers Australia (National Accreditation Body) Stage I competency standard as outlined in
Appendix C.

Syllabus
Device physics of diodes, BJTs and MOSFETs, Nonlinear transistor models: Ebers-Moll, transport, Full
and simplified models of BJTs and MOSFETs (inc. small-signal models). Zener and Schottky diodes,
DC biasing, biasing using current sources, operating point, large-signal analysis, Linearization, small-
signal analysis, Input and output impedances, power gain, Two-ports, Feed-back, effects of feed-back;
stability and compensation techniques, Circuits with non-ideal op-amps, Common base, emitter and
collector amplifiers, differential pairs, Multistage amplifiers, cascades, cascodes. AC response of 1-
stage amplifiers, Miller effect, Non-linear circuits: oscillator, Schmitt trigger. A-D and D-A converter
principles.

TEACHING STRATEGIES
Delivery Mode
The teaching in this course aims at establishing a good fundamental understanding of the areas
covered using:
 Formal face-to-face lectures, which provide you with a focus on the core analytical material in
the course, together with qualitative, alternative explanations to aid your understanding;
 Tutorials, which allow you to apply concepts introduced in lecture in solving analytical and
design based problems;
 Laboratory sessions, which support the formal lecture material and also provide you with Pspice
circuit simulation, practical construction, measurement and debugging skills;
 Tutorial and summary videos, which support the formal tutorial sessions by allowing you to
revise recorded videos of complete tutorial problem solutions and summary of important
concepts in the course at the time and place of your convenience;
 Online quizzes and stack questions, which allow you to assess yourself and get feedback to
support your self-direct learning and understanding of materials covered in the course.

Learning in this course

You are expected to attend all lectures, tutorials, and labs in order to maximize learning. You must
prepare well for your laboratory classes and your lab work will be assessed. In addition to the lecture
notes, you should read relevant sections of the recommended text books. Reading additional texts will
further enhance your learning experience. Group learning is also encouraged. UNSW assumes that
self-directed study of this kind is undertaken in addition to attending face-to-face classes throughout
the course.

Lecture classes
The lectures form the core of this subject. Topics presented in lectures will generally be followed by
detailed examples to provide students with the real-life applications. Detailed explanations of the topics
will be available to students in the form of lecture slides, lecture videos and notes which will be
uploaded on Moodle and the prescribed textbook.

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Tutorial classes
The tutorial problems provide students with in-depth quantitative understanding of the topics covered in
lectures. The problems will be posted on Moodle prior to the tutorial class. Students are encouraged to
attempt them before coming to the tutorial. Discussion forum for the tutorial problems will be made
available on Moodle for students to post their solutions and discuss. During the tutorial session,
solutions for the problems will be covered focusing on the challenges and issues raised by students in
the discussion forum. Since there will not be enough time to cover all problems during the tutorial class,
the tutorial will focus on selected problems and high level discussion. Complete worked out solutions in
the forms of text and video will be uploaded on Moodle after the tutorial so that students can go
through them at their time convenience. To further support the tutorial, summary video on important
concepts related to materials covered in each tutorial have been prepared and will be made available
before the tutorial. Students can watch the summary video before attempting the tutorial problems.
They can also use the videos for quick revision on important topics to prepare themselves for formative
and summative assessments in the course. The importance of adequate preparation prior to each
tutorial cannot be overemphasized, as the effectiveness and usefulness of the tutorial depends to a
large extent on this preparation.

Laboratory program
The laboratory schedule is deliberately designed to provide practical, hands-on exposure to the
concepts conveyed in lectures. There will be three laboratory experiments in the course, each of which
consisting of either two or three parts. The experiments are supported with detailed theoretical
background in addition to concepts introduced in lectures and design guidelines that you are required
to step through to complete preliminary preparatory problems. You must come to the laboratory having
read the laboratory notes and completed the preliminary laboratory problems. Laboratory
demonstrators will go around and mark your preliminary preparatory solutions. You will not be
marked and lose points if you come to the laboratory session without completing the
preliminary preparatory design tasks. In the lab, you will use Pspice simulation to verify and refine
your design. After the simulation, the design will be set up on a PCB board. You will plug-in resistor
and capacitor values according to your design on the PCB board, construct the designed circuit using
jumpers for electrical connections and perform measurement. To help you with setting up the design on
the PCB board and conducting measurement, laboratory videos have been prepared for you to watch
during the lab in addition to step-by-step guide provided in the laboratory manual.

Laboratory sessions will run from Week 5 to Week 12 every week. Your timetable may show the
laboratory classes running from week 2 to week 13. But note that laboratory class will not start until
week 5. Laboratory attendance WILL be kept, and you MUST attend at least 80% of the labs in
order to pass the course.

The laboratory manual will be made available for sale through the UNSW book store. Every student
should have the hard copy of the laboratory manual and must bring it to the laboratory class. All data
and marks will be recorded in spaces provided in the laboratory manual. The marker will sign, date and
stamp inside your laboratory manual for each marked checkpoint.

Laboratory exemption
There is no laboratory exemption for this course. Regardless of whether equivalent labs have been
completed in previous courses, all students enrolled in this course for Semester 2, 2018 must take the

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labs. If, for medical reasons, (note that a valid medical certificate must be provided) you are unable to
attend a lab, you will need to apply for a catch-up lab during another lab time, as agreed by the
laboratory coordinator.

ASSESSMENT
The assessment scheme in this course reflects the intention to assess your learning progress through
the semester. Ongoing assessment occurs through the fortnight online quizzes, lab checkpoints (see
lab manual), lab reflections, lab exams, three assignments and mid-term exam.

Laboratory assessment
The laboratory work will contribute to 15% of the overall mark. It is essential that you complete the
laboratory preparation before coming to the lab. Your laboratory preparation will be marked and
checked. Each lab exercise will have three checkpoints. Each checkpoint is expected to be completed
in one week or less. It will be marked, dated, signed and stamped by one of the laboratory
demonstrators. Although there is only one check point for each week, there are a number of results
that students are required to demonstrate when marked for the check point. Therefore, students are
strongly advised to: (i) record results in spaces provided in the laboratory manual; (ii) save the data
plotted on the laboratory PC; (iii) keep the working circuit for the demonstrator to check. Demonstrators
will be available to help students with any questions or difficulties.

Upon completion of a checkpoint, you will be required to write down your student and bench numbers
on the laboratory queue sheet and wait for the laboratory assessor to mark your work. You may
continue working on subsequent lab tasks while waiting to be assessed. You will be required to show
the working of your task for each checkpoint and answer questions asked by the assessor to
demonstrate your understanding of the ideas addressed within each task. The marking guidelines are
provided in the laboratory manual.

Students will work in pair, but be marked individually. Each student will be asked a couple questions for
individual marking. There will also be a group mark for the demonstrating the required lab tasks in pair.

It is important that you take a good care of boards used in the laboratory. You will lose mark as a
group if you destroy an IC component or a board because of negligence. If you carefully follow
instruction provided in the laboratory manual and seek help from the lab demonstrators whenever in
doubt, it is very unlikely that an IC or a board will be destroyed.

Laboratory reflection
You will be required to write an individual laboratory reflection at the end of lab I, lab II, and lab III. The
reflection will allow you to summarize the main points you have learned from the lab, your learning
experience and general feedback in doing the lab tasks. Detail on how to write and what to include in
the reflection will be provided in week 6. The reflection does not have word limit but is not expected to
be long and generally less than 500 words. It can be handwritten as long as it is legible. You will submit
the reflection online on Moodle after you are marked for the lab either in the same or following week. It
will contribute 5% towards the overall mark. The assessment will provide you with the opportunity to
reflect on the laboratory experience, and learn from the experience. It will also help us to improve the
delivery of the lab and better support your individual needs based on your experience and feedback.

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Laboratory Exam
There will be a laboratory exam in week 13 and it contributes 5% towards the overall mark. The exam
will assess students’ technical understanding of the laboratory experiments. Students will be given a
design problem based on the laboratory experiments, asked to verify their design using Pspice
simulation, set up their design on the PCB board and demonstrate the working circuit.

Assignment
The assignments, which will consist of analysis and design problems, form 15% of the overall mark.
There will be three assignments for this course. They will be released on Moodle at the end of week 2,
6 and 9. The assignments are to be submitted online on Moodle and due at the end of week 4, 8 and
12, respectively. Late submission will attract a penalty of 10% per day (including weekends).

Assignments will be peer assessed. This means that you will mark the assignment submissions of your
peers and your peers will mark your submission. Each student will be allocated three assignment
submissions to mark and each submission will be marked by three students. The average mark given
by the three students will be the mark for the submission. Detail rubrics and solution will be provided to
help students with marking. Further information on peer marking will be made available on Moodle in
due course.

The assignments will consist of one or more analytical and design problems and students are required
to provide a complete solution and verify their design using Pspice simulation. Students will be
expected to work independently and be able to justify any unique design choices along the way.

Fortnight quizzes
There will be fortnight quizzes throughout the semester. The purpose of the quizzes is to keep students
up-to-date with the lecture material and to test their basic understanding of the course concepts. The
fortnight quizzes will not contribute the overall mark. However, the quizzes are mandatory component
of the overall assessment and Students must attempt all quizzes to pass this subject. Each quiz
will consist of a number of multiple choice questions and will be marked according to the number of
correct answers. Each quiz will be available for a period of two weeks and the results per quiz will be
published at the end of the period. No late attempts will be permitted.

The quizzes will be delivered through Moodle and will each be made available for a period of two
weeks from Saturday 9:00am to the following Saturday at the same time after which a new quiz will
become available. The first quiz will be released at the end of week 2.

Discussion forums
This assessment is to account for student’s active involvement and contribution to the online
discussion and use of online teaching and learning resources. Posting worked out solution (your
solution) and sharing with peers on-line, value added comments on posted solutions, initiating value
added on-line discussion and being active in lecture and tutorial will contribute to the discussion forum
mark. The use of teaching and learning resources such as watching recorded tutorial solution and
summary videos, watching animations and working with interactive animations and related questions,
and working on stack questions are also considered as student active involvement and contribution
online. This will contribute to 5% of the overall mark for the course.

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Midterm Examination
The midterm exam in this course is a 1-hour supervised online comprising multiple choice questions
based on two design questions. It is worth 8% of the overall mark. Students are required to bring in
their own devices (lab top or mobile phone). University approved calculators are also allowed. The
examination tests analytical and critical thinking and general understanding of the course material in a
controlled fashion. Questions will be drawn from the first five topics of the course (week 1- week 5),
unless specifically indicated otherwise by the lecturer.

Final Examination
The final examination in this course is a standard closed-book 2-hour written examination, comprising
four compulsory questions. It is worth 47% of the overall mark. University approved calculators are
allowed. The examination tests analytical and critical thinking and general understanding of the course
material in a controlled fashion. Questions may be drawn from any aspect of the course (including
laboratory), unless specifically indicated otherwise by the lecturer. Marks will be assigned according to
the correctness of the responses. Please note that you must pass the final exam in order to pass the
course.

Relationship of Assessment Methods to Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes
Assessment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Laboratory practical   - -    -  - -
assessments
Lab exam   - -  -  -  - -
Laboratory reflection   - -      - -
Fortnight online quizzes       -    
Assignment   -     -  - -
Mid term exam      - - - - - -
Final exam       

COURSE RESOURCES
Textbooks

Prescribed textbook
 Sedra & Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 6th ed, Oxford University Press, 2011

Reference books
 Millman & Grabel, Microelectronics, McGraw Hill, 2nded., NY
 Burns & Bond, Principles of Electronic Circuits, PWS, 2nd ed, 1997
 Higgins, Electronics with digital and Analog Integrated Circuits, 1983.
 Bogart, Electronic Devices and Circuits, 3rd ed, Merril, 1993.
 Horowitz & Hull, The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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On-line resources

Moodle
The course web page is hosted on the UNSW’s Moodle server, which can be accessed at:
https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/login/index.php. All lectures, tutorial, lab, video and any other notes will
be available on this page, as well as access to the fortnightly quizzes, student marks, discussion
forums and official course announcements. It is a requirement of the course that students check this
page for new announcements on a daily basis.

Mailing list
Announcements concerning course information will be given in the lectures and/or on Moodle and/or
via email (which will be sent to your student email address).

OTHER MATTERS
Dates to note
Important Dates available at: https://student.unsw.edu.au/dates

Academic Honesty and Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of other people’s work, including the copying of assignment
works and laboratory results from other students. Plagiarism is considered a form of academic
misconduct, and the University has very strict rules that include some severe penalties. For UNSW
policies, penalties and information to help you avoid plagiarism, see
https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism. To find out if you understand plagiarism correctly, try this short
quiz: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism-quiz.

Student Responsibilities and Conduct

Students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to all UNSW policies (see
https://student.unsw.edu.au/guide), and particular attention is drawn to the following:

Workload
It is expected that you will spend at least ten to twelve hours per week studying a 6 UoC course, from
Week 1 until the final assessment, including both face-to-face classes and independent, self-directed
study. In periods where you need to need to complete assignments or prepare for examinations, the
workload may be greater. Over-commitment has been a common source of failure for many students.
You should take the required workload into account when planning how to balance study with
employment and other activities.

Attendance
Regular and punctual attendance at all classes is expected. UNSW regulations state that if students
attend less than 80% of scheduled classes they may be refused final assessment.

General Conduct and Behaviour

Consideration and respect for the needs of your fellow students and teaching staff is an expectation.
Conduct which unduly disrupts or interferes with a class is not acceptable and students may be asked
to leave the class.

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Work Health and Safety
UNSW policy requires each person to work safely and responsibly, in order to avoid personal injury
and to protect the safety of others.

Special Consideration and Supplementary Examinations

You must submit all assignments and attend all examinations scheduled for your course. You should
seek assistance early if you suffer illness or misadventure which affects your course progress. All
applications for special consideration must be lodged online through myUNSW within 3 working
days of the assessment, not to course or school staff. For more detail, consult
https://student.unsw.edu.au/special-consideration.

Continual Course Improvement

This course is under constant revision in order to improve the learning outcomes for all students.
Please forward any feedback (positive or negative) on the course to the course convener or via the
Course and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement Process. You can also provide feedback to ELSOC
who will raise your concerns at student focus group meetings. As a result of previous feedback
obtained for this course and in our efforts to provide a rich and meaningful learning experience, we
have continued to evaluate and modify our delivery and assessment methods. The following
modifications are incorporated into the course

 The course has gone through Digital uplift. The purpose of the digital uplift is to enhance
student experience in the course and support student learning. The uplift includes
o Computer typed tutorial solutions: the previous tutorial solutions were hand written and
they were problems with legibility. There were also errors in the solutions. These
problems are now addressed in the new computer typed solutions.

o Recorded tutorial solution videos: the benefit of tutorials has been reiterated strongly by
students. With 1 hour of tutorial, it is often not possible to cover all tutorial problems. In
order to address both the benefit of tutorial and coverage of tutorial problems, the
tutorial solutions are now video recorded as they are being solved to provide additional
virtual tutorial experience. Moreover, students will be able to watch the tutorial videos at
their time of convenience.

o Recorded summary videos: summary videos for each tutorial topic have been recorded.
Students can watch those videos before coming to tutorial or attempting tutorial
problems. In addition to supporting tutorial, the summary video will also help students
with quick revision on important concepts in the course. Students are strongly advised to
watch these videos (summary and tutorial videos) to get themselves ready exams in a
short time possible.

o Recorded lab videos: Lab videos have been recorded in order to help students better
understand circuit set-up on the PCB board that is used in the lab and avoid making
common mistakes and confusions when performing measurement and connecting DC
power supplies. This is in addition to the step-by-step guidance already provided in the
lab manual.
o Animations: In order to better illustrate the operational principle of diodes, BJT
transistors, MOSFETs, Schmitt trigger and waveform generators, a number of
animations have been created. Most of the animations are interactive and allow
students to change parameters and variables to observe effect in a system.

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o PSpice circuit simulation: PSpice simulation is now incorporated into the course.
Documents have been prepared to guide students on how to use PSpice circuit
simulation step-by-step. Students will be required to use Pspice in the laboratory
exercises and assignments to verify and refine their design.

o Online assignment and reflection submission: in previous year assignment and

reflection submissions were made in person by handing over a hard copy. This year,
assignments and reflections will be submitted online on the Moodle web page of the
course.

o Peer assessment (marking): assignment marking will be peer based this year. Each
assignment submission will be randomly allocated to three students and each student
will be allocated to mark three submissions. Peer assessment allows students to learn
from the assessment experience as it requires them to first understand the problem and
its solution and then apply it when marking. It will also allow them to learn from other
peers and more importantly allow them to reflect on their submission from their peer’s
point of view.

o Stack questions: Stack questions will be trialed this year. The questions will allow
students to have the same problem but with different parameters and variables and thus
conduct individual assessment. Students will be able to solve large problem in step-by-
step manner and thus facilitate self-direct study.

Administrative Matters
On issues and procedures regarding such matters as special needs, equity and diversity, occupational
health and safety, enrolment, rights, and general expectations of students, please refer to the School
and UNSW policies:
http://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/electrical-engineering/policies-and-procedures
https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/ABC.html

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APPENDICES

Appendix A: Targeted Graduate Capabilities

Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications programs are designed to address the following
targeted capabilities which were developed by the school in conjunction with the requirements of
professional and industry bodies:

 The ability to apply knowledge of basic science and fundamental technologies;

 The skills to communicate effectively, not only with engineers but also with the wider community;
 The capability to undertake challenging analysis and design problems and find optimal solutions;
 Expertise in decomposing a problem into its constituent parts, and in defining the scope of each
part;
 A working knowledge of how to locate required information and use information resources to their
maximum advantage;
 Proficiency in developing and implementing project plans, investigating alternative solutions, and
critically evaluating differing strategies;
 An understanding of the social, cultural and global responsibilities of the professional engineer;
 The ability to work effectively as an individual or in a team;
 An understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities;
 The ability to engage in lifelong independent and reflective learning.

Appendix B: UNSW Graduate Capabilities

The course delivery methods and course content directly or indirectly addresses a number of core
UNSW graduate capabilities, as follows:

 Developing scholars who have a deep understanding of their discipline, through lectures and
solution of analytical problems in tutorials and assessed by assignments and written
examinations.
 Developing rigorous analysis, critique, and reflection, and ability to apply knowledge and skills
to solving problems. These will be achieved by the laboratory experiments and interactive
checkpoint assessments and lab exams during the labs.
 Developing capable independent and collaborative enquiry, through a series of tutorials
spanning the duration of the course.
 Developing independent, self-directed professionals who are enterprising, innovative, creative
and responsive to change, through challenging design and project tasks.
 Developing citizens who can apply their discipline in other contexts, are culturally aware and
environmentally responsible, through interdisciplinary tasks, seminars and group activities.

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Appendix C: Engineers Australia (EA) Professional Engineer Competency Standard

Program Intended Learning Outcomes

PE1.1 Comprehensive, theory-based understanding of underpinning fundamentals 

PE1.2 Conceptual understanding of underpinning maths, analysis, statistics, 
PE1: Knowledge
and Skill Base

computing
PE1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge 
PE1.4 Discernment of knowledge development and research directions
PE1.5 Knowledge of engineering design practice 
PE1.6 Understanding of scope, principles, norms, accountabilities of sustainable
engineering practice
PE2.1 Application of established engineering methods to complex problem solving 
Engineering
Application

PE2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools and resources 

Ability
PE2:

PE2.3 Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes

PE2.4 Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of
engineering projects
PE3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability
PE3: Professional

PE3.2 Effective oral and written communication (professional and lay domains) 
and Personal
Attributes

PE3.3 Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour 

PE3.4 Professional use and management of information 
PE3.5 Orderly management of self, and professional conduct
PE3.6 Effective team membership and team leadership

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