Program : Engineering Design & Product Development (EDPD)

Degree : MSc/MEng

Course Code : EDD 621

Course Name : Design of Control Systems Components

Course Category : Compulsory Core Courses

Semester : First Semester

Credit Hours : 3

Electronic components. General considerations in the characterization of system components. Steady state analysis of systems containing strongly nonlinear components. Application of the above to the study of electronic systems. Laboratory consisting of construction of vibrators, modulators and other basic electronic devices. Hydraulic and pneumatic components and systems. Reading of descriptive materials concerning fluid power control. Techniques for the simulation of dynamic systems by digital computers. Project consisting of the development and use of digital computer simulation of a complex hydraulic power control system. Control theory
reduced to engineering practice through the analysis and design of actual systems in the laboratory. Experiments with pneumatic and electro-mechanical logic circuitry and with mechanical, hydraulic and electro-mechanical servo system. Systems analysis and synthesis
applied to a variety of positioning speed control and regulating system.