ELFT2500 Embedded Systems and Instrumentation Course description

The course provides basic knowledge of systems, units and functions in the discipline of industrial instrumentation.

Builds on MEK1000 Mathematics 1000, MEK Physics and Chemistry and ELI2300 Dynamic Systems

This course will feature lectures and practical work to provide both theoretical and hands-on content. The students will work in groups and complete various assignments related to the practical and theoretical aspects of the course. The students will supplement the lectures and group work with their own reading.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The course provides the student with basic knowledge of systems design and industrial instrumentation, i.e.:

• instrumentation of unit operations
• basic instrumentation, hook-up drawings and instrument qualities
• control devices
• installation in potentially explosive atmospheres
• systems design
• PLC architecture
• PLC programming

Skills

The student is capable of:

• analysing systems with regard to systems design, instrumentation and PLC programming, and automating large-scale and small-scale industrial processes

General competence

The student:

• has an overall, detailed understanding of the automation and instrumentation of industrial processes in a project-related and operations-technical perspective
• has insight into the operation of industrial processes and how this is implemented in an efficient, financially sound manner

Students have to write an individual report. An individual oral exam and the individual report will constitute the portfolio exam for the course. Both exams must be passed in order to pass the course.

The oral presentation cannot be appealed.

All aids are permitted.

Two internal examiners. External examiner is used periodically.

Master's degree in engineering science or related fields. Students are expected to have a basic understanding of the various phases of planning and implementing a research project and the academic writing process, including literature reviews, and analysing and reporting data

The students will acquire a broad and concrete theoretical and practical perspective on the production and consumption of empirical research across the fields that compose engineering science. applied mathematics and physics in the broad sense, engineering and technology. They will be familiarised with how practical problems from these areas are translated into research questions and with how research problems can be defined in order to answer those research questions. The students will be introduced to a spectrum of quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method approaches, building on their exising expert knowledge, and learn how quantitative and qualitative analytical methods can provide insight into contemporary research issues in engineering science.

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.

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