JB3200 Journalist in a Globalized World Course description

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

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 student has knowledge of:

• Processor architecture and organization to support embedded system design;
• assembly and high-level programming of simple to intermediate complexity using modular approaches to execute typical embedded system tasks,
• hardware/software interfacing, embedded system design techniques and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools,
• physical principles of different instruments commonly used in automation, and equipment used for validation and testing of embedded systems,
• hardware and programming methods for common embedded subsystems such as memory technologies, digital/analog I/O, parallel/serial buses, timers, waveform generators, and interrupts,
• principles of data acquisition systems (data/signal conditioning, classification of instrumentation error, different calibration techniques),
• automation and IT layers at an industrial plant (Field, Control, Supervision, Planning, and Management),
• PLC systems: Components and input/output devices of a PLC and differences in programming from a microcontroller, Industrial Internet of Things (IoT).    

Skills

The student is capable of:

• setting up a simple automation plan 
• interpreting instrumentation datasheets,
• providing an embedded system solution to an automation problem for measurement of different variables and control of various parameters,  
• providing suggestions to minimize errors 
• proposing a microcontroller and/or PLC based system with required I/O support, 
• programming a microcontroller both in assembly and in high-level language for an embedded system design of simple to medium complexity with multi-tasked automation capabilities,
• using CAD tools and lab equipment to execute a design flow that includes programming, hardware configuration, simulation-based verification, and physical testing.  

General competence

The student is capable of:

• setting up a general automation plan  by selecting the appropriate instruments, microcontrollers and/or PLCs;
• designing, simulating, implementing, and testing a basic embedded automation system, including development of multi-tasked assembly or high-level programs.
• developing simple PLC programs  

Lectures and laboratory assignments are central. The laboratory teaching is built to support the classroom teaching and for hands on practice with a number of products and solutions used in the industry.

A semester project consolidates the knowledge and skills from the entire semester.

Individual written exam, 3 hours

The exam result can be appealed.

In the event of a resit or rescheduled exam, an oral examination may be used instead. In case an oral exam is used, the examination result cannot be appealed.

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.

Some of the concepts from ELPE1300 Electrical Circuits, ELPE1400 Digital Design, ELI2300 Dynamic Systems will be useful.

Gradert skala A - F

Det benyttes intern og ekstern sensor til sensurering av alle besvarelsene, både på skriftlig og muntlig eksamen.

Anders Gjesvik