SEE217 covers in detail the commonly featuring Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) such as Solar, Wind, Hydro, and Energy storage systems to generate electricity for the modern power grid. In addition, Hydrogen Fuel Cell systems, Geothermal, Biomass, Wave and Tidal energy systems are explored in this unit. Completion of this unit will allow students to gain a thorough understanding of the operating principles, and characteristics as well as the grid integration of various renewable energy sources. This unit will allow students to develop hands-on experience in understanding the unique characteristics of each RES and guide them to design renewable energy-based generation systems, their control and energy management. The conceptual knowledge developed through this unit will help students to apply design mechanisms that can ensure a safe, efficient, and reliable operation of renewable energy-based modern power system networks.
This is a knowledge and skill-based unit focusing on analogue and digital electronics. The first part of the unit covers the theory and applications of combinatorial and sequential logic circuits and systems. These will include standard SSI and MSI devices such as logic gates, flip-flops, counters and adders. The second part of the unit covers the operation and applications of amplifiers and related devices. It will cover small-signal amplifiers based on bipolar-junction transistors and junction field effect transistors, as well as practical op-amps and its applications.
The aim of this unit is to provide students with an introduction to electrical signals, systems and signal processing. Topics studied in this unit include: properties of continuous signals and systems, linear time invariant (LTI) systems and convolution, differential and state equations and frequency response of LTI systems, periodic signals and Fourier series, the Fourier transform and the Laplace transform, transfer functions, and the design of analogue and digital filters.
Power engineering design is the design of electrical systems for the supply and distribution of electrical power through a network to end user for their needs. The primary goal is to generate the required amount of power and distribute it to where it's required, whilst doing this in a safe, reliable, and efficient manner. In this unit, students will engage in a Power Engineering Design Project individually and as a team. Students will investigate different power sources, transformers, transmission, and distribution lines to address stakeholder needs and develop a system design by applying ethical and Australian OHS standards. This unit lays the foundations for understanding and designing modern power systems network comprised of conventional and renewable energy sources. Students will develop knowledge and technical competence in finding power engineering solutions to a range of electrical engineering problem scenarios.
This project-oriented design-based learning (PODBL) unit has been developed with significant industry input. The learning and assessment activities in the unit require students to explore and apply control systems theory on physical systems to develop practical skills and deeper theoretical knowledge, while also working as part of a team to deliver a well justified and validated control systems design project for a customer. Students will actively participate in labs throughout the trimester that require them to work with electromechanical and fluid control systems. In these labs students will explore, apply, and communicate control systems concepts and skills such as theoretical and mathematical system modelling, Laplace system modelling, system linearisation, PID control design and parameter tuning, stability analysis, and practical applications of instrumentation, monitoring, and data acquisition devices. Project and individual work will require students to design and evaluate controllers for a variety of interfacing systems to solve a real-world problem using mathematical and simulation tools. This will allow students to explore and design control system solutions for various dynamic systems by applying fundamentals of control systems theory, such as transfer function derivation, transient system response, steady state error, stability, and root locus methods for system modification and analysis, PID controller design, and control system evaluation using simulation tools such as MATLAB/SIMULINK. Students will work in small teams to plan, manage, and report project deliverables to meet customer expectations related to cost, functionality, hardware selection, resourcing, and timing.
