ENEX12002 - Introductory Electronics

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit will introduce you to the fundamentals of analog and digital electronics. You will learn basic fundamental laws of circuit analysis, and the working principles of commonly used active and passive electronic components such as resistor, capacitor, inductor, diode, transistor, operational amplifier, and their applications. This unit will provide you with sufficient knowledge of Boolean algebra necessary to understand digital electronics. You will learn logic gates, combinational logic circuit, logic minimisation, flip-flops, counter, and other basic digital logic circuits, and their applications. You will develop skills in analysing electronic circuits and modelling analog and digital circuits using industry-standard simulation software. You will design analog and digital systems for real-world applications and verify their functionality in simulations. You must also complete compulsory practical activities that involve building electronic circuits to strengthen your knowledge further. This unit promotes the UN sustainable development Goal 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production by developing electronic circuits to reduce wasteful consumption.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisite: ENEG11009 Fundamentals of Sustainable Energy AND (MATH11160 Technology Mathematics OR MATH11218 Applied Mathematics)

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2025

Term 1 - 2025 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Mixed Mode
Rockhampton

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Online Quiz(zes) 40%
2. Practical and Written Assessment 30%
3. Project (applied) 30%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 50.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 17.14% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Unit Survey
Feedback
The design project requirements can be specified more specifically.
Recommendation
The project task description should be revised to improve the clarity of design requirements.
Action Taken
Descriptive instructions for the design task were added and a design report template was provided to scaffold the designing steps.
Source: Unit Survey
Feedback
Some tutorial problems are quite difficult and abstract. It is beneficial for learning to have questions start simple and then progressively become more complex.
Recommendation
Intermediate steps and questions should be added to tutorial problems to scaffold answering abstract and more difficult questions.
Action Taken
Some intermediate level of difficulty questions were added to the tutorials to provide a gradual increment of difficulty level for the tutorial questions.
Source: Unit Survey
Feedback
There were too many assessments in this unit. The design projects were big assessment tasks and required much time doing.
Recommendation
The unit assessment should be further consolidated and streamlined to reduce the number of assessment pieces and workload without compromising rigorousness.
Action Taken
The number of assessments was reduced by combining the analog and digital electronics design assignments into one design assessment. The midterm assessment was removed and replaced by additional online quizzes.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
The unit requirements could be clearer.
Recommendation
The unit requirements should be outlined in the first lecture and more descriptive instructions for the design assignment should be provided.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
It would be useful to provide questions similar to the assessment questions in the learning materials.
Recommendation
The unit materials should be updated to provide students with more practice on contents to be assessed.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Assessment feedback, especially for the online quizzes could be more descriptive for better understanding.
Recommendation
More descriptive feedback should be given for assessments.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Some students found it hard to relate the unit contents to the useful knowledge and skills required for the degree.
Recommendation
Connection between the knowledge learned within the unit and the degree and future career should be explained to students within the unit contents.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Progressive implementation of the assessment allowed greater appreciation of the learning content.
Recommendation
This practice should be continued.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Determine the behaviour and operation of basic electronic devices by utilising fundamental circuit laws
  2. Understand number systems and their hardware implementation in digital information processing systems
  3. Analyse the operation of analog and digital electronic circuits using industry-standard simulation tools
  4. Validate electronic circuit operations using simulation and measurement
  5. Design analog and digital electronic circuits for real-world applications by interpreting functional requirements
  6. Communicate professionally using electronic engineering terminology, symbol and diagram that conform to Australian and international standards.

The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards for Professional Engineers in the areas of 1. Knowledge and Skill Base, 2. Engineering Application Ability and 3. Professional and Personal Attributes at the following levels:
 
Introductory 1.4 Discernment of knowledge development and research directions within the engineering discipline. (LO: 4N 5N ) 1.5 Knowledge of engineering design practice and contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline. (LO: 4N 5N ) 1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of sustainable engineering practice in the specific discipline. (LO: 6N ) 3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability. (LO: 6N ) 3.3 Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour. (LO: 6N ) 3.5 Orderly management of self, and professional conduct. (LO: 6N )
Intermediate 1.1 Comprehensive, theory-based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline. (LO: 1I 2I ) 1.2 Conceptual understanding of the mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and computer and information sciences which underpin the engineering discipline. (LO: 1I 2I 3I ) 1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge within the engineering discipline. (LO: 1I 2I 3I 4N 5N ) 2.1 Application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem solving. (LO: 3I 4I 5I ) 2.4 Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering projects. (LO: 4N 5I ) 3.2 Effective oral and written communication in professional and lay domains. (LO: 6I ) 3.4 Professional use and management of information. (LO: 6I )
 
Advanced 2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools and resources. (LO: 3I 4I 5A ) 2.3 Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes. (LO: 4I 5A )
 
Note: LO refers to the Learning Outcome number(s) which link to the competency and the levels: N – Introductory, I – Intermediate and A - Advanced.

 Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for further information on the Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers and course level mapping information
 

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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