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

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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%).

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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
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