5 ECTS credits
140 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1018513ANR for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen
Department
Industriële ingenieurswetenschappen
Educational team
Jan Lemeire (course titular)
Jurgen Vandendriessche
Thibaut Vandervelden
Activities and contact hours
30 contact hours Lecture
21 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Lecture:
The theoretical part of Basic Electronics includes an introduction to combinatorial digital electronics and an introduction to analog electronics. The course discusses the following topics :

Part I: Digital electronics

  • Introduction to digital electronics
  • Number systems and codes
  • Boole variables and Boolean Functions
  • Minimization of Boolean Functions
  • Combinatorial circuits
  • Standard digital gates
  •  Adder circuits
  •  A bit adders : half adder
  •  Full adder
  •  Ripple adder ( multi-bit adders )
  •  Arithmetic functions
  •  BCD adders
  •  Comparators ( compare )
  •  Logical operations
  •  Parity generator checker
  •  Decoder / demultiplexer
  •  Data selector / multiplexer
  •  Encoder

Part II : Analog Electronics

  • Applications, history and economical aspects
  • Electronic components and semiconductor material
  • Diode: definition, circuits and applications
  • Introduction MOSFET, JFET and bipolar junction transistor

Laboratory practicals:

The laboratory practicals support the theoretical course. The practicals should be prepared beforehand and are carried out independently by the student. The content includes an introduction to the use of electronic basic instruments such as probes, function generator, digital oscilloscope, volt meter and current meter.
Introduction to design and implementation of basic digital circuits starting from logic gates on breadboard. Experiments are focussed on passive networks and measurement of the characteristic of analogue components, such as the diode and the bipolar junction transistor. As a project, the students have to implement a basic electronica system by making use of the basic components.

Course material
Course text (Required) : Basiselektronica, Deel 1: Beginselen van de analoge elektronica, Touhafi - Lemeire, VUB, 2220170006789, 2019
Course text (Required) : Basiselektronica, Deel 2: Inleiding tot de digitale elektronica, Touhafi - Lemeire, VUB, 2220170006901, 2019
Handbook (Recommended) : Contemporary Logic Design, R.H. Katz en G. Borriello, 2de, Prentice Hall, 9780201308570, 2004
Course text (Required) : Basiselektronica, Practicumnota’s, Verbelen, VUB, 2220170008844, 2021
Additional info

Description tutoring: after class, by appointment or via e-mail.

Learning Outcomes

objectives

D1: can minimize a Boolean function by use of Karnaugh-map (BaLO 1, 2)
D2: can designs basic digital circuits such as adders , comparators , multiplexers and demultiplexers , parity generators and parity checker circuits (BaLO 1, 2)
D3: can recognize simple analog electronics schematics with passive components and explain their function (BaLO 1, 2)
D4: can explain , model and recognize the operation of a diode and a transistor (BaLO 1, 2)
D5: can build, design and characterize simple digital and analog circuits (BaLO 1, 2)
D6: can design electronic circuits , experiments and measurements and describe them in a scientifically sound report (BaLO 5, 11)

AD1: reasons and acts in a structured and systematic manner (BaLO 9)
AD2: communicates in Dutch in a comprehensible and structured manner (BaLO 10, 11)
AD3: develops a professional attitude  (BaLO 9, 10, 13)

Learning Outcomes

  • BaLO_1 To possess in-depth, application-oriented knowledge, understanding and practical skills related to mathematics and science, directed towards engineering applications.
  • BaLO_2 To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills about engineering sciences and engineering techniques.
  • BaLO_5 To effectively look up scientific and technical information, to evaluate and process such information and to refer to it correctly.
  • BaLO_9 To demonstrate an engineering attitude: attention to planning, to technical, economic and societal factors as well as managerial implications, assessment of the risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, being result-driven and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
  • BaLO_10 To correctly handle the scientific and discipline-specific terminology in language relevant to the programme.
  • BaLO_11 To present and communicate the results of technical and scientific work, in writing, orally and visually.
  • BaLO_13 To act in an ethical and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Other Exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: Exam time 1st session:
    Lecture: written exam: 65% (not transferred to 2nd session)
    Laboratory practicals: execution and reports: 35% (transferred to 2nd session if 12/20 or more)
    Exam time 2nd session:
    Lecture: written exam: 65%
    Laboratory practicals: execution and reports: 35%

    Not observing the laboratory regulations during the preparation, execution and/or reporting of the practicum, may result in a zero for the considered practicum.

Additional info regarding evaluation

An illegitimate absence of more than 25 % at the laboratory practicals leads to an absent quotation for the laboratory practicals. The sanctions taken in the first exam session are transferred to the second exam session.

       

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Startplan (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Electromechanical Engineering (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Electronics-ICT Engineering (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: verkort traject elektronica-ICT na vooropleiding prof. bachelor toegepaste informatica (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Engineering Technology: Electromechanical Engineering: Trajoctory after the certificate of civil airplane pilot. (only offered in Dutch)