6 ECTS credits
170 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1017580BNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Studenten die dit opleidingsonderdeel opnemen, moeten geslaagd zijn minstens 30 ECTS-credits op bachelorniveau. Students who want to enroll for this course, must have obtained at least 30 ECTS-credits on bachelor level.
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
and involved faculties/organizations
- Electronics and Informatics
Applied Physics and Photonics
- Educational team
- Jürgen Van Erps
Colas Schretter
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 39 contact hours Lecture
13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
118 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
Part I: Electricity and electronics
- Analog electronics
- Introduction to electricity and electronics
- Basic elements: charge, current, resistors, sources
- Basic concepts for DC network analysis: KCL, KVL, graphical solutions, superposition, D-Y transformation, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, Application in the biomedical domain
- Basics of electronic components: diodes, transistors
- Basic concepts of for AC network analysis: components: capacitors, inductors, AC sources; Filter circuits: frequency domain representation, Bode plots;
- Electricity for power application
- The operational amplifier: the ideal black box model, operational amplifier circuits, feedback,
- Digital electronics:
- Binary number representations (unsigned integers, one’s-complement, two’s-complement, extend-N, floating point) and operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
- Digital gates (AND, OR, NAND …);
- Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, circuit equivalence;
- Basic logic circuits (multiplexer, decoder, comparator, shifter, half- and full adder, simple ALU);
- Memory circuits (latches, flip flops, registers, memory organisation, SRAM, DRAM, flash memory) and memory buses;
- Register transfers and logic circuits;
- 1-bus simple risk architecture and pipelining concept;
- Memory architecture.
Part II: photonics
- Introduction to photonics
- Interaction of light and matter: scattering, interference, dispersion
- Light wave propagation: reflection, refraction
- Geometric optics: lenses and ray tracing
- Lasers: operation principles, construction, characteristics
- Photodetectors and photovoltaics: operation principles, characteristics
- Photonics applications
- Light sources, including (O)LEDs and lasers
- Optical data storage
- Optical fiber telecommunication, including attenuation and dispersion in fibers
- Optical fiber sensors
- Imaging sensors
- Displays
- Spectroscopy
- Metal coatings
- Wavefront sensing and adaptive optics
- Lenses and lens fabrication for imaging and non-imaging applications
- Solar cells
- Course material
- Practical course material (Required) : Cursusnota en slides
- Additional info
Explanation of the teaching methods
- Hoorcollege (HOC): collective contact moment during which the lecturer treats the course content
- Working formats and practical exercise sessions (WPO): collective and individual contact moments whereby the student deals with the course content and guided by the teaching personnel
- Indepent study and activity (ZELF): contactless activities
Onderstaande werkvormberekening is indicatief en geeft een aanduiding van de te verwachten studiebelasting
HOC: 38 uur (19 x 2 uur)
WPO: 10 uur (5 x 2 uur)
ZELF: 118 uur
- keep track of the course during the semesterr: 77 hours
- pro rato of 3 hours per HOC: 57 hours
- about 2 hours per WPO: 20 hours
- preparation of the exam: 40 hours (5 days of 8 hours)
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
The course is meant as an introduction to the technological principles and applications of electricity, electronics and photonics. Within this course, a short overview of the broad domain of electricity, electronics and photonics is given with the intention to convey to the student an understanding of the operation, possibilities and the importance of electric, electronic and photonic technologies and their applications, which are introduced through technological examples.
The student is expected to have a mainly qualitative insight in the basic operation and applications of electricity, electronics and photonics.
An English-Dutch glossary with the most important terms is included on Canvas which can help in understanding the course material.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Electricity/Electronics
with a relative weight of 66
which comprises 66% of the final mark.
- Photonics
with a relative weight of 34
which comprises 34% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Grading
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark. Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Electricity/Electronics with a relative weight of 66 which comprises 66% of the final mark.
- Photonics with a relative weight of 34 which comprises 34% of the final mark.
Additional info regarding evaluation
Written exam, open book. Only course material on paper is allowed for the open book exam. Part I (electricity, electronics) counts for 66%, Part II (photonics) is 34% in the end-result.
- 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 Business Engineering: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Accountancy-fiscaliteit of Financie- en verzekeringswezen (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Logistiek Management of Professionele bachelor toegepaste informatica (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Marketing (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Industriële wetenschappen of Ingenieurswetenschappen (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Business and Technology
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Business Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Business Engineering: Business and Technology: Default track