ENEL515 Electrical Principles A

Professor Peter Chong

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Office: WZ 1202
Phone: 09 921 9999 ext 6132
Email: peter.chong@aut.ac.nz
Consultation Time: Monday 1pm to 4pm
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 Chapter 1 – Introduction to EEE
(Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

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 Lecture Time Table

Time Location
Tue 12pm to 1pm WG403
Thurs 6pm to 7pm WG403

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 Lecturers
• Week 1 to Week 6
• Prof. Peter Chong
– Email: peter.chong@aut.ac.nz
– Office: WZ 1202
• Week 7 to Week 11
• Dr. Hakilo Sabit
– Email: hakilo.sabit@aut.ac.nz
– Office: WZ 1017
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 Recommended text book
• University Physics by Young and Feedman
– Young H.D. and Freedman R.A., University
Physics, 12th ed. Addison-Wesley, USA (2010)
• This book need not be bought.
• Multiple copies of this textbook are held in
the high demand collection for 2-hour loan.
• The library also holds hundreds of other
electrical engineering books, including more
than 300 e-books.
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 What to Learn from this course

• This course is designed to give an introduction to

the materials which all electrical/mechanical/built
environment/software engineers require.
• Fundamental principles of Electrical engineering
• Principles, theories and problems of
– Electrostatics
– Electromagnetics
– Electric circuits

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 To be covered
• Coulombs Law
• Gauss Law
• Ohms law
• Kirchhoffs Law
• Faradays Law
• Amperes Law
• Mutual inductance
• Magnetic circuits
• Circuits
• Transformer

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 Study Guideline
• The lecture notes will be a good guide to the
material throughout the course.
• Attending the lecture is necessary to pass this
paper.
• Problems discussed during the tutorial will be
really helpful for your final examination.
• Most of the work in understanding this course
must be done by students in their own time
• Try out many problems is the only way of finding
out to see if you really understand the material.

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 Assessment
Assessment Weighting (%)

Lab A total of 5 labs 25

Mid-term Test ~week 6 or 7 25

Final Exam Exam Week 50

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 Overall requirement to pass the paper
• To pass, the students needs to
– Achieve a minimum of 50% overall

 Final mark = 0.25 x Lab + 0.25 x Mid-term Test + 0.5 x Final Exam

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 Laboratory Experiments
• Laboratory- WS 421
• Lab experiments are compulsory.
• You must come to the assigned lab session according to
your Lab Group Number.
• You are not allowed to go to any other lab session other
than your allocated lab session.
• At the end of the lab you need to sign the attendance
sheet.
• Lab experiments are broken up into three sections.
– Part 1- Theory behind the experiment
– Part 2- Short written pre-test
– Part 3-A description of the lab experiment and the
procedure

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 Lab Assessment
• Before the lab
– Complete Lab Pre-test
• During the lab
– Record the results/observations of the lab
experiments in a paper sheet.
– Write a 1-page lab report based on the questions
from the Teaching Assistant (TA)
• End of the lab
– Submit 1) lab pre-test, 2) Lab results and 3) lab report
to the TA
• Note:
– Further instructions about lab procedures will be given in
the lab sessions.
– Bring scientific calculator
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ENEL515 Lab Schedule starting from Week 12 in Calendar
Week (Week 3 in Semester week) on 13 March, 2023
at WS421
(NOTE: 27 Feb 2023 – Week 10 in Calendar Week or Week 1 in semester week)
• ENEL515/01A belongs stream/group 01A
• Stream 01A – Week 13 (4), 15 (6), 19 (8), 21 (10), 23 (12); Fri 12pm-2pm
• Stream 02A – Week 12 (3), 14 (5), 18 (7), 20 (9), 22 (11); Fri 12pm-2m
• Stream 03A – Week 13 (4), 15 (6), 19 (8), 21 (10), 23 (12); Mon 2pm-4pm
• Stream 04A – Week 12 (3), 14 (5), 18 (7), 20 (9), 22 (11); Mon 2pm-4pm
• Stream 05A – Week 13 (4), 15 (6), 19 (8), 21 (10), 23 (12); Thurs 3pm-5pm
• Stream 06A – Week 12 (3), 14 (5), 18 (7), 20 (9), 22 (11); Thurs 3pm-5pm
• Stream 07A – Week 13 (4), 15 (6), 19 (8), 21 (10), 23 (12); Wed 10am-12am
• Stream 08A – Week 12 (3), 14 (5), 18 (7), 20 (9), 22 (11); Wed 10am-12am
• Stream 09A – Week 13 (4), 15 (6), 19 (8), 21 (10), 23 (12); Thurs 12pm-2pm
• Stream 010A – Week 12 (3), 14 (5), 18 (7), 20 (9), 22 (11); Thurs 12pm-2pm

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 Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)
at
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)

• BE (Hon) Majors in
– Electrical & Electronic Engineering
– Software Engineering

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 Engineering Profession
• Job Satisfaction
• Challenging Work
• Creative Thinking
• Variety of Career Opportunities
• Financial Security
• Intellectual Development

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 Electrical Engineering
Focuses on the design, implementation and
maintenance of power and utility systems.

• Power systems engineer

• Control system engineer
• Lighting and building service
engineer

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 Electronic Engineering
• Provides a solid grounding in electronic
engineering circuits

• Electronics engineer
• Embedded system engineer
• Software engineer

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 Computer/Mobile/Network Engineering

Builds the skills in development, operation and

maintenance of software and hardware, and
their application to mobile communications
devices, embedded systems and networks.

• Computer systems engineer

• Software engineer
• Apps Development
• Network design engineer
• Telecommunication engineer

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 Basic Units
• To work in an electrical lab you must be able
to use the basic electrical equipment and deal
with the basic units.

• Voltage (The Volt; V)

• Current (The Ampere; A)
• Resistance (The Ohm; Ω)
• Power (The Watt; W)
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 Voltage - volts (V)
• Change in energy (J) per unit charge (C)as a
electric charge passes through a circuit from one
point to the other
• Volts=Joules/Coulomb
• The units of voltage are volts (V). 1V = 1J/C.
• Voltage measured between two points

Across the terminals

battery resistor
voltmeter V Parallel to the DUT
(Device under test)

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 Current- amperes (A)
• Current is a measure of how many charges
(C) passing a point per second (s).
• The units of current are amperes (A).
• 1A = 1C/s
• To measure ampere we must break into the
circuit and insert the ammeter

battery Through a point

resistor

ammeter
Series to the DUT

A
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 Resistance- Ohms (Ω)
• Resistance is a measure of how much voltage
is required to drive one amp about a circuit.
• Ohms Law R= V/I
• Ohms are measured with an ohmmeter, Ω,
with all other supplies disconnected.

ohmmeter Ω resistor

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 Power – watts (W)
• Power (W) is a measure of how much energy (J)is
transferred into the circuit each second (s)
• Power is related to current and voltage through
Energy( Joules ) Charge(Coloumb) Energy( Joules )
Power = VI = =
Charge(Coloumb) Time( Seconds) Time( Seconds)

Energy (J) = Power (W) x Time (s)

• Energy-the ability to do work
• Power- how fast work can be done

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 Other useful units

Quantity Unit
Length meter, m
mass kilogram, kg
time second, s

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 Multiples and Sub-multiples

Prefix Symbol Multiplier Power of Ten

Mega M 1,000,000 106
kilo k 1,000 103
none none 1 100
centi c 1/100 10-2
milli m 1/1,000 10-3
micro µ 1/1,000,000 10-6
nano n 1/1,000,000,000 10-9
pico p 1/1,000,000,000,000 10-12

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End of Chapter 1

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