Electrical & Electronics Engineering - 00108
 Periods/Week   Periods in one
Session 		 Full
 Marks 		  Annual 
Exam		  Internal 
Exam
L T P/S
3 0 0 60 100 80 20

 

Rationale and Objective

 

The subject forms the foundation of electrical and electronics engineering. It prepares the students to familiarize with basic concepts and principles of electrical and electronics as these are encountered in every large and small installations of each type of industries. The diploma holders will be using machines and systems extensively which have electronics and electrical circuits inside. To understand their basic functioning, the students will be required to study the working principles, construction, characteristics, specifications and uses of basic devices and circuits.

 

Keeping in view the importance and relevance, this course has been developed and incorporated in the curriculum. The content has been divided into the following topics:

 

 CURRICULUM  
 Group-'A' : Electrical Engineering  
SL Topics Periods Marks
1. Electro-magnetism 07 10
2. D.C. Fundamentals 08 14
3. A.C. Fundamentals 09 14
4. Storage Batteries 04 11
5. Measuring Instruments 04
6. Power Supply 03
7. Electrical Lighting and Power Installation 03 06
8. Safety Procedures 02
  Total 40 55
 Group-'B' : Electronics Engineering  
1. Resistor and Colour Code 03 05
2. Semiconductor and Diode 05 10
3. Vaccum Tubes 02
4. Transistors 04 05
5. Field Effect Transistor 04
6. Digital Electronics 02 05
  Total 20 25

 

 CONTENTS
 Group-'A' : Electrical Engineering
 Topic  Contents Periods
 01 - Electro-Magnetism 07
01.01 Magnetic field due to current carrying straight conductor. Magnetic Flux, Flux density.  
01.02 Force on a moving charge and current in a Magnetic field. Force between two current carrying parallel conductors.  
01.03 Magnetic circuit, series and parallel, Reluctance. Analog between magnetic and electric circuits.  
01.04 Faraday's Laws of Electromagnetic Induction. Lenz's Law. Fleming's Right hand rule.  
01.05 Eddy current, its concept. Eddy Current Laws.  
01.06 Dynamically and Statically Induced E.M.F.  
01.07 Inductance: Self and mutual co-efficient of coupling.  
01.08 Energy stored in a magnetic field. Lifting power of an electromagnet.  
01.09 Related problems.  
 02 - D.C. Fundamentals 08
02.01 Ohm's law and Law of resistance. Concept of resistivity and conductivity, their units and dependence on temperature in a conductor.  
02.02 Kirchoff's voltage and current laws and their application in simple circuits.  
02.03 Star-delta transformation.  
02.04 Thevenin's theorem, Norton's theorem, Super position theorem, Maximum power transformer theorem.  
02.05 Related problems.  
02.06 D.C. Generators-construction, principle, types, characteristics and applications.  
02.07 D.C. Motors: Working principle, Type characteristic.  
02.08 Principle of Starter. Their uses and application.  
 03 - A.C. Fundamentals 09
03.01 Concept of Alternating current and voltage, difference between A.C. and D.C. concept of cycle, Frequency, period, amplitude, instantaneous value. Average value. R.M.S. value and peak value. Form Factor.  
03.02 Concept of Phase and Phase difference.  
03.03 Power in A. C. circuits and Power Factors.  
03.04 Alternating voltage applied to pure resistance, pure inductance and pure capacitance.  
03.05 Concept of Impedance, Impedance Triangle.  
03.06 Single Phase Circuit (R-L, R-C, R-L-C) series and Parallel Circuits, Calculation of Impedance, Current, Power Factor, Power and Voltage drop.  
03.07 Transformer: Principle, Construction and E.M.F. Equation.  
03.08 Core type and shell type shell type transformers. Transformer Ratio, efficiency and rating.  
03.09 Different type of Transformer - Auto-transformer and Welding transformer.  
03.10 Three phase Transformers: Connections, Star-Delta Transformation.  
03.11 Applications of Transformer.  
03.12 Induction Motor: Principle, Construction and Types.  
03.13 Different types of Starter and its connection to Induction Motor.  
03.14 Applications of Induction Motor.  
03.15 Alternators: Working Principle, Construction and Use, Speed and Frequency Relations.  
 04 - Storage Batteries 04
04.01 Cell: Primary and Secondary Cell.  
04.02 Construction of Lead Acid and Nickel and Alkaline cells.  
04.03 Capacity and rating.  
04.04 Operation and Maintenance of Battery.  
04.05 Study of Battery Charges.  
04.06 Connection of Batteries.  
 05 - Measuring Instruments 04
05.01 Classification of instruments. Construction and Principle of moving iron and moving instruments.  
05.02 Introduction and Application of Watt Meter.  
05.03 Introduction and Application of Frequency Meter.  
05.04 Introduction and Application of Power factor Meter.  
05.05 Uses of Multimeters.  
05.06 Introduction and Principle of Operation of Energy-Meters with Load:

  • Single-Phase Meters

  • Three-Phase Meters

  
 06 - Power Supply 03
06.01 Working principle of Constant Voltage Transformer (C.V.T.), Ratings.  
06.02 Working principle of Uninterrupted Power Supplies (U.P.S.) and their ratings.  
 07 - Electrical Lighting and Power installation 03
07.01 Electrical Lighting accessories like switches, sockets, distribution boards, Junction boxes, Fuse and others related with wiring, wire and cable type and characteristic.  
 08 - Safety Procedures 02
08.01 Effects of shocks and burns.  
08.02 Procedures to be adopted in case of electrical shocks.  
 Group-'B' : Electronics Engineering
 01 - Resistor and Colour Code 03
01.01 Definition, Introduction and application connection of Resistors, Condenser, Colour Code. Value calculation of resistors through colour code and tolerance.  
 02 - Semiconductor and Diodes 05
02.01 Conductors, Semiconductors, insulators, differences between them.  
02.02 Conduction in intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors. Concept of electrons and holes, Donor and acceptor impurities. P and N type semiconductors and their conductivity, effect of temperature on conductivity, drift and diffusion currents.  
02.03 P-N Junction diode, Forward and Reverse bias, characteristics of P-N Junction and effect of Temperature, Reverse breakdown voltage.  
02.04 Diode (P N Junction) as rectifier, Half wave, Full wave and Bridge rectifier.  
02.05 Zener Diode and its application.  
02.06 Photo Diodes.  
02.07 Light Emitting Diode.  
 03 - Vacuum Tubes 02
03.01 Introduction to Vacuum Tubes, Electron-Emission, types-in brief.  
03.02 Triodes, Tetrodes, Pentodes: Principles, operations and characteristics.  
 04 - Transistors 04
04.01 Concept of Bipolar Transistor, PNP and NPN Transistors, Transistor action, Transistor configurations, characteristics modes of operation.  
04.02 Transistor as an amplifier. Classification of Amplifiers, CB, CC and CE amplifiers, Input and Output character of amplifiers.  
04.03 Thermal stability, effect of Temperature, Stability factor, Transistor biasing, Collector to base bias, emitter bias, Voltage Divider Bias.  
04.04 Hybrid equivalent circuit for a bipolar Transistor, h-parameters, current gain, input impedance, voltage gain, output impedance, power gain.  
 05 - Field Effect Transistor 04
05.01 Classification, merits and demerits, basic construction, principles, operation, characteristics, equivalent circuit and its application.  
05.02 C.S., C.D. and C.G. Amplifiers, MOSFET: Characteristics and applications, Enhancement mode, Depletion mode.  
05.03 Comparison of JFET, MOSFET, BJT.  
05.04 S. C. R. Thyristor, Diacs, Triacs Integrated circuits (ICS) in brief.  
 06 - Digital Electronics 02
06.01 Basic ideas about:

  • Basic Gates

  • Adders

  • Converters

Familiarity with their application

  
06.02 Introductory concept of memories.  

 

 Recommended Books
SL Title Author/Publisher
1. Electrical Technology B. L. Threja/S. Chand & Co.
2. Electrical Technology Edward Hyghes
3. Basic Electrical Engineering P.S. Dhogal/McGraw Hill Publisher
4. Basic Electrical Engineering J. B. Gupta/S. K. Kataria & Sons
5. Basic Electricity B. R. Sharma/Staya Prakashan, N. Delhi
6. Electronic Principles Malvino/Tata McGraw Hill
7. Electronics & Radio Engineering M. L. Gupta
8. Basic Electronics V. K. Mehta/S. Chand & Co., New Delhi
9. Electronics Devices & Circuits Millman & Halkias/McGraw Hill
10. Basic Electronics & Linear Circuits N. N. Bhargava & Kulshreshta/Tata McGraw Hills
11. Basic Electronics Grob/Tata McGraw Hill
12. Digital Electronics and Application Malvino Leach/McGraw Hills, New Delhi
13. Introduction to Microprocessor Dr. B. Ram/ Fhanpat Ray & Sons

 

 Break-up of Marks
SL Types of Questions Percentage Marks Allotted Marks
1. Objective 10% 8
2. Short Answers 20% 16
3. Long Answers 50% 40
4. Numerical 20% 16
    Total 80

 
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