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Syllabus for Junior Manager (Diploma Level) INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING Basic Electrical Circuits: Voltage and current sources: independent, dependent, ideal and practical. Resistors, Capacitors & Inductors: types, rating and v-I relationships; transients in RLC circuits. Kirchoff’s laws, mesh and nodal analysis, superposition, Thevenin, Norton, maximum power transfer and reciprocity theorems; Peak, average and rms values of ac quantities; apparent, active and reactive powers; phasor concepts, series and parallel resonance, Q-factor, basic filters with R, L and C elements. Two-port networks: Z and Y parameters. Analog Electronics: Intrinsic & extrinsic semiconductor, PN junction diode and its application, principles and uses of special purpose diodes (Zener diode, LED, Varistor diode, photo diode, solar cell). Characteristics and applications BJT and MOSFET, small signal analysis of transistor circuits, different classes of amplifiers, feedback amplifiers, oscillators. Characteristics and applications of operational amplifiers. Digital Electronics: Different types of number systems, logic gates, Boolean algebra: DeMorgan’s theorem, simplification of Boolean expressions, K-map, multiplexers, combinational logic circuits, arithmetic circuits. Flip flops, sequential circuits: registers and counters. Analog to digital and digital to analog converters, memory devices. Microprocessors: Overview of a microcomputer system, architecture of a typical 8-bit microprocessor, Intel 8085 microprocessor: functional units, control signals, memory organization, programming 8085 microprocessor, Interfacing concepts: memory and I/O mapped I/O, interfacing to peripheral chips (such as Intel 8255, 8251, 8253, 8254, 8279 and 8257), Microprocessor application. Basic Electrical and Electronic Measurements: SI units, errors in measurement, accuracy and precision, propagation of errors. PMMC, MI and dynamometer type instruments; dc potentiometer; bridges for measurement of R, L and C, Q-meter. Measurement of voltage, current and power in single and three phase circuits; ac and dc current probes; true rms meters, voltage and current scaling, instrument transformers, timer/counter, time, phase and frequency measurements, digital voltmeter, digital multimeter; oscilloscope, shielding and grounding. Process Control: Control system: different types, ideal process control loop, Laplace transform, LTI system, transfer function, standard test signals, stability analysis: Routh’s stability criterion, mathematical modelling of control systems, control elements, controller mechanism: P, PI, PD and PID, digital controller, PLC. Instrumentation system: Performance characteristics of instrument system, Sensors and transducers: Resistive, capacitive, inductive, piezoelectric, bellows, diaphragm, capsules; different types of converters; Measurement of temperature, pressure, flow, level; basics of telemetry. Industrial Electronics: Characteristics of Power diodes, power transistors and thyristors; single and three phase rectifiers, controlled rectifiers; inverters, choppers, speed control of DC and AC motors, power supplies; induction and dielectric heating. Biomedical Instrumentation: Biometrics, components of biomedical instrument systems, transducers for biomedical instrument systems, different types of bio-electric potential, bio potential electrodes, cardio vascular measurements, imaging system: X-ray, MRI and ultrasonography.
