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ENME Undergraduate Course Description: ENME 350

For more information about the Undergraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, contact: Dr. Sami Ainane Director of Undergraduate Programs ainane@umd.edu

ENME 350- Electronics and Instrumentation I
Mechanical Engineering

Designation: Required

Course Description:

Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Corequisites: PHYS 270. Modern instrumentation. Basic circuit design, standard microelectronic circuits. Digital data data acquisition and control. Signal conditioning. Instrumentation interfacing. Designing and testing of analog circuits. Laboratory experiments.

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 270

Textbooks

• Introduction to Electrical Engineering , by J.D. Irwin and D.V. Kerns, Prentice Hall

Course Objectives

In this course, the student will develop and/or refine the following areas of knowledge:

• Use electronic systems to measure, detect or monitor mechanical systems
  
• Assemble off-the –shelf circuits into electronic systems for a specific task
  
• Specify, identify, purchase and evaluate electronic systems for a specific task
  
• Design and build simple electronic circuits to facilitate the use of off-the-shelf instruments
  
• Communicate with electronic engineers in the same technical team

Topics Covered

• Circuit components
  
• Circuit analysis
• Circuit applications
• Linear components
• Transistors
• Diodes
• Operational Amplifiers
  
• Digital circuits
  
• Introduction microcomputers
  

Class/Laboratory Schedule

• Lecture Two one-hour lectures per week
  
• Discussion One two hour group discussion per week
  
• Design studios One two hour session every two weeks
  
• Laboratory workshop One 2 hour lab session every two weeks

Contribution to professional component

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component:
This course does not intend to train electronic engineers. Instead, it teaches key knowledge and skills in electronics that are required by mechanical engineers in modern industrial setting.

Relationship to program outcomes

This is usually the first electronics course to a large proportion of the class. ENME 350 emphasizes electronic components and circuits that assemble instrument systems, while its sister course, ENME 351 “Electronics and Instrumentation II” focuses on instruments that measure key physical parameters and the interpretation of measurement results.

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