The aim of this module is to introduce the learner to electronic, electrical and instrumentation laboratory and workshop practices and provide the learner with the knowledge and skills required to produce engineering drawings
Workshop and Laboratory Safety
Risk assessment and identification. Personal protective equipment (PPE). Safe use of electrical and hand tools. Introduction to electrical safety. Basic first aid procedures.
Workshop and Laboratory Projects
Project planning: project sketches and drawings, selection and quantification of materials, selection of tools, safety planning. Project implementation: fabrication/assembly techniques, precision measurement, cutting, drilling, tapping and threading, filing, soldering, cable termination. Project testing: functionality tests, fault finding, use of electronic and mechanical test equipment.
Conventional Drafting Principles
Current international drawing standards. Drawing instruments and their use. Graphical symbols for electrical and electronic circuits, standard methods of presentation, reference designation, power supply data, terminal marking Conventions relating to electrical and electronic drawing including drawing scales; sheet sizes and layouts; line types and widths and text types; Dimensioning.
Computer Aided Drawing
Introduction to CAD: Setting up the user interface, Workspace, Toolbars, Working with files, View commands, Naming views. Basic Drawing: Lines, Circles, Polylines, Rectangles, Polygons, Ellipse, Arc. Drawing aids, Polar snap, Cartesian/Polar Coordinate systems. Object snap tools, Relative positioning. Editing: Selection methods , Offset, Mirror, Move, Copy, Rotate, Stretch, Trim, Extend, Scale, Lengthen, Chamfer, Fillet, Array, Join, Polyline editing, Grip editing. Drawing Properties: Colours, Linetypes, Lineweights, Layer use, Layer Management, Layer tools. Properties Palette. Annotation Methods: Text Style Formatting, Single Line Text, Multiline text Processing. Dimension methods: Dimension styles, Editing Dimensions. Hatching/Blocks: Creating and inserting blocks/hatching in an electrical drawing. Use of relevant CAD commands such as Hatch styles, Create Patterns, Edit hatches, Associative hatching, Gap tolerance, Using blocks. Printing/Plotting: Print drawings to scale, Create layout views for plot management.
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |