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Electrical Engineering Technology – Control Systems |
School of Applied Technology |
2012/2013 Program AvailabilityNorth Fall: Open Winter: Open |
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Type:
Advanced Diploma
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Campus:
North
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Program Code:
30101 |
Length: Two semesters, beginning in September |
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CONTACT INFORMATION: Dr. Tarsem Sharma, program co-ordinator | 416.675.6622 ext. 5060 | tarsem.sharma@humber.ca
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Humber’s Electrical Engineering Technology – Control Systems advanced diploma program blends in-class, academic learning with hands-on laboratory work for a thorough and practical approach to the control of electrical equipment and industrial process instrumentation in automated manufacturing, processing, power systems, and utilities industries. Complex and challenging project work prepares you for the realities of a control systems engineering career.
Studies centre on motion and motor control, instrumentation and programmable logic controllers (PLCs), electronics, power generation, transmission and distribution, power system design, and human machine interface (HMI) design and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Superior mathematics, physics and critical thinking skills will be essential to your success. With a heavy programming software component, strong computer skills are also an asset.
The Electrical Engineering Technology program builds upon the solid technical foundation of the technician program. The technology graduate is prepared to enter a wider range of careers. The skills first learned in the technicial program are enhanced through project based learning and increased hands-on practice in the labs.
The Electrical Engineering Technology – Control Systems program has met national technology accreditation requirements as defined by the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists (CCTT) and has received national accreditation status by the Canadian Technology Accreditation Board (CTAB).
The Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) recognizes the Electrical Engineering Technology program as meeting the academic requirements for certification in the technologist category. Graduates must apply to OACETT to become a registered member. After the application is received OACETT will begin the process of awarding the CET status.
In today’s high-tech manufacturing and process industries, everything we produce and everywhere we work and live is touched by electrical control systems technologies. Explore the career opportunities open to a technologist in the fields of manufacturing, process control, utility and servicing.
Humber’s Electrical Engineering Technology – Control Systems advanced diploma graduates find work as technologists, designing, maintaining, servicing or selling automated industrial, electrical machines, electrical control, power and process instrumentation systems and equipment. We have a consistently high graduate placement rate.
Note: For more information visit Selection Procedures.
Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission to the program.
Fees
Rewarding opportunities are available to those with specialized training in modern industrial equipment, which integrates the electrical engineering technology and instrumentation areas. This advanced co-op diploma program provides an academic and practical approach to the control of electrical equipment and industrial process instrumentation in automated manufacturing, processing, power systems, and utilities industries.
Electrical Engineering Technology - Control Systems is a challenging and stimulating program with study tracks centering on:
The Electrical Controls program is a blend of traditional classroom learning augmented by hands on laboratory work. The Electrical Controls program is rich with opportunities for hands on learning but requires students to have a good grasp of mathematics and physics to ensure success. Likewise, given the intensive use of programming software's in this program, a familiarity with computers is also important to student success. In addition, students use modern industrial equipment in their projects. Some of the courses studied include:
Qualified graduates of this program may be eligible to apply their academic credits toward further study at many postsecondary institutions. For detailed information, visit our website at humber.ca/transferguide.
The 2011/2012 fee for two semesters was
– domestic $3,587.08
– international $12,200.
Amounts listed are the total of tuition, lab and material fees, student service and auxiliary fees for the first two semesters of the 2011/2012 academic year.
Fees are subject to change.
For more information visit Fees and Financial Assistance.
Students must purchase Electronics Work Bench software, lab kit, and a digital multimeter.
“As an Electrical Technician, Humber’s program will allow me to increase my skills and abilities to take on a technologist role. The learning experience is practical and applies to real situations.”
Thura
Hibar Systems Limited
“I am currently enrolled in the 5th semester of the Electrical Engineer – Control Systems program. The student-teacher ratio is very good. All the professors have industrial experience and they provide us with valuable insights into the industrial work environment.”
Agampreet
International Student from India
“Thanks to the reputation of HumberCollege's Electrical Control Systems program, I was able to find a job with the world's fourth largest electrical company."
Ali
Business Developer, Siemens
“As an Electrical Technician, Humber’s program will allow me to increase my skills and abilities to take on a technologist role. The learning experience is practical and applies to real situations.”
Thura
Hibar Systems Limited
“I am currently enrolled in the 5th semester of the Electrical Engineer – Control Systems program. The student-teacher ratio is very good. All the professors have industrial experience and they provide us with valuable insights into the industrial work environment.”
Agampreet
International Student from India
“Thanks to the reputation of HumberCollege's Electrical Control Systems program, I was able to find a job with the world's fourth largest electrical company."
Ali
Business Developer, Siemens
Semester 1 | ||
| Course Code | Course | Credits |
| COMM 213 | Technical Communications 1Technical Communications 1Course Code: COMM 213 Credits: 3 This course is designed to develop the writing skills that will be required for clear communication in technical documents. Students will learn write documents that are clear, accurate, and grammatically correct.
Students will practice reading and writing skills that will be valuable in their college programs and build a strong base for professional technical and business writing. Those students who plan to further their studies will develop the fundamental skills for writing acceptable academic English.
To help students reach these goals, the course covers the following: analytical reading and critical thinking; the organization and development of expository and persuasive essays; and the elements of clear writing, including grammar and punctuation skills. 3 | 3 |
| TECH 101 | Electric CircuitsElectric CircuitsCourse Code: TECH 101 Credits: 4 An introductory course on basic concepts of voltage, current flow and resistance leads to the analysis of series, parallel, and series-parallel circuits. Classical circuit theorems are introduced to calculate the current or voltage in resistive networks. Power and efficiency are studied. Sinusoidal waves and their characteristics are introduced. Capacitors are studied in a simple DC environment. Complementary laboratory work includes the use of multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and signal generators. | 4 |
| TECH 103 | Digital FundamentalsDigital FundamentalsCourse Code: TECH 103 Credits: 4 This course provides students with a structured approach to learning the principles and practical applications of digital electronics used in computers, communications equipment and control systems. Through a balanced series of lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions, the student will acquire a solid foundation in digital electronics, including gates, binary numbers, flip-flops, counters, display devices, and applications of Boolean algebra. The student is responsible for purchasing electronics parts kit containing all the components necessary to complete the laboratory experiments. The same kit will be used in other and subsequent courses/semesters. | 4 |
| TECH 104 | Programming FundamentalsProgramming FundamentalsCourse Code: TECH 104 Credits: 4 The students learn to develop logic to write structured programs. Different engineering and technology problems and issues are presented in the course and the students learn to analyze and develop solutions to these problems. These solutions may then be implemented as applications in structured programming approach. In this course the basics of programming languages are introduced. The learners will select the appropriate data type to store and process data and will also learn to generate the formatted output display. They learn to design, develop and implement the solutions of the problems based on the conditions and criteria defined in the problem using the control structures, conditional statements and simple arrays. They also learn to use a modular approach of writing structured programs using functions. | 4 |
| TECH 105 | Technology FoundationsTechnology FoundationsCourse Code: TECH 105 Credits: 2 This course prepares learners for the nontechnical aspects of careers in engineering technologies, addressing topics that include project management, effective presentation and communication skills, application of engineering principles to the learner’s specific program area, and ethics and professionalism in engineering technologies. Concepts will be presented within the context of the industry specific to the learner’s program area, and learners will acquire competencies by engaging in a variety of activities that may include working as part of a team, group participation, peer evaluation, blended learning, group presentations, online and in-class participation and research. | 2 |
| TMAT 104 | Math 1Math 1Course Code: TMAT 104 Credits: 4 The student will demonstrate basic mathematical skills, and be able to apply them in specific applications in numerical computation of basic arithmetic operations, fundamental concepts of algebra and operations, simple equations and formulas, functions and graphs, factors and factoring, fractions and fractional equations, ratio proportion and variation, exponents and radicals, exponential and logarithmic functions, angles, right triangles, trigonometric and sinusoidal functions, and complex numbers. | 4 |
Semester 2 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| COMM 313 | Technical Communications 2Technical Communications 2Course Code: COMM 313 Credits: 3 This course is designed to reinforce and expand on the skills students learned in Technical Communications 1. In Technical Communications 2, students will learn to design and write informal reports and a variety of other technical documents, using appropriate research, language, layout, and graphics. | 3 |
| TECH 150 | Electronic Devices and CircuitsElectronic Devices and CircuitsCourse Code: TECH 150 Credits: 4 This course is an introduction to semiconductors, including the diode family, the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and the field effect transistor (FET). Applications of these devices are examined including the full-wave capacitor filtered rectifier, the BJT and FET switch and both small signal and power BJT amplifiers. | 4 |
| TECH 155 | Electrical CADDElectrical CADDCourse Code: TECH 155 Credits: 3 To use AutoCAD 2010 software to prepare 2D engineering drawings for electrical control systems to industry standards, using established procedures and practices. | 3 |
| TECH 156 | AC CircuitsAC CircuitsCourse Code: TECH 156 Credits: 4 This course covers the fundamental laws and basic concepts governing the behaviour of sinusoidal alternating current circuits. The effect of resistance, inductance and capacitance in series and parallel AC circuits is analyzed, and the circuits are studied for the application of the devices as active and passive filters. An introduction to the transformer is studied for use in power circuits, electronic circuits and signal coupling. Complimentary laboratory work includes the use of analog and digital voltmeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies and signal generators. | 4 |
| TECH 157 | Process InstrumentsProcess InstrumentsCourse Code: TECH 157 Credits: 4 The course deals with the construction, operation, maintenance and safety features of process instrumentation for mainly non-electrical measurement of process pressure, level, temperature and flow. All instruments will be referenced to specific industrial drawings. The appropriate Instrument Society of America symbols will be used throughout the course. | 4 |
| TMAT 203 | Math 2Math 2Course Code: TMAT 203 Credits: 3 The student will demonstrate basic mathematical skills as applied to oblique triangles and vectors; sinusoidal functions and complex numbers, trigonometric identities and equations; systems of linear equations; determinants and matrices; quadratic and radical equations; curve sketching and systems of quadratic equations. | 3 |
Semester 4 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| ELEC 305 | AC Equipment 1AC Equipment 1Course Code: ELEC 305 Credits: 4 An introduction to the operating principles, of single-phase and three-phase power transformers, and single-phase induction motors. Calculations to determine performance and efficiency are included. Standard engineering symbols and drawings will be used for control and power diagrams. The Canadian Electrical Code will be utilized and emphasized throughout the course to reinforce safety standards, practices and procedures. A common theme throughout the course will be the importance of standards used by approval agencies such as CSA, UL, FM, IEC and CE for electrical equipment. Students will use manufacturers? catalogues, specifications and performance data whenever possible. | 4 |
| ELEC 308 | Automatic Controls: IntroductionAutomatic Controls: IntroductionCourse Code: ELEC 308 Credits: 4 The course will provide the participant with a working knowledge of process control concepts and terminology. Feedback, Cascade and Ratio control applications will be studied. Open and closed loop analysis will assist the student in understanding the dynamics of a particular process application. Consideration of the interaction between the process signal transmitter, final control element, controller and the process will be made throughout the course. Students will learn the principles of all controller modes namely: on-off, differential gap, proportional, integral, and derivative. Standard controller tuning methods will be applied to each loop for optimum operation. Students will use ISA (Instrument Society of America) symbols and for process and instrument diagrams.
Given process conditions students will determine control valve sizing by calculation and program software for both liquid and gas applications. Fisher controls valve sizing formulas and data will be used during the course. Fail safe practices will be utilised at all times for the design and selection of process control equipment. | 4 |
| ELEC 315 | Fundamentals of Power Distribution and Circuit AnalysisFundamentals of Power Distribution and Circuit AnalysisCourse Code: ELEC 315 Credits: 3 This course is an introduction to the fundamental theory of medium and low voltage power distribution and the circuit analyses techniques. The concept of electric transient phenomena in electrical systems is introduced. Mesh and nodal voltage analysis methods together with ac complex wave form simulation are discussed in this course. | 3 |
| ELEC 318 | Industrial Electronics and SensorsIndustrial Electronics and SensorsCourse Code: ELEC 318 Credits: 3 This course is an introduction to the fundamental theory of medium and low voltage power distribution and the circuit analyses techniques. The concept of electric transient phenomena in electrical systems is introduced. Mesh and nodal voltage analysis methods together with ac complex wave form simulation are discussed in this course. | 3 |
| ELEC 502 | Advanced Programmable Logic ControllersAdvanced Programmable Logic ControllersCourse Code: ELEC 502 Credits: 3 This course is designed to expand the student?s knowledge and use of the advanced addressing and features of PLCs, referenced to IEC 61131 programming standards.
The course will introduce the student to the use of multiple user files within the processor memory, data manipulation and analog signals complete with scaling. The student will program, monitor and troubleshoot application programs in the discrete and analog configurations.
Computer software will be used throughout the course for configuration, development, editing, documentation and monitoring of the application programs. Programming logic controllers to be studied are: Allen-Bradley Compact Logix and SLC series, Omron CJ1M. | 3 |
| HUMA 024 | Humanities: An Introduction to Arts and ScienceHumanities: An Introduction to Arts and ScienceCourse Code: HUMA 024 Credits: 3 The Humanities course focuses on fundamental questions individuals ask of themselves as they proceed through life. Why are we the way we are? Do we have free will or are we prisoners of our past experience or our biological inheritance? What motivates societies to change? Why do societal changes so often divide people into opposing camps? Why do so many people find contemporary life at home, at work, and in the community unfulfilling? What constitutes good government? How should injustice be fought? Can nations successfully deal with global problems? What is science and how does it differ from other kinds of inquiry? Can scientists provide solutions to the problems we face? What is art and does it offer answers of its own? What is its relationship to beauty, to knowledge, and to ethics? Is objectivity about art (or anything) possible? These questions are organized into units that begin with issues concerning the nature of the individual and then extend outward to various social, cultural and physical contexts.
The issues explored in this course are too complex to have any one right answer. Rather, individuals must search for answers that make sense of their experiences via various theoretical perspectives. The Humanities course supports this endeavour through study of different thinkers presented in the readings and exploration of different points of view explored in class discussions.
ESL students should consider taking the ESL Humanities course. Students may transfer into
ESL Humanities (HESL 024) either at the Registrar?s Office or the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Office (K201) on a first-come, first-served basis before the Last Day to Add. | 3 |
| CIVL 550 | Co-Op Work TermCo-Op Work TermCourse Code: CIVL 550 Credits: Students are encouraged to gain valuable work experience, by completing a paid work term following semester four. Students are responsible for finding a suitable placement (minimum 400 hours). The school provides a range of services, including work preparation workshops, to help students develop effective job search skills. The school also works with business and industry to identify employment opportunities for students. |
Semester 5 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| CALC 201 | Applied CalculusApplied CalculusCourse Code: CALC 201 Credits: 3 This course covers review of differentiation and integration, integration methods, first and second order differential equations, Laplace transforms, infinite series (Maclaurin, Taylor, Fourier), and applications. | 3 |
| ELEC 405 | Power SystemsPower SystemsCourse Code: ELEC 405 Credits: 4 This course covers the modelling of overhead and underground conductors and cables in the formation of transmission lines. Representation of transmission lines as a two-part network and its operation under various conditions. Representation of short, medium and long transmission lines and power flow through transmission lines. The major problems for a power system of: optimum economic operation, system stability, system protection, system quality and power factor correction are studied. | 4 |
| ELEC 503 | Control DesignControl DesignCourse Code: ELEC 503 Credits: 3 Prepare the engineering design drawings and documentation for the temperature control of a cooling water system. The cooling water system consists of two hydraulic loops using a single tank with a baffle to separate the hot side from the cold side. In the first loop, warm water is taken from the hot side of a tower tank and is cooled by the cooling towers, the cooled water is returned to the cold side of the tower tank. In the second loop, process pumps take cooling water from the cold side of the tower tank and deliver it to the plant where the water is heated by the process and returned to the hot side of the tower tank. The process water temperature and pressure is monitored by a programmable logic controller (PLC). The PLC is programmed to stop and start the pumps and fans to maintain the process water in the cold side of the tower tank at the desired temperature. The Process water pumps are also controlled by the PLC, which is programmed to stop and start the process pumps to maintain the process water at the desired pressure. The PLC is to be located inside the electrical control panel together with the motor starter?s fuses and other associated hardware.
The operator is able to monitor the process by a (human machine interface (HMI) located in the door of the electrical control panel. Each pump and motor will have a selector switch so that the operator can manually control the pumps and fans.
Students are required to use computer-aided drafting and design techniques to prepare these documents. | 3 |
| ELEC 507 | Power ElectronicsPower ElectronicsCourse Code: ELEC 507 Credits: 4 In this course power conversion from AC to DC, DC to AC, DC to DC, and AC to AC techniques are studied. These techniques include: high power rectification, switch-mode DC to DC converters, and pulse width modulation DC to AC inverters. AC voltage controller will also be studied. The application of power semiconductor devices to achieve these techniques is emphasized.
Computer simulation program called PSPICE will be used to model many of these techniques for lab applications. | 4 |
| ELEC 508 | Operator Interface, Design and ControlOperator Interface, Design and ControlCourse Code: ELEC 508 Credits: 4 This course will concentrate on the development and implementation of control strategies and interactive graphical displays for use with real-time control systems in applications with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), using both discrete and analog type signals.
The modules listed in the learning outcomes are generic for most human machine interface (HMI) software available today.
HMIs to be utilized are: Allen-Bradley PanelView and PanelView Plus, Omron NS Series
PLCs to be utilized are: Allen-Bradley Compact Logix and SLC series, Omron CJ1M
Software to be used: Rockwell RSView and PanelBuilder, Omron CX-One and OPC Server | 4 |
| ELEC 509 | Communications and PLC Network SystemsCommunications and PLC Network SystemsCourse Code: ELEC 509 Credits: 3 The course deals with the communication between computers and programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and between programmable logic controllers for system operation and control. The function of and operation of reading and writing between PLCs for use in industrial applications is analyzed and implemented. Communications between PLCs and computers through serial communications, data highways and the ethernet with various programming techniques will be addressed and applied with reference to IEC 61131-3 programming standards. Programming with discrete and analog signals will be implemented. Communication and network details of a DeviceNet Network will also be covered in this course.
Programmable Logic Controllers to be studied are: Allen-Bradley Compact Logix and SLC series, Omron CJ1M.
A comprehensive report, complete with all relevant drawings, schematics, costing and supporting data, including an oral presentation, will be required. Students are encouraged to work with an industry mentor to ensure need, relevance and currency. | 3 |
Semester 6 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| ELEC 404 | Control SystemsControl SystemsCourse Code: ELEC 404 Credits: 4 This course familiarizes students with various process control schemes and methodologies. After a thorough review of basic differential equations and their solution using the Laplace transform, the modeling of physical systems is pursued methodically. This leads to the development of transfer functions, block diagrams and the concepts of feedback, sensitivity, stability, time and frequency response and transient response of systems. The course concludes with frequency-response and root-locus analysis and design. Simulation of systems is emphasized throughout the course. The laboratory component includes extensive use of MATLAB and SIMULINK. | 4 |
| ELEC 606 | Technical ProjectTechnical ProjectCourse Code: ELEC 606 Credits: 2 A detailed technical study of a faculty approved project. The project must have an engineering (controls) focus, it must solve a problem and it must clearly demonstrate an understanding of the five elements of a good technical project, namely comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of the topic material. | 2 |
| ELEC 607 | Control Applications Using PLCsControl Applications Using PLCsCourse Code: ELEC 607 Credits: 3 The course consists of a series of practical programmable logic controllers (PLC) assignments of typical process and machine applications. Students will expand and apply the knowledge obtained in previous courses. Each assignment will require planning, design and development of both PLC program and operator interface screens. Students will apply established engineering practices and procedures throughout the course, with emphasis on equipment and personnel safety at all times.
Project testing will be accomplished by extensive use of emulation software. Students will use software commonly found in most Canadian industries. In all applications, preference will be given to the highest level of remote communications.
PLC/PAC to be used are: Allen-Bradley CompactLogix and ControlLogix, Allen-Bradley SLC and PLC5 series, Omron CJ1M, and GE Fanuc PLCs.
HMIs to be utilized are: Allen-Bradley PanelView Standard, PanelView Plus, Omron NS Series, and RSView32. | 3 |
| ELEC 608 | Variable Frequency Drives and Motor ControlsVariable Frequency Drives and Motor ControlsCourse Code: ELEC 608 Credits: 4 This course teaches the principles of operation of: the three-phase synchronous machines (alternator and motors), the three-phase induction machines, fundamentals of electric drives, and their control by using pulse width modulation, sine wave converter and generation of sine wave techniques. Electronic control of DC and AC machines in terms of frequency, voltage, current and torque control is also studied. | 4 |
| ELEC 609 | Power Distribution Protection and ControlPower Distribution Protection and ControlCourse Code: ELEC 609 Credits: 3 This course teaches the principles of power distribution in terms of protection and control, using the concept of protective devices such as relays, CTs, PTs, circuit breakers and current injection equipment. Current injection equipment is used to simulate opening of circuit breakers. Different protection types are taught including transformers, motors, feeders and generators. Arc flash concept is also introduced in this course. Easy power software is used to develop the concept. The software will allow the students to learn the computation of power flow, short circuit and protection device coordination for a given single line diagram by using either the data collected from various sources or from the data base developed by easy power, the provider of the software. | 3 |
| GNED 000 | General Education ElectiveGeneral Education ElectiveCourse Code: GNED 000 Credits: 3 The following courses represent the GNED General Education electives that you can choose from as part of your program's curriculum. Anthropology | 3 |
| TSTA 103 | Applied StatisticsApplied StatisticsCourse Code: TSTA 103 Credits: 3 This course provides an introduction to statistical theory and techniques with direct applications to established industrial practices of quality assurance and process control using a calculator and computer. Students will use descriptive statistics to collect, analyze, display and describe data. Probability is studied using discrete distributions (hypergeometric, binomial and Poisson), as well as the normal distribution. Hypothesis testing will be taught using Z and t tests. Students will learn to calculate and apply a regressions equation and a coefficient of correlation. A brief history of quality control will be covered and the student will learn about control charts. | 3 |
Semesters one, two, three and four are the same as the Electrical Engineering Technician – Control Systems program.
