Ministry of Education Test Blueprint for National Exit

Examination to be held in 2015 E.C

Program: - Program: [Link]. In Electro Mechanical Engineering

Prepared By:akiya misganew

1/1/2015

Debretabor,
Ethiopia
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1. Strength of Materials

General objective: - Calculate the induced stresses in a rigid body which is subjected to various
load and loading conditions; & determine the allowable strength of components subjected to
load.

Understanding and Application: - Basic concepts in mechanics of materials; (2)

Understanding: - Stability criteria of compression members; (1)

Application and Analysis:-Strength and deformation calculations of loaded members; (2)

Analysis and Evaluation: - Design methods of simple machine members. (2)

2. Fluid Mechanics

General objective: - provides basis for understanding fluid behavior for engineering design and
control of fluid systems and to determine resultant interactions of flows and engineered and
natural systems.

Remembering and Understanding: - (3)

 permits students to understand the basic concepts, principles, laws, observations, and
models of fluids at rest and in motion,
 Provides basis for understanding fluid behavior for engineering design and control of
fluid systems,
 Understand the principles of operation of flow measuring instruments, conduct
measurements, evaluate the data and draw conclusions
 Enables students learn methods for computing head losses and flows in simple pipes and
channels.

Application and Analysis :-( 2)

 Identify, formulate and solve engineering problems involving compressible fluid flows

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 Newtonian and no- Newtonian flows, Enables students to learn the nature of rotation,
circulation, resistance (viscous, turbulent), boundary layers, and separation with
applications to drag and lift on objects, and

Analysis and Evaluation: - (2)

 Helps students develop competence with mass, energy and momentum balances for
determining resultant interactions of flows and engineered and natural systems,
 Enables students develop bases for correlating experimental data, designing procedures,
and using scale models of fluid flows,

3. Engineering Thermodynamics

General objective: - Apply thermodynamic concepts to describe the performance of the

individual components of an engineering system, e.g. a power plant, a jet Engine, etc., and
then relate that information to the overall performance of.

Understanding: - Understand the relationship between thermodynamic systems; Properties;

Processes; Heat and work as articulated by the Laws of Thermodynamics; (2)

Application, Analysis and Evaluation: - (4)

 Apply the conservation of energy to thermodynamic systems

 Explain how Carnot cycle applies to heat engines and refrigeration cycles
 Apply the concept of Heat transfer correlations; Radiative heat transfer; Black and Grey
bodies; Stefan-Boltzman and Kirchhoff's Laws.

Analysis: - (1)

• Explain about the Modes of heat transfer.

• State and explain the Laws of Thermodynamics

• Explain about Rankine cycle with reheating and superheating

• Explain the concept of entropy

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4. Design of Machine Elements

General objective: - Design, evaluate & select the composition, shape and dimensions of
machine elements that fulfill functional and strength requirements.

Understanding and Evaluation: - (4)

• Identification or selection of proper safety factor to avoid failure before the expected life
of the component;

• Fatigue life and fatigue strength of machine elements;

• Causes of stress concentration in machine elements;

Application, Analysis and Creation/Synthesis: - (4)

• Analysis of the strength of bolted, welded, riveted and interference fitted joints;

• Design of keys, splines and pins;

• Analysis of pressure vessels, valves and sealing mechanisms; Design of springs.

Understanding, Analysis, Evaluation and Affective: - (5)

• The course enables students understand basic principles of design in the design and
analysis of typical machine elements with particular focus on: Shafts, Couplings, Clutches and
Brakes; Drives: Friction Drives, Belt Drives, Chain Drives and Gear Drives; and Bearings.

5. Theory of Machines and Mechanisms

General objective: - Modeling dynamic systems, and establish equations of motion for them to
solve dynamic problems in electromechanical.

Remembering and Understanding: - Describe different types of linkage mechanisms and their
layout used in mechanical design. (2)

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Understanding and Analysis: -Analyze kinematics and kinetic mechanisms and design of
machinery. (2)

Application, Analysis and Evaluation: - Provide knowledge on the cause for vibration and to
perform vibration analysis by developing a mathematical model for vibration analysis. (3)

6. Industrial Automation and Control

General objective: - Design, Model and implement Control systems with appropriate.

Remembering: - Understand and develop different controllers for different applications. (1)

Understanding, Application and Analysis: - (3)

• To design and Analyze process control loops

• To develop complex process loops using P and ID symbols

Understanding, Application and Evaluation: - (3)

• Learn about the some specialized sub-systems like Programmable controllers and their
programming techniques, SCADA systems, Remote Terminal

• Units, fuzzy logic controllers, smart sensors and field bus.

Application: - (1)

• Learn about the important aspects of interfacing real world (analog and digital) signals
and actuators with PC.

• Learn that Distributed Digital Control is an important field, which has come in a big way
in all industrial control applications.

7. Introduction to Electrical Machines

General objective: - Understand the basic principles of electromechanical energy conversion

devices understand inrush currents, harmonics and conditions for parallel operation and design

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aspects of transformers, Understand dynamic equations and control aspect of D.C machines
and understand D.C. armature winding & A.C. windings.

Remembering and Understanding: - (2)

• To understand basic concepts of electromagnetic circuits as they relate to voltages,

currents, and physical forces induced in conductors.

• To understand and gain insight into principles of operation & construction of transformer,
induction machines,

• To learn and understand analytical models for transformers and electrical rotating
machines.

Understanding, Application, Analysis, and Evaluation and Creation/Synthesis: - (6)

• To use such models to analyze power requirements, power capability, efficiency and
operating characteristics,

• To learn and understand inrush currents, harmonics and conditions for parallel operation
and design aspects of transformers

• IM models to analyze power requirements, power capability, efficiency and operating

characteristics, torque.

Understanding, Application, Analysis, and Evaluation: - (6)

• To learn and understand D.C. armature winding.

• To understand dynamic equations and control aspect of D.C machines.

• To understand salient pole synchronous machine features, reference frame

transformation, d-q axis theory, power/load angle relationship and carry out transient analysis.

• To understand the principle of operation and construction of fractional horsepower

motors.

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8. Measurement and Instrumentation Engineering

General objective: - Use various types of measurement, the functions of measuring sensors,
transducers, instruments, and their usage.

Remembering and Understanding: - (2)

• Understand the measurement of resistance, inductance & capacitance using different

bridges like, Whetstone’s bridge; Anderson’s bridge &Schering Bridge.

• Understand the construction of different electronic measuring instruments

Application, Evaluation and Creation/Synthesis: - (3)

• There are different techniques for measuring power & related Parameters.

• Classify the transducers depending on the principle of operation. Realize that the main
objective of this subject is to impart a solid application oriented Knowledge of the technology
spanning the Industrial control instrumentation.

Application, Analysis: - (2)

• Understand the construction and working of transducers to measure temperature,

Pressure, flow, force, torque, speed, level and density.

• Select an appropriate transducer for a specific process parameter measurement

9. Design of Electromechanical systems

General objective: - Design, prototype and development of electromechanical systems.

Remembering, Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation: - (4)

• Explain; what is meant by mechatronics and appreciate its relevance in engineering

design, a system and define the elements of measurement systems and the various forms and
elements of open-loop and closed-loop control systems.

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• Understand the design process as applied to mechatronics system, which featured

electrical, mechanical and computational components.

• To introduce the basic technique of signal conditioning.

Understanding, Analysis, and Evaluation: - (4)

• Understand and familiar with electromechanical devices.

• To understand electrical and mechanical actuation system.

• Describe; the basic structure of a microprocessor and microcontroller system, the architecture
of common microprocessor and how they can be incorporated in microprocessor systems and the
basic structure of microcontrollers.

Application and Creation/Synthesis: - (6)

• Familiar with electro mechanical devices and micro manufacturing techniques

• Able to build their own electro mechanical project.

10. Embedded Systems

General objective: - Understand fundamentals of digital system components and their design

Remembering and Understanding: - Explain the fundamental differences between

microprocessors and microcontrollers. (2)

Understanding and Application: - Use microcontrollers for any application in the real world,
which involves interfacing microcontrollers to the real time systems. (2)

Understanding, Application and Analysis: - Use the simulators, programmers & debuggers and
also should be able to use the microcontroller kits. (3)

11. Power electronics and Electrical drives

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General objective: - Introduce students to the basic concepts of Semiconductor Devices. And
Discuss basic concepts of electronic circuits with the aid of characteristic curves.

Understanding: - (4)

• To understand elements and characteristics, and operation principles of Power electronics

components and electric drives

• Understand the desired operating characteristics of various industrial driven units

Application, Analysis, and Evaluation: - (4)

• To select drive elements and develop drive system for common industrial driven units.

12. Courses to be Included in the Exit Examination

S. No List of Themes List of courses [Link]

1 Engineering Mechanics Strength of Materials 3
2 Fluid Mechanics 3
Thermo-Fluid Engineering
Engineering Thermodynamics 3
3 Design of Machine Elements 6
Machinery Design
Theory of Machines and Mechanisms 3
4 Industrial Automation and Control 3
Measurement and Instrumentation 3
Industrial Automation and control Engineering
Design of Electromechanical systems 6
Introduction to Electrical Machines 6
5 Embedded Systems 3
Electronics and embedded systems
Power electronics and Electrical drives 3
Total [Link] 42

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