EE436 Programmable Logic Controllers
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| Course Code | Course Title | Weekly Hours* | ECTS | Weekly Class Schedule | ||||||
| T | P | |||||||||
| EE436 | Programmable Logic Controllers | 3 | 2 | 6 | Monday 09.00 - 10.50, Wednesday 09.00 - 09.50 | |||||
| Prerequisite | CS303 | It is a prerequisite to | None |
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| Lecturer | Office Hours / Room / Phone | Currently not available |
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| Assistant | Sejla Dzakmic | Assistant E-mail | sdzakmic@ius.edu.ba | |||||||
| Course Objectives | The objectives of this course are to teach the student to use a PLC to solve engineering problems and provide hands-on experience on work with a small brick PLC. |
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| Textbook | Frank D. Petruzella, Programmable logic controllers, 4th edition McGraw Hill | |||||||||
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| Learning Outcomes | After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: | |||||||||
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| Teaching Methods | Class discussions with examples, active tutorial sessions for engaged learning and continuous feedback on progress. Team projects that involve engineering problems, interpretation and reporting. | |||||||||
| Teaching Method Delivery | Teaching Method Delivery Notes | |||||||||
| WEEK | TOPIC | REFERENCE | ||||||||
| Week 1 | PLC evolution, history, relay control, basic parts of PLC, ladder logic language, | Ch. 1 | ||||||||
| Week 2 | PLC hardware, connection paths, CPU, memory, digital and analog interfaces (IO), | Ch. 2 | ||||||||
| Week 3 | Addressing of IO, program cycle, scan time, HW1 | Ch. 5 | ||||||||
| Week 4 | Relay schematics to ladder logic, field devices, IO modules, HW2 | Ch. 6 | ||||||||
| Week 5 | PLC timer functions, typical industrial timing tasks, HW3 | Ch. 7 | ||||||||
| Week 6 | PLC counters in ladder logic, typical industrial tasks, HW4 | Ch. 8 | ||||||||
| Week 7 | Jumps and subroutines, typical industrial tasks, HW5 | Ch. 9 | ||||||||
| Week 8 | Basic PLC math and logic functions, MIDTERM EXAM | Ch. 11 | ||||||||
| Week 9 | Transferring data, operations with math functions, data manipulation, HW6 | Ch. 10 | ||||||||
| Week 10 | Examples of processes with math/data operations on a fast and continuous basis, | --- | ||||||||
| Week 11 | PLC sequencer and shift register functions in control problems, HW7 | Ch.12 | ||||||||
| Week 12 | Project work, | --- | ||||||||
| Week 13 | Project work, | --- | ||||||||
| Week 14 | Project work, | --- | ||||||||
| Week 15 | Repetition / project presentations. | --- | ||||||||
| Assessment Methods and Criteria | Evaluation Tool | Quantity | Weight | Alignment with LOs |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 | ||
| Semester Evaluation Components | ||||
| Homeworks | 7 | 14 | ||
| Midterm Exam | 1 | 25 | ||
| Project Work | 1 | 21 | ||
| *** ECTS Credit Calculation *** | ||||
| Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | |||
| Lecture Hours | 3 | 9 | 27 | Assignments | 7 | 2 | 14 | |||
| Active Tutorials | 2 | 12 | 24 | Home Study | 3 | 14 | 42 | |||
| In-term Exam Study | 8 | 1 | 8 | Final Exam Study | 15 | 1 | 15 | |||
| Laboratory Work | 5 | 4 | 20 | |||||||
| Total Workload Hours = | 150 | |||||||||
| *T= Teaching, P= Practice | ECTS Credit = | 6 | ||||||||
| Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey | Last Update Date: 06/11/2020 | |||||||||