CE 103:Basic Electricity I

Course title:

CE 103 Basic Electricity I

Campus:   CTEC/Kosrae

Initiator:   Romino Victor

Date: April 25, 2019

Course description:

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of electrical circuitry and its components. It also provides theoretical and practical aspects of direct circuit network by experimentation. The course also covers analysis of direct current (DC) circuits using various network theorems. The student will be able to perform testing and troubling of direct current.

Hours per Week

No.  Of Weeks

Total Hours

Semester Credits

Lecture

          3

x

16

=

48/16

=

3

Laboratory

x

=

/48

=

Lecture/Lab

x

=

/16

=

Workshop

x

=

/32

=

Total Semester Credits

           3

PSLO#

                             Program

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1. Effective oral communication: capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.

[    ]

2. Effective written communication: development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum.

[    ]

3. Critical thinking: a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.

[X]

4. Problem solving: capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.

[    ]

5. Intercultural knowledge and competence: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.

[    ]

6. Information literacy: the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.

[X]

7. Foundations and skills for life-long learning: purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.

[X]

8. Quantitative Reasoning: ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats.

CSLO (General) 1: Describe electrical principles and laws

Student Learning Outcome (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

       Assessment Strategies

1.1  Define voltage, current, power and resistance

4, 7, 8

2

A written test is used to assess CSLOs 1.1 to 1.6.

A rubric is used to assess the student’s competence in calculating circuit voltage current, power and resistance (CSLO 1.6).

1.2  Identify conducting and non-conducting electrical materials and properties.

1.3 Define basic terms for electrical quantities, components, devices and circuits

1.4  Identify the symbols associated with basic electrical components and devices

1.5  Define and draw simple resistive circuit

1.6 Calculate circuit voltage, current, power and resistance

CSLO (General) 2: Operate direct circuit (DC) test equipment                

Student Learning Outcome (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

2.1 Explain the basic operating principles of voltmeter, ammeter and ohmmeter, analog and digital multi-meter.

4*,7,8

2

A written test used to assess CSLO 2.1 to 2.3.

A rubric is used to assess the student’s competence in measuring circuit voltage current, power and resistance (CSLO 2.3)

2.2 Measure circuit voltage, current and resistance

2.3 Calibrate digital and analog multi-meter

CSLO (General) 3: Measure DC network and apply DC theorems

Student Learning Outcome (specific)

ISLO

 PSLO

               Assessment Strategies

3.1 Describe the basic characteristics of resistance, current and voltage in series, parallel and combination circuits.

4,7,8

2

A written test used to assess CSLO 3.1 to 3.2.

A rubric is used to assess the student’s competence in calculating electrical parameters in series and parallel circuits. (CSLO 3.2.)

3.2 Calculate unknown electrical parameters in series, parallel and combination circuits using Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s laws.

CSLO (General) 4: Troubleshoot complex electrical circuits

4.1 List causes of “open” and “short” DC network circuit.

4,7,8

2

A written test is used to assess CSLO 4.1-4.2

A rubric is used to assess the student’s competence in troubleshooting complex electrical circuits.

(CSLO 4.1 to 4.3)

4.2 Locate “open” and “short” circuits.

4.3 Apply safety standards as required in the experiment.

A written test is used to assess CSLO 4.3

A rubric is used to assess the student’s competence in troubleshooting complex electrical circuits.

(CSLO 4.1 to 4.3)

Approved by VPIA: 12/03/2021