Handbook

Electrical systems modelling and simulation are important tools for understanding, designing, and improving electrical systems. By developing mathematical models and running them on a computer, you can predict the behaviour of the system and its performance in various situations, without needing to build physical prototypes. By simulating different scenarios and conditions, you can identify any flaws, inefficiencies, or risks in the design. You are also able to explore different design options, compare their outcomes, and optimise performance.  Overall, electrical systems modelling, and simulation methods are powerful tools to gain insights, improve designs, reduce costs, and ensure the reliability and performance of electrical systems before they are built and deployed in the real world. They are core elements of the modern engineering workflow.

This course is a design-oriented course, in which you will carry out a practical electrical engineering system design. The design will be supported by relevant theory and practical proficiency gained earlier in the course.

The syllabus includes topics such as analogue and discrete-time systems, analogue filters, basic digital filters, concepts of time and frequency responses, simulation and modelling techniques, state-space representations, and the use of MATLAB/Simulink for designing analogue/discrete-time systems.