Syllabus 2011/2012 ETI125

Syllabus academic year 2011/2012
(Created 2011-09-01.)

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

ETI125

Credits: 4,5. Grading scale: TH. Cycle: G1 (First Cycle). Main field: Technology. Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. Optional for: E5, F2, M4, N2. Course coordinator: Associate Professor Clas Agnvall, Clas_G.Agnvall@eit.lth.se, Electrical and Information Technology. Assessment: Participation in 10 out of 14 lectures, and a written comment of the contents. Home page: http://www.eit.lth.se/course/eti125.

Aim
Consumer electronic products play an important role in todays society. This course will give an overview of modern consumer electronic products and how they work. The aim of the course is to give the students basic understanding of electronic products and sufficient knowledge of electronic vocabulary in order to understand literature such as brochures and technical manuals.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

be familiar with the basic mechanisms behind common consumer electronic products, and how they work
acquire sufficient knowledge to be able to participate in the technology debate within the consumer electronics area

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

be able to make estimations of functionality, performance and quality of consumer electronic products

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

be able to understand technical literature

Contents
The focus of the course is to give a basic understanding of information carrying systems. Tree specific areas are studied: acoustic-, image- and storage. A number of systems are studied including; sound reproduction, radio and broadcasting, mobile phones, GPS, CD and DVD-players, computers, medical electronics etc.

Literature
Lecture handouts.
See the home page http://www.es.lth.se