Course Title: Use electrical skills in telecommunications work

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2016

Course Code: EEET7322C

Course Title: Use electrical skills in telecommunications work

School: 130T Vocational Engineering

Campus: City Campus

Program: C2220 - Certificate II in Telecommunications Cabling

Course Contact: Program Manager

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468

Course Contact Email: vocengineering@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Mr Eddie Vanda
Ph: +61 3 9925 4456
Email: eddie.vanda@rmit.edu.au

Mr Kenneth Falzon
Ph: +61 3 9925 4716
Email Kenneth.falzon@rmit.edu.au

Appointments by email
 

Nominal Hours: 40

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

NIL

Course Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required for an entry-level worker to use electrical skills working in telecommunications.

No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of endorsement but users should confirm requirements with the relevant federal, state or territory authority.
 


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

ICTTEN2008A Use electrical skills in telecommunications work

Element:

1. Connect up, test and verify DC and AC circuitry

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Identify any hazards and work health and safety (WHS) issues for a safe work site, and notify appropriate personnel
1.2 Connect a series and a parallel DC and AC circuit configuration following safe work practices.
1.3 Choose the appropriate test equipment and measure the values of electrical quantities of the circuits.
1.4 Use calculations to verify the measured values of the electrical quantities in a series and in a parallel circuit configuration.
1.5 Compare the measured values to the calculated values, and determine the reasons for any variations.
1.6 Measure LV, ELV and TNV voltages to determine that the value is within equipment or power supply specifications.
1.7 Use appropriate test equipment to measure AC voltage (multimeter) or AC current (clamp meter) in a safe manner that does not require an LV circuit to be disconnected.
1.8 Test residual current devices (RCD) or earth leakage devices to ensure they are working prior to working with AC mains powered equipment, power supplies and tools.
1.9 Evaluate results and determine probable faults if relevant.
 

Element:

2. Evaluate analog and digital signals

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Compare characteristics of an analog signal and a digital signal
2.2 Produce a layout using the building blocks to represent a typical analog and a digital circuit showing the different characteristics between that of an analog signal and a digital signal.
2.3 Produce 4-bit binary codes with their decimal equivalent to represent output voltages of a digital to analog converter.
2.4 Choose appropriate test equipment and measure the output voltage of a digital device for ‘high’ and ‘low’ logic states.

 

Element:

3. Perform cable selection

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Compare basic transmission characteristics of different types of cables used in telecommunications and select the most appropriate cable type to suit application characteristics.


Learning Outcomes


Refer to Elements


Details of Learning Activities

Students will participate in a variety of teaching methods including: lectures, tutorials,practicals, class discussion,and work on assignment.


Teaching Schedule

Week 1. Introduction and Overview of Course
Week 2. Hazards and occupational health and safety (OHS)
Week 3. Basic Electrical Concepts
Week 4. Ohm’s Law
Week 5. Series resistance circuits
Week 6. Series resistance circuits calculations
Week 7. Series DC circuits
Week 8. Series circuit calculations
Week 9 .Parallel DC circuit
Week 10. Parallel DC circuit calculations
Week 11. Parallel circuits and series circuit
Week 12. Parallel DC circuits and series circuit calculations
Week 13. Series AC circuits
Week 14. Parallel AC circuit calculations and Test equipment
Week 15. Series and parallel circuit calculations and Result evaluation and fault finding
Week 16. Power in resistive circuit’s series
Week 17. Power in resistive circuits Parallel
Week 18. Capacitors
Week 19. Capacitors and their applications
Week 20. Capacitors Parallel circuits and series circuit calculations
Week 21. Inductors and transformers
Week 22. Inductors and transformers and their applications
Week 23. Simple practical circuits
Week 24. Demonstrate knowledge of multimeter usage
Week 25. Demonstrate knowledge of AC and DC signals
Week 26. Insulation resistance
Week 27. Cable basic transmission characteristics
Week 28. Binary numbers systems
Week 29. Analog and digital signal characteristics
Week 30. 4 bit digital to analog converter
Week 31. Probable Faults in Circuits
Week 32. Build and Test DC and AC Circuits
Week 33. Revision
Week 34. Practical Test
Week 35. Closed Book test
Week 36. Practical test and Closed Book test Resit

 Student Directed Hours

* In this course, minimum student directed hours are 8 in addition to 32 scheduled teaching hours.
* Student directed hours involve completing activities such as reading online resources, assignments, individual student-teacher course-related consultation, and oral presentation preparation.


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

A soft copy of Use electrical skills in telecommunications work ,will be issued.


References


Other Resources

Students will be able to access information and learning materials through myRMIT and may be provided with additional materials in class. List of relevant reference books, resources in the library and accessible Internet sites will be provided where possible. During the course, you will be directed to websites to enhance your knowledge and understanding of difficult concepts.


Overview of Assessment

 

The assessment is conducted in both theoretical and practical aspects of the course according to the performance criteria set in the National Training Package. Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including written/oral activities and demonstration of practical skills to the relevant industry standards. Participants are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment activities to their teacher/assessor. Feedback will be provided throughout the course. To successfully complete this course you will be required to demonstrate competency in each assessment task detailed under Assessment Tasks:

Assessment 1:  Practical Test
Assessment 2: Closed book Test

 

These tasks assesses the following Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

Assessment Mapping Matrix

Elements/Performance Criteria Practical Test Closed Book Test
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Assessment Tasks

You are required to complete the following two assessment tasks:

Assessment 1:  Practical Test
Assessment 2: Closed book Test


All assessment tasks need to be successfully completed to demonstrate competence.

Your assessment for this course will be marked using the following table:

CA Competency Achieved
NYC Not yet Competent
DNS Did not Submit


Assessment Matrix

Assessment Pratical Test Closed Book Test
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Other Information

Credit Transfer and/or Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL):
You may be eligible for credit towards courses in your program if you have already met the learning/competency outcomes through previous learning and/or industry experience. To be eligible for credit towards a course, you must demonstrate that you have already completed learning and/or gained industry experience that is:
• Relevant
• Current
• Satisfies the learning/competency outcomes of the course
Please refer to http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit  to find more information about credit transfer and RPL.
 

Study and Learning Support:

Study and Learning Centre (SLC) provides free learning and academic development advice to you. Services offered by SLC to support your numeracy and literacy skills are:

- Assignment writing, thesis writing and study skills advice
- Maths and science developmental support and advice
- English language development

Please Refer http://www.rmit.edu.au/studyandlearningcentr e to find more information about Study and learning Support

Disability Liaison Unit:

If you are suffering from long-term medical condition or disability, you should contact Disability Liaison Unit to seek advice and support to complete your studies.

Please Refer http://www.rmit.edu.au/disability  to find more information about services offered by Disability Liaison Unit.

Late Submission:

If you require an Extension of Submittable Work (assignments, reports or project work etc.) for 7 calendar days or less (from the original due date) and have valid reasons, you must complete and lodge an Application for Extension of Submittable Work (7 Calendar Days or less) form and lodge it with the Senior Educator/ Program Manager.
The application must be lodged no later than one working day before the official due date. You will be notified within no more than 2 working days of the date of lodgement as to whether the extension has been granted.

If you seek an Extension of Submittable Work for more than 7 calendar days (from the original due date) must lodge an Application for Special Consideration form under the provisions of the Special Consideration Policy, preferably prior to, but no later than 2 working days after the official due date.

Submittable Work (assignments, reports or project work etc.) submitted late without approval of an extension will not be accepted or marked.

Special Consideration:

Please refer http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/specialconsideration  to find more information about special consideration


Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is a form of cheating and it is very serious academic offence that may lead to expulsion from the University.

Please Refer: http://www.rmit.edu.au/academicintegrity  to find more information about plagiarism.

Email Communication:

All email communications will be sent to your RMIT email address and you must regularly check your RMIT emails.

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