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IELET2104

Automation Project

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Credits 7.5
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Spring 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

About

About the course

Course content

Level control of experimental setup. Practical implementation of PID controller in PLC. Design of HMI/SCADA including alarm system and process tuning. Configuring network communication between setup, user interface and controller. The role as a project manager and a team member. Interaction between the subject areas in courses IELET2101, IELET2102 and IELET2103.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The candidate can explain

  • how a automation project can be planned and executed.

Skills: The candidate can

  • demonstrate in practice the learning objectives of IELET2101, IELET2102 and IELET2103.
  • manage a project and be a good team member.
  • convey to others how a project was planned and executed.
  • convey to others a given technical problem, and its practical solution.

Digitisation: The course contributes in enabling the candidate to use modern computer tools as a resource in the aforementioned skills.

Ethics: The subject contributes to increased awareness of working in groups.

Innovation: The course contributes knowledge of practical project work and technical communication.

Learning methods and activities

Team work, project meetings, reports, presentations. Only to a small extent lectures.

Compulsory assignments

  • Mandatory assignments

Further on evaluation

Mandatory assignments:

  • Project meetings and practical demonstrations
  • Preliminary project with report
  • Communication setup with documentation
  • Implementation of PID controller with documentation
  • 3 out of 3 HMI/SCADA exercises must be approved
  • Reflection note: Reflection on group dynamics, project management and progression
  • Assessment of fellow students.

The work is carried out jointly in the project group, with the exception of the fellow student assessment, which is an individual work. Supervision takes place in the form of 4 project meetings with the supervisor/client during the semester. The works are delivered towards the end of the semester, where the reflection note and fellow student assessment are delivered after completion of the remainder of the course. Grading is individual, but is largely based on the project group's work and results.

The course exam consists of two parts; an oral exam which counts for 50% of the grade and a written report that counts for 50%.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Automation and Intelligent Systems - Engineering (BIAIS)

Required previous knowledge

For applications for credentials, approval and incorporating of courses from previous semesters or other institutions' corresponding education programs, each application will be processed individually and the applicant should expect credit reductions for overlapping courses.

The course is only available for students in attending the program Bachelor i ingeniørfag, elektro (BIELEKTRO), specialization Automation and robotics at NTNU Trondheim, and students from study program BiAiS.

Course materials

Lecture notes on project work. Setup of industrial process. PLC. Technical manuals.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TELE2008 7.5 sp Autumn 2019
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Engineering Cybernetics
  • Engineering Subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Engineering Cybernetics