NUTL Electrical Engineering Labs

The Electrical Engg Department comprises three major and three small labs. Major equipment in these labs include Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), Spectrum Analyzer, High Frequency Signal Generators, Power Engineering Trainers etc. 

Circuits and Electronics Lab

The objective of this lab is to supplement, in a practical way, the material learned by the students in Electronics related courses.

Equipment

  • Digital Oscilloscope
  • Function Generator
  • Digital Millimeter benchtop
  • DC Power Supply
  • Multimeter handheld
  • Digital-Analog Trainer Board

Key Capabilities

  • Familiarization with the working of Basic Laboratory Equipment
  • Verification of KVL, KCL, Voltage & Current Divider Rule
  • Investigation of Mesh and Nodal Analysis of Circuits
  • Verification of Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuit
  • Demonstration of Digital Oscilloscope and Function Generator Operation
  • Investigation of RC and RL Circuit behavior and visualization of resultant waveforms
  • Demonstration of Operational Amplifier functions
  • Familiarization with the Characteristics, Application and Properties of Diode
  • Introduction, Analysis, Hardware Implementation and Application of BJTs

Power System and Machines Lab

The Electrical Machines laboratory is a well-equipped laboratory for undergraduate level teaching courses especially for carrying out practical work for Electrical Machines using the latest machine trainers.  This lab gives students hands-on experience on AC as well as DC motors & generators.

Equipment

  • Electric machines trainer system
  • Power electronics inverter and inverter system

Key Capabilities

  • Analysis of Speed Control of a D.C Shunt Motor
  • Acquisition of Brake Test on a DC Shunt Motor and DC Compound Motor
  • Identification of Open Circuit Characteristics of a DC Shunt Generator
  • Carrying out the Load test on a D.C. Shunt Generator, D.C. Series Generator and D.C. Compound Generator
  • Determination of Hopkinson Test and Fields Test
  • Observation of Retardation Test on D.C. Shunt Motor
  • Determination of Swinburne’s Test
  • Demonstration of Separation Of Losses in DC shunt motor

Control and Instrumentation Lab

The objective of this lab is to provide students an opportunity to get hand-on experience on various tools and instrumentations used in electrical engineering and industry.

Equipment

  • Instrumentation Trainers
  • Controls Trainers
  • Robotic Kit
  • Oscilloscope
  • DC Power Supplies
  • Function Generators
  • Ball and Beam System
  • PLC Trainers

Key Capabilities

  • Measurement of error due to loading and insertion effects in DC circuits
  • Measurement of phase shift, frequency ratio using oscilloscope and signal generator
  • Modeling of DC Motor
  • Introduction to LabView and robotic kit
  • Analyzing the time domain specification of obstacle avoiding robot
  • Analyzing the behavior of 2nd order System
  • Study of PID Controller for DC MOTOR
  • Designing of the Inner loop Controller for Ball & Beam System

Embedded Systems Lab

The objective of this lab is to supplement, in a practical way, the material learned by the students in the embedded system course.

Equipment

  • FPGA Boards
  • Oscilloscopes
  • DC Power Supplies
  • Function Generators
  • Breadboards
  • Microcontrollers

Key Capabilities

  • Programming using Arithmetic and logical instructions of 8051
  • Interfacing of Stepper motor
  • Developing circuits on Spartan FPGA
  • Programming FPGA boards
  • Testing and debugging projects related to FPGA

Radio Frequency and Communication Lab

The objective of this lab is to provide the foundation knowledge of communication system design and analysis.

Equipment

  • Digital/Analog Communication Lab Platform
  • SDRs
  • DSP kits
  • Spectrum Analyzer
  • Antenna Trainers
  • Microwave Kit
  • Signal Generators

Key Capabilities

  • Analysis of Continuous Time Scaling and Shifting Transformation Techniques
  • Determination of linearity and time invariance of a system
  • Generation of convolution and correlation algorithm between two signals
  • Identification of a periodic signals corrupted by noise as application of correlation
  • Understanding the concepts of Fourier Transform and carryout Fourier Synthesis of a square wave
  • Examination of the parameters of amplitude modulated signal and demodulation of AM using Envelope Detector
  • Observation of the operation of product detector and balanced amplitude modulator with suppressed carrier.
  • Examination of the main parameters of the single sideband modulation and to check the use of filters to generate the SSB
  • Examination of the operation of RF and AM-RF (Radio Frequency) transmitter/receiver

Design Project Lab

The objective of the design project lab is to provide an environment to students for developing their projects. Final Year Students mostly work in this lab for software modeling and designing of small systems

Equipment

  • Oscilloscopes
  • DC Power Supplies
  • Function Generators
  • Breadboards
  • Microcontrollers