Electrical Workshop (Fundamentals of Electrical Laboratory)
This workshop is one of the main and most important practical courses for electrical engineering students, which provides students with a good perspective on the method of electrical generation, transmission, and distribution, as well as electrical protection.
The electrical workshop is the first specialized workshop that electrical engineering students take. In this workshop, students gain a brief familiarity with the nature of single-phase and three-phase electric current, and the elements and components necessary for delivering electric current to domestic and industrial consumers. Furthermore, after becoming familiar with various types of protective and control components and understanding their operation, students become familiar with several domestic wiring circuits such as the single-pole switch, double-pole switch, changeover switch, incandescent lamp lighting, fluorescent lamp lighting, photocell, timer, doorbell, intercom, and so on.
For starting and controlling industrial consumers, circuits known as Control Circuits are also used, and in the practical section of the workshop, students learn the method of drawing and implementing various types of these circuits on the educational control circuit system.
Among the experiments performed with this system are:
- Motor starting in momentary and permanent mode with contactor.
- Motor starting with a permanent mode switch.
- Motor starting in one-after-another mode and one-instead-of-another mode, and its automatic type.
- Motor starting in reverse-forward mode, and its automatic type.
- Motor starting in star-delta mode, and its automatic type.
The practical course of Fundamentals of Electrical Laboratory is also offered in the electrical workshop for Mechanical and Metallurgy Engineering disciplines. In this laboratory, students become familiar with the basic principles of power relationships and the properties of series and parallel circuits, as well as various types of electric motors and their starting.
For faster access, greater student protection, and optimal use of class time, all circuits are prepared beforehand in On Board form. After the necessary explanations and drawing by the instructor, students build the relevant circuits in 6 operational groups.
