3 ECTS credits
84 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1018375BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen
Department
Industriële ingenieurswetenschappen
Educational team
Ronald Van Ham (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
18 contact hours Lecture
18 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Lectures: 
This course deals with the building blocks , principles and circuit diagrams in pneumatics and hydraulics. The course consists of the following parts:

  • Pneumatics:
    •  Air conditioning filters, water separators, pressure reducing valve, lubricator 
    •  Pneumatic cylinders: types, operation, construction, mounting method, air consumption 
    •  Valves: control valves, block valves, pressure control valves, flow control valves 
    •  Hydro-pneumatic systems: pressure transducer, pressure amplifier, oil-break cilinder
    •  Basic circuits, air saving method, impulse control, time circuits
  • Electro-pneumatics:
    • Valves, use of relay, relay control example
    • Proportional pressure control valve
  • Vacuum:
    • Overview and use of vacuum components 
  • Hydraulics:
    • Safety valve, hydraulic pump, filters, open and closed systems 
    • Controlled non-return valve, pressureless pumping, pressure relief, relief control valves 
    • Differential cicuits
    • Sequence valve, load-dependent brake valve 
    • Series and parallel connections 
    • Flow control valves 
    • Batteries 
    • Two pressure systems, examples closed systems, adjustable pumps

Laboratory practicals:
The laboratory practicals support the theoretical course.
The practicals should be prepared beforehand and are carried out independently by the student. 

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Slides Pneumatiek, Deel 1: pneumatiek, -, Via Canvas, 2019
Digital course material (Required) : Slides Hydraulica, Deel 2: hydraulica, -, Via Canvas, 2019
Handbook (Required) : De hydrauliektrainer deel 1, Basiskennis hydrauliek, Bosch Rextroth, mkpublishing, 9789462717718, 2004
Handbook (Recommended) : Hydraulics and Pneumatics, A Technician's and Engineer's Guide, A. Parr, UITVERKOCHT, Elsevier, 9780080966748, 2011
Handbook (Recommended) : Pneumatik, Grundstufe, P. Croser en F. Ebel, Festo Didactic, 9783540000228, 2002
Digital course material (Required) : Pneumatica dossiers, Festo, www.festo.com, 2019
Additional info

Description tutoring: after class, by appointment or via e-mail.

Learning Outcomes

objectives

D1: knows and can use the various pneumatic and hydraulic components in pneumatic and hydraulic systems (BaLO 1, 2, 4, BaSLO 14 EM)
D2: can develop, represent nad implement pneumatic, electro-pneumatic and hydraulic circuit designs (BaLO 2, 3, 4, 9, 12, 13, BaSLO 14 EM)
 
AD1: reasons and acts in a structured and systematic manner (BaLO 9)
AD2: communicates in Dutch in a comprehensible and structured manner (BaLO 10, 11)
AD3: develops a professional attitude (BaLO 9, 10, 13)

Learning Outcomes

  • BaLO 1 To possess in-depth, application-oriented knowledge, understanding and practical skills related to mathematics and science, directed towards engineering applications.
  • BaLO 2 To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills about engineering sciences and engineering techniques.
  • BaLO 3 To solve practical engineering problems from an understanding of the basic theory and from an understanding of basic methods for the schematisation and modelling of processes or systems.
  • BaLO 4 Implementation-oriented and analytical problem-solving, design, development and creative innovation with a focus on the operational implications of the specific case.
  • BaLO 9 To demonstrate an engineering attitude: attention to planning, to technical, economic and societal factors as well as managerial implications, assessment of the risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, being result-driven and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
  • BaLO 10 To correctly handle the scientific and discipline-specific terminology in language relevant to the programme.
  • BaLO 11 To present and communicate the results of technical and scientific work, in writing, orally and visually. 
  • BaLO 12 To be able to work in a team in different roles, to have insight in one's performance; to take shared responsibility for determining and achieving the goals of the team.
  • BaLO 13 To act in an ethical and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.
  • BaSLO 14 EM To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills in the broad field of engineering sciences and engineering techniques for electromechanical engineering.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Other Exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: Exam time 1st session:
    Lecture: oral exam with written preparation: 70% (not transferred to 2nd session)
    Laboratory practicals:
    - report/preparation: 10% (transferred to 2nd session if 10/20 or more)
    - evaluation execution practical by lecturer/students: 20% (immediately transferred to 2nd session)
    Exam time 2nd session:
    Lecture: oral exam with written preparation: 70%
    Laboratory practicals:
    - report 10%
    - evaluation execution practical by lecturer/students: 20% (immediately transferred from 1st session)

    In case of a quotation less than 10/20 for theory or laboratory practicals (report + evaluation together), the lowest number will be the final grade for the entire course.

    Not observing the laboratory regulations during the preparation, execution and/or reporting of the practicum, may result in a zero for the considered practicum.

Additional info regarding evaluation

An illegitimate absence of more than 25 % at the laboratory practicals leads to an absent quotation for the laboratory practicals. The sanctions taken in the first exam session are transferred to the second exam session.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Electromechanical Engineering (only offered in Dutch)