Identified Competency Focus Areas and Core Courses

for National Exit Examination:

Program: Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech.) in Electrical

Engineering(control Engineering Stream)

Compiled by:
S/n Name Email Mobile
1 L.Col. Yeshitela Shiferaw(PhD) [email protected] +251911796462
2 Capt. Belaynesh Belachew (M.Tech) [email protected] +251913563345
3 Capt. Kbrom Brhane (M.Tech) [email protected] +251918755158

September, 2023
Bishoftu, Ethiopia
Contents
1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1

2. Objectives of Exit Examination ....................................................................................................... 2

3. Significance of the Document………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3

4. Graduates Profile ............................................................................................................................ 3

5. Competencies And Learning Outcomes .............................................................................................. 4

5.1. Competencies .............................................................................................................................. 4

5.2. Learning Outcomes ...................................................................................................................... 5
6 Categorizing Courses Of The Program Into Themes ............................................................................ 6

7.Courses To Be Included In The Exit Examination ................................................................................. 6

7. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................... 7
 1. Introduction
The Department of Electrical Engineering is one of the various departments under the
Defence Engineering College with a primary goal of preparing students for successful
technology based careers. It’s primarly goal to generate highly qualified professionals and
technical manpower in the field of Electrical engineering for the Defence Forces in particular
and the Nation as a whole.

The electrical engineering is one field of engineering that deals with the generation,
transmission,distribution and cotroling of electrical power on the basic understanding of
courses mathematics, physics, fundamentals of electrical engineering sciences, computer
programming and interfacing, electrical measurements. Besides, they acquire knowledge in
electrical and electronics, analog and digital circuits, microcontrollers, power supply devices,
design and technology of electrical systems. As this program is multi-disciplinary that
integrates Basic Science and Engineering, could play a key role in improving the living
standard of the society in the world. To advance the progress and development of the
electrical engineering program for the realization of Ethiopia growth transformation plan
(GTP) well-trained graduates are required. The graduates in the electrical engineering
program will be trained in the focus of addressing the transformation of Agricultural
Development Led Industrialization (ADLI) to Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Led
Industrialization.

To achieve this, the electrical engineering program has designed and implemented a well-
organized B.Sc. curriculum. However, the electrical engineering curriculum is not
harmonized at the national level. Additionally, the implementation of the curriculum
designed by different universities mainly focused on evaluating the performance, skills, and
attitude of the students at the course level. Such an evaluation method needs mapping with
program learning outcomes to assess the overall competence of the graduates. Therefore,
additional program outcome measurement techniques have to be set. Currently, the ministry
of education intends to set and implement exit examinations for selected programs. The main
aim of the exit exams is to assess the graduates’ performance and overall understanding of
the profession with respect to the graduate profiles and the learning outcomes of the program.
Consequently, quality education will be ensured and a common getaway for the professional
license and equal market opportunity will be created for all graduates from different
universities. For this purpose, this document was developed to address the aforementioned
problems.

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 Why this competency needs to be prepared separately for EDU?
Graduates from this program expected to serving in any of several approved commercial
sectors occupations or in the armed forces of the country after graduation. However, the
competencies developed for graduates of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in related
programs and streams may not fully align with the objectives and competencies established
for graduates of the Ethiopian Defence University College of Engineering.

The Ethiopian Defense University have a much focused mission, they tend to offer a heavy
dose of STEM courses. The engineering programs that offered in the College of Engineering
is especially designed to enhance and modernize various defense sectors across different
engineering fields. This program majors are more focused on military technology studies;
aiming to producing technologist and engineers in various military aspect and the electrical
engineering curriculum is not harmonized at the national level.As a result, specialized courses
with a military focus have been incorporated into all programs. In light of this, a separate
competency framework has been developed specifically for the Control Engineering
program at the Ethiopian Defence University.

2. OBJECTIVES OF EXIT EXAMINATION

The national public administration exit exam shall have the following objectives

 To produce skilled and competent manpower for national and international

markets.
 Inspire graduates in acquiring fundamental skills and knowledge in Electrical
Engineering core courses.
 Assessing students’ educational achievement in major areas of Electrical
Engineering
 Ensuring whether the graduation profile of the Electrical Engineering curriculum
has achieved at least common standards of knowledge and practical skills.
 Improving public trust and confidence in graduates working as industry
specialists, entrepreneurs, education sectors, and public administration activities
of professionals.
 Enhance graduates’ chance to win scholarships for further studies and projects.

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 3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DOCUMENT
It is important to set competency areas of Electrical Engineering to measure how much
graduates are acquired skills, knowledge, and attitudes. The following shows us the
significance of setting competencies and identifying core courses of the program;

 To set competencies that help to assess the basic skills, knowledge, and attitude of
graduating students;
 To systematically identify the core courses which will be included in the exit
exam;
 To give clues in expected competency and learning outcomes for graduates and
host Universities;

4. Graduates Profile
After the successful completion Electrical Engineering, the graduates would have the
following profiles:

Atittude
Maintains the honors and reputations of Defense by virtue of being a role model in the
society
 Be aware of military ethical obligations and to have an ability to perform them
 Be cooperative and critical thinker
 Be corruption free and ready to fight against the practice
 Appreciates/respects intellectual property rights and denounce plagiarism
 Be conscious of resources, jurisdiction and time
 Be disciplined, hard-working, and physically fit
 Involve in life-long learning, exploring new frontiers
 Show curiosity to environment
 Function in multi-disciplinary teams
 Work independently, assuming responsibility
 Observe national and international standards and regulations
 Internalize leading, motivating and caring professionals

Knowledge

 Understand undamentals in the field of modern asystems

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  Demonstrate concepts to utilize feedback when designing control systems
 Analyze dynamic systems and design of controllers that will cause the systems to
behave in the desired manner
 Understand and appraise use of Modern Control methods in Industries and Research
areas.
 Design and Analyze Industrial Control Systems applied in Defence Industries and
Armored vehicles
 Design and Produce Automatic Control System.
 Prepare specifications for various components of Control Systems

Skills
 Install Programs, and Modify and maintain any Automated System,
 Adopt Electrical Drives for Military applications and Armament Control
 Construct, Install, Control, Operate and Maintain Automatic control system
 Develop and Maintain Industrial Control Systems applied in Defence Industries and
Armored vehicles,
 Implement, Operate and manage Automatic Control System,
 Adapt reverse engineering in the field of Control Engineering.

5. COMPETENCIES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

5.1. Learning Outcomes
After completing the Electrical Engineering program, graduate students will be able to:

 Understand the basic concepts and the fundamental tools to analyze electric circuits..
 Understand to analyze and design different electrical networks.
 Understand the principles of electromechanical energy conversion, construction,
operating principle, and performance of transformer, DC and AC machines.
 Know the principles of power semi conductor devices and power electronic
converters with their applications.
 Understande the principles and applications regarding wiring design & installation in
the context of electrical regulation and standards.
 To get real-world experience in modeling, control system problems, analysis, design
and implementation.

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  Develop state space representation of control system, analyze system modeling,
design
 Understand processes control tuning methods
 Understand different types of process control configurations
 Understand the application distributed system control in process control.
 Construct an algorithm for Process control using PID tuning methods and implement
it for real time application.
 Analyze the various mechanical, electrical and electronic control system in the tank.
 Understand the concepts of engine and transmission controls and fire control systems
in the tank
 Appreciate the use of Control algorithms for process Control Applications.

5.2. Competencies

Sl. Areas of
Expected Competencies to be achieved
No Competency
1. Cognitive Generally, Graduates will be contribute in the worlds of job,

 Formulate different electrical applications with the knowledge of signal

system, digital electronics, network analysis, electric circuit & device
 Solve electrical problems using the knowledge of basic electrical circuit
analysis
 The target group specializing in control engineering should be able to
analyze, design and implement modern industrial control system, equipment
and instrumentation using the knowledge of classical and modern control
system.

2. Psychomotor  Install Programs, and modify and maintain any Automated System using the
concepts of control system
 Implement, Operate and manage Automatic Control System,
 Adapt reverse engineering in the field of Control Engineering
 Construct, Install, Control, Operate and Maintain Electrical Machines using
the concept of power enginnering
 Construct, Install, Operate and Maintain Power Electronic Devices,

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  Prepare specifications of various Electrical Equipment,
 Apply reverse Engineering to control Systems, Power Electronics,
Electrical Machines and Drives areas.

3. Affective  Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities of electrical engineering

in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts for reliable power
supply
 Aspire for further studies to acquire new knowledge and emerging
technologies to be a competitive electrical engineer globally.
 Communicate effectively and function within a team to collaborate and
create an inclusive environment with the scientific community and
stakeholders

6. CATEGORIZING COURSES OF THE PROGRAM INTO THEMES

The graduates’ competencies and learning outcomes of the Electrical engineering program
are assessed with the following four major thematic areas;

Sl.No. List of Thematics in the program Cr.hrs ECTS

1 Electrical Engineering Fundamentals: 12 20
2 Electronics and Digital Design 7 12
3 computer Programming 3 5
4 Electrical machines and drives 19 33
5 Control sytem 12 20
Total 53 90

7. COURSES TO BE INCLUDED IN THE EXIT EXAMINATION

The courses to be considered for the exit examination have been selected in view of assessing
the competencies and learning outcomes that graduates are expected to attain. Therefore, a
total of 14 major mandatory courses are selected for exit exams under a specified thematic
area.

S/N Themes List of Course Credit ECTS

Hour
1 Electrical Engineering Electrical Circuit analysis 6 10

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 Fundamentals: Network analysis and synthesis 3 5
Signals and System Analysis 3 5
Sub Total 12 20
2 Electronics and Electronic devices and circuit 4 7
Digital Design Digital logic design 3 5
Sub Total 7 12
3 Computer Computer programming 3 5
Programming:
Sub Total 3 5
4 Electrical Machine 7 12
Building and industrial 4 7
Electrical machines
electrical installation
and drives
Power electronics 4 7
Fundamental of electric drives 4 7
Sub Total 19 33
5 Control systems Introduction to control system 3 5
Modern control system 3 5
Process control Fundamentals 3 5
Combat Veh. Automatic 3 5
Control System
Sub Total 12 20
Total 53 90

8. CONCLUSION
The exit examination will have a vital role in improving academic programs’ quality and
effectiveness. It is clear that evaluating the graduates against the core competencies set out by
the curriculum and in line with the industrial needs would be important to enhance the trust of
the employers in the graduate’s skills. To realize this, it is important to have a guideline that
could be used as a reference to prepare for a comprehensive exit exam that could address the
relevant focus areas of the program. Based on the identified graduate profiles, competencies,
and learning outcomes four-course categories and 14 mandatory courses for the exit exam in
Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech.) in Electrical Engineering(control Engineering
Stream) are developed.

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The exam questions based on the selected courses are believed to test the cognitives,
psychomotors, and affectives domains that are expected as the attainment of the
competencies and learning outcome of Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech.) in Electrical
Engineering(control Engineering Stream).