TECH 3821
TECH 3821
Industrial Electronics
Fall 2026

Instructor Info

Daniel Kohn
Email: dekohn@memphis.edu
Office ET218
Office Hours

Course Info

Course Policies
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Textbooks

All About Circuits Vol III - Semiconductors
Lessons In Industrial Instrumentation (for 2nd half of course) (Tony R. Kuphaldt) / CC BY 4.0

Course Outline

DateTopicReadingHandoutsAssignments
Aug 25Welcome
Course Policies
   
Aug 27Intro to Industrial Control Class Notes (Intro To Control)

F-22 Raptor Crash
 
Sep 1 Switches, Relays, Motor Starters
Prox Switches
(no lab today)

Switches 101

Honeywell Basic, Toggle, and Rocker Switches

ABB Limit Switchs

Banner (Prox and Photo)
Class Notes (Switches and Relays)

Class Notes (Switches and Relays - with animation intact)

Class Notes (Prox Switch - with animation intact)

Class Notes (Prox Switch Applications)
 
Sep 3Transistors, Relay Drivers, Back EMF, Opto-Isolators, FETs, H-Bridge, PWM, IGBT's Transistor as a Switch

Opto-isolators

MOSFET as a Switch

H-Bridge intro

H-bridge in depth

H-Bridge Schematic

Pulse Width Modulation

Discrete IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors)

IGBT's

IGBT or MOSFET: Choose Wisely

Snubber Diode Video

Class Notes
Class Notes

Lab #1 - Relay Ladder Logic (Start/Stop Motor Starter). Due end of lab.
Sep 8Diodes, SCR's, Diacs and Triacs

Start of Op Amps
Diode Review
Rectifier Review
SCR's
Diacs and Triacs
SCR vs TRIAC's
Class Notes 
Sep 10Op Amps (Cont)

Start of A2D / D2A
Op Amps Reference

Instrumentation Amps

PID Control Circuit

Class Notes

Class Notes

Successive Aprox Spreadsheet
Lab #2 - Relay Driver.

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