AMIE Section B EEE Exam case studies
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The Section A & B Examination is the examination route administered by The Institution of Engineers (India), commonly referred to as the AMIE Section B stage. IEI describes itself as India's voice of engineering and has existed since 1920, and it lists the Section A&B Examination under its Education and CPD examinations menu, alongside Instructions and Guidelines, Registrations of Section B, and Laboratory Experiments. The AMIE Section B EEE Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 3,719 words.
1Undervoltage During Motor Start on a Weak 11 kV Feeder
A 2.2 MW, 11 kV, 6-pole cage induction motor with a locked-rotor current of 6.0 times full-load current and a locked-rotor power factor of 0.30 is fed from an 11 kV bus. The upstream supply has a short-circuit level of 95 MVA at the bus (X/R = 8).
757 words, about 4 min2Crosstalk and Return Path in a Mixed-Signal PCB
A 6-layer board carries a 14-bit, 10 MSPS ADC. Layer stack (top to bottom): signal, ground plane, signal, power plane, signal, ground plane.
715 words, about 4 min3Cache Coherence Bug in a Dual-Core Firmware Update
A dual-core ARM Cortex-A53 SoC runs Linux on core 0 and a bare-metal real-time task on core 1. The two cores share a 512 KB SRAM region used as a message ring buffer.
713 words, about 4 min4Gearbox Bearing Failure on a 1500 rpm Drive Train
A 75 kW, 4-pole induction motor drives a belt conveyor through a two-stage helical gearbox. Motor speed is 1480 rpm; gearbox ratio is 25:1; output shaft speed is about 59 rpm.
735 words, about 4 min5Slope Stability for a Road Cut in Weathered Clay
A new 8 m high road cut is to be made in a stiff, overconsolidated clay with a unit weight of 19 kN/m3, effective cohesion c' = 15 kPa, effective friction angle phi' = 22 degrees, and a groundwater table at 6 m depth. The proposed slope angle is 45 degrees.
799 words, about 4 min