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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify the range of scientific principles and techniques relevant to avionic engineering
   • Identify the scientific principles relating to avionic engineering
   • Research and report on avionic scientific principles using appropriate sources of information
   • Identify the techniques and associated technologies, software and hardware associated with implementing scientific principles relating to avionic engineering applications
   • Research and report on avionic techniques using appropriate sources of information
2. Select scientific principles and techniques
   • Select relevant scientific principles for specific avionic engineering situations
   • Select relevant avionic techniques and associated technologies, software and hardware for specific avionic engineering situations
3. Apply the relevant scientific principles and techniques
   • Apply applicable scientific principles in a consistent and appropriate manner to obtain any required solution
   • Use appropriate calculations and correct units to establish quantities
   • Use coherent units in equations in a systematic manner to ensure meaningful solutions
   • Use significant figures in engineering calculations
   • Obtain required solutions by applying chosen techniques and associated technologies, software and hardware in a consistent and appropriate manner
4. Document the results of the application of the avionic scientific principles and techniques
   • Document solutions involving engineering calculations in an appropriate style
   • Document solutions not involving engineering calculations in an appropriate style

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Sources of information include:	Reference texts Manufacturer’s catalogues and industrial magazines Internet search engines and websites Email The use of phone and fax Airworthiness and design authority regulations and associated advisory material
Avionic engineering refers to:	The engineering discipline concerned with the conceptual development, research, design, manufacture, implementation, installation, commissioning and maintenance of aerospace electrical, instrument, radio and electronic systems and components and related test equipment for civil and military applications
Avionic engineering applications refer to:	The description or definition of an objective or challenge within a real or simulated engineering environment or state requiring a conceptual development, design, manufacture and/or implementation and/or installation, commissioning and maintenance response to affect a solution or improvement with regard to: electrical systems and related wiring and components (power generation, distribution, control interfaces with hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and caution and warning systems) mechanical and electro-mechanical flight instruments and indication systems (quantity, pressure, temperature and position) and components electronic systems and components (communications, radio navigation, pulse, display, automatic flight control, flight management and engine management) automatic test stations, adapters and software

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria under the specified conditions of assessment, and must include:

applying advanced scientific principles relevant to avionic engineering

analysing the given situation to determine what is required in the manner of a solution

analysing the given situation to determine which avionic scientific principles are selected

selecting appropriate avionic techniques and associated technologies, software and hardware to suit the application

applying appropriate avionic principles in determining the required solution

applying and manipulating formulas and calculations for engineering applications

using the correct units to solve engineering calculations

checking the validity of equations using a systematic method for ensuring coherent units

applying avionic techniques and associated technologies, software and hardware in a manner appropriate to the application and identified scientific principles

referring solutions to the original aim of the application

quoting solutions in appropriate units and using appropriate significant figures

presenting solutions referring to the original aim of the application.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

physics – analysis and application of:

linear kinematics

planar kinematics

Newton’s Laws of Motion

friction

momentum and center of gravity

gravity

circular motion

orbital motion

rotational motion

oscillation

electronic fundamentals – determination of required values and characteristics for:

resistors, including light and voltage dependent resistors

capacitors

inductors

transformers

diodes

transistors

power amplifiers

oscillators

silicon controlled rectifiers

thyristor power control circuits

opto-couplers

selection of appropriate test equipment

digital electronics – design, construction and testing of:

clocked sequential circuits

registers

oscillators

timers

interfacing circuits

program logic array

state machines

data communications – analysis and application of:

selection of data transmission methods

universal asynchronous receiver transmitter construction

multiplexers and demultiplexers

data encryption/decryption theory

electronic circuit analysis

aerodynamics – application of:

drag and speed

power/thrust available and power/thrust required

manoeuvering flight

stability and control

strength of materials – application of:

bending and shear in beams

forces in trusses and frames

engineering concepts of stress and strain

properties of areas

torsion

mechanical properties of materials

two dimensional stress and strain, including elastic constants

computer software/programming – application of:

high level languages

algorithm design and testing

Pascal and Turbo-Pascal programming

the limitations of avionic techniques and associated technologies, software and hardware

the procedure for ensuring coherent units for meaningful solutions to equations

the concept of significant figures

the uncertainty of computations based on experimental data

the procedures for determining the significance of figures in calculations

the procedures for estimating errors in derived quantities

the method of application of the avionic techniques and associated technologies, software and hardware

the application of the calculation solution style

the significance of the non-calculation solution style.

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