EE 210

Title: INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Credits: 3

Catalog Description: Basic components and principles of Electrical circuits: circuit elements variables and measuring devices. Kirchoff’s laws, loop and nodal analysis. Network response to DC, exponential and sinusoidal excitation: switching networks, impedances, network functions, Fourier series, phasor methods, real and reactive power, power factor, transformers and three-phase systems. 

Coordinator: Kerem Harmancı, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.

Goals: To introduce the basic principles of Electrical Engineering to non-electrical engineers. To present the student with the analytical and computational tools (especially circuit analysis) needed to solve practical problems.

Learning Objectives:

1. Solve steady state resistive linear R-L-C circuits which contain both  dependent and independent AC and/or DC sources.
2. Predict  the transient response and the frequency response of second-order R-L-C circuits. .
3. Design measuring devices containing transducers and R-L-C circuits.
4. Design amplifiers and clippers containing diodes, transistors or operational amplifiers .

Reference Texts:

1. J.R. Codgell, Foundations of Electrical Circuits, McGrawHill 1999.
2. J.W. Nillson, Electric Circuits, Addison Wesley, 1990

• Basic differential and integral calculus

1. Resistive Network Analysis (2 weeks)
2. AC Network Analysis. (2 weeks)
3. Transient Analysis. (1 weeks)
4. Frequency Response of Circuits. (1 week)
5. AC Power. (1 weeks)
6. Semiconductors and Diodes (1 week)
7. Transistors (1 week)
8. Operational Amplifier ( 1 week )
9. Electronic Instrumentation ( 1 week )
10. (Time permitting) Digital Logic Circuits
11. (Time permitting) Digital Systems

Course Structure: The class meets for two lectures a week, one consisting of  two 50-minute sessions and the other, just one 50-minute session. 7-8 sets of homework problems are assigned per semester.  There are two mid-term exams and a final exam.

Computer Resources: None.

Laboratory Resources: None.

Grading:

1. Homework sets (10%)
2. Two mid-term exams (20% each).
3. A final exam (50%).

• Apply math, science and engineering knowledge.  This course is mostly about  linear circuits analysis both in AC and DC steady state.  Different tools from mathematics (differential and integral calculus, complex variables) as well as from sciences (physics) are heavily drawn upon during lectures, homework sets and exams.

• Design a system, component or process to meet desired needs. Designing measuring devices involving transducers and R-L-C or electronic components, as well as designing an amplifier or a circuit performing an analog signal processing operation using the operational amplifier have been discussed in class and related problems assigned in homework sets.

Prepared By: Kerem Harmancı

Last revised: May 12, 2003