ECE 207

Elements of Electrical Engineering

Usually offered: Fall, Spring
Required Course: No

Course Level

Undergraduate

Units

3

Instructor(s)

Michael Marefat, Associate Professor
Hal Tharp, Associate Professor

Prerequisite(s)

PHYS 241 or PHYS 251 or PHYS 261H. Prerequisite or concurrently enrolled in: MATH 254 or MATH 250B or MATH 355.

Course Texts

Seventh Edition of Electrical Engineering: Principles & Applications, by Allan R. Hambley, Pearson, 2017.

Schedule

Two 75-minute lectures per week, TTH 03:30 PM-04:45 PM.

Course Description

Specific Course Information:
2021-2022 Catalog Data: Current and voltage dividers. Resistors, capacitors, inductors. Node voltage and mesh current analysis of circuits. Thevenin and Norton circuit equivalents. AC circuits, phasors, impedance. Electromagnetic fields, electric power, transformers, magnetic materials. Operational amplifiers, Elements of digital circuits. Sensors and measurements of physical quantities.

Learning Outcomes

Specific Goals for the Course:
Outcomes of Instruction: By the end of this course the student will be able to:

1. Solve a resistive network that is excited by an AC or a DC source.
2. Solve first-order circuits involving resistors and a capacitor or an inductor.
3. Derive the differential equations associated with a circuit containing one or two energy storage elements.
4. Derive the complex impedance associated with a resistive, inductive, and capacitive load.
5. Use the ideal op-amp properties to derive the transfer function of an op-amp circuit.
6. Select a current limiting resistor in an LED circuit.
7. Create a transistor-based circuit to supply the necessary current to power a DC motor.
8. Analyze a circuit containing one or more diodes.
9. Design a collection of transistors to create logic gates.
10. Analyze an AC circuit containing resistors, inductors, and capacitors.
11. State the current/voltage relationships of resistors, inductors, and capacitors.
12. Explain the concept of circuit loading.

Course Topics

Brief list of topics to be covered:

Course Description and Introduction (Chapter 1)
Circuits, Currents, and Voltages
Power and Energy
Kirchhoff’s Current Law and Voltage Law

Resistive Circuits (Chapter 2)
Voltage-Divider and Current-Divider
Node-Voltage Analysis
Mesh-Current Analysis
Thevenin and Norton Equivalents

Inductance and Capacitance (Chapter 3)

First-Order Transients (Chapters 4)
RC Circuits
DC Steady-state
RL Circuits

Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis (Chapter 5)
Sinusoidal Currents and Voltages
Phasors
Complex Impedances
Power in AC Circuits

Operational Amplifiers (Chapter 14)
Ideal Operational Amplifiers
Amplifier Circuits
Filters

Diodes (Chapter 10)
Basic Diode Concepts
Rectifier Circuits

Computer-based Instrumentation (Chapter 9)
Sampling Frequency
Signal Conditioning
Filtering  

If Time permits, the following:
Transistors (Chapters 12 & 13)
Transistors as switches
Creating Logic Gates with Transistors
Driving High Current Loads with Transistors

Relationship to Student Outcomes

ECE 207 contributes directly to the following specific electrical and computer engineering student outcomes of the ECE department:

1. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.

Syllabus Prepared By

Syllabus updated on 3/29/2022