ECE 320A
Circuit Theory
Fall
Spring
Required Course:
Yes
Course Level
Undergraduate
Units
3
Prerequisite(s)
MATH 254 and ECE 220
Course Texts
Nilsson, James W., and Susan A. Riedel. Electric Circuits. 10th ed. Prentice Hall, 2015.
Schedule
150 minutes lecture per week
Course Description
Electric circuits in the frequency domain; using sinusoidal steady-state, Laplace and Fourier methods; single-phase and three-phase power; time domain methods and convolution; transformed networks; natural frequencies; poles and zeros; two-port network parameters; Fourier series analysis.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Calculate the complex power, in terms of real and reactive components, in single-phase sinusoidal, steady-state systems
- Design a reactive load that improves a system’s power factor
- Convert wye-connected reactive loads to delta-connected reactive loads and vice versa
- Solve for line currents, line voltages, phase currents, and phase voltages in arbitrarily interconnected balanced, three-phase circuits
- Convert a given electrical circuit into its s-domain equivalent representation
- Apply the Laplace transform operator to generic waveforms and calculate the inverse Laplace transform of a given s-domain function
- Solve for currents and voltages in generic RLC circuits
- Model RLC circuits with transfer functions.
- Calculate the output waveform from an input waveform and a system’s transfer function
- Apply the initial value and final value theorems
- Convolve two waveforms
- Design simple passive frequency selective filters
- Sketch the Bode diagrams associated with a transfer function
- Design active frequency selective filters
- Develop a Fourier series expansion for a periodic waveform
- Calculate, using the Fourier series concept, a linear system’s output response when a periodic input waveform is applied to the linear system, if time permits
Course Topics
- Sinusoidal steady-state power calculations (5 classes)
- Balanced three-phase circuits (3 classes)
- Introduction to the Laplace transform (4 classes)
- The Laplace transform in circuit analysis (6 classes)
- Convolution (3 classes)
- Bode plots and frequency response (2 classes)
- Introduction to frequency-selective circuits (1 class)
- Active filter circuits (2 classes)
Relationship to Student Outcomes
ECE 320A contributes directly to the following specific electrical and computer engineering student outcomes of the ECE department:
- Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (high)
- Ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints, such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability and sustainability (low)
- Ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems (high)
- Have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context (low)
Syllabus Prepared By
Steven L. Dvorak, Hal Tharp; 03/03/16