ECE 207

Elements of Electrical Engineering

Fall

Spring

Required Course:

Course Level

Undergraduate

Units

Prerequisite(s)

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

Course Texts

Hambley, Allan R. Electrical Engineering: Principles & Applications. 6th ed. Prentice Hall, 2014.

Schedule

150 minutes lecture per week

Course Description

Current and voltage dividers, resistors, capacitors, inductors, node voltage and mesh current analysis of circuits, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, AC circuits, phasors, impedance, electromagnetic fields, electric power, transformers, magnetic materials, generators and motors, operational amplifiers, elements of digital circuits, sensors and measurements of physical quantities.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, the student will be able to:

Solve a resistive network that is excited by an AC or a DC source
Solve first-order circuits involving resistors and a capacitor or an inductor
Derive the differential equations associated with a circuit containing one or two energy storage elements
Derive the complex impedance associated with a resistive, inductive and capacitive load
Use the ideal op-amp properties to derive the transfer function of an op-amp circuit
Select a current limiting resistor in an LED circuit
Create a transistor-based circuit to supply the necessary current to power a DC motor
Analyze a circuit containing one or more diodes
Determine the output of a collection of logic gates for a given input pattern
Analyze an AC circuit containing resistors, inductors and capacitors
State the current/voltage relationships of resistors, inductors and capacitors
Analyze a circuit containing a transformer
Design a low-pass filter with a particular bandwidth
Convert between decimal numbers and binary numbers

Course Topics

Circuits, currents and voltages
Power and energy
Kirchhoff's current and voltage laws
Resistive circuits
Inductance and capacitance
First-order transients
Sinusoidal steady-state analysis
Operational amplifiers
Diodes
Transistors (time permitting)
Magnetic circuits and transformers (time permitting)
DC machines (time permitting)
Logic (time permitting)

Relationship to Student Outcomes

ECE 207 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 (high)
Ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems

Syllabus Prepared By

Michael Marefat, 03/15/16