Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

EECS 2300 eLECTRIC cIRCUITS i Course Syllabus

Credits/Contact Hours
4 credits/150 minutes (2.5 hours) classroom contact per week, plus 2.5 hours of lab contact per week.
Textbook
C. Alexander and M. Sadiku, “Fundamentals of Electric Circuits,” McGraw-Hill, 7th edition, 2021. B. Ryan, “Electric Circuits I Laboratory Manual,” posted on the course web site.
Course Information
An introduction to electrical circuit components and laws, including ideal op-amps, DC circuit analysis, AC circuit analysis, transient analysis of RL and RC circuits and computer-aided circuit analysis.

Corequisite: PHYS 2140. Required for CSE, EE and BIOE majors.

1. Specific Goals - Student Learning Objectives (SLOs)
   understand the interrelationships between charge, current, voltage, power and energy as applied to an electric circuit.
2. define the terminal relationships of one-port linear circuit Elements.
3.  apply the fundamental laws and theorems of electric circuit Analysis.
4. analyze ideal operational amplifier circuits and design basic functions.
5.  perform transient analysis of first-order circuits.
6.  understand the properties of sinusoidal sources, perform steady state circuit analysis using phasors and calculate single-phase AC power

 Assemble and analyze electric circuits in a laboratory setting, documenting experiments in formal written lab reports

Topics
1. Voltage, current, power and energy.

2. Circuit elements: sources, resistance and Kirchhoff’s laws.

3. Simple resistive circuits, voltage and current division and meters.

4. Nodal and mesh analysis. 5. Introduction to Operational Amplifiers. 6. Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems.

5. Inductors and capacitors.

6. Transient response of RL and RC circuits.

7. Sinusoidal sources, the phasor, steady state analysis and AC power.

8. Computer-aided circuit analysis.

9. Laboratory experiments