EECE 210 Syllabus, Fall 2011

American University of Beirut Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Course Syllabus Fall Semester 2011 – 2012 Course Number and Title EECE 210 Electric Circuits Credit hours 3 credits hours Catalogue Description A course on fundamentals of electric circuits; basic elements and laws; techniques of circuit analysis: node voltage, mesh current, Thevenin, Norton, and source transformation; inductors, capacitors, mutual inductance, and transformers; transient response of RC, RL, and RLC circuits; steady state AC circuits; power calculations; circuit simulation using SPICE. Required or Elective Required of CCE and ECE students Prerequisites Mathematics: Algebra and calculus, including complex numbers Physics: High-school physics, including electricity and magnetism Textbook  Sabah, N.H.: Electric Circuits and Signals. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. (Chapters 1-7, and Chapter 9) Course Objectives The objectives of the course are to: Correlates to program objectives Introduce students to the general field of electric circuits 1, 2 Highlight the relevance of electric circuits to engineering 1 Impart a sound understanding of basic concepts of electric circuits 1 Instruct students in techniques for analyzing electric circuits 1,2 Foster problem solving skills 1,2 Course Topics  Circuit variables: electric current, voltage, and power; assigned positive directions  Active circuit elements: ideal, independent and dependent, voltage and current sources  Passive circuit elements: ideal resistors, Ohm’s law and power dissipation; capacitors; inductors  Basic circuit laws: Kirchhoff’s current law, Kirchhoff’s voltage law and their application to series and parallel connections of elements, -Y transformation, and source transformation  Basic analysis of resistive circuits: node-voltage and mesh-current methods; superposition  Circuit simplification techniques: Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalent circuits; substitution theorem; source rearrangement; removal of redundant elements  Sinusoidal steady-state: response to complex excitation; phasors and phasor relations of circuit elements; impedance and reactance; circuit representation in the frequency domain; phasor diagrams  Mutual inductance, linear and ideal transformers; reflection of circuits; transformer imperfections  Power relations: instantaneous and average power, complex power, power factor correction, maximum power transfer  Measurement of current, voltage and power; effect of finite resistance of measuring instruments  Responses to periodic inputs: Fourier series; symmetry properties; circuit responses to periodic inputs; average power and rms values Course Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, students should be able to: Correlates to program outcomes* H M L Understand the concepts of current, voltage, power, and energy and their interrelations A Understand the basic attributes of voltage sources, current sources, resistors, capacitors, inductors and their voltage-current relations a, e Apply KCL and KVL to basic analysis of electric circuits K Analyze resistive circuits by the node-voltage method, mesh-current method, or superposition K e Derive TEC and NEC between specified terminals of an electric circuit K e Simplify a circuit by using the substitution and source absorption theorems, or by rearranging sources, or by removing redundant elements K e Represent circuits in the frequency domain in terms of phasors and impedances or admittances K e m Apply circuit relations and theorems in the frequency domain in order derive steady-state sinusoidal responses K e Analyze circuits that include linear or ideal transformers K e a Analyze power circuits in terms of real, reactive, and complex power and apply these to power factor correction K e, m Apply the condition for maximum power transfer and determine the maximum power transferred K h Derive the Fourier series expansion of a periodic function K m a Determine the response of a circuit to a periodic input K a Simulate basic electric circuits using PSpice K a * H: High correlation, M: Medium correlation, L: Low correlation Resources Textbook PSpice Moodle Evaluation Methods Final exam 40% Quizzes (3) 48% PSpice Quiz 12% Professional Components Engineering topics: 90% General education: 0% Mathematics and basic sciences: 10% Person(s) who prepared this description and date of preparation Karim Kabalan, Fadi Karameh and Nassir Sabah, Sept 2008 Date of last revision Sep 2009