ECE 301

Fall Semester, 2005

Circuits and Electro Mechanical Components

2:10 – 3:25 PM Tues & Thur, FH 502: Section 002

3:40 – 4:55 PM Tues & Thur, FH 502: Section 001

 

TEXT:                      Principals and Applications of Electrical Engineering, Revised 4th Edition, Giorgio.

                                  Rizzoni, McGraw-Hill, 2004.

 

INSTRUCTOR:      Walter L. Green, Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering, Ferris Hall RM 503

                                  Ph. 974-5438.  Office hours posted on door of RM 503.

 

  

         DATE                              SECTION OF TEXT                                                          TEXT MATERIAL        

 

Aug – 25 – Th                      Ch. 2: FUNDAMENTS OF ELECTRIC                            Definitions, sources, Kirchhoff’s current law                                                                           CIRCUITS:  pp. 19 - 29            

 

Aug – 30 – T                         Ch. 2:  pp 30 – 45                                                                  Kirchhoff’s voltage law, Ohm’s law

 

Sept – 01 – Th                      Ch. 2:  pp 45 – 60                                                                  series resistance, voltage division, parallel resistance 

 

Sept – 06 – T                         Ch. 3:  RESISTIVE NETWORK ANALYSIS                 node voltage method, mesh current method                                                                              pp. 73 - 90  

 

Sept – 08 – Th                      Ch. 3:  pp 93 – 101                                                                node and mesh analysis with controlled sources

 

Sept – 13 – T                         Ch. 3:  pp 101 – 112                                                              Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits 

 

Sept – 15 – Th                      Ch. 3:  pp 112 – 121                                                              more on Thevenin and Norton, maximum power transfer

                                                                                               

Sept – 20 – T                                  TEST     #  1

 

Sept – 22 -  Th                      Ch. 5:  TRANSIENT ANALYSIS                                     review test #1: writing differential equations for RL and

                                                             pp 201 - 217                                                              RC circuits, initial conditions, transient response of 1st

                                                                                                                                                order systems

 

Sept – 27 – T                      Ch. 5:   pp 217 - 235                                                 study of 1st order RC and RL circuits                                                                                                               

               

Sept – 29 – Tr                       Ch. 5:  pp 235 – 259                                                              transient response of second order RLC circuits

 

Oct – 04 – T                                  TEST      #  2

 

Oct – 06 - Th                       OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS                                          review test #2: equivalent circuit of the opamp, the ideal

                                                                                                                                                Opamp

 

                                            Class Notes, web notes                                                          

 

Oct – 11 – T                          OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS                                        inverting and non-inverting opamp circuits;

                                                Class Notes, web notes                                                       some basic functions performed with opamps

 

Oct – 13 - Th                                  NO CLASS             FALL BREAK

 

 

Oct – 18 – T                        Ch. 4:  AC NETWORK ANALYSIS                   energy storage, ideal capacitor, ideal inductor

                                                            pp. 137 – 161                                                             time dependent signals, average and RMS values

 

 

 

 

Oct – 20 – Th                              NO CLASS          ENGINEERING DAY

 

 

Oct – 25 – T                          Ch. 4:  pp. 161 – 179                                                             phasor solution of circuits with sinusoidal

                                                                                                                                                excitation, impedance, admittance

 

Oct – 27 – Th                        Ch. 4:  pp. 170 – 190                                                             AC steady state circuit analysis

 

Nov – 01 – T                                         TEST      #  3

 

Nov – 03 – Th                       Ch. 7:  AC POWER                                            review test #3,  instantaneous and average power, power

                                                            pp 328 - 342                                                               factor

 

Nov – 08 – T                         Ch. 7:  pp 342 – 355                                                              complex power, power factor correction

                                               

Nov – 10 – Th                       Ch. 7:  pp 355 – 364                                                              transformers, ideal transformer, linear transformer

 

Nov -  15 – T                         Ch. 6:  FREQUENCY RESPONSE                                       sinusoidal frequency response, system transfer functions

                                                       AND SYSTEM CONCEPTS

                                                       pp 269 – 289

 

Nov – 17 – Th                       Ch. 6:  pp 285 – 308                                                              Bode plots, low pass, high, band pass filters

 

Nov – 22 – T                                      TEST       #   4

 

Nov – 24 – Th                            NO   CLASS                  THANKSGIVING

 

Nov – 29 – T                         Ch. 17:  INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRIC                        review test 4, rotating electric machines, basic operation

                                                              MACHINES                                                            operation of rotating machines

                                                              PP 851 – 864

 

Dec – 01 – Th                       Ch. 17:  pp 864 – 881                                                            dc machines

 

Dec – 06 – T                          Ch. 17: pp 887 – 906                                                             ac machines

 

 

FINAL EXAMINATION:    2:10 – 3:25 Section:  5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Ferris Hall 502,  Wednesday, December 14

                                                     3:40 – 4:55 Section:  5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Ferris Hall 502,  Tuesday, December 13

 

 

GRADING:

 

              Drop the lowest test. 

 

                Three tests @      18% each:     54%          

 

                Homework:                                  10%        ( Late homework receives zero credit )

 

               Opamp Project:                          5%

 

               Attendance:                                 1%       (You are allowed to miss two class to receive this credit)

 

                Final:                                            30%

 

Anyone with an average of  90%  or greater will not be required to take the final exam. 

 

A:  90 –100;     B+: 86 – 89;     B: 80 – 85;         C+:  76 – 79;        C:  70 – 75;     D: 60 – 69:     F:   Below 60