Units: 5 (3 Lecture/1 Discussion/1 Laboratory)
Prerequisites: (ENG 017 C- or better or ENG 17V C- or better); (MAT 022B or MAT 027B). Restricted to the following majors: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering/Materials Science, Optical Science Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Graduate Students.
Catalog Description: Theory, application and design of analog circuits. Methods of analysis including frequency response, SPICE simulation, and Laplace transform. Operational amplifiers and design of active filters. GE Credit: QL, SL, VL
ABET Student Outcomes:
1) The student will be able to identify the appropriate time-domain or frequency-domain techniques to analyze a given electric circuit. The student will also be able to design, simulate, and implement basic passive and active filters to meet given specifications.
2) Students who have completed this course should have achieved:
a) Student Outcome 1: an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
b) Student Outcome 2: an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
c) Student Outcome 3: an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
d) Student Outcome 5: an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
Expanded Course Description:
I. Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis
A. Response to sinusoidal source
B. Phasors
C. Impedance as a phasor representation of circuit elements
D. Techniques of circuit analysis using phasor representations
II. The Operational Amplifier
A. Introduction to the operational amplifier
B. The ideal operational amplifier
C. Inverting, non-inverting, summing, and difference amplifiers
D. Non-ideal models of operational amplifiers
III. Passive and Active Filters
A. The frequency response
B. Passive low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and band-reject filters
C. Active low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and band-reject filters
D. The Butterworth filter
E. Bode diagrams
IV. The Laplace Transform
A. Definition of the Laplace transform
B. Laplace transform of the step and the impulse functions
C. Properties of the Laplace transform
D. Inverse transforms and partial fraction expansion
E. Techniques of circuit analysis using the Laplace transform
F. The transfer function
G. The impulse response and the convolution integral
V. The Fourier Series
A. Introduction to Fourier series of periodic signals
B. The trigonometric Fourier series
C. The complex Fourier series
D. Fourier series in circuit analysis
VI. Two-Port Circuits
A. Two-port parameters
B. Analysis of two-port circuits
C. Interconnected two-port circuits