| Course Name | Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| EEE 205 | Fall | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
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| Course Language | English | ||||||||
| Course Type | Required | ||||||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | ||||||||
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| Course Objectives | The course aims to introduce the concepts of the fundamental principles of electrical circuits and techniques of circuit analysis to Computer Engineering students. Topics covered include the analysis of passive dc circuits; resistive elements and circuits; independent sources; KVL and KCL, mesh currents and node voltages, linearity, superposition, Thevenin's and Norton’s equivalents; operational amplifiers; energy storage elements: inductance and capacitance; transient response of first order circuits; time constants; sinusoidal steady state analysis: phasors, impedance, average power flow, AC power, maximum power transfer, transfer function. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The following topics will be included: DC analysis of resistive networks, operational amplifiers, time-domain analysis of first order (RC, RL) circuits, analysis of complex circuits using phasor, derivation and plot of transfer functions, frequency-domain analysis of second order (RLC) circuits. |
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| Core Courses | X |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Circuit Elements and Models | Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 |
| 2 | Simple Resistive Circuits, Kirchhoff's Laws (Experiment 1: Resistors) | Chapter 3 |
| 3 | Node-Voltage Method (Experiment 2: Ohm’s Law) | Sections 4.1 - 4.4 |
| 4 | Mesh-Current Method (Experiment 3: Kirchhoff’s Current Law) | Sections 4.5 - 4.8 |
| 5 | Thevenin and Norton Equivalents, Maximum Power Transfer (Experiment 4: Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law) | Sections 4.9 - 4.12 |
| 6 | Superposition (Experiment 5: Circuit Analysis Techniques) | Section 4.13 |
| 7 | The Operational Amplifier: Basic Circuits | Sections 5.1 - 5.5 |
| 8 | The Operational Amplifier: Examples (Experiment 6: Superposition and Equivalent Circuits) | Sections 5.6 - 5.7 |
| 9 | Inductance, Capacitance, and Natural Response of RL and RC Circuits (Experiment 7: Operational Amplifiers) | Chapter 6, Chapter 7.1 - 7.2 |
| 10 | Step Response and General Solution to First Order Systems (Experiment 8: Signal Waveforms and Measurements) | Sections 7.3 - 7.7 |
| 11 | Sinusiodal Steady State | Section 9.1 - 9.5 |
| 12 | Sinusiodal Steady State (Experiment 9: Analysis of Step and Sinusiodal Responses of RC Circuits) | Sections 9.6 - 9.12 |
| 13 | Sinusoidal Steady-State Power Analysis | Chapter 10 |
| 14 | The Transfer Function, The Frequency Response, Bode Plots. (Experiment 10: The Frequency Transfer Function) | Section 14.1 - 14.3, Appendix D, Appendix E |
| 15 | Review | - |
| 16 | Review |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | J. W. Nilsson and S. A. Riedel, “Electric Circuits”, Pearson, Tenth Edition, 2015. ISBN-10:1292060549, ISBN-13: 9781292060545 |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | 1. R. M. Mersereau and J. R. Jackson, “Circuit Analysis: A Systems Approach”, Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN 0130932248. 2. C. K. Alexander and M. N. O. Sadiku, “Fundamentals of Electric Circuits”, McGraw Hill, Second Edition, 2004. 3. J. A. Svoboda, “PSpice for Linear Circuits”, Wiley, 2007, ISBN: 9780471781462. |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | 10 | 30 |
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - |
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 25 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 65 | |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 35 | |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 2 | |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - | |
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | 1 | 10 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 20 | |
| Total | 149 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
