| 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 | ||||||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | ||||||||
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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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| 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 | Weigthing |
| 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 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, | |||||
| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, | |||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, | |||||
| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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