Credits: 2
Structure/Schedule: One 75-minute lecture per week, one three-hour laboratory session per week
Prerequisites: None
Co-requisites:
Math 103 College Algebra
EE 101 & EE 101L are co-requisites of each other
Catalog Description: A broad overview of electrical engineering, including an introduction to analog and digital circuitry. Practical exercises using the EE department's computer-based applications software and lab equipment.
Topics Covered:
• Basic analog circuit theory including voltage, current, resistance
• Basic analog circuit analysis including Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws, conservation of power, resistor network reduction
• Capacitors and simple RC circuits
• Building a TTL function generator with a 555 timer
• Basic intro to diodes and operational amplifiers
• Thevenin & Norton equivalent circuits
• Sinusoidal signals and equations
• Basic digital circuit theory including binary and hex counting systems, truth tables, boolean functions, logic diagrams, Karnaugh map reduction, logic IC chips, system design
• Introduction to sequential logic and timing diagrams
Recommended Textbook (but not required):
Electronics
Crecraft & Gorham
2nd edition, CRC Press, 2003.
Lectures: T from 11:00 - 12:15 in Workman 113
Labs:
- Section 1: F from 14:00 - 17:00 in Workman 116
- Section 2: R from 14:00 - 17:00 in Workman 116
Homework Assignments
CCS Tutoring
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