McMaster University

Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE2CI5 - INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

 

 

Course Outline: 2007/2008, September 2007

 

Instructor: Dr. Mohamed Bakr, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.,  P.Eng., ITB A219, x24079, mbakr(at)mail.ece.mcmaster.ca

 

Teaching Assistants: Khodayari-Rostamabad 
                                         Reza Khalej Amineh
                                        Yang Dong
                                        Xiaying Zhu
                                        Xi 
                                        Mohamed A. Swillam 
                                        Ran 
                                        Peipei Zhao
                                        Samavati
      

 

Lectures: Tuesday 9:30 am -10:20 am, CNH B107

                  Wednesday 9:30 am -10:20 am, CNH B107

                  Friday  9:30 am -10:20 am, CNH B107

 

Official Tutorial: Tuesday  12:30 pm -1:20 pm, TSH/B105

           

Office Hours: One hour after each lecture.

 

Course Objective: This course offers an introduction to many of the concepts used very often in electrical engineering.  The analysis of circuits containing inductances, capacitances and resistances is discussed in both the time domain and the frequency domain.  The Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, widely used in electronics, are discussed in details.  We also discuss the phasor analysis of currents and voltages for the sinusoidal excitation case. 

 

Outline of Topics: 

 

1. Introduction: current and voltage

2. Ohm’s Law, power and energy

3. Series circuits

4. Parallel circuits

5. Capacitance

6. Thevenin and Norton Equiv. Ccts

7. Inductance

8. Review of Complex Numbers

9. Phasors

10. Response of circuits to sinusoidal excitations

11. Impedance, admittance and power

 

 

Detailed Lecture Outline/Downloadable Lecture Notes (Not including examples)

 

Format: Three lectures and one official tutorial are offered per week.  The course includes 8 laboratory experiments.  Students are expected to attend all course sessions.  Important: Students must pass the combined midterm/exam component separately to get a pass in the course. The midterm and exam will be combined with the weighting 25 on the midterm and 40 on the final. A grade of 50% in this combination must be attained to pass.

 

 

Assessment:     · 1 Midterm  25%, Tuesday October 30th, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

                            · 8 Laboratory Experiments   20%

                            · 5 quizzes (conducted during tutorials)  15%

                            · Final Examination              40%

 

Student Allocation for Midterm

 

T29/101

T29/105

REF 102

 

Homeworks: Homeworks form an integral part of the course. They serve to strengthen and extend concepts covered in class. They also help you in your preparation for the labs, the quizzes, and ultimately the final exam. As such, it is crucial that you do them carefully and thoroughly. You are expected to do the homeworks by yourself. You can however consult with your classmates and discuss ideas. You can also ask me questions whenever you are stuck. The assigned problems/questions  will be given in class. Homeworks will not be graded, but it is your responsibility to make sure that you understand how to solve/answer the problems/questions. Homework answers/solutions will be posted at the beginning of the following week. 

 

Announcements: Please note that the only form of announcement concerning any form of  graded material may be that which is made in class.  The students are

responsible for completing the graded material regardless of whether they received the announcement or not.

 

 

Labs Instructions:  The instructions for all 8 laboratory experiments will be posted prior to the lab time.  Each experiment runs for two weeks.  Experiments will take place in ITBA/B107.  The eight experiments cover the following topics:

 

Lab 1:  Introduction to Instrumentation  Part 1 (September 24th –September 28th)

Lab 2:  Introduction to Instrumentation Part 2 (October 1st  -  October 5th)

No Lab: (October 8th – October 12th)

Lab 3:  Resistive Circuits (October 15th – October 19th)

Lab 4:  RC and RL Circuits (October 22nd – October 26th)

Lab 5: Square Wave Oscillator Design ( October 29th -  November 2nd)

Lab 6:  RLC Circuits (November 5th – November 9th)

Lab 7:  AC Circuits (November 12th – November 16th)

Lab 8:  PSpice Analysis of Linear circuits (November 19th- November 23rd)

 

Oscilloscope Manual

 

 

Calculator requirement for tests and examinations: Only the McMaster standard calculator (Casio fx991) may be allowed in tests and examinations.

 

Resources:

 

Recommended Text:   J. David Irwin and R. Mark Nelms, “Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis”, J. Wiley and

Sons, 8th edition.

 

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Lecture notes will be placed on the course website.  The posted lecture notes WILL NOT include any illustrative examples.

 

Previous Years Quizzes and Answers to Textbook Problems 

 

Results of Quiz1

 

Results of  Quiz2

 

Results of Quiz3

 

Result of Midterm

 

Result of Quiz4 and Quiz 5

 

 

Policy Reminders:

 

                Senate and the Faculty of Engineering require all course outlines to include the following

 reminders:

 

“The Faculty of Engineering is concerned with ensuring an environment that is free of all adverse discrimination.  If there is a problem, that cannot be resolved by discussion among the persons concerned,  individuals are reminded that they should contact the Department Chair, the Sexual Harassment Officer or the Human Rights Consultant, as soon as possible.”

 

“Students are reminded that they should read and comply with the Statement on Academic Ethics and the Senate Resolutions on Academic Dishonesty as found in the Senate Policy Statements distributed at registration and available in the Senate Office.”

 

 

"Academic dishonesty consists of misrepresentation by deception or by other fraudulent means and can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads:  "Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty"), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university.  It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty.  For information on the various kinds of academic dishonesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, specifically Appendix 3, located at
http://www.mcmaster.ca/senate/academic/ac_integrity.htm
 
The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty:
 
1         Plagiarism, e.g. the submission of work that is not one's own or for which other credit has been obtained. 
2         Improper collaboration in group work.
3         Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations.