ELEC ENG 2EI5
Electronic Devices and Circuits I
(Winter 2008)

Last updated December 25, 2007

Instructor:          Yaser M. Haddara          CRL-228, Ext. 24968          yaser@mcmaster.ca          http://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~yaser Classes        TRF  11:30 – 12:20 Tutorials        M   10:30 – 11:20   CNH-104        T       1:30 – 2:20     PC-155 Office Hours        TR   2:30 – 4:00        W    10:00 – 11:00        Other times as available or by appointment	Detailed course outline Instructions for quizzes, tutorials, and course logbook Instructions for labs and mini design project Lecture summaries & text sections Test grades & answers Exam file Formula sheet

Teaching Assistants:

Ahmed Fakhr CRL-231 Ext. 27762 fakhrad@mcmaster.ca	Awad Dabbo ITB-239 Ext. 26070 dabboab@grads.ece.mcmaster.ca
Mohamed Rabie CRL-231 Ext. 27762 rabiema@mcmaster.ca	Sina Nia-Kosari ITB-A102 Ext. 22009 sinania@grads.ece.mcmaster.ca
Walid Shinwari CRL-110 Ext. 27378 shinwamw@mcmaster.ca	Munir El-Desouki CRL-110 Ext. 27378 mdesouki@grads.ece.mcmaster.ca
Sutharsan Sivagnanam ITB-A202 Ext. 23151 suthar@grads.ece.mcmaster.ca	Amin Behnad ITB-A103 Ext. 26112 behnad@grads.ece.mcmaster.ca

Textbook:

Required Texts

R.C. Jaeger and T.N. Blalock. Microelectronic Circuit Design. 3rd edition. McGraw-Hill.
M.H. Bakr. Laboratory Manual for EE 2EI5. Custom courseware, McMaster bookstore.

Reference Texts

Sedra & Smith. Microelectronic Circuits. Oxford University Press.
Neaman. Electronic Circuit Analysis and Design. 2nd Edition. McGraw-Hill.
B.M. Wilamowski and R.C. Jaeger. Computerized Circuit Analysis Using SPICE Programs. McGraw-Hill.

Assessment:

Best 3 out of 4 quizzes Quizzes in tutorials Jan. 28 & 29; Feb. 11 & 12; Mar. 17 & 18; Mar. 31 & Apr. 1	15%
Labs 8 Regular Labs Prelabs Design Project	8% 2% 4%
Tutorials participation Tutorials begin week of Jan. 21 Best 7 out of 10 tutorials	3%
Course Logbook	3%
Midterm   Wednesday February 27 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.	20%
Final Exam	45%

Only the McMaster standard calculator (Casio fx991) is allowed in quizzes & exams.

ARIS and Practice Problems:

• Problems sets will become available on ARIS (McGraw-Hill’s online Assessment, Review, and Instruction System that comes bundled with your text) on a roughly weekly basis.
• Detailed solutions for some of the practice problems will be available interactively in ARIS.
• The remaining solutions, plus the complete solutions manual for text problems, will be posted on a chapter by chapter basis a few days to a week after each chapter is concluded.
• Problem sets will not be submitted or graded.
• Practice problems are a key tool for understanding the material and gaining proficiency in the application of course concepts.
• You should not expect quiz or test problems to look like problems in the homework sets. Quiz and test problems are specifically selected to look different. But they test the same concepts. Therefore,
  • Students who have used the practice problems to learn certain “templates” or “patterns” in order to match them on tests will have considerable difficulty with test problems.
  • Students who have used the practice problems to master the course concepts will have little or no difficulty with test problems.

Policy Reminders

THE INSTRUCTOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE THE FORMAT OF ANY DEFERRED MIDTERMS OR DEFERRED FINAL EXAMS (I.E. FORMAT MAY BE WRITTEN OR ORAL).

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