ECE 240N. Introduction to Electric Circuits (3)

Prerequisites: MATH 150B, PHYS 220B and PHYS 220BL; Civil Engineering, Manufacturing Systems Engineering or Mechanical Engineering major. Corequisites: ECE 240L; MATH 280 or ECE 280 or ME 280. This course introduces the theory and analysis of electrical circuits to students outside of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering majors. Circuit components covered in this course include passive components such as resistors, independent and dependent sources, switches, and active components such as diodes, bipolar junction transistors, metal-oxide semiconductor transistors, and operational amplifiers. Circuit analysis techniques covered in this course include Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s current law, Kirchhoff’s voltage law, nodal analysis, mesh analysis, source transformation, superposition principle, Thevenin’s equivalent circuit, Norton equivalent circuit, small signal analysis, and analysis in time and frequency domains. (Not available for students with credit in ECE 240.)