Electric Circuits and Systems

ECE 201 – 501/701 Fall 2010-2011

ELECTRIC CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS

TEXT: Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, 9th, Wiley, 2008, Irwin & Nelms.

DATE SUBJECT CH. Homework Due DATE

1-Sept. 20 Basics, waveforms, 1: See Handout Sept. 27

Independent Sources

2- Sept. 27 Conductivity, Ohm's law, 2: See Handout Oct. 4

Kirchhoff’s Laws,

3- Oct. 4 Series & Parallel Ckts, 2: See Handout Oct. 18

Dependant Sources,

Transformations

4- Oct. 11 Columbus Day Holiday – No class

5- Oct. 18 Node & Mesh Analysis 3: See Handout Oct. 25

Superposition, 5: See Handout Oct. 25

Thévenin Theorem

6- Oct. 25 Norton, Max. Power. 5: See Handout Nov. 1

MID-TERM EXAM I

Capacitance & Inductance, 6: See Handout Nov. 1

Initial Conditions.

7- Nov. 1 AC Steady-State Phasors, 8: See Handout Nov. 8

Complex Numbers

8- Nov. 8 Source-free Ckts, 1st Order, 7: See Handout Nov. 15

RL & RC Circuits, Dif.Eq.

9- Nov. 15 Forced 1st Order Ckts 7: 7: See Handout Nov. 22

10- Nov. 22 Second Order Circuits 7: See Handout Nov. 29

11- Nov. 29 Complete Response 7: See Handout Dec. 6

Quizzes Every Week

Midterm Exam October 25, 2010

Final Exam December 6, 2010

WebSite: www.ece.drexel.edu/courses/ECE-201/

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ECE 201

COURSE POLICY

Goals:

The goals of this course are to introduce you to basic circuit elements, circuit laws, and circuit theorems and to develop circuit analysis methods for solving circuits. Energy storage circuit elements will be introduced along with their energy properties. AC steady-state sinusoidal circuit analysis will be introduced. Finally, first and second order circuit solutions will be covered.

Homework and Quizzes:

Homework assignments must be turned in and will count up to 5%. Working problems of the type assigned for homework is the best way to practice for quizzes and exams. Homework assignments must be turned in on time as answers will be distributed when the assignments are collected. When you turn in your homework print your name and section clearly written on top of the first page and fasten all pages together.

Each week you will have a one-problem quiz on the material just covered. No make-ups will be given. At least the two lowest quiz grades will be omitted from the final grade calculation.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

NO MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN (without prior notification).

Instructor: Dr. L. Hrebien

Office Bossone 310

215-895-6755

TA: George Sworo

Office Bossone 333

215-895-1740

Grading:

Quizzes 30%

Midterm 30%

Final Exam 40%

Homework 5 % Up to 5% extra for homework.

105%

Prerequisite: PHYS 102 or Equivalent; students must pass Physics of E&M before taking ECE-201. Also, it should be noted ECE-201 is prerequisite for the Systems courses in the pre-junior year. These three courses make up an important series of introductory courses in the ECE curriculum.

Cheating: Any student cheating in a quiz, midterm, or final will receive a zero on that test. In addition the ECE Department Committee on Cheating will be notified and the student will have to meet with the chair of the committee for further action.

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