DELIVERY MODE

This course is offered every semester on Thursday afternoons, 3:10-6:00 PM, in Science Building basement, room 47. There is a brief introduction of the topics and activities for each week per syllabus weekly schedule.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

An introduction to the construction and measurement of electrical circuits. Basic use of electrical test and measurement instruments including multi-meters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and function generators. Use of circuit simulation software. Interpretation of measured and simulated data based on principles of circuit analysis for DC and AC conditions. Elementary circuit design. Practical considerations such as component value tolerance and non-ideal aspects of laboratory instruments. Construction and measurement of basic operational amplifier circuits.

A standard transferable sophomore level course in engineering.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Operate lab equipment for circuit analyses properly and safely.
• Build series, parallel and series-parallel circuits using resistive, capacitive and inductive elements as well as switches, potentiometers, rheostats, lamps, decade boxes and power supplies from schematic diagrams.
• Calculate voltage, current, amplitude, frequency, phase angle and power and experimentally verify the results through measurement on a variety of electrical circuits.
• Conduct experiments to verify Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, transient RL/RC/RLC circuits, and the output of a variety of electronic circuit analysis programs such as MultiSIM by: Electronic WorkBench

Add Procedure

If you decide to register for this laboratory class and found the class Closed or Full, you can place yourself on the course "Wait List".

If someone drops and there is an opening in the class, the wait listed students will be notified by email to register within a specified period.

I'd be happy to provide "Add Codes" to interested students to register for this class. Just email me a few days before the semester starts.

The Add Codes can NOT be used in Web4 system until the semester officially begins.

Textbook and Supplies