Courses

Students will take three courses; Electrical Engineering 215 (4-credit) and Engineering 496 (1-credit) on the campus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) just outside of Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Professor: Prof. Tai Chen

TA: Kevin Shao

EE 215:

EE215 will cover basic circuit and systems concepts, mathematical models of components, Kirchhoff's laws, resistors, sources, capacitors, inductors, and operational amplifiers, and solution of first and second order linear differential equations associated with basic circuit forms. The class consists of four weekly 2-hour lectures, two or three 2-hour weekly quiz sessions, weekly homeworks or quizzes, one midterm exam and one final exam. 

Prerequisite: Either MATH 136, or MATH 126 and either MATH 307 or AMATH 351, either of which may be taken concurrently; PHYS 122. 

Textbook: James W. Nilsson and Susan Riedel, Electric Circuits, 12th edition, Prentice Hall.

Lab kits: All students will work with a lab kit, which you will receive when you arrive at EPFL. You will also need to bring your own multimeter to do measurements on the circuits that you will build in the lab sessions. Multimeters can be lent out from the EE store.

Computer: A laptop or tablet will be required to access lecture notes, homework, online quizzes, and exams.

ENG 496:

The Engineering 496 course will explore many of the technical and cultural sites in Switzerland. Planned excursions including the CERN research facility and the Large Hadron Collider, the Olympic Museum, and a city tour in Lausanne. In addition to the cultural visits, students will also have a series of lectures and lab sessions at EPFL from local instructors and guest speakers.