ME6 (Mechanical Engineering Dept.): Basic Electrical and Electronic Circuits, Winter 2016

Cource Description

This course has been designed to introduce fundamental principles of circuit theory commonly used in engineering research and science applications. Specifically, it should introduce techniques and principles of electrical circuit analysis including basic concepts such as voltage, current, resistance, impedance, Ohm's and Kirchoff's law, basic electric circuit analysis techniques (e.g. Methods of Analysis and Transformations, Thevenin and Norton Equivalent circuits), operational amplifiers, first order circuits, filters, second order circuits. Tentative Syllabus: Here

Instructor

Dr. Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis
Room 5156, Harold Frank Hall,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng.,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA 93106-9560 USA
E-mail: kyriakos at ece.ucsb.edu
Website: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~kyriakos/
Telephone: +1 (805)-893-7785

Office Hours

Please email or phone me in advance to schedule for an appointment. If you have any questions about the course, please send me email. I will try to respond as quickly as possible. Additionally, I will share questions that are particularly good (and their answers) with the rest of the class by broadcasting my answer to the entire class. If you plan to come to office hours for questions about homework, please be prepared to show attempts at solving the problem that you prepared before coming.

Lecture Time and Place

Webb Hall, Room 1100, Mon and Wed 12:00pm-12:50pm

Course Credit

Units: 4

Prerequisites

Physics 3-3L and Mathematics 3C or 4A (open to ME majors only).

Textbook

The course will follow closely:

• Charles Alexander, Matthew Sadiku, Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2012 (ISBN-13: 978-0073380575). Details available here.

Website

The website for this course will be maintained on GauchoSpace. All students registered in this class should add this course on their GauchoSpace.