COURSE
TITLE: ECE
202 Introduction to Electrical Engineering
CATALOG
DESCRIPTION: An
introduction to the concepts and applications of electrical engineering. Topics include quantization, binary
representation, performance; power spectral density, digital filtering;
fundamental limitations; control systems, Feedback systems; properties of
lasers; amplifiers, passive circuit elements, active circuit elements;
electronic devices and materials.
REQUIRED
TEXTBOOK: None.
REFERENCE TEXTBOOKS:
1.
James H. McClellan, R. W. Schafer, and M. A.
Yoder, DSP First: a Multimedia
Approach, Prentice Hall, 1998.
2.
J. R. Cogdell, Foundations of Electronics,
Prentice Hall, 1999.
3.
K. C. Pohlman, The Compact Disc Handbook, A-R Editions, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin,
1992.
4.
R. Kuc, An Introduction to Electrical
Engineering: The Digital Information
Age, PWS Publishing, 1999.
5.
M. Plonus, Electronics and Communications for
Scientists and Engineers, Harcourt/Academic Press, 2001.
COURSE
COORDINATOR: Alan V.
Sahakian
COURSE
GOALS: To
provide a broad introduction to freshmen and sophomores to the field of
electrical engineering by exploring different sub-areas of signals and systems,
circuits and electronics, photonics and electromagnetics and solid-state
engineering. This would serve to convince declared electrical engineering
majors to remain in the field, and to attract students from other majors to
join electrical engineering. Another goal is to prepare students to take some
more advanced courses in each of the fields of electrical engineering. The
concepts are applied to
hands-on laboratory assignments that includes
the design of a CD player.
PREREQUISITES: GEN ENG 205-3.
DETAILED
COURSE TOPICS:
Week
1: Intro to course, overview of EE, CD player
block diagram, CD player as a communications system, digital vs. analog
representation of signals.
Week
2: Quantization, binary representation,
performance: bit error rate, time and frequency domains, analog filtering.
Week
3: Power spectral density, sampling and aliasing,
digital filtering.
Week
4: Fundamental limitations: power, bandwidth,
noise, Shannon capacity formula, error control.
Week
5: Anatomy of a control system, feedback systems,
open and closed-loop, tradeoffs in system design, digital control of analog
systems, stability.
Week
6: Midterm, optical components in a CD player,
laser operation.
Week
7: Properties of laser beams: lenses, diffraction
limit, storage capacity, modulation, read-write CDs, detection of light.
Week
8: Amplifiers, passive circuit elements, active
circuit elements.
Week
9: Devices: diodes, LEDs, FETs, BJTs, lasers and
detectors.
Week
10: Materials and solid state engineering:
solid-state concepts, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors.
COMPUTER
USAGE:
Use of PSPICE for circuit modeling and simulation.
Use of MATLAB to illustrate signals and systems
concepts.
HOMEWORK
ASSIGNMENTS:
Weekly homeworks to test and reinforce concepts
taught in class.
LABORATORY
PROJECTS:
1. An
example of a modern electronic system:
the compact disc player.
2. Introduction
to instrumentation.
3. Introduction
to error-control coding.
4. Introduction
to control systems.
5. Synthesis
of sinusoidal signals.
6. Lenses
and optical wave guides.
7. Introduction
to solid state engineering.
GRADES:
Homeworks – 10%
Labs – 40%
Exams – 50%
COURSE
OBJECTIVES: When a student completes this course, s/he
should be able to:
1. Have
an understanding of the field of electrical engineering and an awareness of the
various topics related to this field.
2. Have a
basic understanding of linear passive circuits, mixed digital/analog circuits
and electronics.
3. Apply
basic concepts to digital and analog signal representations and filtering.
4. Have
a basic understanding of how a electrical system works overall.
5. Have
an exposure to some exciting labs which can relate to some electronic equipment
that students see in their day-to-day lives.
ABET CONTENT CATEGORY: 100% Engineering.