Course Descriptions

Circuit variables. Circuit elements. Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws and Thevenin's/Norton's, and superposition theorems. Circuit analysis methods. Natural and step responses of first and second order circuits. Sinusoidal steady state analysis of electrical circuits. Power and energy.

Area Elective-I

Data description. Text analysis. Summary and paraphrase of simplified research articles and data charts. IMRAD Summary. Critical thinking and logical argumentation skills to express an informed opinion. Presentation of information to an audience in an academic setting.

Critical thinking and logical argumentation. Academic research. Annotations, citations, quotations. Identification of arguments, reasoning, logical cohesion. Debates. Evaluative summary. Interview.

Introduction to basic IT theory and terminology. Basic skills in a word processor programs, such as MS Word to create documents, format text, apply styles. Basic skills in a spreadsheet program, such as MS Excel, to create and format spreadsheets, including the use of mathematical formulas and to summarize given data in the form of graphics.

Resources and scarcity; supply and demand; the mixed economy; market structure; national income, business cycles, unemployment and inflation; economic growth and productivity; money, banking and monetary policy; international trade and finance

Voltage and current, ideal basic circuit elements. Reference directions, power and energy. Ohm’s law and Kirchoff 's laws. Time-invariant resistive circuits with dependent/independent sources. Equivalent resistance calculations, Delta-to-Wye equivalent circuits. Node-voltage and mesh-current methods, source transformation, superposition. Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits. The operational amplifier. Inductance, capacitance and mutual inductance. Natural and step response of first and second-order circuits.

Phasor transform and sinusoidal steady state analysis of circuits. Ideal transformers. Power calculations for circuits with sinusoidal sources, complex power. Impedance matching for maximum power transfer. Laplace transform. Transient and steady state analysis of time invariant circuits using Laplace transform. Transfer function and impulse response. Convolution integral in circuit analysis. Frequency response and frequency selective circuits. Passive and active filter circuits. Two-port circuit characterization and analysis of terminated two-port circuits.

Introduction to laboratory equipment and measurements. Introduction to circuit simulation tools. Two-terminal passive elements. Experimental applications of the fundamental circuit principles and theorems: Ohm’s and Kirchoff’s laws, Thevenin, Norton and Superposition theorems. Usage of oscilloscope and signal generator. Capacitor. Inductor. Response of RC, RL, RLC circuits

Electrostatic fields. Dielectric properties of materials. Stationary electric currents and static magnetic fields. Time-varying electromagnetic fields. Faraday's induction. Maxwell's equations. Time-harmonic electromagnetic waves. Uniform plane waves.