## ECE 209 - Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering **Subject & Number:** ECE 209 **Title:** Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering **Course Career** **Units**: 3 **Approved Hours:** 3-0-3/2 **Fee index:** 8 **Faculty:** [Faculty of Engineering]{.mark} **Department:** **Typically Offered:** EITH/SP/SU ### Calendar Description [Physical concepts of passive circuit elements, Kirchhoff\'s laws and DC circuit equations. Energy concepts, time domain analysis of AC circuits. Impedance, complex numbers and phasor algebra. AC power concepts, resonance, three phase circuits, introduction to machines. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 209, E E 239, ECE 202, or E E 240, unless approved by the Department.]{.mark} ### Course Objectives & General Content The aim of this course is to enable student to understand and analyze electrical circuits containing both DC and AC sources using circuit analysis techniques. These techniques include mesh analysis, nodal analysis, superposition, substitution, as well as others. Additional topics include complex power in RLC circuits, as well as polyphase circuits. ### Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course, students should be able to: 1\. Articulate the basic concepts of electrical circuits such as charge, voltage, current, and power. 2\. Calculate the power provided, dissipated, and stored by circuit elements such as resistors, capacitors and inductors. 3\. Formulate Ohm\`s law and Kirchhoff\`s laws and employ them in the context of electrical circuits containing resistors, capacitors, and inductors. 4\. Recognize circuit elements that are placed in series, parallel, wye, or delta configuration and restructure the circuit accordingly. 5\. Design resistive circuits and analyze their DC response using techniques such as nodal analysis, loop analysis, the superposition theorem, the substitution theorem, and the Thvenin/Norton theorems. 6\. Analyze the transient behavior of RLC electrical circuits. 7\. Design RLC circuits and analyze their steady-state AC response using techniques such as nodal analysis, loop analysis, the superposition theorem, the substitution theorem, and the Thvenin/Norton theorems. 8\. Perform the steady-state power analysis of RLC electrical circuits and apply the concepts of complex power and power-factor correction. 9\. Design polyphase circuits and analyze them with respect to line currents, line voltage, phase voltages and associated complex power. ### Textbooks and References Nilsson J.W., Riedel S., Electric Circuits, 12th Edition, Pearson, 2022 ECE 209 Lecture Notes, Available on eClass ### **Assessment Details** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Activity** **(A)Synchronous** **Due/Scheduled** **Weight** --------------------- -------------------- ------------------- ------------ Assignments Asynchronous Due as scheduled 10% Lab reports Asynchronous Due as scheduled 15% Midterm exam Synchronous October 23, 2023 25% Final exam Synchronous To be determined 50% --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ### Course Schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------ **Lab Topic** **Date** ---------------------------------------------------- ------------- Lab 1: Lab 1 - Intro to DC Circuits 2023-10-02 Lab 2: Lab 2 - Circuit Theorems 2023-10-16 Lab 3: Lab 3 - Intro to AC Circuits 2023-10-30 Lab 4: Lab 4 - Phasors and AC Power 2023-11-20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | **Topic** | **Time | **Concepts to be | | | in | learned** | | | weeks** | | +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | Fundamentals of Electric | 2 | Circuit variables, | | Circuits | | Circuit elements, | | | | Conventions of | | Lecture Notes: Chapter 1 | | circuits, | | Textbook: Chapters 1 and 2 | | Kirchhoff's voltage | | | | law, Kirchhoff's | | | | current law, | | | | Resistors, Ohm's law | +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | Circuit Reduction | 1 | Equivalent | | | | Resistance, Current | | Lecture Notes: Chapter 1 | | and voltage division | | Textbook: Chapter 3 | | as a result of | | | | parallel or series | | | | connections | +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | Node and Mesh Analysis Lecture | 2 | Application of node | | Notes: Chapter 2 Textbook: | | and mesh analysis, | | Chapter 4 | | Cases with dependent | | | | sources | +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | Circuit Theorems | 2 | Superposition, | | | | Terminal | | Lecture Notes: Chapter 2 | | characteristics, | | Textbook: Chapter 4 | | Thevenin's Theorem, | | | | Source | | | | transformation, | | | | Maximum power | | | | transfer | +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | Capacitors and Inductors | 1 | Capacitance and | | | | inductance, Voltage, | | Lecture Notes: Chapter 3 | | current, power, and | | | | energy relations in | | Textbook: Chapter 6 (sections | | capacitors and | | 6.1 to 6.3) | | inductors, Series | | | | and parallel | | | | connections | +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | AC Circuits | 2 | AC, The meaning of | | | | phasors, Reduction | | Lecture Notes: Chapter 4 | | of ordinary | | Textbook: Chapter 9 | | differential | | | | equations to | | | | algebraic equations, | | | | Use of the impedance | | | | concept, Resonance | | | | concept | +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | Power in AC Circuits | 1 | Real, reactive, | | | | apparent, and | | Lecture Notes: Chapter 5 | | complex power, Power | | Textbook: Chapter 10 | | factor, Power factor | | | | correction | +---------------------------------+---------+----------------------+ | Three-Phase Circuits | 1 | Delta (D) and Wye | | | | (Y) connections, | | Lecture Notes: Chapter 6 | | Per-phase circuit | | Textbook: Chapter 10 | | analysis, Power | | | | calculations | +=================================+=========+======================+