Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
ECE 100: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
Spring Term 2009
TEACHING TEAM
Instructors
Name
Office &Ext
Ramadan El-Shatshat
Mohamed Elkhatib
EIT 4021, ext. 37063
CPH 2396F, ext. 37061
E-mail
raelshat@ecemail.uwaterloo.ca
m2elkhat@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Teaching Assistants
Name
Elmogy, Ahmed
Duty
Tutorial TA
Office & Ext.
DC-1709C @35286
E-mail
aelmogy@pami.uwaterloo.ca
Angammana, Chitral Jayasanka
Tutorial TA
CPH-2396C@37058
cjangamm@ecemail.uwaterloo.ca
Gabran, Salam Ramy
LAB/CDT (EE)
EIT-3024 @37253
sgabran@uwaterloo.ca
Vanderwater, Ruth-Anne (Elizabeth) LAB/CDT (EE)
EIT-3111 @32896
evanderw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Dash, Prajna Paramita
LAB/CDT (EE)
EIT-4167 @37478
ppdash@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Jamal, Nadia
LAB/CDT (EE)
EIT-3107 @7259
n2jamal@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Xu, Robert Sheng
LAB/CDT (QE)
EIT-3149 @37435
rsxu@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Ahmed (Sadek), Mohamed Hassan
LAB/CDT (QE)
CPH-2396A @37056
m2sadek@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Amin, Mohamed
LAB/CDT (QE)
DC-3577 @38501
m6amin@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Datta Gupta, Syamantak
LAB/CDT (QE)
DC-3552 @36176
sdattagu@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Abou Saleh, Jamil Akram
General TA
DC-1709C@35286
jaabousa@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Computer-Delivered Tutorials (CDTs) Instructor
Name
Office & Ext.
E-mail
June Lowe
E2 1318A; ext. 33888
june@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Fiona Yiu
E2 1318; ext. 33802
fyyiu@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Manisha Shah
Lab Instructors
E2 3362; ext. 32832
manisha@ecemail.uwaterloo.ca
Mike Foulger
E2 3349; ext. 36135
mpfoulge@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
WEEF Lab T.A.s
Zheng Pei Wu
E2 1311; ext. 35145
1/5
zpwu@uwaterloo.ca
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KEY DATES
WEEK
M T W T F
1
4
5
6
7
7
EVENT
LABS
Lectures, Labs, and CDTs begin this week
INTRO
8 T: EE Make-up lectures (instead of Tutorial)
Lab 101/102
T: QE Make-up lectures (instead of Tutorial)
2
May 11 12 13 14 15
3
18 19 20 21 22
4
25 26 27 28 29
5
1
2
6
8
9 10 11 12
3
4
5
Tutorials begin this week
Holiday- Victoria Day
First Midterm Exam
5.00 – 7.00 PM @ TBA
June
7
15 16 17 18 19
8
22 23 24 25 26
9
29 30 1
2
10
6
9 10
7
8
3
11
July 13 14 15 16 17
12
20 21 22 23 24
13
27 28 29 30 31
Holiday- Canada Day
Second Midterm Exam
5.00 – 7.00 PM @ TBA
INTRO
Lab 103/104
IL-1
Lab 101/102
IL-1
Lab 103/104
IL-2
Lab 101/102
IL-2
Lab 103/104
LS-1
Lab 101/102
LS-1
Lab 103/104
LS-2
Lab 101/102
LS-2
Lab 103/104
LS-3
Lab 101/102
LS-3
Lab 103/104
Last day of lectures July 28
SCHEDULE
Type
Lectures
EE
Lectures
QE
Office
Hour
Tutorials
Labs
CDTs
EE
CDTs
QE
Note:
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Mon.
10:30AM (1h)
RCH-301
10:30AM (1h)
RCH-302
Tues.
12:30AM (2h)
RCH-1015
12:30AM (1h)
RCH-302
2:30 (2 h)
RCH-103
RCH-112
QE
8:30AM (3 h)
E2-1310
QE
Day
Wed.
10:30AM (1h)
RCH-301
10:30AM (1h)
RCH-302
Thurs.
12:30AM (1h)
RCH-301
12:30AM (2h)
RCH-302
Fri.
2:30 (2 h)
RCH-306
RCH-308
EE
8:30AM (3 h)
E2-1310
EE
1:30PM
E2-1310
10:30AM
E2-1310
Detailed Lab Schedule is available on line at http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~lab100/Lab%20Schedule_S08.htm
Detailed Schedule of Classes: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocour/CIR/SA/under.html
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COURSE CONTENT
Week
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Topics (Textbook sections)
Electric charge (HRW 21.1-21.6)
Electrical field (HRW 22.1-22.6)
Electrical field (HRW 22.7-22.9)
Gauss' Law (HRW 23.1-23.9)
Electric Potential/Voltage (HRW 24.1-24.10)
Capacitance (HRW 25.1-25.8)
Current and Resistance (HRW 26.1-26.7)
Magnetic Fields (HRW 28.1-28.3 & 28.8-28.9)
Magnetic Fields Due to Currents (HRW 29.1-29.5)
Induction and Inductance (HRW 30.1-30.5 & 30.10-30.12)
Circuit Variables (NILSSON 1.1-1.6)
Circuit Elements (NILSSON 2.1-2.5)
Simple Resistive Circuits (NILSSON 3.1-3.7)
Node-Voltage Method (NILSSON 4.1-4.4)
Mesh-Current Method (NILSSON 4.5-4.8)
Source Transformation & Superposition (NILSSON 4.9 & 4.13)
Thevenin and Norton equivalents (NILSSON 4.10)
Maximum power transfer (NILSSON 4.12)
The Operational Amplifier (NILSSON 5.1-5.7)
Inductance, Capacitance, and Mutual Inductance (NILSSON 6.1-6.3)
Response of First-Order RL and RC Circuits (NILSSON 7.1-7.5 & 7.7)
Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis (NILSSON 9.1-9.9, 9.12)
Sinusoidal Steady-State Power Calculations (NILSSON 10.1-10.5)
Diodes (SEDRA most of 3.1-3.6)
Bipolar Junction Transistor (SEDRA most of 5.1-5.6)
Review
RESOURCES
Texts:
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Others:
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D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics Extended, 8th Edition, Wiley, 2008.
J. W. Nilsson and S. A. Riedel, Electric Circuits, 8th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.
Chapters 3 and 5 from Sedra & Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 5th Edition, Oxford, 2004.
E&CE 100 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Laboratory Exercises Manual, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Spring 2005. The lab manual is available online at
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~lab100.
Ramadan El-Shatshat, ECE100 Lecture Notes, available at the course webpage.
Course web site: www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~ece100
First year general info: www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~year1web
Academic info (plagiarism): www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ugoffice/course_responsibilities.html
COMPUTER-DELIVERED TUTORIALS (CDTs)
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The CDTs help, encourage, and reward you for keeping up with the problem-solving component of the course.
They are basically open-book automated quizzes during which you have access to tutorial assistance.
The first CDT has 5 simple questions to allow you to learn the software. It is not graded.
Most of the remaining CDTs comprise about 10 questions, equally weighted.
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ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS
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Assignments will be based on end of chapter problems from the textbooks.
One of the assigned problems will be chosen at each tutorial for a 10-minute Quiz.
Full solutions to all problems will be posted on the course web page.
Week
2
3
4
Assigned problems
Charges & Electric Fields
HRW (pp. 575-579): 11, 13, 15, 20, 32, 54.
HRW (pp. 598-604): 10, 13, 28, 32, 51, 63, 86.
Gauss' Law
HRW (pp. 621-627): 3, 8, 27, 31, 36, 41, 46, 51, 54, 65.
Electric Potential & Capacitance
HRW (pp. 647-655): 9, 15, 20, 27, 31, 52, 60, 67, 74, 84.
HRW (pp. 676-681): 13, 15, 19 24, 34 50, 70.
5
Current and Resistance & Magnetic Fields
HRW (pp. 700-704): 11, 22, 29, 36, 48, 53, 66.
HRW (pp. 757-763): 6, 43, 46, 47, 65.
6
Magnetic Fields Due to Currents & Induction and Inductance
HRW (pp. 782-790): 9, 13, 19, 24, 33, 37, 42, 48, 53.
HRW (pp. 818-825): 5, 11, 13, 18, 24, 32, 35, 66, 75.
7
8
9
Simple Resistive Circuits & Node-Voltage Method
NILSSON (pp. 48-55): 5, 9, 14, 17, 19, 23, 28, 29.
NILSSON (pp.80-91): 5, 8, 11, 13, 26, 27, 43, 50, 54.
NILSSON (pp. 138-153): 2, 5, 6, 12, 13, 18, 20, 25, 29.
Mesh-Current Method, Source Transformation & Superposition
NILSSON (pp. 138-153): 40, 43, 44, 46, 50, 51, 54, 56, 58, 60, 61, 62, 92, 93.
Thevenin and Norton equivalents, Maximum power transfer & OPAMP
NILSSON (pp. 138-153): 65, 70, 71, 73, 80, 81, 86, 89.
NILSSON (pp. 176-185): 5, 7, 11, 18, 19, 22, 30, 31, 36, 39, 41, 49.
10
Inductance, Capacitance and First-Order Circuits
NILSSON (pp. 218-227): 5, 10, 17, 18, 23, 28, 33.
NILSSON (pp. 265-283): 8, 10, 15, 19, 23, 25, 28, 32, 41, 59, 74, 77, 91, 93, 96.
11
Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis and Power
NILSSON (pp 375-389): 14, 17, 19, 23, 29, 32, 38, 46, 48, 53, 55, 60, 61, 66, 68, 69.
NILSSON (pp. 420-431): 5, 7, 18, 21, 24, 43, 48, 51.
12
Diode & Bipolar Junction Transistor
SEDRA (pp. 218-234): 1, 4, 9, 13, 48, 91.
SEDRA (pp. 517-541): 11, 20 (d), 24 (a &d) , 78, 103, 112.
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Help Session
LABORATORY WORK
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Lab. work is done at the WEEF Lab (E2-1310) Lab experiments will be performed in groups of two students.
Lab reports are due by 4:30 pm on the week following your scheduled laboratory.
For IL-1 and IL-2, you submit one report per student. For LS-1, LS-2, and LS-3, you submit one report per group of two.
Lab procedures and studies are described in the Laboratory Exercises Manual.
“Note that it is necessary to do pre-lab work before attending each lab session”
You will save much time if you thoroughly study the relevant sections of the lab manual before attempting the
experiments in the lab. Come to the lab with a clear understanding of what you are meant to accomplish, or with clear
questions, so that the teaching team can help you.
See the KEY DATES Section for the schedule of the following lab studies for your division.
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Dates
LAB. Marker
Lab 1
Introduction to the Laboratory (INTRO)
Week 2
No Lab Report is Required
Lab 2
Instrumentation Lab 1 (IL-1): Meters and
Measurement Errors
Week 3
ALL Computer Class Lab TAs
ALL Electrical Class Lab TAs
Lab 3
Instrumentation Lab 2 (IL-2): The Oscilloscope:
Operation and Applications
Week 5
X: For Computer-Class
ALL Electrical Class Lab TAs
Lab 4
Lab Study 1 (LS-1): The Capacitor
Lab 5
Lab 6
Week 8
X: For Computer-Class
X: For Electrical-Class
Lab Study 2 (LS-2): Resistor Networks and
Thevenin Circuits
Week 10
X: For Computer-Class
X: For Electrical-Class
Lab Study 3 (LS-3): Time Response of RC and
RL Circuits and the Operational Amplifier
Week 12
X: For Computer-Class
X: For Electrical-Class
EXAMS
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The course has two midterm exams and one final exam.
All of the exams are closed book but a formula sheet is provided:
You may use any calculator during exams.
MARKING SCHEME
Item
Weight
Midterm Examination 1
10
Midterm Examination 2
10
Final Examination
50
CDTs
10
Quizzes
5
IL-1
CR/NCR (see Note)
IL-2
CR/NCR (see Note)
LS-1
5
LS-2
5
LS-3
5
Total
100
Note: A penalty of 10 marks will be deducted from the total if you obtain NCR in
IL-1 or IL-2