Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
American University of Beirut
EECE 312: Electronics for Mech. Eng. Students
Catalog description:
This course aims at introducing the fundamentals of electronics and electronic
circuits to non‐majors. Its objectives are to provide a concise treatment of the
basic concepts of electronic components and to introduce the student to the
basic analog and digital electronic circuits. The course covers the fundamentals
of semiconductor diodes, transistors, operational amplifiers and their
applications, digital circuits and systems, and basic instrumentation.
Number of Credits: 3 credits
Prerequisite:
By Courses: EECE 210: Electric Circuits and MATH 202: Differential Equations
By topic: Mathematics: calculus, differential equations, Fourier series Circuits:
Circuit analysis techniques: KCL, KVL, node equations, Thévenin’s/Norton’s
theorems. Physics: Electricity and magnetism, elementary atomic physics
Textbook:
Hambley, Electrical Engineering- Principles and Applications, fifth edition
Course Objectives:
1. Provide students with a fundamental understanding of electronic devices
such as diodes and transistors.
2. Familiarize students with analog electronic circuits and their applications.
Familiarize students with digital electronic circuits and their
applications.
3. Introduce students to basic circuits and techniques used in
instrumentation applications.
TOPICS COVERED:
4. Frequency response, Transfer functions, Filters, Analog-to-digital conversion
5. Digital circuits, decimal-binary conversion, Combinational logic circuit
design, K-map minimization, Sequential circuits
6. Computer-Based instrumentation systems, measurement concepts and sensors,
signal conditioning
7. Diodes, load-line analysis of diode circuits, Zener diodes, rectifier circuits
8. Amplifiers, cascaded amplifiers, ideal amplifiers, frequency response,
Differential amplifiers
9. Field-effect transistors, NMOS, PMOS, Bias circuits, CMOS Logic gates
10. Operational amplifiers, ideal opamp, inverting and non-inverting amplifiers,
differential amplifiers, integrators, differentiators
Course Outcomes:
1. Are familiar with the various types of filters
2. Are familiar with analog‐to‐digital conversion
3. Understand how information is represented in digital form
4. Are able to analyze and design a combinational digital circuit
5. Are familiar with the operation of sequential digital circuits
6. Are familiar with the basics of computer-based instrumentation systems
7. Understand the operation of diodes
8. Are familiar with the application of diodes in rectifiers circuits
9. Understand the operation of the FET and its different modes of
operation
10. Are able to analyze a simple transistor amplifier circuit
11. Understand the basic operational amplifier circuits
Resources of the course
Textbook, references, Moodle
Evaluation methods
Two Quizzes (40%), (Quiz1 is on Saturday October 20, 9 – 11am, Wing D)
(Quiz2 is on Saturday December 8, 9 – 11am, Wing D)
Drop Quizzes and Attendance (20%)
Final Exam (40%)
Professional component
Engineering topics: 90%
General education: 0%
Mathematics and basic sciences: 10%
Prepared by: Lama Hamandi, February 2013