Course Outline
EGS 2373
Principle to Electrical Engineering
General Course Information
Common Course Number: EGS2373
Course Title: Principle to Electrical Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Minimum grade of C in PHY 2049C or department approval
Co-requisite(s): Minimum grade of C in MAP 2302
Contact Hour Breakdown: CR 3 CLASS 3 LAB 0
Discipline: Engineering
Catalog Description: Fundamental laws of electrical circuits and circuit analysis; fundamental
of electronics power systems.
Major Topics/ Concepts/ Skills/ Issues
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Electric Circuit Variables and Elements
Resistive Circuits Laws and their Methods of Analysis
Circuit Theorems
Energy Storage Elements
The Complete Response of RL and RC Circuits
Sinusoidal AC Steady-State Analysis and Power Measurements
Major Learning Outcomes with Evidence, Core Competencies and Indicators
Students will be presented with the fundamental laws of circuit analysis
Corresponding Evidence of Learning
 Student will be able to Represent the current and voltage of an electric circuit element, and study reference direction or
polarity of elements
 Student will be able to Calculate the power and energy supplied or received by a circuit element
 Student will be able to Use the passive sign convention to determine power delivered or supplied by circuit elements
 Student will be able to Use scientific notation to represent electrical quantities with a wide range of magnitudes
 Student will be able to Active and Passive Circuit Elements
 Student will be able to Investigate the behavior of several common types of circuit elements such as resistors, dependent and
independent voltage and current sources, open and short circuits, and Switches
Core Competency: Think
Indicators
 employ the facts, formulas, procedures of the discipline
Assessments
 Problem-solving quiz
 Chapter problems
 In-class activity
Students will study the fundamental techniques for the analysis of resistive circuits
Corresponding Evidence of Learning
 Student will be able to Write equations using Kirchhoff's Laws
 Student will be able to Analyze simple electric circuits using only Kirchhoff's Laws and the constitutive equations of the circuit
elements
 Student will be able to Analyze series and parallel resistive circuit configurations
 Student will be able to Determine equivalent circuits for series voltage sources and parallel current sources and resistance of
a resistive circuit
 Student will be able to Analyze electric circuits using the Node Voltage method
 Student will be able to Analyze electric circuits using the Mesh Current method
Core Competency: Think
Indicators
 employ the facts, formulas, procedures of the discipline
Assessments
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Knowledge recall quiz
Problem-solving quiz
Chapter problems
In-class activity
Students will be introduced to Circuit Theorems methods solving complex electrical circuits
Corresponding Evidence of Learning
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Student will be able to Analyze electric circuits using the Source Transformation Theorem
Student will be able to Analyze electric circuits using the Superposition Theorem
Student will be able to Analyze electric circuits using the Thevenin's Theorem
Student will be able to Analyze electric circuits using the Norton's Theorem
Student will be able to The maximum power transfer theorem
Core Competency: Think
Indicators
 employ the facts, formulas, procedures of the discipline
Assessments
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Knowledge recall quiz
Problem-solving quiz
Chapter problems
In-class activity
Students will be introduced to energy-storage elements
Corresponding Evidence of Learning
 Student will be able to Capacitors and Inductors
 Student will be able to Energy storage in a Capacitor and an Inductor
 Student will be able to Analyze Series and Parallel combinations of Capacitors and Inductors
Core Competency: Think
Indicators
 employ the facts, formulas, procedures of the discipline
Assessments
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Knowledge recall quiz
Problem-solving quiz
Chapter problems
In-class activity
Students will learn methods of solving Constant and Nonconstant input sources of first-order
electrical circuits
Corresponding Evidence of Learning
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Student will be able to Develop vocabulary that will help students recognizing the response of a first-order electric circuit
Student will be able to Analyze first-order circuits with inputs that are constant
Student will be able to Analyze first-order circuits with inputs that are not constant
Student will be able to Sequential Switching Circuits
Student will be able to Stability of first-order circuits
Core Competency: Think
Indicators
Assessments
 employ the facts, formulas, procedures of the discipline
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Knowledge recall quiz
Problem-solving quiz
Chapter problems
In-class activity
Students will become familiar with Sinusoidal AC Circuit Analysis and Power measurement Principles
Corresponding Evidence of Learning
 Student will be able to Sinusoidal Sources
 Student will be able to Steady-State Response of RL and RC circuits for a Sinusoidal Forcing Function
 Student will be able to Complex Exponential Forcing Function
 Student will be able to Fundamentals of The Phasor, Phasor relationships for resistors, inductors, and capacitor elements
 Student will be able to Concepts of Impedance and Admittance
 Student will be able to Kirchhoff's Law using Phasors
 Student will be able to Node Voltage and Mesh Current Analysis using Phasors
 Student will be able to Supoerposition, Thevenin and Norton Equivalents, and Source Transformation of electric circuits using
Phasors
 Student will be able to Phasor Diagrams
Core Competency: Think
Indicators
Assessments
 employ the facts, formulas, procedures of the discipline
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Knowledge recall quiz
Problem-solving quiz
Chapter problems
In-class activity
Shared Assessment(s) in this Course
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In Class Examinations
Laboratory Experiments
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