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211EE3 : Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Program/Department
Electrical Engineering Program
Code EE
1. Course number and name
Course Code 211EE3
Course Title Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
2. Credits and contact hours
Credit Hours 3 ( 3 , 0 , 1 )
Credit Hours ( theory , Lab/practical , tutorial )
Contact
4 Hours / week for 15 weeks
Hours
3. Instructor’s or course coordinator’s name
Name
of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdelouahab Amrani
Instructor(s)
Name
of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdelouahab Amrani
coordinator
4. Text book, title, author, and year
Textbook
Introductory Circuit Analysis (12th Edition) by Robert L. Boylestad - Prentice
Hall – 2010.
Other
Lecture notes in Electric Circuit Analysis by Dr Abdulwahab – Najran University.
supplemental 1. Electric Circuits (6th Ed.), by James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Addison
materials
Wesley
2. Engineering Circuit Analysis (6th ed.) by W.H. Hayt, J.E. Kemmerly, and S.
Durbin
3. Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory (7th ed.) by R. Boylestad and L.
Nashelsky
5. Specific course information
Catalog
Basic circuit elements and concepts; Basic laws of circuit theory: Ohm's law,
description
Kirchoff's law; Circuit theorems: superposition principle, Thevenin and Norton
theorems; maximum power transfer theorem Techniques of circuit analysis: Nodal
and mesh analysis; Sinusoidal sources and the concept of phasor in circuit
analysis; Introduction to concept of average, reactive, complex power and power
factor.
Prerequisites Integral Calculus
106MATH-3
Advanced Physics
105PHIS-3
Co-requisites Indicate whether a required, elective, or Core (required)
selected elective
6. Specific goals for the course
a. Specific outcomes of instruction (student should be able to: )
Use Ohm's law to determine DC circuit parameters.
CLO1
Analyze series/parallel DC circuits using Kirchhoff's laws.
CLO2
Analyze circuits using mesh and Nodal methods.
CLO3
Analyze circuits using Thevenin's, Norton's, superposition, and maximum power
CLO4
transfer.
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Analyze AC circuits.
CLO5
b. Explicitly indicate which of the student outcomes listed in Criterion 3 or any other outcomes
are addressed by the course.
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CLO2
CLO3
CLO4
CLO5
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7. Brief list of topics to be covered
current, voltage and resistance.
Topic 1.
Ohm’s law, power and energy calculations.
Topic 2.
Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws in series/parallel DC circuit analysis.
Topic 3.
Topic 4.
Mesh, nodal analysis and y- transformation.
Superposition, Thevenin, Norton and maximum power transfer theorems.
Topic 5.
Sinusoidal Alternating Waveforms and phasor representation.
Topic 6.
Phasor relationships for Series - parallel AC circuit.
Topic 7.
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