Lecture: Rm D-208/C-229 @10:00 am MWF, Lab: Rm B-215
Instructor:
Office:
Email:
Hours:
Dr. Dean Johnson homepages.wmich.edu/~johnson
Rm. B-228 West Parkview
johnson@wmich.edu
MWF 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.
Course Objective:
The purpose of this course is to study electric circuits composed of R, L
and C elements using methods based on Kirchhoff's laws and network
theorems. Also model RL, RC, and RLC filter circuits with 1st and 2nd
order differential equations and perform transient and sinusoidal steady
state analysis of such circuits.
Materials Used in Class:
1. Text: C. K. Alexander and M. N. O. Sadiku, Fundamentals of Electric
Circuits, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill, Boston, 2012 (ISBN 0073380571).
2. On-line homework registration: Go to http://connect.mcgrawhill.com/class/wmu_ece2100_summer_1_2014 (here). You can use
your Connect registration from an earlier course (such as ECE 2500),
if it was done within a year. At the bottom of the page click
REGISTER NOW. Enter your email and press Submit. Next, on the
right, click either Buy Online or Start Free Trial. For new Connect
access, you will have to pay a $60 fee.
3. DyKnow: Find the Sign On drop down menu and then click New User
link and select this course. Then register. Replay sessions from
Elearning with Vision client: http://www.dyknow.com/download
(Set the Comm string to: dyknows://dyknow.ceas.wmich.edu)
4. i>Clicker2: Get remote ($40) or use iPhone/Android app ($10/sem).
Register iClicker2 at http://www.iclicker.com/registration
5. Lab notebook: (permanent bound --spiral or hardbound),square grid.
6. Digital Multimeter: your own or available from IEEE student branch.
7. Linear Technology, LTspice/SwitcherCADTM III: available at no cost
at http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/. This software will
be used to simulate circuits and is available in the CAE center.
8. Safety glasses: ANSI Z87.1. No admittance to the lab w/o glasses.
Exams: There will be three exams. The 1st exam will be before Memorial
day. The 2nd exam will be after Memorial day. A 3rd final exam will be
held on the last day of class, June 25. The 3rd exam will be
comprehensive over all course material. Students are required to attend
all exams as announced; failure to do so will in a zero score for any
examination not attended.
Lab work: 12 experiments. Most laboratory experiments require prelab
work in the form of written calculations in your lab notebook or
computer simulations. If you don't show up for a lab, you forfeit the
points associated with the entire lab that week, and generally cannot
later make up the lab. Exceptions will be made only for those
individuals who contact their lab instructor before the lab, giving an
adequate reason why they cannot attend that day. Contact your lab
instructor at his/her office hours for help with lab calculations. Note:
you must also achieve a passing grade in the lab in order to pass the
entire course. Note: there will be occasional quizzes in the lab.
Homework: (See point 2 above). You are given 3 attempts to solve a
given problem before the “look” is changed. You have 10 looks max. If
you run out of looks, submit the HW and the process will repeat.
Grading: View scores and grades on Elearning. Grades will be
determined on the basis of the following guaranteed grade scale:
Exam I
Exam II
Homework
Lab Work
Exam III (Final)
20%
20%
10%
25%
25%
100%
iClicker2
~3% Bonus
91 - 100
86 - 90
80 - 85
74 - 79
68 - 73
63 - 67
58 - 62
0 - 57
A
BA
B
CB
C
DC
D
E
WMU Honesty Policy: Attempting to obtain credit for work (lab, hw,
exams) done by somebody else is illegal and punishable in this class. You
are responsible for making yourself aware of and understanding the
policies and procedures in the Undergraduate (pp. 274-276) [Graduate
(pp.25-27)] Catalog that pertain to Academic Honesty. These policies
include cheating, fabrication, falsification and forgery, multiple
submission, plagiarism, complicity and computer misuse.
GENERAL COURSE OUTLINE, ECE 2100 SUMMER 2014
(Tentative: May be adjusted)
Week
Lecture/Lab Topic
Reading
5 7 9
56
78
12 14 16
1213
1415
19 21 23
1920
2122
28 30
No labs
Circuit Concepts and Laws
Safety & Rules & Notebooks
Ohm’s Law
Circuit Analysis with R’s
Series and Parallel Circuits
Basic DC Meter Design
Circuit Theorems
Nodal and Mesh Analysis
Superposition &Thevenin’s
Op-Amps
Chapters 1,2
2 4 6
23
45
4
9 11 13
910
1112
16 18 20
1617
1819 1
23 25
2324
L and C’s, 1st Order Circuits
Op-Amp Circuits
Waveforms & Oscilloscopes
2nd Order Circuits
RC Circuit Step Response
RLC Circuit Step Response
Sinusoids, Phasors & Analysis
Circuit Element AC Response
RC Filter Frequency Response
AC Power
AC Power and PFC
Chapters 6,7
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 8
Chapters 9,10
Chapter 11