DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
FALL 2010
COURSE SYLLABUS
ECE 240 – FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING
Instructor
Ben Mallard
Office: JD3335
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1pm – 3 pm
Email Addresses: bmallard@csun.edu or bfm7152@cs.com
Phone: (818) 677-5636 or x5636
Website: http://www.ecs.csun.edu/~bmallard
Textbook and Materials
Introduction to Electric Circuits, Dorf et al, 8th edition
Lecture Notes, Ben Mallard
PSPICE Computer Program
MATLAB Computer Program
Class Assignments
Homework
Quizzes
Midterm Examinations
Final Examination
Late Assignments
10 % Penalty each week assignment is late
Grading
Homework, 10%
Quizzes, 20%
Monthly Examinations, 30%
Final Examination, 40%
Course Outline
Class Date Topics and
08/24 Units and Circuit Elements (Chapters 1 and 2)
08/25 Resistance and Ohm’s Law (Chapter 2)
08/31 Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws (Chapter 3)
09/02 Series and Parallel Circuits (Chapter 3)
09/07 Voltage and Current Division (Chapter 3)
09/09 Nodal Analysis (Chapter 4)
09/14 Advanced Nodal Analysis (Chapter 4)
09/16 Mesh Analysis (Chapter 4)
09/21 Advanced Mesh Analysis (Chapter 4)
09/23 Examination #1
09/28 Thevenin’s Theorem (Chapter 5)
09/30 Norton’s Theorem (Chapter 5)
10/05 Source Transformation (Chapter 5)
10/07 Superposition (Chapter 5)
10/12 Operational Amplifiers (Chapter 6)
10/14 Capacitors and Inductors (Chapter 7)
10/19 First Order RC Circuits (Chapter 8)
10/21 First Order RL Circuits (Chapter 8)
Course Outline
Class Date Topics and
10/26 Second Order Circuits I (Chapter 9)
10/28 Second Order Circuits II (Chapter 9)
11/02 Examination #2
11/04 Phasors (Chapter 10)
11/09 Complex Exponentials (Chapter 10)
11/11 Frequency Response I (Chapter 13)
11/16 Frequency Response II (Chapter 13)
11/18 Laplace Transforms (Chapter 14)
11/23 Examination #3
11/25 Thanksgiving Holiday – No Class
11/30 Complex Power
12/02 Transformers (Chapter 11)
12/07 Final Exam Review
12/14 Final Examination, 10:15am – 12:15pm
Quiz Schedule
Quiz No. Class
Date Topics
1 08/25 Resistance and Power
2 09/07 KVL, KCL, and Series and Parallel Circuits
3 09/14 Nodal Analysis
4 09/21 Mesh Analysis
5 10/05 Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits
6 10/12 Superposition and Source Transformation
7 10/14 Operational Amplifiers
8 10/21 First Order Circuits
9 10/26 Second Order Circuits
10 11/09 Phasors