Electrical Circuit Analysis 1

Course Number:
EET 111
Transcript Title:
Electrical Circuit Analysis 1
Created:
Aug 09, 2022
Updated:
May 24, 2025
Total Credits:
5
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture / Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
30
Satisfies Cultural Literacy requirement:
No
Satisfies General Education requirement:
No
Grading Options
A-F, Audit
Default Grading Options
A-F
Repeats available for credit:
0
Prerequisites

MTH 65 with a "B" or better, WR 115 or IRW 115, or equivalent placement

Course Description

Covers engineering prefixes, unit conversion, capacity factor, efficiency, and basic electrical quantities of power, energy, voltage, current, and resistance. Includes analysis of series, parallel, and series-parallel DC circuits using Ohm's, Kirchhoff’s Laws, and DC circuit analysis theorems including the Superposition Theorem, Thevenin’s Theorem, and the Maximum Power Transfer Theorem. Introduces schematic reading, soldering, circuit construction, troubleshooting, circuit simulation software, and lab instrumentation including ohmmeters, voltmeters, and ammeters. Includes a 3-hour per week laboratory session. Requires a Texas Instruments TI-89 scientific graphing calculator or equivalent. Students must attend a mandatory orientation session on FIRST DAY OF CLASS. Prerequisites: MTH 65 (B or better), WR 115 or IRW 115, or equivalent placement. Audit available.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Apply basic electrical DC concepts and theorems to analyze circuits
  2. Build, simulate, and troubleshoot DC circuits and perform measurements with electrical test equipment.
  3. Write technical reports using collected experiment data.
  4. Use circuit simulation software to analyze DC circuits.
  5. Identify the types, sizes and resistances of components and determine their application in a DC circuit.

Suggested Outcome Assessment Strategies

Evaluation is done via labs, quizzes, take home assignments, in class exercises, and exams.

Course Activities and Design

Lecture, discussion, online lessons, and in class and lab exercises are the instructional methods used.

Laboratory activity includes building, analyzing, and troubleshooting DC circuits on solderless protoboards and industrial trainers. Instrumentation will be used to measure resistance, voltage, and current. Theoretical predictions will be compared with observed values. Computer applications will be used to process lab data, write lab reports, and simulate circuits.

Course Content

Outcome #1: Apply basic electrical DC concepts and theorems to analyze circuits.

  • calculate voltage, current, and power for individual elements in series DC circuits
  • calculate voltage, current, and power for individual elements in parallel DC circuits
  • calculate voltage, current, and power for individual elements in series-parallel DC circuits
  • calculate voltage, current, and power for load elements using the Thevenin’s equivalent DC circuit

Outcome #2: Build, simulate, and troubleshoot DC circuits and perform measurements with electrical test equipment.

  • construct a series DC circuit, measure voltage, current, and power for individual elements
  • construct a parallel DC circuit, measure voltage, current, and power for individual elements
  • construct a series-parallel DC circuit, measure voltage, current, and power for individual elements
  • construct the Thevenin’s equivalent of a series-parallel DC circuit, measure voltage, current, and power for individual elements

Outcome #3: Write technical reports using collected experiment data.

  • collect experimental data on DC Ohm’s Law
  • plot current and power as a function of resistance and voltage

Outcome #4: Use circuit simulation software to analyze DC circuits.

  • Use circuit simulation software to demonstrate the super position theorem

Outcome #5: Identify the types, sizes and resistances of components and determine their application in a DC circuit.

  • interpret the resistor color code
  • measure resistance using an ohmmeter

Suggested Texts and Materials

Boylestad Introductory Circuit Analysis 11th edition