ENGR 230 - Electric Circuits I

Units: 3
A study of fundamental circuit laws and components, and techniques for analog circuit analysis. Voltage, current, power, Ohm’s Law, Kirchoff’s laws, node voltage and mesh current analysis, op-amps, capacitors, inductors, RC, RL, RLC circuits. Impedance, frequency response, and Bode. Lecture Units: 2; Lab Units: 1

Prerequisites: PHYS 136 and MATH 210.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ENGR 2010.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Understand the operation of basic circuit elements - resistors, capacitors, inductors, operational amplifiers
Analyze and compute electrical quantities of voltage, current, and power in a circuit with DC and sinusoidal inputs
Utilize circuit analysis software and hardware to compute electrical quantities
Develop greater general knowledge of household electronic devices