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ECEN 1400 - Introduction to Digital and Analog Electronics

Elective - 3 credit hours
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Catalog Description: Introduces fundamental concepts in electrical and computer engineering such as Ohm's Law, capacitors, LEDs and 7-segment displays, transformers and rectifiers, digital logic, Fourier decomposition, frequency analysis. Lab work exposes students to commonly used instrumentation. Includes a final project. Skills in wiring, soldering and wire-wrapping are developed.

Co-requisite: APPM 1350, Calculus 1 for Engineers
Prerequisite: None

Textbook: Course notes and lab descriptions provided by instructor.

Goals: The goal of this introductory class is to expose students to fundamental concepts in digital and analog electronics. This introduction will be geared to help students develop an intuitive feel for fundamentals that will be presented more formally in later ECE courses. By focusing on a main final project, several aspects of system design common to many electrical and computer engineering projects will be covered.

Topics:

  1. Introductory Topics
    1. Voltage
    2. Resistance
    3. Current
    4. Capacitance
  2. Useful Components
    1. LEDs/transistors Switches/Data Entry Digital Logic Clock circuits
  3. Frequency vs. Time Domain
  4. Laboratory Skills
    1. Using a mulitmeter
    2. Using an oscilloscope
    3. Breadboarding
    4. Wire-wrapping/Soldering
    5. Debugging
Class schedule: 2 hours of lecture, 2 hours of hardware lab per week

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component: Contributes 3 semester hours to criterion 4(b) “one and one-half years of engineering topics, consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design appropriate to the student's field of study.

Relationship of course to program outcomes: This course is not required and is not included in outcomes assessment.

Prepared by: A. R. Pleszkun, V. Heuring
DATE: May 16, 2005.