EGR 224L:
Electrical Fundamentals of Mechatronics
 
 
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Note: This schedule will continue to be a work in progress - last updated 1/9/2022

Week
Lecture
Day Topic
Reading
Lab
1 1  Wed, 1/5 No Class No Lab
2  Fri, 1/7 Review of Course Policies and Procedures
Nomenclature

FEC: Sec. 1.1-1.4
2 3  Mon, 1/10

Voltage and Current
Power and Energy


FEC: 1.5-1.9, 2.1-2.4

0: Connecting and Installing
1: Solving Circuit Equations Using Maple

Circuit Elements (Independent Sources, Resistors, Dependent Sources)
Kirchhoff's Laws
Brute Force Method
4  Fri, 1/14

Equivalent Resistance
Voltage Division

FEC: 2.5-2.7

3 NC  Mon, 1/17

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

2: Electrical Circuits and Measurements I

Tinkercad
5  Fri, 1/21

Current and Voltage Division

FEC: 2.5-2.7

4 6  Mon, 1/24

Circuit Analysis Ia: Nodes and Meshes and Branches (mostly nodes)

FEC: 3.1-3.7

3: Electrical Circuits and Measurements II

Multisim
7  Fri, 1/28

Circuit Analysis Ib: Nodes and Meshes and Branches (mostly meshes and branches)

FEC: 3.1-3.7, 3.9-3.10

5 8  Mon, 1/31

Circuit Analysis IIa: Linearity and Superposition

FEC: 4.1-4.4


4: Arduino Basics
9  Fri, 2/4

Circuit Analysis IIb: Thevenin and Norton Theorems

FEC: 4.5-4.8, 4.10-4.11

6 10  Mon, 2/7

Capacitors and Inductors

FEC: 6.1-6.5, 6.7

TA Office Hours
11  Fri, 2/11

First-Order Circuits

FEC: 7.1-7.3, 7.5-7.6, 7.9-7.10

7 12  Mon, 2/14

More First-Order Circuits
Sinusoids

FEC: 9.1-9.9

5: Solving Circuits with Capacitors
13  Fri, 2/18

Complex Numbers, and Phasors
Steady-State Analysis

FEC: 10.1-10.6, 10.9-10.10
FEC: 14.1-14.2

8 14  Mon, 2/21 Test 1 TA Office Hours
15  Fri, 2/25

Transfer Functions
Phasor Analysis of Circuits

FEC: 14.1-14.2

9 16  Mon, 2/28 Phasors
Impedances
Phasor Domain
Voltage Division in the Phasor Domain

6: Arduino Interfacing with Hardware
17  Fri, 3/4 Transfer Functions
Magnitudes and Phases of Transfer Functions
Cutoff Frequencies
Filter Types (LP, HP, BP, BR)
Decibels
10 NC  Mon, 3/7 Break - No Class Break - No Lab
NC  Fri, 3/11
11 18  Mon, 3/14 Recap of Frequency Domain
Recap of Decibels

7: Building Circuits
19  Fri, 3/18

LTI Systems
Singularity Functions

FEC: 14.5-14.7, 14.11
FEC: 15.1-15.7; 16.1; 16.4

12 20  Mon, 3/21 LTI Systems
Convolution
8: RC ACSS Analysis
21  Fri, 3/25

Laplace Transforms

FEC: 15.1-15.7; 16.1; 16.4

13 22  Mon, 3/28

More Basic Laplace Transforms, MOAT
Laplace Properties

FEC: 15.1-15.7; 16.1; 16.4

TA Office Hours
23  Fri, 4/1

Laplace Transform Applications
Solving Circuits with Laplace

FEC: 16.1-16.4

14 24  Mon, 4/4

Laplace Transform Applications
Solving Circuits with Laplace

FEC: 16.1-16.4

9: Laplace Transforms using Maple
25  Fri, 4/8

Real and Ideal Operational Amplifiers

15 26  Mon, 4/11 Test 2 TA Office Hours
27  Fri, 4/15

Operational Amplifiers

16 28  Mon, 4/18

Operational Amplifiers

TA Office Hours
       
Exam   Mon, 4/25 9-Noon  
         
         
Moved:    

Bode Plots I
K, jw, and corners

FEC: 14.1-14.2
FEC: 14.4, 14.11

 
     

Bode Plots II
Combinations of K, jw, and corners

FEC: 14.5-14.7, 14.11

 
      Transfer Functions and Filters
Ideal and Real 1st order HP and LP

FEC: 14.5-14.7, 14.11

Second Order Filters
 

 

      Last updated on April 12, 2022