Undergraduate Course: Electrical Engineering 1 (ELEE08001)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 20 | 
ECTS Credits | 10 | 
 
 
| Summary | An introduction to Electrical Engineering (Circuit Analysis, a.c. Theory, Operational Amplifiers, Semiconductor Devices, Logic Theory). | 
 
| Course description | 
    
    Prof. Murray's Lectures: week 1-4, covering material required for Lab Session 1 & 2. 
 
Week 1 
Lecture 1	Potential divider.  Resistors and capacitors, RC circuit introduction. 
Lecture 2	RC circuits charge-discharge 
Lecture 3	Inductors and RL circuits, charge-discharge 
 
Week 2 
Lecture 4	Nodal analysis introduction  
Lecture 5	Nodal analysis examples 
Lecture 6	Op-Amps, introduction 
 
Week 3 
Lecture 7	Op-Amp circuits 
Lecture 8	Op-Amp worked examples 
Lecture 9	Real Op-Amps (limitations) 
 
Week 4 
Lecture 10	Diodes -  "cartoon" version 
Lecture 11	Op-Amp circuits with diodes and capacitors 
Lecture 12	Filters 
 
 
Dr. Mueller's Lectures: week 5, 7-8, covering material for Lab Session 2 (weeks 8-11) 
 
Week 5 
Lecture 13	AC circuits, voltage & current waveforms, reactance, intro to phasors 
Lecture 14	Phasors examples 2 components:  R-C, R-L - series and parallel 
Lecture 15	Phasors examples 3 components: R-C-L 
 
Week 6 
Lecture 16	AC circuits: complex number representation & polar form 
Lecture 17	Examples - revisit filters, relate to part 2 of lab 
Lecture 18	Circuit analysis: Kirchoff's Law, Thevenin - example 
 
Week 7 
Lecture 19	Current Sources & Nortons Law - example 
Lecture 20 	Current source examples - R-C charging 
Lecture 21	Examples - application of above to a power circuit. 
 
 
Dr. Haworth's Lectures: week 9-11, covering some parts of both lab sessions in more detail 
 
Week 8 
Lecture 22	Diodes. Diode models, examples, rectifier circuits (remove load line). 
Lecture 23	Diodes cont. Peak rectifier, diode clamp, voltage doubler, Zener diode, LED. 
Lecture 24	Digital Logic. AND/OR/NAND/NOR Simple combinational logic, truth tables. 
 
Week 9 
Lecture 25	Boolean Algebra. Rules, Examples. 
Lecture 26	Logic reduction. K-maps, examples, half adder. 
Lecture 27	K-maps of 3 and 4 variables, examples, full adder, SOP, POS. 
 
Week 10 
Lecture 28	Sequential Logic. SR flip-flop, synchronous SR. 
Lecture 29	Sequential Logic cont. D-type, edge triggered/master-slave. 
Lecture 30	Examples
    
    
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  Prior attendance at Engineering 1 or (in special circumstances) prior attendance at another half-course. | 
 
 
Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
		| High Demand Course? | 
		Yes | 
     
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - 1.	Ability to analyse ac and dc circuits comprising passive components: resistors, inductors and capacitors.
 - 2.	Ability to analyse circuits using operational amplifiers, in both ideal and non-ideal conditions.
 - 3.	Ability to analyse logic circuits using Karnaugh maps and truth tables.
 - 4.	Ability to design, build, test, diagnose faults and repair a simple circuit to a given specification, and to write up the practical work in a technical report.
 
     
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Reading List 
| Recommended: Giorgio Rizzoni, "Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering", published by McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-118452 |   
 
Additional Information
| Course URL | 
http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/see/VLE/index.cfm?ID=EE0001 | 
 
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Additional Class Delivery Information | 
Tutorial: M 1400 or 1500 or 1600 or Tu 1400 or 1500 or 1600 or Th 1400 
Labs (Weeks 2-10): Tu 1400-1700 or Th 1400-1700 | 
 
| Keywords | AC Circuits,DC Circuits,OP Amps,Logic.,practical circuit design,Circuit build and testing | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Prof Timothy Drysdale 
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Course secretary | Mrs Megan Inch-Kellingray 
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079 
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