Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Circuits for Mechanical Engineering

3 units

The purpose of the course is to introduce and expand student knowledge of the field of electrical circuits. The course will be tailored to better meet the needs of Mechanical Engineering students and should not be a substitution for the traditional ESE students. The course will be a lecture/lab environment and introduce students to various concepts necessary to analyze basic electrical circuits. The main objective is to give each student a comfort level in the subject of electrical circuits, which will serve as both a basis for further study and a valuable life-long asset. Topics to be covered include: electrical energy and power, current, voltage, and circuit elements (resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers), Ohm's law, magnetic fields and motors, Kirchhoff's laws, Thevenin/Norton, superposition, circuit analysis, maximum power transfer, RL circuits, RC circuits, RLC circuits, filters, basic operational amplifier circuits, AC/DC power supplies, Arduino microcontroller, level shifters, I2C bus interface, stepper motor drivers, servo motor/encoder system, and PWM. The class format will be a lecture/lab combination where major lab projects will be the basis for lecture material.