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EE 262: Electrical Circuits Laboratory

Catalog Information
Course Number: 
262
Credits: 
1
Offered: 
Spring
Offered: 
Fall
Pre-Requisites
EE 261: Electrical Circuits I

(or corequisite)
Circuit analysis, differential and integral calculus, differential equations or corequisite.

Class Information
Structure: 

One three-hour lab per week. One 10 to 15 minute quiz per lab with no final. Lab notebooks are graded for content and understanding.

Topics: 
  • Orientation - Safety, measurements (2)
  • Laboratory Equipment - Oscilloscope, ohmmeter, potentiometer, and ammeter. (3)
  • Resistor Measurements - Kirchhoff's laws, series/parallel resistive circuits. (3)
  • Computer simulation using PSPICE.  (3)
  • Thevenin and Norton Equivalents - Theorems and maximum power transfer. (3)
  • Waveform Measurements - DC, step function, exponential, sinusoidal. (3)
  • Operational Amplifiers - Characteristics and uses, and superposition. (3)
  • Capacitors and Inductors - Characteristics and uses, and mutual inductance. (3)
  • RC and RL Circuits - Complete responses of RC and RL circuits. (3)
  • Natural Response of RLC Circuits - Complete responses of second order RLC circuit. (3)
  • Sinusoidal and Phasors Analysis - Phase angle measurements. (3)
  • Power and power factor - Power triangle. (3)
  • Three-Phase Circuits - Wye and delta. (3)
Requirements
Textbooks/References: 

Student Reference Manual for Electronic Instrumentation Laboratories, S. Wolf and R. F.M. Smith, Prentice Hall, 1990, ISBN 0138557764.
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, 6th Edition, Irwin & Wu, Prentice-Hall, 1999.

Professor/Coordinator: 
Carl Wells
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