EE 327

Title: ELECTRICAL NETWORKS LABORATORY

Credits: 2

Catalog Description: Design, analysis and implementation of analog and digital electrical networks using the principes treated in EE 201 and EE 202.

Coordinator: Oğuzhan Çiçekoğlu, Professor of Electrical Engineering

Goals: This course aims to provide students with practical aspects of electrical networks. Measuring techniques and practical experience and observations about the deviations from pure theory helps to make real life designs possible.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Measure various properties of an electrical network.
2. Select an appropriate physical element for an engineering design.
3. Evaluate and discuss the differences and deviations in real life from the presented theory in lectures
4. Design simple electrical networks considering practical limitations or real life aspects

Textbook: Laboratory Textbook

Reference Texts: Electric Circuits, James W. Nilsson-Susan A. Riedel, Prentice Hall, 2001

Prerequisites by Topic:

1. Basic Circuit Theory, mesh, nodal analysis, superposition theorem, Thevenin and Norton Equivalents, Dependent and independent sources, Capacitors, inductors in time and frequency domain.
2. Two port representations, resonance, simple filter design, impedance matching.
3. Operational amplifiers.

Topics:

• Experiment 1:                Charactersitics of Linear and Nonlinear Devices
• Experiment 2:                Frequency Response of Linear Circuits
• Experiment 3:                Transients in Linear Circuits (RC, RL)
• Experiment 4:                Resonance Circuits
• Experiment 5:                RLC Filters
• Experiment 6:                Two Port Parameters and Equivalent Circuits
• Experiment 7:                AC Power Measurement and Power Compensation
• Experiment 8:                Operational Amplifier Circuits
• Experiment 9:                Active Simulation of Inductors
• Software Simulation I:     SPICE Simulation of Experiments
• Software Simulation II:    Multifunction Filter Simulation

Course Structure: The class meets for one lecture a week, consisting of a 50-minute session. There are laboratory sessions 2-3 hours a week.There are one in-class midterm exam and a final exam.

Computer Resources: There are 2 Software Simulations given as homework.

• The Circuits are simulated on SPICE
• An opamp based Multifunction filter is simulated with SPICE

Laboratory Resources:

Grading:

1. Lab Performance (25%)
2. Reports (35%)
3. Midterm (15%)
4. Final (25%)

Outcome Coverage:

• An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data: Students perform experiments in the laboratory and then they write reports

Prepared By: Oğuzhan Çiçekoğlu

Last revised: Oct 20, 2003