ELE110 – INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
2020 – 2021 Spring
Course Syllabus
Course Objectives: The course aims to provide an introduction to circuit theory and semiconductors.
Lectures:
Friday 10:00 – 12:45
Instructors:
Section 21: Şölen Kumbay Yıldız, solen@ee.hacettepe.edu.tr
Section 22: Gürhan Bulu, bulu@ee.hacettepe.edu.tr
Grading policy:
Midterm exam: 30%
Quiz: 20%
Final exam: 50%
Weekly Course Outline (Tentative)
PART I: ELECTRIC CIRCUITS
Week 1: Introduction, circuit elements, power and energy, Ohm’s law
Week 2: Circuit models, Kirchhoff’s laws, simple resistive circuits, parallel and series interconnections of resistors
Week 3: Voltage and current dividers, measuring voltage, current and resistance, Quiz 1
Week 4: Techniques of circuit analysis, node-voltage technique
Week 5: Mesh-current technique, source transformations, Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits
Week 6: Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits, maximum power transfer, superposition, Quiz 2
PART II: SEMICONDUCTORS
Week 7: The atom, bonding, semiconductors
Week 8: Energy band gap model, general theory of n and p
MIDTERM EXAM – 22 APR 2021
Week 10: Motion and recombination, Quiz 3
Week 11: PN junction
Week 13: PN junction
Week 14: Bipolar junction transistor (BJT), Quiz 4
