ENGR 37L: CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY
Foothill College Course Outline of Record
| Heading | Value |
|---|---|
| Effective Term: | Summer 2025 |
| Units: | 2 |
| Hours: | 1 lecture, 3 laboratory per week (48 total per quarter) |
| Corequisite: | Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENGR 37. |
| Degree & Credit Status: | Degree-Applicable Credit Course |
| Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
| Transferable: | CSU/UC |
| Grade Type: | Letter Grade (Request for Pass/No Pass) |
| Repeatability: | Not Repeatable |
Student Learning Outcomes
- The student will be able to make satisfactory measurements in circuits containing dc, ac and composite signals using equipment commonly found in an electrical engineering laboratory; understand the effect of a measuring instrument on a circuit under test; analyze resulting errors.
- The student will be able to make connections on electronic board according to circuit drawing.
Description
Practical verification of theorems and concepts learned in ENGR 37 through experimentation. Included are experiments in DC and AC circuits involving the utilization of a variety of instruments, such as DC/AC meters, regulated power supplies, signal generators, oscilloscopes, and frequency counters. Students taking this lab along with the lecture course will see hands-on applications to better understand the theory.
Course Objectives
The student will be able to:
- Make satisfactory measurements in circuits containing DC, AC, and composite signals using equipment commonly found in an electrical engineering laboratory.
- Understand the effect of a measuring instrument on a circuit under test.
- Analyze resulting error.
- Use computer program to simulate DC and AC circuits using simulation program, PSpice or MultiSIM; use Excel to predict or describe circuit behavior.
Course Content
- Test and measurement equipment
- Circuit construction techniques
- DC resistive circuits and measurements
- Construct circuit and measurement using KCL, KVL, Ohm's Law, series and parallel connection, Thevenin equivalent circuit, and superposition
- Operational amplifiers in circuit and its input voltage constraints
- Transient circuits - the step response of RL, RC, and RLC circuits
- Frequency response of RL, RC, and RLC circuits, including resonance
- AC sinusoidal circuits and measurements
- Laboratory safety
Lab Content
- Introduction to electric lab - getting to know the equipment, bread board, and laboratory SAFETY issues
- Circuit with resistors, Ohm's Law
- Nodal/Mesh analysis and superposition
- Function generator and oscilloscopes
- Operational amplifier
- Thevenien's Theorem
- Potential divider and maximum power transfer
- Step response of RC, RL, and RLC transient circuit
- Frequency response of RC, RL, and RLC circuit
- AC steady state analysis
Special Facilities and/or Equipment
Electrical engineering laboratory with equipment for building and measuring electric circuits.
Method(s) of Evaluation
Methods of Evaluation may include but are not limited to the following:
Quizzes (emphasizing equipment usage)
End of quarter project
Laboratory notebook
Formal report
Method(s) of Instruction
Methods of Instruction may include but are not limited to the following:
Laboratory
Representative Text(s) and Other Materials
Boylestad and Kousourou. Laboratory Manual for Introductory Circuit Analysis. 2022.
Sahah, Nassir H.. Circuit Analysis with PSpice. 2017.
All listed textbooks are the most current edition that has been published. Newer editions will be used, as they are released.
Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing, and Outside of Class Assignments
Lab reports.
Discipline(s)
Engineering