Electrical Engineering (n)
Bachelor's degree programme Engineering and Management (first cycle)
Objectives and competences
The basic objective of this course is to present the principles of electrical and electronic engineering to an audience composed of non electrical engineering majors. A second objective is to present the essential material in an uncomplicated fashion, focusing on the important results and applications and presenting the students with the most appropriate analytical and computational tools to solve a variety of practical problems. Final objective of the course is to illustrate, by the way of example, a number of relevant applications of electrical engineering principles.
Prerequisites
Required prerequisit knowledge from courses: Engineering mathematics, and Engineering physics.
Content
- Introduction
- Electric and magnetic field
- Current
- Elementary electric components
- Direct current circuits
- Alternating current circuits
- Semiconductors and diodes
- Operational amplifiers
- Digital logic
Intended learning outcomes
- Introduction
- Electric and magnetic field
- Current
- Elementary electric components
- Direct current circuits
- Alternating current circuits
- Semiconductors and diodes
- Operational amplifiers
- Digital logic
Readings
• G. Rizzoni, Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Boston 2000. E-version Catalogue
• L. R. Carley, P. Khosla, Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGraw-Hill Inc., Boston 1998. Catalogue
Assessment
Lecturer's references
Prof. dr. Marko Zavrtanik is currently a senior researcher at the Experimental Particle Physics Departement, Jozef Stefan Institute and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Management, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia.