Electrical Engineering (n)

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.

Required prerequisit knowledge from courses: Engineering mathematics, and Engineering physics.

• Introduction
• Electric and magnetic field
• Current
• Elementary electric components
• Direct current circuits
• Alternating current circuits
• Semiconductors and diodes
• Operational amplifiers
• Digital logic

Knowledge and understanding:
At first a basic insight into electric and magnetic field theory is given The chapter is followed by the description of electric currents in various materials and related physical laws. Later on a basic DC and AC circuit analysis together with practical electronic circuits is given. At the end digital logic, combinational modules and computer architecture is given. The aim of this course is therefore to give students an insight into the integration of electronic and computer technologies as a central element of many engineering products and processes.

• 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

Weight (v %) 50/50
• Written exam, which assesses knowledge of the implementation of concepts of basic electrical engineering
• Oral exam, which assesses knowledge of the theoretical and general concepts of electrical engineering

Prof. Dr. Marko Zavrtanik
Habilitation: full Prof. in the field of electrical engineering
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. His research activities in the last 5 year period can be divided in the field of silicon detectors radiation studies (membership in CERN RD39 Cryogenic Tracking Detectors collaboration and CERN RD50 Radiation Hard Semiconductor Devices for Very High Luminosity Colliders collaboration), the field of experimental particle physics (work in the Beam Condition Monitor (BCM) group of the ATLAS collaboration) and in the field of astroparticle physics (membership in the Pierre Auger collaboration). He published more than 250 scientific papers and more than 300 conference contributions.

Selected bibliography:

ACHARYYA, A., STANIČ, Samo, VOROBIOV, Serguei, YANG, Lili, ZAVRTANIK, Danilo, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, et al. Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout. Astroparticle Physics, ISSN 0927-6505. [Print ed.], Sep. 2019, vol. 111, str. 35-53, ilustr., doi: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2019.04.001. [COBISS.SI-ID 5375227]

AAB, A., FILIPČIČ, Andrej, KUKEC MEZEK, Gašper, SALEH, Ahmed, STANIČ, Samo, TRINI, Marta, VEBERIČ, Darko, VOROBIOV, Serguei, YANG, Lili, ZAVRTANIK, Danilo, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, ZEHRER, Lukas, et al. Large-scale cosmic-ray anisotropies above 4 EeV measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The Astrophysical journal, ISSN 1538-4357, Nov. 2018, vol. 868, no. 1, str. 1-12, ilustr.http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae689/meta, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae689. [COBISS.SI-ID 5290235]

KRAMBERGER, Gregor, CINDRO, Vladimir, MANDIĆ, Igor, MIKUŽ, Marko, PETEK, Marko, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, et al. Radiation hardness of thin low gain avalanche detectors. Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, ISSN 0168-9002. [Print ed.], 2018, vol. 891, str. 68-77, doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.018. [COBISS.SI-ID 31712551]

MANDIĆ, Igor, CINDRO, Vladimir, GORIŠEK, Andrej, HITI, Bojan, KRAMBERGER, Gregor, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, MIKUŽ, Marko, HEMPEREK, T. Charge-collection properties of irradiated depleted CMOS pixel test structures. Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, ISSN 0168-9002. [Print ed.], 2018, vol. 903, str. 126-133, doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.06.062. [COBISS.SI-ID 31516967]

ABBOTT, B. P., GOMBOC, Andreja, FILIPČIČ, Andrej, KOPAČ, Drejc, KUKEC MEZEK, Gašper, SALEH, Ahmed, STANIČ, Samo, TRINI, Marta, VEBERIČ, Darko, VOROBIOV, Serguei, YANG, Lili, ZAHARIJAS, Gabrijela, ZAVRTANIK, Danilo, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, et al. Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger. The astrophysical journal, Letters, ISSN 2041-8205, 2017, vol. 848, no. 2, str. 1-59, ilustr., doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9. [COBISS.SI-ID 4941051]

MANDIĆ, Igor, CINDRO, Vladimir, GORIŠEK, Andrej, HITI, Bojan, KRAMBERGER, Gregor, MIKUŽ, Marko, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, et al. Neutron irradiation test of depleted CMOS pixel detector prototypes. Journal of instrumentation, ISSN 1748-0221, 2017, vol. 12, str. P02021-1-P02021-13, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/02/P02021. [COBISS.SI-ID 30304551]

HITI, Bojan, CINDRO, Vladimir, GORIŠEK, Andrej, HEMPEREK, T., KISHISHITA, T., KRAMBERGER, Gregor, KRÜGER, H., MANDIĆ, Igor, MIKUŽ, Marko, WERMES, N., ZAVRTANIK, Marko. Charge collection properties in an irradiated pixel sensor built in a thick-film HV-SOI process. Journal of instrumentation, ISSN 1748-0221, 2017, vol. 12, str. P10020-1-P10020-15, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/10/P10020. [COBISS.SI-ID 30875943]

CARTIGLIA, N., CINDRO, Vladimir, KRAMBERGER, Gregor, MANDIĆ, Igor, MIKUŽ, Marko, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, et al. Beam test results of a 16 ps timing system based on ultra-fast silicon detectors. Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, ISSN 0168-9002. [Print ed.], 2017, vol. 850, str. 83-88, doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2017.01.021. [COBISS.SI-ID 30673703]

MUŠKINJA, Miha, CINDRO, Vladimir, GORIŠEK, Andrej, KAGAN, Harris, KRAMBERGER, Gregor, MANDIĆ, Igor, MIKUŽ, Marko, PHAN, S., SMITH, D. S., ZAVRTANIK, Marko. Investigation of charge multiplication in single crystalline CVD diamond particle detectors. Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, ISSN 0168-9002. [Print ed.], 2017, vol. 841, str. 162-169, doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2016.10.018. [COBISS.SI-ID 30259751]

AFFOLDER, A., CINDRO, Vladimir, GORIŠEK, Andrej, KRAMBERGER, Gregor, MANDIĆ, Igor, MIKUŽ, Marko, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, et al. Charge collection studies in irradiated HV-CMOS particle detectors. Journal of instrumentation, ISSN 1748-0221, 2016, vol. 11, str. P04007-1-P04007-15, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/11/04/P04007. [COBISS.SI-ID 29432871]

KRAMBERGER, Gregor, CINDRO, Vladimir, GORIŠEK, Andrej, MANDIĆ, Igor, MIKUŽ, Marko, STUDEN, Andrej, ZAVRTANIK, Marko, et al. Radiation effects in low gain avalanche detectors after hadron irradiations. Journal of instrumentation, ISSN 1748-0221, 2015, vol. 10, str. P07006-1-P07006-13, doi: [COBISS.SI-ID 29354791]