MIDTERM EXAM:
Thursday, October 23, 2008, 14:30 - 16:20, AQ 3149

FINAL EXAM:
Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 15:30 - 18:30, C 9002

GRADING:
Attendance 5%, Assignments 15%, Laboratory 15%, Midterm 25%, and Final 40%.
Click here to see your grade, midterm exam, final exam, and the overall scores distribution charts.

TEXTBOOKS:

• Any of the books listed below may be used for the course. They will be available through the library reserve. They are listed in alphabetical order:
  • Norman Balabanian, Electric Circuits, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1994. (4 hours)
    Errata page
  • Raymond A. DeCarlo and Pen-Min Lin, Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasors, and Laplace Transforms Approaches, 2/e, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001. (4 hours)
  • James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Electric Circuits Revisited and PSpice Supplement Package, 8/e, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2008. (4 hours)
  • Michael Reed and Ron Rohrer, Applied Introductory Circuit Analysis, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999. (4 hours)
  • Roland E. Thomas and Albert J. Rosa, The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits, 5e, John Wiley, 2005. (4 hours)

• Additional references on the same topic. Listed in alphabetical order:
  • Artice M. Davis, Linear Circuit Analysis, PWS Publishing Co., Boston, MA 1998. (24 hours)
  • Richard C. Dorf and James A. Svoboda, Introduction to Electric Circuits (Fourth edition), John Wiley & Sons, 1998. (24 hours)
  • Joseph Edminster and Mahmood Nahvi, Schaum's Electronic Tutor, Electric Circuits, Third Edition, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1996. (24 hours)
  • Sergio Franco, Electric Circuits Fundamentals, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. (24 hours)

• A great source of interesting information:
  • Richard M. White and Roger W. Doering, Electrical Engineering Uncovered, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1997. (3 days)

Check the status of the books on reserve for ENSC 220 by typing "ENSC 220" (with the space) in the search window.

SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
T 15:30 - 16:20 in WMC 3260
R 14:30 - 16:20 in AQ 3149
Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja at cs.sfu.ca

Note: Due to prior professional commitments, I will be absent from SFU from September 30 to October 9, 2008.
This absence from campus during a teaching term has been previously approved by the ENSC Director.
All ENSC 220 lectures will be held as scheduled:
- Tuesday, September 30, 2008: Mr. Yong Zhang (lecture on Lab measurements)
- Thursday, October 2, 2008: Prof. R. H. Stephen Hardy
- Tuesday, October 7, 2008: Dr. Atousa HajShirMohammadi
- Thursday, October 9, 2008: Prof. R. H. Stephen Hardy

Tutorials:
T 12:30 - 13:20 in AQ 3003
W 14:30 - 15:20 in AQ 4130

Labs:
ENSC 9800 Laboratories (open lab)

PROFESSOR:

• Ljiljana Trajkovic
  ASB 9811
  Tel.: (778) 782-3998
  ljilja at cs.sfu.ca
  Office hours: MWF 15:00 - 16:00 and TTh 18:00 - 19:00, starting November 24, 2008.

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

• Mohamadreza Najiminaini
  mna28 at cs.sfu.ca
  Tutorials: T 12:30 - 13:20 in AQ 3003 and W 14:30 - 15:20 in AQ 4130
  Office hours: W 13:00 - 14:00 (Lab)

• Laxmi Subedi
  lsa38 at cs.sfu.ca
  Tutorials: none
  Office hours: W 15:30 - 17:30 (Lab)

• Yong Zhang
  yza30 at sfu.ca
  Tutorials: none
  Office hours: T 14:00 - 15:00 and T 17:00 - 18:00 (Lab)

LABORATORY STAFF:

• Laboratory Technician:
  Fred Heep
  ASB 9856
  Tel.: (778) 782-4629
  heep at sfu.ca
  Store hours: M - F 9:00 - 10:0, 11:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 16:00.
  On vacation until September 8, 2008.

• Laboratory Technician:
  Marius Haiducu
  ASB 9874
  Tel.: (778) 782-7319
  mhaiducu at sfu.ca

LABORATORIES:

The Labs were adopted (with minor changes) from the old ENSC 125 course.
Credits for their design are due to the past instructors of ENSC 125.

TUTORIALS:

PUZZLES:

Please let me know if you have a puzzle of your own and I will gladly add it to the list.

WEB SITES OF INTEREST:

WEEK IN REVIEW:

INFO:

• AUDIO RECORDING of ENSC 220 LECTURES:
  Audio recordings of ENSC 220 lectures are available online. Access is limited to students enrolled in ENSC 220 this term.

• ENSC 220 NOTES:
  Lecture notes will not be made available in Fall 2008. Students taking the course are kindly advised to refer to the recommended texts.
  Fall 2001 info

• ENSC 220 URL:
  http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/people/faculty/ljilja/ENSC220/

• ENSC 220 MAILING LIST:
  ensc220-d1 at sfu.ca

• ENSC 220 NEWSGROUP:
  sfu.class.ensc.ensc220

• ENSC 220 CAUCUS:
  Ensc220 Fall08
  Information
  

• SAMPLES of PAST ENSC 220 EXAMS:
  List of PDF files