MIDTERM EXAM:
Thursday, October 21, 13:30 - 15:20

FINAL EXAM:
Saturday, December 11, 12:00 - 15:00 in K 9500.

GRADING:
Laboratory 30%, Assignments 10%, Midterm 20%, and Final 40%.

Click here to see your grade, midterm exam, final exam, and the total scores distribution charts.

TEXTBOOKS:
Any of the books listed below may be used for the course.
They will be available through the library reserve:

• Norman Balabanian, Electric Circuits, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1994. (4 hours)
  Errata page
• Joseph Edminster and Mahmood Nahvi, Schaum's Electronic Tutor, Electric Circuits, Third Edition, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1996. (4 hours)
• James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Electric Circuits (Fifth edition), Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1996. (4 hours)
• James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Using Computer Tools for Electric Circuits (Sixth edition), Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 2000. (4 hours)
• Sergio Franco, Electric Circuits Fundamentals, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. (4 hours)
• Artice M. Davis, Linear Circuit Analysis, PWS Publishing Co., Boston, MA 1998. (4 hours)
• Raymond A. DeCarlo and Pen-Min Lin,
  Linear Circuit Analysis Volume I: A Time Domain and Phasor Approach, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1995. (4 hours)
  Linear Circuit Analysis Volume II: A Laplace Transform Approach, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1995. (Not available)
  Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasors, and Laplace Transforms Approaches, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1995. (Not available)
• Richard C. Dorf and James A. Svoboda, Introduction to Electric Circuits (Fourth edition), John Wiley & Sons, 1998. (4 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. (24 hours)

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

SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
Tu 13:30 - 14:20 in AQ 3159: Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
R 13:30 - 15:20 in AQ 3159 Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja@cs.sfu.ca

Tutorials:
Tu 14:30 - 15:20 in AQ 5009: Scott D. Kulchycki skulchyc@sfu.ca
Tu 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 5009: Scott D. Kulchycki skulchyc@sfu.ca
W 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 5048: Robert Trost rtrost@sfu.ca
R 15:30 - 16:20 in SCB 8664: Robert Trost rtrost@sfu.ca

Labs:
ENSC 9800 Laboratories (open lab)

PROFESSOR:

• Ljiljana Trajkovic
  ASB 9811
  Tel.: (604) 291-3998
  ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
  Office hours: TW: 11:00 - 12:00.

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

• Scott D. Kulchycki
  skulchyc@sfu.ca
  Lab tutorial: Tu 14:30 - 15:20; Tu 15:30 - 16:20.
  Office hours: M 14:30 - 15:30; W 12:30 - 13:30.

• Robert Trost
  rtrost@sfu.ca
  Lab tutorial: W 15:30 - 16:20; R 15:30 - 16:20.
  Office hours: F 9:30 - 11:30.

LABORATORY STAFF:

• Laboratory Director:
  Ash Parameswaran
  ASB 8851
  Tel.: (604) 291-4971
  param@cs.sfu.ca

• Laboratory Engineers:

  • Bill Woods
    ASB 8832
    Tel.: (604) 291-4954
    williaw@sfu.ca
    Lab hours: MWF 13:30 - 14:30.
    

  • Gary Houghton
    ASB 8843
    Tel.: (604) 291-4527
    houghton@sfu.ca
    Lab hours: M 15:30 - 16:30, WF: 14:30 - 15:30.

• Laboratory Technologist:
  Fred Heep
  ASB 9856
  Tel.: (604) 291-4629
  heep@sfu.ca
  Store hours: M - F 9:00 - 10:0, 11:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 16:00.

• Software Engineer:
  Catherine Crosby
  ASB 9880
  Tel.: (604) 291-4625
  crosbie@sfu.ca

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  LABORATORIES:

• Weekly schedule
• Writing Laboratory Reports & Journals
• Application Note: TDS Screen Capture via the RS-232 option

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  ENSC 9800 Lab photo courtesy of Ash Parameswaran:
  
  

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  Lab bench orientation:

• Part 1 - PS and DMM
• Part 2 - FG and OS

• Lab #1: KCL and KVL report due October 5, 1999.
• Lab #2: Op-amps report due October 19, 1999.
• Lab #3: RL and RC circuits report due November 9, 1999.
• Lab #4: RLC circuits report due November 23, 1999.
• Lab #5: AM radio demo due December 6, 1999.

  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.

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  TUTORIALS:

• Tu 14:30 - 15:20 in AQ 5009: Scott D. Kulchycki skulchyc@sfu.ca
• Tu 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 5009: Scott D. Kulchycki skulchyc@sfu.ca
• W 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 5048: Robert Trost rtrost@sfu.ca
• R 15:30 - 16:20 in SCB 8664: Robert Trost rtrost@sfu.ca

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  PUZZLES:

• Puzzle #1: Matching
• Puzzle #2: Ideal world
• Puzzle #3: KVL and KCL
• Puzzle #4: Infinite ladder
• Puzzle #5: Superposition
• Puzzle #6: Passivity
• Puzzle #7: Magic box

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

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  WEEK IN REVIEW:

• 1. September 6
• 2. September 13
• 3. September 20
• 4. September 27
• 5. October 4
• 6. October 11
• 7. October 18
• 8. October 25
• 9. November 1
• 10. November 8
• 11. November 15
• 12. November 22
• 13. November 29

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  INFO:

  • ENSC 220 FOLDERS:
    Two binders (identical copies) labeled
    ENSC 220-3
    ELECTRIC CIRCUITS I
    are placed in the ASB 9800 Lab.
    Content

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

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

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

  • ENSC 220 CAUCUS:
    Ensc220
    Information
    

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  TOPICS HOMEWORK EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE

  STAFF LABS TUTORIALS PUZZLES WEEK IN REVIEW INFO

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  Created by
  Ljiljana Trajkovic
  ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
  Last modified: Tuesday July 6 17:40:40 PDT 1999.