Fundamentals of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The unit aims to provide students with a sound knowledge of electrical circuits, circuit analysis techniques, transformers, motors, generators as well as digital electronic circuits. The unit covers fundamentals of Electrical and Electronic Engineering for non-electrical engineering students from Mechanical, Architectural and Building Engineering courses.
Electrical circuits begin with a revision of fundamentals including Direct-Current (DC) circuits. The concept of nodal-analysis (node-voltage method) for the analysis of DC circuits is introduced. The principle of Superposition, derivation of Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits are discussed in detail as well as the maximum power transfer theorem. Alternating-Current (AC) circuits are explored and the analysis of these circuits using complex numbers is covered. Three-phase AC systems are studied, and the concept of power factor correction is introduced. An overview of electrical transformers is given. Finally, DC and AC motors are examined as well as synchronous generators. Digital Electronics begins with a discussion of arithmetic operations, Boolean expressions and their reduction techniques.