Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Circuits (3 units)
Electron and ion motion, electrical current and voltage. Electrical energy, current, voltage and circuit elements. Resistors, Ohm's Law, power and energy, magnetic fields and dc motors. Circuit analysis and Kirchhof's voltage and current laws. Thevenin and Norton transformations and the superposition theorem. Measuring current, voltage, and power using ammeters and voltmeters. Energy and maximum electrical power transfer. Computer simulations of circuits. Reactive circuits, inductors, capacitors, mutual inductance, electrical transformers, energy storage and energy conservation. RL, RC and RLC circuit transient responses, biological cell action potentials due to Na and K ions. AC circuits, complex impedance, RMS current and voltage. Electrical signal amplifiers and basic operational amplifier circuits. Inverting, non-inverting, and difference amplifiers. Voltage gain, current gain, input impedancer and output impedance.
Statics and Mechanics of Materials (3 units)
A foundational course for mechanical engineering. Study of mechanical structures that are stationary and not in motion. Rigid bodies or structures and how they maintain the equilibrium. The type forces acting on them; how to reduce the multiple forces into an equivalent force; analysis of trusses, frames, and machines; how to find the center of an area are the key features of first half of the course. What happens to a structure internally while all different forces are acting on them. The stress, strain, strength, stiffness are some of the features would help you to understand different materials and determine how strong or stiff is a structure. Hands-on fun projects included.