ELEC 225: ABET Course Objectives and Outcomes

Every course has a set of general goals or objectvies, and every course has a set of specific outcomes which specify what students should be able to do upon completion of the course. There are several reasons for having the goals and outcomes.

Goals and outcomes are the information that define what a course is, not the contents of the text book.

Outcomes really specify how well you need to learn the material, and in almost every case you will need to learn the material at a level the means that you cannot rely upon memorization.

There are some program outcomes that we must meet if we are to retain our accreditation. These program outcomes are specified by ABET - the accrediting agency - and they were determined after long consultation with numerous people in industry and research labs everywhere, and they are designed to ensure that engineering graduates have the knowledge and skills that are necessary for success (not just survival) in the real world.

Here is a link to the ABET outcomes we must meet. Notice that the EE Department must be able to document that you can do all of this when the accreditors visit.

Course objectives:

Students finishing ELEC 225 will understand fundamental circuit analysis techniques, including sinusoidal steady-state methods. Students will be prepared to take ELEC 226 in the next semester, which will include time-domain circuit analysis, Laplace transform methods, and frequency analysis of circuits and signals using Fourier series and transforms.

To achieve the objectives for ELEC 225, we work toward the following course outcomes.

Course Outcomes:

At the conclusion of ELEC 225, students will be able to:

Calculate voltages and currents in DC circuits using fundamental building blocks such as parallel/series resistors, voltage dividers, and bridge circuits.

(a,e)

Solve linear, simultaneous equations to analyze voltages and currents in DC and AC (phasor) circuits.

(a,e)

Calculate the frequency response of a circuit (Simple ciruits, including circuits with operational amplifiers) using phasors and impedances.

(a)

determine the average power dissipated in a circuit.

(a)

Calculate voltages and currents in three phase circuits.

(a)

Predict behavior of op amp circuits with negative feedback and positive feedback, using ideal as well as more realistic models for the op amp.

(a)

design op amp circuits to achieve specified functionality.

(a, c, e)

Calculate voltages and currents in circuits using PSpice.

(k,l)

design and construct appropriate lab setups to test theoretical predictions obtained by circuit analysis.

(a,b,d,e,g,k)

design and implement a procedure to determine the electrical characteristics of an unknown circuit element.

(a,b,d,e,k,l)

write lab reports that are clear, well-organized, and sufficiently detailed to allow replication of the experiments.

(g)