Course Outline (Winter 2020)

EES 512: Electric Circuits

Dr. Farah Mohammadi (Course Coordinator)

Office: ENG 461
Phone: 416-979-5000 Ext: 6094
E-mail: fmohamma@gmail.com
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Instructors
Dr. Surinder Jassar
Office: TBA
Phone: 416-979-5000 Ext: TBA
E-mail: sjassar@ryerson.ca
Office Hours: TBA

This one-semester lecture/lab course covers general electric circuit parameters and laws. Topics
include: Basic electric circuits, voltage and current sources, resistance, analysis of DC circuits,
Calendar power considerations; Concepts of capacitance, inductance, and their transient behavior;
Description Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems; Introduction of AC sources, phasors, reactance and
impedance, AC analysis of RC, RL, and RCL circuits, the effect of resonance, real and complex
powers in AC circuits.

Prerequisites MTH140 (Calculus-I) and MTH141 (Linear Algebra)

1. EES512 Laboratory: Laboratory Manual by A. O’Halloran and K. Raahemifar, posted
Compulsory online on D2L.
Text(s): 2. Web Pages: EES 512 D2L, https://my.ryerson.ca.

1. Reference Text Book: Fundamentals of Electric Circuits by C. K. Alexander and M. N. O.

Reference
Sadiku, Fifth or sixth Editon, McGrawHill., Chapters 1- 11
Text(s)
At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:

1. Understand, interpret, articulate, and apply the basic voltage and current laws in the
identification, formulation, and solution of the basic problem of circuit analysis. (1a:
Learning Natural Sciences)
Objectives 2. Develop linear equations based on different circuit configurations. Solve linear equations
(Indicators) using variable elimination or Cramer rule. (1b: Mathematics)
3. Conduct experiments using the basic principles of circuit analysis and analyze and interpret
the obtained results. (2a: Processing)
4. Use current and voltage measurement instruments, including volt/current meters and
oscilloscope to measure the voltage and current characteristics of various circuits. (5a:
Conducting experiments/measurement)

1. The course has 3-hrs lecture per week for 13 weeks. Winter Classes begin on January 6th,
Course 2020 and end on Thursday April 9th, 2020.
Organization 2. No classes will be held during Winter Study Week from February 17th, 2020 to February
21th, 2020.
3. Deadline for withdrawing from the course with 50% refund: February 7th, 2020.
 4. Deadline for withdrawing from the course with no refund: March 27th, 2020.
5. Final exams are scheduled from April 13th, 2020 to April 25 th,2020 (Saturdays included)
6. There are five labs and two lab tests scheduled as noted in this document. The labs are either
in ENG 301 or ENG 302.

Furat Al-Obaidy furat.alobaidy@ryerson.ca

Alykhan Sewani alykhan.sewani@ryerson.ca
Teaching
Shima Bagher Zade Homayie sbagherzadehomayie@ryerson.ca
Assistants
Syeda Rabbani syeda.rabbani@ryerson.ca
Aditya Danayak aditya.danayak@ryerson.ca
Amir Moslemi

Assignments 0%
Course Laboratory 25 %
Evaluation Midterm Exam 25 %
Final Exam 50 %
TOTAL: 100 %

1. The midterm is scheduled on Wednesday March 4th during regular lecture hours.
Examinations 2. The official final exam will be announced by the timetabling dept. Final exam includes
materials discussed from beginning to the end.

1. Students are encouraged to earn passing marks in both theory and lab components
separately. In the absence of student’s lab portions with valid reasons and proper
documents submitted and verified by students’ department, the grades will be shifted
to final exam.
2. The Midterm, makeup tests, and the Final Exam are “closed book” and “closed course
note” exams. No formula sheet is allowed. Only university-approved calculators are
allowed. Also, both midterm and final exams are “no-question-asked” exams. Only
Other Evaluation the non-programmable approved calculator (Sharp EL546 or Casio fx-991MS and
and/or their later models) will be allowed.
Information 3. There are lab tests that are conducted individually. There are two lab tests worth a
total of 15%. The first lab test is conducted after labs 1 to 3 are completed. It is worth
8%. The second lab test is conducted after labs 4 and 5 are completed. It is worth 7%.
Lab tests are scheduled for one hour per person and includes pre-lab, implementation,
and post-lab reports. These test reports are written per person, will be marked and
posted online. There is “no question asked” policy for lab tests. Students must use
actual lab sessions as their practice run, as there is no practice lab prior to tests
Course Content

Chap. Week hours Topic, description

1 1,2 6 Introduction to EES512: scope and objectives, course management.
Basic concepts, charge, current, voltage, power, reference direction,
resistance and Ohm’s Law, power dissipation, characteristics of
resistors.
2,3,4 3,4,5 9 Series and parallel circuits, Kirchhoff’s Laws, ground potential,
voltage and current division principles, Wheatstone bridge, ideal
and real voltage sources, Nodal, Mesh, Superposition, and Source
Transformation Techniques, Thevenin’s and Norton theorems,
maximum power transfer and power transfer efficiency.
6,7 6,7,8 9 Capacitance, practical capacitors, series and parallel connections,
transients in RC circuits. Self-inductance, series and parallel
connections, transients in RL circuits, time constants and graphical
representations.
1) Appendix (B) 9,10 6 Generation of AC voltages, parameters of AC waveforms, average
2) Course Notes and effective (RMS) values, review of complex number algebra,
on D2L. phasor representation, impedance and admittance, capacitive and
inductive reactance.
9,10,11 11,12,13 9 Series R-L, R-C and R-L-C loads, general series-parallel AC
circuits. Phasor analysis of AC currents, voltage, and phase shifts.
Resonance in R-L-C circuits, resonant frequency, bandwidth and Q-
factor, power dissipated in AC loads.

Laboratory/Tutorials

Week Title Room

Jan. 27th to Jan. 31th Ohm’s Law ENG301/302
Feb. 3th to Feb. 7th Tutorial
Feb. 10h to Feb. 14th Tutorial ENG301/302
Feb. 17th to Feb. 21th Study week
Feb. 24th to March 28th Nodal Analysis
March 2th to March 6th Thevenin Equivalent Circuit ENG301/302
March 9th to March 13th Lab Test #1 ENG301/302
March 16th to March 20th RC Circuit Step Response ENG301/302
March 23th to March 27th RLC Circuit Resonance ENG301/302
March 30st to April 3th Lab Test #2 ENG301/302
April 6st to April 10th Tutorial

Important Notes

1. Lab attendance is mandatory. Ten minutes after the start of the session, the lab doors will be closed and will
only be opened at the end of the session. Any absence during this time will be considered absence from the
lab session. For each absence the student will loose 5% for the lab evaluation. (If you do not attend any lab
sessions, you will receive zero for the lab evaluation. Even if you attend the lab tests.)

2. All of the required course-specific written reports will be assessed not only on their technical/academic merit,
but also on the communication skills exhibited through these reports.

3. All assignment and lab/tutorial reports must have the standard cover page which must be signed by the
student(s) prior to submission of the work. Submissions without the cover page will not be accepted. The
cover page can be found on the departmental website: Standard Assignment/Lab Cover Page
 4. Should a student miss a mid-term test or equivalent (e.g. studio or presentation), with appropriate
documentation, a make-up assessment may be scheduled. Alternatively, the weight of the missed work is
placed on the final exam, or another single assessment. This may not cause that exam or assessment to be
worth more than 70% of the student’s final grade. If a student misses a scheduled make-up test or exam, the
grade may be distributed over other course assessments even if that makes the grade on the final exam worth
more than 70% of the final grade in the course. Make-up assessments cover the same material as the original
assessment but need not be of an identical format.

5. Students who miss a final exam for a verifiable reason and who cannot be given a make-up exam prior to the
submission of final course grades, must be given a grade of INC (as outlined in the Grading Promotion and
Academic Standing Policy) and a make-up exam (normally within 2 weeks of the beginning of the next
semester) that carries the same weight and measures the same knowledge, must be scheduled.

6. Medical or Compassionate documents for the missing of an exam must be submitted within 3 working days of
the exam. Students are responsible for notifying the instructor that they will be missing an exam as soon as
possible.

7. If a student is requesting accommodation due to a religious, aboriginal and/or spiritual observance,

he or she must submit a Request for Accommodation of Student Religious, Aboriginal, and Spiritual
Observance AND an Academic Consideration form within the FIRST TWO WEEKS OF CLASS or, for a
final examination, within two weeks of the posting of the examination schedule. If the required absence
occurs within the first two weeks of classes, or the dates are not known well in advance as they are linked to
other conditions, these forms should be submitted with as much lead time as possible in advance of the
required absence.
Both documents are available at http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/forms/relobservforminstr.pdf. Full-time or part-
time degree students must submit the forms to their own program department or school.

8. The results of the first test or mid-term exam will be returned to students before the deadline to drop an
undergraduate course in good Academic Standing.

9. Students are required to adhere to all relevant University policies including:

 Undergraduate Grading, Promotion and Academic Standing:
http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol46.pdf
 Student Code of Academic Conduct: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol60.pdf
 Student Code of Non-Academic Conduct: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol61.pdf
 Undergraduate Academic Consideration and Appeals: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol134.pdf
 Examination Policy: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol135.pdf
 Course Management Policy: http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol145.pdf
 Accommodation of Student Religious, Aboriginal and Spiritual Observance:
http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol150.pdf
 Establishment of Student E-mail Accounts for Official University Communication:
http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol157.pdf

10. Students are required to obtain and maintain a Ryerson e-mail account for timely communications between
the instructor and the students.

11. Any changes in the course outline, test dates, marking or evaluation will be discussed in class prior to being
implemented.

12. Assignments, projects, reports and other deadline-bound course assessment components handed in past the
due date will receive a mark of ZERO. Marking information will be made available at the time when such
course assessment components are announced.

13. If you have taken the course previously and are currently looking to get a laboratory exemption, then you must
fill out this form: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/guides/ECE-LabExemptionForm.pdf

Approved by: ____ Farah Mohammadi and Surinder Jassar _____ Date ___January 6, 2020 __________________
Course Instructors

Approved by: _______________________________ Date ________________________________

Associate Chair or Program Director