Welcome to "Basics in Electronics" Course!
From teachers:
Dear
students, if you wish to take this course, please read through this
page carefully because this page includes an overview of course
contents, implementation, teaching schedule, deadlines and grading criteria. Thank you.
Wishing
to get fundamentals knowledge to start understanding and designing
modern electronic equipment including computers,
vehicles,
robots, satellites and any intelligent and autonomous systems? This is
an essential course to start with, if you are interested in any
activities of electronic equipment and systems! There is a continuation
course "Electronic circuits" in the next spring semester after you get
fundamental knowledge of circuits.
1. Contents of the course
1.1 Motivation and objectives
This
course aims
at covering fundamentals to understand and design electronic circuits,
aiming at introduction to 1) basic circuit components and Kirchhoff,
Thevenin and Norton's theorems for simple direct-current (DC) circuit
problems and 2) useful software simulation tool, e.g., KiCad, to solve a
more complex circuit problems. Knowledge and skills
learnt in this course will be essential for the next level of this
course, i.e., "Electronic circuits" taught in the next spring semester
and be helpful for electronics design labs.
1.2 Learning Outcomes
After this course, students get familiar with
- Basic models and analysis methods of DC circuits, including operational amplifiers.
- An electronic circuit simulation software and basic design and measurements of DC circuits.
2. Course implementation
2.1 Teachers
- Prof. Katsuyuki Haneda, room 2143, TUAS building; teacher in charge
- Prof. Martin Andraud, room 2192, TUAS building; lecture and exercise sessions
- Senior University Lecturer Juha Mallat, room 2157, TUAS building; exercise sessions, simulation exercises
- Mr. Lauri Vaha-Savo, room 2175, TUAS building; teacher
- Mr. Ali Kourani, room 2142, TUAS building; teacher
2.2 General organization
This course is organized around three basic activities:
- Lectures x 4, including 4 pre-assignments
- Calculation Assignments x 12, to be returned during exercise return sessions
- Simulations Assignments x 2, using the tool KiCad.
2.3 The period I of autumn 2022 semester will be fully on-site teaching
Following the University guidelines for the period I of the Autumn semester, contact teaching of this course will take place fully on campus. All contact sessions are held in room AS6 of TUAS building, with exceptions when the number of students exceeds the room capacity. Teachers will communicate room changes with students through the annoucement channel of MyCourses. Remote activities may be organized due to teacher's needs.2.4 Schedule
| Date |
Sessions and deadlines | Nilsson chapter | Glisson chapter |
Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Sep 7 |
Introduction to this course - what we learn and why we learn about it? |
Katsu, Martin, Juha, Lauri, Ali |
||
| Thu, Sep 8 |
Lecture 1 - Kirchhoff theory |
2.1 2.2 2.4 3.1 3.2 |
2.1-2.7, 3.1-3.9, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2 |
Katsu |
| Wed, Sep 14 |
Exercise session; Deadline of calculation assignment 1 |
Katsu, Juha, Martin, Lauri, Ali |
||
| Thu, Sep 15 |
Lecture 2 - Circuit transforms |
3.3 3.4 4.9 4.10 4.13 |
3.4-3.10, 4.3, 4.4 |
Katsu |
| Wed, Sep 21 |
Exercise session; Deadline of calculation assignment 2 |
Katsu, Juha, Martin, Lauri, Ali |
||
| Thu, Sep 22 |
Q&A session for simulation exercise (voluntary session; no need to join if not necessary. This session is ONLY in remote mode to share screens of KiCad.) |
Juha, Katsu |
||
| Wed, Sep 28 |
Deadline of simulation assignment 1 (NO contact session; just submit the assignment on MyCourses!) | |||
| Thu, Sep 29 |
Lecture 3 - DC circuit analysis methods |
4.1-4.6 |
3.7, 3.8, 6.2 |
Katsu |
| Wed, Oct 5 |
Exercise session; Deadline of calculation assignment 3 |
Katsu, Juha, Martin, Lauri, Ali |
||
| Thu, Oct 6 |
Lecture 4 - Operational amplifiers | 5.1 - 5.5 |
7.1-7.6 |
Katsu |
| Wed, Oct 12 |
Exercise session; Deadline of calculation assignment 4 |
Katsu, Juha, Martin, Lauri, Ali |
||
| Thu, Oct 13 |
Q&A session for simulation exercise (voluntary session; no need to join if not necessary. This session is ONLY in remote mode to share screens of KiCad.) |
Juha, Katsu | ||
| Fri, Oct 14 |
Deadline of simulation assignment 2 (NO contact session; just submit the assignment on MyCourses!) |
Note: this course does not have an exam.
2.5 How to return exercises? [Important!]
- Calculation exercises can be returned during exercise sessions only; see Calculation Assignments section.
- Simulation exercises can be returned through MyCourses page only; see Simulation Assignments section.
2.6 Expected study efforts of students
2 credits x 27.5 = 55 hours of study include
- Self-study for pre-assignments: 1 hour x 4 sessions = 4 hours
- Contact session: 2 hours x 2 sessions in a week x 6 weeks = 24 hours
- Self-study for calculation assignments: 1.5 hours x 12 assignments = 18 hours
- Getting familiar with circuit simulation tool KiCad: 4 hours
- Self-study for simulation assignments: 2 hours x 2 assignments = 4 hours
In total, 4 + 24 + 18 + 4 + 4 = 54 hours. Note
that, being able to complete the course in 54 hours assumes that
students have right mathematical background and aim at grade 3. Those
students who lag in background knowledge and/or aim at higher grades than 3
may have to use more than 54 hours.
2.7 Grading criteria and evaluation method
Total number of points is 48:
- 8 points based on pre-assignments (2 points x 4 assignments).
- 24 points based on calculation assignments (2 points x 12 assignments).
- 16 points based on simulation assignments (8 points x 2 assignments).
Questions? Share them!
If you have questions of any sorts, post them to "General discussions" page. One of teachers will respond to the questions as soon as possible. Our discussions are visible to all our fellow colleagues registered in this course. In many cases, your questions are also points of clarification for your peers. It is therefore helpful to share questions and answers to all students registered in this course. You can send an individual question email to teachers, but do so only when it is a private issue.