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  • Welcome to ELEC-C9620 Basics of Electronic Circuits

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    Electronics is the foundation of modern technologies we use every day. Even if your future career is not in electrical engineering, you are bound to come across with design tasks that are more or less directly connected with electronics. This course helps you to understand how manipulating electricity in electronic circuits can be made to make useful things to us. Examples of course contents is: currents and voltages in resistive circuits, capacitors and inductors in electronic filters, operational amplifier circuits, and MOSFET transistor amplifier. See the detailed course content here [add link here].

    Course content

    This course content is aligned with electrical engineering and university community in general:

    • get to know the basics of electronics
    • recognize the key concepts, phenomena, laws, and models and their application in electronics
    • get skills in technical-scientific thinking and working methods
    • you take responsibility of your own learning as a member of the university community
    • develop a basis for independent lifelong learning and professional development
    • get familiar with the central terminology of the field
    The detailed intended learning outcomes of this course have been listed here [add link here].
    To whom is the course intended?

    Our course runs through periods I and II and it is intended for ELEC Bachelor students that are no in the major of Electronics and Electrical engineering, i.e., “Automaatio ja robotiikka”, “Bioinformaatioteknologia”, “Informaatioteknologia”, and “Digital Systems Design”. Students of the bachelor program in Electrical Engineering who have Electronics and Electrical Engineering as a major (EST) are not allowed to include the course in their degree as this course is considered redundant with other courses in their major.

    Course rules
    • The course is organized around two main activities
      • Lectures 2 hours per week with reading assignment before the lecture
      • Exercises taking approximately 4 hours at home and voluntarily 2 hours in helping session
      • Two exams in October (written exam) and December (online)
    • The course teaching duration is weeks 36-48 (no teaching on exam week 42)
    • Exams are on weeks 42 and 50
    • Discussion between the students and course teachers is welcomed on zulip-platform: https://elec-c9620-fall-2024.zulip.aalto.fi/
    Typical week on Basics of Electronic Circuits

    Below is a description of a typical week during the course. There is no teaching nor exercises to be returned during the exam weeks 42 and 50.

    • Reading assignment (approximately 25 pages) in the textbook before the lecture on Tuesday 14.15-16.00 o'clock
    • Exercises (three assignments) are published after the lecture on Tuesday
    • Voluntary attending one of the four available exercise help sessions (Groups A-D) on Thursday (12.15-14.00 & 14.15-16.00 o'clock) and Friday (8.15-10.00 & 10.15-12.00 o'clock)
    • Exercises are returned by Monday the next week