ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

ECE 376

Course Description

Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, resistive circuits, nodal and mesh analysis, superposition, equivalent circuits using Thevenin and Norton Theorems, op amps and op amp circuits, capacitors and inductors in first-order circuits, sinusoidal steady state, phasors, RMS value, complex power, power factor, mutual inductance, linear and ideal transformers.

Prerequisties

MATH 222 and (PHYSICS 202 , PHYSICS 208 , or PHYSICS 248 ), or member of Engineering Guest Students. Not open to students with credit for ECE 230 .

Satisfies

ECE 377 , ECE/ME 576 , ECE 356 , ME 368 , ECE 355 , and ME 445

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

2.96

-4.85% from Historical

Completion Rate

94.79%

-3.57% from Historical

A Rate

27.08%

17.62% from Historical

Class Size

-23.07% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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