School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems

Course Syllabus
EE 188 Electrical Engineering I
Northern Arizona University

Fall 2016
Section 001-2052, T TH 8:00-9:15 EGR 120

Professors
Section 001:
Dr. Elmer Grubbs
Office: 202A Engineering
Office hours: Tu Th 9:30 - 10:20, W 1:30 – 2:20, and by appointment
Phone: 928.523.0738
FAX: 928.523.2300
Email: elmer.grubbs@nau.edu

The schedule of office hours for professors and TAs is available at

http://tinyurl.com/EE188officehrs15fa =
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/16RziaH2vdkvNO7puU2d8H_IWIau_3jsMSsV9E
GKPy6g).

Prerequisite / Corequisite
Prerequisite:  MAT 136 or MAT 136H or higher with a grade greater than or equal to C or
Corequisite:  MAT 136 or MAT 136H or higher

Textbook
J.W. Nilsson and S.A. Riedel, Electric Circuits, 9th or 10 th edition, Prentice Hall, 2011
(required).

The textbook will also be used for EE 280 in Spring 2017.

Emergency Textbook Loan Program:

To help students acquire the materials they need to be successful in class, NAU has partnered with
Follett to create the Emergency Textbook Loan program. The program is administered by the
LEADS Center. The program assists students with unmet financial need in obtaining required
textbook(s) and other materials for courses. Students must apply and meet eligibility criteria
before textbooks are purchased on their behalf. Textbooks must be returned at the end of the term
in which the textbooks were loaned. More information can be found online: http://nau.edu/LEADS-
Center/Textbook-Loan-Program/

Calculator
You will need a calculator which will conveniently perform arithmetic on complex numbers in
both rectangular and polar form, which will be needed for AC sinusoidal steady state and power
analysis. The calculator should also be able to calculate sine and cosine in degrees or radians. The

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Casio FX-115ES is a good choice that is under $20. The TI-89 is also a good choice, but costs about
$140. The TI 83/84 also works but is not as convenient to use as the TI-89.

Course Objectives
The student is able to:
1. Apply fundamental electrical circuit concepts of voltage, charge, current, power and energy
and their interrelationships and units.
2. Solve problems associated with dc and ac linear circuits that include independent and
dependent sources, resistors, capacitors, inductors, and opamps.
3. Listen, explain and defend circuit analysis and design concepts.
4. Have an appreciation for electrical engineering and the impact on one’s personal and
professional lives.

Course Grading Criteria

Homework 15 %
Class participation 5%
Pre-lecture quizzes 10 %
Timed quizzes 10 %
Exams 45 %
Final Exam 15 %
Total (100 %) * ATTENDANCE

TuTh: ATTENDANCE = 1.000 for zero to two absences and

1.000 - 0.025 * (# of absences - 2)2 for more than two absences.

You cannot pass the class if you miss three weeks of classes. You can miss two classes and not
incur a penalty. Do not come to class if you are sick. You will be asked to leave.

Grading Scale Guideline

The grading scale could possibly be lowered at the professor’s discretion at the end of the
semester.
A >= 90.0 %
B >= 80.0 %
C >= 70.0 %
D >= 60.0 %
E < 60.0 %

Homework
Assignments will generally be given one week before they are due. No late homework is
accepted. If you come to class late, your homework will not be accepted.

Homework assignments will be available on bblearn. Each assignment will generally consist of
WeBWorK problems and problems to turn in on paper. I suggest that you log in with your NAU
login right away to make sure that you can. WeBWorK closes at 7:00 AM on the due date.
WeBWorK is at
Section 001: https://webwork.math.nau.edu/webwork2/EGrubbs_188

Attendance & Class Participation

Generally, you will have a reading assignment and online pre-lecture quiz to complete
before each class. See bblearn for the details. The pre-lecture quiz may be discussed among
students but simply getting the answers from someone else is considered to be academic
dishonesty. During class, you will have opportunities to ask questions. I will lecture for a few
minutes at a time, then you will have problems on a worksheet to complete in assigned groups of

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two or three. You will need to bring a copy of the worksheet to class with you. I also require a
calculator. The worksheet solutions will be in the class shell.
Students are expected to be on time and to attend every class. If you enter class after the
scheduled start time, it will count as an absence. You MUST give your name to the TA. Note that
leaving the class room after the start time and later returning will count as an absence.
No laptops, cell phones or other distracting devices during lecture. You may use a tablet PC
to take notes only but you may not read email, surf the web or engage in other distracting
activities. If you violate this policy, your distracting device will be confiscated and you will be asked
to leave (counts as an absence).
Please, no eating in the classroom or lab and turn off cell phones. It’s OK to have water to
drink in a closed container (not a glass).
In addition to university-authorized absences, excused absences are given for major
religious holidays or illness. Student must provide written notice to the instructor by the second
week of classes of any major religious holidays during the semester. Student must provide written
documentation of illnesses from a licensed health care provider. Do not come to class if you are
sick. You will be asked to leave. Makeup exams will be given for excused absences only. No
makeups for unexcused absences.

Pre-Lecture Quizzes
There are daily pre-lecture quizzes on bblearn. The purpose of the pre-lecture quiz is to
introduce you to the material to be discussed that day in class. See the schedule for the topics and
due dates. You can take the quiz three times and the highest score will count. You can work with
other students but cannot simply copy answers (that will be considered academic dishonesty).
Please use the textbook. There are two types of quizzes: calculation ("c" at the end) and verbal
("v" at the end). After submission, you will get the correct answers for the calculation quizzes but
not for the verbal quizzes. The pre-lecture quizzes close at 7:00 AM on the due date.

Timed Quizzes
There are seven timed quizzes on bblearn. These topics were chosen because they are
absolutely fundamental to circuit analysis and you should easily be able to apply them to circuit
analysis problems. You can take the timed quizzes as many times as you like. You must work
alone but may use the textbook and notes. The quizzes are each about 15 problems worth 3
points each. Thus, about 45 points will be based on accuracy. 5 additional points will be awarded
based on the time taken to complete the attempt with the highest accuracy score. A faster
completion time will result in more points. For most quizzes, if your time is less than 5 minutes,
you will receive the full 5 points. Each additional minute will reduce the time score by 1 point. The
timed quizzes close at 7:00 AM on the due date.

Exams
The exams will have a mixture of questions. There will be some questions to test
fundamental knowledge, questions to test conceptual understanding, and questions to solve circuit
problems. The exams will cover the chapters since the previous exam but you will be expected to
be able to utilize concepts from all previous chapters. You will be allowed one 8.5” x 5.5” sheet of
notes so you will not need to memorize material but be able to apply it. The sheets of notes are
cumulative: 1 for exam #1, 2 for exam #2, 3 for exam #3, and 4 for the final. The final exam will
be cumulative - an excellent opportunity to review material from the semester.

Professional Behavior
You are expected you to behave in a professional manner, such as would be expected in a
professional work environment. This includes language – no racist, sexist, or homophobic
language, no profanity or vulgarity. The definitions are rather strict.
If the professor deems your behavior to be unprofessional, you will receive one warning. For
the second and any subsequent incidents, you will be asked to leave the class for the remainder of
that class period which will count as an absence. Examples of unprofessional behavior include

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talking during an exam, leaving your seat during an exam, using your cell phone during class,
starting an exam early, harassing other students, talking loudly.

Class Learning Management System

The class shell is Blackboard Learn (bblearn.nau.edu). The Content is organized into four
parts. Each part contains pre-lecture quizzes and multiple modules of material. Each module
consists of a reading assignment and learning objectives, lecture slides, worksheet, and worksheet
solution. Announcements and Calendar contain useful information. You can check your grades and
due dates in My Grades.

Academic Integrity
Cheating - claiming another student's work as your own or permitting another student to
claim your work.
Plagiarism - claiming another person's writing as your own.
I encourage you to discuss homework problems, solution methods and answers with other
students but you cannot simply copy another student's paper and hand it in. Working together is
OK and encouraged. Copying, however, is cheating and both the student who copies and the
student who provides the solution will be punished.
Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated at this university. Violators will be penalized in
accordance with the Academic Integrity policy. If you have any questions, ask.

Email
When you send an email to the professor, you should include a salutation, body of message, and
signature. You may want to create a signature with your name, title, and contact information. If
you ask the professor to do something for you, then you should send a thank you email to
acknowledge his/her effort. Not only is this common courtesy, this is how email is used in the
business world.

Supplemental Instruction
Supplemental Instruction (SI) is assigned to historically difficult academic courses. SI leaders are
model students who were previously successful in the course.  They attend class and hold four
study sessions each week. Based on the text and class lectures, they develop study guides,
worksheets, quizzes, practice tests, and other materials to share with students. Discussions center
not only on explaining and understanding course content, but also on more effective study skills
and strategies appropriate to the particular course. SI leaders may work with one to three
students, groups of eight to ten, or larger audiences of 40 to 50 in a test review session.   Students
may attend as many SI sessions as they wish. Historically, students who attend 3 or more SI
sessions for a course earn one-half letter grade higher than students who do not attend, earning
more As and Bs and receiving fewer Ds, and Fs.

Office hours for professors, SI leaders, FYLI Peer TAs, and lecture aides will be posted on bblearn
and will mostly be held in EGR 250. You may attend any of the office hours, regardless of your
section.

Resources for Student Success

Successful university students take advantage of services and resources designed to boost learning
and achievement. NAU recommends that you begin with:
 MyFoundations- use this online tool to assess and develop required university skills at your
own pace (free for first-time freshmen at NAU Flagstaff)
 Supplemental Instruction- attend these course-specific review sessions whenever offered;
proven to reduce D’s and F’s
 Student Learning Centers- free drop-in, online, and individual tutoring appointments for
math, writing, and over 100 courses; available Monday through Friday
 ResourceConnect- your online central navigation point for all NAU student resources
For a full-listing of University College services visit: http://nau.edu/University-College/
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MyFoundations
Need to fill a gap? Brush up on your skills? Whether you need to get up to speed for your calculus
class or brush up on your essay writing skills, the MyFoundations Self-Assessment and
Development tool gets you on track for university-level academics. Free to all incoming first-year
NAU Flagstaff students- topics include:
 Math
 Reading
 Writing
 Study Skills
How it works
1. Self-Assess: Complete a path builder assessment in the topic area of your choice, which
creates specific modules for your personalized learning path based on your demonstrated
needs for improvement or development
2. Self-Develop: Complete the learning paths for mastery
 Instant feedback
 Choose activities that fit your learning style
 Work at your own pace
Where to find it - MyFoundations is in your course list in BbLearn

Policy Statements
The Safe Environment, Students with Disabilities, Academic Contact Hour, Academic Integrity, Research Integrity,
Sensitive Course Materials and Classroom Disruption policies are available at
http://nau.edu/OCLDAA/_Forms/UCC/SyllabusPolicyStmts2-2014/

ACADEMIC CONTACT HOUR POLICY

Based on the Arizona Board of Regents Academic Contact Hour Policy (ABOR Handbook, 2-
224), for every unit of credit, a student should expect, on average, to do a minimum of three hours
of work per week, including but not limited to class time, preparation, homework, studying.

CLASSROOM DISRUPTION POLICY

Membership in the academic community places a special obligation on all participants to
preserve an atmosphere conducive to a safe and positive learning environment. Part of that
obligation implies the responsibility of each member of the NAU community to maintain an
environment in which the behavior of any individual is not disruptive. Instructors have the
authority and the responsibility to manage their classes in accordance with University regulations.
Instructors have the right and obligation to confront disruptive behavior thereby promoting and
enforcing standards of behavior necessary for maintaining an atmosphere conducive to teaching
and learning. Instructors are responsible for establishing, communicating, and enforcing reasonable
expectations and rules of classroom behavior. These expectations are to be communicated to
students in the syllabus and in class discussions and activities at the outset of the course. Each
student is responsible for behaving in a manner that supports a positive learning environment and
that does not interrupt nor disrupt the delivery of education by instructors or receipt of education
by students, within or outside a class. The complete classroom disruption policy is in Appendices of
NAU’s Student Handbook.

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND CODE OF CONDUCT

Exceptionally high standards of honor and integrity are fundamental and essential to the
study and practice of engineering. Academic preparation for the profession must be conducted in
an atmosphere which fosters these values.
In addition, to compliance with the Student Code of Conduct and Policy that applies to all
students at NAU, engineering students are expected to conduct themselves professionally.
Violation of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Code of Ethics found at
http://www.nspe.org/ethics/eh1-code.asp or the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Code
of Ethics and Professional Conduct at http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html may lead to

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dismissal from the College’s academic programs. Copies of these codes are also available in the
Office of the Dean.
Violations of any of these codes will be handled as detailed in the publications listed above,
and will be documented in the student’s advisement file.
Faculty members may ask students to affirm in writing that they have neither given nor
received unauthorized aid on an examination or assignment.

Catalog Description
EE 188 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I (3)
Introduces electrical engineering including DC and AC circuit analysis, operational amplifiers,
transducers, transformers, and AC power.  Letter grade only.  Course fee required.
Prerequisite:  MAT 136 or MAT 136H or higher with a grade greater than or equal to C or
Corequisite:  MAT 136 or MAT 136H or higher 

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 EE188 Electrical Engineering I, Section 1
Fall 2016, Tentative Schedule

Fa16 TuTh Quiz Sect Topic (bold = timed quiz)

8/30 Syllabus
1.1 Electrical Engineering: An Overview
9/1 01 1.4 Voltage and Current
1.5 The Ideal Basic Circuit Element
1.6 Power and Energy
1.1 Electrical Engineering: An Overview
1.2 The International System of Units
1.3 Circuits Analysis: An Overview
2.1 Voltage and Current Sources
9/6 02 2.2 Electrical Resistance (Ohm's Law)
2.3 Construction of a Circuit Model
2.4 Kirchhoff's Current Law
9/8 03 Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
3.1 Resistors in Series
9/13 04 3.2 Resistors in Parallel
3.3 The Voltage-Divider and Current-Divider Circuits
9/15 05 3.4 Voltage Division and Current Division
3.7 Delta-to-Wye (Pi-to-Tee) Equivalent Circuits
9/20
9/22 Exam 1
9/27 06 4.1 Terminology
4.2 Introduction to the Node-Voltage Method
4.3 The Node-Voltage Method and Dependent Sources
9/29 07 4.9 Source Transformations
4.10 Thévenin and Norton Equivalents
10/4 08 4.11 Deactivate sources
4.12 Maximum Power Transfer
4.13 Superposition
10/6 09 Introduction to Amplification
5.1 Operational Amplifier Terminals
5.2 Terminal Voltages and Currents
5.3 The Inverting-Amplifier Circuit
10/11 10 5.4 The Summing-Amplifier Circuit
5.5 The Noninverting-Amplifier Circuit
5.6 The Difference Amplifier Circuit
10/13
10/18 Exam 2
10/20 extra
10/25 11 6.1 The Inductor
6.2 The Capacitor
6.3 Series-Parallel Combinations of Inductance and
Capacitance
10/27 12 6.4 Mutual Inductance
App B Complex Numbers
Fa16 TuTh Quiz Sect Topic (bold = timed quiz)
11/1 13 9.1 The Sinusoidal Source
9.2 The Sinusoidal Response
9.3 The Phasor
11/3 14 9.4 The Passive Circuit Elements in the Frequency
Domain / Impedance plots
9.5 Kirchhoff's Laws in the Frequency Domain
9.6 Series, Parallel, and Delta-to-Wye Simplifications
11/8 15 9.7 Source Transformations and Thévenin-Norton
Equivalent Circuits
Superposition (not mentioned in this chapter)
9.10-11 The Transformer
11/10 16 9.12 Phasor Diagrams
11/15
11/17 Exam 3
11/22 17 10.1 Instantaneous Power
10.2 Average and Reactive Power
10.3 The rms Value and Power Calculations
11/29 18 10.4 Complex Power
10.5 Power Calculations
10.6 Maximum Power Transfer
12/1 19 11.1 Balanced Three-Phase Voltages
11.2 Three-Phase Voltage Sources
12/6 20 11.3 Analysis of the Wye-Wye Circuit
11.4 Analysis of the Wye-Delta Circuit
11.5 Power Calculations in Balanced Three-Phase Circuits
12/8
Final Exam – cumulative

Sect 001 T TH 8:00-9:15, Thursday, December 15, 7:30

am-9:30 am