Spring 2015 – Electrical Engineering for Computer Scientists

CSCI-UA.0480-005 Syllabus
Special Topics: Electrical Engineering for Computer Scientists

Course Description
This course is for all CS students who have not had exposure to electrical and computer engineering (ECE) courses. The course will be taught at a sophomore math level (all sophomore ECE students take these subjects throughout the world). The class is designed to help CS students gain a fundamental understanding of ECE, and the types of problems that ECE students solve in circuit design, digital logic, and system theory. The course is designed to help CS students learn the very basic concepts of ECE, so that CS students can work side by side hardware or EE computer engineers while having an understanding of the most fundamental concepts of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Topics include: Passive DC circuit elements, Kirchoff’s laws, Ohm’s Law, electric power calculations, analysis of DC circuits, Nodal and Loop analysis techniques, voltage and current division, Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems, Phasors and AC circuits, Digital Logic, System Theory, Decibel Measures.

Instructor
Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport
tsr@nyu.edu
Office: 715 Broadway, Room 702; New York, New York 10003
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am – 12:00pm
Update (Effective 3/18/2015): George MacCartney will teach Tuesday lectures and Sijia Deng will teach Thursday lectures

Course Schedule
Lecture: Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:30 am – 10:45 am
Room: CIWW 317
Update (Effective 3/18/2015): Homework due every Tuesday at the beginning of class
Update (Effective 3/18/2015): A 10-minute quiz every Thursday at the beginning of class

GTA
Sijia Deng
sijia@nyu.edu
Office: 715 Broadway, Room 702; New York, New York 10003
Office Hours: Monday 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Wednesday 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Friday 9:00 – 11:00 AM

George R. MacCartney Jr.
gmac@nyu.edu
Office: 715 Broadway, Room 702; New York, New York 10003
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Textbook
Engineering Circuit Analysis
W.H. Hayt, J.E. Kemmerly, S.M. Durbin,
McGraw Hill, 8th Ed. 2012
Update (Effective 3/18/2015): Supplemental Course Notes will be used for all topics after Exam 3, including: Digital Logic, System Theory, and Decibel Measures material. These course notes will be posted 3 days prior to each lecture on the course webpage and on NYU Classes.

Grading Policy
Quizzes: 15% (lowest quiz score will be dropped)
Homework: 15% (Extra Credit 1 will replace a low homework score)
3 In-Class Exams: 45%
Final Exam: 25%

* Extra Credit 2 will replace a low homework score and a low quiz score.

Homework
Assignment 1: Assigned 01/29/15 Due 02/05/15
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Assignment 2: Assigned 02/03/15 Due 02/10/15
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Assignment 3: Assigned 02/17/15 Due 02/24/15
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Assignment 4: Assigned 02/24/15 Due 03/03/15
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Assignment 5: Assigned 03/03/15 Due /03/10/15
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Assignment 6: Assigned 03/ 24/15 Due 03/31/15
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Assignment 7: Assigned 03/ 31/15 Due 04/07/15
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Assignment 8: Assigned 04/07/15 Due 04/14/15
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Assignment 9: Assigned 04/21/15 Due 04/28/15
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Assignment 10: Assigned 04/28/15 Due 05/05/15
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Assignment 11: Assigned 05/05/15 Due 05/12/15
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Assignment 12 (Extra Credit): Assigned 05/10/15 Due 05/14/15
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Exam 1
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Final Exam
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Course Outline
Resistors in Series and Parallel; Voltage and Current Division

Date	Topic	Reading Assignments	Lecture Notes	Important Events in Class
1/27	Blizzard Break
1/29	SI Units; Current, Voltage, and Power; Voltage and Current Sources (Dependent and Independent)	Pg. 1-21	View Notes
2/3	Networks and Circuits; Ohm’s Law; Conductance; Kirchhoff’s Current Law; Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law	Pg. 21-46	View Notes
2/5	Single-Loop Circuit; Single-Node-Pair Circuit; Series and Parallel Connected Source	Pg. 46-55	View Notes	HW 1 is due assigned 1/29/15
2/10	Resistors in Series and Parallel; Voltage and Current Division	Pg. 55-78	View Notes	HW 2 is due assigned 02/10/15
2/12	In-Class EXAM 1 (one 3½x5” index card, double sided crib sheet)		Download sample exams
2/17	Resistors in Series and Parallel; Voltage and Current Division	Pg. 55-78	View Notes
2/19	Nodal Analysis; Supernode; using MATLAB in solving linear equations.	Pg. 79-91 Appendix I & II	View Notes
2/24	Mesh Analysis; Supermesh; Nodal VS. Mesh Analysis: A comparison	Pg. 92-122 Appendix I & II	View Notes	HW 3 is due assigned 02/17/2015
2/26	Linearity and Superposition; Practical Source and Source Transformations	Pg. 123-140	View Notes
3/3	Thevenin and Norton equivalent Circuits	Pg. 141-151	View Notes View Notes 2 View Supplementary Lecture Notes	HW 4 is due assigned 02/24/15
3/5	Maximum Power Transfer; Delta-WYE Conversion; Review of Thevenin and Norton equivalent Circuits	Pg. 141-174	View Notes	Matlab tutorial PSpice Tutorial PSpice Tutorial 2
3/10	Review of practical sources, source transformations, Thevenin, Norton, Delta-Y, and maximum power transfer. Capacitor; Inductor.	Pg. 141-174 Pg. 217-234	View Notes	HW 5 is due assigned 03/03/15
3/12	In-Class EXAM 2 (two3½x5” index cards, double sided crib sheets)
3/17	Spring Break
3/19	Spring Break
3/24	Capacitor; Inductor	Pg. 217-234	View Notes
3/26	RL and RC Circuits; Natural and Forced Response	Pg. 261-289	View Notes
3/31	Driven RL Circuits; Unit-Step Function	Pg. 275-294	View Notes	HW 6 is due assigned 03/24/15
4/2	Driven RC Circuits, Review	Pg. 295-320	View Notes
4/7	Review of RL and RC Circuits; Sinusoid, Steady State, Forcing Function	Pg. 374-394	View Notes	HW 7 is due assigned 03/31/15
4/9	Phasor, Impedance and Admittance		View Notes
4/14	Review of Chapter 7, Chapter 8, and Chapter 10		View Notes	HW 8 is due assigned 04/07/15
4/16	In-Class EXAM 3 (three3½x5” index cards, double sided crib sheets)
4/21	Digital and Boolean Logic Part	Pg. 1-13, 18-24, 25-51, 79-96, and 183-224 Reading Material	View Notes
4/23	D-flip flop, Karnaugh Maps		View Notes
4/28	Linear Systems, Impulse Response, Sampling, and Quantization	Reference 1 Reference 2	View Notes	HW 9 is due assigned 04/21/15
4/30	Review of LTI Systems, Impulse Response, and Convolution		View Notes
5/5	Frequency Response, Transforms, Sampling Theorem, and Filtering	Reading Material Fourier Transform Table and Properties	View Notes	HW10 is due assigned 04/28/15
5/7	Decibels and Review of Frequency Response		View Notes
5/12	Review of course			HW11 is due assigned 05/05/15
5/14	Final Exam – 8:00 AM to 9:50 AM, Room WWH 317			HW12 is due assigned 05/10/15

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