Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Course Code 23EEE104
Course Title INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Credits 3-0-0-3
Academic Year and Semester 2023-24, First Semester
Programme B.Tech (Computer science Engineering)

Course Outcomes Description

CO1 Ability to understand the basic electric circuits
CO2 Ability to analyse DC and AC circuits
CO3 Ability to understand the characteristics and applications of Diode and Transistors
CO4 Ability to analyse basic transistor and opamp based circuits.
PO1: Engineering Knowledge
PO2: Problem Analysis
PO3: Design/Development of Solutions
PO4: Conduct Investigations of complex problems
PO5: Modern tools usage
PO6: Engineer and Society
PO7: Environment and Sustainability
PO8: Ethics
PO9: Individual & Team work
PO10: Communication
PO11: Project management & Finance
PO12: Lifelong learning

PO/PSO P O 1 P O 2 P O 3 P O 4 P O 5 P O 6 P O 7 P O 8 P O 9 P O 1 0 P O 1 1 P O 1 2 PSO1 PSO2

C O

CO1 3

CO2 3 3 2

CO3 3

CO4 3 3 2

Evaluation:

Internal Assessment (60 Marks) External Assessment (40 Marks)

Mid Term Examinations (30 Marks) End Semester (40 Marks)
Continuous Assessment (30 Marks) [2-Quiz and 2- Assignment]

COURSE PLAN
Lecture Topics Key-words Objectives CO
No(s)
1 Introduction to Electrical engineering - Introduction, sources of Introduction CO1
Current and Voltage Sources, Reference energy To learn about Ideal independent
Directions and Symbols current and voltage source.
2-3 R, L and C- parameters; Energy and Active and Passive Elements Understand the characteristics of
power active and passive elements. To
understand the relation between
energy & the electrical
components
4-5 Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s laws. Basic Laws Understanding the concept of CO1
each laws through simple
problems

6-8 Series and parallel combination of Network reduction Reducing the network and finding CO1
resistances, capacitances and the current flow and voltage drop
inductances, Series-parallel circuits, across various elements
Voltage divider and current divider rule
9-13 Mesh, Nodal Analysis, Super Position Mesh, Node, Junction, Mesh To be able to solve DC circuits CO2
current, Node Voltage, with current & voltage sources by
Superposition Mesh, Nodal Method and super
position theorem
14-15 Faraday’s law of Electromagnetic Magnetic circuits &law of To learn the working of magnetic CO1
Induction; magnetic Circuits electromagnetic induction circuits and phenomenon of
electromagnetic induction
16 Self and Mutual Inductances Self and mutual inductance Understand the types of CO1
inductance
17-18 Generation of Sinusoidal voltage; Instantaneous average and To learn the significance and CO2
Instantaneous, Average, and effective effective values calculation of average and rms
values of periodic functions; value of a periodic function
19 Phasor representation Phasor, Understand phasor representation CO2
of sinusoids
20 Introduction to Three Phase Systems; Balanced system, Grid To learn the significance of CO2
Introduction to Electric grids balanced three phase systems,
introduction to grid
Midterm Examinations
21-24 PN junction diode, VI characteristics, Rectifiers Understanding the concept of CO3
Diode approximations, Rectifiers – half forward and reverse bias,
wave, full wave ( bridge) Rectifier circuits
25-28 Zener diode, characteristics, opto LED, Photo diode, Zener Understand the concept of voltage CO3
electronic devices voltage regulation, LED, Photodiode
29 Introduction to BJT Bipolar junction transistor Understand the construction of CO3
BJT
30 BJT Charateristics BJT, characteristics To Understand the characteristics CO3
of BJT
30-31 Transistor as switch BJT To understand the operation of CO3
BJT as a switch
32-33 Field Effect Transistors(FET) FET, Characteristics To understand the characteristics CO3
of FET
34-35 Thyristor, operation and characteristics, Thyristors, DIAC,TRAIC To learn about power electronic CO4
Fundamentals of TRIAC and DIAC devices like thyristors devices,
Triac –Thyristor based power
control.
36-41 Operational amplifier: inverting and non- OPAMP To learn the basics of op amp CO4
inverting amplifier, inverting and non inverting
configuration
42-44 Oscillators Instrumentation amplifiers Oscillators Instrumentation amplifier CO4
45 555 – timer To learn about working of 555 CO4
timer
End Semester Examination
Text Books
1. Edward Hughes. “Electrical and Electronic Technology”, 10th Edition, Pearson Education Asia, 2019.
2. A. P. Malvino, “Electronic Principles”, 7th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2007.

Reference Books
1. S. K. Bhattcharya, “Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering”, Pearson, 2012.
2. Vincent Del Toro, “Electrical Engineering Fundamentals”, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, 2 nd Edition, 2003.
3. David A. Bell, “Electronic Devices and Circuits”, 5th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2008.
4. Michael Tooley B. A., “Electronic circuits: Fundamentals and Applications”, 3 rd Edition, Elsevier Limited, 2006.