Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering

EE25C01

Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Course Objectives:

● To impart foundational knowledge in principles and applications of electrical and electronics engineering.

DC Fundamentals: Current and Voltage sources, Resistance, Inductance and Capacitance; Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s law, Series parallel combination of R, L and C components, Voltage Divider and Current Divider Rules.

Activities: Virtual Demonstration of electrical laws & circuits, Hands-on Breadboarding, Solving GATE questions.

AC Fundamentals: Faraday’s Laws of Electro-magnetic Induction, Definition of Self and Mutual Inductances, Generation of sinusoidal voltage, Instantaneous & RMS values of sinusoidal signals, Introduction to 3-phase systems, Electrical Safety, Fuses and Earthing.

Activities: Virtual Demonstration of electromagnetic induction, Measurement of instantaneous and RMS values of AC signals, Solving GATE questions.

Electric Machines: DC Machines, Transformers, Star and delta Connections, Three phase Induction motors, Synchronous Generators, Single Phase Induction Motors, Stepper Motor, Universal Motor and BLDC motor.

Activities: Virtual demonstration of step-up and step-down transformers, Virtual working models of Universal and BLDC motors, Solving GATE questions.

Semiconductor Devices: PN junction diodes, Zener Diode, Voltage regulator, BJT & FET Transistors, Timers, Operational Amplifiers.

Activities: Virtual demonstration of V-I characteristics of PN junction and Zener diodes using simulation, inverting/non-inverting amplifiers, Solving GATE questions.

Digital Electronics: Boolean algebra, Basic and Universal Gates, adders, multiplexers, demultiplexers and flip-flops.

Activity: Online logic gate simulators, Solving GATE questions.

Microcontrollers: Introduction, Architecture, Potential Applications.

Activities: Physical demonstration of a microcontroller and online simulation of microcontroller.

Weightage: Continuous Assessment: 40%, End Semester Examinations: 60%

Assessment Methodology: Quiz (5%), Assignments (25%), GATE Questions (20%), Internal Examinations (50%)

E-resources:

1. https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/108/106/108106172/

2. Circuit Simulator – https://www.falstad.com/circuit/