Electrical Engineering Concepts and Applications By S. A. Reza Zekavat
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1 Why Electrical Engineering?
Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Chapter 3 Resistive Circuits
Chapter 4 Capacitance and Inductance
Chapter 5 Transient Analysis
Chapter 6 Steady‐State AC Analysis
Chapter 7 Frequency Analysis
Chapter 8 Electronic Circuits
Chapter 9 Power Systems and Transmission Lines
Chapter 10 Fundamentals of Logic Circuits
Chapter 11 Computer‐Based Instrumentation Systems
Chapter 12 Principles of Electromechanics
Chapter 13 Electric Machines
Chapter 14 Electrical Measurement Instruments
Chapter 15 Electrical Safety
PREFACE:
A multi-disciplinary effort was initiated at Michigan Technological University, with a support from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Engineering Education division. The goal was to create a curriculum that (1) encourages students to pursue the life-long learning necessary to keep pace with the rapidly-evolving engineering industry and emerging interdisciplinary technologies, (2) maintains sufficient connection between the students’ chosen engineering fields and class content; and (3) motivates and excite the students about the importance of EE concepts to their discipline and career. Seven faculty members across different departments contributed to this process. Participating departments included: electrical engineering, chemical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and the education division of the cognitive and learning science department. The group’s curriculum reform efforts were informed by a nationwide survey of engineering schools. The survey outcomes were analyzed to fine tune different curriculum options for this course for different engineering disciplines. Then, those options were integrated to create the final draft of the curriculum. The final draft of the curriculum was used as a layout to create a new textbook for this course. Although no single text can perfectly meet the needs of every institution, diverse topics have been included to address the mixed survey response and allow this book to address the needs of lecturers in different institutions worldwide. The resulting textbook creates a prototype curriculum available to electrical engineering departments that are charged with providing an introduction to electrical engineering for non-EE majors. The goals of this new curriculum are to be attractive, motivational, and relevant to students by creating many application-based problems; and provide the optimal level of both range and depth of coverage of EE topics in a curriculum package.
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