INST. DANIEL D CAMPO OSSA

1.       General Information:

Alpha-numeric codification: INEL 4077

Course Title: Basic Electronics Laboratory

Number of credits: 3

Instructor: Daniel Darío Campo Ossa

E-mail: daniel.campo@upr.edu

Contact Period: 3 hours of lecture per week

Contact Period: Required to selected engineering programs

Course coordinator`s name: Academic Affairs Committee

2.      Course Description: 

English: Description and use of basic equipment for electrical measurements in digital and analog circuits.

Spanish: Descripción y uso de equipo básico para medidas eléctricas en circuitos analógicos y digitales.

3.      Pre/Co-requisites and other requirements:

Corequisites

INEL4076

4.      Course Objectives:

To developed basic skill in electrical circuits measurements. To allow non-electrical Engineer student to experiment with real electronics circuits.

5.      Minimum or Required Resources Available:

All students expected to bring knowledge in basic theory of circuits: Ohms law, Kirchhoff laws, Theorems and RLC circuits. The student has to use electrical simulation tools to complement the lab work.

6.  Course time frame and thematic outline:

Outline

Contact Hours

Safety guidelines. Evaluation criteria. Laboratory rules. Format of laboratory report. Introduction to basic laboratory instruments. (lecture)

3.0

Series resistive circuits and their The venin and Norton equivalent circuits. (experiment)

3.0

Signal generator. Measurement of AC and DC signal characteristics using the VOM and the oscilloscope. (experiment)

3.0

Capacitive reactance. Series RC circuits. Study of time constant and waveforms. (experiment)

3.0

Inductive reactance. Series RL circuits. Study of time constant and waveforms. (experiment)

3.0

RLC circuits. Study of damping ratio and waveforms. (experiment)

3.0

Series resonance. Passive filters. (experiment)

3.0

Diode characteristic curve. Zener diode. Circuits with diodes and resistors. (demonstration)

3.0

Half wave and full wave rectifiers. Voltage regulators. (experiment)

3.0

Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) characteristics. (demonstration)

3.0

Basic amplifier circuits. (experiment)

3.0

Logic circuit applications. (demonstration)

3.0

Sequential logic circuit using flip-flops. (experiment)

3.0

Tests ( Midterm and final exams)

6.0

Total hours: (equivalent to contact period)

7.  Grading System

45

Quantifiable (letters)  Not Quantifiable

8.  Evaluation Strategies

9.  Bibliography:

David Buchla, Experiments in Electronics Fundamentals, 7 Edition, Prentice Hall.