Electrical Engineering: Concepts and Applications is the result of a multi-disciplinary effort at Michigan Technological University to create a new curriculum that is 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.
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
- Appendix A: Solving Linear Equations
- Appendix B: Laplace Transform
- Appendix C: Complex Numbers
- Selected Solutions
- Index
Key Features
- Curriculum for non-EE majors: A multi-disciplinary effort at Michigan Technological University, with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Engineering Education division, aimed 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 excites the students about the importance of EE concepts to their discipline and career. 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, and then used as a layout to create a new textbook. This book’s diverse topics address the mixed survey response and allow it to address the needs of lecturers in different institutions worldwide.
- Application-based examples: A large number of application-based examples selected from different engineering fields are included in each chapter. They aim to bridge EE and diverse non-EE areas. These examples help address the question: “why should I take this course?” Non-EE students will better understand: (1) why they should learn how to solve circuits; and; (2) the applications of solving circuits in mechanical, chemical, and civil engineering areas.
- PSpice lectures, examples, and problems: The text offers a distributed approach for learning PSpice. Chapter 2 provides an initial PSpice tutorial, and new skills are added in Chapters 3 - 11. This part includes lectures that teach students how to use PSpice and can be considered as an embedded PC-based lab for the course. PSpice-specific examples and end-of-chapter PSpice problems help students better understand the process of building a circuit and getting the desired results.
- Innovative chapters: Based on a nationwide survey, the topics in these chapters have been highlighted by many professionals as important for this course. Each instructor has the liberty to include or exclude some of these topics from his/her curriculum.
- Examples and sorted end-of-chapter problems: The book features
more than 1100 examples and end-of-chapter problems (solutions
included). End-of-chapter problems are sorted to help instructors select
basic, average, and difficult problems.
A complete solutions manual: A complete solution for all problems is available to download for all adopting professors.
About the Author
S. A. (Reza) Zekavat received his PhD from Colorado State University in 2002. He has co-authored two books, “Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communications,” published by Kluwer, and “High Dimensional Data Analysis,” published by VDM Verlag; and four book chapters in the areas of adaptive antennas, localization, and spectrum sharing. Zekavat is also editor of the book “Position Location–Theory, Practice and Advances: A Handbook for Engineers and Academics,” which will be published in the near future. He also holds a patent on an active Wireless Remote Positioning System.
Zekavat is the founder of the wireless positioning lab at Michigan Tech. The lab equipment and research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Labs, and National Instruments. Zekavat’s research interests are in wireless communications, positioning systems, software defined radio design, dynamic spectrum allocation methods, Radar theory, blind signal separation and MIMO and beam forming techniques, feature extraction, and neural networking. He is active on the technical program committees for several IEEE international conferences, serving as a committee chair or member. He served on the editorial board of IET Communications between 2008 and 2010, and he is currently with the IET Wireless Sensor System editorial board.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 720 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall (February 2, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132539187
- ISBN-13: 978-0132539180
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.2 x 1.2 inches
List Price: $187.00