Fundamental electrical engineering 1 | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Fundamental electrical engineering 1 (17.E105)

Native organizations units: Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Theoretical Electrotechnics
ECTS	9

The course objective is to introduce students to the terminology of electrical engineering, the basic physical laws of electrostatics and to enable students to analyze electric circuits of time-invariant currents. Also, the objective is to teach the students to calculate basic parameters of the elements in such circuits, resistors and capacitors.

The students who successfully complete the course are able: -to calculate the capacitance of a simple homogeneous symmetrical structure (e.g. coaxial cable with several layers of dielectrics) -to calculate the resistance of homogeneous multilayer structure - to analyze simple electric circuit of time-invariant current - to calculate maximum power of elements in the circuits and protect them from burning out.

Electrostatics ( Electric field strength vector, Gauss’s law, Electric potential and voltage, Conductors in electrostatic field, Capacitance and capacitors, Dielectrics in electrostatic field, Boundary conditions, Energy and forces in electrostatic field). Electric circuits of time-invariant currents (Current density vector and current intensity, Ohm’s law and resistors, Joule’s law, Kirchhoff's Laws, Generators, Conditions of maximum power transmission, Power conservation theorem, Methods of circuit analysis, Superposition Theorem, Thevenin's and Norton’s theorem, Compensation theorem, Reciprocity theorem, Electrical circuits with capacitors).

The teaching process consists of lectures and tutorials, with occasional video presentations. The inductive method is applied in the lectures. The students’ knowledge grows gradually, trough many simple problems solving.