Course Syllabus
Wayne County Community College District
EE 103 Electrical CTPG
CREDIT HOURS: 3.00
CONTACT HOURS: 45.00
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course covers electrical symbols, schematic diagram, terms, series and parallel circuits,
Ohm’s Law, repair and operation of single phasemotor and three phase motor controls. Also,
lighting-both incandescent and fluorescent, lighting and ballast specifications, safety precaution
and trouble shooting techniques, identification of load and control circuits, load common and
ground connection. Use of electrical lighting instruments, multimeters, other circuit testing
instruments. Ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCI), receptacles and circuit breakers.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
EXPECTED COMPETENCIES
Upon the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Write the equation for the general form of a sinusoidal waveform
2. Define the amplitude, period, frequency, and phase angle
3. Define phase relations, average voltage, and effective voltage for periodic waveforms
4. Convert angles from degrees to radian and vice versa
5. State the response of basic R, L, and C elements to a sinusoidal voltage or current
6. State complex numbers and mathematical operation of complex numbers
7. State the complex numbers conversion from one form to other forms
8. Show the correspondence between the facer domain, time domain, and complex numbers
9. State the formulas for inductors and capacitors impedance
10. State the admittance and susceptance of inductors and capacitors
11. Solve a RL, RC, and RLC circuits for voltages, currents, and powers using complex number,
facer, and trigonometry methods
12. Define current divider and voltage divider rules for AC circuits
13. State the frequency response for RL, RC and RLC circuits
14. State and solve the ladder networks
15. State the formula for sources conversion
16. Define mesh analysis and nodal analysis for an arbitrary circuit
17. Solve any networks using mesh and nodal analysis methods
18. State bridge networks and its applications
19. State Delta to Y and Y to Delta for currents and voltages conversions
20. Find the Thevenin and Norton equivalent for an arbitrary circuit
21. State the maximum power transfer theorem, subtraction, reciprocity, and Milman's theorem
and their application to electrical circuits
22. Define and calculate the active power, reactive power, apparent power, and power triangle.
23. State the power factor, power factor correction in AC circuits
24. State the resonance in series, parallel circuits, calculate resonant frequency, and calculate
the voltage across R, L, and C
25. Define Q in AC circuits
26. Define and calculate decibels, RC low pass and high pass, band pass, band stop, and double
tuned filters
27. State, sketch the Bode plots and its applications to electrical circuits
28. State the initial value for the capacitors and inductor
29. State and calculate the response of RC circuits to square wave input
30. Describe the three phase generators
