- Welcome to ELEC 201 and to Electrical and Computer Engineering in year of COVID-19 pandemic. The lectures will be taught "live" on Canvas/Collaborate-Ultra the dates and times scheduled by UBC. The tutorial sessions are actually evaluation sessions where the quizzes that replace the midterm will be deployed. Those quizzes will be deployed on WeBWorK, with communication with the instructors on Collaborate and invigilation through Canvas/Proctorio (find an empty wall in the room where you'll take the quiz and sit with your back to that wall and the webcam in front of you so that it can see only your face, your hands and the paper that you are writing on.)
- The official Syllabus of this course is in the RESOURCES page of the associated Piazza site for this course. Make sure to read it carefully.
- This course is the result of merging two courses: ELEC 251 and ELEC 254 (Electric Circuits I and Electronic Circuits I). It begins setting up the foundation for all your other courses in EE, including its second half, the formerly known ELEC 254 (Electronic Circuits I). It was decided, for administrative reasons, to keep the name of one of its "halves", Electric Circuits, that may be a bit misleading.
- In Physics courses and in Linear Algebra courses before this one, you have already covered about two percent of electric circuit analysis, but even that two percent will be reviewed anew during the first lecture or two, so you don't need to remember that 2% before starting ELEC 201.
- One can fail this course before the final exam, so do read the EVALUATION page of this website and pay special attention to the "defaulting" clauses (or how to fail by default). There will be a quiz on this during the first lecture/meeting of the term. Also, in this course, like several others in EE, you must pass the final exam (actually pass both its two parts) to pass the course: read the EVALUATION past of this web site and check the part about final exams.
- Even if you get zero in every midterm, there is still a chance (if you got BRP) that you may get a 100% in the course. Read about BRP (Backwards Replacement Policy) in the EVALUATION page of this website.
- Even with 100% in every midterm, lab and assignment, you still can fail the course. Read the EVALUATION page of this website.
- Read the COURSE pages in this web, it contains the syllabus among other items.
- This course is prerequisite to several courses in third year: ELEC 301, ELEC 341, ELEC 342, ELEC 391.
- Before classes begin: download and install the HP-Prime calculator emulator (instructions and link on the FREE SOFTWARE page of this web site), and watch and practice the first five short video tutorials on the TUTORIALS page of this web site..
- The lab starting date will be announced in class the previous week. You'll need your lab kit to be admitted to the laboratory. There are no lab make up sessions. Missing two labs is failing the course, and no final exam will be granted in such case. The prelab work can be found on the LABORATORY page of this site, and it has several components listed there (under the cyan highlighted area) as: 201LAB01a, 201LAB01b ... up to 201LAB01j (the manual proper). Make sure to bring a printed copy of 201LAB01j, the manual, to the lab experiment. The lab manual is individual, not per team. Lab manuals and prelabs may be updated befor the week of the experiment, so check it for updates during the weekend preceeding the experiment.
- On the "tutorial" sessions. We will use that time slot for the bi-weekly midterms, for dates, check the SCHEDULE page of this site. The actual tutorials have been pre-shot to video clips that you can watch in your own time, as many times as necessary.
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