An ancient human dream, to be free of hard
labor, was brought closer to us all by the
advent of the industrial revolution and its
"machines", among them, the ubiquitous electric machines (motors and generators).
This a course about those electric machines:
transformers, electric motors, and electric
generators. Some for DC, most for AC three phase, all
electrical, all within our jurisdiction as
electrical engineers.
- Traditionally this has been one of the most challenging courses in our the entire program. In the same way that I told you last year that our course ELEC 201 was very easy, I tell you now that our new course, ELEC 342, is very demanding. Our success in this course, yours and mine, depends on the skills that you bring with you on the following topics:
- phasor analysis of three phase AC steady state circuits (from ELEC 202),
- DC/AC modified nodal anyalysis of circuits (from ELEC 201),
- electric and magnetic fields (from ELEC 211),
- linear and circular motion and dynamics (from PHYS 170 and PHYS 210, if you took this one too)
- the usual amount of math in complex numbers (MATH XXX and ELEC 202).
- Same as in second year, we will rely strongly on our faithful computational sidekick, the HP-Prime (or its ancestor the HP-50g), and its quasi-Maple/Matlab features. More information about the calculator can be found in the CALCULATOR section of this website.
Catalog description: Three phase power; transformers and harmonics; magnetic materials and circuits, electromechanical energy conversion; DC machines; rotating magnetic field, AC induction and synchronous machines; variable frequency operation, brushless DC machines; stepper and single-phase motors. Credit will only be given for one of EECE 373, ELEC 342, and EECE 374.
This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. [3-3*-1]
Prerequisite: PHYS 170 and one of EECE 253, EECE 263, ELEC 202, ELEC 203.
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