1/15/2025 7:28:27 AM	ELEC 61L Course Outline as of Fall 2001	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ELEC 61L	Title:  FUND ELEC CIRC LAB
Full Title:  Fundamental Circuits Lab
Last Reviewed:7/16/2001

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	2.00	Lecture Scheduled	1.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	17.50
Minimum	2.00	Lab Scheduled	3.00		17 min.	Lab Scheduled	52.50
		Contact DHR	1.00			Contact DHR	17.50
		Contact Total	5.00			Contact Total	87.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  35.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 122.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade Only
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

Theory of semiconductors and their associated circuits, including vacuum tube. Application of alternating and direct current theory to these devices.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion or Current Enrollment in ELEC 61

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Semiconductors.

(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:Course Completion or Current Enrollment in ELEC 61
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:	Summer 2008
UC Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

The student will be able to:

     1. analyze basic electronic circuits and make AC and DC

        measurements with an oscilloscope, VTVM AND VOM.

     2. evaluate the performance of these fundamental circuits and

        assemble these findings in the form of a standardized

        laboratory report.

     3. arrange, assemble and assess graphs from measurement data to

        illustrate the preformance of specific circuits.

Topics and Scope

  1.  AC-DC superposition.

 2.  Diode characteristics - full and half wave.

 3.  Rectification and filters.

 4.  Rectification and filters (cont.).

 5.  Common emitter amplifier.

 6.  Common emitter load line - bias.

 7.  Common emitter design.

 8.  Common emitter coupling and loading.

 9.  Beta independent amplifier.

10.  Common collector amplifier.

11.  Common base amplifier - frequency response.

12.  Triode amplifiers.

13.  JFET amplifier.

14.  Series resonance.

15.  Parallel resonance.

16.  Oscillator - basics.

Assignments:

Lab Reports:

1. The diode

2. Diode rectifier circuits

3. Capacitor input filter

4. The diode limiter

5. Testing transistor diode junctions

6. Base biasing

7. Emitter biasing

8. Voltage divider biasing

9. Collector feedback biasing

10. Common emitter amplifier

11. Emitter follower

12. Common base amplifier

13. FET amplifiers

14. Series resonance

15. Parallel resonance

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 5 - 10%
Lab reports
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 10 - 90%
Lab reports
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 10 - 25%
HANDS-ON LAB TEST
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 0 - 0%
None
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 0 - 0%
None

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Experiments in Electronic Devices, 5th Ed., Howard Berlin: Prentice Hall,

1999.

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