Dan Stanzione

dstanzi@eng.clemson.edu

352 Fluor Daniel EIB/221??? Riggs Hall (In a couple of weeks).

656-7223

882-2051 (Home, if you really need it).

MWTh 10:30-11:30, or by appointment.

Feel free to drop by anytime I'm around (which is usually until about 6:30), but I reserve the right to ask you come back later if I'm really busy (except during the office hours above). That seldom happens, so please come by! I enjoy seeing students, and the 1-on-1 approach helps a lot of people.

9:05-9:55MW, Riggs 227
Graders: TBA
Text:

James Nilsson, Susan Reidel, Electric Circuits, Fifth Edition

The text will be used extensively in this course. Most of the course material and nearly all of the homework problems will come from this book.

There are three main topics we are going to cover: Analysis of DC Circuits (Ch. 1-4), Transient response of circuits (Ch. 6,7,and 8), and Analysis of AC Circuits (Ch. 9 and 10). We will not cover chapter 5. It is essential that we cover all the material above, as knowledge of all of it will be assumed in all subsequent circuits courses. A suitable pace will be maintained to get through all of it.

Homework will be assigned on a daily basis, but will be neither collected nor graded. However, doing the homework on a regular basis is essential to surviving the tests and quizzes. Grades are historically horrendous in this course (according to everyone who has taught it since 1941-no kidding), and neglect of the homework is the number one reason. To quote from the people who ran this course for several decades:

``The course standards attempt to insure that students completing ECE 202 are qualified to enter the junior level ECE courses. Students in this course are expected to: (1) understand the concept, (2) remember the concepts and accompanying mathematical relations, (3) use the relations to solve problems similar to the homework concepts, (4) solve problems that combine several concepts, and (5) extend the concepts to solve different types of problems. This is a broader range of requirements than is expectedin most courses, and, as such, offers considerable challenge to most students'' - Drs. A.L. Duke and H. V. Poe

Quizzes: 20%

Tests(3): 50%

Final: 30%

Quizzes will be unannounced, about 1 a week. The intent is to give about 12 and keep the best 10. The instructor reserves the right to curve grades as he sees fit. Only final grades will be curved, not individual test scores. DO NOT COUNT ON THERE BEING A CURVE! Regardless of the curve, the following averages are guaranteed to be the maximum required for the grades below:

The University mandates that I have an attendance policy. My attendance policy is that I have no attendance policy. I will call roll the first couple of classes to figure out who is actually enrolled. Makeup tests are by prior arrangement only. My only real caveat about attendance is I do not give provate lectures. While I am happy to explain things again that were unclear in class, I will not repeat material I discussed in class simply because you weren't there. In addition, remember this class will have pop quizzes, and no makeup quizzes will be given. You may drop 2 quiz grades, so save those drops for when you need to miss class!

ECE 204 is a 1-credit problem session for ECE 202, It meets once a week for 2-3 hours. It is highly reccomended for students who would like extra instruction on solving circuits problems or the underlying math. It is not recommended for students with a GPR of 3.5 or above.

The College of Engineering Honor Code applies, to both the class and the lab. Please place the honor pledge on all exams.

ECE 211 is a corequisite to ECE 202. If you drop ECE 202, you must also drop ECE 211.

http://www.parl.clemson.edu/~dstanzi/e202.html

The web page will be used for distribution of homework solutions or additional exampe problems. Course announcements (class cancellations, general question responses, etc) will be distributed via e-mail.