German Jordanian University

School of Natural Resources Engineering and Management

Energy Engineering Department

ENE211 Electrical Circuits I

Spring 2020
Sunday / Tuesday || 9:30 am – 11:00 am || C330

Course Catalog
3 Credit hours (3 h lectures): SI units, voltage and current; Ohm's and Kirchhoff’s Laws, circuits with dependent sources;
simple resistive circuits: series, parallel and delta to wye; Techniques of circuit analysis: nodal and mesh analyses, source
transformation, Thevenin and Norton equivalents; Amplifiers; Inductance, capacitance and mutual inductance; Natural and
step responses of RL and RC circuits; Natural and step response of series and parallel RLC circuits; Sinusoidal steady state
analysis.

Textbook and Material

1) Nilsson and Riedel, Electric Circuits, Pearson, Tenth Edition (Required).
2) Classes Slides and Notes.

References
Books
1) Hayt, Kemmerly and Durbin, Engineering Circuit Analysis, McGraw-Hill, Eighth Edition. (Optional).

Instructor
Dr. Mohamad Khawaja Office: C324 email: Mohamad.Khawaja@gju.edu.jo

Prerequisites
Prerequisites by topic -
Prerequisites by course Physics II
Co-requisites by course Differential Equations
Prerequisite for Electrical Systems II

Topics Covered
Week Topic Chapters in Text
1 Circuit Variables Chapter 1
2 Circuit Elements Chapter 2
2 Simple Resistive Circuits Chapter 3
3-7 Techniques of Circuit Analysis Chapter 4
7 Inductance and Capacitance Chapter 6
8-10 Response to First-Order RL and RC Circuits Chapter 7
10-13 Natural and Step Response of RLC Circuits Chapter 8
13-15 Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis Chapter 9

Evaluation
Assessment Tool Expected Due Date Weight
Assignments In class quizzes: Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 14 10%
Exam I Week 7 – April 2nd, 2020 25%
Exam II Week 12 – May 7th, 2020 25%
Final Exam According to the University’s final examination schedule 40%
 Course Rules
1) All instruction will be communicated through class announcements and/or emails throughout the course of the
semester. All email correspondence must start with [ENE211-1] in subject line, otherwise emails will not be read
and/or answered.
2) Exams will be closed notes and closed book. Any needed information or formulae will be provided.
3) Calculator restrictions apply.
4) Excuses to miss exams must be handed in one week prior to the exam.
5) Any disputes with the exam grading must be brought up within one week of the return of the exam papers and will
result in the regrading of the whole exam and not only the disputed question.
6) Late students will not be permitted into the classroom, take quizzes or exams.
7) Any student who is caught cheating during an exam or a quiz will face action in accordance with the GJU’s disciplinary
policies. Cheating is defined in the Students Handbook. Any student is considered cheating if he/she uses any
unauthorized material other than the exam sheets and calculator. Extra cheat sheet(s), stored information in the
calculator, talking to other students or assisting other students while taking an exam or weekly quiz are considered
cheating.
8) Attendance is mandatory. Once a student is registered for this course he/she agrees to be in class as scheduled. There
will be no makeup exams without official documentation such as a doctor’s note, police report, etc. Six or more
absences automatically disqualifies the students from the course, as per the university’s rules.
9) No electronic devices such as laptops, tablet, cell phones, etc. are allowed in the classroom.

Objectives and Outcomes

Learning Objectives Outcomes
1. Ideal circuit components 1.1. Resistors
(a,e,h,i,k) 1.2. Independent and dependent sources
1.3. Connectors
2. Voltages and currents in linear circuits 2.1 Ohm’s law
(a,e,h,i,k) 2.2 KVL and KCL
2.3 Voltage division and current division
3. Circuit analysis techniques 3.1 Node-voltage analysis
(a,e,h,i,k) 3.2 Mesh-current analysis
3.3 Superposition
3.4 Source transformation
3.5 Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits
4. Transient response 4.1 Capacitors characteristics
(a,e,h,i,k) 4.2 Inductors characteristics
4.3 DC steady state analysis
4.4 Natural and step response of RL and RC circuits
4.5 Natural and step response of RLC circuits
5. AC steady state response 5.1 Sinusoidal functions
(a,e,h,i,k) 5.2 Impedance and admittance
5.3 Phasors
5.4 Circuit analysis techniques in the frequency domain

Contribution of Course to Meeting the Professional Component

This course introduces the students to the foundation of electrical engineering and teaches them various concepts of circuit
analysis techniques.

Relationship to Program Outcomes (%)

A B C D E F G H I J K L
5 5 3 1 4

Relationship to Electrical Engineering Program Objectives

PEO1 PEO2 PEO3 PEO4 PEO5
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