200-Level Courses


ECSE 200 Fundaments of Electrical Engineering

(Section A01: Limited to Electrical Honours, Regular, and Computer Engineering students only.)

An introduction to part of the broad scope of electrical engineering: electrostatics, capacitance, conduction, magnetic fields, inductance, circuits and components, sine waves in time and space, electrical machines and transformers, signal amplification.


ECSE 210 Circuit Analysis

(For Fall Term: Section A01: Limited to Electrical Honours and Computer Engineering students only.)

(For Winter Term: Section A01: Limited to Regular Electical Engineering students only.)

Circuit models, KCL and KVL, branch relations, resistive circuit analysis, network theorems, one- and two-port networks, networks in sinusoidal steady-state, power considerations, transient analysis of first- and second-order networks, response to exponential driving functions, frequency response of networks. Laboratory experiments involving basic instrumentation. Measurements on fundamental electrical circuits and systems.


ECSE 221 Introduction to Computer Engineering 1

(Section A01: Limited to Electrical Honours, Regular, and Computer Engineering students only.)

Data representation in digital computers. Boolean algebra. Basic combinational circuits; their analysis and synthesis. Elements of sequential circuits: latches, flip-flops, counters and memory circuits. Computer structure, central processing unit, machine language. Assemblers and assembler language.


ECSE 291 Electrical Measurements Laboratory

Experiments with fundamental electric circuits are used to illustrate the principles and limitations of basic electrical and electronic instrumentation in typical measurement applications. Basic electrical laboratory practice and safety procedures are introduced. Introduction to error analysis and application to laboratory measurements.