COMSATS-Lancaster Dual Degree Programme

Lancaster Block, CIIT, Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore

COURSE HANDBOOK
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Electric Circuit Analysis (ECA) I
Course Title
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EEE 121
Course Code
3
4(3,1)
Credit Hours
5
Modassir Ishfaq
Resource Person
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3 hours per week
Contact Hours (Theory)
7
3 hours per week
Contact Hours (Lab)
8
One hour each working day
Office Hours
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Course Introduction
This course is designed to understand the basic principles and techniques for analyzing the electric
circuits driven through dc and ac sources in time domain. It also provides basic knowledge about
the transient and steady state responses of the linear circuits. The course outline basically covers
the topics which illustrate how circuit techniques are being utilized in power computation and
utilization, control and Automation industry, software houses and R and D organizations. The
students can easily understand the importance and applications of this course in their practical life
on its completion.

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Learning Objectives& Outcomes

This course is intended to give an overview about the field of electrical engineering where:

Students will be introduced to the various analyzing techniques of electric circuits along
with their comparison.
Students will learn basic techniques and concepts of analyzing the electrical circuits along
with their applications in real life.
Students will be provided and exposed with the strong theoretical and practical foundation
through which they can understand and appreciate the utilization and importance of
electrical engineering in industry and R & D organizations.
Students will be exposed to design their own models by incorporating a small change in
the existing ones.

At the end of the semester, the students should be able to:

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Comprehend the basic circuit analyzing techniques along with their applications.
Acquire a firm foundation in circuit designing and be able to solve problems and
advance their learning skills about the knowledge they have acquired.
Apply the basic knowledge of electrical engineering towards designing the software
modules and its applications in industry.
Comprehend the inter-disciplinary research which is extensively carried out all around
the globe.
Think logically about the working of any electric equipment and attain skills in
general about all types of electric circuits driven through dc and ac sources.

Lecture/Lab Schedule
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Weeks

Week 1-2

Week 3-4

Topic of Lecture
Introduction, Basic Concepts of Electrical Quantities and their System of
Units, Charge, Current, Voltage, Power & Energy, Circuit Elements
Simple Resistive Circuits, Constant Voltage & Constant Current Sources,
Ohms Law, Kirchoffs Laws
Resistors in series and parallel, Capacitors in series and parallel, Inductors in
series and parallel.
Basic techniques for Circuit Analysis, Single-Loop and Single-Node analysis
Circuits, Resistance and Source Combinations, Current and Voltage Division
circuits.
Nodal Analysis techniques, various examples for its understanding and
applications.

Mesh Analysis techniques, several examples for its understanding and

applications.

Week 5-6

Concept of the Supernode and the Supermesh

Comparison of the two techniques and generalization of these two circuit

analysis techniques

Linear circuits, Tests to determine the linearity of the circuits, Linearity,

Superposition theorem and its illustration with several examples

Week 7-8

Reciprocity theorem and its illustration with several examples

Source Transformations, Thevenins theorem, Nortons theorem, Illustration

with several examples.

Week 9-10

Duality of networks, Maximum Power Transfer Theorem and Delta-Wye

Conversion
Analysis of source free and dc source driven RL and RC (first order) circuits
Concept of Time constants
Plot of transient (natural) and steady state (forced) responses
Unit step function and concept of impulse response of the circuit
Computation of energies in the storing elements

Week
11-12

Week
13-15

Analysis of source free and source driven RLC series and parallel (2 nd order
circuits.
Plot of overdamped, underdamped and critically damped responses.
Movement of the roots on the complex plane and their effect on the
response
Losless LC circuit
Concept of filters and frequency response of a circuit
Sinusoidal Analysis of RL, RC and RLC circuits
The complex forcing function and the phasor
The Phasor and Impedance diagrams
Circuit Techniques using impedances and Admittances
Average and RMS values of voltage, current and power
Apparent power, Reactive power, complex power and power triangle
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Week 16

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Power factor and concept of lagging and leading, power factor triangle

Revision

Text Book(s)

1. Engineering Circuit Analysis, 7th International Edition,

McGraw-Hill, written by William Hayt, Kammerly and
Durbin.
2. Electric Circuits, by Alexender.

Reference Books

1. Schaum outline series on Electric Circuits

2. Network Analysis by William Val Valkanberg

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Details of Teaching and Assessment

The learning hours for this module are made up of the teaching contact hours as well as the
students' private study hours. Further details and timings will be notified later (if necessary).
Type Details:
Teaching Contact Hours: 2 Lectures/week (Each Ninety (90) minutes duration )
Instructors Office Hours: 5.0 hours/week
Lab Contact Hours: 1 Lab Session/week of three (03) contact hours (Attendance will be marked
twice in every Lab session)
Students Private Study hours: At least 5 hours/week
Details and timings for the assessment of this module are as follows:
6.1. Theory Part:
Exam (Weightage) Duration Type
Sessional-I Exam (10%):
Duration: 1 hour; Composition: Subjective + objective
Total three questions will be given. One objective type and two subjective type
Sessional-II Exam (15%):
Duration: 1.5 hour; Composition: Subjective + objective
Total four questions will be given. One objective type and three subjective type
Final Exam (50%):
Duration: 3 hours Composition: Subjective + objective
Total six questions will be given: One objective type, one short questions and five subjective type
Quiz (15 %): (At least 5 per semester, Unannounced) Duration: 15-30 min each
Composition either objective or subjective type depending on the topic and the situation
Assignments (10%): (At least 5 per semester) Duration: one week
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Take home type, class will be divided into groups and each group will be required to provide the
solution of separate set of questions. Criteria for grading the assignment will be communicated to
each group on the same day when the assignments are actually given to the students
*Sessional 1: Objective based in addition to some short conceptual and/or technical based calculations.
*Sessional 2: Same as Sessional 1 but with one additional technical question.
*Final Exam: Evenly objective and subjective exam
*Quiz: Surprise assessment

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Conduct

CIIT-LB has high expectations of student behaviour. It is expected that students will help to
maintain a pleasant atmosphere suitable for serious study throughout their programme of study.
Any behaviour that prevents other students from studying will result in disciplinary action by the
University. Persistent offenders will be referred to concerned committee for further disciplinary
action and possible deregistration.
Two issues requiring particular attention are noise disruption and mobile phones. Students
should not distract others by talking during taught classes (lectures, labs, tutorials, exercises
classes, etc.). Students using the labs should be aware of others around them, and should keep any
discussion to a reasonable level.
Mobile phones should always be switched off during taught classes, in the Library, and in any
tests or examinations. Any student whose mobile phone rings during a taught class or in the
Library may be fined or asked to leave in severe case. Any student whose mobile phone rings
during a test or examination will be referred to concerned committee for disciplinary action. This
may lead to a mark of zero being awarded for that particular assessment, and more serious
penalties for a subsequent offence may be implemented.

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Attendance Policy

Every student must attended 80% of the lectures/seminars delivered in each course and 80% of
the practical/laboratory work prescribed for the respective courses. The students falling short of
required percentage of attendance of lectures/seminars/practical/laboratory work, etc., shall not be
allowed to appear in the terminal examination of this course also in the final viva and evaluation
for the laboratory work of the same course and shall be treated as having failed this course.
Students in any course containing the laboratory work are required to pass in both theory and
practical work of that course. In the class, every student is expected to attend 100% classes.
However, in emergent and unavoidable circumstances, they can have a maximum leverage of 20%
in attendance. Students are also expected to attend all the classes on schedule time. However, late
comers can also attend the class only if they are not more than 5 mins. late than the scheduled
time of the class.

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Plagiarism and Referencing

Plagiarism is the failure to credit the writings or ideas of another person/group that you have used
in your own work. In such cases you are, deliberately or inadvertently, attempting to pass their
work off as your own. Plagiarism is a serious offence, and can carry severe consequences, from
failure of the module to deregistration from the course. You may also commit plagiarism by failing
to reference your own work that you have already used in a previous essay, or by failing to credit
the input of other students on group projects.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you understand plagiarism and how to avoid it. For better
understanding of Be sure to record your plagiarism, I recommend you to open and study the HEC
website: www.hec.gov.pk. The following recommendations can help you in avoiding the
plagiarism.

Sources when taking notes, and to cite these if you use ideas or, especially, quotations
from the original source. Be particularly careful if you are cutting and pasting information
between two documents, and ensure that references are not lost in the process.
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Be sensible in referencing ideas commonly held views that are generally accepted do not
always require acknowledgment to particular sources. However, it is best to be safe to
avoid plagiarism.
Be particularly careful with quotations and paraphrasing.
Be aware that technology is now available at CIIT-LB and elsewhere that can
automatically detect plagiarism.
Ensure that all works used are referenced appropriately in the text of your work and fully
credited in your bibliography.
If in doubt, ask for further guidance from your Course Organizer.
The material that you submit for assessment, whether in an answer script in a written examination
or as assessed coursework, must be your own unaided work. Cheating in written examinations and
plagiarism in assessed coursework are examination offences.
Plagiarism in assessed coursework - this is the use or presentation of the work of another person,
including another student, as your own work (or as part of your own work) without
acknowledging the source. Plagiarism therefore includes submitting the work of someone else as
your own, and extensive copying from someone else's work in your own paper or report.
Brief quotations from the published or unpublished work of other persons may be used, but must
always be clearly indicated by being placed inside quotation marks, with the source indicated in
some way, and the work listed in the bibliography at the end of your own piece of work.
It can also be plagiarism to summarize another person's ideas or judgments without reference to
the source.
- Copying material from web pages without acknowledgement is plagiarism.
- Copying programs (for example from the Internet) without explanation of where
they are from or how much you have modified the programs is also plagiarism.
- Copying from another student (with or without their consent) is plagiarism and both
parties will be subject to investigation and possible penalty.
- Do not copy and do not allow others to copy from you.
When you are taking notes for a paper or piece of coursework, it is important to include all the
sources you have used, and to indicate any quotations so that you can make the necessary
references when you come to write the report/assignment/essay etc. "Unconscious plagiarism",
including an un-attributed quotation because you did not identify quotations in your notes, is as
much an examination offence as deliberate plagiarism, and will be dealt with in the same way as
any other examination offence.
10.1. Turnitin Academic Plagiarism Detection Service
All final project reports are checked for plagiarism using the plagiarism detection service
Turnitin. Reports are checked against the web and other digital archives to determine how much
of it is copied from other sources. Clearly it is ok if some of the text comes from other sources
(providing the source is referenced) but the majority of the text should be your own and you will
be heavily penalized and potentially subject of a plagiarism investigation if not. Please note that
other coursework may be run through the turnitin system at the module organizers discretion.
10.2. The Google test
To ensure against plagiarism, all assessed coursework is subject to the "Google Test", which works
as follows.
Sentences and phrases from your work are typed into Google, which quickly finds material that
has been copied from any web page. Any work containing material found on a Web page will be
deemed to have failed the Google Test, unless it has been properly referenced and quoted.
We strongly recommend that you apply the Google Test to your own work before you submit it, to
make sure that you have not "accidentally" included words from any web pages. If you find any
sections copied from web pages in your work, you should make sure that you remove the
offending sections before you submit or make sure that they are properly referenced.

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