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ECE-3074: AC Circuit Analysis Laboratory

Description: Construction, analysis, and characterization of circuits with student-owned Lab-in-a-Box system. Experiments include: sinusoids and phasors including impedance, admittance, and Kirchhoffs laws; sinusoidal steady- state including node and mesh analysis, Thevenin and Norton equivalent, and op amps; ac power analysis including instantaneous and average power, power factor, and complex power; magnetically coupled circuits including mutual inductance, energy in a coupled circuit, and transformers; frequency response including transfer functions, Bode plots, resonance, and passive and active filters; and two-port circuits. A C- or better is required for all prerequisites.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 1 credit

Prerequisites: ECE-2804

Required By: ECE-3274

Corequisites: ECE-3004

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 17

Average GPA: 2.78 (rounds to B-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 11.94%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.87%

Tyler Milburn202448.4%26.3%16.4%4.5%3.3%1.1%3.102
William T Baumann202417.5%39.8%34.9%3.4%1.4%3.1%2.6910
Wei Jer Han202322.5%47.9%21.7%1.4%3.4%3.2%2.845

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Fall 2019Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W