Fundamentals of Engineering Design

FED 101 – Fundamentals of Engineering Design Electrical and Computer Engineering Module Laboratory Manual and Supplementary Notes Updated January 2009* John D. Carpinelli Mohammed Feknous Marek Sosnowski* Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights Newark, New Jersey, 07102-1982 with contributions from Wayne Clements, Joseph Frank, and Joseph Strano © 2004, New Jersey Institute of Technology, All Rights Reserved ii Table of Contents Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... ii 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Introduction to FED ..................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Introduction to ECE ..................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Design Exercise – Paper Drop Competition ................................................................................ 2 1.3.1 Design Specification ........................................................................................................... 2 1.3.2 Scoring ................................................................................................................................ 3 1.3.3 Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................. 4 2 Electricity ............................................................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Electricity, Charge, and Current .................................................................................................. 5 2.1.1 Atomic Structure ................................................................................................................. 5 2.1.2 Charge ................................................................................................................................. 6 2.1.3 Current ................................................................................................................................ 6 2.1.4 Direct Current and Alternating Current .............................................................................. 6 2.1.5 Voltage ................................................................................................................................ 6 2.1.6 Power .................................................................................................................................. 7 2.1.7 Conductors and Insulators ................................................................................................... 7 2.2 Resistors and Ohm’s Law ............................................................................................................ 7 2.3 Resistor Color Codes ................................................................................................................. 10 2.4 Series Resistors .......................................................................................................................... 13 2.5 Parallel Resistors ....................................................................................................................... 14 2.6 Series-Parallel Resistors ............................................................................................................ 15 2.7 Potentiometers and Photoresistors ............................................................................................. 17 2.8 Kirchoff’s Laws ......................................................................................................................... 17 2.8.1 Kirchoff’s Current Law .................................................................................................... 17 2.8.2 Kirchoff’s Voltage Law .................................................................................................... 19 3 Transistors and Diodes ....................................................................................................................... 21 3.1 Diodes ........................................................................................................................................ 21 3.2 Transistors ................................................................................................................................. 23 4 Simulation Tools ................................................................................................................................ 25 4.1 Circuit Examples ....................................................................................................................... 26 4.2 PSpice ........................................................................................................................................ 28 4.2.1 Getting started ................................................................................................................... 28 4.2.2 Simple resistive circuits .................................................................................................... 28 4.2.1 Series Circuit ..................................................................................................................... 28 4.2.2 Parallel Circuit .................................................................................................................. 29 4.2.3 A Complex resistive circuit .............................................................................................. 30 4.3 MATLAB .................................................................................................................................. 33 4.3.1 Getting started ................................................................................................................... 33 4.3.2 Back to the complex resistive circuit example .................................................................. 34 5 How Things Work .............................................................................................................................. 36 5.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 36 5.2 List of Suggested Topics ........................................................................................................... 36 5.3 Suggested resources ................................................................................................................... 36 5.4 Presentation ............................................................................................................................... 37

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