EC ENGR 100
Electrical and Electronic Circuits
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, eight hours. Requisites: Mathematics 33A, 33B or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 82, Physics 1C. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 110. Electrical quantities, linear circuit elements, circuit principles, signal waveforms, transient and steady state circuit behavior, semiconductor diodes and transistors, small signal models, and operational amplifiers. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Briggs was straight up by the book, no curve balls or anything. I went to class probably three times and did really well. He offered three extra credit assignments which can boost your grade by a +/- for each one, so effectively one whole grade if you do all three. If your'e good at working out of the book then you should have no problem at all.
Briggs was straight up by the book, no curve balls or anything. I went to class probably three times and did really well. He offered three extra credit assignments which can boost your grade by a +/- for each one, so effectively one whole grade if you do all three. If your'e good at working out of the book then you should have no problem at all.
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Fall 2024 - In the wise words of Gracie Abrams: "Made it out alive, but I think I lost it". Hindsight is 20-20, and if I'm being honest this class was pretty doable with the single exception of the second midterm (average was a 56, MT1 average was a 66 and Final average 79). Dislcaimer: I scored top 10 on MT1 and the final, but I was definitely in the trenches throughout this class. The grading curve is pretty generous: 80% or above is an A, and if you're just shooting for a C to pass you just need a 50%, which is fairly doable. On the flip side, any class with that type of grading scale should be expected to be brutally difficult. It starts out pretty smooth with RLC circuits (review of Physics 1B and 1C), source transformations and Thevenin equivalents (somewhat tough, but no calculus so that's a win), and first and second order circuits (which double down on everything you learned in differential equations). Unfortunately it quickly jumps out the window when we get to diodes, transistors, op amps, CMOS logic, and all the other nonsense that real electrical engineers don't get to until halfway through their major. It's pretty impossible to have any real intuition for these topics, and like most upper divs, you quickly depart from what textbooks, Google, and ChatGPT are capable of answering. Those of us lucky enough to not be an ECE major get the pleasure of this fuck-ass class that crams entirely too much information in 10 weeks and eclipses what most of my ECE friends know how to do by this point in their major. In terms of the professor himself, he's alright. Like all engineering professors, he's frequently and unapologetically late, but thankfully most classes were underway within 5 to 10 minutes after the top of the hour. Some classes even ended 10-20 minutes early depending on if we were at a good stopping point. Our class was in Boelter 3400, so he used whiteboard markers. His handwriting is pretty shit and pretty small, which combined with a dying marker means sometimes the lectures are tough to follow. Handwritten lecture notes and audio recordings were available on Piazza and BruinCast respectively - again, sloppy handwriting, but you can follow along in a pinch. Gupta's shining quality is his patience - he will answer the same question as many times as you want, and will happily bring the entire lecture to a grinding halt in that pursuit. If you're feeling lost, it's a reprieve. But if you're lucky enough to know what's going on in that exact moment, it can be excruciating to hear him repeatedly answer the same exact question. He also sometimes anticipate the questions people ask before they finish, which comes off as a little rude. He and his TAs respond pretty quickly on Piazza, and he offers Office Hours which are a great opportunity to review. Bottom Line: his teaching skills are questionable, but he genuinely cares about his students learning the material. I got an A in this class, which is a privilege most people don't have. Reading the textbook (pretty piratable if you know where to look) makes a big difference in understanding the formulas or seeing the more advanced applications of components. The practice exams (for the most part) are pretty true to the exams. And with the midterm exams being so low, the teaching team definitely elected to ease up on the difficulty for the final. Lock in, go to office hours, and pray to the ECE gods. This will hopefully be your last ECE class you ever take at this school, so regardless of what grade you get, I just hope it's painless.
Fall 2024 - In the wise words of Gracie Abrams: "Made it out alive, but I think I lost it". Hindsight is 20-20, and if I'm being honest this class was pretty doable with the single exception of the second midterm (average was a 56, MT1 average was a 66 and Final average 79). Dislcaimer: I scored top 10 on MT1 and the final, but I was definitely in the trenches throughout this class. The grading curve is pretty generous: 80% or above is an A, and if you're just shooting for a C to pass you just need a 50%, which is fairly doable. On the flip side, any class with that type of grading scale should be expected to be brutally difficult. It starts out pretty smooth with RLC circuits (review of Physics 1B and 1C), source transformations and Thevenin equivalents (somewhat tough, but no calculus so that's a win), and first and second order circuits (which double down on everything you learned in differential equations). Unfortunately it quickly jumps out the window when we get to diodes, transistors, op amps, CMOS logic, and all the other nonsense that real electrical engineers don't get to until halfway through their major. It's pretty impossible to have any real intuition for these topics, and like most upper divs, you quickly depart from what textbooks, Google, and ChatGPT are capable of answering. Those of us lucky enough to not be an ECE major get the pleasure of this fuck-ass class that crams entirely too much information in 10 weeks and eclipses what most of my ECE friends know how to do by this point in their major. In terms of the professor himself, he's alright. Like all engineering professors, he's frequently and unapologetically late, but thankfully most classes were underway within 5 to 10 minutes after the top of the hour. Some classes even ended 10-20 minutes early depending on if we were at a good stopping point. Our class was in Boelter 3400, so he used whiteboard markers. His handwriting is pretty shit and pretty small, which combined with a dying marker means sometimes the lectures are tough to follow. Handwritten lecture notes and audio recordings were available on Piazza and BruinCast respectively - again, sloppy handwriting, but you can follow along in a pinch. Gupta's shining quality is his patience - he will answer the same question as many times as you want, and will happily bring the entire lecture to a grinding halt in that pursuit. If you're feeling lost, it's a reprieve. But if you're lucky enough to know what's going on in that exact moment, it can be excruciating to hear him repeatedly answer the same exact question. He also sometimes anticipate the questions people ask before they finish, which comes off as a little rude. He and his TAs respond pretty quickly on Piazza, and he offers Office Hours which are a great opportunity to review. Bottom Line: his teaching skills are questionable, but he genuinely cares about his students learning the material. I got an A in this class, which is a privilege most people don't have. Reading the textbook (pretty piratable if you know where to look) makes a big difference in understanding the formulas or seeing the more advanced applications of components. The practice exams (for the most part) are pretty true to the exams. And with the midterm exams being so low, the teaching team definitely elected to ease up on the difficulty for the final. Lock in, go to office hours, and pray to the ECE gods. This will hopefully be your last ECE class you ever take at this school, so regardless of what grade you get, I just hope it's painless.
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Winter 2018 - There is WAY too much negativity on Lei He here and I won't stand for it. He is a great professor. Prof He was always willing to take the time to answer questions and provide additional explanations, and they provided a variety of resources and learning opportunities to help us succeed. They were also very fair and consistent with their grading. I highly recommend taking a class with Prof He. While it may be intimidating at first to have a professor with a bad reputation, I can assure you that Prof He is actually an amazing instructor who cares about their students and is dedicated to helping them succeed.
Winter 2018 - There is WAY too much negativity on Lei He here and I won't stand for it. He is a great professor. Prof He was always willing to take the time to answer questions and provide additional explanations, and they provided a variety of resources and learning opportunities to help us succeed. They were also very fair and consistent with their grading. I highly recommend taking a class with Prof He. While it may be intimidating at first to have a professor with a bad reputation, I can assure you that Prof He is actually an amazing instructor who cares about their students and is dedicated to helping them succeed.
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DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. First of all his examples and problems he does in class are nothing similar to what you see on the midterms and final. To do well in his class you need to understand his material at a level of an electrical engineer. But this is EE for NON-EE majors. It seems easy at first but towards the end he will squeeze in so much material that you will not have time to get comfortable with it before taking the final and then you're $#%!ed. Also really read the book and go to discussion and office hours. DO NOT rely on the lectures alone to teach you the material. He also has an accent. Its not bad but its apparent. do yourself a favor and avoid him in the future.
DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. First of all his examples and problems he does in class are nothing similar to what you see on the midterms and final. To do well in his class you need to understand his material at a level of an electrical engineer. But this is EE for NON-EE majors. It seems easy at first but towards the end he will squeeze in so much material that you will not have time to get comfortable with it before taking the final and then you're $#%!ed. Also really read the book and go to discussion and office hours. DO NOT rely on the lectures alone to teach you the material. He also has an accent. Its not bad but its apparent. do yourself a favor and avoid him in the future.
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