Provides experience in the design, prototyping, measurement, and analysis of op-amp circuits. Circuits include microphone pre-amps, integration and differentiation, comparator circuits, and signal conditioning.

Provides experience with motors, generators, and transformers. Topics include power factor, magnetism, electro-magnetic force, fields, armatures, commutators, rotors, stators, brushes, starters, controllers, DC machines, AC motors, alternators, single phase and three phase dynamos, three phase circuits, phasors, transformer properties, isolation, efficiency, and voltage regulation.

Develops skills and practice in the design, fabrication, measurement and analysis of practical DC circuits used in electronic devices. Topics include the measurement relative to: resistance, current, and voltage with circuit techniques of Ohm's Law; current and voltage division; simplification of series, parallel, series-parallel circuits: bridge and ladder networks: Kirchhoff's Laws; power; and transient circuit behavior. Laboratory verification of DC analytical and techniques is included. Printed circuit board (PCB) design, fabrication, and assembly is also included emphasizing the development of soldering skill proficiency.

Develops the knowledge and ability to design active electronic circuits, such as audio amplifiers, using op-amps. The operational amplifier and its applications are covered in detail. Applications include math operations like integration and differentiation, comparator circuits, and signal conditioning. The effects of op-amp limitations, both DC and AC, are studied.