Advanced Analog Electronics Laboratory

Catalog description

A hands on laboratory based course where students work in teams to construct a semester long project. The course focuses on analog and digital electronics, including: radio frequency circuits, micro-controllers and programming, digital logic, control systems, operational amplifiers and their applications in integrators and differentiators as well as active filters, oscillators, various classes of amplifiers, PID controllers, regulators, and power supplies etc. Projects change each semester and are selected by the instructor. An Exemplar project is students build a Tesla coil from scratch. The design includes: power management circuits, power electronics, analog signal [processing, 3D printing and mechanical assembly, electromagnetic design of coils and capacitors, micro-controller coding and control algorithms.