1E6 Electrical Engineering

Prof. Naomi Harte

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Why study Electrical & Electrical
Engineering?
• TCD offers general 2 years
• In practice you can’t draw lines between the different
engineering disciplines
• An engineer’s job is truly inter-disciplinary
• Environment, economics, politics
• Also other branches of engineering
• Example – driverless cars

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Source: http://viterbivoices.usc.edu/alexb-2017/biomedical-engineering-do-i-need-an-emphasis/ 4
After 1E6, you will be able to:
• explain the fundamental concepts of electricity and magnetism
and their importance;
• apply fundamental circuit theory and laws to dc resistive circuits;
• analyse the operation of simple circuits in RC and RL
combinations;
• convert between binary and decimal representations and carry
out binary addition, subtraction and multiplication;
• manipulate Boolean expressions so as to minimise the number of
literals using algebra or Karnaugh maps;
• design standard and iterative combinational logic circuits;
• evaluate the complexity and speed of combinational designs;

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Content covered
• Basic Electric Fields
• Simple DC circuits
• Electromagnetism
• Digital Systems and Binary Numbers
• Boolean Algebra
• Combinational Logic

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Marking
• 80% annual exam
• 20% CA
• Lab
• Online quizzes
• Note supplemental based 100% on exam

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Lectures
• Notes will be on Blackboard
• You need to listen to all the lectures
• Whether pre-recorded, live, or later on
• Notes are incomplete
• Only a reminder …
• Expected to do additional reading, videos and examples
in your own time
• Read the course text
• Attend (virtually) & engage (reality)!

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How will lectures happen?
• 3 hours a week in the timetable
• Announcements on Blackboard
• Friday of previous week, tell you plan for following week
• Pre-recorded material a few days in advance of slot for flexibility
(where I can)
• Friday will be live online most weeks
• Worked problems and deeper explanations
• Wed always pre-recorded
• Mon – will do a mixture as necessary
• All live content will also get recorded
• 180 of you responded to my survey….
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My broadband/Internet access arrangement is
a barrier to my joining live lectures

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I don't mind whether lectures are pre-recorded or
happen live, so long as the lecturer communicates
clearly to me as to when I need to have
covered material.

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There are 3 lecture slots for 1E6 each week, so you will get 3 hours of content
to watch a week, whatever format we use and that will always get recorded. You
will have 1 live tutorial with a TA per week. What format of live contact from the
lecturer would you prefer?

• The lecturer available for 10 minutes at the end of the timetabled hour, regardless
of whether the lecture happened live or was prerecorded.
• The lecturer available for a full 30 minutes once a week to answer some questions
and work through a nominated question live each week. Other lectures would be
pre-recorded.
• The lecturer to do a full 1 hour slot once every two weeks, where they take
questions, highlight what might be more tricky parts of the material, and work
though 1 or two nominated questions. Other lectures would be pre-recorded.
• Have a forum online for posting questions and then have a live slot whenever they
think a full hour is warranted. Other lectures would be pre-recorded.
• The lecturer teaching live and online at each lecture slot.
• I don't really mind as long as the lecturer is available to engage live on a regular
basis and responsive to feedback and questions

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Lecture “attendance”
• I know this is not easy
• Up to YOU to keep up with the lecture material
• Transition to University
• Blah blah….
• I can see if people are not checking into material and
attending
• But I understand you might fall behind a little
• Will check around Week 3, 6 etc that people are catching up
• Do your best
• Routine required

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Not going well?
• Use the TCD supports
• https://student-learning.tcd.ie/learning_to_learn_online/
• https://student-learning.tcd.ie/workshops/
• Blackboard module ‘Academic Skills for Successful Learning’
for past webinars
• Feb 8th “Get organised: tips and strategies to manage time
and workload
• Other useful Student supports
• https://www.tcd.ie/Student_Counselling/counselling/
• https://niteline.ie/
• https://student2student.tcd.ie/support/

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Tutorials and Labs

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Tutorials and Labs
• Ambition to have in-person labs
• Starting Week 6
• Each person only attends once at pre-assigned slot
• Send out packs – do lab in advance
• Live session a “clinic”
• Tutorials
• Live in Blackboard
• Won’t be recorded
• Will start in Week2
• Attendance

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5 ECTS Course
• 1 ECTS = 20-25 hours student effort
• 1e6 – 100-125 hours
• 33 hours lecture
• 2 hour lab
• 10 hours tutorials
• Rest from you!

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5 ECTS Course
• 1 ECTS = 20-25 hours student effort (100-125hours)
• 1e6
• 33 hours lecture
• 2 hour lab 45 hours
• 10 hours tutorials
• Rest from you!

55 hours???

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5 ECTS Course
• 1 ECTS = 20-25 hours student effort (100-125hours)
• 1e6
• 33 hours lecture
• 2 hour lab 45 hours
• 10 hours tutorials
• Rest from you!
• 3 hours lab write up
• 1 hour study per hour of lecture (33) 56 hours???
• 4 hours study extra per class test (8)
• 12 hours for intense exam prep

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Other queries…
• Happy to take questions
• Live sessions
• Please email me at:
• nharte@tcd.ie
• Always put 1e6 in the subject line as I filter emails
• Ensure it comes from your @tcd.ie email address
• I may miss it otherwise
• Allow 2-3 working days for a response!

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Change to schedule
• Only for week 1
• No tutorials

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Tutorials – Wednesday (from Week 2)
• Group 1-8
• Blackboard Collaborate
• Will allocate groups to each “Room”
• Refer to timetable and then check Blackboard to find your
spot…
• https://www.tcd.ie/Engineering/assets/student-
resources/Timetable-2-JF.pdf

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Tutorials in Blackboard

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Course Material

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Course Text
• Electrical Engineering: Principles & Applications, Allan
R. Hambley
• Pearson Mastering Engineering
• E-text
• Homeworks (tutorials)
• Extra questions
• Quizzes/Tests
• This is being provided by School of Engineering
• YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE
• Details on how to get your account will follow

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