EC ENGR 100
Electrical and Electronic Circuits
Description: (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 100.) 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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Fall 2019 - This class was a bit strange, since the exams were both open-note and open-book. However, the exams were fairly challenging, especially because lectures were focused on derivations and not applications of the knowledge, and the exams were focused on application. The median for the midterm was 64% and the median for the final was 59%. I believe the median translates to approximately a B in the class. There is weekly homework, and each problem is graded for correctness. Sometimes, he would create his own problems and those were significantly more difficult than textbook problems. The professor consistently went overtime each lecture by 5-10 minutes, which is not ideal when you have another class immediately after. Fortunately, notes are uploaded online.
Fall 2019 - This class was a bit strange, since the exams were both open-note and open-book. However, the exams were fairly challenging, especially because lectures were focused on derivations and not applications of the knowledge, and the exams were focused on application. The median for the midterm was 64% and the median for the final was 59%. I believe the median translates to approximately a B in the class. There is weekly homework, and each problem is graded for correctness. Sometimes, he would create his own problems and those were significantly more difficult than textbook problems. The professor consistently went overtime each lecture by 5-10 minutes, which is not ideal when you have another class immediately after. Fortunately, notes are uploaded online.
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Fall 2021 - I had heard a lot of negative things about this class (I put off taking it for as long as I could). After reading other reviews here once I'd finally enrolled, my nerves were definitely not abated due to comments about how the class was when Razavi taught it online. However, for in-person, I thought that his teaching was very clear and that his exams were fair. Discussion worksheets helped to solidify concepts and clarify cases that weren't elaborated upon in lecture. I actually ended up kinda liking the material, which really came as a shock to me. Razavi gives tips on how to succeed in the class on the syllabus - follow them, he's taught the class many times and knows what works (I followed them mostly except for one or two weeks of the quarter - guess what concepts I missed on the midterm). He'd drop a joke here and there, but it took a few seconds for everyone to realize he'd just said something funny. Anyway, if you're taking this class, it's probably because you have to, so you might as well take it with Razavi.
Fall 2021 - I had heard a lot of negative things about this class (I put off taking it for as long as I could). After reading other reviews here once I'd finally enrolled, my nerves were definitely not abated due to comments about how the class was when Razavi taught it online. However, for in-person, I thought that his teaching was very clear and that his exams were fair. Discussion worksheets helped to solidify concepts and clarify cases that weren't elaborated upon in lecture. I actually ended up kinda liking the material, which really came as a shock to me. Razavi gives tips on how to succeed in the class on the syllabus - follow them, he's taught the class many times and knows what works (I followed them mostly except for one or two weeks of the quarter - guess what concepts I missed on the midterm). He'd drop a joke here and there, but it took a few seconds for everyone to realize he'd just said something funny. Anyway, if you're taking this class, it's probably because you have to, so you might as well take it with Razavi.
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