EC ENGR 101A
Engineering Electromagnetics
Description: (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 101A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisites: Mathematics 32A and 32B, or 33A and 33B, Physics 1C. Electromagnetic field concepts, waves and phasors, transmission lines and Smith chart, transient responses, vector analysis, introduction to Maxwell equations, static and quasi-static electric and magnetic fields. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2019 - Class Review: Its really an easy class to be honest as long as you do the homework and understand it. The midterm and final should both be easy as long as you understand the homework and attend all dicussions. There was one problem from discussion on both midterm and final, so you should definitely attend discussions. They were like homework type problem. I am mad that I slacked off and didnt put enough effort, otherwise I would have gotten at least an A-. Professor Review: Professor's lecture were really easy and clear to understand. He would go out of his way to help you understand something if you dont quite understand. He frequently interacts with the class and posts brainteaser problem during the break where he challenges his students to solve it. I would highly recommend taking this class with Professor Candler if you intend to take this specific course for elective or as a requirement.
Winter 2019 - Class Review: Its really an easy class to be honest as long as you do the homework and understand it. The midterm and final should both be easy as long as you understand the homework and attend all dicussions. There was one problem from discussion on both midterm and final, so you should definitely attend discussions. They were like homework type problem. I am mad that I slacked off and didnt put enough effort, otherwise I would have gotten at least an A-. Professor Review: Professor's lecture were really easy and clear to understand. He would go out of his way to help you understand something if you dont quite understand. He frequently interacts with the class and posts brainteaser problem during the break where he challenges his students to solve it. I would highly recommend taking this class with Professor Candler if you intend to take this specific course for elective or as a requirement.
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Fall 2017 - Sam is a great professor. He cares a lot about making sure that all of his students fully understand the material. His lectures mainly consist of him teaching from slides, and deriving equations on the slides with chalk on the blackboard. He's not the most engaging lecturer, but he is very responsive and helpful in office hours/outside of lectures. Homework sets in this class were a mix of book problems and his problems that he created. They didn't take that long in comparison to other EE classes, so outside study is necessary to do well on his tests. Exams were tough, but not ridiculously tough. If you spend enough time studying, you will find that the questions are very fair. Sam is a very generous grader and takes an improvement score into account. So if you do poorly on his quiz and midterm, but do very well on his final, he will account for that. All in all, a great professor. One of the better professors in the EE department. I strongly recommend taking 101A with him.
Fall 2017 - Sam is a great professor. He cares a lot about making sure that all of his students fully understand the material. His lectures mainly consist of him teaching from slides, and deriving equations on the slides with chalk on the blackboard. He's not the most engaging lecturer, but he is very responsive and helpful in office hours/outside of lectures. Homework sets in this class were a mix of book problems and his problems that he created. They didn't take that long in comparison to other EE classes, so outside study is necessary to do well on his tests. Exams were tough, but not ridiculously tough. If you spend enough time studying, you will find that the questions are very fair. Sam is a very generous grader and takes an improvement score into account. So if you do poorly on his quiz and midterm, but do very well on his final, he will account for that. All in all, a great professor. One of the better professors in the EE department. I strongly recommend taking 101A with him.
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Fall 2014 - Professor Joshi is hard. He teaches directly from the textbook which is good! Homeworks are assigned from the textbook but not graded. He gives out two quizzes, each worth 10%. 1 MT and 1 Final. quiz1 10% quiz2 10% MidT 30% Final 50% His quizzes were simple - 1st one covering math32B material because we need to know it. 2nd one covering capacitance. Easy questions. His MT was mainly smith charts. Just be careful! A lot of people aren't and if you do the problems in the book and the assigned homeworks, the MT should be a breeze for you! His final was mostly proofs of equations, and some smith charts. Really tough stuff especially if your foundation for math32B is weak. Luckily for me i spent a lot of time proving the equations to myself when i studied so it wasn't much of a problem. He doesn't ask anything too difficult though. Oh yeah, one caveat - you don't get any cheat sheet for anything. That means you have to memorize MANY equations. It's a headache and this class will most probably be time consuming but it's worth it when you get into 101B because it really builds your foundation for electromagnetics!
Fall 2014 - Professor Joshi is hard. He teaches directly from the textbook which is good! Homeworks are assigned from the textbook but not graded. He gives out two quizzes, each worth 10%. 1 MT and 1 Final. quiz1 10% quiz2 10% MidT 30% Final 50% His quizzes were simple - 1st one covering math32B material because we need to know it. 2nd one covering capacitance. Easy questions. His MT was mainly smith charts. Just be careful! A lot of people aren't and if you do the problems in the book and the assigned homeworks, the MT should be a breeze for you! His final was mostly proofs of equations, and some smith charts. Really tough stuff especially if your foundation for math32B is weak. Luckily for me i spent a lot of time proving the equations to myself when i studied so it wasn't much of a problem. He doesn't ask anything too difficult though. Oh yeah, one caveat - you don't get any cheat sheet for anything. That means you have to memorize MANY equations. It's a headache and this class will most probably be time consuming but it's worth it when you get into 101B because it really builds your foundation for electromagnetics!
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