Spring 2007
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Section 5178 |
Instructor Harold Hallikainen |
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Tuesdays 7:00pm – 10:00pm |
email harold@hallikainen.com |
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Room 4401 |
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Office Hours: 6pm to 7pm Tuesdays, room 4401 |
phone 805 441 2246 |
NOTE
Interested in a study group?
Send me an email with your email or phone number and I'll pass it on to other students who are interested. Each of you can bring an area of expertise to the group.
Harold
harold@hallikainen.com
Class Description
We will discuss various
troubleshooting environments (engineering prototype, production test,
factory repair, field repair, etc.) and the approaches required in
each. A variety of people involved in electronic troubleshooting for
their jobs will be brought in to add to the discussion. In our
discussion, we'll look at the failure modes for various components
and how those failures affect various circuits. Students will be
presented with schematics of various circuits along with voltages and
waveforms at various points in the circuit. The student is to suggest
possible failed components in the circuit. In the lab, students will
be given various good and failed circuits to analyze. Through
analysis of the good circuits, students gain an understanding of how
the circuit was supposed to work in the first place. Troubleshooting
broken circuits gives students practice at troubleshooting.
Class Schedule
The class
meets Tuesdays 7:00pm to 10:00pm. One week will be devoted to class
discussion with the next devoted to lab. The schedule will be
adjusted as required.
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Date |
Planned Material |
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January 23 |
Philosophy of Troubleshooting, Choosing Equipment, Understand System. Pease-25, Agans-24 |
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January 30 |
Lab: |
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February 6 |
Resistor, Capacitor, and Inductor Problems. Make it fail! Pease-49, Agans-66 (Last day to add 2/3/07) |
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February 13 |
Lab: |
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February 20 |
Diode and Transistor Problems. Change one thing at a time! Pease-88, Agans-96 |
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February 27 |
Lab: (Last day to drop without W 2/20) |
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March 6 |
Operational Amplifiers. Take notes, ask for help. Pease-119, Agans-124 |
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March 13 |
Lab: |
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March 20 |
Quiz1 (questions and solutions here), ADC, DAC, References, Regulators. Did you fix it? Pease-142, Agans-132 |
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March 27 |
Lab: |
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April 3 |
Real problems and Floobydust. Troubleshooting from the help desk. Pease-186, Agans-175 |
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April 10 |
Spring Break |
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April 17 |
To Be Determined (Last day to drop with W 4/14) |
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April 24 |
Digital Circuits |
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May 1 |
Quiz 2. Sample questions here. |
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May 8 |
Communications Circuits |
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May 15 |
Review for final exam. Sample Final Exam Questions. |
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May 22 |
Final Exam 7pm-9pm |
Texts
Troubleshooting Analog Circuits, Robert A Pease, ISBN 0-7506-9499-8
Debugging, David J. Agans, ISBN 0-8144-7168-4
Grades
The final grade will be based on the final exam (50%) and the average of the monthly quizzes (50%). Quizzes and the exam will test your understanding of material in the texts, class discussion, and lab experience. You will be asked to provide a PIN during the second class session. You can use your name and this PIN to see your grades through the semester on the website listed above.