Instructor:	R. A. Becker
Office:	913 SEO Office Hours
Office Phone:	(312) 996-5453
email:	robert@uic.edu
Room:	230 SES
Time:	2:00p.m. to 2:50p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Credit hours:	3 hours, 4 hours graduate
Prerequisite:	ECE 225 and ECE 310.
Text:	Electrical Networks: Theory and Analysis, by John Choma, Jr., Krieger Publishing Company, 1991.
Grading:
	Homework = 10% Term Paper = 15% (All students do one paper graduate students do two papers) Mid Term I and II = 40% (20% each) Final Exam = 35% ____________ _______ Total = 100%
Homework:	Homework will assigned weekly and will be collected at the beginning of lecture. Late homework will not be accepted. Solutions will be posted on the homework page of this web site.
Topics covered:	We will cover most of the material in the text. Additional topics not covered in the text will also be covered in lecture. Linear graph concepts and definitions: circuits, cutset, tree, fundamental rcuits and cutsets.  Graph matrices and Kirchhoff's equations:   incidence, cutset, and circuit matrices;  interrelationships of graph matrices; Tellegen's theorem.  Matrix loop, node, and cutset equations with generalized branch representation; their application to computer-aided analysis  Topological formulas for network functions and their application to computer-aided analysis  Writing state equations of networks  Solution of state equations with and without computers  Positive real functions, Foster and and Cauer synthesis  Many Practical examples will be included.