Undergraduate Catalog, Academic Year 2011 - Sirindhorn ...

Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Catalog 2011
services — an individual comprehensive research or
practical project related to the training must be
intensively conducted under close supervision of faculty
members and supervisors assigned by the training
organization. At the end of the training, the student
must submit a report of the project and also give a
presentation.
EC 210 Introductory Economics 3(3-1-5)
Prerequisite: None
A study of the principles of micro and macro economics
with applications in basic economic problems; factors
that influence supply and demand of products; consumer
behavior; important features of perfect and imperfect
competitive markets; analysis of Gross National Product,
determination of National Income, fiscal and monetary
policies; importance of international trade and finance
on balance of payment and national income.
ECS 201 Basic Circuit Analysis 3(3-1-5)
(For non-major students)
Prerequisite: None
Current and voltage. Circuit elements. Kirchhoff's laws.
Resistive circuits. Circuit analysis techniques such as
node analysis, mesh analysis, superposition, and
Thevenin's and Norton's equivalent circuits. Inductance
and capacitance. First-order circuits and their responses.
Second-order circuits and their responses. Sinusoidal
steady-state analysis. Three-phase circuits. Mutual
inductance and ideal transformers. Network responses:
natural frequencies, network functions, frequency
responses, resonance. Fourier series and applications to
network analysis. Introduction to computer-aided circuit
analysis and design.
ECS 202 Basic Electronic Circuits 3(3-1-5)
(For non-major students)
Prerequisite: ECS 201 or ECS 203 or
consent of Head of School
Introduction to voltage amplifiers, Bode plots.
Operational amplifiers (Op-amp) as voltage amplifiers and
1 st –order filters, inverting and non-inverting amplifiers
summing and difference amplifiers, integrators, and lowpass
filters. Semiconductors, PN junction, diodes and
Zener diodes, half-wave, full-wave and bridge rectifiers,
voltage regulators and power supplies. Bipolar junction
transistors (BJTs), DC and AC analysis of common emitter
amplifiers. Class A, B, AB power amplifiers. Feedback
and control. Power electronic circuits, thyristors and
phase-control rectifiers.
ECS 203 Basic Electrical Engineering 3(3-1-5)
(For non-major students)
Prerequisite: None
A service course covering electrical engineering
principles and technology for students with major
outside electronics and communication engineering.
Topics include electrical signals, basic circuit theory, DC
and AC circuit analysis, Kirchhoff’s law, Thevenin
theorem, three-phase circuits, basic electronic devices
and circuits, fundamental of operational amplifiers,
feedback and control, fundamentals of power systems,
DC and AC motors and generators, transformers, loss and
efficiency of DC/AC machinery, household/industry
wiring and preview of electrical communication systems.
ECS 204 Basic Electrical Engineering 1(0-3-0)
Laboratory
(For non-major students)
Corequisite: ECS 201 or ECS 203 or
consent of Head of School
A service course for students with major outside
electronics and communication engineering. Laboratory
practice and experimental studies on topics covered in
ECS 201 or ECS 203.
ECS 205 Basic Electrical Engineering 3(2-2-5)
with Applications
(For non-major students)
Prerequisite: None
A course for students with majors outside electronics and
communication engineering. The course covers electrical
engineering principles and technology, as well as
laboratory practice and experimental studies. Topics
included are basic circuit theory, DC and AC circuit
analysis, DC and AC measurements, electronic devices
and circuits, operational amplifiers, and feedback
control systems.
ECS 210 Basic Electrical Engineering 1(0-3-0)
Laboratory
Prerequisite: ECS 216 or consent of Head of School
Laboratory practice and experimental studies on topics
covered in ECS 216.
ECS 213 Electrical Engineering Mathematics 3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: MAS 117 or consent of Head of School
First-order and higher-order ordinary differential
equations (ODE’s); series solution of ODE’s; system of
ODE’s; partial differential equations; boundary value
problems; vector spaces; basis and dimensions; Cayley-
Hamilton theorem; functions of matrices; state-space
representation; difference equations; computer-aided
software for computation.
ECS 216 Circuit Analysis 3(3-1-5)
Prerequisite: None
Current and voltage; circuit elements; Kirchhoff’s laws;
resistive circuits; circuit analysis techniques such as node
analysis, mesh analysis, superposition, and Thevenin’s
and Norton’s equivalent circuits; inductance and
capacitance; first-order circuits and their responses;
second-order circuits and their responses; sinusoidal
steady-state analysis; phasor diagram; three-phase
circuits; computer-aided software for circuit analysis.
ECS 217 Computer Tools in Electrical 1(0-3-0)
Engineering
Prerequisite: None
Basic descriptive geometry: points, lines, planes and
their relationships and basic developed views; computer
graphics: methods of creating, storing, manipulating,
presenting and animating two and three dimensional
objects; familiarization with graphical softwares;
softwares and tools for electrical engineering: MATLAB,
PSPICE, LaTeX, etc.
ECS 218 Data Structures, Algorithms, and 3(2-2-5)
Object Oriented Programming
Prerequisite: ITS 100 or consent of Head of School
Problem-based learning; Concepts of data structures;
basic data structures; stacks, queues, linked lists, trees,
etc. recursion, hash tables, sorting and searching
algorithms; Concepts of Object-oriented Programming;
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