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Intended for students planning to pursue an electrical engineering or biomedical engineering concentration. Topics covered include: Voltage, Current, Power, Resistance, Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, Independent and Dependent Sources, Voltage Divider, Current Divider, Delta-Wye and Wye-Delta Transformations, Nodal and Mesh Analysis, Source Transformation, Thevenin and Norton Theorems, Maximum Power Transfer, Operational Amplifier Analysis, Inductance and Capacitance, Natural Response and Step Response of 1st and 2nd Order Systems, Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis, Phasors, Bode Plots, Circuit analysis in the S-Domain utilizing Laplace Transforms. This course will incorporate a lab utilizing circuit components, breadboard, multimeter, oscilloscope, and function generator. Labs will also incorporate the use of an industry standard circuit simulation software package.