By the end of this course, students should have the ability to:
1. Develop an understanding of the electrical and computer
engineering major and the role electrical and computer engineers
play in today’s world.
2. Develop a strong work ethic and a positive attitude towards
the electrical and computer engineering major.
3. Develop strong problem solving, time management, and team
player skills.
4. Develop confidence and ease in using the sometimes
intimidating underlying technological tools for electrical and
computer engineers.
5. Conceptualize high-level solutions to some of today’s complex
problems using a systems approach.
6. Analyze resistive DC circuits using Ohm’s law, KCL, and KVL.

Through a series of lectures and labs, students will explore the
following topics, all of which are core areas of electrical and
computer engineering:
1. Describe the fundamental operation of a digital computer.
2. Describe and identify fundamental electronics input and
output components.
3. What is the role of electrical and/or computer engineering in
today’s world?
4. Identification of complex problems in today’s world
(including a section on the NAE Grand Challenges) and the role
of electrical engineering in solving them.
5. Ethics.
6. Professional aspects of engineering.
7. Basic electrical and electronic circuits.
8. Introduction to Ohm’s Law, KCL and KVL.
9. Analog and digital computation.
10. Testing and measurement.
11. Prototyping and simulation tools.
12. Embedded systems.
13. Number systems, arithmetic operations of binary number
systems, and their conversions to each other (binary, decimal,
hexadecimal, octal).
14. Boolean algebra (Boolean operations, Truth tables).
15. Logic circuits.
16. Basic logic gates (AND, OR, NOT).
NOTE: The lab experience incorporated into this course features
hands-on activities designed to illustrate key topical items
listed above.

UGA Student Honor Code: "I will be academically honest in all of my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of others." "A Culture of Honesty," the University's policy and procedures for handling cases of suspected dishonesty, can be found at https://honesty.uga.edu/. Every course syllabus should include the instructor's expectations related to academic integrity.

All academic work must meet the standards contained in "A Culture of Honesty." Students are responsible for informing themselves about those standards before performing any academic work.