Circuit Analysis Laboratory Workbook

Editors: Teri L. Piatt and Kyle E. Laferty

This workbook integrates theory with the concept of engineering design and teaches troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills. It is intended to either accompany or follow a first circuits course, and it assumes no previous experience with breadboarding or other lab equipment. This workbook uses only those components that are traditionally covered in a first circuits course (e.g., voltage sources, resistors, potentiometers, capacitors, and op amps) and gives students clear design goals, requirements, and constraints. Because we are using only components students have already learned how to analyze, they are able to tackle the design exercises, first working through the theory and math, then drawing and simulating their designs, and finally building and testing their designs on a breadboard.

About the Author(s)
Teri L. Piatt, Wright State University
Teri L. Piatt holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has worked for GE Aviation and for Jacobs Sverdrup as a research engineer in the Sensors Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory. She is currently a Lecturer at Wright State University.

Kyle E. Laferty, Wright State University
Kyle E. Laferty graduated summa cum laude from Wright State University with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a minor in mathematics and is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan.