ELEC1000 Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Semester 1, 2011
CURRENT NOTICES:
Lecturer:
Prof. Neil
Bergmann
School of Info. Tech. and Elec. Eng.
The University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072 Australia.
E-mail: n.bergmann@itee.uq.edu.au
For notes on navigating this website, see further down this page.
Workplace (Occupational) Health & Safety (WH&S; OH&S) in ITEE
The School of ITEE
takes its obligations to WH&S very seriously. WH&S is everybody’s
responsibility, both the School’s and the students’. The School has worked to
ensure that WH&S processes are effective and that assessments are kept up to
date. Students must take the time to familiarise themselves with these
procedures and assessments.
Before entering any ITEE lab, students must
read the student edition of ‘OH&S in the Laboratory’
http://studenthelp.itee.uq.edu.au/ohs/
and complete the Safety Declaration Form to be found there. In addition,
students must complete the ‘Student OH&S Induction’ on Blackboard. Blackboard
is accessed by following the Blackboard 9 logon link at
http://www.elearn.uq.edu.au/
or
http://blackboard.elearning.uq.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp
Other relevant information on WH&S in the School is to be found at
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~whs/
including the links from that page to
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~whs/Risk%20Assessment%20Register
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~whs/Electrical%20Safety/
Students, please ensure, by reading the information just referenced and
completing the OH&S Induction and Safety Declaration Form as appropriate, that
you are an active participant in a safe learning environment.
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NAVIGATING THE WEBSITE PAGES
In general, BLACKBOARD is the preferred portal to use for accessing course materials, however most of the material is repeated here.
You can navigate through the course material using the hyperlinks below, or the menu items on the left of this page.
The official Course Profile for the course will be available before the start of semester, and has lots of useful information about how the course is organised. Be sure to read this through thoroughly at least once so you aren't surprised by upcoming assessment items.
My lecturing style is to provide partially completed notes which I expect you to print off and bring along to lectures. During the lecture, I will use the data projector to fill in the notes, and you can fill them in at that time. I will NOT be providing hard copies of notes at the lecture - you will need to print these off yourself before the lecture. The incomplete notes outlines are available at: Lecture Notes Outlines. There is normally one set of notes per week, covering both lectures each week.
Scanned copies of the filled in notes are also available on the website at Lecture Notes Filled, in case you miss a lecture or are unsure whether you've copied stuff down correctly. You may prefer to download and print these completed versions of the notes, then you can just listen, rather than fill-in the notes. However, I think you'll reinforce your learning more, and be a bit more attentive, if you fill in the incomplete notes at the lecture. Recorded Lectures are available via Lectopia.
Each week, starting in week 2, there is a tutorial exercise for you to try BEFORE you come along to your tutorial session. This will generally cover material that you have learnt in the previous week. The tutorial exercises can be found at Tutorial Questions. During the tutorial, your tutor will work through the solutions on the blackboard, and answer any questions that you have about the exercises, or about other lecture material. The problems in the exam and the assignments will be based on the tutorial exercises. Tutorial Solutions will be also available on the website AFTER all the tutorials that week have been held.
There are on-line quizzes which need to be completed before 5pm Monday afternoons, with the first quiz due in week 3 (on 14 March), and the last due in week 13 (on 30 may). There are 11 quizzes, your mark will be determined by your performance in the best TEN of these quizzes. The quizzes will test material from lectures, tutorials and practicals. There will be a practice quiz available, similar to each of the assessment quizzes.
Each week, from week 2, you have a laboratory experiment to complete in the
laboratory. You will get a lot more out of these experiments if you read
the laboratory experiment sheets, and prepare any theoretical calculations
before you come to the laboratory. The experiment instructions are
available at Laboratories. This includes a
schedule of which experiments are on which dates, because different sessions
will get out of sync because of public holidays.
Note three important things for the laboratory:
1. You should read through the
occupational health and safety
guidelines.
2. You will NOT be allowed to enter the laboratory unless you have
enclosed
shoes.
If you have bare feet, thongs, sandals or other open shoes you will
NOT be allowed to enter the laboratory.
3. We do not require lab coats for ITEE laboratories.
Some solutions to Past Exams are available.