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Eligibility Criteria

High school diploma, GED or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

18 Hours

Course Duration

2 Months (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

3

Courses Offered In UNDERGRADUATE CERTIFICATE

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Introduction to Electrical Engineering

  • This course presents a concise overview of topics that is enhanced by real world applications. This course is a survey of the foundations of electrical engineering, and emphasizes principles of circuits, electronics, systems and electromechanics.

  • 6 Credits

  • Electric Circuit Basics

  • This course will introduce you to Experimental laws, network theorems, and computer analysis techniques of electrical circuit analysis. Network responses to various forcing functions using time-domain and phasor-domain methods.

  • 6 Credits

  • Numerical Methods

  • This course will introduce you to the standard methods and algorithms for the numerical solution of algebraic equations, numerical linear algebra as well as differential equations.

  • 6 Credits
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Introduction to electrical engineering

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Basic circuit theory.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The analysis of dc circuits.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The analysis of ac circuits.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Electric power systems.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Semiconductor devices and circuits.

Electric Circuit Basics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Quantities and units
    Voltage, current, and resistance
    Ohms law
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Energy and power
    Series circuits
    Parallel circuits
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Series-parallel circuits
    Circuit theorems and conversions
    Branch, loop, and node analyses
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Magnetism and electromagnetism
    Introduction to alternating current and voltage\
    Capacitors
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Inductors
    Transformers
    Rc circuits
    Rl circuits
    Rlc circuits and resonance
    Passive filters
    Circuit theorems in ac analysis
    Time response of reactive circuits
    Three-phase systems in power applications

Numerical Methods

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    Interactive computing with matlab.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Matlab programming.
    Organizing and debugging matlab programs.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Unavoidable errors in computing.
    Finding the roots of f-x-=0.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A review of linear algebra.
    Solving systems of equations.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Least-squares fitting of a curve to data.
    Interpolation.
    Numerical integration.
    Numerical integration of ordinary differential equations.