Features

• NEW—Internet chapter has been greatly updated.
• NEW—Much material on micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) has been added.
• NEW—Revision of digital electronics.
  • NEW—Revised materials on computer architecture.
  • NEW—Additional homework problems and worked examples.
  • NEW—Instructor's CD (with possible audio bits)—Contains:
    • Overview of the course as given at Berkeley.
    • Laboratory experiments with answers and Instructor suggestions.
    • “Equipment Required for Laboratory Experiments.”
    • Homework problems with answers.
    • Answers to “Food for Thought.”
    • Electronic and logic circuits that can be run with PSpice™ or LogicWorks™.
    • Videos of some demos used in class.
    • Web links.
    • Reproducible figures from text (except halftone illustrations and externally copyrighted materials).
    • Information about “Musical Notes” (background for guitar tuner and Lissagous figure labs).
    • Instructor grading spreadsheet (Excel).
  • NEW—A chapter on communications and one on digital signal processing.
  • Short, one-page templates—Included for the different kinds of technical writing an engineer would typically produce.
  • Laboratory Experiments for Electrical Engineering Uncovered—the companion volume—Contains laboratory experiments with equipment that students have already used, but not necessarily understood, such as a VCR, CD player, remote control, and an ultrasonic rangefinder.
  • Instructor's Manual for Electrical Engineering Uncovered—Includes classroom demos, homework and lab solutions, and a lab equipment guide.
  • Web Site (with possible audio bits)—Contains:
    • Laboratory experiments (without answers and Instructor suggestions).
    • Electronic and logic circuits that can be run with Pspice™ or LogicWorks™.
    • Some demos used in class.
    • Web links.
    • Figures from text (except halftone illustrations and externally copyrighted materials).

  Table of Contents

  I. ON BEING AN ENGINEER.

  1. Modeling Processes.
  2. Engineering Design: Why? What? How?
  3. Engineering Ethics.
  4. Meaningless Precision: 22.6 Grams of Fat Per Serving.
  5. About Those Other Fields of Engineering.
  6. Logarithmic Unit for a Person's Pay: The Salarybel.
  7. How Many Words Is A Picture Really Worth?
  8. Favorite Programs.
  9. Some Really Interesting Technical and Semi-Technical Books.
  10. Advice to Freshmen.
  11. On Communicating.
  12. Templates for Technical Writing.
  13. The Internet.
  14. Optical Communications.
  15. Industry-University Cooperation in MEMS.
  16. Brief Technical Articles.
  17. Entrepreneurship: It's Your Business.
  18. Unsolved Problems and Unanswered Questions.
  

  II. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING—SURVEY OF THE FIELD.

  19. Direct Current Fundamentals.
  20. Alternating Currents and Components.
  21. What Can You Do with These Components?
  22. Digital Logic Devices.
  23. Computer Architecture.
  24. What's in the Box?
  25. Semiconductors: From Ns and Ps to CMOS.
  26. The Load Line and Your Car Battery.
  27. CMOS Logic and Memory.
  28. Other Semiconductor Devices and Circuits.
  29. Fabrication of Ics and MEMS.
  30. Power for the People.
  31. Wireless Communication Systems.
  32. Digital Signal Processing.
  33. Electronics Terminology Brought to You by the Good Guys.