Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 General Catalog 
    
2022-2023 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Add to Pathway (opens a new window)

ELE 111 - AC Fundamentals


Last Date of Approval: Fall 2020

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 22.5
Total Lab Hours: 45
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
This course is designed to increase the proficiency of the student in the learning of how electricity is created, distributed, and consumed with alternating current. The foundations of circuit flow, electrical calculation formulas, and connecting of circuits are created here. These foundation skills will be used in the understanding of how electricity is used and controlled in their career of choice. The student will learn critical thinking, scientific theory, and deductive thought. 

In order to take ELE-198 Solid State Motor Controls, you will have to pass this class with a “C” or better.

Prerequisites: ELE 114 - DC Fundamentals  with a grade of “C” or better.
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/face-to-face

Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.

Course Fees: Course Materials: $90.00; Ebook/Access Code: $119.99 (charged once per term for all courses that use Cengage Unlimited)

Common Course Assessment(s): All assessments are common for this course.

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:

  •      Practice electrical safety  
  •      Apply the basic concepts of electricity  
  •      Demonstrate proper use of test equipment  
  •      Apply Ohm’s Law for AC circuits  
  •      Draw schematic diagrams using appropriate component symbols  
  •      Construct and troubleshoot series, parallel, and combination circuits  

Course Objectives:    

  • Set up, calculate and measure Parallel circuits and Series-parallel circuits (combination).
  • Demonstrate the physical and electrical characteristics of capacitors and inductors.
  • Construct, analyze and troubleshoot R-C and L-R time-constant circuits.
  • Demonstrate the use of an oscilloscope to measure voltage, phase, and frequency.
  • Demonstrate the use of multi-meters, function generators, power supplies, isolation transformers, etc. in lab environment.
  • Construct, analyze, and troubleshoot R-L phase-shift circuits, R-C phase-shift circuits, & R-L-C phase-shift circuits.
  • Calculate and analyze transformer primary and secondary voltages, powers, and currents.
  • Calculate and measure peak-to-peak and peak Rms voltages and currents.
  • Calculate and analyze power factors.



Add to Pathway (opens a new window)