1 ECE 221 Electric Circuit Analysis I Chapter 1 Your PSU Instructor and You Herbert G. Mayer, PSU Status 10/12/2015

2 Who is Your PSU Instructor? Instructor is a German immigrant to the USA, who worked in the US computer industry and academia Moved to USA, due to marriage with lovely US citizen in Berlin Became naturalized US citizen in 1995 MS EECS (electrical engineering an computer science) UCSD 1983; beautiful beach & campus! PhD CS (“Informatik”, equivalent to “Computer Science”) TU Berlin 1995; awesome city, now united! Dissertation published as book at Springer Verlag © 1996 Professional focus at Intel on compiler optimization, HW validation, alias analysis, programming languages, VLIW, multiprocessing

3 Your Instructor PhD Thesis on automatic generation of MP-object code via alias analysis of source programs Retired in 2011 after 24 years at Intel Corp. Implemented Intel Compilers for systolic array architecture 1980s Managed Intel CPU tuning lab 1990s & CPU validation in 2000s for new Intel processors Teaching computer science since 1987 PSU Teaching experience 2004 in Shanghai, at IIIST Loved China and teaching in China that I participated in CCUT + PSU cooperation Committed to CCUT in academic year

4 Goals of ECE 221 Learn the laws of electric circuits with passive elements Perform transformations, using algebraic methods, circuit simplifications Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s Laws Use Matrix Manipulation to master: solving many equations with equally many unknowns

5 Goals of ECE 221 Perform mesh and nodal analysis Refine mesh analysis and solve multiple linear equations using various methods Apply circuit theorems Analyze linear circuits containing passive elements and operational amplifiers

6 Who are You? Briefly, 2-6 students volunteer to articulate in class, explaining: Your name Your field of study, major, and current progress Why do you take ECE 221 What is your expectation of this class? What is your minimal goal for this class? Which is your ideal learning goal? Have you worked in the computer industry? Which computer subjects are you interested in? Anything else relevant to this course