Electrical Engineering
From your Discipline Director, Takwan Tawshik, take a look at his reviews for some Electrical Engineering courses!
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First Year
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Useful Links
Lecture Videos by Professor Kaamran Raahemifar
Student Review
The beginning of circuit based courses. Going over key concepts such as nodal or mesh analysis. How a ciruit perfroms under different loads (resistor, capacitor etc). Make sure to continously do the practice problems. And msot importantly, try to understand how a circuit operates and dont memorize circuits. Even changing up one wiring can give a complete different output. Practice a lot for the midterm as it tends to be on the harder side. Additionally, labs tend to be easy, make sure you get used to how to wire a circuit for the lab. Lab reports, however, can take a long time―prelab, inlab and postlabs.
Course Breakdown
THEORY:
Midterm Exam – 22%
Final Exam – 40%
Quizzes (x5) – 2% each
LAB:
Labs (x7) – 4% each
*Students must pass both the theory and lab components individually in addition to having a cumulative passing grade
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Second Year
Course Name
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Student Review
Coding course based on Java. If you’re someone that likes or enjoys coding, this course will be alright. Folks who are a bit weak with coding will find this course difficuflt. The midterm is known to be hard while the final is a tad bit easier. Labs aren’t too hard. Having a good/nice TA in the course will help make labs easier. Besides the labs, there aren’t any practie problems. The midterm also had a written code component.
Course Breakdown
Midterm – 30%
Final – 40%
Lab – 30%
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This course with Prof. Shazzat will be very easy and interesting! The course covers a lot of core components connecting to silicon/computer chips. Labs can be difficult, however, having a good TA is a key part in making the labs easy. Furthermore, Prof does great midterm and final exam reviews, make sure to attend those. Both midterm and Final was easy as long as you keep up with the profs lectures and reviews.
Midterm – 35%
Final – 35%
Lab – 30%
Continuation of ELE202, goes deeper into the concepts of differrent types of circuits and components such as OpAmps, Magnetically Coupled Circuits, Three-Phase Circuits and etc. Labs are still hardwork. Make sure to have accurate circuits for labs and do the prelab properly as inlabs will be easier to do. Post labs are slightly bit harder when compared with ELE202 postlab components, as you have to explain in more detail. Midterm was decent, however, final was difficult. As usual, make sure to do a lot of practice problems as it’ll help for the evaluations.
Midterm- 25%’
Final – 40%
Lab – 20%
Tutorial – 15%
Final Continuation to Calc 2. You’ll cover more challenging concepts such as Vector Calculus, Laplace Transform, Fourier series and etc. There is a quiz component to tutorials. Depending on the course coordinator, it’ll vary how you do the quiz. But with Prof Chul Kim, we did our quizzes online through bitbolide. The tests and final exam were challenging, so make sure to do a lot of practice problems!
Test 1 – 20%
Test 2 – 25%
Final test – 25%
Lab – 20%
Participation – 5%
The course with Prof Yuan Xu is decent. The concepts covered are very interesting and a lot of theory based materials in the course transition into ELE 404, so be sure to properly grasp the concepts. Lab wise, the inlabs are fairly easy and is also fun. However, the lab reports is formal and at time can be really time consuming with asnweing the questions. Make sure to do the practice problems as it’ll help out a ton. And be sure to do past exams as it’ll greatly help you.
Tutorial – 10%
iClicker – 8%
Midterm – 25%
Final – 37%
Lab – 20%
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Take a look at all 5 labs here: https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~courses/coe428/labs/
A very challenging course. Course material itself is pretty decent and in fact interesting. However, the material’s execution in the labs is hard. You don’t have to download any programming applications as most the coding will be done on the campus computers as it’s more command-line based coding. Having a good TA for this lab is essential, otherwise, it’ll be very frustrating trying to figure out the lab parts. Both midterm and final were online and had MCQ, fill in the blanks and matching components. With enough solid understanding of the materials, the midterm and final would be decent. The material later on the course, for example the red-black tree and etc do get very hard to understand and execute. So try to have a strong understanding of those concepts.
Midterm – 35%
Final – 40%
Lab – 25%
Another continuation of circuit based courses. Similarly to ELE 302, there is a lab component so make sure to do the prelab and in-lab accurately as it’ll make post-lab easier. The midterm and final was decent so make sure to practice the problems the prof uploads as the concepts from the practice-problems will indirectly be on the midterm and final exam. Additionally, this course has a design project at the end of the semester, you’ll be making a multi-stage amplifier circuit on multisim. The project will have many components that your circuit should be able to handle, whether it is certain voltage reading or waveforms. It is a very difficult design project, however, as long as you’re able to come as closed as you possibly can with the requirements, you’ll be fine. But make sure to give detailed explanation to why or how your circuit works or why it doesn’t.
Midterm – 25%
Final – 40%
Lab – 24%
Design Project – 11%
An entry to more electrical-based course. The course material with Prof. Marco Antoniades is more easier to understand, however, still a very interesting but challenging course. Make sure to have a strong linear algebra and calc 2/3 understanding as majority of the course will apply the learnings from those courses. Furthermore, concepts from PCS 224 and ELE 302 overlap in this course. Make sure for the quizzes, review and practice the problems he uploads on D2L. It’ll greatly help you as the practice problems often are used on the evaluations whether directly or indirectly. Practice a ton and you’ll be fine. There are also no lab components in the course.
Quizzes – 20%
Midterm – 30%
Final – 50%
The course material can be very easy at times sicne it is logic based. However, the tests can be challenging as the answer to problems may not be adhering to the profs liking. Make sure to practice a ton as the course doesn’t have any labs or tutorials. A lot of concepts from COE 328 may overlap indirectly. Interestingly, a lot of terminologies from this course is very often used in philosophy liberal courses.
Test 1 – 20%
Test 2 – 20%
Final test – 45%
Assignments – 15%
