Ten essential skills for electrical engineers

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Dorr, Barry L., 1958-, author

Publication Information:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2014]

Physical Description:

xxii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

ISBN:

9781118527429

Subject Term:

Electrical engineering -- Problems, exercises, etc.

Electrical engineering -- Vocational guidance

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The book is a review of essential skills that an entry-level or experienced engineer must be able to demonstrate on a job interview and perform when hired. It will help engineers prepare for interviews by demonstrating application of basic principles to practical problems. Hiring managers will find the book useful because it defines a common ground between the student's academic background and the company's product or technology-specific needs, thereby allowing managers to minimize their risk when making hiring decisions.

Ten Essential Skills contains a series of "How to" chapters. Each chapter realizes a goal, such as designing an active filter or designing a discrete servo. The primary value of these chapters, however, is that they apply engineering fundamentals to practical problems. The book is a handy reference for engineers in their first years on the job.

Enables recent graduates in engineering to succeed in challenging technical interviews Written in an intuitive, easy-to-follow style for the benefit of busy students and employers Book focuses on the intersection between company-specific knowledge and engineering fundamentals Companion website includes interview practice problems and advanced material

Author Notes

Barry L. Dorr, PE, is a Principal Design Engineer at Datron World Communications. He has taught Circuit Analysis at San Diego State University, Servo Systems for the IEEE, and numerous industrials seminars. He holds eight patents for signal processing and communication devices, and has contributed articles to Embedded Computing Magazine, Electronic Design News, and various trade publications.

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
About the Author	p. xv
About the Reviewers	p. xvii
Note to Instructors	p. xxi
1 How to Design Resistive Circuits	p. 1
1.1 Design of a Resistive Thevenin Source	p. 2
1.2 Design of a Coupling Circuit	p. 4
1.3 Design of a Pi Attenuator	p. 8
Problems	p. 14
References	p. 17
2 How to Prevent a Power Transistor from Overheating	p. 19
2.1 Electrical Model for Heat Transfer	p. 20
2.2 Using Manufacturer's Data for Thermal Analysis	p. 23
2.3 Forced-Air Cooling	p. 26
2.4 Dynamic Response of a Thermal System	p. 27
Problems	p. 30
Reference	p. 32
3 How to Analyze a Circuit	p. 33
3.1 Frequency Response of a Transfer Function	p. 34
3.2 Frequency Response and Impedance of Simple Circuits	p. 38
3.3 Frequency Response for Ladder Networks	p. 51
3.4 Generalized Technique for Determining Frequency Response	p. 54
Problems	p. 58
References	p. 60
4 How to Use Statistics to Ensure a Manufacturable Design	p. 61
4.1 Independent Component Failures	p. 62
4.2 Using the Gaussian Distribution	p. 63
4.3 Setting a Manufacturing Test Limit	p. 68
4.4 Procuring a Custom Component	p. 71
Problems	p. 76
References	p. 77
5 How to Design a Feedback Control System	p. 79
5.1 Intuitive Description of a Control System	p. 80
5.2 Review of Control System Operation	p. 81
5.3 Performance of Control Systems	p. 84
5.4 First-Order Control System Design	p. 84
5.5 Second-Order Control System Design	p. 88
5.6 Circuit Realization of a Second-Order Control System	p. 94
5.7 First-Order Discrete Control System	p. 95
Problems	p. 101
References	p. 102
6 How to Work With Op-Amp Circuits	p. 103
6.1 The Ideal Op-Amp	p. 104
6.2 Practical Op-Amps	p. 108
6.2.1 Effect of Input Offset Voltage	p. 108
6.2.2 Noise Contribution from Op-Amp Circuits	p. 110
6.2.3 Dynamic Characteristics of Op-Amp Circuits	p. 113
6.2.4 Effect of Capacitive Loading	p. 116
6.2.5 A Nagging Issue	p. 118
Problems	p. 119
References	p. 121
7 How to Design Analog Filters	p. 123
7.1 Passive Versus Active Filters	p. 124
7.2 The Lowpass RC Filter	p. 125
7.3 Filter Response Characteristics	p. 129
7.4 Specification of Filter Type	p. 131
7.5 Generalized Filter Design Procedure	p. 132
7.6 Design of Active Lowpass Filters	p. 136
7.7 Design of Passive RF Filters	p. 139
Problems	p. 146
References	p. 148
8 How to Design Digital Filters	p. 149
8.1 Review of Sampling	p. 150
8.2 Using the z-Transform to Determine the Transfer Function and Frequency Response of Digital Filters	p. 155
8.3 FIR and IIR Digital Filters	p. 161
8.3.1 FIR Filters	p. 162
8.3.2 IIR Filters	p. 165
8.3.3 Comparisons between FIR and IIR Filters	p. 167
8.4 Design of Simple and Practical Digital Filters	p. 168
8.4.1 Averaging Lowpass FIR Filter	p. 168
8.4.2 Lowpass FIR/IIR Filter	p. 171
Problems	p. 177
References	p. 181
9 How to Work with RF Signals	p. 183
9.1 Energy Transfer	p. 185
9.2 Signal Reflections	p. 187
9.3 Effect of Signal Reflections on Digital Signals	p. 190
9.4 Effect of Signal Reflections on Narrowband Signals	p. 195
9.5 The Smith Chart	p. 198
9.6 Using the Smith Chan to Display Impedance Versus Frequency	p. 205
9.7 Final Comments Regarding the Smith Chart	p. 205
Problems	p. 206
References	p. 209
10 Getting a Job-Keeping a Job-Enjoying Your Work	p. 211
10.1 Getting a Job	p. 212
10.1.1 Getting an Interview	p. 214
10.1.2 Preparing for an Interview	p. 216
10.1.3 The Interview	p. 217
10.1.4 Selecting the Right Offer	p. 220
10.2 Keeping a Job	p. 221
10.2.1 The First Year	p. 221
10.2.2 After the First Year	p. 224
10.3 Enjoying Your Work	p. 227
Afterword	p. 231
Answers to Problems	p. 233
Index	p. 243

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