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How many engineers have taken a course in AC Circuits? Most everyone had to take it in my day. I will say this, it made me think twice about my career choice.
 
rattus said:
How many engineers have taken a course in AC Circuits? Most everyone had to take it in my day. I will say this, it made me think twice about my career choice.
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I did.

My BSEE was with an emphasis on Power Systems and Rotating Machinery. We also included power electronics and electromagnetic fields. But that was back in the days when the math was the same whether we were working with vectors or with phasors.
 
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I did.

My BSEE was with an emphasis on Power Systems and Rotating Machinery. We also included power electronics and electromagnetic fields. But that was back in the days when the math was the same whether we were working with vectors or with phasors.
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I did too. I had a year of AC circuits, but it didn't get quite as deep as Jim in power systems because my focus was on digital systems. I also had a full year of vector analysis. This was all mandatory for ABET accreditation regardless of the focus of the specific program discipline.
 
Me too:

Me too:

Since, I asked the question, I should reply.

Strictly power courses:
Math through DE,
AC Circuits-3h
DC Machinery-3h
AC Machinery & Lab-16h
 
Pure Ac circuit classes are a rare things in EE programs today. All the focus is in electronics, controls, digital signal processing
 
Are you guys saying that there are BSEE who have never had an AC theory course? I am in working at finishing my BSEE now and have had classes in AC theory. Most of the basics I knew from tech school but the deeper math, as Jim says, Vector and Phasors, were new to me.
Unfortunately the school is geared mored towards electronics engineering and I wanted power, but it is the only one in my area that has night classes, but it did start with AC theory, math through DE, Laplace & FT, and linear algebra.
 
jim dungar said:
I did.

My BSEE was with an emphasis on Power Systems and Rotating Machinery. We also included power electronics and electromagnetic fields. But that was back in the days when the math was the same whether we were working with vectors or with phasors.
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And wooden electrons.
 
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by AC circuits.

The first thing I think of is the Sophmore-Junior level class that I think every engineer has to take. The same class that starts by defining current flow and voltage, and goes right through network analysis for AC circuits all in one semester.

That's the one that everyone called "the weed-out" class. I personally don't think I could have survived it except I was already familiar with all the concepts from my previous work as a technician.

Or are you talking about a power systems class?

Steve
 
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