Dr Kasım Zor

EEE113 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering (2025-2026 Fall)

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Course Details​

• Venue: E3, Department Building

• Prerequisites: N/A

• Date&Time: Tuesdays 15:00-16:30 and Wednesdays 17:00-18:30

• Textbook:

  • ​Robert L. Boylestad, Introductory Circuit Analysis: Global Edition, 13th Ed., Pearson Education, 2016.

  • James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Electric Circuits, 11th Ed., Pearson Education, 2020.

  • M. Morris Mano and Michael D. Ciletti, Digital Design: Global Edition, 6th Ed., Pearson, 2019.

  • Ethem Alpaydın, Introduction to Machine Learning, 4th Ed., MIT Press, 2020.

• Objectives: To create awareness about the contents of electrical and electronic engineering and to attract the students to the profession.​

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Weekly Schedule

1. ​Course Introduction and Scope (23-24 September 2025)

   • Electrical and Electronic Engineering at a Glance​​ 

   • Department's Divisions (Department Website)

   • Course Scope

   • IEEE Xplore Digital Library (Link)

   • Resume and Curriculum Vitae (Overleaf)

2. Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering (30 September - 1 October 2025)[Boylestad, 2016]

   • A Brief History of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 

   • Systems of Units

   • Rounding Off

   • Prefixes

   • Calculators

3. Techniques of Circuit Analysis (7-8 October 2025)[Nilsson and Riedel, 2020]

   • Node-Voltage Method​​ 

   • Mesh-Current Method

   • Source Transformation

4. Techniques of Circuit Analysis (14-15 October 2025)[Nilsson and Riedel, 2020]

   • Thevenin Equivalent Circuit​​ 

   • Norton Equivalent Circuit

   • Maximum Power Transfer

   • Superposition Theorem

5. Binary Logic and Boolean Algebra (21-22 October 2025)[Mano and Ciletti, 2019]

   • Binary Logic​​

   • Basic Theorems and Properties of Boolean Algebra

   • Boolean Functions

   • Other Logic Operations

   • Digital Logic Gates​

6. Public Holiday: Republican Day of Türkiye (28-29 October 2025)

7. ​Introduction to Data Science (4-5 November 2025)[Zor, 2025]​​​

   • Julia and Pluto

   • Python and JupyterLab

   • R and RStudio Desktop

   • Hands-on Exercises of Data Analytics (nycflights13 package, flights data set)

8. Midterm Exam (11 November 2025 )

9. Midterm Exam Solutions (18-19 November 2025)

10. Introduction to Machine Learning (25 - 26 November 2025)[Alpaydın, 2020]

    • AI, ML, and DL​​

    • Machine Learning

    • Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, and Reinforcement Learning

    • Classification and Regression

    • ANN, SVM, Decision Trees, kNN, and RNN

    • Hands-on Exercises of Forecasting with MLR

11. Introduction to Turkish Electric Power System and Electricity Markets (2 - 3 December 2025)

    • Turkish Electricity Market

    • Transparency Platform

    • Overview of Electric Power Systems

    • Smart Grids and Microgrids

12. Presentation (9 - 10 December 2025)

13. XXX

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Exams

• Week 9: Midterm Examination (2025) (2024) (2023)

• Week 16: Final Examination (2025) (2024)

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Announcements

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