Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Electrical Circuits with SPICE Specialization from the Pontificia Catholic University of Chile

Circuits with SPICE: Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits

• Course 1
• 8 hours
• 5.0 (23 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn:

• Electrical circuits have contributed to the scientific and technological development of humanity, playing a central role over the past 50 years.
• The ability of humans to design integrated circuits containing millions of transistors.
• Processing the weakest signals coming from a cell phone detector, from the neurons in the brain, a digital camera, or from a load imposed by subatomic particles.

Course content

When you look at an electrical circuit for the first time, it may seem like a complete mystery, and it contains many components with different connections and symbols, which makes understanding how it works and the role of certain components very complex. However, there are many learning tools that we need to learn to analyze electrical circuits and understand how they work with their components, which also helps us design other circuits with specific requirements.

Skills you will acquire

• Application of Ohm’s Law
• Kirschoff’s laws
• Determining the electrical currents and voltages of a circuit
• Implementing an electrical circuit in SPICE and simulating it

Circuits with SPICE: Three-Phase Systems and Advanced Analysis

• Course 2
• 8 hours

Course Details

What you’ll learn:

• Electrical circuits that contributed to the scientific and technological development of humanity.
• The ability of humans to design integrated circuits containing millions of transistors.

Course content

“Circuits with SPICE 3: Three-Phase Systems and Advanced Analysis Techniques,” the third and final course in a series of three MOOCs, introduces us to the world of electrical circuits, starting with circuits with transformers and three-phase systems, circuits with operational amplifiers, and more complex analysis techniques such as additional component theory.

Skills you will acquire

• Analysis of electrical circuits involving ideal and “real” operational amplifiers.
• Analysis of circuits with two ports.
• Solving the equations of a system with shared inductances.
• Presenting the equations of a system containing shared inductances and applying these concepts to ideal and real transformers.

Circuits with SPICE: Time and Frequency Analysis

• Course 3
• 12 hours

Course Details

What you’ll learn:

• Electrical circuits that contributed to the scientific and technological development of humanity.
• The ability of humans to design integrated circuits containing millions of transistors.

Course content

Circuits with SPICE 2: Analysis of Electrical Circuits in Time and Frequency, introduces us to the world of electrical circuits, starting with the basics of circuit analysis such as the method of connections, the method of loops, and the Thevin and Orton equations.

Skills you will acquire

• Application of methods based on ordinary differential equations for transient and steady-state analysis of first and second order circuits.
• Applying connection concepts.
• Application of the basic laws of Ohm and Kirchhoff in the analysis of resistive circuits with lumped parameters.
• Application of Thewin and Orton concepts and maximum power transfer.