Ten Essential Skills for Electrical Engineers -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Note to Instructors -- One Semester Course -- One-Quarter Course -- 1 How to Design Resistive Circuits -- 1.1 Design of a Resistive Thevenin Source -- 1.2 Design of a Coupling Circuit -- 1.3 Design of a Pi Attenuator -- Problems -- References -- 2 How to Prevent a Power Transistor From Overheating -- 2.1 Electrical Model for Heat Transfer -- 2.2 Using Manufacturers Data for Thermal Analysis -- 2.3 Forced-Air Cooling -- 2.4 Dynamic Response of a Thermal System -- Problems -- Reference -- 3 How to Analyze a Circuit -- 3.1 Frequency Response of a Transfer Function -- 3.2 Frequency Response and Impedance of Simple Circuits -- 3.3 Frequency Response for Ladder Networks -- 3.4 Generalized Technique for Determining Frequency Response -- Problems -- References -- 4 How to Use Statistics to Ensure a Manufacturable Design -- 4.1 Independence Component Failures -- 4.2 Using the Gaussian Distribution -- 4.3 Setting a Manufacturing Test Limit -- 4.4 Procuring a Custom Component -- Problems -- References -- 5 How to Design a Feedback Control System -- 5.1 Intuitive Description of a Control System -- 5.2 Review of Control System Operation -- 5.3 Performance of Control Systems -- 5.4 First-Order Control System Design -- 5.5 Second-Order Control System Design -- 5.6 Circuit Realization of a Second-Order Control System -- 5.7 First-Order Discrete Control System -- Problems -- References -- 6 How to Work with Op-Amp Circuits -- 6.1 The Ideal Op-Amp -- 6.2 Practical Op-Amps -- 6.2.1 Effect of Input Offset Voltage -- 6.2.2 Noise Contribution from Op-Amp Circuits -- 6.2.3 Dynamic Characteristics of Op-Amp Circuits -- 6.2.4 Effect of Capacitive Loading -- 6.2.5 A Nagging Issue -- Problems -- References -- 7 How to Design Analog Filters.

7.1 Passive Versus Active Filters -- 7.2 The Lowpass RC Filter -- 7.3 Filter Response Characteristics -- 7.4 Specification of Filter Type -- 7.5 Generalized Filter Design Procedure -- 7.6 Design of Active Lowpass Filters -- 7.7 Design of Passive RF Filters -- Problems -- References -- 8 How to Design Digital Filters -- 8.1 Review of Sampling -- 8.2 Using the Z-Transform to Determine the Transfer Function and Frequency Response of Digital Filters -- 8.3 FIR and IIR Digital Filters -- 8.3.1 FIR Filters -- 8.3.2 IIR Filters -- 8.3.3 Comparisons between FIR and IIR Filters -- 8.4 Design of Simple and Practical Digital Filters -- 8.4.1 Averaging Lowpass FIR Filter -- 8.4.2 Lowpass FIR/IIR Filter -- Problems -- References -- 9 How to Work with RF Signals -- 9.1 Energy Transfer -- 9.2 Signal Reflections -- 9.3 Effect of Signal Reflections on Digital Signals -- 9.4 Effect of Signal Reflections on Narrowband Signals -- 9.5 The Smith Chart -- 9.6 Using the Smith Chart to Display Impedance Versus Frequency -- 9.7 Final Comments Regarding the Smith Chart -- Problems -- References -- 10 Getting a Job-Keeping a Job-Enjoying Your Work -- 10.1 Getting a Job -- 10.1.1 Getting an Interview -- 10.1.2 Preparing for an Interview -- 10.1.3 The Interview -- 10.1.4 Selecting the Right Offer -- 10.2 Keeping a Job -- 10.2.1 The First Year -- 10.2.2 After the First Year -- 10.3 Enjoying Your Work -- Afterword -- Answers to Problems -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Index.