Electrical Design Engineer - Circuit Analysis

Overview

Understanding how to analyze, simulate, and verify electronic circuits is a fundamental skill in electronics. Every reliable system starts with a well-analyzed circuit, but proper techniques, practical simulations, and hands-on exercises ensure your design works—whether for a hobby project, prototype, or professional application. This course guides you step-by-step through circuit analysis from basics to advanced concepts using SPICE and visual animations. You’ll learn to apply Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws, nodal and mesh analysis, simplify circuits with Thevenin and Norton equivalents, and analyze DC, transient, and AC responses through practical demonstrations. The course provides a structured, hands-on introduction to circuit analysis. You’ll follow a clear workflow suitable for simple resistor circuits or complex RLC and filter networks. Key highlights include step-by-step SPICE simulations, visual animations for current and voltage behavior, DC, transients, and AC concepts. This course is for students, aspiring electrical engineers, and electronics enthusiasts who want to master circuit theory and simulation for careers in hardware design, embedded systems, or electrical testing. Learners should have basic knowledge of electronics, math, and computer skills, along with curiosity for hands-on circuit analysis and simulation. By the end of this course, learners will be able to analyze DC circuits using Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s Laws, apply nodal, mesh, and Thevenin/Norton methods for complex networks, and simulate DC, transient, and AC circuit behavior—including filter design—using SPICE tools.

Syllabus

Foundations of Circuit Analysis

This module introduces fundamental circuit concepts, starting with real-world examples to explain voltage, current, and resistance. You’ll apply Ohm’s Law to calculate and simulate resistor networks in series and parallel. Finally, you’ll learn Kirchhoff’s Laws, hand-solve multi-loop circuits, and verify results with SPICE simulations.

Circuit Analysis Techniques

This module covers advanced circuit analysis techniques, starting with nodal and mesh methods to systematically calculate voltages and currents. You’ll explore the superposition theorem to analyze multi-source circuits and verify results in SPICE. Finally, you’ll learn Thevenin and Norton equivalents to simplify circuits for efficient load analysis and practical verification.

Applications & Real-World Circuits

This module covers energy storage and transient behavior in capacitors and inductors, including RC charging and discharging. You’ll explore AC circuits, impedance, and resonance in RLC networks, solving them mathematically and verifying with SPICE simulations. Finally, you’ll learn about RC low-pass and high-pass filters, analyzing frequency response and cutoff behavior through Bode diagrams in SPICE.