# Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I

- Link: https://studyelectrical.com/course/introduction-to-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science
- Published: 2020-03-18T08:20:18+00:00
- Author: Tesla

## Course Description

This course provides an integrated introduction to electrical engineering and computer
science, taught using substantial laboratory experiments with mobile robots. Our
primary goal is for you to learn to appreciate and use the fundamental design principles
of modularity and abstraction in a variety of contexts from electrical engineering
and computer science.

Our second goal is to show you that making mathematical models of real systems can
help in the design and analysis of those systems. Finally, we have the more typical
goals of teaching exciting and important basic material from electrical engineering
and computer science, including modern software engineering, linear systems analysis,
electronic circuits, and decision-making.

### Course Format

This course has been designed for independent study. It includes all of the materials
you will need to understand the concepts covered in this subject. The materials 
in this course include:

 * Lecture videos from Spring 2011, taught by Prof. Dennis Freeman
 * Recitation videos, developed for OCW Scholar by teaching assistant Kendra Pugh
 * Course notes
 * Software and design labs
 * Homework assignments and additional exercises
 * Nano-quizzes and exams with solutions

## Prerequisites

At MIT, 6.01 has no formal prerequisites. Students are expected to take _8.02 Physics
II: Electricity and Magnetism_ as a co-requisite.

This OCW Scholar course will be most useful to students with the following background
and skills:

 * **Mathematics**
    - Sequences and series, some trigonometry (for poles)
    - No extensive skill with calculus is required, but students should understand
      that velocity is the derivative of position, and be able to estimate the velocity
      of an object from a graph of its position.
 * **Programming**
    - Some programming experience is good, but not necessarily required. The Python
      Tutorial is designed to get students up to speed with Python, while a course
      like _6.189 A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python_ may be useful
      for students will little or no programming experience.
 * **Physics**
    - Some exposure to solving basic circuits: Ohm’s law, passive components (such
      as resistors and capacitors), reducing a circuit to a system of linear equations.