Private: Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Open Textbooks and Concordia Courses
| Open Textbook Title | Potentially Relevant Courses |
| All About Circuits (Design Science License) | |
| Continuous-Time Signals and Systems | Has been integrated in ELEC 242 |
| Digital Circuit Projects: An Overview of Digital Circuits Through Implementing Integrated Circuits | |
| Electrical Engineering | |
| Electromagnetics Volume 1 | ELEC 251 |
| Electromagnetics Volume 2 | |
| Exploring Microcontrollers | |
| Public domain books relating to Instrumentation | |
| Fundamentals of Photonics |
Description and Access
All About Circuits (Design Science License)
This free electrical engineering textbook provides a series of volumes covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for students, makers, and professionals who are looking to refresh or expand their knowledge in this field.
Continuous-Time Signals and Systems
This textbook covers continuous-time signals and systems at an introductory level appropriate for undergraduate students. This textbook has been used by the author at the University of Victoria to teach a number of undergraduate courses on continuous-time signals and systems. This text includes accompanying lecture slides.
Has been integrated in ELEC 242
Digital Circuit Projects: An Overview of Digital Circuits Through Implementing Integrated Circuits
Digital circuits, often called Integrated Circuits or ICs, are the central building blocks of a Central Processing Unit (CPU). To understand how a computer works, it is essential to understand the digital circuits which make up the CPU. This text introduces the most important of these digital circuits; adders, decoders, multiplexers, D flip-flops, and simple state machines.
Electrical Engineering
On online electrical engineering textbook made available by LibreTexts.
Electromagnetics Volume 1
The textbook is intended as a primary textbook for a one-semester first course in undergraduate engineering electromagnetics. The book employs the “transmission lines first” approach in which transmission lines are introduced using a lumped-element equivalent circuit model for a differential length of transmission line, leading to one-dimensional wave equations for voltage and current.
Includes: problems, solutions, LaTex source files
May suit: ELEC 251
Electromagnetics Volume 2
The textbook is intended as the primary textbook for the second semester of a two-semester undergraduate engineering electromagnetics sequence. The book addresses magnetic force and the Biot-Savart law; general and lossy media; parallel plate and rectangular waveguides; parallel wire, microstrip, and coaxial transmission lines; AC current flow and skin depth; reflection and transmission at planar boundaries; fields in parallel plate, parallel wire, and microstrip transmission lines; optical fiber; and radiation and antennas.
Includes: problems, solutions, LaTex source files
May suit: ELEC 251
Exploring Microcontrollers
A website looking at microcontrollers.
Public domain books relating to Instrumentation
Although these textbooks are quite old, and some of the techniques described therein obsolete, these texts hold much practical value to the modern technician and engineer of instrumentation.
Fundamentals of Photonics
This open resource, designed for first and second year students, provides an introduction to photonics. It represents work done through the US National Science Foundation and is made of up ten chapters, or modules, created by various experts in the the field.
Includes: instructor and student resources, problem sets
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