ECE 100Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1993–94 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
introduction to electrostatics, basic dc circuits, circuit simplification techniques, introduction to magnetic fields, ac circuit components, the dynamic of circuits, analysis of ac circuits, resonance, sinusoids and phasor, three phase power systems, operational amplifiers, transistors as amplifiers, diodes and transistors as switches. 1 Alternate Weeks
As printed in the 1993–94 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: MATH 114, 117
Prereq/Coreq: MATH 118
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It's two courses in one. Far too packed together. Fortunately they've fixed this in the new curriculum.
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
19 posts and comments in 18 threads mention ECE 100, May 2011 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2018
To the guy left 20 minutes after 108 started 71 points, 24 comments
“Legend.”
u/mutantlog: “Back in my day, when you had to avoid the dinosaurs on the way around campus, and when ECE 100 was a double weight course (I think the equivalent of ECE 106 and 140 in a single course that took up more time), Prof Barby was the instructor and offered 8 different marking schemes …”
Spring 2017
[Discussion]Most impactful course at UW for you? 5 points, 29 comments
“What's the most impactful course you've taken here? How did it change you / your thoughts? Do you think you would've come across this knowledge if you hadn't taken the course? …”
u/fryingnemo98: “GENE 123 made me hate myself”
u/Frozen-Placenta: “It is exactly the same as ECE 140 (though since you are an alum you may have taken ECE 100 instead, so basically that minus electromagnetism). …”
u/danny780714: “Yea haha I did take ECE100...feels old man... And honestly I don't think these are useful for non-EE's....maybe other than basic circuits...”
Winter 2017
What courses are you taking next term? 6 points, 42 comments
u/ddddc1: “ECE 100b, ECE 103, ECE 106, ECE 124, ECE 155, MATH 119”
These 1B ECEs are wild.... 114 points, 13 comments
“So much shitposting jesus. Study for your exams, so that maybe for once I don't have to see a crying thread for every exam you guys take.....”
u/jacer21: “At this rate there's gonna be an ece 100b crying thread”
Fall 2016
[Advice] Specific to SE/CE/ECE people. Which terms were harder than others and why ? 6 points, 32 comments
“I want to know if it's just me who finding this term batshit hard or is it everyone else. And I want to know if it gets better in the future”
u/spektor56: “ECE Hardest -> Easiest 1B > 3B > 2B > 3A > 1A > 2A > 4A > 4B”
u/spektor56: “… Also, they fucked everyone over that didn't own a graphing calculator on the ECE100 final (double credit course) by saying they were allowed the day of the final (usually those type of calculators are banned) and making the equations so tediously long that you couldn't complete …”
Thought I was at UofT for a second 63 points, 25 comments
u/sweeterman420: “WAIT this is the lab for ChE100... Who are you u/Nestemitta ?????????”
u/Frozen-Placenta: “Generally integrated into first year engineering concepts courses (eg ece100a, me100, etc.)”
Spring 2016
Expensive AF Textbooks 1 point, 9 comments
“Now that i'm done first year, I'm calculating how much i spent on textbooks and cringing. So my question is, how much did you spend on all your textbooks in your first year?”
u/Frozen-Placenta: “a bit above 300 ECE 105/106 combo w/ solution manuals + access code 160 Math 117/119 notes 80-90 ECE 100a 90-100 i learned after 1a to not buy books unless i actually want to keep the book as a reference later on, past 1a, i have bought the ECE 240/242 book (sedra/smith) [no …”
Winter 2016
1st Year ECE Fuckboy Starter Pack 123 points, 31 comments
u/danny780714: “lol wow courses are so different back then... These were my courses: ECE 100 Fundamentals of Elec Eng'g ECE 102 Class Prof. Seminar ECE 104 Numerical Methods MATH 119 Calculus 2 for Engineering MSCI 261 Eng. Econ: Fin Mgt for Eng's PHYS 125 Physics for Engineers”
Switching Engineering Programs 3 points, 9 comments
“Has anyone ever switched engineering programs without losing a year? I just finished 1A mechanical and I'm trying to transfer into computer.”
u/Frozen-Placenta: “… you will probably have to repeat a year for 1a, you can probably get the credits for ece 100a, ece 105 and math 117, and you already have che 102 (you would need to make up for 140 and 150) if you switch after 1b, you would also get the credit for ece 140 and 119, but you would …”
Fall 2015
Doomed to fail ECE 105. Anyone got any last minute tips? 4 points, 26 comments
“My ECE 105 final is tomorrow and I'm certain I will not pass this class. I got a 30% in the midterm and I need at least a 65% on the final to finish the class with a 50. …”
u/lovinghist: “I got 91 in ECE105”
u/Frozen-Placenta: “I got 91 in ece100a”
Free Talk Friday 24 points, 157 comments
“Welcome to Free Talk Friday, where you are able to talk about whatever you want. Please keep it respectful and remember that subreddit rules still apply.”
u/jacer21: “Debating whether to do this ece 100a assignment”
Ece 100a 2 points, 3 comments
u/kurs196: “Ece 100a doesn't count towards our gpa/average right? So all we need to worry about is just getting a mark high enough to pass the class and earn the credit?”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1993–94 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1993–94 to 1994–95 2 calendars
introduction to electrostatics, basic dc circuits, circuit simplification techniques, introduction to magnetic fields, ac circuit components, the dynamic of circuits, analysis of ac circuits, resonance, sinusoids and phasor, three phase power systems, operational amplifiers, transistors as amplifiers, diodes and transistors as switches.
1 Alternate Weeks
Prereq: MATH 114, 117
Prereq/Coreq: MATH 118