ECE 332Electronic Circuits
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1990–91 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Amplifier biasing networks, single and multi-stage small-signal amplifiers, small-signal equivalent circuits; high and low frequency effects; negative feedback amplifiers; oscillators; noise in electronic circuits; introduction to large signal amplifiers. Alternate weeks
As printed in the 1990–91 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: E&CE 208, E&CE 231
Antireq: E&CE 333
In today’s calendar
Reviewed on UW Flow
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
7 posts and comments in 5 threads mention ECE 332, October 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.
Spring 2018
Has anyone taken ECE 332 with Jim Barby? MTE 220 help. 10 points, 10 comments
u/JTDawgster: “So Barby is teaching transistor content from the now scrapped ece 332 course in MTE 220's new curriculum. I was wondering if anyone could save a struggling soul and post some notes or advice on how to figure out what a MOSFET/BJT is and how to pass this course.”
u/_GloryToTheHypnotoad: “I can't give any advice regarding ECE 332 content but what I can say is to do the past finals on his website. All of them. He tends to use the same types of questions every year. …”
Fall 2017
Failure Thread 12 points, 12 comments
“Who else failed a class? I'm hoping there were more people than me.”
u/KitKatKittens: “… And to make it even better, next term he's cramming the entire syllabus into the midterm and then doing the entirety of ECE 332 for the final exam. It took a lot of begging from our program chair to keep the exam within the syllabus this term. …”
Winter 2012
If you can go back in time, would you still pick the same program you are in now? 15 points, 50 comments
“And why? Is your current program above or below your expectations? I'm in Chem Eng, and I always wish I had picked either Systems or Mechatronics. …”
u/TheLemon22: “I really wish I had of been in Electrical instead of Computer Engineering Courses like ECE250, 354, 324, and 355 are really awful for someone who has absolutely zero desire to do software I actually ended up taking ECE231 and 332 as electives, so those were wasted as well.”
Fall 2011
Electrical Engineering 3B term: Will I have no life? 8 points, 23 comments
“Hey all, I'm about to start 3B EE in January and I'm afraid I'll be swamped with a heavy workload. I've been invited on vacation for reading week, but I am afraid that I will subsequently fail …”
u/ercousin: “… In my experience your 3B courses go like this in order of difficulty: ECE 332, ECE 380, ECE 318, ECE 362. ECE 362 labs are a joke, you go in and follow step by step instructions and leave, I usually finished the 3 hour lab in the first hour then left. …”
u/esaka: “Barby/Sedra no longer teach ECE332. I've heard from my friends that are currently taking 332 that it's actually easier because Bosco teaches it now. The labs will probably still destroy you. I would say Controls or Signals would be the toughest courses.”
Lots of people asking for electives/bird courses .. so here you go! 2 points, 30 comments
u/loafer: “ECE 332 as a bird course.. I wish it was. Def trolling, and the following is a definitive indicator - "J Barby is the best prob to have." More like midterm average was <49% and he's been known to fail over half a class before.”
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 1990–91 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.
1990–91 to 1994–95 5 calendars
Amplifier biasing networks, single and multi-stage small-signal amplifiers, small-signal equivalent circuits; high and low frequency effects; negative feedback amplifiers; oscillators; noise in electronic circuits; introduction to large signal amplifiers.
Alternate weeks
Prereq: E&CE 208, E&CE 231
Antireq: E&CE 333