Electrical Machinery in an Electronics-Oriented Curriculum

Revision of the electrical machinery courses requires the selection of those concepts fundamental to the field and a studied organization and presentation of these concepts in a form which correlates with other courses in the curriculum (particularly in the method of approach to analysis) and which simultaneously provides motivation in the form of interesting examples and illustrations drawn from current technological frontiers. The paper describes briefly one such attempt, in which the emphasis is placed on electromechanical signal transducers and their description in terms of two-port network functions, linear incremental models, and transfer functions.