Course Guide

Course schedules are subject to change at any time, courses with insufficient enrollment will be dropped.

4 Hours. Engineering problem solving and algorithm development by programming computers. Emphasis on software engineering, object-oriented design, building abstractions with procedures and data, and programming in a modern computer language. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
Coreq: 255.

4 Hours. Standard codes, number systems, base conversions and computer arithmetic. Boolean algebra, minimization and synthesis techniques for combinational and sequential logic. Use of VHDL for logic synthesis. Implementation of circuits using SSI, MSI and LSI components. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
Coreq: 206.

5 Hours. Fundamental laws of circuit analysis. Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws, the law of conservation of energy, circuits containing independent and dependent voltage and current sources, resistance, conductance, capacitance and inductance analyzed using mesh and nodal analysis, superposition and source transformations, and Norton’s and Thevenin’s Theorems. Steady state analysis of DC and AC circuits. Complete solution for transient analysis for circuits with one and two storage elements. Complex frequency, sinusoidal forcing functions, and natural response. Resonance: general case, special cases in series and parallel circuits. Scaling: magnitude and frequency. Admittance, impedance and hybrid parameters. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory experiments.
Prereq: All course work in the Freshman Engineering curriculum; grade of C or better in Mathematics 141, 142, 231 and Physics 231.

3 Hours. DC and AC circuits, transients, transformers, motors, generators. For non-majors only.
Prereq: Mathematics 231, Physics 231.

3 Hours. Analog circuits, operational amplifiers, digital systems and logic circuits, semiconductor devices. For non-majors only.
Prereq: 301.

3 Hours. Axioms of probability, set theory, independence, conditional probability, Bayes’ Theorem, permutations and combinations, histograms, probability density, moments, functions of a random variable, joint probability density, central limit theorem, samples and populations, sample mean and variance, curve fitting, correlation of time signals.
Prereq: Mathematics 231.

3 Hours. Continuous- and discrete-time functions, function transformations, signal energy and power, solution of linear differential equations, system properties, convolution, continuous and discrete-time Fourier series, continuous and discrete-time Fourier transforms, Bode diagrams, correlation.
Prereq: 300

3 Hours. Sampling theory, theory and application of Laplace transforms, feedback, root locus, gain and phase margin, theory and application of z Transforms, digital filters, discrete-time state variables.
Prereq: 315

4 Hours. Three phase systems, phasor analysis, ac power, ideal transformers, per unit notation. Magnetic circuits. Practical transformers: construction, equivalent circuits, single and three phase. DC machines: construction, connections, performance, control. Three phase induction motors: construction equivalent circuit, performance. Synchronous machines: construction, equivalent circuit, performance, parallel operation in power systems. Single-phase motors: construction, performance, starting methods. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 300.

4 Hours. Semiconductor physics, theory of p-n junctions; diodes, field-effect transistors, and bipolar transistors; modeling of diode and transistor devices; analysis and design of diode switching and rectifier circuits; basic transistor switching circuits and single stage amplifiers; electronic circuit simulation using SPICE. Includes 1 credit laboratory work involving Level 1 design projects.
Prereq: 300, Coreq: 315.

3 Hours. Multistage transistor amplifier biasing; gain stages, and output stages; frequency and transient response of open loop linear amplifiers; fundamentals of integrated circuits, operational amplifier applications in basic feedback configurations; basic transistor switching circuits. Includes laboratory experiments and design projects.
Prereq: 335.

3 Hours. Coulomb’s law, Gauss’ law, Ampere’s law, Maxwell’s equations for electrostatic and magnetostatic cases; Maxwell’s equations for dynamic case, dynamic potentials, uniform plane wave propagation. Transmission lines.
Prereq: 300, Math 241, and Physics 232.

3 Hours. Probability and random variables, signal-to-noise ratio, propagation models, link budget analysis, bandpass signals, amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, spread-spectrum. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory experiments.
Prereq: 310, or 315.

3 Hours. Introduction to machine-level computer organization and programming. Basic microprocessor architectures; memory architectures; structured assembly language programming; intra- and inter-computer communication; I/O systems; device drivers; multi- and distributed processor systems; issues in computer security. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 206, 255.

1 Hour. Presentations and discussions related to professional development, including registration, ethics and current topics in electrical engineering.
Prereq: 300. Satisfactory/No Credit.

5 Hours. A major design project that focuses the student’s attention on professional practice, accumulated background of curricular components, and recent developments in the field. This major design emphasis is directed to topics within the field of electrical engineering. Includes Level 3 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 316, 325, 336, 342, 355.

4 Hours. Automatic control systems for physical systems with linear models. The methods presented include steady-state error analysis, stability, root locus, Nyquist theory, and Bode plots.
Prereq: 316.

4 Hours. Computer controlled systems using state variables and z-transform model representations with sampling theory and its effect on digital control design. Design of digital controllers in both the state space and frequency domain. Includes Level 2 design projects.
Prereq: 316.

3 Hours. Structure and operation of the electrical energy grid; load flow; economic loading; planning; control; reliability. Balanced and unbalanced faults; system protection; system stability. Includes Level 1 design projects.
Prereq: 316, 325.

4 Hours. Dynamic phenomena in power systems. Transient stability assessment and enhancement; direct and indirect methods for stability determination in nonlinear systems. Operations planning, unit commitment, economic dispatch, frequency regulation and automatic generation control. Volt-var control, load management, cogeneration and other topics of contemporary concern. Includes Level 2 design projects.
Prereq: 421.

3 Hours. Principles of electromechanical energy conversion. Design procedures for AC and DC machine windings; construction and performance constraints. Effects of machine parameters on steady state and dynamic performances; the d-q model; reference frames. Includes Level 1 design projects.
Prereq: 316, 325.

3 Hours. Linear and non-linear active circuits using commercial operational amplifiers. Includes operational, instrumentation, isolation, bridge, rms and logarithmic converters, multipliers and function generators, rectifiers, references, active filters, modulation and demodulation, sinusoidal generators. Noise fundamentals and calculations in op amp circuits. Design for specified pole-zero functions. Emphasis on applications including transducer interfacing. Includes design projects. Includes level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 316, 336, 342.

4 Hours. Feedback amplifier principles; wideband linear amplifier design; low-noise preamplifier design; audio power amplifier design; linear regulated power supply design and switching regulator principles. Introduction to radio frequency amplifier design; oscillator principles. Includes laboratory experiments and design projects. Includes Level 2 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 431.

3 Hours. Quantization and pulse code modulation. Binary and M-ary signaling, spectra of line codes, link budget analysis, binary communication in the presence of noise, matched filtering and equalization, bandpass digital transmission, introduction to multiple access techniques. Includes Level I design projects.

4 Hours. Application of communication theory to system design. Development of communication system specifications. System simulation utilizing a graphical programming language. Hardware and software design and simulation. Construction and performance evaluation of a complete analog or digital transmitter and receiver or significant subsystems. Includes Level 2 design projects.
Prereq: 441.

3 Hours. Introduction to antenna theory including fundamental antenna concepts and parameters (directivity, gain, patterns, etc.) and signal propagation. Theory and design of linear and loop antennas, arrays, and other simple antennas. Includes Level 1 design projects.
Prereq: 316, 341, 342.

3 Hours. Principles and practices to avoid interference among and within electrical devices. Parameters and coupling for dipole, biconical, and log-periodic antennas. High frequency effects in circuit elements. Radiated and conducted emissions and susceptibility. Crosstalk, shielding, electrostatic discharge, and EMC regulations. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 316, 341, 342.

3 Hours. Architecture and design of microcomputer systems with microprocessors or microcontrollers. Instruction set architectures, software interfaces, processor structures, memory hierarchy, interfacing. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 355.

4 Hours. Considerations for design and application of digital systems and computers; includes embedded systems concepts and design, CPU issues, interrupt structures, and I/O channels. Includes Level 2 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 451.

3 Hours. Principles of computer networking and software design of network protocol with an emphasis on the internet and TCP/IP protocol suite. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 206.

3 Hours. Introduction to statistical decision theory, adaptive classifiers, and supervised and unsupervised learning. Students will explore the application of these techniques in areas of current interest such as face recognition, speech processing, remote sensing, data mining and bioinformatics. Includes Level 1 design projects.
Prereq: 316. Non-majors require consent of instructor.

4 Hours. Mathematical foundations and practical techniques for digital manipulation of images, including image enhancement, restoration, compression, segmentation, and color image processing. Includes Level 2 design projects.
Prereq: 316. Non majors require consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Principles and characteristics of power semiconductor devices, single-phase and polyphase phase-controlled converters, converter control, ac voltage controller. Includes Level 1 design projects and laboratory work.
Prereq: 316, 325, 332.

4 Hours. Voltage-fed inverters, PWM principles, control of inverters, dc-dc converters, dc machine drives, resonance converters, step motor drives, brushless dc machine principles. Includes Level 2 design projects which require laboratory work.
Prereq: 481.

3 Hours. Topics relating to basic design and current practice. May not be repeated to satisfy senior requirements for graduation. Maximum three hours. Prereq: Completion of all junior ECE courses or consent of instructor. Includes Level 1 or 2 design projects which may require laboratory work.

1 Hour. Current topics in Electrical Engineering. May not be repeated. Prereq: Completion of all junior ECE courses or consent of instructor. Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.

1-15 Hours. P/NP only. E

3 Hours. Capstone course taken under supervision of student’s major professor and master’s committee. Individual project involving literature survey, development of some software or hardware, testing, writing a white paper or journal paper, or other suitable project. Prereq: Consent of graduate committee. May be repeated. Maximum 6 hrs.

3-15 Hours. Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses University facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed. May not be used toward degree requirements. May be repeated. S/NC only. E

3 Hours. Frequency-domain transform methods. relevant fundamentals of complex variable theory. Two-sided Laplace transform, its inversion with residues, and its relation to the Fourier transform and series. Sampling theory. Two-sided z-transform and its inversion by residues. The discrete Fourier transform and fast Fourier transform.

3 Hours. Probability and random variables as approached by set theory. Statistical averages and transformations of random variables. Random processes, stationarity, correlation functions and temporal analysis, power spectrum and spectral analysis as applied to response of systems to random signals.

3 Hours. Discrete-time signals and systems, sampling, fast Fourier transform (FFT) and fast convolution, design of FIR filters and IIR filters.

3 Hours. Filter properties in the Z and Fourier transform domains, structures for digital filters, sampling and reconstruction, hardware implementation of digital filters.

3 Hours. (Same as Chemical Engineering 507 and Mechanical Engineering 507.)

3 Hours. State space models of linear dynamical systems, linear algebra, state transition map, matrix exponential, controllability, observability, realization theory, and stability theory. Coreq: 507.

3 Hours. Design of controllers, for multivariable systems, which satisfy constraints on robustness to plant uncertainties, disturbance rejection, command following. Prereq: 511.

3 Hours. Adaptive control of linear deterministic and stochastic systems, adaptive filtering and prediction, parameter estimation for deterministic and stochastic systems. Prereq: 511-2 or 518-9.

3 Hours. Matrix-vector representations of power networks, sequence modelling of power system components, unbalanced shunt and series faults. Formulating and solving problems in matrix-vector form with application to large scale power systems. Prereq: 421 or equivalent.

3 Hours. Operation and control of interconnected power systems, transient and dynamic stability. Formulating and solving problems in matrix-vector form with application to large scale power systems. Prereq: 521.

3 Hours. Forced commutated inverters, advanced PWM techniques, current-fed inverters, drive system modeling, vector and scalar control of induction machines, parameter variations, control principles of synchronous machine.

3 Hours. Phenomena, generation, measurement practices and insulation in high voltage circuits. Testing, surge and arc control, shielding, reliability. Prereq: 421.

3 Hours. Physical operation of modern electronic devices; semiconductor devices: diodes, bipolar transistors, J-FETs, and MOS-FETs. Small-signal equivalent circuits and noise models of active devices. Project laboratory. Prereq: 431, 432, or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Design and analysis of linear wide-band low-noise feedback amplifiers and radio-frequency amplifiers using discrete, monolithic and hybrid devices; voltage and current regulators, switching regulators. Use of specialized electronic systems in analog signal processors. Advanced topics from current literature. Project laboratory. Prereq: 531.

3 Hours. Maxwell’s equations, special relativity, wave reflection and transmission, generalized media, guided waves, radiation from current elements. Prereq: Mathematics 404.

3 Hours. Optimum design of digital communications systems. Statistical analysis of signals and systems. Baseband transmission in presence of noise. Coherent and non-coherent bandpass modulation schemes. Communications link analysis. Error detection and correction. Information theory and bandwidth efficient modulation methods. Prereq: 504.

3 Hours. Continuation of 543. Synchronization of digital communications systems. Multiple access techniques for satellite systems and local area networks. Interference rejection techniques: spread spectrum. Source coding issues: quantization and compressing. Data security through encryption. Prereq: 543.

3 Hours. Scattering and transfer representation for multiports; unilateral and bilateral microwave and millimeter wave devices. Component and system parameter measurement by modern network analyzers. Electronic oscillators and amplifiers, frequency swept oscillators, transit time devices, parametric devices, mixers, switches.

3 Hours. Design considerations for combinational and sequential circuits. Iterative networks. Fault diagnostics of logic circuits.

3 Hours. State identification and structure realizations of sequential machines. Digital system architecture design: microprogramming and interrupt control. Prereq: 551.

3 Hours. Principles of active, passive, perturbing and nonperturbing diagnostic methods used in low temperature plasmas, and high temperature plasmas of interest in fusion research. Laboratory safety, data reduction and presentation, microprocessor based data handling and analysis, and reduction of time series data. Prereq: 461, 463, or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Laboratory instruction in operation of plasma diagnostic instruments in plasma science laboratory, experience with high voltage, vacuum, RF, and digital data handling techniques. Prereq: 561.

3 Hours. Low temperature plasma physics relevant to industrial applications: kinetic theory, particle dynamics in electric and magnetic fields, gaseous discharges, and electron, ion, and plasma sources. Prereq: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Continuation of 565 to industrial applications: ion implantation in solids, plasma deposition and etching, space propulsion systems, plasma chemistry, plasma lighting devices, insulating dielectrics and breakdown, materials processing with plasma arcs, and related topics. Prereq: 565 or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Decision-theoretic and structural approaches to pattern recognition. Deterministic and statistical decision rules, feature extraction and representation, syntactic and semantic methods. Prereq: 471 or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Spatial and transform processing of images. Neighborhood operators, image enhancement, restoration, and coding. Segmentation techniques. Image representation and description. Prereq: 472 or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Tools used in image synthesis and analysis; 3D recovery by nonlinear estimation. Projective geometry, analytic photogrammetry, range sensing, lighting models, differential geometry, and 3D rendering.

3 Hours. Principles and methods for analysis of time and/or space varying imagery. Imaging physics and color theory, shape-form-X, feature correspondence and tracking, stereo Vision, structure from motion, optical flow, motion-based segmentation, and selected topics form current literature. Prereq: 573 or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Interaction of electromagnetic radiation with atoms and molecules. Comparison of classical and quantized models for emission and absorption. Oscillator spectral line, shape for amplification by stimulated emission of radiation and schemes for obtaining population inversion. Optical resonant cavities, steady-state and Q-switched operation. Stability criteria. Coreq: 503.

3 Hours. Laser modulation and stabilization techniques. Laser power, spectral content and noise considerations. Analysis of various specific lasers. Lasers in communication and instrumentation systems. Plasma diagnostics, Raman emission spectroscopy, optical harmonic generation, holography, metal-working, and biological and medical uses. Prereq: 581.

1 Hour. Topics of interest discussed in weekly seminar. May be repeated. Maximum 6 hrs. S/NC or letter grade.

1-3 Hours. May be repeated. Maximum 9 hrs.

3-15 Hours. P/NP only. E

3 Hours. Deterministic and stochastic dynamic programming in continuous and discrete time, minimum principle and matrix minimum principle, computational methods in optimal control. Prereq: 611.

3 Hours. Topics of current interest to students and faculty: large scale systems, model order reduction, algebraic and geometric system theories, and advanced design methods. Prereq: 503 and consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Topics of current interest to students and faculty: large scale systems, model order reduction, algebraic and geometric system theories, and advanced design methods. Prereq: 617.

3 Hours. Phase-controlled cycloconverters, cycloconverter-fed ac drives, resonant converters, vector and scalar control of synchronous machines, static Kramer drives, static Scherbius drives, VSCF generation, modern control theory in ac drives.

3 Hours. Principles, testing, and case studies. Basic principles of aging, losses, charging, conduction, and breakdown in vacuum, gas, liquid, solid, and composite insulation systems. Testing with low-noise instrumentation, pulse height analysis, optics, acoustics, and bridges; associated statistics and distributed parameter effects. Case studies drawn from active research, power systems, electronic circuits and devices, shielding, and stress grading. Prereq: 503, 504, and consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Based on particular interests of students. Fundamental physical processes in instrumentation transducers: thermoelectric, magnetoelectric, electromechanical and quantum-mechanical devices. Prereq: 531-32 and consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Physical operation of modern discrete, monolithic, and hybrid electronic structures and their application in signal processors. Resolution, sensitivity, response time, and noise considerations in signal processors used in modern electronic instrumentation. Prereq: 631.

3 Hours. Detection theory; coding theory; system identification. Signals with unknown parameters; optimal filter synthesis; adaptive systems; sequential detection; suboptimal detection. Prereq: 504 or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Structure of algebraic and probabilistic codes; linear codes, convolutional codes, error-correcting codes, decoding methods. Identification schemes: deterministic, stochastic, and hierarchical methods. Prereq: 643.

3 Hours. Fabrication of microelectronic devices; computer architecture design; algorithmic state machines; partitioning; structured design methodology. Prereq: 551-2 or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Computer-aided design tools; design and implementation of fully custom very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits; design for testability; testing of fabricated chips. Prereq: 651.

3 Hours. Basic concepts of high temperature plasma physics. Magnetohydrodynamics and kinetic descriptions of plasma, plasma transport, plasma waves, equilibrium, and stability. Prereq: Physics 541-2, 461-2 or 563-4, or consent of instructor. (Same as Physics 663.)

3 Hours. Plasma heating and radiation phenomena. Advanced topics of current interest. Must be taken in sequence. Prereq: 663.

3 Hours. Three-dimensional scene modeling and recognition, multi-sensor systems. Prereq: 572 or 573 or consent of instructor.

3 Hours. Stereovision, shape theory. Prereq: 671.

3 Hours. Time-varying imagery, path planning and navigation. Prereq: 672.

1 Hours. Research in department. May be repeated. S/NC or letter grade.

1-3 Hours. Advanced topics of current interest to Ph.D students in Electrical Engineering. May be repeated. Maximum 9 hrs.