Electrical Engineering (EE)

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EE 264/264L SOPHOMORE DESIGN

EE 199/199L Intro to Circuits Analysis
(2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 125. This course is designed to provide electrical engineering and computer engineering students with an understanding of the basic concepts of the profession – voltage, current, resistance, power, and energy. A heavy emphasis will be placed on gaining an appreciation for the fundamental problem solving methodology, PSpice, and Matlab. Course topics will be limited to resistive circuits. (Experimental)

EE 299/299L SOPHOMORE DESIGN
(1-1) 2 credits. Prerequisite: GES 115. This course focuses on the design process including project management and teamwork; formal conceptual design methods; acquiring and processing information; design management tools; design for manufacturability, reliability, maintainability, sustainability; design communication: reports and presentations; ethics in design; prototyping designs; case studies. This course is cross-listed with ME 299/299L. (Experimental)

EE 483/483L ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 382. Introduction to antenna design, measurement, and theory for wireless communications including fundamental antenna concepts and parameters (directivity, gain, patterns, etc.), matching techniques, and signal propagation. Theory and design of linear, loop, and patch antennas, antenna arrays, and other commonly used antennas. Students will design, model, build, and test antenna(s).

EE 220/220L CIRCUITS I
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 125 completed with a grade of “C”. Corequisite: MATH 321. This course is designed to provide the electrical engineering student with an understanding of the basic concepts of the profession. Topics covered include resistive circuits, transient circuits, and sinusoidal analysis. Students also investigate essential principles by conducting laboratory experiments related to the topics studied in the classroom. P-spice is used to analyze electrical circuits using personal computers.

EE 221/221L CIRCUITS II
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: EE 220 completed with a grade of “C” and MATH 321. This course is designed to provide the electrical engineering student with an understanding of the basic concepts of the profession. Topics covered include resistive circuits, transient circuits, and sinusoidal analysis. Students also investigate essential principles by conducting laboratory experiments related to the topics studied in the classroom. P-spice is used to analyze electrical circuits using personal computers.

EE 291 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic.

EE 292 TOPICS
1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.

EE 301/301L INTRODUCTORY CIRCUITS, MACHINES, AND SYSTEMS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: GE 115 or equivalent, MATH 125 completed with a grade of “C” or better, and MATH 321 completed or concurrent. Not for majors in electrical engineering or computer engineering. Introduces the essential concepts of electrical engineering concerning circuits, machines, electronics, and systems.

EE 311/311L SYSTEMS
(3-0.5) 3.5 credits. Prerequisites: EE 221 completed with a grade of “C” or better, EM 216 completed or concurrent. Mathematical, topological, and circuit models of electro-systems, such as electromagnetic, electromechanical, electrothermal, etc.

EE 320/320L ELECTRONICS I
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: EE 221. Presents concepts of electronic devices and circuits including modeling of semiconductor devices, analysis and design of transistor biasing circuits, and analysis and design of linear amplifiers. Use of computer simulation tools and breadboarding as part of the circuit process is emphasized. Students are introduced to methods for designing circuits that still meet specifications even when there are statistical variations in the component values.

EE 322/322L ELECTRONICS II
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 221 and EE 320. A continuation of EE 320 with emphasis on design applications of linear and nonlinear integrated circuits.

EE 330/330L ENERGY SYSTEMS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 221. Production, transmission, and utilization of energy in systems with major electrical subsystems, with particular emphasis on electromagnetic and electromechanical systems and devices.

EE 351/351L MECHATRONICS AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 150 and EE 220 or EE 301. This course will encompass general measurement techniques found in mechanical and electrical engineering. These include measurement of force, strain, frequency, pressure flow rates, and temperatures. Elements of signal conditioning and data acquisition will be introduced. In addition to this material, the course will have a Mechatronics approach reflected in the combined applications of electronic mechanical and control systems. This course is cross-listed with ME 351/351L.

EE 362 ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 225, MATH 321, and PHYS 213. This course studies the behavior of materials of interest to electrical engineers and covers fundamental issues such as energy band theory, density of states, Fermi-Dirac statistics, equilibrium statistics in semiconductors, and Fermi energy. This foundation is then used to study a variety of topics such as conduction, semiconductor devices, ferromagnetism, lasers, gaseous electronics, and thermoelectric phenomena.

EE 381 ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 225, MATH 321, and PHYS 213. Fundamentals of field theory (i.e., Maxwell’s equations) as applied to static electric and magnetic phenomena. Also, theory and applications of lossless transmission lines are covered.

EE 382/382L APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS
(2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EE 381. Field theory (e.g., Maxwell’s equations) for timevarying electromagnetic phenomena. Applications include transmission lines, plane waves, and antennas. Students are introduced to typical laboratory equipment associated with applied electromagnetics (e.g., vector network analyzer).

EE 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems, and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic.

EE 392 TOPICS
1 to 4 credits. Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.

EE 421/421L COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: EE 312 and EE 322. Fundamentals of analog- and digital-signal transmission. Performance characteristics such as channel loss, distortion, bandwidth requirements, signal-to-noise ratios, and error probability.

EE 431/431L POWER SYSTEMS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 311 and EE 330. The principles of energy conversion and transmission in modern power systems. Specialized problems of design, control, and protection are included.

EE 432/432L POWER ELECTRONICS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: EE 330. The conversion, regulation, and control of electric power by means of electronic switching devices; inverter and chopper circuits; pulse width modulation; motor drives.

EE 451/451L CONTROL SYSTEMS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: ME 352 or EE 311. Analysis and design of automatic control and process systems by techniques encountered in modern engineering practice, including both linear and nonlinear systems with either continuous or discrete signals. This course is cross-listed with ME 453/453L

EE 461/461L VLSI TECHNOLOGY
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 362. Development of the theory of solid-state devices, and an introduction to the design, fabrication, and packaging of integrated and hybrid circuits. (Design content - two (2) credits)

EE 464 SENIOR DESIGN I
(2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: Senior standing and prerequisite or corequisite EE 311, EE 312, EE 322 and ENGL 289. This course will focus on the design process and culminate with the EE faculty approval of design projects (including schematics and parts list) for EE 465. Typical topics included are the development of a product mission statement, identification of the customer and customer needs, development of target specifications, consideration of alternate designs using a decision matrix, project management techniques, legal and ethical issues, FCC verification and certification, use of probability and statistics for reliable design, interpretation of data sheets, and component selection.

EE 465 SENIOR DESIGN II
(2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: EE 464. Sequel to EE 464. Seniors build project in simulated environment incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints. Requirements include laboratory notebook, progress reports, final oral presentation, and written report.

EE 481/481L MICROWAVE ENGINEERING
(3-1) 4 credits. Presentation of basic principles, characteristics, and applications of microwave devices and systems. Development of techniques for analysis and design of microwave circuits.

EE 482/482L LASER AND OPTO-ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
(3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 362. Presentation of basic principles, characteristics, and applications of opto-electronic devices. Development of techniques for analysis and design of opto-electronic systems

EE 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems, and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic.

EE 492 TOPICS
1 to 4 credits. Includes current topics, advanced topics, and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.

EE 498 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP
Credit to be arranged: not to exceed four credits toward fulfillment of B.S. degree requirements. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes senior project, and capstone experience. Independent research problems/projects or scholarship activities. The plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member and the student. Contact between the two may be extensive and intensive. Does not include research courses which are theoretical.

EE 612/612L HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL DESIGN
(2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EE 220 and EE 320 or equivalent courses in introductory circuits and introductory electronics. This course is an introduction to signal integrity and the design of high-speed circuits and interconnects. Topics include signal Integrity issues such as ringing, ground bounce, clock skew, jitter, crosstalk, and unwanted radiation, time-domain analysis and spice simulation of lumped and distributed high speed circuits, micro-strip and strip-line design, ground and power plane design, proper capacitor decoupling, line termination, and multi-layer routing strategies. The student is also introduced to high-speed measurement techniques and equipment.

EE 618/618L INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS
(2-1) 3 credits. Presentation of principles, characteristics, and applications of instrumentation systems including sensors, filters, instrumentation amplifiers, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversions, and noise. This course will be useful to graduate students beginning their laboratory thesis research. It is available to students from other departments with permission of instructor.

EE 621 INFORMATION AND CODING THEORY
(3-0) 3 credits. Principles and techniques of information theory and coding theory and their application to the design of information handling systems. Topics include: Entropy, Shannon theory, channel capacity, coding for data translation, compaction, transmission and compression, block codes, and Markov processes.

EE 622 STATISTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
(3-0) 3 credits. Concepts of probability and random processes; linear systems and random processes; performance of amplitude angle and pulse modulation systems in noisy environments; digital data transmission; and basic concepts of information theory.

EE 623 RANDOM SIGNALS AND NOISE
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Selected topics in the theory of probability and statistics; spectral analysis; shot noise and Gaussian processes; noise figures; signal-to-noise ratios; random signals in linear systems; optimum linear systems. Taught as required.

EE 624/624L ADVANCED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
(2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CENG 420 or equivalent. This course develops the theory essential to understanding the algorithms that are increasingly found in modern signal processing applications, such as speech, image processing, digital radio and audio, statistical and adaptive systems. Topics include: analysis of nonstationary signals, transform techniques, Wiener filters, Kalman filters, multirate rate systems and filter banks, hardware implementation and simulation of filters, and applications of multriate signal processing. Matlab will be used extensively.

EE 633 POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS I
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EE 431 or equivalent. Synchronous machine theory and modeling; short-circuit, load flow, and stability studies in large scale systems. Taught as required.

EE 634 POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS II
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EE 633. Advanced topics in power system analysis; excitation and speed-control systems; protective relaying and relay applications. Taught as required.

EE 641 DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Design of digital systems (including computer systems) and implementation by fixed logic and programmed logic (microprocessors and microprogramming). Taught as required.

EE 642 DIGITAL SYSTEMS THEORY
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342 or equivalent. Theory of digital systems including switching algebra, minimization, function decomposition, fault diagnosis, sequential circuits, state identification, linear sequential machines, and automata theory. Taught as required.

EE 643 ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEMS
(3-0) 3 credits. Study of current advanced topics in digital systems; multiprocessors; computer networks; digital communication; pattern recognition systems. Taught as required.

EE 644 FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTING
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342 or equivalent or permission of instructor. The objective of this course is to provide students with a background in the various techniques used in fault tolerant approaches. After an introduction to fault tolerance, deterministic testing and probabilistic testing will be presented. Important topics in the area of fault tolerant computing will be covered, such as random testing, error detection and correction, reliability analysis, faulttolerant design techniques, and design faults including software reliability methods.

EE 645 ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND VLSI TESTING
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342 or equivalent or permission of instructor. The objective of this course is to provide students with background of the various techniques in testing of digital and VLSI systems, with emphasis on CMOS logic circuits. Fault Modeling will first be introduced. Various test generation algorithms for static and dynamic circuits will then be presented. Important topics in CMOS, BiCMOS testing will be covered, such as: test invalidation, testing for bridging faults, design for robust restability. Other current issues in testing will be discussed as well, such as, memory testing, delay testing, etc.

EE 647/647L HDL DESIGN
(2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342 or permission of instructor. This course explores modern design techniques utilizing hardware description languages (HDLs) such as VHDL, VHDL-A, and Verilog. Fundamental language syntax will be covered in addition to advanced language constructs. Various hierarchical design styles such as dataflow, structural, and behavioral descriptions will be presented. Emphasis will be placed on both design simulation and synthesis. Synthesis platforms (e.g., FPGAs and ASICs) will also be examined. Other current issues will also be discussed such as reconfigurability, system-ona- chip solutions, testbenches, soft processors, etc.

EE 648/648L ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN
(2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 440. This course presents more advanced material related to the technology and design of modern VLSI integrated circuits including topics such as mixed logic design, BiCMOS logic design, memory design, low power design, silicon-on-insulator chips, deep sub-micron design issues, crosstalk, parasitic parameter extraction and optimization, gallium arsenide logic devices, design-for-test, fault-tolerant VLSI architectures, etc.

EE 651 DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EE 451 or equivalent. Study of topics in digital control systems, digital compensation techniques; realtime digital control of dynamic systems; optimization of digital systems; digital control of robotic systems, digital to continuous system interfacing. Taught as required.

EE 652 NONLINEAR AND OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
(3-0) 3 credits. The study of nonlinear and optimal systems using the phase plane method, describing functions, Lyapunov’s theory, nonlinear control systems design, linear, dynamic and integer programmer, parameter optimization, and system optimization using calculus of variation.

EE 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Directed independent study of a topic or field of special interest. This may involve readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by student and instructor.

EE 692 TOPICS
1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a topic or field of special interest, as determined by the instructor.

EE 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Directed independent study of a topic or field of special interest. This may involve readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by student and instructor.

EE 792 TOPICS
1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a topic or field of special interest, as determined by the instructor.

EE 798 MASTERżS THESIS
Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six (6) credits toward fulfillment of the M.S. degree requirements. Supervised original or expository research culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral defense of the thesis and research findings are required.

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