Electrical Engineering as a profession. Nature of professional and design activities. Advances in Electrical Engineering. Current designs, future trends and challenges in various fields of Electrical Engineering.
(Lecture 1 hour) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: MATH 117 (or equivalent).
Practical design of digital circuits. Basic topics in combinational and sequential switching circuits with applications to the design of digital devices.
(Lecture-problems 4 hours)
Prerequisites: CECS 174 and MATH 224.
Introduction to MATLAB and numerical methods with applications to engineering. Programming in MATLAB. Introduction to SIMULINK and other MATLAB toolboxes.
(Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F). Not open for credit to students with credit in ENGR 202.
Prerequisites: MATH 123, PHYS 151. Corequisite: EE 210L.
Electric fields. Magnetic fields. Ohm’s law. Kirchoff’s laws. Physics of inductance and capacitance. Conservation of energy. Introduction to RL, RC and RLC circuits. Introduction to phasors. Introduction to electric machinery, computer electronics, electromagnetic radiation, and communication.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Corequisite: EE 210.
Laboratory experiments demonstrating behavior of resistive circuits; capacitors and inductors; transient RL and RC circuits; sinusoidal (phasor) RL, RC and RLC circuits; motors, generators, and transformers.
Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 210 or PHYS 152, MATH 224.
Linear circuit analysis techniques including circuit transformations, mesh and node analyses. Thevenin’s, Norton’s, Superposition, and Maximum Power Transfer theorems. Transient analysis of RL, RC and RLC circuits. Phasors. Power concepts. Nonlinear circuits including diodes. Circuit solution using PSpice.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Corequisite: EE 210 or EE 211.
Laboratory investigation of Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws, voltage and current division, mesh and nodal analysis, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, superposition, simple RL, RC, RLC circuits, phasors. Use of voltmeters, ammeters, ohmmeters and oscilloscopes. Identification of unknown elements.
(Laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.
Overview of the fundamentals of nanoscience and nanotechnology, a wide range of applications, and issues that affect widespread use of these technologies based on ongoing research and discourse. An interdisciplinary course, taught by an interdisciplinary team of Instructors. Students will observe nature and matter in submicron and nanometer scale.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Computer security and information assurance as crucial challenges, consequences for individuals, economy, and society as a whole. Security threats and vulnerabilities in the use of computer systems. Tools and controls to reduce or block these threats. Law, privacy, and ethics.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 201.
Synthesis of sequential circuits. Asynchronous sequential circuits, algorithmic state machines, hardware design languages, sequential circuit design using programmable logic devices.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite or Corequisite: EE 301.
Design, implementation, and verification of digital systems using medium scale integrated and large scale integrated circuits.
(Laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 202; EE 210 or 211; and MATH 370A or equivalent.
Fundamental concepts of signals and systems. Laplace Transforms. Fourier Series. Fourier Transforms. Two-port parameters.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 211.
Analysis and design of diode, bipolar junction transistor, field-effect transistor (MOSFET and JFET), and CMOS circuits. Op-Amp linear and nonlinear circuit applications. Digital electronic circuits. Laboratory includes transistor and operational amplifier circuit design and CAD tools.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite or Corerequisite: EE 330.
Transistor and operational amplifier circuit design laboratory.
(Lab 3 hrs) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 201, 211.
Analysis and design of digital electronic circuits. Structure and operation of MOS transistors, including SPICE models. NMOS and CMOS inverters. Bipolar transistor inverters. Bipolar digital gate circuits (TTL & ECL). Regenerative logic circuits (flip-flop, Schmitt trigger, multivibrator). Semi-conductor memories. Basic IC design-Gate Array, Standard Cell, PLA.
(Lecture-problems 3 hrs) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: CECS 174, EE 201.
Study of microprocessor and microcomputer elements for applications of these devices to practical problems. Assembly language programming. Design of microprocessor based systems using 80X86 architecture.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 346.
Design and construction of a microprocessor based system. Interfacing and control of external devices.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 211 and 211L, or consent of instructor.
Electromechanical energy conversion. Power transformers. DC, synchoronous, and induction machines. Laboratory experiments on power electronics and rotating machinery.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 310.
Control systems analysis; block diagrams, signal flow graphs, stability criteria, root locus, frequency domain analysis. Examples of classical control system design.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 370.
Experiments which reinforce concepts learned in EE 370. Digital simulation modeling, analysis, and design. Real time applications.
(Laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: MATH 122, CECS 174.
Probability with an emphasis on computer modeling of probabilistic systems. Topics such as discrete and continuous random variables, moments, correlation, covariance, Markov processes and queuing theory presented from a mathematical foundation developed and exemplified with realistic computer simulations from students.
(Lecture 2 hrs – laboratory 3 hrs). Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 310.
Review of Fourier series and transforms. Introduction to passive, active, and digital filters. Basic elements of probability theory, statistics, concept of white noise, AM, DSB, SSB and vestigial modulation, narrowband and wideband FM.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 310 or CECS 285 and EE 202 or CECS 311 and EE 202.
Introduction to discrete-time signals and systems, z-transform, digital filters, system design, and comparison to the analog counterparts. Multimedia-based laboratory experiments for discrete-time signals and systems in time and frequency domain, synthesis of digital sound/music with MATLAB or C.
Not open for credit to students with credit in EE 485. (Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 347, 370, and 382; or consent of instructor.
Design terminologies, processes and issues. Simple design examples. Constraints imposed by factors such as performance, economics, reliability, safety, aesthetics, packaging, codes, standards and practices. Ethics and social and environmental impact. Case studies. Individual and group projects. Oral presentation required.
(Lecture-problems 1 hour, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 380.
Fundamental techniques of modeling and simulation of complex engineering systems. Next generation simulation tools (DES), Output analysis of systems. Alternative system configurations. Variance reduction techniques. Project proposal developments.
Additional projects required for EE 502. (Lecture-problems 3 hours). Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: ENGR 203 or MATH 122 and EE 202, or graduate standing.
Modeling and analysis, and design of deterministic and stochastic systems. The building blocks of Systems Engineering models ranging from network models with special structured, to unstructured linear and nonlinear optimization.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours)
Prerequisites: Senior standing in electrical engineering or consent of instructor.
Selected topics from recent advances in electrical engineering. Course content will vary from year to year and may be repeated once for credit with consent of department undergraduate advisor.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 330 or consent of instructor or graduate standing.
Design and analysis of medical instruments, electrodes and amplifiers for measurement of physiological signals.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours)
Prerequisite or corequisite: EE 406.
Laboratory study of medical instrumentation, transducers and computer data processing.
(Laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 346 or consent of instructor or graduate standing.
Principles of analysis and design of computers and data collection equipment for real-time on-line medical systems.
(Lecture-problems, computer projects 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 310 or graduate standing.
Theory and design of active filters using operational amplifiers. Emphasis is placed on low-pass filters.
Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 370 or graduate standing.
Review of matrices and linear algebra. Z-transforms, linear systems, and difference equations. State-space description of linear systems. Analysis including stability, reachability, and observability. State-feedback.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 310 or graduate standing.
Application of fractal geometry to system theory. Study of system dynamics leading to complex behaviors and chaos. Scaling laws, sensitivity to initial conditions, strange attractors, and i/f noise will also be discussed.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours). Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: PHYS 254 or graduate standing.
Semiconductor crystal structure and growth. Carrier modeling, drift and diffusion currents. P-N junctions, diodes, solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LED). Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) biasing, linear and switched operation. Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) operation. Solar cells, photovoltaics, and lasers.
Not open for credit to students with credit in EE 320. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite or Corequisite: EE 486 or consent of instructor.
Principles and engineering applications of speech signal processing. Speech synthesis, recognition, encoding, and compression. Applications of neural networks.
Additional projects required for EE 528. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 330 and EE 370, or graduate standing.
Differential pairs, current sources, output stages, and integrated operational amplifiers. Op-amp applications and practical issues. Frequency response. Computer-aided circuit analysis and design. Feedback amplifiers and stability. Oscillators.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Corequisite: EE 430.
Advanced transistor, operational amplifier, and linear-integrated circuits and systems design laboratory.
Not open for credit to students with credit in EE 433L. (Laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 201 and EE 330 or consent of instructor.
CMOS fabrication. Component layout. MOSFET modeling. Mixed-signal devices such as D/A and A/D converters and phase-locked loops. Substrate Noise coupling. System-on-chip considerations. Design using CAD tools.
Additional projects required for EE 534. (Lecture-problems 2 hours, Laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 201, 330.
Theory of microelectronics integrated circuit design, IC fabrication technology, device characterization, modelling, digital and analog simulation tools, physical layout tools, digital standard cell library design, IC digital system designs, I/O pad design, full chip simulation and physical designs.
Additional projects required for EE535A. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Corequisite: EE 435.
Laboratory evaluation of IC process steps. Wafer probe, packaging, and final test. Empirical device model formulation from test data.
Not open for credit to students with credit in EE 420L. (Laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 330 and PHYS 254; or MAE 300.
Techniques and the technology of miniaturization of electrical, mechanical, optical, and opto-electronic devices in sizes from millimeters to nanometers. Design examples of sensors, microlenses, cantilevers, and micromotors, process fabrication.
Additional projects required for EE 536. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or graduate standing.
Introduces four key areas: nanoscience properties of materials; nanotechnology in biology and nature; observation, measurement, analysis; applications. Importance of understanding and engineering nanoscale structures, materials, and processes for the 21st Century. Use of scanning electron microscope and atomic force microscope.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 347 or consent of the instructor or graduate standing.
Advanced microprocessors such as Pentium series, RISC, and CISC. Hardware features and new instructions. Support for virtual memory, paging, privilege levels, multitasking and internal cache. Floating point coprocessors. Embedded controllers, on-chip resources and applications.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: (EE 301 or 435) and EE 346 and EE 400D and EE 430, or graduate standing.
Extensive laboratory projects. Design of analog and digital systems. Computer-aided design including, for example, hardware descriptive language (HDL) and SPICE.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours. laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 482 or equivalent.
Wireless and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and Security. Ad-hoc and geographic routing, resource discovery, MAC, IP-mobility, mobility modelling, wired-wireless networks, security aspects. Lab Projects will include use of tools such as OPNET, Ethereal, Sniffer, Scanner, IDS, etc.
Advanced project required for EE 548. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 483 or equivalent.
Theoretical and practical issues in designing multimedia systems, design and implementation of interactive multimedia and hypermedia applications including interactive television (e.g., video-on-demand, eLearning), hypermedia systems (e.g., the World Wide Web), and video conferencing and groupware. Emphasis placed on current design issues and research topics.
Extra project for graduate students. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 350 and EE 370, or graduate standing.
Characteristics of semiconductor power switches. Modeling and application of control theory to various types of motors. Bidirectional and four-quadrant converter topologies for motion control. Selection of drives to control AC and DC motors. Uninterruptible power supplies and adjustable speed drives.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 350 or consent of instructor or graduate standing.
Modeling of power generation, transmission, and distribution systems, load-flow analyses, short-circuit studies, voltage drop and power loss calculations, transient stability and optimal power flow analyses. Application of specialized computer software for power system design and analyses.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 310, 350.
Protective relays, instrument transformers, low-voltage and high-voltage circuit breakers, protection of generators and motors, transformer protection and transmission line protection. Relay coordination and commercial power systems. Application of computer programs for protective device coordination. Additional projects required for EE 553.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 330, 350.
A comprehensive treatment of characteristics of and requirements from spacecraft power systems, power sources, power conversion and control. Energy storage, electrical equipment, power converters and loads, power management. Future space missions and technological needs. Additional projects required for EE 555.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 330 and EE 400D and (either EE 450 or EE 452 or EE 453), or graduate standing.
Design of electrical, electronic and electromechanical components required for power conversion, control, transmission, distribution, protection and measurements in terrestrial and space electric power systems.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 310 or graduate standing.
Electric and magnetic field theory including propagation of planewaves in lossless and dissipative media. Maxwell’s equations. Transmission lines.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 310 or graduate standing.
Electromagnetic field theory including transmission lines, vector fields, electrostatics and magnetostatics.
Maxwell’s equations and plane wave propagation. Waveguides and microstrip-RF circuit principles and devices. Radiation and antenna design. Wireless communication systems including satellite and cell-phone technologies.
Letter grade only (A-F). Not open for credit to students with credit in EE 460 or 464. (Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours)
Prerequisite: EE 310 or graduate standing.
Electromagnetic field theory including transmission lines, vector fields, electrostatics and magnetostatics. Maxwell’s equations and plane wave propagation. Electromagnetic formulation of geometric and Fourier optics. Semiconductor and gas laser applications to fiber-optic communication systems and electro-optic devices.
Not open for credit to students who have credit in EE 460 or 462. (Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: EE 370L and EE 386, or graduate standing.
Analysis and synthesis of digital control systems. General application of both the Z-transform and the state-space approach for discrete system design.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 400D or graduate standing. Corequisite: EE 470.
Design of compensators using root-locus and Bode-plot methods. Design of state-space control systems and observers. Computer-aided design.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 370.
Basic methodology for analysis and design of robotic manipulators. Classification of robots. Homogeneous transformations, kinematics, dynamics, trajectory planning and control of robots. Application of robots in flexible manufacturing.
Additional projects required for EE 574. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite or Corequisite: EE 486 or consent of instructor.
Principles and application of artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic. Mechanisms of supervised and unsupervised neural networks. Fuzzy control systems. Applications in signal processing, communications, control, and other areas.
Additional projects required for EE 576. Not open for credit to students with credit in EE 589/689. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 482.
Basic orbital mechanics, link analysis, multiple access architectures and protocols, FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA systems. Synchronization techniques, modulation and coding techniques. Security and spread spectrum requirements. System design.
Additional projects required for EE 581. (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 382 or graduate standing.
Information sources and communication systems. Orthogonal series representation of signals, pulse and digital modulation techniques, band-pass digital communication systems, special topics in communications.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: MATH 370A or graduate standing.
Image formation. Image detectors and their characteristics. Perception, image models. Sampling and quantization. Pixel relationships. Statistical characterization of discrete images - probability density models. Image fidelity criteria and image intelligibility. Image transforms. Image enhancement techniques.
(Lecture-problems 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 386 or graduate standing.
Discrete-time signals and systems, discrete Fourier transform, fast Fourier transform, spectral estimation, interpolation and decimation, filter design and structures and applications to multimedia communications. Laboratory projects for image processing, FFT receiver, signal detection, digital phase-locked loop.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite/Corequisite: EE 400D, EE 430, EE 430L and EE 482, or graduate standing.
Design of Communication systems/subsystems and their implementation in software and hardware. Design of Capstone Senior Project in the area of Communication systems.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours). Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisite: EE 400D or graduate standing. Prerequisite/Corequisite: EE 486 or consent of instructor.
Design, implementation, and real-time testing of projects such as FIR filters, IIR filters, tone generator, 32-bit addition and multiplication, FFT spectrum analyzer. All projects are simulated in fixed-point arithmetic with MATLAB or C and TMS320C54x assembly code in bit-exact.
(Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: Minimum G.P.A. of 2.5 and consent of instructor.
Assigned topics in technical literature or laboratory projects and reports.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Letter grade only (A-F).
Prerequisites: (EE 210 and 210L, or 211 and 211L), (CECS 174 or MAE 205), and (EE 370 or MAE 376), or consent of instructor or graduate standing.
Concepts of instrumentation, data acquisition and computer-based control of industrial systems. Topics include signal conditioning, software and hardware for data acquisition and computer-based control, graphical programming and virtual instrumentation.
(Lecture-problems 2, laboratory 3 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
