Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering - Undergraduate Courses

EE 155 Digital Systems I (back to previous page)
Fundamental concepts of digital systems. Binary numbers, Boolean algebra, combinational logic design using gates, map minimization techniques. Use of modular MSI components such as adders, multiplexers, etc. Analysis and design of simple synchronous sequential circuits, including flip-flops, shift registers, and counters. Introduction to VHDL. 3 credit hours.

EE 201 Introduction to Electrical Circuits (back to previous page)
Corequisites: M 118, PH 205. Energy effects and ideal circuit elements, independent and dependent sources; Ohm's Law and Kirchhoff's Laws; resistive networks; node and mesh analysis; Thevenin and Norton Theorems, maximum power transfer, analysis of first order networks; introduction of sinusoidal steady state, phasors, impedance, admittance. DC and transient analysis using SPICE. 3 credit hours.

EE 202 Network Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 201, M 118. Continuation of EE 201. Analysis and design of networks in sinusoidal steady state. Use of phasors and phasor diagrams, voltage and current gain, resonance, watts, VARS, power factor. Average and RMS values. Maximum power transfer. Mutual inductance, ideal transformers, Fourier series, use of SPICE in steady state analysis and design. 3 credit hours.

EE 212 Principles of Electrical Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 201. This course includes several laboratory exercises related to topics covered in EE 201 as well as new topics in EE 212; the course is equally divided between lectures and laboratory. Digital logic systems. The binary number system, binary arithmetic, decimal to binary conversion, binary codes, hexadecimal codes. Boolean algebra, AND, OR, NAND, NOR and XOR gates. Combinational logic design. Multiplexer, rom, decoders, and read and write memory. Digital systems. Sequential logic, latches and flip-flops, digital counters, registers, sequential logic design. This course is intended for non-electrical engineering majors. 3 credit hours.

EE 235 Analog Circuits (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EAS 230. In-depth analysis techniques applied to resistive circuits including a review of nodal and mesh analysis, Thevenin and Norton theorems, linearity and superposition, maximum power transfer, applications of operational amplifiers, PSPICE projects, 1st and 2nd order networks, mutual inductance and transformers, steady state power analysis, effective and rms values, complex power, power factor, three phase circuits, power relationships, power factor correction, sinusoidal frequency analysis, resonant circuits, simple filter networks, Laplace transform and its application to circuit analysis. 3 credit hours.

EE 247 Electronics I (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 201 or EAS 230. Signals and their frequency spectrum, amplifiers, circuit models for amplifiers, frequency response. Operational amplifiers, ideal op-amps, inverting and noninverting configurations, op-amp circuits. Basic semiconductor concepts, drift currents, the p-n junctions, analysis of diode circuits, Zener diodes. BJT transistors, physical structure and modes of operation, biasing techniques, the BJT as an amplifier, biasing the BJT for discrete circuit design, analysis of the transistor as a switch. Field-effect transistors, structure and physical operation of MOSFETs, voltage-current characteristics of various FETs. FET circuits at DC, the FET as an amplifier. 3 credit hours.

EE 256 Digital Systems Laboratory (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 155. Covers digital systems test instruments. Experiments in combinational and introductory sequential circuits. Software tools, simulators. Schematic capture and introduction to hardware description languages. Design of simple digital circuits. Written and oral laboratory reports. 2 credit hours.

EE 257 Analog Circuits Laboratory (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 201 or EAS 230. Laboratory exercises and projects in dc and ac circuits including Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, Mesh and Nodal Analysis, Thevenin and Norton theorems, capacitance and inductance measurements, transient behavior of RLC circuits, operational amplifiers and applications. PSPICE and LabView© are introduced; written and oral reports are required. Laboratory fee; 2 credit hours.

EE 302 Systems Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 201 or EAS 230 and M 204. Continuous-time and discrete-time signal and system properties; linear difference equations; the convolution integral and convolution sum; the Laplace transform; the Z transform; the Fourier transform of continuous-time signals. 3 credit hours.

EE 306 Electronic Materials and Devices (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 247. Semi-conductor materials including doping, conduction, diffusion, p-n junction effects. Hall effect and quantum theory. Diode current-voltage relation, diode capacitance and breakdown; FET and BJT operation. Magnetic properties of matter. 3 credit hours.

EE 320 Random Signal Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 302. The elements of probability theory. Continuous and discrete random variables. Characteristic functions and central limit theorem. Stationary random processes, auto correlation, cross correlation. Power density spectrum of a stationary random process. Systems analysis with random signals. 3 credit hours.

EE 341 Numerical Methods in Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: M 203 and a standard programming language. Topics include solutions of algebraic and transcendental equations by iterative methods; system of linear equations (matrix inversion, etc.); interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration; solution of ordinary differential equations. Scientific and engineering applications. 3 credit hours. (This course is cross listed with M 338 Numerical Analysis.)

EE 344 Electrical Machines (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 202 or EE 235. Magnetic fields and magnetic circuits, forces and torques. Theory, characteristics, operation, testing, equivalent circuits, design concepts, and applications of direct current and alternating current machines including transformers, synchronous and induction machinery. Design of main dimensions of transformer cores, rotors and stators and armature windings. 3 credit hours.

EE 348 Electronics II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 247. Review of FETs. Biasing the FET in discrete circuits, biasing configurations of single stage IC MOS amplifiers, FET analog switches. Differential and multistage amplifiers, the BJT differential pair, biasing in BJT integrated circuits, actively loaded differential pair, MOS differential amplifiers and multistage amplifiers. Frequency response of amplifiers, s domain analysis, poles and zeros, Bode plots, Miller effect, frequency response of differential amplifiers, study of various wide-band amplifiers. Output stages and power amplifiers, Class A, B, and AB stages, IC power amplifiers. Analog integrated circuits, complete analysis of 741 op-amp circuit, CMOS op-amps, D/A and A/D converter circuits. 3 credit hours.

EE 349 Electronics Design Laboratory (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 257, EE 348 (may be taken concurrently). Laboratory exercises and design projects intended to give students practical experience in analog electronics. Experiments include operational amplifiers, diodes, BJTs, FETs, single and multistage amplifier design as well as open-ended design projects. PSPICE and LabView© are used; written and oral reports are required. 2 credit hours.

EE 355 Control Systems (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 302. The modeling of linear and nonlinear physical systems with discrete and continuous state space equations. Solutions to the discrete and continuous linear state equation; state transition matrices; phase variable forms. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Jordan canonical form. Controllability, and observability of discrete and continuous systems. Relationships between controllability, observability and transfer functions. The stability of discrete and continuous linear systems, Liapunov, root locus, Nyquist, feedback; PID control; lead-lag control. 3 credit hours.

EE 356 Digital Systems II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 155 or equivalent. Course focuses on sequential logic design. Both synchronous and asynchronous techniques are covered, with an emphasis on controller-based modular design. Design with a hardware description language. Advanced topics will be covered as time permits. Course includes laboratory activity. 3 credit hours.

EE 371 Computer Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: CS 110, EE 155. Introduction to the organization of digital computers. Stored program concept, instruction processing, memory organization, instruction formats, addressing modes, instruction sets, assembler and machine language programming. Input/output programming, direct memory access. Bus structures and control signals. Course includes laboratory activity. 3 credit hours.

EE 398 Internship (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Junior standing. A partnership consisting of the stu-dent, faculty and employers/organizations providing exposure to and participation in a working engineering environment. The internship will translate classroom knowledge to a professional work environment, and the student will work and learn with practicing engineers while gaining professional experience. A minimum of 300 hours performing related engineering duties is required. No credit.

EE 410 Networking I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Reference models TCP/IP and OSI, Transmission media, Data Link Layer issues, the Medium Access Control Sublayer, Networking devices and topologies, LANs, WANs, lab experiments. 3 credit hours.

EE 437 Industrial Power Systems Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 202 or EE 235. Study of the components forming a power system, three-phase systems, transmission line modeling and design, per unit quantities, modeling of power systems, one-line diagrams, symmetrical components, sequence networks and unsymmetrical fault calculations, matrices and matrix algebra. 3 credit hours.

EE 438 Electric Power Transmission (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 437. Power system modeling for fault analysis using sequence networks, bus impedance matrix formulation, rake equivalent method, fault analysis by computer methods, transmission line ABCD parameters and distributed parameter analysis, design and performance using computers, load flow analysis, Gauss-Siedel method, Newton-Raphson method, economic load sharing, stability design and analysis using computers and FORTRAN programs. 3 credit hours.

EE 439 Electric Power Distribution (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 344, EE 437. Structure of electric power distribution, distribution transformers, subtransmission lines, substations, bus schemes, primary and secondary systems, radial and loop feeder designs, voltage drop and regulation, capacitors, power factor correction and voltage regulation, protection, buses, automatic reclosures and coordination. 3 credit hours.

EE 445 Communications Systems (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 320. The analysis and design of communications systems. Signal analysis, transmission of signals, power density spectra, amplitude, frequency and pulse modulation; pulse code modulation; digital signal transmission. Performance of communications systems and signal to noise ratio. 3 credit hours.

EE 446 Digital Electronic Circuits (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 247. Analysis and design of digital circuit classes (comparators and logical gates) by application of Ebers-Moll transistor model (saturation/active/cutoff regions). Comparators treated as overdriven differential/operational amplifiers, including bistable Schmitt trigger. Gates treated for major technologies: resistor-transistor logic (RTL), transistor-transistor logic (TTL), and emitter-coupled logic (ECL). Related integrated circuit analysis including internal variables and I-O characteristics. 3 credit hours.

EE 450 Analog Filter Design (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 202 or EE 235. Techniques in the analysis and design of analog filters. First order and second order. Design of Butterworth, Chebyshev, Bessel-Thomson, and Cauer lowpass. Lowpass to band-pass, bandstop and highpass filter transformations, design, and sensitivity analysis. 3 credit hours.

EE 452 Digital Filter Design (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 302. Techniques in the analysis and design of digital filters. Digital filters terminology and frequency response. FIR filter design. IIR digital filter design including Butterworth, Cauer, and Chebyshev lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and bandstop filters. The DFT and IDFT. FFT algorithms.
3 credit hours.

EE 455 Control System Design (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 355, working knowledge of Matlab and Simulink, or consent of the instructor. The objective of this course is to introduce the student to techniques needed for the design and implementation of automatic control systems. Practical applications of the methods studied in this course include a space shuttle, water tank, space station, blood pressure control, airplane lateral dynamics, robot-controlled motorcycle, automobile velocity control, six-legged ambler, hot ingot robot control, milling machine control, diesel electric locomotive, digital audio tape speed control, and fly-by-wire control. 3 credit hours.

EE 456 Hardware Description Language (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 356. General structure of VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) code; entities and architecture in VHDL; signals, variables, data types; concurrent signal assignment statements; if, case and loop statements; components; package; functions and procedures; slices; attributes; generate statement; blocks; projects on design of combinational and sequential circuits using VHDL. 3 credit hours.

EE 457 Design Preparation (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 349 and the consent of the instructor. This course provides the student time and guidance in selecting a topic for the senior design course (EE 458), which follows this one. Suitable design projects may be suggested by the student, the faculty, or via industrial contacts. Each student carries out a literature search in an area of interest, prepares a written proposal with a plan of action for the project, obtains approval by the faculty project advisor, and makes an oral presentation of the project proposal. 2 credit hours.

EE 458 Senior Design Laboratory (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 457. A continuation of EE 457. This course provides the student with experience at a professional level with engineering projects that involve analysis, design, construction of prototypes, and evaluation of results.
Design laboratory activity includes:
Communications/Signal Process Laboratory. Prerequisites: EE 445 or EE 450 or EE 452, EE 457.
Control Systems Laboratory. Prerequisites: EE 355, EE 457.
Digital Design Laboratory. Prerequisites: EE 356, EE 371, EE 457. Corequisite: EE 472 or EE 475.
Fiber Optics/Microwave Laboratory. Prerequisite: EE 462 or EE 480, EE 457.
Machines/Power Systems Laboratory. Prerequisites: EE 344, EE 437, EE 457.
Final report presentation and formal written final report required. 3 credit hours.

EE 461 Electromagnetic Theory (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: M 203, PH 205. Basic electromagnetic theory including static fields of electric charges and magnetic fields of steady electric currents. Fundamental field laws including Coulomb's Law, Gauss's Law, BiotSavart's Law, and Ampere's Law. Maxwell's equations, scalar and vector potentials, Laplace's equation, and boundary conditions. Magnetization, polarization. 3 credit hours.

EE 462 Electromagnetic Waves (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 461. Electromag-netic wave propagation and reflection in various structures, including coaxial, two-wire, and waveguide systems. Transmission lines. Various modes of propagation in rectangular waveguides. The dipole antenna. Linear antenna arrays. 3 credit hours.

EE 472 Computer Architecture (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 356. Introduction to theory of computing, processor design, control unit design, microprogramming, memory organization, survey of parallel processors as time permits. 3 credit hours.

EE 475 Embedded Systems, Interfaces, and Buses (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 371. Micro-processors and peripheral devices. Hardware and software aspects of interfacing. Microprocessor-based system design. Introduction to advanced topics such as data communications, memory management, and multiprocessing, as time permits. The course is structured around laboratory exercises. 3 credit hours.

EE 480 Fiber Optic Communications (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 461. The fundamentals of lightwave technology, optical fibers, LEDs and lasers, signal degradation in optical fibers. Photodetectors, power launching and coupling, connectors and splicing techniques. Transmission link analysis. This course will include selected laboratory experiments. 3 credit hours.

EE 500 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Instructor's consent. Special topics in the field of electrical engineering. 3 credit hours.

EE 599 Independent Study (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Consent of faculty supervisor and approval of department chair. (Refer to academic regulations for independent study.) Independent study provides the opportunity to explore an area of special interest under faculty supervision. May be repeated. 3 credit hours.

Electrical Engineering - Graduate Courses

EE 600 Electromagnetics (back to previous page)
Prerequisites:  Permission of Graduate Program Coordinator
Basic electromagnetic theory incuding static fields of electric charges and the magnetic fields of steady electric currents.  Fundamental field laws including Coulomb's Law, Gauss's Law, Biot Savart's Law and Ampere's Law.  Maxwell's Equations, scalar and vector potentials, Laplace's equation and boundary conditions.  Magnetization polarization.  This course is intended for those students whose undergraduate background did not emphasize this content. 

EE 601 Digital Systems (back to previous page)
Prerequisite:  Permission of Graduate Program Coordinator.
Course focuses on sequential logic design.  B oth synchronous and asynchronous techniques are covered with an emphasis on controller-based modular design.  Design  with a hardware description language.  Advanced topics will be covered as time permits.  Course includes laboratory activity.  This course is intended for those students whose undergraduate background did not emphasize this content.

EE 602 Computer Engineering  (back to previous page)
Prerequisite:  Permission of Graduate Program Coordinator.
Introduction to the architecture of digital computers, stored program concept, instruction processing, memory organization, instruction formats, addressing modes, instruction sets, assembler and machine language programming, direct memory access, bus structure and control signals.  Course includes laborator activities.  This course is intended for those students whose undergraduate background did not emphasize this content.

EE 603 Discrete and Continuous Systems I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Computer programming competence. Continuous and discrete linear systems, system function. Z transforms, Fourier transforms, periodic functions, discrete Fourier series, fast Fourier transforms, Hilbert transforms. Digital processing of analog signals, sampling theorems.

EE 604 Discrete and Continuous Systems II (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 603 and M 611, or consent of instructor. Review of linear vector spaces, bases, Hilbert spaces. Introduction to the similarity transformation, diagonalization of the A matrix, properties of similarity transformations, Jordan forms, quadratic forms, matrix norms, functions of A matrix, Caley-Hamilton theorem, pseudoinverse. Mathematical modeling of physical systems, state space representation of dynamical systems, computer-oriented mathematical models. State space and linear systems, meaning of state, methods of obtaining state equations. Stability of physical systems and linear systems, linearization and stability in the small, equivalent linearization and the describing function, stability in the large and the second method of Liapunov, exact frequency domain stability criteria - Popov's method and its extension.

EE 605 Computer Controlled Systems (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 604 and EE 650. Disturbance models, design, analog design, state space design methods, pole placement design based on input-output models, optimal design methods (state space approach), optimal design methods (input-output approach), identification, adaptive control, implementation of digital controllers, reduction of the effects of disturbances, stochastic models of disturbances, continuous time stochastic differential equation.

EE 606 Robot Control (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 605. Orientation coordinate transformations, configuration coordinate transformations, Denavit-Hartenberg coordinate transformations, D-H matrix composition, inverse configuration kinematics, motion kinematics, force and torque relationships, force and moment translation, trajectories, coordinated motion, inverse dynamics, position control, feedback systems, performance measures, PID control, inverse dynamic feedforward control, nonlinear control.

EE 607 Adaptive Control(back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EE 605, EE 650 or consent of instructor. An introduction to adaptive control methods and their application. The identification and control of linear deterministic time-invariant dynamical systems with parametric uncertainty are emphasized. Topics such as real time parameter estimation, model reference adaptive systems, robust adaptive control, and implementation issues are covered.

EE 610 Networking I (back to previous page)
Reference models TCP/IP and OSI, Transmission media, Data Link Layer issues, the Medium Access Control Sublayer, Networking devices and topologies, LANS, WANS, lab experiments.

EE 611 Networking II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 610. Network layer design, routing algorithms, congestion control algorithms, transport layer issues, application layer, network security, lab experiments.

EE 620 Fuzzy Logic and Control (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Basic linear algebra, probability, systems theory. Introduction to fuzzy logic and fuzzy control systems. Basic fuzzy logic concepts will be covered, followed by a selection of fuzzy applications from the literature. Topics include fuzzy sets, fuzzy numbers, fuzzy relations, fuzzy logic and appropriate reasoning, fuzzy rule-based systems, fuzzy control, fuzzy classification, fuzzy pattern recognition. Homework will consist of computer exercises and simulations; a final project is required.

EE 630 Electronic Instrumentation I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Design of modern electronic instrumentation. Circuit and system examples, evaluation and design techniques. Emphasis on practical applications including design theory and the circuit techniques used in linear integrated devices. Variety of electronic instrumentation including computer interfaces, signal conditioners, waveform generators and shapers, filters, V/F, A/D, D/A converters and other special-purpose circuits.

EE 631 Electronic Instrumentation II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 630.

EE 634 Digital Signal Processing I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 603. A study of the theories of digital signal processing and their applications. Topics include discrete time signals, the Z transform, the discrete Fourier transform, the FFT, homomorphic signal processing and applications of digital signal processing.

EE 635 Digital Signal Processing II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 634 and knowledge of programming in MAT-LAB or other high-level language. Wiener filter theory, linear prediction, adaptive linear filters using gradient estimation, Least Mean Squares (LMS) algorithm, least squares formulation and the Recursive Least Squares (RLS) algorithm, fast implementations, recursive adaptive filters, lattice structures, eigenstructure methods for spectral estimation elements of adaptive nonlinear filtering, and applications.

EE 637 Power Systems Engineering I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Concepts and methods of analysis and design of modern power systems. Includes the network representation of power systems, matrix methods, symmetrical components and the use of the computer in the solution of problems such as short circuit fault calculations, load flow study, economic load dispatching and stability. Other topics may include protection, relaying or transmission system design.

EE 638 Power Systems Engineering II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 637.

EE 639 Electric Power Distribution (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 637 or equivalent. Structure of electric power distribution, distribution transformers, subtransmission lines, substations, bus schemes, primary and secondary systems, radial and loop feeder designs, voltage drop and regulation, capacitors, power factor correction and voltage regulation, protection, buses, automatic reclosures and coordination.

EE 645 Introduction to Communication Systems (back to previous page)
The analysis and design of communication systems. Includes analog and digital signals, sampling, quantization, signal representation. Analog and digital modulation, pulse code modulation, delta modulation, time and frequency multiplexing. Noise in communication systems.

EE 646 Digital Communications I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 645. Formatting and baseband transmission, bandpass modulation and demodulation, communication link analysis, channel coding synchronization.

EE 647 Digital Communications II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 646. Multiplexing and multiple access, spread spectrum techniques, source coding and encoding, encryption and decryption.

EE 648 Microwave Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Undergraduate Electromagnetics; programming experience, preferably in MATLAB; Graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course is designed to familarize the students with microwave components and their operating principles. This course covers transmission line, including microstrip and coplanar waveguides, impedance matching, S parameters, Smith chart, couplers/dividers, waveguides, EM simulators, and antennas. Some homework assignments may require use of the computer-aided design software.

EE 649 Wireless Communications (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Undergraduate Electromagnetics; programming experience, preferably in MATLAB; Graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course is designed to introduce the fundamental concepts and applications of wireless communications. Topics: Path Loss and fading, Mobile radio channel, channel capacity, Digital modulation scheme, coding, and multiple access.

EE 650 Random Signal Analysis (back to previous page)
A study of the theory of random signals and processes. Includes correlations, spectra, stationarity, ergodicity and systems with random inputs. Hilbert's transforms, shot noise, thermal noise, Markoff processes, mean square estimation, spectral estimation and entropy.

EE 652 Design of Digital Filters (back to previous page)
Techniques in the analysis and design of digital filters. Digital filter terminology and frequency responses, FIR filter design, IIR digital filter design including Butterworth and Chebyshev low-pass, highpass, bandpass and bandstop filters. The DFT and IDFT; FFT algorithms.

EE 653 Digital Image Processing (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of signal analysis and linear algebra; programming experience, (languages such as MATLAB, C.net, java, C++); Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Fundamental concepts and applications of image processing and analysis. Topics include image formation, imaging geometrics, image transform theory and restoration, encoding and compression.

EE 656 Hardware Description Language (back to previous page)
General structure of VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language (VHDL) code; entities and architecture in VHDL; signals, variables, data types; concurrent signal assignment statements; processes; if, case and loop statements; components; package; functions and procedures; slices; attributes; generate statement; blocks; projects on design of combinational and sequential circuits using VHDL.

EE 657 VLSI Design (back to previous page)
Complex logic gates, flip-flop, cascade voltage switch logic, differential split level logic, Schmitt trigger, dynamic logic gates, clocked CMOS logic, Dominio logic, SRAM and DRAM, VCO, Voltage generator, lab activities.

EE 658 Embedded Applications (back to previous page)
Design of advanced embedded, microcontroller applications. Interface and control of several devices and buses. Class work will focus on laboratory exercises and projects.

EE 670 Selected Topics (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. A study of selected topics of particular interest to students and instructor. Course may be taken more than once.

EE 680 Fiber Optic Communications (back to previous page)
The fundamentals of fiber optics technology and optical systems, light emission and detection. Single and multi-mode fibers, LED and semiconductor lasers, optical detectors, signal degradation, power launching and coupling, connectors, and splicers, geometric optics, ray tracing, system requirements for point to point link analysis.  Includes selected laboratory experiments. 

EE 681 Lightwave Technology (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 680. Advanced topics in lightwave technology. Optical fiber waveguides, transmission characteristics of optical fibers, ray theory and electromagnetic mode theories are considered. Forms of communication systems and distribution networks. Optical sources, detectors and receivers are discussed in conjunction with modulation formats and system design.

EE 682 Computer Architecture (back to previous page)
Review of design of large systems, arithmetic and logical operations, design of ALU, design of control unit, microprogramming, RISC architecture, memory organization, design of cache memory, system organization, design of a processor using bit-slice ALU.

EE 685 Optimization of Engineering Systems (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EE 604. The calculus of variations, functionals, linearity of functionals, closeness of functions, the increment of a functional, maxima and minima of functionals, the fundamental theorem of the calculus of variations, the variational problem, Euler-Lagrange equations, boundary conditions, the transversality conditions, piece-wise-smooth extremals, the first and second carrier conditions, Lagrange multiples, the Hamiltonian canonical equations, the control problem, the problems of Lagrange and Mayer, Strong's variation, Legendre conditions, Weierstrass excess function, Pontryagin'sminimal principle.

EE 690 Research Project (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: 15 graduate hours and written permission of program coordinator. Independent study under the guidance of a faculty adviser, such study terminating in a technical report of academic merit. Research may constitute a survey of a technical area in electrical engineering, or may involve the solution of an actual or hypothetical technical problem.

EE 695 Independent Study I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. A planned program of individual study or research under supervision of a faculty member.

EE 696 Independent Study II (back to previous page)
A continuation of Independent Study I.

EE 697 Thesis I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credits of graduate work; student must have submitted a thesis proposal and performed a literature search in the preceding trimester. Periodic meetings and discussions of the individual student's progress in the preparation of a thesis.

EE 698 Thesis II (back to previous page)
A continuation of Thesis I.

EE 699 Thesis III (back to previous page)
A continuation of Thesis II.