CATALOG 2010-2011
EEE3308: Electronic Circuits I
Prerequisite: EEL 3111. This course covers basic electronic design techniques. Topics include operational amplifiers, diodes and transistors characteristics and applications, and analysis and design of amplifiers. Computer-aided tools in the design and analysis of electronic circuits are used.
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EEE4309C: Electronic Circuits II
Prerequisites: EEL 3303L, EEL 3304, and EEL 3112 This course covers advanced electronic design techniques. Topics include frequency response of amplifiers analysis and design of power amplifiers, oscillator design and analysis, power supply design, analysis and applications of linear and digital integrated circuits. Laboratory is included.
(A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEE4310: Digital Integrated Circuits
Prerequisite: EEE 4309C. This course covers the analysis and design of digital circuits that are fabricated using MOS and bipolar devices.
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EEE4314L: Advanced Electronics
Prerequisites: EEE 4309C This is a lab-oriented course that covers the applications of electronic devices and linear-digital integrated circuits in the design and verification of electronic instrumentation, systems and design projects. An advanced electronic design project is required. (A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEE4396: Solid State Electronic Devices
Prerequisite: EEL 3304. Introduction to the principles of semiconductor electron device operation.
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Undergraduate Information

EEL3003: Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Prerequisites: PHY 2049, PHY 2049L, MAP 2302. This course will introduce the concepts of electronics and applications to non-electrical engineering majors. Topics to be included are electrical circuit theory, semiconductor devices and circuits, digital electronics, analog electronics, instrumentation systems, and communication systems.
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EEL3111: Circuit Analysis I 3
Prerequisites: PHY 2049, MAC 2313 Co-requisite: MAP 2302 This course covers basic analysis of direct current and alternating current electrical circuits. Topics include impedance, admittance, power, energy, network laws theorems, transient analysis, and steady-state analysis using phasors. The use of simulation to analyze electrical circuits is introduced.
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EEL3112: Circuit Analysis II
Prerequisites: EEL3111 This course provides further AC and DC circuit analysis methods. Topics include power analysis, frequency response, and two-port networks.
Fourier analysis, laplace transform, and their applications to circuit analysis are covered and a computer-aided tool is used.
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EEL3117L: Electrical Circuits Laboratory
Corequisites: EEL 3112, EEL 3304. Laboratory experiments emphasizing electrical instrumentation, circuit-theory verification plus network analysis and design. (A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEL3135: Signals and Systems
Prerequisites: EEL 3112 This course covers concepts and properties of continuous-time and discrete-time liner time-invariant systems, frequency domain analysis of signals and systems, discrete fourier transform, fast fourier transform (FFT), and their applications.
Computer-aided tool is used.
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EEL3211: Introduction to Electric Machines 3
Prerequisites: EEL 3111 This course reviews AC power and introduces the analysis of three-phase systems and the use of phasor analysis and per-unit analysis as it applies to the study of transformers and AC machines. The analysis, design, and construction of static devices such as simple magnetic circuits and power transformers are covered. The concepts governing rotating machines, such as DC brushless machines, AC induction machines, synchronous machines, and other specialized electric machines will also be covered.
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EEL3216: Introduction to Power Systems
Prerequisites EEL3211; competency in a computer language This course is a study of electrical power transmission and distribution systems, power, symmetrical components, symmetrical and asymmetrical faults and dynamic power system stability with an emphasis on computer-aided fault and transient stability analysis.
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EEL3472: Electromagnetic Fields and Applications
Prerequisite: EEL 3111, MAP 2302 or permission of the instructor. Electric and magnetic fields and forces, Maxwell's equations in point and integral form, plane wave propagation, energy and power.
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EEL3701C: Introduction to Digital Systems
Prerequisites: A programming language. This course covers basic digital design technology. Topics include number systems, boolean algebra, combinational and sequential circuit design and analysis, hardware description language, and programmable logic devices. Laboratory is included. (A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEL3889C: Introduction to Embedded Systems Design
Prerequisite: COP 2220. This course covers fundamental software and hardware aspects of embedded systems applications and object-oriented software design and development.
Weekly programming assignments will focus on solving engineering problems utilizing embedded controllers and microprocessors. Topics will include but not be limited to: programming concepts, graphical user interfaces, data structures, real-time systems and distributed process control. Emphasis is on applying embedded controllers to solve advanced engineering problems. This course has a laboratory component.
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EEL4201L: Electrical Energy Conversion Lab
Corequisites: EEL3211 This course is an applied study of electromechanical energy conversion principles, characteristics, and applications of transformers, synchronous and induction machines, DC machines, and special machines in a laboratory environment utilizing common instrumentation.
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EEL4230: Electronic Drives and Motor Control
Prerequisites: EEL 3211 Corequisites: EEL 4657C or permission of instructor This course covers voltage-fed inverters, control of inverters, DC machine drives, steppermotor drives, brushless DC machine principles, PWM principles including harmonic analysis and an introduction to vector control of AC drives.
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EEL4242C: Power Electronic Circuits
Prerequisites: EEL 3211, EEL 3304 This course is the study of principles and characteristics of power semiconductor devices, single-phase and poly-phase phasecontrolled converters, converter control, AC voltage controllers, inverter topologies, switch mode and resonant DC-To-DC converters. The course will culminate in the magnetic and electronic design, building and testing of a switch-mode power supply.
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EEL4440: Optical Fiber Communications
Prerequisites: EEL 3472 Electromagnetic fields and applications of permission of instructor This course focuses on fiber optic waveguides. Topics covered in the course include optical sources, detectors, receivers, transmission systems and fiber-based broadband communication networks.
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EEL4514: Communication Systems
Prerequisites: EEL 3135 This course introduces the theories of analog and digital communication systems. Topic includes modulation and demodulation, multiplexing, spread spectrum, CDMA, communication link and wireless channels analysis. (A material fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEL4514L: Analog and Digital Communications
Laboratory
Prerequisite: EEL 3135; Corequisite: EEL 4514. This course is the laboratory component for EEL 4514 and consists of the laboratory investigation of communication systems.
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EEL4515: Advanced Digital Communication
Prerequisite: EEL 4514 This course covers common digital modulation and demodulation methods, synchronization and diversity reception. Application of communication theories to radio and cellular phone are also covered.
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EEL4515L: Advanced Digital Communications Lab
Prerequisites: EEL 4514 Corequisites: EEL 4515 This course is the laboratory component for EEL 4515 and consists of laboratory investigation of communication system. A lab fee of $30 will be assessed.
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EEL4610: State-Space Control Systems
Prerequisites: EEL 4657C. This course covers the design and analysis of control systems using state-space methods. Topics include linear algebra, modeling of physical systems as state-space equations, transformations, stability, controllability and observability, state feedback, observer design, introduction to optimal control, and
Riccati equations.
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EEL4657C: Linear Control Systems
Prerequisites: EEL 3135, EEL 4744C This course covers the design and analysis of control systems using transfer function-based methods. Topics include modeling of physical systems as transfers functions, stability analysis, design specifications, design of controllers by root locus method, frequency response techniques, computer-added analysis and design. Laboratory experiments include position and speed controls using proportional, PI, PD, and PID controllers. (A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEL4712C: Digital Design
Prerequisites: EEL3701C, EEL3304 This course covers the analysis, design, simulation, and implementation of advanced combinational logic circuits and synchronous/asynchronous state machines using modern programmable logic devices.
Electrical and timing characteristics of physical devices are covered. CAD-based design and development using hardware description languages are used throughout the course. Laboratory is included. (A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEL4713: Digital Computer Architecture
Prerequisite: EEL 3701C. Corequisite: EEL 4713L. Modern computers are becoming highly integrated complex devices. To understand their complex architecture it is not possible to separate the hardware and the software. So much of the computer hardware design depends on what type of applications the use intends to run and especially the operating system. This senior level electrical engineering class is about computer architecture. To provide a focus to the course and some hands-on, in-depth practical experience, we will work closely with the Motorola MC68908GP32 Microcontroller and the MicroC/OS-II real-time kernel.
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EEL4713L: Digital Computer Architecture Lab
Prerequisite: EEL 3701C. Corequisite: EEL 4713. This lab is to be taken with EEL 4713.
We will systematically working with a professional grade C compiler to generate code for the HC08 microprocessor. We will also develop simple device drivers for our peripheral components. In the lab, each student will construct a modern power supply and build a
MicroOsprey08 computer using surface mount components. The MicroOsprey08 takes a daughter board and each student will design his or her own daughter board for interface for their class project. The class project will be a working computer with both hardware and software built by the student.( A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed)
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EEL4744C: Microcontroller Applications
Prerequisite: EEL 3701C This course covers the elements of microcontroller-based systems, hardware interfacing, software design, and applications. Topics include microcontroller software architecture, instruction set, addressing modes, memory map, gpios, analog-to-digital converters, timers, input capture, output compare, PWM, communication interfaces, and interrupts, code development using assembly languages and C. weekly laboratory experiments. (A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEL4750: Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
Prerequisite: EEL 3135. This course is an introduction to the high tech world of digital processing. The topics include discrete time signal and systems, z-transform, DFT, introduction to digital filter design. The class offers theoretical and hands on applied signal processing.
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EEL4750L: Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
Prerequisite: EEL 3135. Corequisite: EEL 4750. This course will allow students to apply the theory learned in EEL 4750 in a series of lab assignments. The topics include discrete time signal a systems, z-transforms, DFT, introduction to digital filter design. (A laboratory fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEL4829: Digital Electronic Imaging
Prerequisite: EEL 3135 This course provides an overview electrical engineering aspect of digital image processing techniques and their applications including image acquisition, sampling, color, enhancement, segmentation, compression, coding, and morphology.
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EEL4905: Individual Study
Prerequisite: Approval of supervising professor and chair. May be repeated up to 12 credits. v. 1-3
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EEL4914: Senior Design I
Prerequisites: Senior standing and instructor's approval This course provides an introduction and study of the engineering design process in industry. Each student will select a design topic and prepare a project proposal including preliminary requirements and design approach. Additional activities include the preparation of a resume and a written assignment on ethics in the job environment. Intellectual property such as copyrights, trademarks, and patents is covered. A faculty advisor for Senior Design II must also be selected by the end of the semester.
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EEL4915: Electrical Engineering Design II
Prerequisite: EEL 4914. Students are responsible for completion of their engineering project that was initiated in the Design 1course. Students are responsible for testing relative to original specifications, oral presentation of the project, and project documentation in the form of a project report. (A material fee of $60 will be assessed.)
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EEL4930: Special Topics in Electrical Engineering
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Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Special courses covering selected topics in electrical engineering. May be repeated up to 12 credits with different course content.
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EEL4931: Special Topics in Electrical Engineering
Prerequisite: Permission from instructor or department. Special courses covering selected topics in electrical engineering. v. 1-4
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EEL4949: Co-op Work Experience v. 0-1
Prerequisite: Six hours of Electrical Engineering course work. Acceptance in cooperative education program. Students will participate in practical co-op engineering work under approved supervision. Students may repeat this course for credit, up to a total of three semester hours.
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EGM3420: Engineering Mechanics
Prerequisites: PHY 2048, MAC 2313. Reduction of force systems. Equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Principles of work, energy, impulse and momentum.
Application to structures and mechanisms.
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EGN3358: Applied Thermal Sciences
Prerequisite: EGN 3311. This course is intended to introduce the student to the fundamental concepts of Thermal Sciences. The basic concepts of Thermodynamic,
Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer are explored drawing extensively from real-world examples. This course in not available for credit by Civil or Mechanical Engineering students.
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