Electrical Engineering (E E)

E E 007S ADVENTURES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ( 1) Exploration of electrical engineering through several hands-on activities that cover a broad spectrum of applications and fundamental concepts.

E E 008S INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MUSIC ( 1) First-year seminar that discusses digital music from an electrical engineering perspective; topics include sampling, digital filtering, compression, and music synthesis.

E E 010S FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ( 1) First-year seminar covering a variety of Electrical Engineering topics that vary from year to year.

E E 097 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

E E 203 PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ( 4) Fundamental treatment of circuits and fields in electrical engineering, with emphasis on the pertinent laws and theorems. Intended for students in engineering science. Prerequisite: MATH 231 ; PHYS 202 or PHYS 212

E E 210 CIRCUITS AND DEVICES ( 4) Introduction to electrical circuit analysis, electronic devices, amplifiers, and time-domain transient analysis. Prerequisite: PHYS 202 or PHYS 212 . Prerequisite or concurrent: MATH 250

E E 220 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS AND POWER DISTRIBUTION ( 3) D.C. and A.C. circuits, transformers, single and three-phase distribution systems, A.C. motors and generators. Prerequisite: PHYS 202 or PHYS 212

E E 296 INDEPENDENT STUDIES ( 1 -18)

E E 297 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

E E 305 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MEASURING SYSTEMS ( 3) Electronic devices and characteristics, amplifiers and feedback, electronic instruments and recording systems. Designed for non-electrical engineering students. Prerequisite: PHYS 202 or PHYS 212

E E 310 ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN I ( 4) Properties of fundamental electronic devices, analysis of DC, AC small-signal and nonlinear behavior, analog and digital circuit design applications. Prerequisite: E E 210

E E 311 ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN II ( 3) Electronic circuit design with consideration to single and multi-device subcircuits, frequency response characteristics, feedback, stability, efficiency, and IC techniques. Prerequisite: E E 310 , E E 350

E E 317 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS: CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE-TIME ( 3) Fourier series and Fourier transform; discrete-time signals and systems and their Fourier analysis; sampling; z-transform. Prerequisite: CMPSC 201C or CMPSC 201F ; E E 210 , MATH 250

E E 320 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRO-OPTICAL ENGINEERING ( 3) An introduction covering several fundamental areas of modern optics, optical processes, and devices. Prerequisite: E E 330

E E 324 INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED MICROCONTROLLERS ( 3) Introduction to microcontrollers in electronic and electromechanical systems. Hardware and software design for user/system interfaces, data acquisition, and control. Prerequisite: CMPSC 201C or CMPSC 201F ; CSE 271 , E E 310

E E 330 ENGINEERING ELECTROMAGNETICS ( 4) Static electric and magnetic fields; solutions to static field problems, Maxwell's equations; electromagnetic waves; boundary conditions; engineering applications. Prerequisite: E E 210 ; MATH 230 or MATH 232

E E 340 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS ( 3) Theoretical study of electronic devices, active and passive circuit elements, linear and nonlinear active circuit analysis. Intended for students in engineering science. Prerequisite: E E 203 or E E 210

E E 350 CONTINUOUS-TIME LINEAR SYSTEMS ( 4) Introduction to continuous-time linear system theory: differential equation models, sinusoidal steady-state analysis, convolution, Laplace transform and Fourier analysis. Prerequisite: E E 210 , MATH 220 , MATH 250

E E 351 DISCRETE-TIME LINEAR SYSTEMS ( 3) Introduction to discrete-time signal processing: sampling, linear time- invariant systems, discrete-time Fourier transform and discrete Fourier transform, Z transform. Prerequisite: E E 350

E E 365 ENERGY CONVERSION ( 3) Electromechanical energy conversion; magnetic circuits; transformers; steadystate and transient analysis of induction, synchronous, and dc machines. Prerequisite: E E 350

E E 367 COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ( 3) Generic communication system; signal transmission; digital communication systems; amplitude modulation; angle modulation. Prerequisite: E E 350

E E 396H INDEPENDENT STUDIES ( 1 - 4) Prerequisite: junior standing

E E 397 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

E E 402W SENIOR PROJECT DESIGN IN ELECTROMAGNETICS ( 3) Project designs of antenna and microwave systems, with an emphasis on technical communications skills. Lab. Prerequisite: E E 330 . Prerequisite or concurrent: ENGL 202C

E E 403W SENIOR PROJECT DESIGN ( 3) Project designs of electrical engineering systems, encompassing various subdisciplines within Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on technical communications skills. Prerequisite: E E 324 , E E 330 , E E 350 , and the completion of two Electrical Engineering technical electives. Prerequisite or concurrent: ENGL 202C

E E 411 PRINCIPLES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS ( 3) Laws of electrodynamics, boundary value problems, relativistic effects, waves in dielectrics and ferrites, diffraction and equivalence theorems. Prerequisite: E E 330

E E 412 OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS ( 3) Operational principles of optical components, including sources, fibers and detectors, and the whole systems in optical fiber communications. Prerequisite: E E 320 , E E 350 , E SC 314

E E 413 LINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS ( 3) Generalized linear network analysis; positive real concepts; 1-port networks; 2-element kind networks; equivalent networks; n-port networks; parts of network functions. Prerequisite: E E 350

E E 414 PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF LASERS ( 3) Principles of lasers--generation, propagation, detection and modulation; applications in fiber optics communication, remote sensing, holography, optical switching and processing. Prerequisite: E E 330 , E SC 400H , or PHYS 400

E E 417 SYSTEM THEORY ( 3) Signal and system models in electrical engineering, response of systems, system stability, reliability, network flow models. Prerequisite: E E 367

E E 418 SOLID STATE DEVICE TECHNOLOGY ( 3) The fundamentals of device technology, including oxidation, diffusion, photoresist, metallization, epitaxy, and material preparation. Prerequisite: E E 310 , E SC 314

E E 419 SOLID STATE DEVICES ( 3) The physics of semiconductors as related to the characteristics and design of solid state electronic devices. Prerequisite: E E 310 , E SC 314

E E 420 ELECTRO-OPTICS: PRINCIPLES AND DEVICES ( 3) Spatially linear system and transform; diffraction theory, partial coherence theory, optical image detection, storage and display, holography. Prerequisite: E E 320

E E 422 OPTICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY ( 3) Hands-on experience covering areas of optical transforms, electro-optics devices, signal processing, fiber optics transmission, and holography. Prerequisite: E E 320

E E 423 POWER ELECTRONICS ( 3) Switch-mode electrical power converters. Electrical characteristics and thermal limits of semiconductor switches. Prerequisite: E E 310 , E E 350

E E 425 SYMMETRICAL COMPONENTS ( 3) Application of the method of symmetrical components to analysis of unbalanced polyphase circuits, including rotating machinery under unbalanced conditions and unsymmetrical faults on power systems. Prerequisite: E E 365

E E 428 LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS ( 3) State variables; time-domain and frequency-domain design and analysis; design of feedback control systems; Root Locus. Prerequisite: E E 310 , E E 350

E E 429 INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS ( 3) Sampling and hold operations; A/D and D/A conversions; modeling of digital systems; response evaluation; stability; basis of digital control; examples. Prerequisite: E E 351 , E E 428

E E 432 UHF AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING ( 3) Transmission line and wave guide characteristics and components; design of UHF-microwave amplifiers, oscillators, and filters; measurement techniques; design projects. Prerequisite: E E 310 , E E 330

E E 433 (METEO) FUNDAMENTALS OF REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS ( 3) The review of fundamental physical properties leads into discussions of various techniques, including imaging, spectroscopy, radiometry, and active sensing. Prerequisite: E E 330 or METEO 436

E E 438 ANTENNA ENGINEERING ( 3) Radiation from small antennas, linear antenna characteristics, arrays of antennas, impedance concepts and measurements, multifrequency antennas, and aperture antennas. Prerequisite: E E 330

E E 439 RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION IN COMMUNICATIONS ( 3) Radiowave propagation phenomena and problems encountered in practice; effects of the earth and atmosphere on radiowaves. Prerequisite: E E 330

E E 447 (CSE) DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ( 3) Analyses and design of digital integrated circuit building blocks, including logic gates, flip-flops, memory elements, analog switches, multiplexers, and converters. Prerequisite: E E 310

E E 448 LINEAR ELECTRONIC DESIGN ( 3) Linear circuit design via integrated circuit processes; A/D converters, switched capacitor filters, phase lock loops, multipliers, and voltage- controlled oscillators. Prerequisite: E E 311

E E 453 FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ( 3) Design of FIR and IIR filters; DFT and its computation via FFT; applications of DFT; filter implementation; finite arithmetic effects. Prerequisite: E E 317 or E E 351

E E 456 (E SC;EGEE) INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS ( 3) Artificial Neural Networks as a solving tool for difficult problems for which conventional methods are not applicable. Prerequisite: CMPSC 201C or CMPSC 201F ; MATH 220

E E 458 (CSE) COMMUNICATION NETWORKS ( 3) Data transmission, encoding, link control techniques; communication network architecture, design; computer communication system architecture, protocols. Prerequisite: CSE 271 ; E E 317 or E E 350

E E 459 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATIONS ( 3) Probability fundamentals, digital/analog modulation/demodulation, system noise analysis, SNR and BER calculations, optimal receiver design concepts, introductory information theory. Prerequisite: E E 367 . Prerequisite or concurrent: STAT 414 or STAT 418

E E 459 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS ( 3) Effective Date: FA2002 Probability fundamentals, digital/analog modulation/demodulation, system noise analysis, SNR and BER calculations, optimal receiver design concepts, introductory information theory. Prerequisite: E E 367 . Prerequisite or concurrent: STAT 414 or STAT 418

E E 461 FUNDAMENTALS OF POWER SYSTEM STABILITY ( 3) Power systems, system fault calculations, fault currents and voltages, application of stability equipment, differential protection, stability instrumentation. Prerequisite: E E 365

E E 478 (CSE) DIGITAL DESIGN USING FIELD PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES ( 3) Field programmable device architectures and technologies; rapid prototyping using top down design techniques; quick response systems. Prerequisite: CSE 331

E E 485 (CSE) AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING ( 3) Overview of digital image processing techniques and their applications; image sampling, enhancement, restoration, and analysis; computer projects. Prerequisite: E E 317 or E E 350 ; CMPSC 201C or CSE 103

E E 486 (CSE) FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER VISION ( 3) Introduction to topics such as image formation, segmentation, feature extraction, shape recovery, object recognition, and dynamic scene analysis. Prerequisite: MATH 230 or MATH 231 ; CMPSC 201C or CSE 103

E E 490 (AERSP;NUC E) INTRODUCTION TO PLASMAS ( 3) Plasma oscillations; collisional phenomena; transport properties; orbit theory; typical electric discharge phenomena. Prerequisite: E E 330 or PHYS 467

E E 492 (AERSP) SPACE ASTRONOMY AND INTRODUCTION TO SPACE SCIENCE ( 3) The physical nature of the objects in the solar system; the earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, radiation belts, magnetosphere, and orbital mechanics. Prerequisite: E E 330 or PHYS 400

E E 494 SENIOR THESIS ( 1 - 9) Students must have approval of a thesis adviser before scheduling this course.

E E 496 INDEPENDENT STUDIES ( 1 -18)

E E 497 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

E E 511 ENGINEERING ELECTROMAGNETICS ( 3) Electromagnetic field theory fundamentals with application to transmission lines, waveguides, cavities, antennas, radar, and radio propagation. Prerequisite: E E 411

E E 512 FIBER OPTICS AND INTEGRATED OPTICS ( 3) Theories and applications of linear and nonlinear optical phenomena in optical fibers and integrated optical devices. Prerequisite: E E 412

E E 515 (CSE) RELIABLE DATA COMMUNICATIONS ( 3) Discussion of problems and solutions for ensuring reliable and efficient communication over wired and wireless links and data networks. Prerequisite: E E 458 , MATH 418

E E 518 MANUFACTURING METHODS IN MICROELECTRONICS ( 3) Methods, tools, and materials used to process advanced silicon integrated circuits. Prerequisite: E E 418

E E 519 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES ( 3) Characteristics and limitations of bipolar transistors, diodes, transit time, and bulk-effect devices. Prerequisite: E E 419

E E 520 ELECTRO OPTICS--SYSTEMS AND COMPUTING ( 3) Synthetic aperture radar, spatial light modulators, optical interconnection, optical computing, neural networks, and medical optics imaging. Prerequisite: E E 420

E E 522 ELECTRO-OPTICS LABORATORY ( 3) Basic concepts and fundamentals of light diffraction, optical signal processing, and holography. Prerequisite: E E 420

E E 524 LASERS AND OPTICAL ELECTRONICS ( 3) Study of several advanced nonlinear optical phenomena, laser propagation, optical and optoelectronic devices, principles, and applications. Prerequisite: E E 414

E E 526 (MATSC) NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS ( 3) Mechanisms of polarization nonlinearity, nonlinear optical processes and analyses, optoelectronic materials and their device application. Prerequisite: E E 420 or MATSE 435

E E 527 LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS ( 3) Continuous and discrete-time linear control systems; state variable models; analytical design for deterministic and random inputs; time-varying systems stability. Prerequisite: E E 428 or M E 455

E E 529 OPTIMAL CONTROL ( 3) Variational methods in control system design; classical calculus of variations, dynamic programming, maximum principle; optimal digital control systems; state estimation. Prerequisite: E E 527

E E 530 ADAPTIVE AND LEARNING SYSTEMS ( 3) Adaptive and learning control systems; system identification; performance indices; gradient, stochastic approximation, controlled random search methods; introduction to pattern recognition. Prerequisite: E E 527

E E 535 BOUNDARY VALUE METHODS OF ELECTROMAGNETICS ( 3) Theory and application of boundary value problems in engineering electromagnetics; topics include microwave and optical waveguides, radiation, and scattering. Prerequisite: E E 411 , E E 432 , E E 438

E E 536 INVERSION TECHNIQUES IN REMOTE SENSING ( 3) Develop inversion techniques for remotely sensed data. Applications include atmospheric radiative transfer, antenna deconvolution, and microwave spectrometer instrument design. Prerequisite: E E 411 , E E 432 , E E 438 , or E E 439 ; E E 459

E E 537 NUMERICAL AND ASYMPTOTIC METHODS OF ELECTROMAGNETICS ( 3) Finite difference time domain, geometric theory of diffraction and method of moments applied to antennas and scattering.

E E 538 ANTENNA ENGINEERING ( 3) In-depth studies of synthesis methods, aperture sources, broadband antennas, and signal-processing arrays. Prerequisite: E E 438

E E 539 MICROWAVE RADAR REMOTE SENSING ( 3) Scientific and engineering principles of microwave radar remote sensing of land, sea, and the atmosphere. Prerequisite: E E 411 or E E 438 or E E 439

E E 540 (NUC E;AERSP) THEORY OF PLASMA WAVES ( 3) Solutions of the Boltzmann equation; waves in bounded and unbounded plasmas; radiation and scattering from plasmas. Prerequisite: E E 490

E E 541 (NUC E) PLASMA THEORY ( 3) Advanced topics in kinetic theory, fluctuation theory, microinstability, and turbulence. Prerequisite: E E 490 or NUC E 490

E E 545 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE RELIABILITY ( 3) Introduction to principles and methods of reliability engineering, application to modern semiconductor component design, and device reliability. Prerequisite: E E 418 OR E E 419 ; MATH 418

E E 546 FIELD-EFFECT DEVICES ( 3) The physical background, characteristics, and limitations of surface field- effect and junction field-effect devices and related structures. Prerequisite: E E 419

E E 547 DIELECTRIC DEVICES ( 3) Applications of insulator physics and devices based on insulator properties. Prerequisite: E E 419

E E 548 LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ( 3) Design of monolithic, thin-film, and hybrid linear integrated circuits; D.C., video, tuned, r.f., and microwave applications. Emphasis on reliability. Prerequisite: E E 418 , E E 448

E E 550 NETWORK SYNTHESIS ( 3) Positive real functions, realizability conditions, synthesis of driving point immittances, synthesis of two-terminal pair networks, transfer function synthesis. Prerequisite: E E 450

E E 553 TOPICS IN DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ( 3) Parametric modeling, spectral estimation, efficient transforms and convolution algorithms, multirate processing, and selected applications involving non-linear and time-variant filters. Prerequisite: E E 453

E E 554 (CSE) ERROR CORRECTING CODES FOR COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATION ( 3) Block, cyclic and convolutional codes; circuits and algorithms for decoding; application to reliable communication and fault-tolerant computing. Prerequisite: CSE 458

E E 556 GRAPHS, ALGORITHMS, AND NEURAL NETWORKS ( 3) Examine neural networks by exploiting graph theory for offering alternate solutions to classical problems in signal processing and control.

E E 557 MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ( 3) Multidimensional sampling, weak causality, recursibility, multidimensional transforms, stability, global and local state-space models, multidimensional filters, and multidimensional spectrum estimation. Prerequisite: E E 453

E E 559 (M E) NONLINEAR CONTROL AND STABILITY ( 3) Design of nonlinear automatic control systems; phase-plane methods; describing functions; optimum switched systems; Liapunov stability; special topics in stability. Prerequisite: E E 417 or E E 428 OR M E 455

E E 560 STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND ESTIMATION ( 3) Review of probability theory and random variables; mathematical description of random signals; linear system response; Wiener, Kalman, and other filtering. Prerequisite: E E 350 ; MATH 414 or MATH 418 or STAT 414 or STAT 418

E E 561 INFORMATION THEORY ( 3) Mathematical measurement of information; information transfer in discrete systems; redundancy, efficiency, and channel capacity; encoding systems. Prerequisite: E E 459 ; MATH 414 or MATH 418 or STAT 414 or STAT 418

E E 562 DETECTION AND ESTIMATION THEORY ( 3) Detection decision theory, Bayes and Neyman-Pearson criteria, optimal receivers, classical estimation theory, signal-noise representations, optimum linear signal parameters estimation. Prerequisite: E E 560

E E 563 SIGNAL THEORY I ( 3) Requires familiarity with fundamentals of linear system theory and rudiments of Fourier analysis. Prerequisite: E E 453 , MATH 220

E E 565 COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF POWER SYSTEMS ( 3) Network matrix methods of power system analysis. Formulation and computer solution of short circuit, load flow, and transient stability problems. Prerequisite: E E 425 or E E 461

E E 566 (M E) ROBUST CONTROL THEORY ( 3) Fundamentals of Robust Control Theory with emphasis on stability, performance analysis, and design. Prerequisite: E E 527 or M E 555

E E 568 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS I ( 3) Linear and nonlinear digital modulation techniques; performance in additive Gaussian noise channel; continuous phase modulation; carrier acquisition and recovery. Prerequisite: E E 459 . Prerequisite or concurrent: E E 560

E E 569 SIMULATION OF BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS ( 3) Simulation of biological and medical systems on analog and digital computers; direct electrical analogs; modeling techniques. Prerequisite: BIOL 101 , CMPEN 470

E E 578 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS II ( 3) Baseband pulse transmission; baseband systems optimization; bandlimited channels performance in ISI; equalization; MLSE and ISI; fading channels; diversity; CDMA. Prerequisite: E E 560 , E E 568

E E 580 RADIO WAVES AND THE IONOSPHERE ( 3) The magneto-ionic theory of ionospheric wave propagation; ray-optical approximations; determination of ionization profiles; full wave solutions; nonlinear and coupling effects. Prerequisite: E E 438 or PHYS 557

E E 581 CONSTITUTION OF THE IONOSPHERE ( 3) Properties of neutral and ionized atmosphere above 60 km; photochemical processes; solar, meteoric perturbations of the ionosphere; large-scale movements in ionization.

E E 583 (CSE) PATTERN RECOGNITION--PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS ( 3) Principles and applications decision-theoretic classification, discriminant functions, pattern processing and feature selection, syntactic pattern recognition, shape analysis and recognition.

E E 585 (CSE) DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING II ( 3) Advanced treatment of image processing techniques; image restoration, image segmentation, texture, and mathematical morphology. Prerequisite: CSE 485 or E E 485

E E 586 (CSE) TOPICS IN COMPUTER VISION ( 3) Discussion of recent advances and current research trends in computer vision theory, algorithms, and their applications. Prerequisite: CSE 486 or E E 486

E E 590 COLLOQUIUM ( 1 - 3) Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.

E E 594 RESEARCH PROJECTS ( 1 - 3) Supervision of individual research projects leading to M.S. or M.Eng. papers. Written and oral reports are required.

E E 596 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES ( 1 - 9) Creative projects including non-thesis research which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

E E 597 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

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Effective Date: Current

Review Date: 08/02/2002

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