Covers the following topics: logic gates, binary number system, conversion between number systems, Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, combinational logic, digital logic design, flip-flops, programmable logic devices (PLDs), counters, registers, memories, state machines, designing combinational logic and state machines into PLDs, and basic computer architecture. Lab emphasizes the use of software equation entry design tools, the use of a schematic entry, and the use of a logic simulation design tool. Lab assignments are design-oriented.

Prerequisite: CSC 15 or CSC 25

Cross Listed: CPE 64; only one may be counted for credit.

Introduction to electronics, ideal OP-AMPS, BJTs, FETs, DC biasing, VI characteristics, single stage amplifiers, low frequency small signal models, power supplies and voltage regulation. PSPICE required.

Prerequisite: EEE 117.

Corequisite: EEE 108L.

Characteristics and applications of OP-AMPS, rectifiers, BJTs and FETs. Introduction to GPIB, PSPICE and LabVIEW. Laboratory three hours.

Prerequisite: EEE 117, EEE 117L.

Corequisite: EEE 108.

The use of operational amplifiers in circuit designs for applications such as filtering, switched capacitor design, sample and hold design, instrumentation amplifiers, and voltage reference circuitry will be explored, as well as topics in Feedback Theory.

Prerequisite: EEE 109 or consent of instructor.

Review of Sinusoidal steady state, phasors, complex power, three phase power, mutual inductance, series and parallel resonance. Introduction to application of Laplace transforms in network analysis, transfer functions, Bode plots, Fourier series, two-port circuits.

Prerequisite: ENGR 17, EEE 64; EEE 64 may be taken concurrently.

Corequisite: EEE 117L.

Introduces fundamental laboratory techniques while demonstrating the concepts introduced in the EEE 117 lecture. The computer simulation language PSPICE is introduced and applied. Laboratory three hours.

Corequisite: EEE 117.

Fundamental principles of sensors and instrumentation systems, together with their electrical implementation, such as biasing and signal conditioning circuits. Temperature, force, pressure, and mechanical sensors. Optical sensors, including a brief introduction to light sources and detectors. Applications to biomedical engineering and industrial control. Lecture three hours; laboratory three hours.

Prerequisite: EEE 108, EEE 117; EEE 108 may be taken concurrently.

Magnetic circuits and principles of electromechanical energy conversion, 3-Phase, DC machines, state equations, terminal characteristics, transformers, AC machines, terminal characteristics of synchronous machines, stability considerations. Induction machine theory. Introduction to energy sources including conventional and nuclear power plants.

Prerequisite: EEE 117; may be taken concurrently.

Direct current motor and generator characteristics, three phase synchronous motor and synchronous generator characteristics, single phase power transformer short circuit and no-load tests, frequency changer tests and tests on DC and AC machine models, potential and current transformers.

Prerequisite: EEE 117, EEE 130 (EEE 130 may be taken concurrently), and (GWAR Certification before Fall 09, or WPJ score of 70+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109M/W).

Characteristics of power system components; power system planning; transmission line parameters and the steady-state performance of transmission lines; disturbance of the normal operating conditions, symmetrical components and sequence impedances; analysis of balanced and imbalanced faults; and a brief review of protection systems.

Prerequisite: EEE 130; may be taken concurrently.

Energy systems and ecology, load flow studies, sensitivity; optimum allocation and dispatching; optimal dynamic system control; modern stability studies. Students in the course will use MATLAB to solve problems.

Prerequisite: EEE 130.

Simulation of three phase operations and transmission line operation including voltage regulation, efficiency of long lines, power system stability, voltage control and load-frequency control, load flow and optimal dispatch for simplified interconnected systems.

Prerequisite: EEE 130, EEE 141, and (GWAR Certification before Fall 09, or WPJ score of 70+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109M/W).

Review thyristors, controlled rectifiers, DC choppers and inverters and pulse width modulation methods including space vector method. Control of DC drives and methods of control of induction synchronious motors including flux-vector methods and computer simulations will be studied.

Prerequisite: EEE 108, EEE 130.

Solid state applications in power control. Diodes, rectifiers (single state and three phase), thrustors. Principle of phase controlled rectification, single phase and three phase converters. Power factor improvement. Three phase Pulse Width Modulation (PWM). AC voltage controllers. SPICE modeling. Strong design emphasis. EMTP modeling. LabView graphics simulation. Microprocessor control of power electronics systems. UPS systems, power supplies, power quality monitoring.

Prerequisite: EEE 146; may be taken concurrently.

Review of vector calculus. Electrostatic fields from lines, surface and volume charges by Coulomb's law, Gauss' law, Laplace's and Poisson's equations. Capacitance. Magnetostatic field calculations using Biot-Savart's law and Ampere's law. Inductance. Forces on moving charges. Magnetic materials. Electric and magnetic energy in fields. Faraday's law. Ideal transformer. Moving conductor in time-varying magnetic field. Displacement current. Charge-current continuity relation. Transmission line analysis, characteristic impedance, reflection coefficient and standing wave concepts. Introduction to Smith Chart solutions to matching problems.

Prerequisite: MATH 32, MATH 45, PHYS 11C, ENGR 17, and CSC 25.

Semiconductor physics, atomic models and crystal structures. Quantum theory, energy bands, motion of charge carriers, minority/majority carrier profiles and pn junctions. Manufacturing processes for and operating characteristics of diodes, bipolar transistors and field effect devices.

Prerequisite: EEE 108.

Topics include: microcomputer systems, microprocessor architecture, machine and assembly language programming, timing operations, bus arbitration and exception processing logic, addressing modes, parallel and serial ports, memory, assemblers and development systems. The lab uses development systems and target systems in the Computer Engineering laboratory to assemble, link, test and debug and run various assignments. Lecture three hours; laboratory three hours.

Prerequisite: Junior status, EEE 64.

Fundamental digital image processing and machine vision concepts and their application to the fields of robotics and automation. Topics include: digital image processing, image formation, two dimensional transforms, boundary descriptors, motion, camera calibration, vision for robot control, 3-D vision, and hardware architectures to support vision.

Prerequisite: EEE 180 or ME 172, or instructor approval.

Rigorous development of the fundamental relationships governing time-domain and frequency-domain analysis of linear continuous-time and discrete-time systems. Topics include Fourier, Laplace and z-transforms, sampling theorem, modulation, system stability, and digital filters.

Prerequisite: EEE 117; EEE 117 may be taken concurrently.

Focuses on the application of linear systems theory to design and analysis of digital signal processing systems. Discrete systems, the z transform, and discrete Fourier transform are reviewed. Design of infinite impulse response filters, finite impulse response filters, and digital spectral analysis systems is presented. Computer simulation is used to study the performance of filters and spectral analysis systems. Signal processing architectures are introduced. Lecture three hours.

Prerequisite: EEE 64 or equivalent, EEE 180.

Provides senior level undergraduate students with experience in the software/hardware design of discrete-time systems, and modern DSP techniques. Laboratory projects will include the following: spectral analysis of analog and digital signals, design of sampling and quantizer circuits, design and realization of IIR and FIR Digital Filters. Hardware projects will include acquisition, analysis, and filtering of speech, biomedical and video signals using Digital Signal Processors (DSPs).

Prerequisite: EEE 180, EEE 181; EEE 181 may be taken concurrently.

Review of signal and system analysis, sampling theorem and Nyquist's criteria for pulse shaping, signal distortion over a channel, study of digital and analog communication systems, line coding, signal to noise ratios, performance comparison of various communication systems.

Prerequisite: EEE 180, ENGR 120; ENGR 120 may be taken concurrently.

Intended to present treatment of the classical digital control with an introduction to modern digital control system in the state space. Z-transform as applied to discrete-time systems with transformation from the s-plane to the z-plane. Analyzes digital control systems using Nyquist and Bode plots and root-locus. Stability analysis of digital systems using Jury test, Routh Criterion, Nyquist and Bode plots. Design using root-locus and Bode plots introduced. Introduction to state-space and pole assignment. Finite-word length effects. MATLAB applications.

Prerequisite: EEE 180, GWAR certification before Fall 09, WPJ score of 70+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109 M/W.

Continuation of EEE 192A. Students are expected to continue the power engineering design project begun the previous semester in EEE 192A. Final results of the project report will be presented orally to the class and invited faculty in a publicized seminar. Lecture one hour; laboratory three hours.

Prerequisite: EEE 192A, EEE 142, EEE 144; EEE 142 or EEE 144, but not both may be taken concurrently.

Concentrates on design projects begun by the previous semester design teams in EEE 193A. The hardware will be completed, tested for the meeting of specifications and other requirements, and redesigned if necessary. Required software will be written, debugged and incorporated in a written report. The final results of the team project will be presented orally to the class and invited faculty in a publicized seminar. Lecture one hour; laboratory three hours.

Prerequisite: EEE 193A.

Designed for Electrical and Electronic Engineering students making career decisions. Instruction will include effective career planning strategies and techniques including skill assessments, employment search strategy, goal setting, time management, interview techniques and resume writing. Lecture one hour.

Note: Units earned cannot be used to satisfy major requirements.

Prerequisite: EEE 192A or EEE 193A, may be taken concurrently.

Supervised work experience in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with public agencies or firms in the industry. Requires approval of a petition by the supervising faculty member and Department Chair.

Note: May be repeated for credit.

Supervised employment in a professional engineering or computer science environment. Placement arranged through the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Requires satisfactory completion of the work assignment and a written report.

Note: Units earned cannot be used to satisfy major requirements.

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Individual projects or directed reading.

Note: Open only to students who appear qualified for independent work. Approval of the faculty sponsor and the academic advisor must be obtained before registering. May be repeated for credit.

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Research methodology, problem formulation and problem solving. Collective and individual study of selected issues and problems relating to fields of study in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduate Program. Orientation to the requirements for Masters Thesis or Project in Electrical Engineering.

Prerequisite: Fully classified graduate status.

Introduction to design methodology of the basic building blocks of communication systems. Use of solid state devices in communications and microwave technology. Implementation of transmitter and receiver architectures. Impedance matching, S-parameters and small-signal, large-signal device operation. Design of transmitter and receiver components using a professional software tool. Design and simulations of gain and low noise amplifiers, detectors, mixers, power amplifiers and oscillators. Tradeoffs involved in the design of a complete transmitter and a receiver.

Prerequisite: EEE 211 or instructor permission.

Introduces the student to fundamental digital imaging processing concepts and their application to the fields of robotics, automation, and signal processing. Topics include: digital image filters, two dimensional transforms, boundary descriptors, Hough transform, automated visual inspection techniques, vision for robot control, 3-D vision, and hardware architectures to support vision.

Covers key mixed-signal integrated circuit building blocks most often used in modern ICs. Topics covered include data converter fundamentals, comparators, and important circuit architectures for Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), and Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs).

Prerequisite: EEE 230 or consent of instructor.

Semiconductor device modeling, including the application of the continuity equation and Poissons equation to abrupt and graded p/n junctions, semiconductor/metal contacts, junction field effect transistors (JFET), metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors (MOSFET), and bipolar junction transistors (BJT). Special topics include compound semiconductor devices and heterostructures.

Computational methods for solving problems in engineering analysis. Topics include variational methods, finite-difference analysis, optimization methods, and matrix methods. Focuses predominantly on applications of the methods, and students are required to solve real-world, engineering problems on the computer.

Prerequisite: EEE 180.

Review of digital control methods using transform techniques. State-variable representation and design of digital control systems, state-space compensators and tracking systems, polynomial equations approach, LQR and LQG discrete-time control and identification, and introduction to adaptive self-turning regulators.

Prerequisite: EEE 241.

Study of a number of engineering and economic matters involved in planning, operating, and controlling power generation and transmission systems in electric utilities. Effects of hydro and nuclear plants on system economics. Economic and environmental constraints. Theoretical developments and computer methods in determining economic operation of interconnected power systems with emphasis on digital computers.

Prerequisite: EEE 141 or equivalent.

The fundamental concepts of control and stability in power systems. Topics include: power systems dynamics and linearized models, small and large disturbances, voltage and frequency stability. Introduction to power systems dynamic simulation for stability studies using CAD tools.

Prerequisite: EEE graduate standing.

Topics from recent advances in Electrical Power Engineering selected from IEEE Journal on "Power Systems" and "Power Systems Delivery." May be taken twice for credit.

Prerequisite: EEE 142.

Hierarchical digital design course that includes: State machine design, Programmable Logic Devices, digital simulation techniques, digital interface, design with ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), programmable Gate Arrays, and designing with Gas high speed logic devices. Problems with EMI, RFI and EMC will be presented along with design guidelines. Lecture three hours.

Prerequisite: EEE 64 or equivalent.

Cross Listed: CSC 273; only one may be counted for credit.

Focuses on: design of the microprocessor based computer system, study of bus structures, interrupt schemes, memory interfacing, timing, bus arbitration, system architecture, data communications, introduction to multiprocessor systems, and software development.

Prerequisite: EEE 174 or CPE 185.

Open to qualified students who wish to pursue problems of their own choice. Projects must have approval and supervision of a faculty advisor.

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Completion of a thesis, project or comprehensive examination. Credit given upon successful completion of one of the following plans: Plan A: Master's Thesis, 5 units; Plan B: Master's Project, 2 units; or Plan C: Comprehensive Examination.

Prerequisite: Advanced to candidacy and permission of the graduate coordinator, and GWAR certification before Fall 09, WPJ score of 70+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109 M/W.