Graduate Courses in Electrical Engineering (EE)

EE 201 - Linear System Theory

Basic concepts in system theory; linear algebra; state space representation; stability; controllability and observability. Applications of these concepts. Prerequisite: 171 or graduate standing.

Credits: 3

EE 209 - Transient Phenomena

Study of complex variable basis of Laplace and Fourier Transforms; applications to transient behavior of lumped and distributed parameter systems, root locus. Nyquist criterion and two-dimensional field problems. Prerequisite: 4. Not offered 2001-02.

Credits: 3

EE 210 - Introduction Control Systems

Analysis and design of continuous and discrete-time control systems; stability, signal flow, performance criteria, classical and state variable methods, simulation design tools, computer-based realizations. Prerequisite: 171.

Credits: 3

EE 212 - Computer Vision

Introduction to computer vision systems for interactive and industrial applications using both hard/software computational approaches. Pre/co-requisites: Math 124 or 271 and CS 26 or instructor's permission. Cross-listing: CS 212.

Credits: 3

EE 214 - Ubiquitous Cmptg & Interaction

Introduction to human computer interaction in the area of sensory intelligence with concentration to biofeedback, biometric analysis, human factor, wearable computing, mixed reality, and graphical user interfaces. Pre/co-requisites: CS 26 and senior or graduate standing in engineering, math, or computer science, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EE 216 - Sensory based robotics

Introduction to broad aspects on modern robotics, including industrial robotic hand, humanoid robot, personal robot, mobile robot, and entertainment robot. Pre/co-requisites: Senior or graduate standing in engineering, math, or computer science, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EE 221 - Prin VLSI Digital Circuit Des

Design of VLSI circuits using a modular approach with industrial grade software: schematic capture; circuit design languages (HDL); full-custom layouts; mixed signals; synthesis. Laboratory. Pre/corequisites: EE 131, 163, 121.

Credits: 0 or 3

EE 222 - Prin VLSI Analog Cir Design

The design, layout, and simulation of VLSI analog circuits. Emphasis on small signal models and circuits used in operational amplifiers. Prerequisites: 163, 121, instructor's permission.

Credits: 0 or 3

EE 224 - Principles VLSI System Design

Survey of VLSI design. Architecture and partitioning of functions. Design for testability. Simulation including timing. Synthesis. Design verification; manufacturing interface. Required team project and report. Prerequisite: 221 or instructor's permission.

Credits: 3

EE 227 - Biomed Measmnts Instrum & Sys

Biomedical and clinical engineering in research, industry, and health care institutions. Measurement techniques and instrumentation. Integrated biomedical monitoring, diagnostic, and therapeutic systems. Corequisites: 121, ANPS 20, instructor's permission. Alternate years.

Credits: 3

EE 228 - Sensors

Sensor design, interrogation, and implementation. A wide variety of electrical, electronic, optical, mechanic, and cross-disciplinary devices. System designs, measurement techniques, and methodologies. Prerequisite: Senior standing in engineering or physics.

Credits: 3

EE 231 - Digital Computer Design I

Hardware organization and realization, hard-wired and microprogrammed control units, interrupt and I/O systems. Hardware design language introduced and used for computer design. Prerequisites: 131; either 134 or Computer Science 101.

Credits: 3

EE 232 - Digital Computer Design II

Memory designs, error control, high-speed addition, multiplication, and division, floating-point arithmetic, cpu enhancements, testing and design for testability. Prerequisite: 231.

Credits: 3

EE 233 - Microprocessor Systems & Appl

Basic principles of mini/microcomputers; A/D; D/A; channels, magnetic devices, display devices, mechanical devices; interface designs of analog systems to mini/microcomputers; principles of microprogramming; bit-slice-based microcomputers. Prerequisites: Departmental permission, Computer Science 101 desirable.

Credits: 0 or 4

EE 241 - Electromagnetic Wave Theory

Electromagnetic radiation and wave propagation in complex media and systems: angular spectrum of plane waves, dispersive pulse propagation, applications to communications, imaging and remote sensing. Prerequisites: EE 141 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EE 242 - Electromagnetic Theory II

Macroscopic Maxwell theory, boundary conditions and dispersion relations for spatio-temporal fields. Electromagnetic wave propagation, reflection and transmission, guided waves, radiation, scattering and diffraction phenomena. Prerequisite: 241 or instructor's permission.

Credits: 3

EE 245 - Lasers&Electro-Optical Devices

A theoretical description of light-matter interactions in photon emitting resonant cavities. A practical understanding of laser design and operation. Prerequisite: 142.

Credits: 3

EE 246 - Engineering Optics

Applications of optics to the solution of engineering problems. Optical signal processing, fiber optic sensors, integrated optics. Prerequisite: 245 or instructor's permission.

Credits: 3

EE 247 - Physical Optics I

Fundamental properties of the optical field. Molecular optics and the Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem. Foundations of geometrical optics. Diffraction and aberration theory. Prerequisites: 142, or Physics 214.

Credits: 3

EE 248 - Physical Optics II

Partially coherent light and the Van-Cittert Zernike theorem. Rigorous diffraction theory, the optics of metals and crystal optics. Prerequisite: 247.

Credits: 3

EE 250 - Test Engineering

Parametric, structural, functional, characterization and stress testing of components and subsystems. Test methods, strategies, planning, and economics. Test equipment hardware and software. Prerequisites: 121, 131.

Credits: 3

EE 251 - Digital Syst Testing & Design

Circuit failures, fault models, testing and test pattern generation, logic and fault simulation, design for testability, scan design, test interfaces, design for built-in self-test. Prerequisite: 131.

Credits: 3

EE 261 - Solid State Mat & Devices I

Energy band theory, effective mass, band structure and electronic properties of semiconductors. Transport of electrons and holes in bulk materials and across interfaces. Homojunctions, heterojunctions, and Schottky barriers. Prerequisite: 163.

Credits: 3

EE 262 - Solid State Mats & Devices II

Multijunction and interface devices. Heterostructure and optical devices. Dielectric and optical properties solids. High-frequency and high-speed devices. Prerequisite: 261.

Credits: 3

EE 266 - Science & Tech Integrated Cir

Science and technology of integrated circuit fabrication. Interaction of processing with material properties, electrical performance, economy, and manufacturability. Prerequisites: 163 or 261, concurrent registration in 164 or 262.

Credits: 3

EE 270 - Stochastic Processes

Probability theory, random variables, and stochastic processes. Response of linear systems to random inputs. Applications in electrical engineering. Cross-listed with STAT 270. Prerequisites: EE 171 and STAT 151.

Credits: 3

EE 271 - Detection and Estimation

Foundations of linear and nonlinear least squares estimation, smoothing and prediction, computational aspects, Kalman filtering, nonlinear filtering, parameter identification, and adaptive filtering. Cross-listed with STAT 271. Prerequisite: EE 270.

Credits: 3

EE 272 - Information Theory

Introduction to probability concepts of information theory; entropy of probability models; theoretical derivations of channel capacity; coding methods and theorems, sampling theorems. Prerequisite: STAT 143/151/153.

Credits: 3

EE 273 - Digital Communications

Digital modulation/demodulation methods and BER performance; source entropy and channel capacity; optimal detection; convolutional codes and decoding algorithms. Pre/corequisites: EE 174, and EE 270 or STAT 143 or STAT 151.

Credits: 3

EE 274 - Intro Wavelets & Filter Banks

Continuous and discrete-time signal processing. Continuous wavelet transform. Series expansion of continuous and discrete-time signals. Perfect reconstruction, orthogonal and biorthogonal filter banks. Wavelets from filters. Prerequisites: 171, or instructor's permission. Cross-listing: Math 278.

Credits: 3

EE 275 - Digital Signal Processing

Sampling and reconstruction of signals. DFT, FFT and the z-transform. FIR and IIR filter design. Speech coding. Accompanying lab: EE 289. Pre/co-requisites: EE 171, permission.

Credits: 3

EE 276 - Image Processing & Coding

Image enhancement techniques by point and spatial operations. Data compression techniques to include scalar quantization, entropy coding, transform and sub-band coding. Labs on PC hardware; PC and Unix-based software. Prerequisites: 275; 270 recommended.

Credits: 0 or 4

EE 277 - Image Anyl&Pattern Recognition

Image, shape, and texture analysis. Statistical pattern recognition methods. Pattern recognition and computer vision techniques for machine parts recognition and automatic visual inspection. Prerequisite: 276.

Credits: 3

EE 278 - Wireless Communication Systems

Modern wireless systems, including cellular design, propogation modeling, multiple access and equalization techniques. Pre/co-requisites: Pre: EE 174 and (EE 270 or STAT 143 or STAT 151 or STAT 153)

Credits: 3

EE 281 - Materials Science Seminar

Presentation and discussion of advanced electrical engineering problems and current developments. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate engineering enrollment.

Credits: 1

EE 295 - Special Topics

Special topics in developing areas of electrical engineering. Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission.

Credits: 1 to 18

EE 310 - Digital Control Systems

Digital control system analysis and design using transform, algebraic, and state space methods. Sampled data systems, stability, quantization effects, sample rate selection, computer-based realization. Prerequisites: 210 or permission.

Credits: 3

EE 312 - Intro Optimum Control Systems

Optimal control problem formulation and solution; including the calculus of variations, Pontryagin's maximum principle, Hamilton-Jacob theory, dynamic programming, and computational methods. Prerequisite: 210.

Credits: 3

EE 314 - Nonlinear System Theory

Basic nonlinear methods including computational and geometrical techniques for analysis of nonlinear systems. Describing function methods and bifurcation and catastrophe theory. Sensitivity and stability considerations. Prerequisite: 201 or Math. 230.

Credits: 3

EE 315 - Nonlinear System Theory

Basic nonlinear methods including computational and geometrical techniques for analysis of nonlinear systems. Describing function methods and bifurcation and catastrophe theory. Sensitivity and stability considerations. Prerequisite: 201 or Math. 230.

Credits: 3

EE 338 - Semiconductor Dev Model&Simul

Analysis and application of computer models for semiconductor process and device simulation. Strategies for development of device models for circuit simulation. Prerequisites: 262, permission.

Credits: 3

EE 340 - ST:Electromagnetic Field Thry

For advanced students in the field of electromagnetism. Topics selected from special interests of staff with lectures and readings from current literature.

Credits: 3

EE 341 - ST:Electromagnetic Field Thry

For advanced students in the field of electromagnetism. Topics selected from special interests of staff with lectures and readings from current literature.

Credits: 3

EE 352 - Adv Semicond Device Phys & Des

MOSFET, bipolar, and CMOS device parameters, their characterization, and their relation to process technology. Description and use of computer-aided process and device models. Prerequisite: 262. Alternate years. Spring semester.

Credits: 3

EE 354 - MOS Analog Intergrtd Circ Dsgn

Analysis and design of MOS analog integrated circuits. Each student will design, layout, test, and document an analog integrated circuit using computer-aided-design techniques. Prerequisites: 338, 339.

Credits: 3

EE 365 - Optoelectronic Devices

Optical and electro optical properties of semiconductors. Applications to photodetectors, solar cells, light emitting diodes and lasers. Prerequisites: EE 142, EE 261.

Credits: 3

EE 366 - Solid State & Semicond Thry I

Energy band theory for electrons and phonons in crystalline solids. Brillouin zones. Conservation laws. Elements of statistical mechanics. Transport properties. Applications to semiconductor electronics. Prerequisites: 261, Physics 273 or Chemistry 263.

Credits: 3

EE 373 - ST: Communcation Systems

Advanced topics of current interest in communication systems. Topics may include channel coding/decoding, software radio, ad-hoc networks, wireless systems, etc. Prerequisite: EE 273 or Permission.

Credits: 3

EE 378 - St:Stat Comm & Related Fields

Coding for communication or computer systems, pattern recognition and learning machines, artificial intelligence, etc., selected from special interests of staff with lectures and readings from current literature. Prerequisite: Permission.

Credits: 3

EE 391 - Master's Thesis Research

Credits: 1 to 18

EE 395 - Advanced Special Topics

Advanced topics of current interest in electrical engineering. Prerequisites: Permission.

Credits: 1 to 6

EE 491 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

Credits: 1 to 18