Courses in Electrical Engineering (EE)

EE 001 - First-year Design Experience

Introduction to the engineering profession and design. Hands-on experiences that emphasize interdisciplinary teamwork, technical communications, and project design methodologies. Cross-listing: ME 001.

Credits: 0 or 2

EE 003 - Linear Circuit Analysis I

Circuit elements, laws, and analysis. Network principles and theorems. Energy- storage elements. Magnetically coupled circuits. Transient analysis and time constants. Prerequisite: MATH 22.

Credits: 3

EE 004 - Linear Circuit Analysis II

Sinusoids and phasors. Sinusoidal steady-state response and power. Complex frequency and network functions. Resonance. Laplace transform techniques. Fourier series and Fourier transforms. Prerequisite: EE 3; Corequisite: MATH 271.

Credits: 0 or 3

EE 081 - Linear Circuits Laboratory I

Electrical instruments; oscilloscope measurements; resistive, capacitive, and inductive components; applications of operational amplifiers; digital-to-analog converters; transient response of RL and RC circuits. Corequisite: EE 3

Credits: 0 or 2

EE 082 - Linear Circuits Laboratory II

Transients in RLC circuits; steady state sinusoidal response in RLC circuits; real and reactive power in RLC circuits; operational amplifier active filters. Prerequisite: EE 81; Corequisite: EE 4.

Credits: 0 or 2

EE 095 - Special Topics

See Schedule of Courses for specific titles. Prerequisite: Departmental permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

EE 100 - Electrical Engr Concepts

Fundamentals of electrical engineering; DC and AC linear circuit analysis; laboratory component. No credit for EE majors. Co-requisite: PHYS 125.

Credits: 0 or 4

EE 101 - Digital Control w/Embedded Sys

Applications of single-chip microcomputers as embedded systems for data acquisition/real time control. Assembly language; parallel and serial ports; timers; counters; A/D and D/A. Laboratory. Prerequisite: EE 100.

Credits: 0 or 4

EE 113 - Electric Energy Systems

Energy sources, including renewables; generation, delivery, consumption of electricity; power plants, emissions, policy; three-phase power, transformers, motors/generators, power electronics; 0 credit laboratory included. Pre/co-requisites: EE 004 (co-req) or EE 100 (pre-req).

Credits: 0 to 4

EE 120 - Electronics I

Theory of operation of diodes and MOS transistors. DC and transient analysis using diodes and transistors. NMOS and CMOS logic circuits and memory cells. Circuit simulation software. Prerequisite: EE 4

Credits: 0 or 3

EE 121 - Electronics II

Bipolar transistor circuits. DC and high frequency amplifier design using MOS and bipolar transistors. Feedback, oscillators, and stability criteria. Operational amplifiers and switched capacitor filters. Prerequisite: EE 120.

Credits: 0 or 3

EE 131 - Fundamentals of Digital Design

Combinational logic simplification and design, MSI and PLD components, synchronous and asynchronous sequential design, algorithmic state machines, registers, counters, memory units, introduction to hardware design languages. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.

Credits: 3

EE 134 - Fund of Microcomp Based Syst

In-depth study and applications of a modern microprocessor in embedded digital systems for real-time control and data acquisition. Assembly language and the design of interfaces. Prerequisites: 3 or 100, and Computer Science 16 or 21; EE 131 and Computer Science 101 desirable.

Credits: 0 or 4

EE 141 - Electromagnetic Field Theory

Fundamentals of electromagnetic fields; vector analysis; Maxwell-Lorentz theory, conservative laws, Poynting's theorem, energy flow and dissipation, potential theory and boundary value problems, material properties. Prerequisites: Physics 125, Math 271, EE 4. 271, Physics 42.

Credits: 0 or 4

EE 163 - Solid State Phys Electronics I

Physical principles required to understand the operation of common semiconductor devices. Physical models of p-n junctions, Schottky barriers, and MOS field-effect transistors. Prerequisites: Physics 42 with 22, Math 271.

Credits: 4

EE 164 - Solid St Phys Electronics II

Theory of operation of bipolar junction transistors. Heterojunction transistors. Compound and alloy semiconductor materials and devices. Dielectric and magnetic materials and devices. Prerequisite: EE 163.

Credits: 3

EE 171 - Signals & Systems

Discrete and continuous-time signals and systems. Input/output descriptions and analysis. Convolution, Fourier analysis and Laplace transforms, Sampling and z-transforms. Application to electrical engineering design problems. Prerequisite: EE 4.

Credits: 0 or 4

EE 174 - Communication Systems

Signal analysis. Fundamentals of digital communications including PCM, channel coding, pulse shaping and modulation. Wireless communications, modulation, antennas and link budgets. Related laboratory experience. Prerequisite: EE 004.

Credits: 0 or 4

EE 183 - Electronics Laboratory I

Characteristics and applications of diodes and MOSFETs; CMOS inverters and logic characterization; applications of operational amplifiers. Corequisite: EE 120.

Credits: 0 or 2

EE 184 - Electronics Laboratory II

Characteristics and applications of bipolar junction transistors; medium frequency and differential amplifiers; operational amplifier output stages; analog and digital filters. Prerequisite: EE 183; Corequisite: EE 121.

Credits: 0 or 2

EE 187 - Capstone Design I

Project management, professional ethics, social/ economic impact, and contemporary issues that arise in engineering practice. Interdisciplinary project development including project selection, design requirements, prototyping and communications. Pre/co-requisites: Senior standing.

Credits: 2

EE 188 - Capstone Design II

Cumulative, team-based interdisciplinary design experience. Subsystem design, implementation and test. System integration and test. Project demonstration, report, and presentation. Pre/co-requisites: EE 187.

Credits: 2

EE 193 - College Honors

Credits: 3 to 6

EE 194 - College Honors

Credits: 3 to 6

EE 195 - Special Topics

See Schedule of Courses for specific titles. Prerequisite: Departmental permission.

Credits: 1 to 18

EE 207 - Introductory Bioengineering

Introduction to biomedical engineering science including biomechanics, biomaterials, biomedical imaging, rehabilitation engineering, biomedical computing, biomedical instrumentation, and transport phenomena. Pre/co-requisites: Senior or grad standing in engineering; instructor permission. Cross Listing: ME 207.

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: MATH 271.

Credits: 3

EE 210 - 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: EE 171 or ME 111. Cross-listed with ME 210.

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 215 - Electric Energy Systems Analys

Transmission line, generator, transformer modeling and control, per-unit conversion, power flow calculations and software, symmetric components and fault analysis, protection/relaying, stability analysis, smart grid. Prerequisite: EE 113, Co-requisite: MATH 124.

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 245 - Quantum Electronics

A theoretical description of light-matter interactions in photon emitting resonant cavities. A practical understanding of laser design and operation. Prerequisite: EE 141.

Credits: 3

EE 247 - Physical Optics

Fundamental properties of the optical field. Molecular optics and the Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem. Foundations of geometrical optics. Diffraction and aberration theory. Prerequisites: EE 141.

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 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 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. Prerequisite: EE 275.

Credits: 3

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

Modern wireless systems, including cellular design, propagation modeling, multiple access and equalization techniques. Pre/co-requisites: EE 174 and STAT 151.

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 282 - Seminar

Credits: 1

EE 283 - Seminar

Credits: 1

EE 284 - Seminar

Credits: 1

EE 289 - Digital Signal Processing Lab

Design and microprocessor implementation of real-time digital signal processing systems. PC-based evaluation module and development tools. Experiments include sampling, digital filtering, and the FFT. Pre/co-requisites: 171.

Credits: 1 to 3

EE 295 - Special Topics

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

Credits: 1 to 18

EE 301 - System Theory

Basic cncepts in system theory; linear vector spaces; state variable representation; phase plane analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems; limit cycles; Lyapunov stability. Applications in engineering. Prerequisites: MATH 230 or MATH 271; MATH 124, EE 171.

Credits: 4

EE 302 - Stochastic Processes

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

Credits: 4

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 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 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 371 - Estimation Theory

Foundations of linear and nonlinear least squares estimation, smoothing and prediction, computational aspects, Kalman filtering, nonlinear filtering, parameter identification, and adaptive filtering. Applications to students' research. Pre/co-requisite: EE 302.

Credits: 3

EE 373 - Adv Topics in Communications

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 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