ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE)

ECE 2000. Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering. Lec. 1. Lab. 3. Credit 2.
Prerequisite: MATH 1920. Corequisite: ECE 2010. Principles and practices of various areas of electrical and computer engineering. Introduction to matrices, and complex numbers and phasors. MATLAB software and other elementary topics relevant to electrical engineering. Introduction to electrical system design.

ECE 2010. Circuits and Networks I. Lec. 3. Rec. 1. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: MATH 1920 and either Departmental Standing or the consent of the chairperson. Corequisite: ECE 2000, MATH 2120. Introduction to circuit concepts, fundamental theorems and methods of analysis.

ECE 2020. Circuits and Networks II. Lec. 3. Rec. 1. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 2000, ECE 2010, MATH 2120. Transient and steady state analysis, one and two ports, sinusoidal excitations, frequency response, Bode plots, resonance, and single and polyphase circuits.

ECE 2060. Measurements Laboratory. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Corequisite: ECE 2020. Basic instrumentation and component laboratory. Use of instruments in dc and ac measurements. Demonstration of circuit concepts. Characteristics of diodes and transistors.

ECE 3010. Signals and Systems. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 2020, MATH 2120. Signal representation, applications of Fourier series, Fourier transform, Laplace transform, and Z-transform in the analysis of circuits and systems.

ECE 3110. Introduction to Digital Systems. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 2010. Basic concepts in the design and analysis of digital systems. Number systems and codes. Combinational circuit analysis and design using Boolean algebra. Sequential logic circuit analysis and use of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).

ECE 3120. Computer Systems. Lec. 2. Lab. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3110. Characteristics and programming of typical microcomputer systems.

ECE 3160. Digital Systems Laboratory. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: ECE 2060. Corequisite: ECE 3110. Hardware considerations and performance of digital devices including gates, flip-flops, multiplexers, and decoders.

ECE 3210. Control System Analysis. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3010, CEE 2100. Modern and classical methods of control system analysis of continuous-time systems. Introduction to design tools.

ECE 3260. Control System Laboratory. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: ECE 2060. Corequisite: ECE 3210. Simulation of dynamic systems. Demonstration of control system analysis and design techniques using hardware experiments.

ECE 3300. Electronics I. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 2020. Introduction to semiconductor junction devices, their physical operation and low frequency equivalent circuits, and single and multi-stage amplifiers including differential amplifiers.

ECE 3310. Electronics II. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3300. Power amplifiers, frequency response of amplifiers, feedback amplifiers, oscillators and selected analog building blocks.

ECE 3320.  Digital Electronics.  Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3110 and ECE 3300. Analysis and design of discrete and integrated digital electronic gates and circuits at the transistor level in MOS and bipolar technologies. Introduction to layout and fabrication of digital circuits. Circuit simulation using CAD tools.

ECE 3360. Electronics Laboratory I. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: ECE 2060. Corequisite: ECE 3300. Diodes, BJTs, FETs, and amplifier circuits.

ECE 3510. Electromagnetic Fields I. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: MATH 2110, PHYS 2120. Development of Maxwell's equations for electric and magnetic fields. Electromagnetic properties of Materials. Wave equation, plane waves, and Lorentz force law.

ECE 3520. Electromagnetic Fields II. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3510. Polarization, Poynting's vector, transmission lines, waveguides, radiation.

ECE 3540. Physical Electronics. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: PHYS 2120. Quantum and wave theory in metals and semiconductors, carrier density, current relations. Models for basic semiconductor devices.

ECE 3560. EM Simulation Laboratory. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: ECE 2060, ECE 3510. Simulation and design of phenomena and devices with EM fields and waves.

ECE 3610. Introduction to Power Systems. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 2020, PHYS 2120. Overview of electric power systems, magnetic circuits and transformers, electromechanical energy conversion, rotating machines, power system operation and control, current issues in power systems.

ECE 3660. Electric Power Laboratory. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: ECE 2060. Corequisite: ECE 3610. Operation of various power system components, design tests of transformers, speed control characteristics of various types of motors and generators and computer simulation of power system operation.

ECE 3710. Introduction to Telecommunications. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3010. Corequisite:  ECE 3910.  Communication signal analysis, modulation techniques, analog and digital communication fundamentals.

ECE 3760. Telecommunications Laboratory. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Prerequisites: ECE 2060, ECE 3710. Telecommunication system measurements.

ECE 3810. Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: MATH 1920. Not open to electrical engineering majors. An introduction to fundamental principles of electrical circuits, basic theorems, ac analysis, transient analysis, circuit components, diodes, transistor amplifiers and operational amplifiers.

ECE 3820. Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering II. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3810. Not open to electrical engineering majors. Introduction to polyphase circuits and energy conversion devices such as magnetic circuits and rotating machinery. Instrumentation and digital logic.

ECE 3860. Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering Laboratory. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Corequisite: ECE 3810. Basic instrumentation and component laboratory. Use of instruments in dc and ac measurements. Demonstration of circuit concepts. Characteristics of diodes. operational amplifiers and ac filters. Simple digital logic circuits.

ECE 3910. Probability and Random Variables in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Lec. 3.  Credit 3.
Prerequisite: Math 2120. Co-requisite: ECE 3010. Introduction to statistical analysis of engineering data. Random experiments, probability, and reliability. Random variables, distributions, densities, expectation and transformations. Applications to Electrical and Computer Engineering.

ECE 4020 (5020). Digital Signal Processing. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3010, ECE 3120.  Introduction to the analysis and design of digital filters, discrete Fourier transform and FFT.

ECE 4030 (5030). Analog Signal Processing. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3010, ECE 3310, ECE 3360. Characteristics of operational amplifiers. Introduction to active filters including sensitivity analysis. Some non-linear applications of operational amplifiers.

ECE 4110 (5110). Sequential Logic Design. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3110, ECE 3160.  Introduction to sequential digital logic analysis, design, and applications, utilizing both standard digital components and programmable logic devices.

ECE 4120 (5120). Fundamentals of Computer Design. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3120, ECE 4110.  Continuation of digital system design concepts and applications with emphasis on computer hardware design: CPU sequencers, arithmetic/logic units, fixed and floating point arithmetic implementations, and computer peripheral interfacing, utilizing programmable logic.

ECE 4130 (5130). Introduction to Digital VLSI.  Lec. 2. Lab. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3320 and ECE 4110. Analysis, design and layout of complex digital integrated circuits in MOS technology. The course emphasizes design through projects and requires extensive use of simulation and layout VLSI CAD tools.

ECE 4210 (5210). Control System Design I. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3210, ECE 3260. Design of compensators using frequency domain techniques; Design projects with hardware implementation.

ECE 4220 (5220). Control System Design II. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 4210. Discrete-time systems theory; analysis and design of discrete-time control systems.

ECE 4230 (5230). Computer-based Measurement and Instrumentation Systems. Lec. 2. Lab. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3010 or consent of instructor. Introduction to the analysis and design of computer-based measurement systems, data acquisition systems and virtual instrumentation.

ECE 4310 (5310). Analog VLSI Design. Lec. 3.  Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3310. Design, layout generation, simulation and verification of CMOS analog building blocks, such as operational amplifiers, operational transconductance amplifiers, current conveyers, and mixed signal circuits; system design using building blocks.

ECE 4360. Electronics Laboratory II. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: ECE 3360. Corequisite: ECE 3310.  Frequency responses of discrete and IC amplifiers, oscillators, tuned amplifiers and filters.

ECE 4410 (5410). Nuclear Engineering I. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: PHYS 2120. Review of nuclear physics, fundamentals of energy conversion involving nuclear fission, the nuclear chain reaction and radiation hazards.

ECE 4420 (5420). Nuclear Engineering II. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 4410. Reactor theory, radiation shielding, core design, heat transfer for reactors, isotope separation, thermonuclear power.

ECE 4460. Nuclear Engineering Laboratory. Lab. 3. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: ECE 2060, ECE 4410. Use of health physics instruments and measurement techniques used in nuclear and reactor engineering.

ECE 4520 (5520). Optoelectronic Engineering. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3540.  Device theory for optical communication and instrumentation systems.

ECE 4570 (5570). Introduction to Gaseous Electronics. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3540.  Physical and mathematical concepts of gas discharge devices like phototubes, gas lasers, switchgear and MHD. Discussion of different criteria for a self-sustaining electrical discharge in a gas.

ECE 4610 (5610). Power System Analysis. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3610. Power system modeling, power flow analysis, symmetrical components, short circuit calculations.

ECE 4620 (5620). Power System Operation and Control. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 4610. System protection, transient stability, automatic generation control and voltage regulation, economic dispatch, current topics.

ECE 4630 (5630). Power Electronics. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3300, ECE 3610.  Uncontrolled and controlled rectifiers, voltage controllers, chopper, dc motor control, pulse-width modulation inverters, induction motor control, power supplies.

ECE 4710 (5710). Principles of Telecommunications. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 3710, ECE 3910. Performance of analog and digital communication systems in the presence of noise.

ECE 4720 (5720). Telecommunication Systems Design. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 4710. Project-based course consisting of theory, analysis, design, and fabrication of communication systems or subsystems.

ECE 4910. Professional Issues in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Lec. 2. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: SPCH 2410/PC 2500 and Senior ECE standing. Professional topics in engineering, verbal technical communications.

ECE 4930. Research and Design. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: Senior ECE standing and consent of instructor. Problems in the field of electrical engineering having considerable scope as a research and design problem. (Because of the impossibility of duplicating the conditions on special research and design problem(s), this course may not be repeated for improvement of a grade.)

ECE 4941.  Multidisciplinary Design I.  Lec. 1.  Credit 1.
Prerequisite:  ECE 2060, ECE 3010, ECE 3110, ECE 3300, ISE 3920 and senior standing in ECE.  Corequisite:  ECE 4910 and one senior ECE course.  Introduction to system design, teamwork, and project management.  Project selection, design process and documentation.

ECE 4942.  Multidisciplinary Design II.  Lab. 6.  Credit 2.
Prerequisite:  ECE 4941.  Subsystem design, implementation, and testing.  System integration and testing.  Project demonstration, report, and presentation.

ECE 4943. Multidisciplinary Design: Mechatronic Systems. Lec. 1, Lab. 4, Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 2060, 3010, 3120, ECE 3300, CEE 2100, ISE 3920, senior standing in ECE. Corequisites: ECE 3210 or ECE 3310. A hands-on multidisciplinary capstone design course that focuses on the design and realization of mechatronic systems; embedded system design; interfacing of sensors and actuators.

ECE (CHE, ME) 4950 (5950).  Introduction to MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS).  Lec. 3.  Credit 3.
Prerequisite:  Senior standing in engineering or consent of instructor.  Introduce the design, fabrication and performance of MEMS devices.  Topics include bulk and surface micromachining, photolithography, sensors, actuation systems, optical MEMS, microcantilever-based systems.

ECE 4990 (5990). Special Problems. Credit 1-6 Per Semester, Maximum 12.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Current topics in electrical engineering in the form of reading course or an experimental lecture course. (Because of the impossibility of duplicating the conditions of a special topic(s), this course may not be repeated for the improvement of a grade.)

Course descriptions for 6000 and 7000-level courses are contained in the Graduate Catalog.