Electrical & Computer Engineering - Electroph
Courses
ECEE 302 Electronic Devices 4.0 Credits
Covers principles of operation of semiconductor devices, including PN diodes, bipolar transistors, and field effect transistors (JFET, MOSFET, MESFET). Applications of PN junctions, including solar cells, led, laser diodes. Laboratories reinforce lecture material by allowing students to build, measure and analyze data from simple devices.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ENGR 220 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 304 Electromagnetic Fields & Waves 4.0 Credits
Covers vector calculus, Coulomb's Law, Gauss' Law, Ampere's Law, Maxwell's equations, Electromagnetic (EM) fields in devices, EM fields in circuits, EM fields in machinery, EM waves, biological effects.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: MATH 291 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 352 Analog Electronics 4.0 Credits
Teaches the fundamentals of electronic circuit analysis and design by means of practical projects, such as a dc power supply and an audio amplifier. Covers design with discrete components as well as integrated circuit design.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECEE 302 [Min Grade: D] or ECE 370 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 354 Wireless and Optical Electronics 4.0 Credits
Covers propagation of waves in various media as it relates to wireless communications: reflection, transmission, polarization, wave packets, dispersion, radiation and antennas, microwave electronic devices, optical wave guides, and fiber optics.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECES 301 [Min Grade: D] and (ECEE 304 [Min Grade: D] or ECE 371 [Min Grade: D])
ECEE 421 Advanced Electronics I 4.0 Credits
Application-and design-focused course. Analyzes feedback in electronic circuits such as operational amplifiers. Covers design and applications of active filters and other typical electronic circuitry. Includes experiments in the design of multistage transistor circuits, feedback loops, operational amplifiers, and active filters.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECEE 352 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 422 Advanced Electronic Circuits I 3.0 Credits
Application-and design-focused course. Covers analysis and design of communication circuits and non-linear active circuits; oscillators, mixers, IF and RF amplifiers; and AM and FM modulators.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECEE 421 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 423 Advanced Electronics Circuits II 3.0 Credits
Application-and design-focused course. Covers non-linear circuits; function and wave form generators; log-amp, multipliers, dividers, power amp, and phase-lock loops; and design of electronics needed to implement different logic circuit families.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECEE 421 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 434 Digital Electronics 4.0 Credits
Covers basic digital integrated circuit building blocks (inverters, nor and nand logic), CMOS logic gates (dc and transient behavior), drivers, and digital circuits and systems (PLA, gate array, memory). Experiments in semiconductor material characterization, device characterization, circuit and device simulations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECEE 302 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 441 Lightwave Engineering I 3.0 Credits
Covers fundamentals of wave propagation, including propagation in various fiber wave guides and field distributions, diffraction, attenuation, dispersion, information capacity, and other analytic and design considerations in fiber systems. Fall.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECEE 304 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 442 Lightwave Engineering II 3.0 Credits
Covers operating principles, construction, and characteristics of sources, couplers, and detectors used in optical systems. Includes equivalent circuit models and principles of generation, transmission, and reception. Winter.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECEE 441 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 443 Lightwave Engineering III 3.0 Credits
Covers applications of devices and systems in such areas as data, voice, and image trans-mission; industrial automation; process control; medicine; and computers. Includes basic measurement systems. Spring.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: ECEE 442 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 451 Electroacoustics 3.0 Credits
Applications-oriented course. Covers fundamentals of vibrating systems; equations of motion; acoustical, electrical, and mechanical analogs; properties of waves in fluids; acoustic impedance and plane wave transmission; application to design of transducers; and application of acoustic waves in medical imaging, non-destructive testing, and the biomedical field.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman or Junior or Pre-Junior or Sophomore
ECEE 471 RF Components and Techniques 4.0 Credits
This course covers microwave networks (Z, Y, S, T ABCD Parameters), signal flowgraph, impedance matching techniques (lumped and distributed, quarter wave transformers), circulators and isolators, directional couplers (branch line, Wilkinson, Lange, slot waveguide), and filters (lowpass, bandpass, bandstop, highpass). CAD laboratory and design projects are an integral part of this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECEE 354 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 472 RF Electronics 4.0 Credits
This course covers static and dynamic characteristics of transistors, unipolar (MOSFET, MESFET, HEMT), bipolar (BJT, HBT), LNA design and realization, power amplifiers, distributed amplifiers, switches, limiters, phase shifters, detectors, mixers, oscillators (Colpitts, YIG turned, reflection, transmission, DRO). CAD laboratory and design projects are an integral part of this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECEE 471 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 473 Antennas and Radiating Systems 4.0 Credits
This course covers short and magnetic dipole, radiation pattern, radiation resistance, directivity and gain, line antennas (dipoles, monopoles, V and inverted V antennas), helix, Yagi-Uda, log-periodic, aperture antennas (slot, horn and reflector), printed circuit antennas (patch and spiral), and phased antennas. CAD laboratory and design projects are an integral part of this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECEE 471 [Min Grade: D]
ECEE 497 Research in Electrophysics 0.5-12.0 Credits
Requires independent research in a topic approved by the faculty.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ECEE I199 Independent Study in ECEE 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ECEE I299 Independent Study in ECEE 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ECEE I399 Independent Study in ECEE 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ECEE I499 Independent Study in ECEE 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
ECEE T180 Special Topics in ECEE 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ECEE T280 Special Topics in ECEE 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ECEE T380 Special Topics in ECEE 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ECEE T480 Special Topics in ECEE 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
