Note:  The semester(s) in which a course is usually taught is listed after each course. This is a general guideline only, based on previous teaching patterns.  Other than required core courses, no guarantee can be given as to whether a given course will be taught in a given semester.

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Course Syllabus
Exploration of electrical engineering through several hands-on activities that cover a broad spectrum of applications and fundamental concepts.
Prerequisites:  none.
Taught Spring semesters.

Extended Course Description
Lab-oriented introduction to digital signal processing as it is applied to the field of digital music.  No musical talent or experience is necessary.
Prerequisites:  none.
Taught Fall semesters.

Extended Course Description
First-year seminar covering a variety of Electrical Engineering topics that vary from year to year.

Demonstrations and lectures to introduce the student to the world of Amateur "Ham" Radio. Additionally, this course will provide the knowledge necessary for the student to pass the FCC exam to obtain a first Ham Radio license.
Prerequisites:  none.
Teaching pattern varies

The essentials of RF and Wireless technology are examined to interest students in the area and motivate them to continue in engineering. Practical knowledge about cell phone and wireless local area networks is stressed throughout the course with concepts of design of wireless systems with readings that explain radio receivers on a block-by block basis.
Prerequisites:  none.
Teaching pattern varies

This first-year seminar will provide students with an opportunity to build and test a novel two-way bookshelf loudspeakers system (enclosure, woofer, tweeter and cross-over electronics) that will significantly upgrade the performance of their audio systems.
Prerequisites:  none.
Teaching pattern varies

Course Syllabus
Introduction to electrical circuit analysis, electronic devices, amplifiers, and time-domain transient analysis.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisite: PHYS 212. Prerequisite or Concurrent: MATH 250.
Taught Fall , Spring, and Summer semesters.

Course Syllabus
Properties of fundamental electronic devices, analysis of DC, AC small-signal and nonlinear behavior, analog and digital circuit design applications.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisite: EE 210.
Taught Fall , Spring, and Summer semesters.

Course Syllabus
Introduction to microcontrollers in electronic and electromechanical systems.   Hardware and software design for user/system interfaces, data acquisition, and control.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisites: CMPSC 201 or CMPSC 121 (CSE 103), CSE 271, EE 310.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
Static electric and magnetic fields; solutions to static field problems, Maxwell's equations; electromagnetic waves; boundary conditions; engineering applications.
Prerequisites: MATH 230 or 232, EE 210.
Taught Fall , Spring, and Summer semesters.

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Introduction to continuous-time linear system theory: differential equation models, sinusoidal steady-state analysis, convolution, Laplace transform and Fourier analysis.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisites: MATH 220, MATH 250, EE 210.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

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Project designs of antenna, microwave and optical systems, and computational methods in electromagnetics . Laboratory.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisites: EE 330.  Prerequisite or Concurrent: ENGL 202C.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

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Project designs of analog and digital systems, interfacing, and relevant electronic circuits, with an emphasis on technical communication skills.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisites: Completion of all core EE "C-or-better" courses (EE 210, 310, 330, 350, 316 (324), and CSE 271), completion of 2 EE technical electives.  Prerequisite or Concurrent: ENGL 202C.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
Electronic circuit design with consideration to single and multi-device subcircuits , frequency response characteristics, feedback, stability, efficiency, and IC techniques.
Prerequisites: EE 310, EE 350.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
An introduction covering several fundamental areas of modern optics, optical processes, and devices.
Prerequisite: EE 330.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
Introduction to discrete-time signal processing; sampling, linear time-invariant systems, Discrete-Time Fourier Transform and Discrete Fourier Transform, z-transform.
Prerequisite: EE 350.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
Generic communication system; signal transmission; digital communication systems; amplitude modulation; angle modulation.
Prerequisite: EE 350.
Taught Fall , Spring, and most Summer semesters.

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Data transmission, encoding, link control techniques; communication network architecture, design; computer communication system architecture, protocols.
Course contains a significant programming component.
Prerequisite: CSE 271, STAT 401 or STAT 418.
Taught Fall , Spring, and Summer semesters.

Course Syllabus
State variables; time-domain and frequency-domain design and analysis; design of feedback control systems; root locus.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisite: EE 350.
Taught Fall semesters.

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Electromechanical energy conversion; magnetic circuits; transformers; transducers, commutators ; synchronous, induction, and D.C. machines.
Prerequisite: EE 350.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

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Linear circuit design via integrated circuit processes.   Analog/digital converters, switched capacitor filters, phase lock loops, multipliers, and voltage-controlled oscillators.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisite: EE 311.
Taught Spring semesters.

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Switch-mode electrical power converters. Electrical characteristics and thermal limits of semiconductor switches.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisites: EE 310, EE 350.
Taught Fall semesters.

Extended Course Description
Course Syllabus
Analyses and design of digital integrated circuit building blocks, including logic gates, flip-flops, memory elements, analog switches, multiplexers, and converters.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisite: EE 310.
Taught Fall semesters.

Extended Course Description
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Field programmable device architectures and technologies; rapid prototyping using top down design techniques; quick response systems.
Prerequisite: CSE 331
Taught Fall semesters.

Course Syllabus
Spatially linear system and transform;   Diffraction theory, partial coherence theory, optical image detection, storage and display, holography.
Prerequisite: EE 320.
Taught Fall semesters.

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Operational principles of optical components, including sources, fibers and detectors, and the whole systems in optical fiber communications.
Prerequisites: EE 350, EE 320, E SC 314.
Taught Fall semesters.

Course Syllabus
Hands-on experience covering areas of optical transforms, electro-optics devices, signal processing, fiber optics transmission, and holography.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisite: EE 320.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
Principles of lasers -- generation, propagation, detection and modulation; applications in fiber optics communication, remote sensing, holography, optical switching and processing.
Prerequisite: EE 330 or E SC 400H or PHYS 400.
Taught Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
Laws of electrodynamics, boundary value problems, relativistic effects, waves in dielectrics and ferrites, diffraction and equivalence theorems.
Prerequisite: EE 330.
Taught Spring semesters.

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Transmission line and wave guide characteristics and components; design UHF-microwave amplifiers, oscillators, and filters; measurement techniques; design projects.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisites: EE 330, EE 310.
Taught Spring semesters.

Extended Course Description
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Radiation from small antennas, linear antenna characteristics, array of antennas, impedance concepts and measurements, multifrequency antennas, and aperture antennas.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisite: EE 330.
Taught Fall semesters.

Course Syllabus
Radiowave propagation phenomena and problems encountered in practice; effects of the earth and atmosphere on radiowaves .
Prerequisite: EE 330.
Taught Spring semesters.

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An overview of fundamentals of processes involved in silicon integrated circuit fabrication through class lectures and hands-on laboratory.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisites: EE 310, E SC 314.
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
The physics of semiconductors as related to the characteristics and design of solid state devices.
Prerequisites: EE 310, E SC 314.
Taught Fall semesters.

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Design of FIR and IIR filters; DFT and its computation via FFT; applications of DFT; filter implementation, finite arithmetic effects.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisite: EE 351.
Taught Fall , Spring, and Summer semesters.

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Introduction to topics such as image formation, segmentation, feature extraction, matching, shape recovery, object recognition, and dynamic scene analysis.
Course contains a significant programming component.
Prerequisites: MATH 230 or MATH 231, CMPSC 201 or CMPSC 121 (CSE 103).
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Extended Course Description
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Overview of digital image processing techniques and their applications, image sampling, enhancement, restoration, and analysis; computer projects.
Course contains a significant programming component.
Prerequisites: EE 350 or EE 353 (EE 317), CMPSC 201 or CMPSC 121 (CSE 103).
Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Extended Course Description
Course Syllabus
Artificial Neural Networks as a solving tool for difficult problems for which
conventional methods are not applicable.
Course contains a significant programming component.
Prerequisite: CMPSC 201 or CMPSC 121 (CSE 103), MATH 220
Taught Spring semesters.

Extended Course Description
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Probability fundamentals, digital/analog modulation/demodulation, system noise analysis, SNR and BER calculations, optimal receiver design concepts, introductory information theory.
Prerequisite: EE 360 (EE 367).
Taught Fall semesters.

Course Syllabus
Plasma oscillations; collisional phenomena; transport properties; orbit theory, typical electrical discharge phenomena.
Prerequisite: EE 330 or PHYS 467.
Taught Fall semesters.

Course Syllabus
The physical nature of the objects in the solar system; the earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, radiation belts, magnethere , and orbital mechanics.
Prerequisite: PHYS 400 or EE 330.
Taught Spring semesters.

Extended Course Description
Overview of satellite communications systems, principles, space platforms, orbital mechanics, up/down links and link budgets, modulation techniques. Prerequisite: EE 330, EE 360 (EE 367).
Taught Fall semesters.

Course Syllabus
The review of fundamental physical properties leads into discussions of various techniques, including imaging, spectroscopy, radiometry, and active sensing. Prerequisite: EE 330 or METEO 436.
Taught Fall semesters.

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Course Syllabus
Sampling and hold operations; A/D and D/A conversions; modeling of digital systems; response evaluation; stability; basis of digital control; examples.
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Prerequisites: EE 380 (EE 428), EE 351.
Taught Spring semesters.

Extended Course Description
Analysis of variable-speed drives comprised of AC electric machines, power converters, and control systems. Prerequisite:EE 387 (EE 365).
Course contains a significant laboratory component.
Taught Spring Semesters.

Course Syllabus
Fundamentals, power transformers, transmission lines, power flow, fault calculations, power system controls..
Prerequisite: EE 387 (EE 365).
Taught Spring semesters.

Taught Fall and Spring semesters.

Design of monolithic, thin-film, and hybrid linear integrated circuits; D.C. video, tuned, r.f ., and microwave applications. Emphasis on reliability.
Prerequisite: EE 441 (EE 418), EE 410 (EE 448).
Taught odd-year Spring semesters.

Synthetic aperture radar, spatial light modulators, optical interconnection, optical computing, neural networks and medical optics imaging.
Prerequisite: EE 420.
Taught Spring semesters.

Theories and applications of linear and nonlinear optical phenomena in optical fibers and integrated optical devices.
Prerequisite: EE 421 (EE 412).
Not taught on a regular basis.

Basic concepts and fundamentals of light diffraction, optical signal processing, and holography.
Prerequisite: EE 420.
Taught Spring semesters.

Study of several advanced nonlinear optical phenomena, laser propagation, optical and optoelectronic devices, principles, and applications.
Prerequisite: EE 424 (EE 414).
Taught Fall semesters.

Extended Course Description
Mechanisms of polarization nonlinearity, nonlinear optical processes and analyses, optoelectronic materials and their device application.
Prerequisite: EE 420 or MATSE 435
Taught even-year Spring semesters.

Electromagnetic field theory fundamentals with application to transmission lines, waveguides, cavities, antennas, radar, and radio propagation.
Prerequisite: EE 430 (EE 411).
Taught Fall semesters.

TIntroduction to advanced analysis and design techniques as well as applications for conformal antennas mounted on planar and curved surfaces.
Prerequisite: EE 432.
Taught even-year Fall semesters.

Theory and application of boundary value problems in engineering electromagnetics ; topics include microwave and optical waveguides, radiation, and scattering.
Prerequisites: EE 430 (EE 411), EE 432, EE 438.
Taught odd-year Spring semesters.

Finite difference in time domain, geometric theory of diffraction and method of moments applied to antennas and scattering.
Prerequisite: none.
Taught even-year Spring semesters.

In-depth studies of synthesis methods, aperture sources, broadband antennas, and signal-processing arrays.
Prerequisite: EE 438.
Taught Spring semesters.

Methods, tools, and materials used to process advanced silicon integrated circuits.
Prerequisite: EE 441 (EE 418).
Taught Spring semesters.

Characteristics and limitations of bipolar transistors, diodes, transit time, and bulk-effect devices.
Prerequisite: EE 442 (was 419).
Taught Fall semesters.

Introduction to principles and methods of reliability engineering, application to modern semiconductor component design, and device reliability.
Prerequisites: EE 441 (EE 418) or EE 442 (EE 419), STAT 418.
Not taught on a regular basis.

The physical background, characteristics, and limitations of surface field-effect and junction field-effect devices and related structures.
Prerequisite: EE 442 (EE 419).
Taught Fall semesters.

Applications of insulator physics and devices based on insulator properties.
Prerequisite: EE 442 (EE 419).
Taught odd-year Spring semesters.

Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization and orthonormal bases, filter banks, orthogonal wavelets and multiresolution analysis, fast wavelet transforms, various applications.
Prerequisite: EE 453, MATH 220.
Taught even-year Spring semesters.

Principles and applications of decision-theoretic classification, discriminant functions, pattern processing and feature selection, syntactic pattern recognition, shape analysis and recognition.
Prerequisite: none.
Taught odd-year Fall semesters.

Parametric modeling, spectrum estimation, efficient transforms and convolution algorithms, multirate processing, and selected applications involving non-linear and time-variant filters.
Prerequisite: EE 453.
Taught Spring semesters.

Discussion of recent advances and current research trends in computer vision theory, algorithms and their applications.
Prerequisite: EE (CSE) 454 (EE 486).
Taught Spring semesters.

Advanced treatment of image processing techniques; image restoration, image segmentation, texture, and mathematical morphology.
Prerequisite: EE 455 (EE 485).
Taught Fall semesters.

Examine neural networks by exploiting graph theory for offering alternate solutions to classical problems in signal processing and control.
Prerequisite: none.
Taught even-year Fall semesters.

Multidimensional sampling, weak causality, recursibility , multidimensional transforms, stability, global and local state-space models, multidimensional filters, and multidimensional spectrum estimation.
Prerequisite: EE 453.
Taught odd-year Fall semesters.

Extended Course Description
Review of probability theory and random variables; mathematical description of random signals; linear system response; Wiener, Kalman, and other filtering.
Prerequisite: EE 350, STAT 418.
Taught Fall semesters.

Mathematical measurement of information; information transfer in discrete systems; redundancy, efficiency, and channel capacity; encoding systems.
Prerequisite: EE 460 (EE 459) or STAT 418.
Taught odd-year Fall semesters.

Extended Course Description
Detection decision theory, Bayes and Neyman -Pearson criteria, optimal receivers, classical estimation theory, signal-noise representations, optimum linear signal parameters estimation.
Prerequisite: E E 560.
Taught even-year Fall semesters.

Block, cyclic and convolutional codes. Circuits and algorithms for decoding. Application to reliable communication and fault-tolerant computing.
Prerequisite: EE 362 (EE 458).
Taught odd-year Spring semesters.

Discussion of problems and solutions for ensuring reliable and efficient communication over wired and wireless links and data networks.
Prerequisites:  EE 362 (EE 458), STAT 418
Taught Spring semesters.

Extended Course Description
Development of key wireless networks systems analysis and design tools utilizing telecommunications principles; current and emerging mobile wireless techniques.
Prerequisites: E E 460 (EE 459), E E 560

Extended Course Description
Linear and nonlinear digital modulation techniques; performance in additive Gaussian noise channel; continuous phase modulation; carrier acquisition and recovery.
Prerequisite: EE 460 (EE 459); Prerequisite or Concurrent:EE 560.
Taught Fall semesters.

Extended Course Description
Baseband pulse transmission; baseband systems optimization; bandlimited channels performance in ISI; equalization; MLSE and ISI; fading channels; diversity; CDMA.
Prerequisites:EE 560, EE 568.
Taught Spring semesters.

Solutions of the Boltzmann equation; waves in bounded and unbounded plasmas; radiation and scattering from plasmas.
Prerequisite: EE 471 (EE 490).
Not taught on a regular basis.

Advanced topics in kinetic theory, fluctuation theory, microinstability , and turbulence.
Prerequisite: EE 471 (EE 490).
Not taught on a regular basis.

Course Syllabus
Properties of neutral and ionized atmosphere above 60 km; photochemical processes; solar, meteoric perturbations of the ionosphere; large-scale movements in ionization.
Not taught on a regular basis.

RF/Optical wave propagation through turbulent, turbid, and heterogeneous media (atmosphere/ionosphere/sea). Impacts and mitigation discussed for various scenarios.
Prerequisite: EE 430 (EE 411) or EE 439 or EE 477 (EE 433) or PHYS 457
Not taught on a regular basis.

Introduce skills to address a wide variety of inverse problems such as found in atmospheric sensing, geosciences, and acoustics.
Prerequisites: EE 430 (EE 411) or EE 439 or EE 477, STAT 418
Taught even-year Fall semesters.

Scientific and engineering principles of microwave radar remote sensing of land, sea, and the atmosphere.
Prerequisites: EE 430 (EE 411) or EE 438 or EE 439.
Taught odd-year Fall semesters.

Continuous and discrete-time linear control systems; state variable models; analytical design for deterministic and random inputs; time-varying systems stability.
Prerequisites: EE 380 (EE 428) or ME 455.
Taught Fall semesters.

Variational methods in control system design; classical calculus of variations, dynamic programming, maximum principle, optimal digital control systems, state estimation.
Prerequisite: EE 580 (EE 527).
Taught odd-year Spring semesters.

Adaptive and learning control systems; system identification; performance indices; gradient, stochastic approximation, controlled random search methods; introduction to pattern recognition.
Prerequisite: EE 580 (EE 527).
Taught even-year Spring semesters.

Fundamentals of Robust Control Theory with emphasis on stability and performance analysis and design.
Prerequisite: EE 580 (EE 527) or ME 555.
Taught even-year Spring semesters.

Design of nonlinear automatic control systems; phase-plane methods; describing functions; optimum switched systems; Liapunov stability; special topics in stability.
Prerequisite: EE 380 (EE 428) or M E 455.
Taught Fall semesters.

Steady-state and dynamic model of synchronous machines, excitation systems, unit commitment, control of generation, optimal power flow.
Prerequisites: EE 488 (EE 461).
Taught even-year Spring semesters.

Course Syllabus
D.C. and A.C. circuits, transformers, single and three-phase distribution systems, A.C. motors and generators.
Intended for non-Electrical Engineering students.
Prerequisite: PHYS 212.
Taught Fall , Spring, and Summer semesters.

Course Syllabus
Electronic devices and characteristics, amplifiers and feedback, electronic instruments and recording systems.
Intended for non-Electrical Engineering students.
Prerequisite: PHYS 212.
Taught Fall , Spring, and Summer semesters.

Extended Course Description
Course Syllabus
Fourier series and Fourier transform; discrete-time signals and systems and their Fourier analysis; sampling; z-transform.
Intended for Computer Engineering majors only.
Prerequisites: CMPSC 201 or CMPSC 121 (CSE 103), E E 210, MATH 250.
Taught Fall semester.