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3.00 Credits
Introduction to basic optics, optical devices and lasers. Topics include geometrical and physical optics, ray matrices, optical fiber characteristics, losses, dispersion, transverse electromagnetic modes, and communications. Examples of current applications and laboratory demonstrations provided. Recommended: Electrical Engineering 320. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to lasers and laser systems. Topics include stable optical cavity design, atomic media characteristics, gain equations, rate equations, cavity modes, cavity devices mode control, and pulse forming networks. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 421.
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3.00 Credits
Examines transmission lines, waveguides, and antennas. Topics include transmission line equations, Smith charts, slotted lines, microwave impedance matching, plane wave propagation, radiation patterns, and antenna arrays. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 320. Taught by request.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces theory of operation and analysis of energy conversion devices and systems. Topics include magnetic and electric forces, electromechanical energy conversion, motors, energy storage, solar electric, wind power, small hydro, fuel cells, biomass, and geothermal. Includes a project lab. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 210, Mathematics 222.
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3.00 Credits
Covers operation, control, protection, and stability of power systems. Topics include power flow analysis, synchronous machine transient analysis, symmetrical components, balanced and unbalanced fault analysis, power system control, frequency control, automatic generation control, reactive power and voltage control, stability analysis, and protection of power systems. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 330 or 430.
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3.00 Credits
Covers topics in distribution system planning, load characteristics, design of subtransmission lines, distribution substations, primary and secondary systems, application of capacitors, voltage regulation, distribution system protection, and reliability. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 330.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on such subjects as harmonics, noise, filtering, and communication interference in power systems. Modeling, analysis, and solutions are points of emphasis. Topics include measures and standards of power quality, measurements and errors, modeling and design of components, harmonics, loads which cause power quality problems, susceptibility of loads to unwanted signals, and power quality improvement.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture/project focuses on circuits used in modern wireless communication devices. Topics include high frequency passive component models, transmission line and microstrip theory and the Smith chart, multiport networks and scattering parameters, radio frequency filter design, high frequency active devices and models, matching networks, radio frequency amplifiers, oscillators, and mixers. Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 320, 343. Corequisite: Electrical Engineering 413 or permission of the instructor. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces power electronic systems and design of power electronic devices used for commercial and industrial instrumentation and control. Topics include magnetic materials and design, semiconductor switches, power diodes, rectifiers, inverters, ac voltage controllers, level triggered switching devices, power MOSFETS, IGBT, pulsed triggered devices, thyristors, GTO, MCT, thyristor circuits, power transistors, dc to dc converters, switch-mode power supplies, dc to controlled ac, UPS, ac to controlled ac, ac and dc motor drivers. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 342.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the use of microcontrollers in real-time applications. Organized around several open-ended projects. Each project requires the complete design of a working microcontroller system for a given application and programming in C. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 354. Spring.
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