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4.00 Credits
Spring Semester This course focuses on fundamentals in the analysis and design of digital circuits. Boolean algebra, gate-logic, combinational and sequential gates, and related logic networks, such as encoders, multiplexers, registers, counters, timers, and comparators, are introduced. Synchronous and asynchronous circuits are studied. Open-collector, tri-state, and programmable logic devices are introduced. Popular logic families and interfacing issues between digital and analog systems are studied. A/D and D/A conversion techniques are examined. The laboratory focuses on the design, analysis, and verification of digital systems. Corequisite: CS200 4 credit hour.
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3.00 Credits
Spring Semester This course introduces the student to computational techniques and problems associated with the broad field of discrete mathematics. Topics, problems, and examples will be drawn from the fields of computer science, electrical and computer engineering and mathematics. Prerequisite: CS 200. @CH:1 credit hour. ECE258 Mathematical Methods in Engineering Spring Semester This course covers topics of applied mathematics that build upon calculus and differential equations and that are particularly relevant to Electrical and Computer Engineering majors. These topics include: Linear Algebra and Vector Spaces, Vector Analysis, Complex Analysis, Boundary-Value Problems, Green's Functions, and Fourier Series. Prerequisite: MAT272 3 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Spring Semester An introduction to the design and operation of digital computers, including information representation, logic design, integrated circuits, register transfer description, basic computer organization and machine-level programming. The relationship between software and hardware is stressed. Topics covered include the fundamentals of computer architecture, arithmetic, and memory systems, interfacing and communication, device subsystems, machine level representation of data, assembly level machine organization, functional organization, multiprocessing, and alternative architectures. Prerequisite: CS200. 4 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Spring Semester This course introduces fundamental knowledge in the physics of waves and its contrast to the physics of particles. Topics include: free, forced and damped oscillation, transverse and longitudinal waves, standing and traveling waves, superposition and interference, reflection and images and diffraction and refraction. Particular phenomena related to sound waves, electromagnetic waves, photons and matter waves, and quantum mechanical waves are also discussed. Prerequisite: PHY260. 3 credit hours. ECE280 (ME280) Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering Spring Semester This course covers topics in AC and DC linear circuit analysis including Kirchhoff's Laws, voltage and current division, nodal and mesh analysis, superposition, equivalent circuits and power, and the role of circuit components such as dependent and independent sources, operational amplifiers, resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Steady-state AC circuit topics such as phasors, impedance, frequency response, filtering, damping, resonance, and power are covered. The transient responses of 1st and 2nd order systems are examined. Magnetic circuits are also introduced. Prerequisites: PHY260, MAT272. Corequisite: ECE281. 3 credit hours. ECE281 (ME281) Electronic Instrumentation Spring Semester This laboratory course introduces the student to basic electronic measurement instruments. The laboratory sessions also require the student to build comparators, amplifiers, filters, and other signal processing devices from basic electronic components. The concepts of stability and noise are discussed whenever applicable. Corequisite: ECE280. 1 credit hour.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester This course focuses on fundamentals of the analysis and design of analog circuits. Diodes and transistors, including LED's, BJTs, FETs, and other related circuit technologies, and their equivalent circuits and frequency-dependent impedance characteristics are studied thoroughly. Their roles in switching,isolation, amplification, and other signal processing circuits are examined in detail. Operational amplifiers and related topics such as feedback, stability, gain-bandwidth product, compensation, active filters, and oscillators are studied. Fourier's Theorem, high frequency amplifiers and modulation/demodulation are also studied. Noise reduction techniques are introduced as appropriate. Prerequisites: ECE280, ECE281. 4 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester This course introduces concepts in continuous and discrete signal and system analysis. The course covers the fundamentals needed to perform time and transform domain analysis of signals and linear time-invariant systems, including: impulse response and convolution, Fourier transforms and filtering, Laplace transforms feedback and stability, and a brief introduction to z-transforms in the context of digital filtering. System representations such as Bode plots block diagrams, state flow diagrams, and/or Bond graphs are introduced. The laboratory is focused on applications of these fundamentals to measurement techniques involving sensors and signal processing circuits. Prerequisites: ECE280, ECE281. 4 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Summer Semester This course focuses on applications of probability theory to the analysis and design of engineering systems dealing with random signals. Topics include: random variables and signals, correlation functions, power spectral densities, Gaussian and Markov processes, time and frequency domain descriptions of system responses to random signals, matched filters and Wiener filters, and parameter estimation. Prerequisite: ECE330. 2 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester This course introduces Maxwell's equations and their applications to engineering problems. Topics covered include electrostatics, magnetostatics, magnetic fields and matter, induction and electromagnetic waves. The reflection, transmission and propagation of waves are studied. Applications to waveguides, transmission lines, radiation, and antennas are introduced as time permits. Prerequisites: ECE258, ECE270. 3 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Summer Semester This course focuses on power systems and devices. Magnetically coupled circuits (transformers) are introduced. Electromechanical principles are studied and applied to the analysis of electric generators and motors, including DC, stepper, and single- and three-phase AC motors. Three-phase power is introduced for the first time in this course. Power generation, utilization, and transmission are discussed as well as their impacts on the environment. Prerequisites: ECE280, 3 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Summer Semester This course introduces the student to microprocessor architecture, programming, and interfacing. Techniques and theory of data transfer, communication, and computation are presented. A low level programming language is introduced as well as high and low-level programming tasks. Techniques for effective and reliable protoboard layout and construction are examined. Issues of EMI and other noise are treated. Temperature effects and low-power design are discussed. Relevant electronic components and integrated circuits are discussed. Interfacing issues between power circuits and microprocessors are introduced as well as techniques for data conversion. Prerequisites: ECE220, ECE260. 3 credit hours.
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