Course List - Fall 2009

The scope and nature of professional activities of electrical and computer engineers, including problem-solving techniques, analysis, and design methods; using computers for communication and problem-solving tasks; engineering professional ethics; analysis of analog resistive circuits, including Thevenin/Norton equivalent, mesh analysis, and nodal analysis; representation of signals and systems; information processing; state machines. Three lecture hours and two laboratory hours a week for one semester. Electrical Engineering 302 and 302H may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Mathematics 408C or 408K.

Basic computer structure; instruction set; addressing modes; assembly language programming; subroutines; arithmetic operations; programming in C; C functions; basic data structures; input/output; and survey of several microcontrollers. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 306 or Biomedical Engineering 303 with a grade of at least C, and Electrical Engineering 312 with a grade of at least C.

Microprocessor organization and interfacing; memory interfacing; hardware-software design of microprocessor systems; applications, including communication systems. Two lecture hours and six laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 319K, 322C, and 438 with a grade of at least C in each; and credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Aerospace Engineering 333T, Biomedical Engineering 333T, Chemical Engineering 333T, Civil Engineering 333T, Electrical Engineering 333T, Mechanical Engineering 333T, or Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering 333T.

Characteristics of instruction set architecture and microarchitecture; physical and virtual memory; caches and cache design; interrupts and exceptions; integer and floating-point arithmetic; I/O processing; buses; pipelining, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, and other performance enhancements; design trade-offs; case studies of commercial microprocessors. Laboratory work includes completing the behavioral-level design of a microarchitecture. Three lecture hours and one laboratory/recitation hour a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 316 and 319K with a grade of at least C in each.

Analysis, design, and operation of power electronic circuits; power conversion from AC to DC, DC to DC, and DC to AC; rectifiers, inverters, and pulse width modulated motor drives. Laboratory work focuses on the use of energy from renewable sources such as photovoltaics and wind. Two lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 438 or 331 (or 331K) with a grade of at least C; and credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Aerospace Engineering 333T, Biomedical Engineering 333T, Chemical Engineering 333T, Civil Engineering 333T, Electrical Engineering 333T, Mechanical Engineering 333T, or Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering 333T.

Introduction to the engineering design process; assessing engineering problems and customer needs; acquiring, documenting, and verifying requirements; high-level system design principles; effects of economic, environmental, ethical, safety, and social issues in design; writing design specifications. Two lecture hours and three laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Aerospace Engineering 333T, Biomedical Engineering 333T, Chemical Engineering 333T, Civil Engineering 333T, Electrical Engineering 333T, Mechanical Engineering 333T, or Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering 333T, with a grade of at least C; credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Electrical Engineering 321K, 440, 345L, 345S, 362L, 371C, 372L, or 374L; and credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Electrical Engineering 366.

Design and experimental projects done in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering laboratories; the ethics of design for safety and reliability; emphasis on written and oral reporting of engineering projects. Three lecture hours and six laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 364D and 366 with a grade of at least C in each; and Electrical Engineering 321K, 440, 345L, 345S, 362L, 371C, 372L, or 374L with a grade of at least C.

The fundamentals of wireless communication from a digital signal processing perspective; linear modulation, demodulation, and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; synchronization, channel estimation, and equalization; communication in fading channels; and wireless standards. Three lecture hours and three laboratory hours a week for one semester. Electrical Engineering 371C and 379K (Topic: Wireless Communications Laboratory) may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 345S, 351M, or 360K with a grade of at least C; and credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Aerospace Engineering 333T, Biomedical Engineering 333T, Chemical Engineering 333T, Civil Engineering 333T, Electrical Engineering 333T, Mechanical Engineering 333T, or Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering 333T.

Three lecture hours a week for one semester, or as required by the topic. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.

Steady-state and transient analysis; symmetrical components, stability, protection, relaying. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in electrical engineering, or graduate standing and consent of instructor.

Topic 1: Power System Instrumentation and Control: Study of control functions related to energy control centers and to power plant control.

Topic 3: Advanced Apparatus Design Topics: Study of unconventional machinery; power electronic drive systems for machines.

Topic 4: Economic Operation of Power Systems: Advanced techniques for operating power systems in the most economic manner while meeting various network constraints; economic dispatch, penalty factors, optimal power flow.

Topic 5: Power System Dynamics and Stability: Computer methods for solving and predicting the behavior of networks during short-term and long-term disturbances.

Topic 6: Advanced Electric Machinery: Detailed modeling and design of large induction and synchronous machines.

Topic 7: Power Electronic Devices and Systems: A study of power electronic components and circuits; HVDC converters; electronic drives for machines; AC/DC converters.

Topic 8: Power Transmission and Distribution Topics: Calculation of electric fields, standing waves, audible noise, corona, and high voltage effects.

Topic 9: Power Quality: The study of electrical transients, switching surges, lightning, and other phenomena that cause deviations in 60-hertz sinusoidal voltages and currents.

Topic 10: Electromechanical Dynamics: Same as Mechanical Engineering 384E (Topic 1: Electromechanical Dynamics). Maxwell's equations and transient response of electrical machines.

Topic 11: Design of Electrical Machines: Same as Mechanical Engineering 384E (Topic 2: Design of Electrical Machines). Electrical and mechanical design of electrical machines.

Topic 12: Open-Access Transmission: Terms and conditions, pricing methodologies, independent system operators, ancillary services, auctions and bid strategies, losses and allocation policies.

Topic 13: Intelligent Motion for Robotics and Control:

Topic 14: Electrical Transients in Power Systems: Analysis and modeling of electrical transient phenomena in power systems, traveling wave, insulation coordination, overvoltage protection.