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.

Linear circuit elements; nodal and mesh analysis; operational amplifiers; capacitance and inductance; simple transient response; sinusoidal steady state analysis; Bode plots; three-phase circuits; transformers; two-port networks (Z-parameters and Y-parameters); computer-aided analysis and design. Three lecture hours and two recitation hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 302 or 302H with a grade of at least C; credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Mathematics 427K; and credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Physics 303L and 103N.

Programming skills for problem solving; programming in C; elementary data structures; asymptotic analysis. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 306 or Biomedical Engineering 303 with a grade of at least C.

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.

Architectures of programmable digital signal processors; programming for real-time performance; design and implementation of digital filters, modulators, data scramblers, pulse shapers, and modems in real time; interfaces to telecommunications systems. Three lecture hours and three laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 319K and 438 with a grade of at least C in each; 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; and credit with a grade of at least C or registration for Biomedical Engineering 335 or Electrical Engineering 351K.

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.

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.