Four courses chosen from: ELE 401, 405, 408, 423, 427, 432, 436, 437, 444, 447, 457, 458, 488, 489. Two of these courses must be chosen from: ELE 408, 427, 444, 447, 458, 489.

ELE 401 Lasers, Optical Fibers, and Communication Systems (3)

Introduction to lasers, LEDs, optical fibers and detectors. Properties of Gaussian beams, optical resonators, and diffraction of Gaussian beams. Properties of Fabry-Perot cavities. Introduction to fiber optical communications systems. (Lec. 3) Pre: ((205 or 208) and 313 and 322 and 331 and ((338 and 339) or 342) and (credit or concurrent enrollment in 402)) or permission of instructor.

ELE 405 Digital Computer Design (3)

Hardware implementation of digital computers. Arithmetic circuits, memory types and uses, control logic, basic computer organization, microprogramming, input/output circuits, microcomputers. (Lec. 3) Pre: (301, 305, and (credit or concurrent enrollment in 406)) or permission of instructor.

ELE 408 Computer Organization (3)

Engineering design problems involving hardware, software, and interface of computer and embedded systems. Students will apply skills and knowledge accumulated through the curriculum in a group senior design project. (Lec. 3) Pre: (305 and 313, ((338 and 339) or 342) and (credit or concurrent enrollment in 409)), or permission of instructor.

ELE 423 Electromagnetic Fields II (4)

Transmission lines, Maxwell’s equations, wave equation, reflection and refraction phenomena, polarization effects waveguides and antennas. Design project requiring application of electromagnetic theory and use of numerical methods. (Lec. 4) Pre: (313 and 322 and ((338 and 339) or 342)) or permission of instructor. Not for graduate credit.

ELE 427 Electromechanical Systems (3)

State-variable models. Electromechanical devices and systems in translation and rotation. Design of sensors, actuators, and systems as used in control applications. (Lec. 3) Pre: (313 and 322 and 331 and ((338 and 339) or 342) and (credit or concurrent enrollment in 428)) or permission of instructor.

ELE 432 Electrical Engineering Materials (4)

Continuation of 331. Electronic and optical properties of materials, mainly semiconductors, applied to the performance and design of electronic devices. Measurements and analysis of these properties will be performed in the laboratory. (Lec. 4) Pre: (313 and 322 and 331 and ((338 and 339) or 342)) or permission of instructor.

ELE 436 Communication Systems Laboratory (1)

Laboratory exercises related to topics in 435. (Lab. 3) Pre: credit or concurrent enrollment in 435.

ELE 437 (or CSC 417) Computer Communications (3)

Computer networks, layering standards, communication fundamentals, error detection and recovery, queuing theory, delay versus throughput trade-offs in networks, multiple-access channels, design issues in wide and local area networks. (Lec. 3) Pre: ((205 or 208 or CSC 211) and (436 or MTH 451 or ISE 411)) or permission of instructor.

ELE 444 Advanced Electronic Design (3)

Review of number systems, combinational and sequential logic, state machine. Design capture tools, hardware/software design, system implementation using PC’s, MSI circuits, and FPGAs (Lec. 3) Pre: ((205 or 208) and 313 and ((338 and 339) or 342) and concurrent enrollment in 445)) or permission of instructor.

ELE 447 Digital Integrated Circuit Design I (3)

Introduction to full custom digital integrated circuit design. Analysis of logic functions and timing at the transistor level. Realization of logic functions via hand crafted transistor layout. Design project. (Lec. 3) Pre: (202 and ((338 and 339 or 342) and 313 and PHY 204 and (credit or concurrent enrollment in 448)) or permission of instructor.

ELE 457 Feedback Control Systems (3)

Fundamental techniques for the analysis and design of linear feedback systems. Stability, sensitivity, performance criteria, steady-state error, Nyquist criterion, root locus techniques, and compensation methods. (Lec. 3) Pre: ((205 or 208) and 314) or permission of instructor.

ELE 458 Digital Control Systems (3)

Analysis and design of digital control systems using state-space techniques. State feedback and observers. Laboratory includes computer simulation and hardware implementation of control laws for electromechanical systems. (Lec. 3) Pre: ((205 or 208) and (314 or 461 or BME 461) and ((338 and 339) or 342 and (credit or concurrent enrollment in 459)) or permission of instructor.

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