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EGN 1002 Engineering Orientation (2).  Introduction to aspects of the engineering profession.  Computer tools and basic engineering science.  Team-based engineering projects.


EEL 2880 Applied Software Techniques in Engineering (3).  Engineering problem solving process, overview of generalized computing system, software development, real-life engineering applications, computational implications.


EGN 3003 Electrical Engineering I (3).  For non-EE majors. Basic Priciples of DC and AC circuit analysis, electronic devices and amplifiers, digital circuits, and power systems.
Prerequisites: MAC 2312

Corequisite: MAP 2302


EEL 3111 Circuits I (3). Introductory electronics courses dealing with DC, AC, and transient electrical circuit analysis, involving passive elements such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers, etc.
Prerequisites: MAC 3312, PHY 2049.

Corequisite: MAP 2302, EEL 3111L,


EEL 3111(L) Circuits Lab (1). This lab introduces basic test equipment: oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supply, function generator, etc., and uses this equipment in various experiments on resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
Prerequisite: PHY 2049L. 

Corequisite: EEL 3111.

EEL 3112 Circuits II (3). Application of operational methods to the solution of electrical circuit effect of poles and zeros on the response and transfer function of electrical networks. Laplace and Fourier transforms; poles, zeros, network parameters.

Prerequisites: EEL 3111, EEL 3135, MAP 2302


EEL 3135 Signals and Systems (3). Study of electrical signals and linear systems. Introduction to probability, linear algebra, and complex calculus applications.
Prerequisites: MAP 2302,


EEL 3160 Computer Applications in Electrical Engineering (3). Interactive techniques of computers to simulate and design electrical engineering circuits and systems.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor


EEL 3303 Electronics I (3). Introductory electronics course dealing with the property of basic electronic devices such as diodes, transistors, Fets, SCRs, etc., and their circuit applications.
Prerequisite: EEL 3111.

Corequisite: EEL 3303L.


EEL 3303L Electronics I Laboratory (1). Designing, building, and testing electronic circuits which use Op-Amps, diodes, EJTs and FETs
Prerequisite: EEL 3111L.

Corequisite: EEL 3303.


EEL 3396 Introduction to Solid State Devices (3). Introduction to the physics of semiconductors; charge carrier statistics charge transport in crystalline solids. Basic operations of solid state devices including p-n junction diode, and the field effect transistor.
Prerequisite: MAP 2302. 

Corequisite: EEL 3111.


EEL 3514 Communication Systems (3). An introductory course in the field of analog communication systems. Transmitters, receivers, and different modulation and demodulation techniques are studied. A basic requirement of noise is also included.
Prerequisite: EEL 3135. 

Corequisite: EEL 3112.


EEL 3657 Control Systems (3). Analysis of linear time-invariant feedback control systems. System modeling, time and frequency domain response, stability and accuracy. Analysis by use of Root-Locus, Bode plots, Nyquist diagram methods.
Prerequisite: EEL 3112.


EEL 3712 Logic Design I (3). Boolean Algebra. Binary number systems. Combinational logic design using SSI, MSI, and LSI. Sequential logic design.
Prerequisite: EEL 3111. 


EEL 3712L Logic Design Lab (1). 
Laboratory experiments, including gates, combinational networks, SSI, MSI, LSI, and sequential logic design.

Prerequisite: EEL 3111L, EEL 3712


EEL 4006 Development of Dynamic Websites (3). 
Techiniques for the development of dynamic websites, which will generate individualized web pages, according to data supplied by the user or retreived from data stores available to the web server.

Prerequisite: EEL 2880, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 4010 Senior Design I: Ethics, Communications, and Constraints (2).  Capstone Part I:  Professional ethics, oral communications, project feasibility study, proposal writing, system design methodology, human factors, intellectual property, liability and schedules.
Prerequisite: Senior standing.


EEL 4011 Senior Design II: Project Implementation (2) Capstone Part I:  Design of a complete EE system, including use of design methodology, formulation, specifications, alternative solutions, feasibility, economic, reliability, safety ethics, and social impact.
Prerequisite: EEL 4010.

EEL 4015 Electrical Design in Buildings I (3).  Application of electrical codes and regulations.  Design of loads, circuits, surge protectors, feeders, panels and breakers.
Note: Does not count as an elective.
Prerequisites:  EEL 3111 and EEL 3111L.


EEL 4016 Electrical Design in Buildings II (3).  Electrical design of industrial buildings, size and design of distributions rooms, switchboards, transformers, bus ducts, motor control centers, starters, voltage drop calculations, lighting distribution.
Note: Does not count as an elective. 
Prerequisite:  EEL 4015.


EEL 4140 Filter Design (3). Approximation techniques. Active RC second order modules. Low pass filters, bandpass filters, high pass filters, notch filters are studied in detail. Sensitivity and high order filters. Design and laboratory implementation.
Prerequisites: EEL 3657, EEL 4304, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 4213 Power System I (3). Introductory course to power systems components; transformers, induction machines, synchronous machines, direct current machines, special machines.
Prerequisite: EEL 4410. 

Corequisites: EEL 3112, EEL 4213L.


EEL 4213L Energy Conversion Lab (1). Operation, testing, and applications of energy conversion machines including AC and DC motors and generators; experiments on magnetic circuits and transformers.
Prerequisite: EEL 4410. 

Corequisite: EEL 4213.


EEL 4214 Power Systems II (3). Transmission line models, the bus admittance matrix, load flow studies and solution techniques, economic dispatch with and without losses, computer applications related to power systems operations.
Prerequisite: EEL 4213.


EEL 4215 Power Systems III (3). Short circuit calculations, symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis, transient stability, control, power systems studies as well as Computer applications.
Prerequisite: EEL 4213.


EEL 4216 Power Electronics (3). Power semiconductor devices, power supplies, DC choppers, AC voltage controller, power inverter, AC and DC drives.
Prerequisite: EEL 4213, EEL 4304.


EEL 4304 Electronics II (3). Second course in electronics with particular emphasis on equivalent circuit representation and analysis of electronic analog and switching circuits and systems, their frequency response and behavior under feedback control.
Prerequisites: EEL 3112, EEL 3303. 

Corequisite: EEL 4304L.


EEL 4304L Electronics II Laboratory (1). Design and measurement experiments of advanced electronics, including applications of integrated circuits.
Prerequisite: EEL 3303L. 

Corequisite: EEL 4304.


EEL 4314 Integrated Circuits and Systems (3). Continuation of Electronics II with major emphasis on applications of electronic integrated circuits and design of analog, control, communication, and digital electronic systems.
Prerequisite: EEL 4304. 

Corequisite: EEL 4314L.


EEL 4314L Integrated Circuits Lab (1). Laboratory experiments in integrated circuits, includes design of RF filters, analog systems, A/D and D/A systems.
Prerequisite: EEL 4304. 

Corequisite: EEL 4314.


EEL 4410 Introduction to Fields & Waves (3). Static Electric Field, the Steady electric Current, Magnetic Field of Ferro magnetic materials. The relation between field and circuit theory. Waves and wave polarization, reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
Prerequisite: EEL 3111.


EEL 4461C Antennas (3). Introduction to linear antennas, linear arrays and aperture antennas. Far field pattern calculation and measurement techniques.
Prerequisite: EEL 3514, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 4510 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing (3). Z transform. Continuous and digital filters. Design of digital filters. Effects of finite register length in digital filters. Engineering applications of digital filters.
Prerequisite: EEL 3514, or permission of the instructor


EEL 4515 Advanced  Communication Systems (3). Advanced senior level course designed for those students who desire to enhance their engineering knowledge in communication systems. State-of-the-art techniques in FM, digital communication, phase locked loops, noise treatment, threshold improvement.
Prerequisites: EEL 3514, EEL 4304, or permission of the instructor


EEL 4611 Control Systems II (3). Design by Root-Locus, Bode plot, and Guillemam-Truxal approach; characteristics of some typical industrial controllers and sensors. Computer simulation and other modern topics are included.
Prerequisites: EEL 3657, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 4611L Systems Laboratory (1). Laboratory experiments in various systems. Includes position and velocity control systems, zeroth order, first order, and second order systems. Communication systems.
Prerequisites: EEL 3657, EEL 3514.


EEL 4709C Computer Design (3). Computer architecture. Arithmetic units, RAM, ROM, tape, disk memory systems. Data input/output channels. Distributed and centralized control.
Prerequisite: EEL 3712.


EEL 4713 Digital Logic Design II (3). Upper division course in system design using state-of-the-art digital integrated circuits and concepts leading to realization of practical digital electronic systems. VHDL based designs
Prerequisite: EEL 3712.


EEL 4746 Microcomputers I (3). RAM, ROM, and CPU architecture. Instruction set. Timing sequences. Sub-routines. Interrupts. Peripherals. Applications. System design.
Prerequisite: EEL 4709, or permission of the instructor

Corequisite: EEL 4746L.


EEL 4746L Microcomputers I Laboratory (1). Hands-on design experience with micro-computer systems and applications including busses, interfaces, and incircuit emulation.
Corequisite: EEL 4709C.


EEL 4747 Microcomputers II (3). Design of interfacing schemes of microcomputers such as video, disk, etc. and state-of-the-art hardware and software features of advanced microprocessors families.
Prerequisites: EEL 4746, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 4798 Special Topics in Computer Engineering (1-3).  Special topics in computer engineering not covered in other courses.
Prerequisite:  Permission of the instructor.


EEL 4905 Individual Problems In Electrical Engineering (1-3). Selected problems on projects in the student's major field of electrical engineering. It can be extended to a maximum of 6 hours. Student works independently with a minor advisement from designated faculty member.
Prerequisite: Senior level, permission of Instructor.


EEL 4930 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering (1-3). Special topics in electrical engineering not covered in other courses.
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.


EEL 4949 Co-Op Work Experience (3). Practical co-op engineering work under approved industrial supervision.
Prerequisite: .


ELR 4202C Medical Instrumentation Design (4). Concepts of transducers and instrumentation systems; origins of biopotentials; electrical safety; therapeutic and prosthetic devices.
Prerequisite: EEL 4304, or permission of the instructor


Graduate Level Courses - Credits in parentheses ( ).


EEL 5011 Electrical Design in Buildings (5). Review of electrical code and regulations. Design of loads, circuits, surge protectors, security, emergency systems, lighting systems. Special considerations for electrical system in new industrial buildings. 
Prerequisites: EEL 3112 and EEL 4304.


EEL 5071 Bioelectrical Models (3). Engineering models for electrical behavior of nerve and muscle cells, electrode-tissue junctions, volume conduction in tissue and the nervous system as an electrical network.
Prerequisite: ELR 4202, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5085 Bioradiation Engineering (3). Spectrum of radiation source, types of fields, properties of living tissue, mechanisms of field propagation in tissue. Applications in imaging and therapy. Hazards and safety.
Prerequisite: EEL 4410, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5145 Advanced Filter Design (3). Graduate course in the design and advanced analysis of passive and active high order circuits. Use of computer as a design tool.
Prerequisite: EEL 4140, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5171 Advanced Systems Theory (3). State-space representations for continuous and discrete-time systems, control-ability and observability, pole-zero allocation, Lyapunov stability theorem, state observer.
Prerequisites: EEL 3657, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5270 Electrical Transients in Power Systems (3). Traveling waves on transmission and multi-conductor systems, successive reflections, distributed parameter systems, transients on integrated power systems.
Prerequisite: EEL 4213, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5275 Power Systems Protection (3). Analysis of power systems under faulted conditions using linear transformation. The study of surge, transient and waves on power lines. Computer-aided analysis and design, emphasizing protection of the equipment.
Prerequisite: EEL 4215,or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5348 Digital Electronics (3). Analysis and design of logic gates using saturated and non-saturating elements, transmission gates, interfacing of logic families, bistable circuits, A/D and D/A converters.
Prerequisite: EEL 4304, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5352 Bipolar Junction Transistors (3). Bipolar junction transistor physics. Semiconductor bulk properties at equilibrium and nonequilibrium. PN junction theory. Theory of the bipolar junction transistor.
Prerequisite: EEL 3396 or permission of instructor.


EEL 5353 Field Effect Transistors (3). Field effect device physics and technology. MOS capacitor. DC and AC characteristics of the MOS transistor. The MOS transistor in dynamic operation.
Prerequisites: EEL 3396 or permission of instructor.


EEL 5366 Industrial Electronics (3). A study of solid state devices for the control of power, their applications and limitations in power switching circuits and in the control of physical transducers.
Prerequisite: EEL 4213, EEL 4304, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5371 High Frequency Amplifiers (3). Analysis and design of high frequency amplifiers and oscillators: stability, scattering parameters, use of the Smith chart and other practical design tools, noise.
Prerequisites: EEL 4304, EEL 4410.


EEL 5437 Microwave Engineering (3). Microwave waveguides. Microwave tubes, microwave solid state devices, microwave integrated circuits, microwave enclosures.
Prerequisite: EEL 4410, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5482 Field and Waves Engineering (3). Concepts and theorems in fields and waves, analytic techniques for guided waves, radiation and scattering, numerical techniques for analysis of electrical devices, using digital computer.
Prerequisite: EEL 4410
, or permission of the instructor.

EEL 5500 Digital Communications Systems I (3). Course will consider most important aspects of digital communication systems such as noise related subjects, random signals, linear systems, and baseband digital modulation and multiplexing.
Prerequisites: EEL 3114, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5501 Digital Communications Systems II (3). Course will consider more important aspects of digital communication systems such as matched filters, digital base and modulation, multiplexing, carrier digital modulation and error correction coding.
Prerequisite: EEL 5500, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5524 Random Signal Principles (3). Noise, random processes, correlation, spectral analysis in the analysis and design of communication systems. Optimization techniques; minimum mean square error.
Prerequisite: EEL 3514, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5563 Intro to Optical Fibers (3). Use of fiber optics as a communication medium. Principles of fiber optics: mode theory, transmitters, modulators, sensors, detectors and demodulators, fiber data links.
Prerequisites: EEL 3514, EEL 4314, and EEL 4410, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5653 Digital Control Systems (3). Analysis and design of digital control systems. Z-transforms, analysis and control of discrete-time systems, digital control of analog systems. Several digital controller design methods. Computer simulation and microprocessor implementation.
Prerequisite: EEL 3657. 


EEL 5718 Computer-Communication Network Engineering (3). System engineering synthesis, analysis, and evaluation of computer communication networks. Network design, routing and flow control, telecommunication traffic engineering, transmission, switching, etc.
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor..


EEL 5719 Digital Filters (3). Analysis, design and implementation of digital filters. Hardware and software approach to design.
Prerequisites: permission of the instructor.


EEL 5725 Digital Systems Engineering I (3). This course involves systematic studies of Fault Tolerant digital systems, VHDL and VERILOG based digital system designs, and system implementations with CPLDS, FPGAS, ACICS.
Prerequisites: EEL 4304, EEL 4746, equivalent
, or permission of the instructor.

EEL 5741 Adv. Microprocessor Systems (3). Interfacing of various microprocessors together. Concepts of master-slave systems, virtual memory and I/O control techniques. Digital system evaluation and optimization.
Prerequisite: EEL 4746, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 5757 Real-Time digital Signal Processing Implementations (3). Techniques for the implementation of digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms in dedicated processors, for assessing real-time performance of audio, control and communications.
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.


EEL 5810 Neural Networks _ Algorithms and Applications (3). Various artificial neural networks and their training algorithms will be introduced. Their applications to electrical and computer engineering fields will also be covered.
Prerequisite: EEL 3135.


EEL 5820 Digital Image Processing (3). Human vision, digital imaging, image transforms, image enhancement, image restoration, image compression, edge detection, shape analysis, depth information, texture analysis, and vision systems.
Prerequisite: EEL 3135 or CAP 3700, and knowledge of any programming language (Fortran, Pascal, C).


EEL 5935 Advanced Special Topics (1-3). A course designed to give groups of students an opportunity to pursue special studies in an advanced topic of Electrical Engineering not otherwise offered.
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.


EEL 6020 Numerical Analysis of Electrical Devices (3). Numerical techniques for the analysis of static and diffusion eddy current type field problems and associated phenomena in electrical devices. Emphasis on implementation and applications to practical problems.
Prerequisites: EEL 4213, MAP 3302 or equivalent or permission of instructor.


EEL 6075 Biosignal Processing I (3). Characterizing biosignals by application of time and frequency domain analytic methods. Comparison of analog and digital processing. Engineering design for VLSI implementations in implantable devices.
Prerequisites: ELR 4202 and EEL 6505 or permission of instructor.


EEL 6076 Biosignal Processing II (3). Engineering design of advanced systems for processing biosignals. Methods for signal compression. Adaptive systems for automatic recognition. Application of artificial intelligence for signal classification.
Prerequisite: EEL 6075 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6141 Advanced Network Analysis (3). Modeling and analysis of networks by t-domain and s-domain techniques. Topics include topology, formulation of loop eqs and node pair eqs., state space networks, computer solutions.

Prerequisite: EEL 3112 and FORTRAN or permission of instructor.

EEL 6167 VLSI Design (3). Study of VLSI Design concepts in MOS/CMOS environment, CAD techniques, VLSI array processors and wavefront array processors, and implementation of array processors.

Prerequisites: EEL 5741, EEL 4314.


EEL 6216 Application of Intelligent Systems to Power System Operations (3). Power system security assessment using intelligence systems techniques such as pattern recognition, expert systems, and neural networks. Class projects include applying IS to load forecasting, alarm processing.
Prerequisites: EEL 4214, EEL 6273. 


EEL 6219 Electric Power Quality (3). Modeling of networks under non0sinusodial conditions, loads which may cause power quality problems, analysis of harmonics, flickers, impulses, standards, power quality improvement methods.
Prerequisites: EEL 4213,or permission of the instructor.


EEL 6235 Motor Drives Control (3). Switched, resonant and bidirectional power supplies, DC motors: single, three phase and chopper drives. AC motors: voltage, current and frequency control. Closed loop control. 
Prerequisites: EEL 4213, EEL 3303, EEL 3657.


EEL 6253 Computer Analysis of Power Systems (3). Power systems analysis and designs by computer solutions. Interactive solutions, power flow, optimum solutions. Dynamic solutions and stability. 

Prerequisite: EEL 4215 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6254 Power Systems Reliability (3). Expansion planning, load forecasting, reliability and availability application to generation planning, bulk power supply systems, generation system operation and production costing analysis.

Prerequisite: EEL 4215 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6261 Power Systems Engineering (3). Steady-state analysis, fault studies, load flow, dynamic and transient performance, on-line control, practical applications.

Prerequisite: EEL 4215 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6273 Power System Stability and Control (3). Direct methods for system stability, computer analysis of large scale models, Lyapunov stability, longer term stability, security analysis, MW-frequency control, isolated and multiple area control.

Prerequisites: EEL 4215 and FORTRAN or permission of instructor.

EEL 6311 Advanced Electronic Systems I (3). Principles of analog and digital electronics network. Advanced analysis, modeling and computer simulation of op amps. Analog design techniques and practical examples are covered.

Prerequisite: EEL 4314 or permission of instructor.


EEL 6312 Advanced Electronic Systems II (3). Study of linear properties of electronic systems and design of fault tolerant systems using A/D and D/A and control algorithms.
Prerequisite: EEL 6311 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6315 Advanced Solid State Electronics (3). IC technologies, properties and fabrication concepts. Bipolar, MOS, I2L, CCD, bubble technologies. Ion implantation characteristics. Lithography techniques. 

Prerequisite: EEL 3396, EEL 4304 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6332 Thin Film Engineering (3). Thin films used in microelectronics and optoelectronics; deposition methods; evolution of film microstructure; film growth modeling; introduction to film analysis. 

Prerequisite: EEL 3396.

EEL 6335 Electrical Transport in Semiconductors I (3). This course focuses on carrier transport fundamentals, beginning at the microscopic level and progressing to the macroscopic effects relevant to semiconductor devices.

Prerequisites: EEL 5352, PHY 4604.

EEL 6337 Electrical Transport in Semiconductors II (3).  This course focuses on quantum phenomena occurring in carrier transport in modern small-size semiconductor devices.

Prerequisite: EEL 6335.  Note:  PHY 4604 is a prerequisite for EEL 6335.


EEL 6395 Applied Superconductivity (3). Covers the basic physical properties of superconductors. Superconducting devices: squids, memory & logic elements. Emphasis is placed on applications of superconductors. 
Prerequisites: EEL 3396 and EEL 4410.

Corequisites: EEL 6315, EEL 6397 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6397 Semiconductor Device Theory (3). Device physics and modeling of GaAs FETS. GaAs analog and digital integrated circuits. Modulation doped field effect transistors. Heterojunction bipolar transistor theory.

Prerequisite: EEL 3396.

EEL 6399C Electronic Properties of Materials (3). Properties of materials from which electronic components and structures are fabricated; electrical conduction in metals, semiconductors and insulators; thermal; magnetic; optical.

Prerequisite: EEL 3396.

EEL 6443 Electro-Optical Devices and Systems (3). Introduction to optical devices and systems such as solid state laser systems, their applications in industry. Also holography, linear and non-linear optical modulation and demodulation concepts. 

Prerequisites: EEL 4410, EEL 4314.

Corequisite: EEL 5563 or permission of instructor.


EEL 6444 Optical Fiber Communication Systems (3). Course focuses on specification, design and application of fiber optic communication systems considering the fiber optic wave guide, optical device sources, photo-detector, receiver and transmitter designs.
Prerequisite: EEL 5501 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6463 Antenna Theory and Design (3). Radiation patterns of dipoles and loops, array analysis and synthesis, self-impedance and mutual impedance, frequency independent antennas and antenna miniaturization, and reflectors and lens antenna.

Prerequisite: EEL 4410.

EEL 6505C Digital Signal Processing (3). Treatment of digital signal and system characteristics: Z transforms and FFT theory. Real time and correlation functions. Multidimensional signal processing and digital filtering. 

Prerequisites:permission of instructor.

EEL 6509 Digital Communications by Satellite (3). This course will consider processing and non-processing transponders, earth terminals, propagation link characteristics, multiple access techniques, and spread spectrum techniques. 

Prerequisite: EEL 5501 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6572 Pictorial Information Systems Design (3). Picture input device design, pictorial information systems hardware, picture processor design, picture storage system design, pictorial database system design, picture communication interface design, and engineering applications. 

Prerequisites: EEL 4709 or CDA 4400.

EEL 6575 Data Communications Engineering (3). Digital networks for data communications, CCITT, HDLC, SDLC. Real time switching techniques. Microprocessor based network topologies. Busing schemes such as VME, MULTIB, RS232. 

Prerequisites: EEL 4746 and EEL 4314 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6614 Modern Control Theory I (3). Graduate level treatment of modern control systems. Optimal control of feedback systems. Performance measures, Pontryagin's minimum principle, dynamic programming, numerical techniques.

Prerequisite: EEL 5171 or permission of instructor. 

EEL 6615 Modern Control Theory II (3). Graduate level course in Stochastic control. Stochastic processes, linear estimation, Kalman filtering techniques in state estimation. Design of feedback control in the presence of noise. 

Prerequisite: EEL 5171 or permission of instructor.

EEL 6673 Identification Theory (3). System modeling, off-line methods, on-line methods, order and structure determination, diagnostic tests and model validation.

Prerequisite: EEL 5171.

EEL 6681 Fuzzy Systems Design (3). Applications of fuzzy theory to develop design methodologies for various engineering systems. Emphasis will be on systems for pattern recognition, model identification and automatic control
Prerequisite: permission of instructor..


EEL 6726 Digital Systems Engineering II (3). Analysis and design of time shared digital electronic systems. Artificial intelligence and automation. Robotics and remote control systems. Advanced digital instrumentation and testing. 
Prerequisite: EEL 5725 or permission of instructor.


EEL 6751 Wavelet Theory Applied to Signal Processing(3). Applications of wavelet theory to transient and non-stationary signal processing; compression and noise reduction of signals, singularity and edge detection, and time frequency analysis. 
Prerequisite: EEL 3135 or equivalent.


EEL 6758 Engineering Design of Microprocessor Based Operating Systems (3). Hardware microprocessor based systems, BIOS (basic input and output), Kernel partitions, memory, stack organization and physical design of operating systems. 
Prerequisites: EEL 4746 or permission of instructor.


EEL 6787 Network Security (3). Network Security requirements, number theory, steganography, encryption design principles and algorithms, message authentication and digital signature principles and designs, network system security design.
Prerequisites: permission of instructor.


EEL 6812 Advances in Neural Networks (3). Latest concepts in artificial neural networks research and newly developed applications. Implementation, convergence in learning algorithms, accuracy refinement, and optimal structure of neural networks. Engineering applications. 
Prerequisite: EEL 5810.


EEL 6816 Electronic Neural Systems (3). This course bridges electronics to the understanding of neurobiologically inspired models. Biological tasks and neural computations are studied in the context of networks of processing elements.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor


EEL 6821 Computer Vision (3). Image formation and image properties, Radiance and irradiance, introduction to Brain Topography, Color Vision, Visual Machinery of the brian, statistical pattern classification and computational aspects, stereo vision, motion vision, size and orientation independence.
Prerequisite: EEL 5820.


EEL 6825 Pattern Recognition (3).Pattern recognition techniques via computer, design functions, optimum decision criteria, training algorithms, unsupervised learning, feature extraction, data reduction, machine intelligence.
Prerequisite: EEL 5524, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 6836 Computer Visualization of Brain Electrical Activity (3). Computer techniques for the visualization of brain electrical activity. Analysis of the origin of this activity as it relates to its measurement and visualization through computerized systems.
Prerequisite: EEL 4510, or permission of the instructor.


EEL 6870 Intelligent Computer Design (3). The course involves self testing and correcting type of modular computer system development. Also concepts relating to Artificial Intelligence and Expert systems will be integrated into the compuet system design.
Prerequisite: EEL 4709.


EEL 6905 Individual Work (1-4). Special problems or projects selected by the students and a faculty member. The student conducts the project with a minimum of supervision. Consent of Department Chairperson and Faculty Advisor.


EEL 6916 Graduate Project (1-3). Independent research work culminating in a professional practice- oriented report for the requirements of the non-thesis option of the M.S. degree project. 
Prerequisites: Fifteen graduate credits and approved project plan.

EEL 6931 Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1-3). Course covers advanced topics not in existing graduate courses in electrical and computer engineering. 

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

EEL 6932 Graduate Seminar (1). An examination of recent technical findings in selected areas of concern. Emphasis is placed on presentations (oral and written), research activities, readings, and active discussions among participants. 

Prerequisite: Permission of graduate advisor. 

EEL 6971 Research Master's Thesis (1-6). The student, following the option of the Master's Degree with thesis, should work for his/her thesis through this course.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

EEL 6977 Extended Thesis Research (0). For Graduate research students who have completed their sequence of thesis credits, but must register for a course to remain on graduate student status.


EEL 7979 Advanced Research (1-6). Advanced research credits under the supervision of the dissertation advisor.
Prerequisite: Completion of the written comprehensive examination. 


EEL 7980 Dissertation (3-12). Doctoral research leading to Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Dissertation.
Prerequisite: Permission of graduate committee. 


 

 

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