2002-2003 UAF Catalog

Course Descriptions

Electrical Engineering

A $25.00 per semester student computing facility user fee is assessed for CSEM engineering courses. This fee is in addition to any lab/material fees.

EE 102 (3 Credits) Spring
Introduction to Electrical Engineering (2+3)
Basic modern devices, concepts, technical skills, and instruments of electrical engineering. (Co-requisite: MATH 200.)

EE 203 (4 Credits) Fall
Electrical Engineering Fundamentals I (3+3)
Analysis of alternating-current circuits using complex notation and phasor diagrams, resonance, transformers, Laplace analysis, the complex frequency plane, and three-phase circuits. Introduction to network and system analysis. (Prerequisites: MATH 200, EE 102.)

EE 204 (4 Credits) Spring
Electrical Engineering Fundamentals II (3+3)
Electronics of solid state devices, amplifier design, digital circuits, electromechanics, control systems, and instrumentation. (Prerequisite: EE 203.)

EE 303 (4 Credits) Fall
Electrical Machinery (3+3)
Electromechanical energy conversion principles, characteristics and applications of transformers, synchronous and induction machines, DC machines, and special machines. (Prerequisite: EE 204.)

EE 311 (3 Credits) Fall
Applied Engineering Electromagnetics (3+0)
Analysis and design of transmission lines and distributed linear circuits using impedance concepts. Development of electromagnetic field equations and their relation to circuit models. Magnetostatics and the magnetic circuit. Electromagnetic wave propagation. Application of the wave equation to engineering systems. (Prerequisites: PHYS 212, MATH 302, EE 204.)

EE 312 (3 Credits) Spring
Electromagnetic Waves and Devices (3+0)
Theory and design of antennas, waveguides and other periodic structures. Antenna arrays, broadband design techniques and related topics. Theory and design of practical communication links. (Prerequisites: EE 311, 331, MATH 302.)

EE 331 (1 Credit) Fall
High Frequency Lab (0+3)
Laboratory experiments in transmission lines, impedances, bridges, scattering parameters, hybrids, and waveguides. (Co-requisite: EE 311.)

EE 332 (1 Credit) Spring
Electromagnetics Laboratory (0+3)
Use of Maxwell's equations in analysis of waveguides, cavity resonators, transmission lines, antennas, and radio propagation. (Co-requisite: EE 312.)

EE 333W (4 Credits) Fall
Physical Electronics (3+3)
Basic properties of semiconductors. Principles of semiconductor devices, diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits. (Prerequisite: EE 204, ENGL 211X or 213X.)

EE 334 (4 Credits) Spring
Electronic Circuit Design (3+3)
Application of semiconductor devices in circuit design in computation, automatic control, and communication. (Prerequisite: EE 333.)

EE 341 (4 Credits) Fall
Computer Organization I (3+3)
Modular structure of computer systems. Analysis, design and implementation of combinational and sequential logic machines. Introduction to microprocessor architecture and microprocessor programming. Design with traditional and hardware description language techniques. (Prerequisites: CS 201 and one year of college physics.)

EE 342 (4 Credits) Spring
Computer Organization II (3+3)
Techniques of constructing input/output device drivers, 8 and 16 bit microprocessor organization, operation and programming, and central processor unit microprogrammable bit slice devices. (Prerequisite: EE 341.)

EE 343 (4 Credits) Fall
Digital Systems Analysis and Design I (3+3)
Fundamental principles and practices of digital design. Analysis, design and implementation of combinational and sequential logic machines. Introduction to microprocessor architecture and microprocessor programming. Analysis of digital data transmission techniques and microprocessor interfacing. Design with traditional and Hardware Description Language techniques. Implementation with both Medium and Large Scale Integrated (M/LSI) chips and Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs). (Prerequisites: EE 204, 333. EE 333 may be taken concurrently.)

EE 353 (3 Credits) Fall
Circuit Theory (3+0)
Analysis by Laplace transform, state variable, and Fourier methods, convolution, frequency selective networks, and two-port circuits. (Prerequisite: EE 204.)

EE 354 (3 Credits) Spring
Engineering Signal Analysis (3+0)
Analog signals and Fourier transform. Discrete time signals and FFT. Probability theory and random variables. Random signals and noise. (Prerequisites: EE 353, MATH 302.)

EE 404 (4 Credits) Spring
Electrical Power Systems (3+3)
Electrical power transmission and distribution systems, power flow, symmetrical faults, and economic dispatch with computer-aided analysis. (Prerequisite: EE 303.)

EE 406 (4 Credits) Fall
Electrical Power Engineering (3+3)
Economic operation of power systems, symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults, power system protection, dynamic power system stability, and computer aided fault and transient stability analysis. (Prerequisite: EE 404 or equivalent.)

EE 434W,O (4 Credits) Spring
Instrumentation Systems (3+3)
Analysis and design of instrumentation systems: static and dynamic characteristics; accuracy, noise, reliability; sensors; signal conditioning; typical measurement systems; and microprocessor applications. (Prerequisites: EE 334, 343, 354 and senior standing.)

EE 443 (4 Credits) Spring
Digital Systems Analysis and Design II (3+3)
Advanced digital design and principles and practices of computer engineering. Analysis and design of computer architecture and organization. Digital signal processing techniques and hardware. Microprocessor operation, control and interfacing. Design with traditional and Hardware Description Language techniques. Implementation with both Medium and Large Scale Integrated (M/LSI) chips and Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs). (Prerequisite: EE 343.)

EE 451 (4 Credits) Fall
Digital Signal Processing (3+3)
(Stacked with EE 651)
Time, frequency and Z-transformation domain analysis of discrete time systems and signals; Discrete Fourier Transformation (DFT) and FFT implementations; FIR/IIR filter design and implementation techniques; discrete time random signals and noise analysis; and quantization and round off errors; spectral analysis. Includes applications to medical, speech, electromagnetic and acoustic signal analysis. (Prerequisite: EE 354 or equivalent.)

EE 461 (4 Credits) Fall
Communication Systems (3+3)
Theory design and implementation of communication systems. Measurement of modulation, noise, channel spectrum, satellite link budget, and microwave path design. (Prerequisites: EE 354 and senior standing.)

EE 463 (3 Credits) Spring
Communication Networks (3+0)
Design of voice and data networks. Traffic measurement, network topology, circuit sizing, and network performance measures. Tariffs and economic considerations. Cost-performance relationships. Cannot take both EE 463 and EE 464 for credit. (Prerequisites: EE 354 and senior standing.)

EE 464W,O (4 Credits) Spring
Communication Networks Design (3+3)
Design of voice and data networks. Traffic measurement, network topology, circuit sizing, and network performance measures. Tariffs and economic considerations. Cost-performance relationships. Cannot take both EE 464 and EE 463 for credit. (Prerequisites: EE 354 and senior standing.)

EE 471 (3 Credits) Spring
Fundamentals of Automatic Control (3+0)
Linear system representation by transfer functions, signal flow graphics, and state equations. Feedback, time and frequency response of linear systems. Identification. Controllability and observability. Stability analysis by Routh-Hurwitz criterion and frequency domain methods. Specifications of higher order linear systems. System design and compensation. (Prerequisites: EE 353 and MATH 302.)

EE 488 (1-3 Credits) Fall, Spring
Undergraduate Research
Advanced research topics from outside the usual undergraduate requirements. (Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Recommendations: A substantial level of technical/scientific background.)

EE 603 (3 Credits) Alternate Fall
Advanced Electric Power Engineering (3+0)
Selected advanced topics in electric power generation, transmission, utilization, optimization, stability, and economics. (Prerequisite: EE 404 or permission of instructor.)

EE 604 (3 Credits) Alternate Fall
Electric Power Systems Transients (3+0)
Power system transient analysis, use of the Electromagnetic Transients Program (EMTP), insulation coordination, transient recovery voltage phenomena, and resonance conditions. (Prerequisite: EE 406 or permission of instructor.)

EE 605 (3 Credits) Alternate Spring
Power System Stability and Control (3+0)
Advanced power system stability analysis, including generator steady state and dynamic models, voltage and power control equipment, load models, network constraints, numerical methods, supplemental control via power system stabilizers and static var systems, and software tools. (Prerequisite: EE 406 or permission of instructor.)

EE 606 (3 Credits) Alternate Spring
Electric Power System Protection (3+0)
Principles and applications of electric power systems protective relaying. Topics include fault analysis, relay types, instrumentation transformers, protection schemes, grounding, stability, and computer aided design. (Prerequisite: EE 404, EE 406, or permission of instructor.)

EE 610 (3 Credits) Alternate Fall
Linear Systems (3+0)
Methods of representation and analysis for discrete time and continuous time. Topics include deterministic, random, continuous and discrete inputs, two sided Laplace and Z-transforms, discrete and fast Fourier transformers, and state variable theory. (Prerequisites: EE 354, MATH 302 or permission of instructor.)

EE 611 (3 Credits) Alternate Spring
Waves (3+0)
Introduction to waves and wave phenomena. Includes electromagnetic, acoustic, seismic, atmospheric and water waves and their mathematical and physical treatment in terms of Hamilton's principle. Discusses propagation, attenuation, reflection, refraction, surface and laminal guiding, dispersion, energy density, power flow, and phase and group velocities. Treatment limited to plane harmonic waves in isotropic media. (Prerequisites: MATH 302 or MATH 421 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2002-03.)

EE 632 (3 Credits) As Demand Warrants
Quantum Electronics (3+0)
Application of quantum mechanical concepts to problems in optical electronics. Study of principles and practices in design and operation of semiconductor devices, lasers and optical propagation systems. Survey of applications in science and engineering. (Prerequisite: EE 332, 333 and MATH 302; or permission of instructor.)

EE 634 (3 Credits) Alternate Fall
Microwave Design I (2+3)
Analysis, design, fabrication, and measurement of passive microwave components and circuits using microstrip construction techniques. Theoretical and computer-aided design of transmission lines, power dividers, hybrids, directional couplers, and filters. (Prerequisite: EE 312, EE 332, and EE 334 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2003-04.)

EE 635 (3 Credits) Alternate Spring
Microwave Design II (2+3)
Analysis and design of solid-state microwave circuits. Amplifier and oscillator circuits are designed and fabricated using microstrip construction techniques and computer-aided design tools. (Prerequisite: EE 634 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2003 - 04.)

EE 651 (4 Credits) Fall
Digital Signal Processing (3+3)
(Stacked with EE 451)
Time, frequency and Z-transformation domain analysis of discrete time systems and signals; Discrete Fourier Transformation (DFT) and FFT implementations; FIR/IIR filter design and implementation techniques; discrete time random signals and noise analysis; and quantization and round off errors; spectral analysis. Includes applications to medical, speech, electromagnetic and acoustic signal analysis. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.)

EE 652 (3 Credits) Alternate Fall
Adaptive Systems and Neural Networks (3+0)
Self-optimizing systems whose performance is improved through contact with their environments. Feedback models for least mean square error adaptation processes. Multiple-layer adaptive neural networks. Competitive learning back propagation, self organization, associative memory. (Prerequisites: EE 451 or equivalent.)

EE 656 (3 Credits) Alternate Spring
Space Systems Engineering (3+0)
(Cross-listed with ESM 656 and ME 656)
A multidisciplinary team of students will perform a preliminary design study of a major space system. Design considerations will include requirements for project management, spacecraft design, power, attitude control, thermal control, communications, computer control and data handling. The students will present their final design in a written report and a public seminar. (Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.)

EE 662 (3 Credits) Alternate Fall
Digital Communication Theory (3+0)
Probability in communication systems, power spectral density, baseband formatting, bandpass modulation and demodulation, link analysis, coding, and channel models. Sections of this course offered in Anchorage have a $50 fee. (Prerequisite: EE 461 or permission of instructor. Next Offered: 2002-03.)

EE 665 (3 Credits) Alternate Spring
Antennas (3+0)
Fundamental principles of antenna theory. Application to the analysis, design, and measurement of many different antenna structures. (Prerequisites: EE 312 and EE 461 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2002 - 03.)

EE 667 (3 Credits) Alternate Fall
Satellite Communications (3+0)
Satellite orbital parameters, satellite hardware, link budgets, modulations and multiple access techniques, operational considerations, operating and proposed satellite communication systems. (Prerequisites: EE 461 and either graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2003-04.)

EE 669 (3 Credits) Alternate Spring
Radiowave Propagation (3+0)
A study of the effects of the earth, atmosphere, ionosphere, and atmospheric hydrometeors such as raindrops, snow, and hail on the propagation of radiowaves. Satellite to earth propagation effects will be emphasized. (Prerequisites: EE 461 and either graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2003 - 04.)

EE 671 (3 Credits) As Demand Warrants
Digital Control Systems (3+0)
Study of digital control theory. Topics will include signal conversion, Z-transforms, state variable techniques, stability, time and frequency domain analysis and system design. (Prerequisites: EE 471 or permission of instructor.)

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