Electrical Engineering
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EE 102 3
Credits
Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Basic modern devices, concepts, technical skills and
instruments of electrical engineering. Course fee: $45. (Co-requisite: MATH
200X.) (2 + 3) Offered Spring
EE 203 4
Credits
Electrical Engineering Fundamentals I
Analysis of alternating-current circuits using complex
notation and phasor diagrams, resonance, transformers and three-phase circuits.
Introduction to network and system analysis. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisites:
MATH 200X, EE 102. Co-requisite: MATH 201X.) (3 + 3) Offered
Fall
EE 204 4
Credits
Electrical Engineering Fundamentals II
Electronics of solid state devices, amplifier design, digital
circuits, electromechanics, control systems and instrumentation. Course fee:
$45. (Prerequisite: EE 203, MATH 201X. Co-requisite MATH 202X.)
(3 + 3) Offered Spring
EE 303 4
Credits
Electrical Machinery
Electromechanical energy conversion principles,
characteristics and applications of transformers, synchronous and induction machines,
DC machines, and special machines. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisite: EE 204.)
(3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 311 3
Credits
Applied Engineering Electromagnetics
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 212X, MATH 202X, EE 204. Co-requisite: MATH 302.)
(3 + 0) Offered Fall
EE 312 3
Credits
Electromagnetic Waves and Devices
Solution of Maxwell's equations for the interaction of
electromagnetic waves with conducting and dielectric media. Theory and design
of antennas and waveguides. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisites: EE 311, 331, MATH
302.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring
EE 331 1
Credit
High Frequency Lab
Laboratory experiments in transmission lines, impedances,
bridges, scattering parameters, hybrids and waveguides. Course fee: $45.
(Co-requisite: EE 311.) (0 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 332 1
Credit
Electromagnetics Laboratory
Laboratory experiments with microwave sources, propagating
electromagnetic waves, waveguides and antennas. Design, construction and
testing of antenna systems. (Co-requisite: EE 312.) (0 + 3) Offered
Spring
EE 333W 4
Credits
Physical Electronics
Basic properties of semiconductors. Principles of
semiconductor devices, diodes, transistors and integrated circuits. Course fee:
$45. (Prerequisites: EE 204; ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X or permission of
instructor.) (3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 334 4
Credits
Electronic Circuit Design
Application of semiconductor devices in circuit design in
computation, automatic control and communication. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisite:
EE 333.) (3 + 3) Offered Spring
EE 341 4
Credits
Digital and Computer Analysis and Design
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. Course fee: $45.
(Prerequisites: CS 201 and one year of college physics.) (3 + 3)
Offered Fall
EE 343 4
Credits
Digital Systems Analysis and Design
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). Course fee: $45.
(Prerequisites: ES 201 or CS 201; EE 204 and EE 333. EE 333 may be taken
concurrently.) (3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 353 3
Credits
Circuit Theory
Analysis by Laplace transform, state variable and Fourier
methods, convolution, frequency selective networks and two-port circuits. (Prerequisite:
MATH 202X, EE 204. Co-requisite: MATH 302) (3 + 0) Offered Fall
EE 354 3
Credits
Engineering Signal Analysis
Analog signals and Fourier transformations. Discrete time
signals and FFT. Probability theory and random variables. Random signals and
noise. (Prerequisites: EE 353, MATH 302.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring
EE 404 4
Credits
Electrical Power Systems
Electrical power transmission and distribution systems, power
flow, symmetrical faults and economic dispatch with computer-aided analysis.
Course fee: $45. (Prerequisite: EE 303.) (3 + 3) Offered Spring
EE 406 4
Credits
Electrical Power Engineering
Economic operation of power systems, symmetrical and
unsymmetrical faults, power system protection, dynamic power system stability,
and computer aided fault and transient stability analysis. Course fee: $45.
(Prerequisite: EE 404 or equivalent.) (3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 408 3
Credits
Power Electronics
(Stacked with EE 608)
Study of past and current technology used in power conversion
and control equipment. Topics will include the theory and application of
thyristors, rectifiers, DC-DC converters, inverters, resonant converters, AC
and DC switches and regulators, power supplies, DC drives and adjustable-speed
drives, including variable-frequency drives and cycloconverters.
(Prerequisites: EE 303 and EE 333 or permission of the instructor.)
(3 + 0) Offered Spring
EE 434W, O 4
Credits
Instrumentation Systems
Analysis and design of instrumentation systems. Static and
dynamic characteristics; accuracy, noise and reliability; sensors; signal conditioning;
typical measurement systems; and microprocessor applications. Course fee: $45.
(Prerequisites: EE 334, 343, 354; COMM 131X or 141X; ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or
ENGL 213X or permission of instructor; and senior standing.) (3 + 3)
Offered Spring
EE 443 4
Credits
Computer Engineering Analysis and Design
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). Course fee: $45.
(Prerequisite: EE 343 or EE 341.) (3 + 3) Offered Spring
EE 444W, O 4
Credits
Embedded Systems Design
(Stacked with EE 645)
Issues surrounding the design and construction of a
microcontroller evaluation board. Issues include hardware architecture and glue
logic, circuit design and layout, hardware/firmware partitioning, firmware
architecture and design. Includes laboratory exercises using evaluation board
and then extending the capabilities of that board in a significant project.
Emphasis on robust designs and proper documentation. Course fee: $45.
(Prerequisites: ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or 213X; COMM 131X or 141X; EE 443; and
senior standing. Recommended: CS 301.) (3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 451 4
Credits
Digital Signal Processing
(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; quantization and round off
errors; spectral analysis. Includes applications to medical, speech,
electromagnetic and acoustic signal analysis. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisite:
EE 354 or equivalent.) (3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 461 4
Credits
Communication Systems
Theory, design and implementation of communication systems.
Measurement of modulation, noise, channel spectrum, satellite link budget and
microwave path design. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisites: EE 354 and senior
standing.) (3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 463 3
Credits
Communication Networks
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.)
(3 + 0) Offered Spring
EE 464W, O 4
Credits
Communication Networks Design
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. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisites: EE 354; COMM 131X
or 141X; ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X or permission of instructor; and
senior standing.) (3 + 3) Offered Spring
EE 471 3
Credits
Fundamentals of Automatic Control
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.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring
EE 488 1-3
Credits
Undergraduate Research
Advanced research topics from outside the usual undergraduate
requirements. (Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Recommended: A
substantial level of technical/scientific background.) Offered Fall, Spring
EE 603 3
Credits
Advanced Electric Power Engineering
Selected advanced topics in electric power generation,
transmission, use, optimization, stability and economics. (Prerequisite: EE 404
or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered
Alternate Fall
EE 604 3
Credits
Electric Power Systems Transients
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. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
EE 605 3
Credits
Power System Stability and Control
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. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
EE 606 3
Credits
Electric Power System Protection
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. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
EE 608 3
Credits
Power Electronics
(Stacked with EE 408)
Study of past and current technology used in power conversion
and control equipment. Topics will include the theory and application of
thyristors, rectifiers, DC-DC converters, inverters, resonant converters, AC
and DC switches and regulators, power supplies, DC drives and adjustable-speed
drives, including variable-frequency drives and cycloconverters.
(Prerequisites: EE 303 and EE 333; graduate standing or permission of
instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring
EE 610 3
Credits
Linear Systems
Methods of representation and analysis for discrete 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. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered
Alternate Fall
EE 611 3
Credits
Waves
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: 2008-09.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
EE 634 3
Credits
Microwave Design I
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. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisite: EE
312, EE 332, and EE 334 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08.)
(2 + 3) Offered Alternate Fall
EE 635 3
Credits
Microwave Design II
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. Course fee: $45.
(Prerequisite: EE 634 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08.)
(2 + 3) Offered Alternate Spring
EE 645 4
Credits
Embedded Systems Design
(Stacked with EE 444W, O)
Focus on issues surrounding the design and construction of a
microcontroller evaluation board. Issues include hardware architecture and glue
logic, circuit design and layout, hardware/firmware partitioning, firmware
architecture and firmware design. Includes laboratory exercises using
evaluation board and then extending the capabilities of that board in a
significant project. Emphasis on robust designs and proper documentation.
Course fee: $45. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.)
(3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 651 4
Credits
Digital Signal Processing
(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; quantization and round off
errors; and spectral analysis. Includes applications to medical, speech,
electromagnetic and acoustic signal analysis. Course fee: $45. (Prerequisite:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor.) (3 + 3) Offered Fall
EE 652 3
Credits
Adaptive Systems and Neural Networks
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.
(Prerequisite: EE 451 or equivalent. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
EE 653 3
Credits
Random Signals and Systems
Study of random variables and processes as signals, their
interaction with linear and nonlinear systems, their estimation and properties
of their estimators, and the detection of such processes in noisy environments.
Review of probability and characterization of random processes, linear and
nonlinear systems with random excitations, optimum estimation theory, spectral
representation and estimation, and detection theory. (Prerequisites: EE 354,
MATH 371 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2008-09.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
EE 656 3
Credits
Space Systems Engineering
(Cross-listed with 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. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next
offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
EE 662 3
Credits
Digital Communication Theory
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:
2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
EE 665 3
Credits
Antennas
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: 2008-09.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
EE 667 3
Credits
Satellite Communications
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:
2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
EE 669 3
Credits
Radiowave Propagation
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: 2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
EE 671 3
Credits
Digital Control Systems
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.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants