Electrical Engineering
EE F102 Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
3 Credits
Offered Spring
Basic modern devices, concepts, technical skills and instruments of electrical engineering. Special fees apply. Co-requisites: MATH F200X. (2+3)
EE F203 Electrical Engineering Fundamentals I
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Analysis of alternating-current circuits using complex notation and phasor diagrams, resonance, transformers and three-phase circuits. Introduction to network and system analysis. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: MATH F200X, EE F102. Co-requisite: MATH F201X. (3+3)
EE F204 Electrical Engineering Fundamentals II
4 Credits
Offered Spring
Electronics of solid state devices, amplifier design, digital circuits, electromechanics, control systems and instrumentation. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F203; MATH F201X. Co-requisite: MATH F202X. (3+3)
EE F303 Electrical Machinery
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Electromechanical energy conversion principles, characteristics and applications of transformers, synchronous and induction machines, DC machines, and special machines. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F204. (3+3)
EE F311 Applied Engineering Electromagnetics
3 Credits
Offered Fall
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: EE F204, MATH F202X, PHYS F212X. Co-requisite: MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F331 High Frequency Lab
1 Credits
Offered Fall
Laboratory experiments in transmission lines, impedances, bridges, scattering parameters, hybrids and waveguides. Special fees apply. Co-requisites: EE F311. (0+3)
EE F333 W Physical Electronics
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Basic properties of semiconductors. Principles of semiconductor devices, diodes, transistors and integrated circuits. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F204; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X or permission of instructor. (3+3)
EE F334 Electronic Circuit Design
4 Credits
Offered Spring
Application of semiconductor devices in circuit design in computation, automatic control and communication. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F333. (3+3)
EE F341 Digital and Computer Analysis and Design
4 Credits
Offered Fall
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: CS F201; one year of college physics. (3+3)
EE F343 Digital Systems Analysis and Design
4 Credits
Offered Fall
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). Special fees apply. Prerequisites: ES F201 or CS F201; EE F204; EE F333. Note: EE F333 may be taken concurrently. (3+3)
EE F353 Circuit Theory
3 Credits
Offered Fall
Analysis by Laplace transform, state variable, and Fourier methods, convolution, frequency selective networks, and two-port circuits. Prerequisites: EE F204; MATH F202X; ES F201 or CS F201. Co-requisite: MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F354 Engineering Signal Analysis
3 Credits
Offered Spring
Analog signals and Fourier transformations. Discrete time signals and FFT. Probability theory and random variables. Random signals and noise. Prerequisites: EE F353, MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F404 Electrical Power Systems
4 Credits
Offered Spring
Electrical power transmission and distribution systems, power flow, symmetrical faults, and economic dispatch with computer-aided analysis. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F303. (3+3)
EE F406 Electrical Power Engineering
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Economic operation of power systems, symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults, power system protection, dynamic power system stability, and computer-aided fault and transient stability analysis. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F404 or equivalent. (3+3)
EE F408 Power Electronics
3 Credits
Offered Spring
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 convertors, 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 F303; EE F333; or permission of instructor. (Stacked with EE F608.) (3+0)
EE F412 Electromagnetic Waves and Devices
3 Credits
Solution of Maxwell's equations for the interaction of electromagnetic waves with conducting and dielectric media. Theory and design of antennas and waveguides. Prerequisites: EE F311; EE F331; MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F432 Electromagnetics Laboratory
1 Credits
Laboratory experiments with microwave sources, propagating electromagnetic waves, waveguides and antennas. Design, construction and testing of antenna systems. Co-requisites: EE F412. (0+3)
EE F434 W,O Instrumentation Systems
4 Credits
Offered Spring
Analysis and design of instrumentation systems. Static and dynamic characteristics; accuracy, noise and reliability; sensors; signal conditioning; typical measurement systems and microprocessor applications. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: COMM F131X or COMM F141X; EE F334; EE F343; EE F354; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X or permission of instructor; senior standing. (3+3)
EE F443 Computer Engineering Analysis and Design
4 Credits
Offered Spring
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). Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F341 or EE F343. (3+3)
EE F444 W,O Embedded Systems Design
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Issues surrounding the design and implementation of microcontroller-based embedded systems. Topics include hardware architecture and glue logic, embedded programs design, analysis, and optimization, hardware/firmware partitioning, firmware architecture and design. Includes laboratory exercises using evaluation board and a complete embedded system design project. Emphasis on robust designs, energy efficiency, and proper documentation. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X or permission of instructor; COMM F131X or COMM F141X; EE F343 or EE F341; EE F443 or permission of instructor; and senior standing. Recommended: CS F301. (Stacked with EE F645.) (3+3)
EE F451 Digital Signal Processing
4 Credits
Offered Fall
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F354 or equivalent. (Stacked with EE F651.) (3+3)
EE F461 Communication Systems
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Theory, design and implementation of communication systems. Measurement of modulation, noise, channel spectrum, satellite link budget and microwave path design. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F354 and senior standing. (3+3)
EE F463 Communication Networks
3 Credits
Offered Spring
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 F463 and EE F464 for credit. Prerequisites: Senior standing. (3+0)
EE F464 W,O Communication Networks Design
4 Credits
Offered Spring
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 F464 and EE F463 for credit. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: COMM F131X or COMM F141X; EE F354; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X or permission of instructor; senior standing. (3+3)
EE F471 Fundamentals of Automatic Control
3 Credits
Offered Spring
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 F353; MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F488 Undergraduate Research
1-3 Credits
Advanced research topics from outside the usual undergraduate requirements. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Recommended: A substantial level of technical/scientific background. (0+0)
EE F603 Advanced Electric Power Engineering
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
Selected advanced topics in electric power generation, transmission, use, optimization, stability and economics. Prerequisites: EE F404 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F604 Electric Power Systems Transients
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
Power system transient analysis, use of the electromagnetic transients program (EMTP), insulation coordination, transient recovery voltage phenomena and resonance conditions. Prerequisites: EE F406 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F605 Power System Stability and Control
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
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. Prerequisites: EE F406 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F606 Electric Power System Protection
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
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. Prerequisites: EE F404; EE F406; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F608 Power Electronics
3 Credits
Offered Spring
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 F303; EE F333; graduate standing; or permission of instructor. (Stacked with EE F408.) (3+0)
EE F610 Linear Systems
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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 F354; MATH F302; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F611 Waves
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
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 F302 or MATH F421 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F634 Microwave Design I
3 Credits
Offered Fall Odd-numbered Years
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F334; EE F412; EE F432; or permission of instructor. (2+3)
EE F635 Microwave Design II
3 Credits
Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F634 or permission of instructor. (2+3)
EE F645 Embedded Systems Design
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Focus on issues surrounding the design and implementation of microcontroller-based embedded systems. Topics include hardware architecture and glue logic, embedded programs design, analysis, and optimization, hardware/firmware partitioning, firmware architecture and firmware design. Includes laboratory exercises using evaluation board and a complete embedded system design project. Emphasis on robust designs, energy efficiency, and proper documentation. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (Stacked with EE F444.) (3+3)
EE F651 Digital Signal Processing
4 Credits
Offered Fall
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (Stacked with EE F451.) (3+3)
EE F652 Adaptive Systems and Neural Networks
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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 F451 or equivalent. (3+0)
EE F653 Random Signals and Systems
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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 F354; MATH F371; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F655 Adaptive Filters
3 Credits
Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Study to self-designing filters which recursively update depending on the statistics of the input data for optimum performance. Topics will include foundational material in probability of stochastic processes, spectral analysis, linear optimum filtering. Wiener-Hopf filters, Yule-Walker equations, forward and backward linear predictors, method of steepest descent, least squares techniques, and auto- regressive filters. Prerequisites: EE F451; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F656 Space Systems Engineering
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
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. (Cross-listed with ME F656.) (3+0)
EE F662 Digital Communication Theory
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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. Prerequisites: EE F461 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F665 Antennas
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
Fundamental principles of antenna theory. Application to the analysis, design and measurement of many different antenna structures. Prerequisites: EE F412; EE F461; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F667 Satellite Communications
3 Credits
Offered Fall Odd-numbered Years
Satellite orbital parameters, satellite hardware, link budgets, modulations and multiple access techniques, operational considerations, operating and proposed satellite communication systems. Prerequisites: EE F461; graduate standing; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F669 Radiowave Propagation
3 Credits
Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
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 F461; graduate standing; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F671 Digital Control Systems
3 Credits
Offered As Demand Warrants
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 F471 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F673 Modern Control Engineering
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years; As Demand Warrants
Introduction to state space systems in the study of dynamical systems; brief review of modeling and basic concepts of classical control theory and matric algebra; stability analysis of feedback systems; design of output and state feedback control systems; controllability and observability of dynamical systems; state feedback; state observers; robust control; optimal control. Analysis and design using MATLAB and SIMULINK; demonstrations on PUMA 560 and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulator test-beds. Prerequisites: EE F471; or equivalent; permission of instructor. (3+0)
3 Credits
Offered Spring
Basic modern devices, concepts, technical skills and instruments of electrical engineering. Special fees apply. Co-requisites: MATH F200X. (2+3)
EE F203 Electrical Engineering Fundamentals I
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Analysis of alternating-current circuits using complex notation and phasor diagrams, resonance, transformers and three-phase circuits. Introduction to network and system analysis. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: MATH F200X, EE F102. Co-requisite: MATH F201X. (3+3)
EE F204 Electrical Engineering Fundamentals II
4 Credits
Offered Spring
Electronics of solid state devices, amplifier design, digital circuits, electromechanics, control systems and instrumentation. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F203; MATH F201X. Co-requisite: MATH F202X. (3+3)
EE F303 Electrical Machinery
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Electromechanical energy conversion principles, characteristics and applications of transformers, synchronous and induction machines, DC machines, and special machines. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F204. (3+3)
EE F311 Applied Engineering Electromagnetics
3 Credits
Offered Fall
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: EE F204, MATH F202X, PHYS F212X. Co-requisite: MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F331 High Frequency Lab
1 Credits
Offered Fall
Laboratory experiments in transmission lines, impedances, bridges, scattering parameters, hybrids and waveguides. Special fees apply. Co-requisites: EE F311. (0+3)
EE F333 W Physical Electronics
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Basic properties of semiconductors. Principles of semiconductor devices, diodes, transistors and integrated circuits. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F204; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X or permission of instructor. (3+3)
EE F334 Electronic Circuit Design
4 Credits
Offered Spring
Application of semiconductor devices in circuit design in computation, automatic control and communication. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F333. (3+3)
EE F341 Digital and Computer Analysis and Design
4 Credits
Offered Fall
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: CS F201; one year of college physics. (3+3)
EE F343 Digital Systems Analysis and Design
4 Credits
Offered Fall
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). Special fees apply. Prerequisites: ES F201 or CS F201; EE F204; EE F333. Note: EE F333 may be taken concurrently. (3+3)
EE F353 Circuit Theory
3 Credits
Offered Fall
Analysis by Laplace transform, state variable, and Fourier methods, convolution, frequency selective networks, and two-port circuits. Prerequisites: EE F204; MATH F202X; ES F201 or CS F201. Co-requisite: MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F354 Engineering Signal Analysis
3 Credits
Offered Spring
Analog signals and Fourier transformations. Discrete time signals and FFT. Probability theory and random variables. Random signals and noise. Prerequisites: EE F353, MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F404 Electrical Power Systems
4 Credits
Offered Spring
Electrical power transmission and distribution systems, power flow, symmetrical faults, and economic dispatch with computer-aided analysis. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F303. (3+3)
EE F406 Electrical Power Engineering
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Economic operation of power systems, symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults, power system protection, dynamic power system stability, and computer-aided fault and transient stability analysis. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F404 or equivalent. (3+3)
EE F408 Power Electronics
3 Credits
Offered Spring
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 convertors, 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 F303; EE F333; or permission of instructor. (Stacked with EE F608.) (3+0)
EE F412 Electromagnetic Waves and Devices
3 Credits
Solution of Maxwell's equations for the interaction of electromagnetic waves with conducting and dielectric media. Theory and design of antennas and waveguides. Prerequisites: EE F311; EE F331; MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F432 Electromagnetics Laboratory
1 Credits
Laboratory experiments with microwave sources, propagating electromagnetic waves, waveguides and antennas. Design, construction and testing of antenna systems. Co-requisites: EE F412. (0+3)
EE F434 W,O Instrumentation Systems
4 Credits
Offered Spring
Analysis and design of instrumentation systems. Static and dynamic characteristics; accuracy, noise and reliability; sensors; signal conditioning; typical measurement systems and microprocessor applications. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: COMM F131X or COMM F141X; EE F334; EE F343; EE F354; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X or permission of instructor; senior standing. (3+3)
EE F443 Computer Engineering Analysis and Design
4 Credits
Offered Spring
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). Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F341 or EE F343. (3+3)
EE F444 W,O Embedded Systems Design
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Issues surrounding the design and implementation of microcontroller-based embedded systems. Topics include hardware architecture and glue logic, embedded programs design, analysis, and optimization, hardware/firmware partitioning, firmware architecture and design. Includes laboratory exercises using evaluation board and a complete embedded system design project. Emphasis on robust designs, energy efficiency, and proper documentation. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X or permission of instructor; COMM F131X or COMM F141X; EE F343 or EE F341; EE F443 or permission of instructor; and senior standing. Recommended: CS F301. (Stacked with EE F645.) (3+3)
EE F451 Digital Signal Processing
4 Credits
Offered Fall
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F354 or equivalent. (Stacked with EE F651.) (3+3)
EE F461 Communication Systems
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Theory, design and implementation of communication systems. Measurement of modulation, noise, channel spectrum, satellite link budget and microwave path design. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F354 and senior standing. (3+3)
EE F463 Communication Networks
3 Credits
Offered Spring
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 F463 and EE F464 for credit. Prerequisites: Senior standing. (3+0)
EE F464 W,O Communication Networks Design
4 Credits
Offered Spring
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 F464 and EE F463 for credit. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: COMM F131X or COMM F141X; EE F354; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X or permission of instructor; senior standing. (3+3)
EE F471 Fundamentals of Automatic Control
3 Credits
Offered Spring
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 F353; MATH F302. (3+0)
EE F488 Undergraduate Research
1-3 Credits
Advanced research topics from outside the usual undergraduate requirements. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Recommended: A substantial level of technical/scientific background. (0+0)
EE F603 Advanced Electric Power Engineering
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
Selected advanced topics in electric power generation, transmission, use, optimization, stability and economics. Prerequisites: EE F404 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F604 Electric Power Systems Transients
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
Power system transient analysis, use of the electromagnetic transients program (EMTP), insulation coordination, transient recovery voltage phenomena and resonance conditions. Prerequisites: EE F406 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F605 Power System Stability and Control
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
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. Prerequisites: EE F406 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F606 Electric Power System Protection
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
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. Prerequisites: EE F404; EE F406; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F608 Power Electronics
3 Credits
Offered Spring
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 F303; EE F333; graduate standing; or permission of instructor. (Stacked with EE F408.) (3+0)
EE F610 Linear Systems
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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 F354; MATH F302; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F611 Waves
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
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 F302 or MATH F421 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F634 Microwave Design I
3 Credits
Offered Fall Odd-numbered Years
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F334; EE F412; EE F432; or permission of instructor. (2+3)
EE F635 Microwave Design II
3 Credits
Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: EE F634 or permission of instructor. (2+3)
EE F645 Embedded Systems Design
4 Credits
Offered Fall
Focus on issues surrounding the design and implementation of microcontroller-based embedded systems. Topics include hardware architecture and glue logic, embedded programs design, analysis, and optimization, hardware/firmware partitioning, firmware architecture and firmware design. Includes laboratory exercises using evaluation board and a complete embedded system design project. Emphasis on robust designs, energy efficiency, and proper documentation. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (Stacked with EE F444.) (3+3)
EE F651 Digital Signal Processing
4 Credits
Offered Fall
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. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (Stacked with EE F451.) (3+3)
EE F652 Adaptive Systems and Neural Networks
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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 F451 or equivalent. (3+0)
EE F653 Random Signals and Systems
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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 F354; MATH F371; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F655 Adaptive Filters
3 Credits
Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Study to self-designing filters which recursively update depending on the statistics of the input data for optimum performance. Topics will include foundational material in probability of stochastic processes, spectral analysis, linear optimum filtering. Wiener-Hopf filters, Yule-Walker equations, forward and backward linear predictors, method of steepest descent, least squares techniques, and auto- regressive filters. Prerequisites: EE F451; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F656 Space Systems Engineering
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
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. (Cross-listed with ME F656.) (3+0)
EE F662 Digital Communication Theory
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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. Prerequisites: EE F461 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F665 Antennas
3 Credits
Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
Fundamental principles of antenna theory. Application to the analysis, design and measurement of many different antenna structures. Prerequisites: EE F412; EE F461; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F667 Satellite Communications
3 Credits
Offered Fall Odd-numbered Years
Satellite orbital parameters, satellite hardware, link budgets, modulations and multiple access techniques, operational considerations, operating and proposed satellite communication systems. Prerequisites: EE F461; graduate standing; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F669 Radiowave Propagation
3 Credits
Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
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 F461; graduate standing; or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F671 Digital Control Systems
3 Credits
Offered As Demand Warrants
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 F471 or permission of instructor. (3+0)
EE F673 Modern Control Engineering
3 Credits
Offered Fall Even-numbered Years; As Demand Warrants
Introduction to state space systems in the study of dynamical systems; brief review of modeling and basic concepts of classical control theory and matric algebra; stability analysis of feedback systems; design of output and state feedback control systems; controllability and observability of dynamical systems; state feedback; state observers; robust control; optimal control. Analysis and design using MATLAB and SIMULINK; demonstrations on PUMA 560 and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulator test-beds. Prerequisites: EE F471; or equivalent; permission of instructor. (3+0)