May 19, 2024  
2015-2016 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2015-2016 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Course Descriptions


 

Computer Science

  
  • CS 7483 Computer and Network Forensics

    (3 hours)
    Procedures for the identification, preservation, and extraction of electronic evidence. Auditing and investigation of network and host intrusions. Forensic tools and resources for systems administrators and information system security officers. Prerequisite: CS 4153.
  
  • CS 7483 Computer and Network Forensics (CE)

    (3 hours)
    Procedures for the identification, preservation, and extraction of electronic evidence. Auditing and investigation of network and host intrusions. Forensic tools and resources for systems administrators and information system security officers. Prerequisite: CS 4153.
  
  • CS 7493 Secure Systems Administration

    (3 hours)
    Accepted best practices and guidelines to secure information systems and networks. Detection of abnormal events, intrusion detection, incident handling, response and recovery. Security policies, system configuration, integration, and maintenance. Prerequisite: CS 7443 .
  
  • CS 7513 Advanced Topics in Database Systems

    (3 hours)
    Relational databases, hierarchic, network data models, data structures, concurrency control, security. Prerequisites: CS 3013, 4163.
  
  • CS 7533 Quantitative System Performance

    (3 hours)
    Techniques for experimental design, measurement, simulation and modeling for performance analysis of computer systems. Workloads, selection and characterization. Planning and benchmarking. Little’s and other operational laws. Queuing networks. Load-dependent service centers and hierarchical decomposition. Prerequisites: CS 3053, STAT 4813  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CS 7543 Parallel Languages and Environments

    (3 hours)
    Overview of language standards for parallel programming. Automatic detection of parallel sections for procedural languages. Discussion of shared memory and message-passing paradigms. Development of tools and environments for programming homogeneous and heterogeneous parallel processors. Prerequisite: CS 4353 or permission of instructor.
  
  • CS 7613 Networking

    (3 hours)
    Data communications techniques and protocol. Distributed system software and architecture. Distributed database systems. Prerequisites: CS 3053, 4323.
  
  • CS 7861-3 Special Topics in Computer Science

    (1-3 hours)
    Devoted to various advanced topics of general computer science not covered by the regular curriculum. May be repeated with change of topic, maximum credit six hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of instructor.
  
  • CS 7861-3 Special Topics in Computer Science

    (1-3 hours)
    Devoted to various advanced topics of general computer science not covered by the regular curriculum. May be repeated with change of topic, maximum credit six hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of instructor.
  
  • CS 7911-3 Master’s Report

    (1-3 hours)
    Project-oriented research on some problem within an approved area of computer science directed by the faculty. An oral presentation and written report are required. Pass-fail basis only. Prerequisite: Permission of department.
  
  • CS 7961 Residency

    (1 hour)
    See Graduate Residency (7961)
  
  • CS 7961 Residency

    (1 hour)
    See Graduate Residency (7961)
  
  • CS 7971-3 Computer Science Seminar

    (1-3 hours)
    Reports and discussions of advanced computer science topics. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  
  • CS 7981-6 Research and Thesis

    (1-6 hours)
    Directed research on some problem within an approved area of computer science. Examination and written thesis required. Pass-fail basis only. Prerequisite: Permission of department.
  
  • CS 7991-3 Independent Study

    (1-3 hours)
    Individual or group studies of advanced topics in computer science. Selected study is done by appointment with the faculty. Prerequisite: Permission of department.
  
  • CS 8241-3 Advanced Topics in Scientific Computing

    (1-3 hours)
    Advanced topics in scientific computing such as QZ algorithm for the generalized eigen-value problem, frontal methods for sparse matrices, multi-grid method, domain decomposition method, local grid refinement, curvilinear grid refinement and hybrid finite elements. May be repeated with a change of topic; maximum graduate credit nine hours. Prerequisite: MATH 7243  or consent of instructor.
  
  • CS 8341-3 Advanced Topics in AI and Databases

    (1-3 hours)
    Advanced topics in artificial intelligence and databases. May be repeated as a seminar course as often as needed, or as an organized course with change of topic and maximum graduate credit of nine hours. Prerequisite: CS 7233 and consent of instructor.
  
  • CS 8411-3 Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics and Image Processing

    (1-3 hours)
    Advanced topics in computer graphics and image processing such as ray tracing, object description construction, scene analysis and computer vision. May be repeated with a change of topic; maximum graduate credit nine hours. Prerequisites: CS 7413 , CS 7423 .
  
  • CS 8541-3 Advanced Topics in Parallel Processing

    (1-3 hours)
    Advanced topics in parallel processing such as cellular automata, advanced parallel programming techniques, and other topics. May be repeated with a change of topic; maximum graduate credit nine hours. Prerequisites: CS 4543, CS 7553.
  
  • CS 8981-6 Research Internship

    (1-6 hours)
    Research participation in an industrial or government research laboratory. Internship should culminate in written report for evaluation by the instructor. Independent evaluation by the immediate supervisor at the research laboratory where the internship took place is also used in assigning course grade. Pass-fail basis only. Prerequisite: Admission to Ph.D. program, completion of comprehensive examinations, consent of major professor.
  
  • CS 9981-9 Research and Dissertation

    (1-9 hours)
    Original research on some problem within the field of computer science on the Ph.D. level. Pass-fail basis only. Prerequisites: Admission to Ph.D. program, completion of comprehensive examinations, consent of instructor.
  
  • CS 9991-3 Independent Study

    (1-3 hours)
    Individual studies of advanced topics at the Ph.D. level. Selected study is performed by appointment with the faculty. Prerequisite: Admission to Ph.D. program, consent of instructor.

Economics

  
  • ECON 0713 Economic Concepts

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to micro- and macro-economic theory involving consumer behavior, theory of the firm, market structures, factor markets, national income, employment, and price behavior.
  
  • ECON 713 Economic Concepts

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to micro- and macro-economic theory involving consumer behavior, theory of the firm, market structures, factor markets, national income, employment, and price behavior.
  
  • ECON 6083 International Economics

    3 Hours
    The theory of international trade and payments with attention to trade policy and the
    interaction of trade and development. Prerequisite: ECON 2013 or 2023.
  
  • ECON 7043 Monetary and Fiscal Policy

    3 Hours
    Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Education

  
  • EDUC 6103 Children’s Literature

    (3 hours)
    A survey of children’s literature including award winning literature in various genres. Emphasis on literature appropriate for culturally diverse classrooms.
  
  • EDUC 6123 Literacy Assessment and Intervention

    (3 hours)
    Emphasizes remedial reading, including diagnosis and assessment of reading problems and selection of teaching strategies for remedial reading in the classroom. Practicum includes application of course content with at-risk readers. Includes field experiences in culturally diverse settings. Corequisite: EDUC 6303 . Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education. 
  
  • EDUC 6143 Social Studies for Elementary Children

    (3 hours)
    Planning and preparation of materials, activities, and strategies for teaching social studies concepts. Application of course content in field experiences with unit and lesson planning. Interdisciplinary curriculum planning, multicultural education, and educational technology applications. Includes field experiences in culturally diverse settings. Corequisite: EDUC 6313  . Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education.
  
  • EDUC 6303 Writing and Language Development for Elementary Children

    (3 hours)
    How children learn to communicate through speaking, listening, writing, and reading. Includes mechanics and nature of writing, the process approach, modes of writing, and role of computers and technology in writing in the elementary classroom. Field experiences in culturally diverse settings. Corequisite: EDUC 6123 . Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education. 
  
  • EDUC 6313 Reading for Elementary Children

    (3 hours)
    Curriculum objectives, methods, and materials for teaching and development of reading skills in relation to children’s language and thinking abilities. Emphasis on theories, skill development, and application of the reading process. Field experiences in culturally diverse settings. Corequisite: EDUC 6143 . Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education. 
  
  • EDUC 6333 Child and Adolescent Development and Learning

    (3 hours)
    Examines views of childhood, development, and education using historical, psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives. Focuses not only on Western views of childhood, but also other cultures’ views of childhood and adolescent development, and variations in life-span experiences both within American culture and across other cultures.
  
  • EDUC 6403 Education of the Exceptional Child

    (3 hours)
    Psychological, sociological, physical, and educational aspects of exceptional children considered from the perspective of appropriate classroom teaching strategies. Includes meeting the needs of highly able learners.
  
  • EDUC 6423 Science for Elementary Children

    (3 hours)
    Understanding and developing positive attitudes toward science. Teaching scientific concepts using inquiry-based, concrete activities in the biological and physical sciences. Interdisciplinary curriculum planning and educational technology applications. Field experiences in culturally diverse settings. Corequisite: EDUC 6433 . Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education. 
  
  • EDUC 6433 Mathematics for Elementary Children

    (3 hours)


    Emphasis on quantitative thinking, problem solving, applied mathematics, and positive attitudes toward mathematics for learners using inquiry based concrete activities. Interdisciplinary curriculum planning and educational technology applications. Includes field experiences in culturally diverse settings. 

    Corequisite: EDUC 6123 .  Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education.  

  
  • EDUC 6514 Teaching Methods for Middle and Secondary Schools

    (4 hours)
    Combines general and specialized methods for middle school/junior high school and senior high school teachers. Includes planning instruction, instructional strategies, classroom management, integrating educational technology, and teaching reading and writing in subject areas. Includes 40 clock hours of field experience at two different levels. Prerequisite: EDUC 3713, 3733, and admission to the Teacher Education Program.
  
  • EDUC 7003 Philosophy of Education

    (3 hours)
    Study of selected historical and/or contemporary conversations about enduring educational questions.
  
  • EDUC 7013 Parents, Children, and the Democratic State

    (3 hours)
    Explores the thorny question of how best to balance the educational interests of parents, children, and the democratic state. Test cases include civic education, sex education, evolution and creationism, school choice, homeschooling, and more.
  
  • EDUC 7043 Introduction to Educational Technology

    (3 hours)
    Survey of educational computing topics including functional hardware components, history of computing in education, trends and issues in educational technology, ethics, problem-solving with algorithms and heuristics, and evolving roles of teachers for the 21st century.
  
  • EDUC 7053 Instructional Design and Curriculum Integration

    (3 hours)
    Learning/instructional design, teaching strategies using technology and supervised final project. Approved project requires the participant to prepare an instructional component for relevant subject matter using computer capabilities based on sound instructional design principles. Students demonstrate competence in achieving congruence among learning objectives, teaching strategies including computer capabilities, and evaluation of student performance. Final projects are formally presented to teachers at local/state/regional professional meetings.
  
  • EDUC 7073 History of American Education

    (3 hours)
    Examines the creation, purposes, effects, and evolution of schools in the United States, from elementary to post-secondary. Students will look at conflicts over their structure, their goals, and their governance and put these debates in the context of American economic, social, and cultural history.
  
  • EDUC 7083 Educational Policy

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to key issues and thorny debates in educational policy including desegregation, school finance reform, standards and accountability, and school choice. Course is conducted as a seminar, in which students examine competing perspectives on the issues.
  
  • EDUC 7090 Forum Presentation

    (0 hours)
    In the final semester, student will formally present work at a departmental forum based on either the literature review (non-thesis option) or the thesis work (thesis option). This is a focal, capstone event to reinforce the message that one’s own ideas are enhanced through exposure to careful criticism in a community of inquiry.
  
  • EDUC 7093 Multicultural Education in Urban Classrooms

    (3 hours)
    Examines concepts, dimensions, strategies and current issues impacting multicultural education in urban classrooms. Focuses on race, social class, gender, ethnicity, language and religion which affect school culture. Culturally responsive education techniques will be discussed to create an understanding and sensitivity towards producing citizens for our global society.  
  
  • EDUC 7113 Challenges in Higher Education

    (3 hours)
    Examines issues confronting and transforming American higher education institutions in the twenty-first century, such as access to higher education by diverse populations and accountability that universities are delivering quality education.  Includes exploration of historical developments of US universities that impact current issues in the higher education landscape.
  
  • EDUC 7123 Advanced Child and Adolescent Development

    (3 hours)
    An overview of development of children and adolescents from a constructivist view. A basic premise of the course is that children construct their own knowledge through interaction with their physical and social world. Examines issues of cognitive, linguistic, social, and moral development through the lenses of different cultures.
  
  • EDUC 7143 Parenting, Child Development and Culture

    (3 hours)
    Explores parenting practices across diverse cultures around the world and within the United States. Provides students an opportunity to examine the relationship between parenting practices and child development under different cultural contexts.
  
  • EDUC 7153 Techniques of Research and Evaluation

    (3 hours)
    Studies of the nature and functions of research and evaluation featuring characteristics of the most common types of investigation. Includes the study of operationalism, hypothesis formulation and testing, experimental and quasi-experimental design, data collection, theory development and verification, and applications of basic data analytic techniques.
  
  • EDUC 7173 Research Proposal

    (3 hours)
    Development of a research question into a proposal for research paper or thesis.  Class time will consist of lecture and one to one conferences.  Prerequisites: EDUC 7153  and EDUC 7183  .
  
  • EDUC 7183 Statistical Methods for Research I

    (3 hours)
    Study of descriptive statistics, probability, sampling theory, parameter estimation, and hypothesis testing. Investigation of chi-square, simple analysis of variance, t-test, bivariate correlation and regression techniques.
  
  • EDUC 7233 Comparative Approaches to Teaching and Teacher Preparation

    (3 hours)
    International and comparative analysis of the characteristics and preparation of teachers in specific nations and regions of the world. Topics for reading and discussion include instruction, curricular planning, classroom interaction processes, performance assessment, teacher professionalism, patterns of school organization, teaching contexts, and government education policy related to teachers and teaching.
  
  • EDUC 7333 Classroom Discourse

    (3 hours)
    Examination of the types of interaction shaping learning in content areas that take place in classroom. Students compare the differing types of discourse across classrooms, subject areas, cultures, and nations.
  
  • EDUC 7343 Language and Literacy Development

    (3 hours)
    Provides an overview of development of language in children and how this development provides the foundation for the development of literacy. We will examine the components and structures of oral and written language in order to trace the links between the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Language and literacy will be viewed from a cognitive, social, and cultural perspectives.
  
  • EDUC 7363 Discourse Analysis

    (3 hours)
    Survey of methodology for recording, transcribing, and analyzing interaction between human beings, from ethnographic and linguistic perspectives. Theories of discourse will be studied in order to develop methods for analyzing a specific form of interaction. Students will collect and analyze discourse.
  
  • EDUC 7373 Vygotsky’s Theory of Development

    (3 hours)
    Examines the sociocultural theory of Lev Vygotsky through engagement with his writings and his methods of study. In particular, concepts of tool, speech, and the zone of proximal development will be discussed in terms of their impact on schooling and child rearing.
  
  • EDUC 7433 Project-based Learning for the Urban Science Classroom

    (3 hours)
    Instructional Design is the systematic development of instructional strategies that use learning and instructional theory to ensure a high quality of instruction. The process begins with an analysis of learning needs and goals, envelopes the development of a delivery system to meet those needs, and involves an evaluation system which identifies whether or not the goals are met.  Identifying the type of learners, the development of instructional materials and activities, and a summative evaluation of all instruction and learner activites make up this course.
  
  • EDUC 7473-9 Internship in Teaching

    (3-9 hours)
    Classroom teaching experience in area schools at early childhood, elementary, middle, or secondary levels as appropriate. Extensive preparation and revision of instructional plans and assessment materials is expected. Full-time assignment (30 hours per week) for one semester is required for nine hours credit with credit for part-time assignments prorated.
  
  • EDUC 7573 Methods of Inquiry in Education

    (3 hours)
    Provides an overview of predominant research and scholarship methods in the study of education. Methods commonly used in educational research, such as discourse analysis, humanities scholarship, ethnography, and experimental methods are surveyed.  Students study the types of questions each methodology addresses.
  
  • EDUC 7593 Culture, Character and Education

    (3 hours)
    Educators have sought to help students succeed in school.  But what is the relationship between knowledge and skills in school subjects, and future success in academics, in the workplace, and in one’s personal life?  Students’ character may be as important to their future success as their academic preparation.
  
  • EDUC 7623 Writing for Scholarship

    (3 hours)
    Students are guided through identifying a topic in educational scholarship and writing an in-depth review of literature.  The course is structured as a seminar/workshop in which students work towards a literature review (and proposal for thesis-option students).  Instructor coaches students toward important resources, scholarship, and genres for writing scholarly work.
  
  • EDUC 7912-3 Research and Paper

    (2-3 hours)
    A non-thesis option requiring an approved research project and formal paper/presentation.
  
  • EDUC 7961 Residency

    (1 hour)
    See Graduate Residency (7961)
  
  • EDUC 7971-3 Seminar

    (1-3 hours)
  
  • EDUC 7981-5 Research and Thesis

    (1-5 hours)
  
  • EDUC 7991-5 Independent Study

    (1-5 hours)

Electrical Engineering

  
  • EE 6163 Computer Hardware Techniques

    (3 hours)
    Use of hardware description language (HDL) to implement hardware using a field programmable gate array (FPGA). Hardware techniques employed in various computer architectures, including microprocessors, supercomputers, exotic and special purpose computers, will be implemented using the FPGA. Instruction set design, instruction and data flow will be covered. Prerequisites: EE 2163 and 2161.
  
  • EE 6163 Computer Hardware Techniques (H)

    (3 hours)
    Use of hardware description language (HDL) to implement hardware using a field programmable gate array (FPGA). Hardware techniques employed in various computer architectures, including microprocessors, supercomputers, exotic and special purpose computers, will be implemented using the FPGA. Instruction set design, instruction and data flow will be covered.
  
  • EE 6173 Computer Networks

    (3 hours)
    Principles of modern network communications. The OSI model from the physical layer to the application layer with emphasis on engineering limitation and solutions. Transmission media, error control, channel allocation, congestion, routing, transport protocols, performance issues, security, and modern network resource. Prerequisites: EE 4073 or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6173 Computer Networks (S)

    (3 hours)
    Principles of modern network communications. OSI model from the physical layer to the application layer with emphasis on engineering limitation and solutions. Transmission media, error control, channel allocation, congestion, routing, transport protocols, performance issues, security, and modern network resources. Prerequisite: EE 4073 or equivalent.
  
  • EE 6233 Alternative Energy Sources

    (3 hours)
    Basic knowledge and tools necessary for an engineering approach to the study of alternate and renewable energy systems. Introduces students to different sources of renewable energy and the way they work. Study the different approaches to utilizing renewable energy resources and different systems needed for utilizing these resources such as inverters and transformers. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6233 Alternative Energy Sources

    (3 hours)
    Basic knowledge and tools necessary for an engineering approach to the study of alternate and renewable energy systems. Introduces students to different sources of renewable energy and the way they work. Study the different approaches to utilizing renewable energy resources and different systems needed for utilizing these resources such as inverters and transformers. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6243 Applied Electronics

    (3 hours)
    Principles of operation and design of application specific electronic circuits, including comparator, differential line driver, class-E amplifier, regulator, instrumentation and communication circuits. Prerequisite: EE 4043 or equivalent.
  
  • EE 6243 Applied Electronics (CE)

    (3 Hours)
    Principles of operation and design of application specific electronic circuits, including comparator, differential line driver, class-E amplifier, regulator, instrumentation and communication circuits. Prerequisite: EE 4043 or equivalent.
  
  • EE 6273 Optical Networking

    (3 hours)
    Basic level of proficiency in the design of optical networks. Capabilities and limitations of common network components, knowledge of common protocols to network design choices. Concepts that impact the quality of service requirements of a network. Develops basic skills with telecommunication equipment through series of laboratories. Prerequisite: EE 3113. Concurrent enrollment in EE 6403  is strongly suggested.
  
  • EE 6273 Optical Networking (S)

    (3 hours)
    Basic level of proficiency in the design of optical networks. Capabilities and limitations of common network components, knowledge of common protocols to network design choices. Concepts that impact the quality of service requirements of a network. Develops basic skills with telecommunication equipment through series of laboratories. Prerequisite: EE 3113. Concurrent enrollment in EE 6403 is strongly suggested.
  
  • EE 6403 Information and Communication Systems

    (3 hours)
    Information, its meaning and quantification. Modulation and transmission of information, classification and modeling of noise sources and their effects in communication systems. Introduction to the signal extraction problem. Prerequisites: EE 3113 and STAT 4813.
  
  • EE 6423 Radio Frequency Engineering

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to radio frequency engineering. Basics behind the analysis and design of radio frequency components.  Transmission line and microwave network analysis.  Use of the Smith Chart and signal flow graphs. Impedance matching, filters, and mixer. Prerequisite: EE 3023 or PHYS 4023.
  
  • EE 6423 Radio Frequency Engineering (CE)

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to radio frequency engineering. Basics behind the analysis and design of radio frequency components.  Transmission line and microwave network analysis.  Use of the Smith Chart and signal flow graphs. Impedance matching, filters, and mixer.. Prerequisite: EE 3023 or PHYS 4023.
  
  • EE 6433 Power Systems Analysis

    (3 hours)
    Principles of balanced and unbalanced poly-phase AC power systems. Load flow, component models and parameters. Prerequisites: EE 3033.
  
  • EE 6443 VLSI Design

    (3 hours)
    Hierarchal design methodology for very large scale integration of nMOS and CMOS. Physics of MOS devices. Design rules checking computer-aided design tools. Prerequisites: EE 4043 and EE 2163.
  
  • EE 6443 VLSI Design (H)

    (3 hours)
    Hierarchal design methodology for very large scale integration of nMOS and CMOS. Physics of MOS devices. Design rules checking computer-aided design tools. Prerequisite: EE 4043 and EE 2163.
  
  • EE 6453 Modern Control Systems

    (3 hours)
    Analysis and design of analog and digital control systems. Nonlinear and discrete data systems, concepts of controllability and observability, state variable feedback compensation. Introduction to parameter identification, adaptive, and optimal control systems. Prerequisites: EE 4053.
  
  • EE 6463 Antennas

    (3 hours)
    Maxwell’s Equations. Ideal versus practical dipoles. Radiation patterns. Impedance of antennas. Arrays. Yagi Uda antennas. Aperture antennas. Pattern multiplication techniques. Image theory. Feeding techniques. Introduction to pattern synthesis. Scanning. Prerequisite: EE 3023.
  
  • EE 6473 Introduction to Neural Networks

    (3 hours)
    An introduction to artificial neural network models, learning algorithms, implementations and applications. Associative memories, Hopfield nets, supervised and reinforcement learning, Adaptive Resonance Theory. Prerequisites: EE 2003 or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6513 Digital Signal Processing

    (3 hours)
    An introductory course in digital signal processing and digital filtering. Topics include sampled data systems, modeling and analysis of digital filter design. Course material is applicable to a wide range of data processing applications. Prerequisites: EE 3113 or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6513 Digital Signal Processing (T)

    (3 hours)
    Digital signal processing and digital filtering. Discrete-time signals and systems, sampling, filter design, transform techniques, discrete Fourier transforms, spectrum analysis. Prerequisite: EE 3113 or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6523 Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Basics behind RFID, attachment of sensors to RFID tags, interrogator design, RFID communication protocols, security, privacy, RFID standards, and methods to store data on RFID tags. Passive, battery assisted passive, and active RFID systems. Applications of RFID in areas such as healthcare, supply chain management, and business intelligence. Prerequisites: EE 2163, 4043, and 3023, or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6523 Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications (CE)

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Basics behind RFID, attachment of sensors to RFID tags, interrogator design, RFID communication protocols, security, privacy, RFID standards, and methods to store data on RFID tags. Passive, battery assisted passive, and active RFID systems. Applications of RFID in areas such as healthcare, supply chain management, and business intelligence. Prerequisites: EE 2163, 4043, and 3023, or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6553 Digital Control Systems

    (3 hours)
    The use of digital computers in the real time control of dynamic systems such as servomechanisms, chemical processes, aircraft, etc. Topics covered include sampling, Ztransform, digital filters, computer-aided design, and design using transform techniques, design using state variable techniques, quantization, and system identification. Prerequisites: EE 4053 or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6563 Microprocessors in Digital Design

    (3 hours)
    Detailed survey of major microprocessor families with emphasis on architectural development of the processor family; the microcomputer system (the microprocessor and its support chips); application of microprocessor systems to realistic engineering problems; the microprocessor as a system component; single chip complete systems; and large, word-length, multi-chip systems. Prerequisites: EE 2163 and either EE 2063 or CS 2033.
  
  • EE 6623 Electro-Optics

    (3 hours)
    Basic optical systems and design. Polarization-based systems, Interferometry, Diffraction, Opto-electronics, Lasers, Detection. Coherence. Fiber optics. Prerequisites: EE 3023 or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6623 Electro-Optics (S)

    (3 hours)
    Basic optical systems and design. Polarization-based systems, interferometry, diffraction, optoelectronics, lasers, detection. Coherence. Fiber optics. Prerequisite: EE 3023 or permission of instructor.
  
  • EE 6723 Robotics

    (3 hours)
    Basic theories of robot mechanisms and their implications for engineers involved in analysis or design of robot manipulators.  Kinematics, dynamics, and control aspects of designing robot arms.  Spatial descriptions and transformations.  Laboratory using both open-loop and closed-loop robots. Corequisite: CS 6753 
  
  • EE 6723 Robotics (CE)

    (3 hours)
    Basic theories of robot mechanisms and their implications for engineers involved in analysis or design of robot manipulators.  Kinematics, dynamics, and control aspects of designing robot arms.  Spatial descriptions and transformations.  Laboratory using both open-loop and closed-loop robots. Corequisite: CS 6753 
  
  • EE 6763 Robotics Design and Implementation

    (3 hours)
    Students participate in the design, component construction, assembly and programming of FIRST-class robot applying engineering and project management concepts to produce and deliver a working robot capable of participating in FIRST robotics competitions. Students propose a design incorporating improvements from other robots in the competition. Robot construction changes over time, hence the course may be repeated again for up to six credits. Prerequisites CS 4753 or EE 4353.
  
  • EE 6863 Special Topics

    (3 Hours)
    Special Topics in Electrical Engineering
  
  • EE 7013 Random Processes in Engineering

    (3 hours)
    A review of probability and an introduction to stochastic processes as used in communication and control. Topics include probability theory, random variables, expected values and moments, multivariate Gaussian distributions, stochastic processes, autocorrelation and power spectral densities, and an introduction to estimation and queuing theory. Prerequisite: EE 4073 or equivalent.
  
  • EE 7013 Random Processes in Engineering (T)

    (3 hours)
    A review of probability and an introduction to stochastic processes as used in communication and control. Topics include probability theory, random variables, expected values and moments, multivariate Gaussian distributions, stochastic processes, autocorrelation and power spectral densities, and an introduction to estimation and queuing theory. Prerequisite: EE 4073 or equivalent.
  
  • EE 7023 Electromagnetic Theory

    (3 hours)
    Reflection and transmission of waves. Uniqueness, image theory, equivalence principle reciprocity and Green’s Functions. Plane wave functions, rectangular waveguide, partially filled waveguide, model expansion of fields. Cylindrical wave functions, circular waveguide, scattering by cylinders. Spherical wave functions, scattering by spheres. Prerequisite: EE 3023 or equivalent.
  
  • EE 7033 Electrical Power Systems Design and Protection

    (3 hours)
    Analysis of balanced and unbalanced polyphase systems. Transmission line analysis, per unit parameters, load flow analysis; symmetrical components, methods of unbalanced faults, economical optimization of systems, miscellaneous topics of energy conversion, transmission, and system control. Prerequisite: EE 4133 or equivalent.
 

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