EE 500 Individual Study (1-3)
Advanced study planned and completed under the direction of a member of the department faculty. Open only to graduate students who have demonstrated ability to do independent work. Enrollment by petition. Prerequisite: Consent of department chair, graduate adviser, and supervising faculty member.
EE 502 Microwave Engineering (4)
Application of Maxwell's equations and boundary value problems to waveguide structures. Striplines and microstrip lines. S-parameters. Microwave equivalent circuit theorem. Passive microwave devices. Charge and field interactions in oscillators and amplifiers. Transferred electron devices, avalanche transit-time devices, and microwave transistors. Circuits associated with oscillators and reflection type amplifiers. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 401.
EE 511 Electric Machines Theory (3)
Advanced topics in electric machines theory. Introduction to Park's transformation. Analysis of electric machines using Kron's generalized concept. Excitation systems. 3 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 325 or equivalent, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 513 Control Systems Theory (4)
State representation of dynamic systems. Mathematical models of physical devices, controllability and observability. Design of closed-loop systems. Optimal control theory. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 302 or equivalent, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 514 Advanced Topics in Automatic Control (4)
Summary course covering five selected graduate-level topics in automatic control theory and practice; implementation issues in digital control, nonlinear control theory and design, LQ and time optimal control, variable structure control, and fuzzy logic/model-free control. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 513 or equivalent, EE 328 or similar course on discrete-time linear systems.
EE 515 Discrete Time Filters (4)
Analysis and design of digital filters using time-domain and transform techniques. Frequency response, aliasing problems and sampling issues. Recursive and non-recursive filters, digital filtering in numerical analysis, image processing, prediction algorithms. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 414, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 517 Information Theory (4)
Introduction to information theory and coding. Self and mutual information. Discrete and continuous information sources and transmission channels. Additive white Gaussian noise channel. Channel capacity. The Source- and Channel-Coding Theorems. Data compression. Huffman code. Block codes, including Hamming and linear codes. Parity and syndrome decoding. Convolutional codes. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 414, EE 525, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 518 Advanced Power System Analysis (3)
Symmetrical components. Unbalanced faults. Analysis by digital computer simulation. Load flow studies. Elements of power system stability. 3 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 406 or equivalent, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 519 Power System Design (4)
Design studies involving aspects of an electric power system. Current industrial designs. Computer simulation techniques used extensively. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 518, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 520 Solar-Photovoltaic Systems Design (3)
Solar cell and storage battery theory, examination of insolation variability and optimization techniques, principles of grounding protection and control, a survey of power conditioning equipment and system integration techniques. 3 seminars. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 521 Computer Systems (4)
Organization of modern general purpose, high speed digital computer systems. Arithmetic units, control units, memories and memory subsystems. Peripheral equipment. Cost and speed trade-offs in the design of such systems. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 437, or consent of instructor.
EE 522 Microprocessor-Based Digital System Design (4)
Design and implementation of microprocessor-based digital systems. Their analysis and cost effective use in system design problems. Data acquisition and control systems. Role of microperipheral controllers. Laboratory problems associated with interfacing microprocessors to various systems. 3 seminars, 1 laboratory. Prerequisite: EE 436, or consent of instructor.
EE 523 Digital Systems Design (3)
Design of asynchronous sequential machines and pulse mode logic circuits. Selected automata theory topics include state compatibility analysis, state partition analysis, threshold logic, fuzzy logic. Modern digital system design. Analysis of MOS-LSI multiphase logic structures. Comparison of digital subsystems. Microprocessor as a digital subsystem module. 3 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 319, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 524 Solid State Electronics (3)
Physical theory of solid-state devices. Properties of metal-semiconductor junctions and p-n junctions. Derivation of properties of diodes, transistors, and four-layer devices from basic physical and mathematical considerations. 3 seminars. Prerequisite: PHYS 412 or equivalent, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 525 Stochastic Processes for Engineers (4)
Probability and stochastic processes used in random signal analysis. Response of linear systems to random inputs. Auto-correlation and power spectral densities. Applications in signal processing using the discrete Kalman filter. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 304 or equivalent, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 526 Digital Communications (4)
M-ary signals. Vector space representation of signals. Optimum receiver principles. Common signal sets. Signal space dimensionality versus time-bandwidth product. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 414 and EE 525, or consent of instructor.
EE 527 Advanced Topics in Power Electronics (4)
Static variable speed AC and DC drives. Phase-controlled rectifiers and choppers in DC motor control. PWM in three-phase inverters, sinusoidal modulation techniques, control strategies for AC three-phase variable speed motor control using voltage source inverters, current source inverters and speed control of AC motors. Torque and speed pulsations. HVDC converters and DC transmission. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 410, EE 411 or equivalent, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 528 Digital Image Processing (4)
Two-dimensional spatial frequency transforms. Image enhancement, histogram equalization. Smoothing and sharpening. Image restoration, image encoding and segmentation. Descriptors. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 414, EE 525, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 529 Advanced Topics in Microwave Device Electronics (3)
Emphasis on device and circuit principles of active microwave solid-state devices, their noise aspects and systems applications. 3 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 401, PHYS 412 or equivalent, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 530 Photonic Systems (4)
Design of radiametric information optics and imaging systems. Remote sensing, guidance and tracking, fiber optic and laser communications. Component modeling and optimization of systems for detection of radiant flux with maximum signal to noise ratio. Modeling of source, intervening media, optical subsystem, focal plane, signal-conditioning electronics, and output and display. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 401, EE 414 or equivalent, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 533 Antennas (4)
Principles of antenna theory. Antenna parameters, radiation integrals. Duality and reciprocity theorems. Wire antennas. Antenna arrays. Traveling wave antennas. Broadband and frequency independent antennas. Aperture and reflector antennas. Microstrip antennas. Antenna design. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: EE 401.
EE 541 Advanced Microwave Laboratory (2)
Experimental measurement in waveguide and microstrip circuits employing the advanced Network Analyzer. Design of both passive and active microwave circuits using microstrip. Graphical and analytical design techniques as well as the use of computer-aided design codes. 2 laboratories. Prerequisite: EE 401. Concurrent or prerequisite: EE 502 or consent of instructor.
EE 563 Graduate Seminar (1) (CR/NC)
Current developments in the fields of electrical and electronic engineering. Participation by students, faculty and guest lecturers. Open to graduate students with a background in electrical or electronic engineering. Credit/No Credit grading only. Total credit limited to 3 units. 1 seminar.
EE 570 Selected Advanced Topics (1-3)
Directed group study of selected topics for advanced students. Open to graduate students and selected seniors with electrical and electronic engineering background. Class Schedule will list topic selected. Total credit limited to 6 units. 1-3 seminars. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
EE 599 Design Project (Thesis) (2) (2) (5)
Each individual or group will select, with faculty guidance and approval, a topic for independent research or investigation resulting in a thesis or project to be used to satisfy the requirement for the degree. An appropriate experimental or analytical thesis or project may be accepted. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.