Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credit: 1 hour
Course Description: The introduction of the design process to electrical engineering students. Includes discussion of problem-solving techniques and teaming skills, an introduction to circuit fabrication techniques, and oral and written communication skills. Multiple hands-on projects.
Prerequisite: For beginning college freshmen or transfer students with fewer than 24 semester hours of credit. .
Credit: 2 hours
Course Description: Transition to university experience. Topics include study skills, critical thinking skills, library education, exploration of majors and careers, degree programs, campus resources and personal development. Special attention is given to educational requirements, careers, and resources in electrical engineering. EE design process is introduced.
Corequisite: MATH 117 or higher.
Credit: 4 hours
Course Description: An introductory course in digital circuit fundamentals. Topics include number systems, Boolean algebra, binary codes, logic gates, flip-flops, counters, and registers. Laboratory included.
Prerequisite: EE 180.
Credit: 1 hour
Course Description: Continuation of the engineering design process including cost constraints and teamwork. Ethics and professionalism will also be discussed. Includes an introduction to microprocessor and programming techniques.
Prerequisite: MATH 227.
Corequisite: PHYS 260/261.
Credit: 4 hours
Course Description: An introductory course in circuit analysis including Kirchoff's Laws, independent and dependent sources, power and energy, lumped linear fixed networks, power factor, phasors, and three phase networks. Laboratory included.
Prerequisite: EE 210 with a grade of C or better.
Corequisite: MATH 331.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: A second course in circuit analysis with an emphasis on frequency response techniques. Topics include impedance, transformed networks, Laplace transforms, resonance, two-port parameters, mutual inductance, forced and natural responses, transformers, transient response, and sinusoidal steady-state response.
Prerequisite: EE 210 with a grade of C or better.
Credit: 4 hours
Course Description: An introductory course in electronics. Topics include semiconductor concept, operational amplifiers, diodes, transistors, biasing, large and small signal analysis. Laboratory included.
Prerequisite: For EE Majors: CS 239, EE 180, and EE 210. For ME majors: CS 245 and EE 250.
Credit: 2 hours
Course Description: An introduction to the digital control of industrial automation systems. Topics include digital electronics, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's), BASIC Stamp PIC, and embedded microcontrollers.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in Electrical Engineering and consent of instructor.
Credit: 1 hour
Course Description: Application of numerical methods, statistics, economics, and production techniques to the engineering design process. Individualized writing and oral presentation tasks and ethical issues. Design project required. Circuit schematic software.
Prerequisite: EE 285.
Credit: 4 hours
Course Description: An introductory course in microprocessors. Topics include assembly language, stack operation, vectored interrupts, memory organization, input/output peripheral devices, and hardware design of a computer system. Laboratory included.
Prerequisite: Senior standing in Electrical Engineering or consent of instructor.
Credit: 4 hours
Course Description: This course is designed to prepare students for the workplace by discussing such issues as interviewing, resume writing, ethics, and professional issues. Also design methodology and decision making will be discussed. The students will complete their proposals for EE 401 during this course.
Prerequisite: EE 400 and consent of instructor.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: A course designed for the student to assume the primary responsibility for the completion of an electronic or electrical project.
Corequisite: EE 400 and consent of instructor.
Credit: 1 hours
Course Description: Contemporary topics in electrical and computer engineering, literature, surveys, scientific reporting, peer reviews and intellectual property.
Prerequisite: EE 380.
Corequisite: EE 411.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 510. Topics include a review of logic design and elementary computer organization. Asynchronous and synchronous logic design using VHDL and programmable logic. Design of the central processing unit, memory, control, and input-output portions of a computer. The VHDL hardware design language will be used.
Prerequisite: EE 380.
Corequisite: EE 410.
Credit: 1 hour
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 511. This course is a laboratory which illustrates analysis and design principles of EE 410. It includes experiments in the design of the central processing unit, memory, control, and input-output portions of a computer using VHDL and PC based for software simulation.
Prerequisite: EE 211with a grade of C or better.
Prerequisite or Corequisite: MATH 350.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 420. Topics include analysis of continuous-time and discrete-time, discrete-parameter, time-invariant, linear systems based up on the convolution integral, Fourier series and transform, Laplace transform, Z-transform, and state-space methods. Topics include impulse response, transfer function, energy spectra, filtering, sampling, and applications to networks, communications, and controls.
Prerequisite: EE 211 and EE 220.
Corequisite: EE 422.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 421 which covers the design principles of active signal processing networks. Topics include modeling the non-ideal operational amplifier, sensitivity functions, feedback and feedforward, switched capacitor filters and approximation theory. Comparisons of realization techniques are discussed.
Prerequisite: EE 211 and EE 220.
Corequisite: EE 421.
Credit: 1 hour
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 422. It is a laboratory course which illustrates analysis and design principles of EE 421.
Prerequisite: EE 211with a grade of C or better, MATH 327, and EE 473
Credit: 4 hours
Course Description: Introduction to the principles and concepts of electrical power an analysis of major components of an electric power system. Topics include basic electromechanics, transformers, ac and dc machines, transmission lines, and system analysis. Laboratory included.
Prerequisite: EE 431.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: Analysis of power systems in the steady state. Includes the development of models and analysis procedures for major power system components and for power networks.
Prerequisite: EE 420.
Corequisite: EE 451.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 520. Topics include discrete time signals and systems, discrete Fourier transforms, FFT algorithms, flow graph and the matrix representation of digital filters, FIR and IIR filter design techniques, quantization effects, spectral estimation, current applications of digital signal processing.
Prerequisite: EE 420.
Corequisite: EE 450.
Credit: 1 hour
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 521. This course focuses on the implementation of common digital signal processing function using state-of-the-art DSP devices and software. The fundamentals of discrete-time signal processing and digital signal processor architectures and applications are introduced. Emphasis is on laboratory experience involving generation of deterministic and random signals; digital filter design; quanitzation effects; FFT computation; linear system analysis; speech processing.
Prerequisite: EE 420 with a grade of C or better.
Credit: 4 hours
Course Description: A study of continuous control systems that will address the following topics: system modeling, feedback systems, systems stability, root locus plots, Bode plot, state space analysis, and design of controllers. Laboratory included.
Prerequisite: EE 460.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: An applied study of discrete control systems. Topics include: modeling of discrete-time systems, applications of z-transforms, difference equations, stability analysis, root-locus analysis, and design of discrete controllers.
Prerequisite: EE 460
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: A presentation of current topics in control systems theory which builds on the content in EE 460.
Prerequisite: Junior standing and consent of instructor.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: A pass/fail course for students involved in the design and building of the EE robot project.
Prerequisite: EE 420.
Corequisite: EE 475.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 550. Topics include modulations such as AM, FM, PAM, PPM, PDM, single sideband, vestigial sideband. Coherent and noncoherent detection, heterodyne action, performance and distortion, circuits for modulation and demodulation.
Prerequisite: EE 470
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: A communications course emphasizing design concepts and out-of-the-classroom experiences. Topics include fiber optic applications, system design, pulse modulation and matched filters, and information and digital transmission.
Prerequisite: MATH 350,MATH 327, PHYS 260 and PHYS 261.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE473. Topics include electrostatic and magnetostatic fields; Faraday's laws, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic properties of matter, uniform plane waves, and transmission lines.
Prerequisite: EE 420.
Corequisite: EE 470.
Credit: 1 hour
Course Description: This is the University of Louisville course EE 551. Topics include laboratory exercises involving the design and analysis of electronic communication systems for the transmission of analog and digital data at radio frequencies.
Prerequisite: EE 380.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: Topics include finite difference and finite element solutions to problems in electromagnetics; absorbing boundaries trained in contemporary methods for solving complex electromagnetics problems.
Prerequisite: EE 280.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: A continuation of the study of digital systems and microprocessors focusing on the principles and applications of embedded systems.
Prerequisite: MATH 350 and PHYS 250.
Credit: 3 hours
Course Description: History and application of robots. Robot configurations including mobile robots. Spatial descriptions and transformations of objects in three-dimensional space. Forward and inverse manipulator kinematics. Task and trajectory planning.
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