2002-2003 Academic Catalog

91 Engineering School of Engineering, Nursing, and Science inductance, frequency response of operational amplifier circuits, Fourier and Laplace Transforms, Laplace Circuits, and introduction to transfer functions. Computer simulations and bread-board circuits are constructed and evaluated in the laboratory. Four lecture hours and one two-hour laboratory per week. Design project required. Prerequisites: PHYS-2120 General Physics II; MATH-2740 Differential Equations. (Fee: $100) EGEE-2050 Circuits and Instrumentation -Sp 4 hours Introduction to basic circuit analysis using Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s laws, independent and dependent sources, Thévenin and Norton equivalency and source transformations, transient responses in RC, RL, and RLC circuits, operational amplifiers, harmonic analysis, and introduction to AC circuits. Circuit applications for transducers such as resistance strain gages, piezoelectric load cells, piezoelectric accelerometers, and thermocouples are emphasized along with measurement uncertainty analysis and statistical methods. Circuits are designed, simulated, constructed and tested in the laboratory. Three lecture hours and one two-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisites: PHYS-2120 General Physics II; MATH-2740 Differential Equations. (Fee: $100) EGEE-3110 Linear Systems -Fa 3 hours Introduction to linear time-invariant analysis of continuous and discrete-time systems using both time and frequency domain methods that include convolution, Fourier Series, Fourier, Laplace, and Z transforms; classical and computer solution methods are utilized. Prerequisite: EGEE-2010 Circuits . EGEE-3150-Analog Filters 3 hours Introduction to theory, design, and how to implement passive and active analog filters; basic filter structures, passive network synthesis, operational amplifier limitations, multiple-amplifier filters, and filter realization methods. Prerequisite: EGEE-3110 Linear Systems . (odd years) EGEE-3210 Electronics I -Fa 3 hours Introduction to the analysis of semiconductor electronic device theory and application, diodes, bipolar-junction transistors (BJTs), field-effect transistors (FETs), and the non-ideal characteristics of operational amplifiers. Two lecture hours and one two-hour lab or recitation period per week. Prerequisite: EGEE-2010 Circuits. (Fee: $100) EGEE-3220 Electronics II -Sp 5 hours Continuation of EGEE-3210 Electronics I to include differential amplifiers, frequency response of amplifier circuits, multi-stage amplifiers, power amplifiers, feedback circuits, power supplies, filters, digital logic families, and oscillators. Four lecture hours and one two-hour lab per week. Prerequisite: EGEE-3210 Electronics I. (Fee: $100) EGEE-3310 Electromagnetics -Fa 3 hours Engineering applications of vector calculus, phasors and Maxwell’s equations to electrostatic, magnetostatic and time varying fields, transmission lines, Smith Chart, propagation of uniform plane waves, and single-stub matching. Laboratory exercises introduce field-plotting, transmission line concepts using wave guides, and single stub-tuning, introduction to the network analyzer, polarization, and radiation fields. Two lecture hours and one two-hour laboratory or recitation period per week. Prerequisites: MATH-2740 Differential Equations; MATH-2710 Calculus III; EGEE-2010 Circuits. (Fee: $100) EGEE-3330 Communications Theory -Sp 4 hours Introduction to analog and digital communications theory. Probability and random processes are developed to facilitate noise analysis in modulation techniques. Three lecture hours and one two-hour laboratory per week; design project required. Prerequisite: EGEE-3110 Linear Systems. (Fee: $100) EGEE-3150 Analog Filters -Sp 3 hours Introduction to theory, design, and implementation of passive and active analog filters, basic filter structures, passive network synthesis, operational amplifier limitations, multiple-amplifier filters, and filter realization methods. Prerequisite: EGEE-3110 Linear Systems. EGEE-3370 Probability and Random Processes for Engineers -Fa 3 hours Introduction to sample points, sample spaces, probability, random variables, random vectors, statistical averages, linear transformations, random processes, linear system response to stochastic input, spectral analysis with application of the central- limit theorem and Gaussian processes to engineering problems. May be used to satisfy the mathematics elective requirement for electrical engineers. Prerequisite: EGEE-3330 Communications Theory. EGEE-3510 Power Electronics -Sp 3 hours Introduction to the fundamentals of power electronics, characteristics and application of semiconductor switches, motor control, device applications, and power processing design. Design project required. Prerequisite: EGEE-3210 Electronics I. (Fee: $50) EGEE-3530 Electrical Machines -Fa 3 hours Introduction to the fundamentals of power circuits and the principles of analysis and characteristics of transformers and AC and DC rotating machines. Two lecture hours and one two-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: EGEE-2010 Circuits; or EGEE- 2050 Circuits and Instrumentation. (Fee: $100) First-year engineering students apply their design skills making cardboard canoes and racing them across Cedar Lake during Homecoming Weekend.