The first semester of a two-semester capstone design sequence for senior students in electrical engineering with an emphasis on the engineering design processes. Topics important in product design and manufacturing are included, including considerations of economics, safety, and communication. Students are expected to formally propose a design project that includes a problem definition that incorporates engineering standards and realistic constraints. Students work in teams to develop and complete the designs. Lecture, two hours, laboratory, three hours per week.

The second semester of a two-semester design sequence for senior students in electrical engineering with an emphasis on the engineering processes. Students work in teams to develop and complete the designs. Topics to include engineering ethics, design, documentation, and communication.

Study of solid-state power electronic devices and their applications. Examination of control philosophies, steady-state models, and numerical simulation of characterizing differential equations. Current topics of interest from the literature.

Principles of radiation, potential solution to Maxwell's equations for current in empty space, electrically small antennas, antenna arrays, wire antenna principles, introduction to numerical methods, aperture antennas, frequency scaling antennas, receiving properties of antennas, antenna measurement techniques.

Design of electronic systems to minimize (1) emission of electromagnetic signals that cause interference in other electronic systems, (2) the susceptibility of that system to electromagnetic signal from other electronic systems, and (3) the susceptibility of that system to its own, internally generated signals. A set of brief laboratory experiments demonstrate the design principles and provide familiarity with modern test equipment.

Study of electric utility distribution power systems. Topics include configurations, equipment, customer class data, load flow, phase balancing, capacitor placement, system protection, power quality, and distributed generation.

Study of packaging systems which interconnect, support, power, cool, protect, and maintain electronic components. The course will address systems at the chip, board, and product levels. Topics include design, properties, materials, manufacture, and performance of various packaging systems. Laboratory will provide familiarity with design software and production equipment and processes.

Zero and first order hold, theory of analog to digital and digital to analog conversion. Z-transform analysis, discrete state variable analysis, discrete estimation techniques, error analysis of discrete systems.

This course focuses on technologies in protecting infrastructure, networks, programs and data from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction. It provides a survey of latest developments in cyber-security through study of theoretical foundation and hands-on practical implementation. Topics include basic security technology, cryptography, security management, risk assessment, operations and physical security, software and network security, as well as ethical and legal issues.

A study of hardware description languages including netlists, VHDL and Verilog; their use in digital design methodologies including modeling techniques, design verification , simulation, synthesis, and implementation in programmable and fabricated logic media. Programmable logic topics include CPLD and FPGA architectures, programming technologies and techniques.