Analysis and design methods for analog linear circuits whose elements consist of passive and active components used in modern engineering practice, including transfer functions, network parameters, and a design project and laboratory experiments involving modern design practices.
Boolean algebra; number systems; combinational logic circuits; synchronous sequential circuits; asynchronous sequential circuits; design problems using digital logic. Laboratory experiments reinforce the course content. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one three-hour session.
Introduction to Embedded Systems teaches students how to use microcontrollers to interact with the physical world. Lectures will cover the theory behind microcontroller architecture, programming, and interfacing and lab projects will back up that theory with hands-on design experiments using microcontrollers. Topics include assembly language and high-level language programming, address decoding, hardware interrupts, parallel and serial interfacing, analog I/O, and basic real- time processing.
Research project or activity led by an engineering faculty member, designed to provide students research experience. Completion of this course requires that the student submit a report overviewing activities of the student and summarizing the experience. Course may be repeated to a maximum of three credit hours.
This course credit recognizes extensive involvement by a student in a campus organization or community organization. This involvement may be leadership or responsibility for significant substantial portions of a project or event. Enrollment in this course requires a Learning Plan developed by the student and a faculty advisor (such as the organization faculty advisor, for campus organizations). The Learning Plan must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
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.
Introduction to common power electronic converters used in electric motoro drives. Steady-state analysis methods for electric machines fed by power conditioning converters. Performance prediction of electric machines by electromagnetic field theory and by coupled oil models.
This course teaches philosophies for protecting power systems, covers micro-processor based relays, and provides projects on relay setting and relay testing.
Physics of photovoltaic (PV) devices, emerging technologies, design of PV cells and systems, electronic components for signal conditioning, integration, installation, performance evaluation and economic issues related to PV systems.
Theory, development and discussion of equivalent circuit models of transistor devices, negative resistance, semiconductor devices, praetersonic devices based on electronic processes in solid state elements. High and low frequency, as well as the Eber-Moll and charge control switching models and their application in computerized electronic circuit analysis will be developed.
