A service course covering electrical engineering principles for engineering or science students with majors outside of electrical engineering. Topics include: AC and DC circuits analysis.

Electronic properties of solid-state materials and calculation of charge carriers in semiconductors; structure and physical model of p-n junctions and various diode devices, bipolar transistors, field effect transistors; semiconductor fabrication technologies and microelectronics manufacturing issues.

Hardware and software organization of a typical computer; machine language and assembler language programming, interfacing peripheral devices, and input-output programming; real-time computer applications, laboratory included.

A course in the hardware and software of microprocessors. Assembly language programming, address decoding, hardware interrupts, parallel and serial interfacing with various special purpose integrated circuits. Each student is expected to do homework assignments using microprocessor hardware.

Study of electric machines and electromechanical systems.

Laboratory practice and experimental studies related to EE 415G. Lecture one hour; laboratory, three hours.

An introduction to continuous and discrete signal and system models and analyses. Topics include discrete and continuous convolution, Fourier transforms, and Laplace transforms and Z-transforms with application examples including AM modulation and the sampling theorem.

Lectures and laboratory exercises on signal and system modeling. Topics include noise models and analysis, filter design, modulation techniques, sampling, discrete Fourier Transforms, State Variable Models, and feedback design with an emphasis on using computer software for analysis and simulation.

Analysis and design of electronic circuitry incorporating nonlinear electronic elements such as transistors, FET's, and vacuum tubes. Applications to amplifiers.

Experimental exercises in the design and analysis of useful electronic circuits incorporating semiconductor devices: transistors, tunnel and Zener diodes; also, vacuum tubes, integrated circuits and operational amplifiers. Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours.