2005-2006 CATALOG
ENEE 1001 Introduction to Information Systems and Technology 3 cr.
Introduction to three foundational disciplines of the information technology age: electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and management information systems (MIS). Students will be provided with an overview of the three disciplines and how they interact to form a new discipline-information systems and technology. This course will be cross-listed with MANG 1001 and CSCI 1001. Students taking ENEE 1001 cannot receive credit for MANG 1001 and CSCI 1001. Also, this course may not be used to satisfy UNO’s general degree requirement for computer literacy and may not be taken for credit in the Electrical Engineering program. Prerequisite: None
ENEE 2500 Basic Electrical Circuits 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Mathematics 2108. Offered each semester and summer session. Introduction to basic electrical circuit analysis. This course carries no degree credit in the electrical engineering curriculum.
ENEE 2510 Circuits Laboratory 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Concurrent registration in ENEE 2551 An introduction to electrical measurements, instruments, and circuit phenomena complementing the lecture course ENEE 2551. Three hours of laboratory. Note that this laboratory must be taken concurrently with the course ENEE 2551.
ENEE 2550 Circuits I 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2111 (or MATH 2108). Introduction to linear, time-invariant, and lumped circuits. Kirchhoff’s laws, DC analysis of resistive circuits, and transient analysis of RLC circuits.
ENEE 2551 Circuits II 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 2550, PHYS 1062 and concurrent registration in ENEE 2510. AC steady-state analysis of RLC circuits and frequency response; three-phase circuits and transformers; Laplace transform methods.
ENEE 2582 Digital System Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 1205, credit or registration in ENEE 2551, concurrent registration in ENEE 2586. The characterization and design of digital, logic, and switching networks with emphasis on integrated circuits.
ENEE 2586 Logic Circuits Laboratory 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Concurrent registration in ENEE 2582. Selected experiments examining logic devices and circuits, and including a final design project, to accompany and complement the lecture course ENEE 2582. Three hours of laboratory.
ENEE 3091 Senior Electrical Engineering Design Project 1 cr.
Prerequisite: To be taken the semester immediately before the final semester and with approval of the Department Chair. Team study and evolution of a project involving engineering design in electrical engineering with emphasis on the initialization of the design project. Comprehensive written and oral reports are given.
ENEE 3092 Senior Electrical Engineering Design Project 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3091. To be taken in the final semester before graduation and with the approval of the Department Chairman. Team study and evolution of a project, involving engineering design in electrical engineering with emphasis on the implementation of the design project. Comprehensive written and oral reports are required.
ENEE 3093 Special Problems in Electrical Engineering 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Senior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in electrical engineering.
ENEE 3094 Special Problems in Electrical Engineering 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Senior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in electrical engineering.
ENEE 3095 Special Problems in Electrical Engineering 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Senior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in electrical engineering.
ENEE 3501 Basic Electrical Machinery 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 2500. Review of electric circuit theory and its application to electro-mechanical energy conversion, including the operation of dc, induction, and synchronous machines and transformers. This course carries no degree credit in the electrical engineering curriculum.
ENEE 3511 Energy Conversion Laboratory 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Concurrent registration in ENEE 3540. Selected experiments to accompany the lecture course ENEE 3540. This laboratory must be taken at the same time as ENEE 3540. Three hours of laboratory.
ENEE 3512 Microprocessor Design Lab 1 cr.
Co-requisite: Concurrent registration in ENEE 3582. Selected experiments in assembly language programming and digital design using microprocessors.
ENEE 3514 Computer Architecture Laboratory 1 cr.
Co-requisite: Concurrent registration in ENEE 3584. Selected experiments examining programmable logic, VHDL and logic synthesis, and including a final design project, to accompany and complement the lecture course ENEE 3584. Three hours of laboratory.
ENEE 3516 Engineering Electronics Laboratory I 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Concurrent registration in ENEE 3540. Selected experiments to accompany the lecture course ENEE 3540. This laboratory must be taken at the same time as ENEE 3540. Three hours of laboratory.
ENEE 3517 Engineering Electronics Laboratory II 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Concurrent registration in ENEE 3543. Selected experiments to accompany the lecture course ENEE 3543. This laboratory must be taken at the same time as ENEE 3543. Three hours of laboratory.
ENEE 3518 Electrical Engineering Laboratory 1 cr.
Offered each semester and summer session. Prerequisite: credit or registration in ENEE 3501. A laboratory in basic electronics, instrumentation, and electric power devices for students not majoring in electrical engineering. Three hours of laboratory.
ENEE 3521 Electric Machinery 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 2551. Introduction to the theory of electromechanical energy conversion with special application to the theory and operation of electrical machines and machine control systems.
ENEE 3522 Electrical Power Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 2551. Introduction to industrial and utilities electric power systems, poly-phase systems, fault conditions, per-unit values, and the method of symmetrical components.
ENEE 3530 Continuous and Discrete Signal and System Analysis 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 2551 and MATH 2511 and 2221. Fundamental techniques for the analysis of electrical and electronic signals and systems are introduced and include: signal representation, Fourier series, Fourier transform, Laplace transform, discrete Fourier transform, and the Z-transform. Emphasis will be placed on the application of the above techniques to engineering problems.
ENEE 3533 Classical Control System Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3530. Design of control systems using classical frequency response and Laplace transforms techniques; analysis and design of servo-systems using Nyquist, Bode, and root-locus diagrams; design criteria, system stability, frequency, and time response. State variable feedback.
ENEE 3535 Communication System Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3530 and concurrent registration in ENEE 3574. Design, characterization, and selection of communication methods and systems.
ENEE 3540 Engineering Electronics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 2551 and concurrent registration in ENEE 3516. The characteristics of modern solid-state non-linear and active devices, representative circuit models, and the analysis and design of typical circuits using these devices. The accompanying laboratory, ENEE 3516, must be taken with this course.
ENEE 3543 Engineering Electronic Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3540 and concurrent registration in ENEE 3517. Use of solid-state devices as basic system building blocks. Multistage amplifiers, feedback amplifiers, stability and oscillators, analog systems, power circuits and systems. The accompanying laboratory, ENEE 3517, must be taken with this course.
ENEE 3547 Digital Integrated Circuit Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 2582, 2586, and 3540. Study of characteristics of bipolar and CMOS logic gates and design techniques for digital integrated circuits.
ENEE 3560 Engineering Electromagnetics I 3 cr.
Offered each semester. Prerequisites: MATH 2115, MATH 2221, and ENEE 2551. Electrostatics and magnetostatics and their applications to analysis and design in various fields of electrical engineering. Formulation of Maxwell’s equation for electromagnetic fields in free space and in material media. The wave equation and plane-wave propagation.
ENEE 3561 Engineering Electromagnetics II 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3560. Maxwell’s equations for time-varying electromagnetic fields and their applications; wave propagation through different media; design of transmission lines and waveguides; introduction to electromagnetic radiation; and antennas.
ENEE 3572 Probabilistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3530. The fundamentals of probability theory are introduced. Application of probability theory to signal and system analysis is considered and includes correlation functions, spectral density, linear system response to random input signals, and system parameter optimization.
ENEE 3574 Communication Systems Design Laboratory 1 cr.
Prerequisites: concurrent registration in ENEE 3535. Selected experiments examining fundamental performance and design concepts of modulation systems, including a design project. Three hours of laboratory
ENEE 3575 Voice Video Telecommunications System 3 cr.
Prerequisites: CSCI 1201, MATH 2108, and 2111, or consent of the department. Fundamental concepts of telecommunication voice and video systems are presented including telephony and video fundamentals, standards organizations and regulations, subscriber loop, trunk and feeder link technology, private branch exchange and central office techniques, voice digitization methods, modulation and multiplexing schemes, signal transport methods, and video compression approaches. Additional topics cover current trends in telecommunications.
ENEE 3582 Digital Design Using Microcomputers 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 2582, ENEE 2586, and concurrent registration in ENEE 3512. The design of microcomputer based systems including both hardware and software considerations.
ENEE 3583 Computer System Design I 3 cr.
(ENEE 3583 and CSCI 4302 are cross-listed) Prerequisites: Credit or registration in ENEE 3582 and ENEE 3512, or credit in CSCI 3301 and 3401. The design process of digital computer systems is studied from the instruction set level, system architecture level, and digital logic level. Topics include machine organization, register transfer notation, processor design, memory design, and input/output considerations. Includes semester project.
ENEE 3584 Computer Systems Design II 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3583 and concurrent registration in ENEE 3514. The design and evaluation of contemporary computer systems are analyzed to compare the performance of different architectures. Topics include performance metrics, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies, and multiprocessor systems.
ENEE 3587 Microcomputer Interfacing 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3582. The design of microcomputer based systems including both hardware and software considerations. Includes laboratory work and a semester project. Design projects with both written and oral reports will be required.
ENEE 3900 Senior Honors Thesis 1-6 cr.
Prerequisites: admission to the Honors Program and consent of the director of the Honors Program and the chair of the department. Senior-level research and/or design project in electrical engineering. Thesis and oral examination required. May be repeated for credit with total hours no to exceed six.
ENEE 4096 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: junior standing in engineering. Courses may be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than nine hours degree credit in courses ENEE 4096 and 4097.
ENEE 4097 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: junior standing in engineering. Courses may be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than nine hours degree credit in courses ENEE 4096 and 4097.
ENEE 4131 Reliability, Availability, and Maintenance of
Engineering Systems 3 cr.
(NAME 4131, ENME 4734, and ENEE 4131 are cross-listed) Prerequisite: MATH 2115. Review of probability and statistics; analytical stochastic models for component and system failures; strategies for inspection, maintenance, repair and replacement. Introduction to fault-tree and event-tree analysis; frequency and duration techniques; Markov models; and case studies.
ENEE 4132 Reliability in Engineering Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3020 or consent of department. Probabilistic approach to design and analysis of engineering problems. Statistical methods include point and interval estimation, tests of hypotheses, functions of random variables, and reliability analysis.
ENEE 4522 Power System Planning and Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3522. Theory and techniques for modeling and analyzing large power systems, including per unit system matrix methods, load flow methods, and optimal economic dispatch determination. Practical planning, design, and operational studies of large power systems. Transmission network design and generator dispatching considerations in large power systems. A design project with a written and oral report will be required.
ENEE 4526 Protective Relaying of Power Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3522. Protection of power system components like transmission lines, transformers, radial feeders, generators, and motors from faults and lightning. Differential protection of transformers, generator windings, and transmission lines. Distance protection of transmission lines. Relay coordination for radial feeders. Carrier protection. Use of current and voltage transformers.
ENEE 4533 Digital Control System Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3533. Design and analysis of digital control systems using transform techniques and state-space methods.
ENEE 4534 Process Control Systems 3 cr.
(ENEE 4534 and ENME 4753 are cross-listed) Prerequisites: ENEE 3533 or ENME 3020. A study of contemporary automatic control methods for continuous industrial processes. Topics include characterization of typical process dynamics, plant identification, parameter estimation, controller tuning techniques, and industrial process instrumentation applications.
ENEE 4535 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3530. Fundamental concepts of digital processing are developed and include signal representation; Fourier series; z-transforms; discrete Fourier series; discrete random signals; data window functions; applications of DFT to convolution, auto and cross-correlation and power and energy spectrum distribution estimation; digital filter design; homomorphic signal processing.
ENEE 4542 Electronic Devices for Integrated Circuits 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3540 and PHYS 2064. Study of operating principles of modern electronic devices including p-n junctions bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). The device models are presented using the parameters and models in PSpice for integrated circuit design and analysis. This course provides a foundation for understanding the basics of modern electronic device technology.
ENEE 4543 Power Electronics and Drives 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3521 and 3540. Introduction to semiconductor devices, circuits with diodes and power switching devices, controlled rectifiers, dc choppers, dc and ac motor drives including armature-controlled dc motor drives, inverterfed induction and synchronous motor drives.
ENEE 4544 Radio Frequency Circuit Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3535 and 3540. Design of high frequency radio circuits and their differences compared to low frequency circuits are discussed. Discussion of s paramenter, Smith Charts, Noise Figure, amplifier stability, transmission lines, phased locked loops, and impedance matching techniques.
ENEE 4545 Introduction to VLSI Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 2582, 2586, and 3540. This course introduces fundamental principles of VLSI circuit design and covers the basic building blocks of large-scale digital integrated circuits/systems. Systematic design methods for modern digital VLSI circuits will be studied. Students will learn hands-on design methods using the VLSI CAD tools.
ENEE 4554 Analog and Digital Filter Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3530. The synthesis of analog and digital filters; elementary one port synthesis; Darlington filter synthesis; phase correction; synthesis of Real-part, magnitude, and phase; realization of recursive and nonrecursive digital filters; windowing; parallel, cascade, and direct forms of digital filters; digital hardware implementation.
ENEE 4562 Engineering Optics 3 cr.
Optical fundamentals for engineering. Waves. Diffraction. Optical waveguides. Interferometry and Holography.
ENEE 4570 Audio Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3530 3540 or consent of department. Analog and Digital Recording and Reproduction Techniques and Systems are examined, and include microphone design, selection and application; Mixing and Recording Equipment Design and Techniques; Reproduction System Elements, including Disc Reproduction, Pre-Amplification, Power Amplification, Tuner, Tape Recording, Signal Processors and speakers.
ENEE 4572 Advanced Communication System Design 4 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3535 and 3572. Analysis of analog and digital modulation techniques in the presence of noise; receiver noise models, facsimile systems, signal vector theory, and introduction to information theory. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory.
ENEE 4575 Data & Computer Communications 3 cr.
Prerequisites: CSCI 1201 and MATH 2111. Fundamental concepts of data and computer communications are presented including the open system interconnection (OSI) model, modems, local. metropolitan, and wide area networks (LAN, MAN, WAN), and high speed LANs, packets switching, Broadband ISDN, frame relay, asynchronous transfer mode(ATM), and the Internet protocol.
ENEE 6001 Electrical Engineering Graduate Seminar 0 cr.
EE Graduate Seminar is a noncredit course for master and Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering to complete as part of the graduate program. It is organized as a weekly seminar to help graduate students give effective presentations, which is critical to have successful Electrical Engineering professional careers. Students registered for this course and faculty members invited to participate in the seminar give talks similar to oral presentations in national and international conferences. The topic of each presentation is research-oriented and the course evaluation is based on pass/fail criterion.
ENEE 6095 Advanced Electrical Engineering Problems 1-6 cr.
Offered each semester and summer session. Individual projects in selected fields of electrical engineering. Independent work under the direction of a faculty member on a subject of mutual interest. Student must find faculty sponsor. A written report will usually be required. Course may be repeated for credit but no more than a total of six credit hours may be applied toward a degree. Section number will correspond with credit to be earned.
ENEE 6096 Advanced Special Topics in Electrical Engineering 3 cr.
Offered each semester and summer session. Prerequisite: consent of department. Special lectures or independent study on subjects of current interest in the various fields of electrical engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than a total of nine hours of degree credit in courses ENEE 4096, 4097, 6096, 6097, and 6098.
ENEE 6097 Advanced Special Topics in Electrical Engineering 3 cr.
Offered each semester and summer session. Prerequisite: consent of department. Special lectures or independent study on subjects of current interest in the various fields of electrical engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than a total of nine hours of degree credit in courses ENEE 4096, 4097, 6096, 6097, and 6098
ENEE 6098 Advanced Special Topics in Electrical Engineering 3 cr.
Offered each semester and summer session. Prerequisite: consent of department. Special lectures or independent study on subjects of current interest in the various fields of electrical engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than a total of nine hours of degree credit in courses ENEE 4096, 4097, 6096, 6097, and 6098.
ENEE 6521 High Voltage Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3521 and 3522 or consent of department. Design considerations of high voltage transmission lines, electrical characteristics, electrostatic and electromagnetic theory and effects, corona phenomena, radio noise from transmission lines, audible noise, insulation coordination, and switching surges. Discussions of recent results on biological effects.
ENEE 6522 Computer Aided Analysis of Large Power Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 4522. Digital computer modeling and analysis techniques of large interconnected power systems. On-line power system control.
ENEE 6523 Electric Machines and Drives 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3521. Modeling of induction, synchronous, brushless permanent-magnet, and reluctance motor drives; modeling of machines in phase as well as in transformed variables; vector control of AC machines; current controllers; encoders; application characteristics.
ENEE 6525 Optimization and Control Methods in
Power System Operations 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3522. Topics selected from power generation, operation and control, including economic dispatch, unit commitment, composite generation cost, hydrothermal coordination, generation control, interchange evaluation, system security, and state estimation.
ENEE 6530 Linear Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3533. A study of the state equation method of system modeling. Topics include stability, controllability, observability, and realizability.
ENEE 6531 Advanced Control Theory 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 6530. A study of advanced methods of analysis and synthesis of automatic control systems; continuous and discrete-time systems; control constraints; and estimation of optimum control in the presence of noise.
ENEE 6532 Adaptive Control 3 cr.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 6530. System identification and the control problem. Stability theory of dynamical systems. The design of adaptive observers. Adaptive control using the indirect approach. Applications of adaptive control.
ENEE 6533 Advanced Random Variables and Stochastic Processes 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 3572. Engineering applications of probability theory. Problems on events, independence, random variables, distribution and density functions, expectations, and characteristic functions. Dependence, correlation, and regression; multi-variate Gaussian distribution. Stochastic processes, stationarity, ergodicity, correlation functions, special densities, random inputs to linear systems; Gaussian processes.
ENEE 6534 Information Theory and Applications 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 4572. A study of the mathematical theory of communications. Noise and channel information rate. Theoretical and practical limits on channel capacity for various modulation schemes.
ENEE 6535 Adaptive Filtering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 6533. A study of linear optimum filtering including Wiener Filters and Kalman Filters; linear FIR adaptive filtering using method of steepest descent and recursive least squares; fast recursive algorithms and fast transversal filters.
ENEE 6536 Advanced Digital Signal Processing with
Speech Applications 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 4535. Advanced topics in digital signal processing including: short- and long-term data processing, linear prediction analysis, cepstral analysis, coding and feature enhancement, speech recognition, dynamic time warping, hidden Markov model and time-adaptive processing.
ENEE 6537 Estimation and Kalman Filtering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 6530 and 6533. Review of matrix algebra probability and random processes; maximum likelihood estimation; maximum a posteriori estimation; least squares estimation; minimum mean square error estimation; unibiasedness efficiency and consistency; Kalman filter; linear smoothing; nonlinear estimation; elements of adaptive estimation.
ENEE 6538 Signal Detection 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 6533. Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing; Bayes tests; minimax tests; sequential probability ratio test; optimal and locally optimum detectors; noise models for detection; detection of known signals; detection of random signals; performance evaluation of detectors.
ENEE 6540 Compound Semiconductor Devices 3 cr.
Prerequisites: credit or concurrent registration in ENEE 4542. Properties of III-V and II-VI compound semiconductors, operating principles of compound semiconductor devices including transferred electron devices, heterostructure field effect transistors, heterostructure bipolar transistors, and tunneling devices.
ENEE 6541 Semiconductor Device Modeling 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 4542. Modeling of semiconductor devices, modeling of equilibrium and non-equilibrium transport phenomena of charge carriers in semiconductors and semiconductor devices, Monte Carlo simulation, balance equations, and numerical simulation of submicron devices using balance equations and Monte Carlo method.
ENEE 6543 Transport Theory in Semiconductors 3 cr.
Prerequisites: credit or concurrent registration in ENEE 4542. A study of kinetic and hydrodynamic transport theories in semiconductors and devices. Scattering processes in semiconductors, and equilibrium and non-equilibrium transport models including the drift-diffusion theory, hydrodynamic transport model, and Boltzmann transport equation.
ENEE 6544 Theory of Semiconductors and
Semiconductor Devices 3 cr.
Prerequisites: credit or concurrent registration in ENEE 4542. Quantum mechanics of semiconductors, energy band theory, semiconductor statistics, electronic and optical properties of semiconductors, and their applications to semiconductor devices.
ENEE 6551 Network Synthesis 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3551 or consent of department. Introduction of Brune’s positive real functions, properties and testing of positive real functions, driving-point synthesis, transfer-function synthesis, approximation theory, and topics in N-port and N-terminal network synthesis.
ENEE 6552 Network Synthesis 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3551 or consent of department. Introduction of Brune’s positive real functions, properties and testing of positive real functions, driving-point synthesis, transfer-function synthesis approximation theory and topics in N-port and N-terminal network synthesis.
ENEE 6553 Advanced Computer-Aided Network Design 3 cr.
Advanced circuit analytic design techniques utilizing a digital computer. Time-domain and non-linear sensitivity analysis. Adjoint techniques. Circuit optimization steady-state analysis. Averaging methods. Decomposition and tearing algorithms. Digital circuit simulation.
ENEE 6554 Advanced Digital and Analog Filter Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 4554. realizability of Passive Networks; Orchards Conjecture; finite word length effects in digital filters multiplier coefficient sensitivity; wave digital filters and digital ladder filters; noise scaling limit cycle oscillations; block digital filters; multirate digital filters
ENEE 6563 Fourier Optics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or science or consent of department. Analysis of Fourier transformations and linear systems theory using optical processing, image formation, and holography.
ENEE 6564 Polarization Optics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3560 or equivalent. Theory and applications of polarization optics; various mathematical representations of the state of polarization of light and the transformation of polarization by different optical elements; operating principles of polarizing optical devices; instruments for measurement of the state of polarization of light (ellipsometers and photopolarimeters) and their numerous applications in engineering, surface science, and materials research.
ENEE 6565 Introduction to Lasers 3 cr.
Prerequisite: A junior/senior-level calculus-based course in electromagnetics or optics and some familiarity with the relevant modern physics. Exception may be granted with the consent of the department. Review of the basic concepts of wave optics (propagation, diffraction, interference, coherence, and polarization), matrix ray optics, Gaussian beam optics, optical resonators, transitions and rate equations for atoms in blackbody and monochromatic radiation fields, homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening of atomic or molecular transitions, the small-signal gain coefficient, laser amplifiers, gain saturation, laser single-mode and multi-mode oscillation, pulsed operation by Q-switching and mode locking.
ENEE 6566 Optical Communications 3 cr.
Prerequisite: A B.S. degree in Engineering Mathematics or Physics or consent of the department. The methods and techniques employed in optical communications. Optical sources and photodetectors, modulation and reception schemes, and characteristic models of both fiber optic and atmospheric channels will be examined. Overall optical system performance analysis will also be addressed.
ENEE 6567 Semiconductor Optoelectronics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 3560 and 4540. An introduction to optoelectronic communication and sensing systems and components. A study of the fundamentals of optical generation, detection, modulation in semiconductor lasers, detectors and the modulators, transmission and processing of optical beam signals in dielectric waveguides and optical fiber, and fiber optic sensors.
ENEE 6570 Optimization Techniques in Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: A B.S. degree in engineering mathematics or physics or consent of department. Introduction to the formulation of engineering optimization problems. The use of nonlinear optimization techniques such as Steepest Descent, Newton-Raphson, and Conjugate Gradients and Constrained Nonlinear Optimization Techniques in engineering problems. Geometric programming in engineering problems.
ENEE 6575 Advanced Telecommunications Systems Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: BS degree in Engineering or consent of the department. The objective of this course is to provide graduate level engineering students with a detailed understanding of the design techniques and analyses associated with the design of digital data and voice systems employing microwave satellite cellular and PCS technologies. The course also investigates the fundamentals and design approaches for telecommunications networking hierarchies (ATM, SONET) and specialized architectures used in local area, wide area, and global networks.
ENEE 6581 Introduction to Digital Image Processing 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENEE 4535. Introduction to digital image processing techniques for enhancement, compression, restoration, reconstruction, and analysis. 2-D signals and systems, sampling and scanning, random fields, discrete cosine transform, discrete Karhunen-Loeve transform, gray scale transformations, linear, ranked order, and morphological filters, human vision, printing and display of images, entropy-based compression, vector quantization, transform coding, predictive coding, image degradation models, Weiner filter, constrained deconvolution, edge detection.
ENEE 6582 Computer Vision 3 cr.
Prerequisite: B.S. in Engineering, Math, or Physics, or consent of the department. Basic fundamentals and techniques of computer vision, including image analysis, image segmentation, edge detection, and determination of shape from shading.
ENEE 6583 Neural Networks 3 cr.
Prerequisite: B.S. in Engineering, Math, or Physics, or consent of the department. Introduction to the ideas and techniques used in artificial neural network models.
ENEE 6585 Wireless Sensor Networks 3 cr.
Review of current wireless communication standards and protocols; system architecture of wireless sensor networks, including physical, medium access control (MAC), and network layers; algorithm design and practical implementation issues for wireless sensor networks applications.
ENEE 6588 Optical Computing 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or science of consent of department. The topics include basic mathematical operations, matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplications, spatial light modulators, waveguides, and symbolic substitution.
