49 courses with the subject ECEE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ECEE 304Electromagnetic Fields & Waves4.0
Covers vector calculus, Coulomb's Law, Gauss' Law, Ampere's Law, Maxwell's equations, Electromagnetic (EM) fields in devices, EM fields in circuits, EM fields in machinery, EM waves, biological effects.
Teaches the fundamentals of electronic circuit analysis and design by means of practical projects, such as a dc power supply and an audio amplifier. Covers design with discrete components as well as integrated circuit design.
Covers propagation of waves in various media as it relates to wireless communications: reflection, transmission, polarization, wave packets, dispersion, radiation and antennas, microwave electronic devices, optical wave guides, and fiber optics.
Application-and design-focused course. Analyzes feedback in electronic circuits such as operational amplifiers. Covers design and applications of active filters and other typical electronic circuitry. Includes experiments in the design of multistage transistor circuits, feedback loops, operational amplifiers, and active filters.
Application-and design-focused course. Covers analysis and design of communication circuits and non-linear active circuits; oscillators, mixers, IF and RF amplifiers; and AM and FM modulators.
Application-and design-focused course. Covers non-linear circuits; function and wave form generators; log-amp, multipliers, dividers, power amp, and phase-lock loops; and design of electronics needed to implement different logic circuit families.
Covers basic digital integrated circuit building blocks (inverters, nor and nand logic), CMOS logic gates (dc and transient behavior), drivers, and digital circuits and systems (PLA, gate array, memory). Experiments in semiconductor material characterization, device characterization, circuit and device simulations.
Covers fundamentals of wave propagation, including propagation in various fiber wave guides and field distributions, diffraction, attenuation, dispersion, information capacity, and other analytic and design considerations in fiber systems. Fall.
Covers operating principles, construction, and characteristics of sources, couplers, and detectors used in optical systems. Includes equivalent circuit models and principles of generation, transmission, and reception. Winter.
Covers applications of devices and systems in such areas as data, voice, and image trans-mission; industrial automation; process control; medicine; and computers. Includes basic measurement systems. Spring.
Core course. Covers Maxwell's equations; solutions of Laplace's equation, Green's function, and scalar and vector potentials; energy and momentum in electromagnetic fields; and interaction of fields and material media.
Core course. Continues ECEE 507. Covers em waves, including reflection, refraction, polarization, and dispersion. Includes metallic and dielectric guiding structures, guides, and waveguide circuits and applications to stripline, microstrip, and optical fiber transmission systems.
ECEE 510Scattering & Diffraction of Electromagnetic Waves3.0
Boundary value problems of EM theory. Exact and approximate methods for scattering by spheres, half plane, slit; radar cross-section theory. Quasi-optical theory, scattering, diffraction coefficients. Applications to radio propagation around the earth.
Core course. Atmospheric wave propagation, solution of wave equation without sources in isotropic media, plane-waves, polarization, dispersion surfaces, wave admittance and impedance, wave propagation in free-space and various media, waves at interfaces, solution of wave equation with sources, duality principle, arrays analysis, metallic waveguides, modes in cylindrical waveguides, rectangular and circular, resonant cavities and perturbational methods.
Core course. V-I and E-H analogy, Kirchoff's Law, Telegrapher's EQ, voltage and current waves, reflection coefficient and impedance relationship, Smith Chart, impedance matching techniques, Bode-Fano theoretical limit, Broadband Quarter-wave Transformer, N-port linear networks, Z, Y, and S parameters, ABCD and T matrices, signal flow-graph and transfer functions, synthesis of two-port and unitary properties, even-odd mode analysis and dual directional couplers (design and synthesis), periodic structures and Flouke modes, filter design and synthesis using insertion loss and image methods, prototype LO filter and transformation to LP, BP, HP, and BS filters, Richards transform and Kuroda identities.
Core course. Overview of physics of P-N junction and Schottky junctions, pin, varactor, and step recovery diodes and their applications, transistors, MESFET and HEMT, BJT and HBT passive microwave circuits: switches, detectors, attenuators, modulators, and phase shifter, active microwave circuits: LNA, power amplifier, distributed amplifier, oscillators (fixed and VCO) power budget and link performance calculations for telecommunication, radar, and EW systems.
This course is the first in a three-quarter sequence in electronic and photonic devices. The purpose of this sequence is to familiarize the students with the fundamental properties of semiconductor materials and study various families of electronic and photonic device based on the elemental semiconductor silicon and compound semiconductors. Covered topics include: atomic structure, crystal structure, theories of electron conduction, scattering, pn junctions, heterojunctions, metal-semiconductor contacts, and junction devices.
This is the second course in a sequence of three on electronic and photonic devices. The course covers families of electronic devices. The course covers various families of electronic devices based on silicon and compound semiconductors. Bipolar transistors such as BJTs and HBTs and field-effect devices such as MOSFETs, MESFETs, and MODFETs are studied.
Covers fundamentals of absorption, spontaneous, and stimulated emission, photodetectors, light emitting diodes, laser oscillation, semiconductor laser diodes, RIN and phase noise, quantum well lasers, optical receivers, and quantum effect devices.
Covers growth of single-crystal silicon, growth of oxide and epitaxial layers, photolithography, diffusion of impurities, fabrication of bipolar and unipolar integrated circuits, and interconnections and packaging.
Covers digital ICs using CMOS technology. Transistor level building blocks, -NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, OAI, and AOI ? are designed using industry standard CAD tools, e.g. Cadence. Circuit topologies such as CPL, transmission gates are explored. CMOS technology/fabrication and layout are discussed to optimize speed, power, and area.
Course covers advanced design styles such as dynamic CMOS circuits, low power circuit concepts, bi-CMOS circuits and the design of VLSI sub-systems. A major category is memory design, both DRAM. VLSI design styles, system integration aspects are discussed. Project design involves a fair amount of layout.
Introduction to Optical principles through EM theory. Covers the mathematics of wave motion, as well as the idea of light propagating as particles. The course shows how ray (or geometrical) optics and Gaussian optics are derived from the wave theory. The course also introduces the polarization of light, and how this effects optical propagation.
ECEE 542Optical Applications of Diffraction and Interference3.0
Optical Applications of Diffraction and Interference. This course is an introduction to optical principles through EM theory. Covered topics include wave motion and superposition. Introduction to optical interference, or the interaction of light with itself. Topics include interference and interferometers, diffraction, and Fourier Optics. Diffraction topics include, far (Fraunhofer), near (Fresnel), and the near-near field diffraction. The course includes coding of some of the classical diffraction algorithms for the use in a project.
Course covers essentials of electric and magnetic fields, including thermodynamics of polarizable media. Emphasis is on nano-and micro-scale effects like Van der Waals and double layer interactions, plasmon resonance and others. Examples from colloids and other areas of nanotechnology are used to illustrate main ideas.
ECEE 619Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design3.0
This course introduces concepts in design of radio frequency (microwave and millimeter wave) integrated circuits. Optimum transistor technologies based on unipolar (MOS, FET, HEMT) and bipolar (BJT.HBT) are discussed for various RFIC applications. Performance of devices and circuits are evaluated in terms of gain, noise, and linearity. Active circuits and systems used in a variety of communications, imaging, and sensing are discussed in terms of standards and applications. IC design projects are integral to this course.
Covers vacuum technology, plasma processing, VLSI fabrication, and thin film technologies (e.g., plasma etching, thin film deposition, and thin film characterizations).
The course provides an overview of basic technological processes typically involved in microfabrication of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). The course includes several demonstration laboratories involving basic photolithography, thin film depositions and electroplating.
This course focuses on high speed photonic components for microwave and terahertz fiber-optic links, namely high speed lasers, external modulators and photodetectors.
This course introduces the fundamentals of carrier transport in semiconductors, beyond the common drift-diffusion description functions and Boltzmann transport equations are covered. Monte Carlo simulations are used for low field and high field transport studies.
Focus is on current transport when the size of electronic medium reaches nanometer scales, that is, deBrogile wavelength. Topics include: characteristic lengths, magneto-electric subbands, conductance from transmission, resistance in a ballistic conductor, quantum Hall effect, electron scattering in quantum structures.