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EE
510

Course Number:
0610510
Basic methods of modern system theory. Time domain techniques for both linear and nonlinear systems. Characterisation of both continuous and discrete time linear systems in the time and frequency domain. stability, controllability and observability for linear and nonlinear systems.
(3-0-3)

EE
520

Course Number:
0610520
Finite differences representations of Maxwell's equations, Numerical dispersion and numerical stability, Source implementations, Absorbing boundary conditions, High-order schemes and other recent advances in FDTD, Practical applications.
(3-0-3)

EE
521

Course Number:
0610521
Scattering parameters representation of microwave circuits, directional couplers, microwave junctions, attenuators, phase shifters, circulators, filters, microstrip lines. Techniques of microwave measurements.
(3-0-3)

EE
522

Course Number:
0610522
The far-field integrals, resiprocity, directivity. Radiation patterns of dipoles and loops. Radiation patterns of horn and slot antennas. Linear arrays: analysis and synthesis. Self impedance and mutual impedance of dipoles. The design of feeding structures for antenna elements. Reflectors and lenses.
(3-0-3)

EE
523

Course Number:
0610523
Waveguides with metallic boundaries, Mode orthogonality, Modal expansion Excitation by simple sources. Constant impedance wall waveguides. The corrugated waveguide as a low crosspolar radiator. Waveguides with imperfect walls: The earth Ionosphere guide and the Tunnel Guide as examples of natural waveguides. Dielectric waveguides: i) The Optical Fiber Guide, ii) Millimeter waveguides. The Microstrip line and the Coplanar Waveguide: Characteristics of single and coupled lines. Numerical methods for waveguide analysis.
(3-0-3)

EE
524

Course Number:
0610524
Networking overview, Protocols, Multimedia issues, Packet switching networks, Intelligent Networks, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, Mobile Networking, and current trends in high speed networking.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
EE508 or Permission of Instructor

EE
525

Course Number:
0610525
Basics of lossless compression techniques, Universal coding schemes, Dictionary based LZ algorithms, Arithmetic coding, Lossless image compression, G3/G4 facsimile coding, JBIG standard, Scalar and Vector quantization. Lossy image and audio compression, Predictive coding, Transform coding, Subband coding, Multimedia compression standards, JPEG2000, H.263 and variants, MPEG-1,2 and 4.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
0600-508 or Permission of Instructor

EE
526

Course Number:
0610526
Introduction and Fundementals, Medium Access Control Protocols, Cellular Networks, Wireless Internet, 4G Systems, and Pervasive Networking.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
0600-508 or Permission of Instructor

EE
527

Course Number:
0610527
Introduction to networks and information theory, Cryptography, Network secrity modeling, IP security, E-business security, Network management security, System security, Firewalls, and Current trends in network security.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
0600-508 or Permission of Instructor

EE
528

Course Number:
0610528
Introduction to wireless communication principles, the cellular concept-system design issues, signal propogation and link budgets for wireless links, communication over fading channels, modulation, multiplexing, and multiple access techniquese, channel coding for wireless systems, equalization and diversity, wireless communication networks and standards.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
0600-508 or Permission of Instructor

EE
530

Course Number:
0610530
Crystallographic properties of semiconductors, physical models of the atom including the Quantum model, atomic structure and periodic table, Energy bands, charge carriers and excess carriers in semiconductors, Fermi-Dirac statistics, Basic semiconductor equations, Optical absorption, Quantitative theory of semiconductor devices: 1.PN Junction diodes, 2. Bipolar Junction Transistors, 3. MOS transistors, including steady state and transient analysis, high frequency properties, charge control model, Special devices such as photo-diodes, Schottky diodes, CCDs, etc..
(3-0-3)

EE
531

Course Number:
0610531
Varactor diodes, parametric amplifiers, pindiodes, transferred electron devices. Transit time devices, IMPATTS, BARITTS, travelling wave tubes, klystrons, magnetrons, MESFET, harmonic multipliers.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
610-530

EE
532

Course Number:
0610532
Models for Integrated-circuit active devices. Basic Integrated circuit building blocks. Bipolar MOS and BICMOS operational amplifiers. Design and Analysis. Frequency response of Integrated circuits. Nonlinear analog circuits. Noise in integrated circuits.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
610-432

EE
537

Course Number:
0610537
Design and implementation of CMOS digital circuits including: The inverter (complexity, static, dynamic, power, delay, scaling effects). Combinational logic gates and arithmetic building blocks (static, dynamic, cascading, power, choice of logic family). Sequential logic circuits and memories (static, dynamic, non-bistable), RAM's ROM's. PLASs, Introduction to stick diagrams, to symbolic layout rules and to use layout editors. a silicon CMOS design project leading to a complete layout of a digital block designed and simulated using HSPICE is an integral part of the course.
(3-0-3)

EE
538

Course Number:
0610538
Mixed analog and digital simulation techniques. Symbolic layout and compaction techniques. Simulated annealing Verification methods. Logic and high level synthesis. Managing design complexity.
(3-0-3)

EE
541

Course Number:
0610541
Applications of dynamic network theory to electromechanical energy conversion problems. Linear transformations; power invariant transformations, the generalized rotating machine; dynamic and steady-state response of machines.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
610-551

EE
542

Course Number:
0610542
Thyristor equivalent circuit, static and dynamic characteristics, Power transistors. DC Choppers, Pulse width modulated inverts. Resonant Pulse Converters, Power Supplies, DC drives, AC drives, Protection of devices and circuits.
(3-0-3)

EE
543

Course Number:
0610543
Direct power conversion circuit averaging state-space average models, linear and piecewise linear models, design of voltage-mode and current mode regulators, sliding-mode control applications, modeling electric machines, the theory of field orientation and vector control in high performance AC motor drives, application of the above techniques in practice; case studies.
(3-0-3)

EE
551

Course Number:
0610551
Multiwinding power transformers design features, the n-winding ideal transformer, 3-phase auto transformers, the transformer as a control device. High voltage direct current transmission HVDC: General aspects and comparison with AC transmission converter circuits, analysis of bridge converters, converter charts, harmonics and filters, ground return. Reactive power control. Reactive power control: Load compensation, steady state reactive power control in transmission System, effect on power system. Dynamics, static compensatory, series capacitors, syn. condensers, reactive power coordination. Power system harmonics, sources, system response to harmonics, harmonic pollution in networks, methods of analysis, standards and limits.
(3-0-3)

EE
552

Course Number:
0610552
Fundamentals of instrumentation. Design and operation of protective schemes for equipment in generation, transmission and distribution circuits. Analysis of abnormal system conditions requiring relay operation.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
610-551

EE
553

Course Number:
0610553
Relevant factors in power system operation. Theory of optimization under equality and inequality constraints, computational methods and application to generation scheduling.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
610-551

EE
554

Course Number:
0610554
Simple switching transients. Abnormal transients. Transients in 3-phase circuits. Electromagnetic phenomena of importance under transient conditions. Traveling waves on lines. Lighting. Behaviour of windings under transient conditions. Protection against transient over voltages. Transients in integrated power networks. Computer aids to the calculation of transients.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
610-551

EE
555

Course Number:
0610555
Ionization and decay processes, electric breakdown in gases, liquid and solid dielectric, generation of high DC, AC and impulse voltages, measurement of high voltage.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
610-551

EE
559

Course Number:
0610559
An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in Electrical Power Engineering not included in other Electrical Power Engineering courses.
(3-0-3)

EE
573

Course Number:
0610573
The identification of linear dynamic systems. Problem formulation. Review of classical techniques and their limitations. Least squares techniques and their variations as applied to the transfer function and state space description of linear discrete time systems. Recursive techniques and Kalman filters. The maximum likelihood estimators. Mode and structure identification. Diagnostic methods. State estimation and observers. The self tuning regulator.
(3-0-3)

EE
574

Course Number:
0610574
Real-time and on-line computers for control; constraints imposed by real-time operation, real- time control system elements: hardware components and interface problems associated with real-time control, applicable techniques and algorithms, software problems, real-time scheduling and coordination of user programs, real- time control languages, reliability and speed of recovery of real-time control systems.
(3-0-3)

EE
575

Course Number:
0610575
Modeling and model simplification methods: An overview. Aggregation technique and properties of the aggregation matrix. Introduction to time-scale modeling and singular perturbations. Decentralized control: Introduction to decentralized control from the optimal control point of view. Hierarchical optimization and control: Linear- quadratic problems and non-linear systems. Applications of these techniques to different fields of Electrical Engineering will be presented.
(3-0-3)

EE
576

Course Number:
0610576
The dynamic optimization problem, calculus of variations, dynamic programming and maximum principle, optimal linear regulators and properties, extension to servo mechanism, optimal stochastic observers. Case studies.
(3-0-3)

EE
577

Course Number:
0610577
Nonlinear characteristics of models of physical systems phase plane analysis. Describing function approach. Stability and second method of Lyapunov. Frequency domain stability criteria. Linearization and its properties. Introduction to operate theory and its application to the study of nonlinearities.
(3-0-3)

EE
578

Course Number:
0610578
Hardware and software aspect of computer-based control systems. Discretization techniques in frequency and time domains. Digital controller design techniques. Optimal control. Adaptive and self-tuning controllers.
(3-0-3)

EE
579

Course Number:
0610579
An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in systems and control Engineering not included in other systems and control courses.
(3-0-3)

EE
583

Course Number:
0610583
Information measures, asymptotic equipartition property, source coding theorem, noiseless coding, cryptography, channel coding theorem, Gaussian channels, multiple user source and channel theory, rate distortion theory.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
600-508

EE
584

Course Number:
0610584
Introduction to analog and digital communication theory. Performance evaluation of communication systems. Line of sight microwave communication systems. Mobile communication systems. Satellite systems for communication, navigation and maritime applications. Fiber optic systems. Comparison between different communication systems.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
600-508

EE
585

Course Number:
0610585
Fundamental properties of 2-D digital systems. Frequency representation of 2-D systems and the 2- D sampling theorem. The 2-D z- transform and stability of 2-D systems. Design techniques of 2-D FIR digital filters: The window method, the 2-D frequency sampling technique, optimal minimal design, frequency transformations from 1-D to 2-D filters. Design techniques of 2-D digital filters. Quantization effects and noise in digital filters. Application of digital signal processing to areas such as image processing, processing of sonar maps and biomedical images of maps.
(3-0-3)

EE
587

Course Number:
0610587
Line of sight communication systems: Atmospheric refraction. Effect of ducts on propagation. Multipath effects and signal fading. Power budget and system design. Satellite communication links: Satellite orbits. Spacecraft equipment. Design of down and up links. Satellite earth stations. Design examples.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
600-508

EE
588

Course Number:
0610588
Light guidance on fibers. Cabling design. Light attenuation and dispersion on fibers. Lasers, LED's and photodetectors. Design of digital and analoge optical fiber systems. Design of coherent light systems.
(3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
PR: 600-508

EE
589

Course Number:
0610589
An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in Communications and/or Electromagnetics not included in other Communications/Electromagnetics courses.
(3-0-3)

EE
590

Course Number:
0610590
An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in Electronics not included in other Electronic courses.
(3-0-3)

EE
593

Course Number:
0610593
Project course for non-thesis students.
(3-0-3)