Jun 16, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  
  • ECE 6347 - Advanced Topics in MOS Devices

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 4339 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
    Physics of MOS devices including the MOS capacitor and applications; long-channel MOSFET theory; MOSFET scaling and shortchannel effects; hot carriers and reliability; SOI MOSFETs and CMOS; MOS memory; novel devices.
  
  • ECE 6348 - Masterials Science of Thin Films

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Deposition, characterization, properties, and applications of thin films.
  
  • ECE 6349 - Applied Solid State Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 4339 or consent of instructor.
    Physics of solids including energy band theory, carrier transport, point defects, and optical properties. The course will make use of basic principles of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics in an engineering context.
  
  • ECE 6350 - Numerical Solution Methods in Electromagnetics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6340  or consent of instructor.
    Formulation and numerical solution of integral equations for scattering and radiation by thin wires, two- and three-dimensional conducting structures, bodies of revolution, dielectric bodies.
  
  • ECE 6351 - Microwave Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Transmission lines; wave guides; micro-strip circuits; microwave circuit theory; scattering matrices; impedance transformers; passive microwave devices; resonators; microwave tubes; solid state active devices.
  
  • ECE 6352 - Antenna Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Antenna concepts: linear, aperture, and wire antennas; printed- circuit radiators; frequency-independent antennas; measurement techniques.
  
  • ECE 6353 - RF and Microwave Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Fundamentals of RF and microwave electronic circuit design, matching networks, small-signal and large-signal transistor amplifier design, noise, broadband techniques, oscillator design, high-frequency circuit simulation.
  
  • ECE 6354 - Digital Video

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
    Concepts, theory, and applications of digital video compression. Sampling and quantization, data compression, adaptive coding, BMP and JPEG image standards, H.261 video-conferencing, MPEG codecs, mathematical animation techniques.
  
  • ECE 6355 - Introduction to Well-Logging Techniques

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 3317 or GEOL 4330 or PHYS 4321.
    Logging tools discussed include electrical resistivity, induction, acoustic, dielectric, natural gamma ray, neutron density, pulse neutron, NMR, and diameter. Various production tools are discussed along with well-log data transmission, processing, and recording.
  
  • ECE 6358 - Optoelectronics and Photonics: Principles and applications

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
    Introduction to the principles of optics and modern photonics/optoelectronics. Fundamental technologies including lasers, detectors, photonic devices, components and systems, and applications in communication, computer, and consumer electronics.
  
  • ECE 6362 - Compound Semicond Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
  
  • ECE 6364 - Digital Image Processing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6342 .
    The nature of images; visual effects; acquisition of images; sampling, quantization, and two-dimensional linear processing; image enhancement and restoration; image coding; texture analysis; tomography.
  
  • ECE 6366 - Physical Design Vlsi Cts

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
  
  • ECE 6368 - Industrial Power System Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
    Industrial power system architecture and composition; voltage classes; voltage unbalance and deviation, and effects on equipment; power flow; voltage control and power factor improvement; fault analysis; control equipment for motors and generators; motor starting.
  
  • ECE 6369 - Electrical Power Regulations And Standards

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Regulations and practices for design, maintenance requirements, and special equipment; National Electric Code applied in the industrial environment; standards and norms for induction and synchronous motors, generators, transformers, cables, switchgears and breakers; domestic and international standards for equipment and systems; state professional registration (not for Ph.D. credit).
  
  • ECE 6370 - Advanced Digital Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-1); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Design fundamentals and techniques using ASIC development and synthesis tools and FPGAs. Design of control units, arithmetic and logic units, memory and I/O subsystems and cache.
  
  • ECE 6371 - Fundamentals of Hardware Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-1); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 3441 and ECE 3455 or consent of instructor and graduate standing.
    State-of- the-art hardware-based system design and analysis techniques.
  
  • ECE 6372 - Advanced Hardware Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6371  or consent of instructor.
    Advanced analysis and design of complex hardware-based systems and algorithms.
  
  • ECE 6373 - Advanced Computer Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 4436 and ECE 5440 or consent of instructor.
    Parallel processing and multioperation machine organizations (multiprocessors, multifunction, pipeline and array machines). In-depth study of control units, processors, and memories.
  
  • ECE 6376 - Digital Pattern Recognition

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6337 .
    Adaptive techniques for classifying patterns, Bayesian decision theory, parametric and nonparametric techniques, supervised and unsupervised estimation, feature selection, and clustering.
  
  • ECE 6377 - Power Transmission And Distribution

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and co-registration in ECE 6127 .
    Power transmission and distribution network architecture and composition; load curves; symmetrical components; parameters and equivalent circuits in symmetrical components for overhead and underground lines, transformers, generators and loads; substations; industrial networks; network steady-state analysis; faults; protection systems; switching equipment; voltage and power static control; surge voltages and protection. A term project will be required.
  
  • ECE 6378 - Power System Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 4363 or equivalent.
    Power system architecture and composition; network matrices; power flow; economic operation; voltage and frequency control; fault analysis; voltage and angle stability. A term project will be required.
  
  • ECE 6379 - Advanced Power System Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6378 .
    Sparse matrix techniques; short circuit studies with computer; diakoptics; numerical solutions to the load-flow problem; economic dispatch.
  
  • ECE 6380 - Power Electronics And Electric Drives

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
    Power electronics; power semiconductor switches; converters; DC, induction and synchronous motor drives; industrial applications; harmonics and filtering.
  
  • ECE 6381 - Industrial Substations And Switching Equipment

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6368  or ECE 6378 .
    Industrial substation configuration and composition; cable and busway system design, installation, protection and testing; switching apparatus fundamentals, types, design, operation, protection; substation planning, design, construction, automation, operation (not for Ph.D. credit).
  
  • ECE 6382 - Engineering Analysis I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Analytical methods applied to electrical engineering problems; solution techniques involving complex variables, conformal mapping, residue calculus, asymptotic evaluation of integrals; solution of boundary-value problems by separation of variables and transform techniques; special functions.
  
  • ECE 6384 - Micro-Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems and Nano Devices

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6466 or equivalent course
    Micro-and-nano-electro-mechanical system (MEMS/NEMS); relevant material science, physics, design, manufacturing techniques and operation. Applications.
  
  • ECE 6386 - Power System Transients, Harmonics And Grounding

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6368  or ECE 6378 .
    Switching transients and over voltages: causes, effects, modeling, measurement; capacitor switching; harmonics: sources, characteristics, effects, filters; surge nature, insulation characteristics; system neutrals; arresters, grounding, static lightning protection; insulation coordination.
  
  • ECE 6387 - Topics in Communication Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6331 , ECE 6337 , ECE 6342  or consent of instructor.
    Modern communication techniques, fiber optics communication, spreadspectrum methods, frequency hopping, error-efficient coding, information theory, problems in angle modulation, nonlinear modulation theory, radar and sonar signal processing.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ECE 6389 - Industrial Power System Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6368  or ECE 6378 .
    Planning: scope, requirements, component cost, cost estimation; reliability: fundamentals, equipment data, probability methods; interruption cost and economic analysis; maintenance, preventive measures; emergency and standby power, supply and stored energy systems; energy and load management, energy saving, conservation, cogeneration (not for Ph.D. credit).
  
  • ECE 6390 - Linear Multivariable Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6325  or consent of instructor.
    Multivariable systems modeling, similarity transformations, stability, structure theory, realization theory, state estimators and state feedback designs.
  
  • ECE 6392 - Internship I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Prior approval required from Director of Graduate Studies.
    Practical training in an industrial environment.
  
  • ECE 6393 - Special Projects I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Prior approval required from Director of Graduate Studies.
    Supervised research/ development.
  
  • ECE 6394 - Control System Component Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 4375 or consent of instructor.
    Analysis and design of control system components; transfer function descriptions and determination of criteria for specifying and designing components of given control systems.
  
  • ECE 6395 - Industrial Power Monitoring And Control

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite:   or ECE 6378 .
    Monitoring and control system architecture, design options, modes of communication, equipment and installation cost; multifunctional microprocessor based systems; control integration, monitoring and protection systems (not for Ph.D. credit).
  
  • ECE 6397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ECE 6398 - Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of Chair.
  
  • ECE 6399 - Master’s Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
  
  • ECE 6466 - Integrated Circuit Engineering

    Credit Hours: 4.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-3); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 4339.
    Design, fabrication and testing of integrated circuits. An individual research project is required.
  
  • ECE 6498 - Research

    Credit Hours: 4.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of Chair.
  
  • ECE 6598 - Research

    Credit Hours: 5.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of Chair.
  
  • ECE 7331 - Nonlinear and Time-Varying Feedback Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6325  or consent of instructor.
    Classical and state-space analysis.
  
  • ECE 7332 - Design of Statistical Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6325  and ECE 6335  or consent of instructor.
    Synthesis of optimal stationary and time-varying linear control systems based upon random signal characteristics and statistical performance criteria. Adaptive control systems.
  
  • ECE 7333 - Optimal Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6325  and ECE 6335  or consent of instructor.
    Parameter optimization; linear quadratic regulator; computational methods; calculus of variations; optimal tracking control; discrete time optimal control; dynamic programming; inverse-optimal control; optimal regional-pole assignment; frequency-domain optimization.
  
  • ECE 7334 - Advanced Digital Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6325  and ECE 6335  or consent of instructor.
    Modeling of multi-rate, multivariable sampled-data systems; balanced realization; stability; digital redesign; hybrid control; on-line control; self-tuning control; computational delays; computational algorithms.
  
  • ECE 7335 - Robust Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6390  and ECE 7333  or consent of instructor.
    Internal stability; minimal realization; plant uncertainty; robust stability; robust performance; model-matching problems; state-space approach; H control of sampled-data systems.
  
  • ECE 7337 - Industrial Power System Protection

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6368  or ECE 6378 .
    Protection tasks, requirements, principles, components; instrument transformers; protective systems: transformers, feeders, generators, motors, primemovers, buses, switchgears, cables, transfer devices, busways, UPS, service supply lines and utility interties protection schemes; components, operation, faults, testing, maintenance, calibration.
  
  • ECE 7342 - Advanced Topics in Signal Processing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6342 , ECE 6337  and consent of instructor.
    Survey of current research topics in signal processing, including topics of adaptive filters, spectral estimation, and multichannel signal processing.
  
  • ECE 7349 - Advanced Topics in Microelectronics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6466  and consent of instructor.
    Current research issues in the design, fabrication, testing and reliability of integrated circuits.
  
  • ECE 7366 - Advanced Process Integration for VLSI

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6466  or equivalent and consent of instructor.
    Process integration for application in VLSI and ULSI circuits; advantages and limitations of NMOS, CMOS, Bipolar and Bicmos technologies; process and device simulators.
  
  • ECE 7373 - Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6373 .
    Vector and array processing and their application in engineering problems.
  
  • ECE 7381 - Power System Control and Stability

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ECE 6378 .
    Development of physically-based dynamic models for synchronous machines, boilers, turbines, governors, and loads; excitation systems; the automatic generation control problem; system stability studies; interconnected system operation.
  
  • ECE 7392 - Internship II

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Prior approval required from Director of Graduate Studies.
    Practical training in an industrial environment.
  
  • ECE 7393 - Special Projects II

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Prior approval required from Director of Graduate Studies.
    Supervised research/ development.
  
  • ECE 7396 - Advanced Topics in Electromagnetic Waves

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Topics from the following: antenna theory, guided wave propagation, scattering theory, computer aided design, electromagnetic theory, microstrip circuits and antennas, high frequency methods, millimeter waves.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ECE 7397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ECE 7399 - Master’s Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
  
  • ECE 8198 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of advisor.
  
  • ECE 8298 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of advisor.
  
  • ECE 8398 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of advisor.
  
  • ECE 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ECE 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 9.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ECE 8498 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 4.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of advisor.
  
  • ECE 8598 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 5.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of advisor.
  
  • ECE 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 6.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ECE 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 9.0 (; )

Electrical - Electronics Technology

  
  • ELET 5114 - Digital Control Systems Lab

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
  
  • ELET 5314 - Digital Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
  
  • ELET 5397 - Sel Tops-Microcomputer Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
  
  • ELET 5398 - Special Problems in Network Communications

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Approval of program academic advisor.
    Provides a mechanism for graduate students to manage leveling requirements in program. Used for leveling only, no credit toward degree.
    Repeated with faculty consent if more than one leveling course.

  
  • ELET 6100 - Seminar in Engineering Technology

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-1); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    Students are introduced to library, computing, and research facilities. Faculty overview the responsible conduct of research, ethics, and describe research methods, and fields in Engineering Technology leading to the Project or Thesis requirement of the M.S. degree.
  
  • ELET 6198 - Special Problems in Network Communications

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Prerequisite: Approval of department chair.
  
  • ELET 6199 - Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
  
  • ELET 6298 - Special Problems in Network Communications

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: Approval of department chair.
  
  • ELET 6300 - Computer Network Programming

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Familiarity with UNIX and Windows operating systems, C/C++ and Java Programming languages or consent of instructor.
    This course covers and introduction to the programming aspects of computer networks. This will include an introduction to various network protocols and programming with UNIX sockets. The course is targeted for graduate students or other students who are interested in learning the basics of network programming for the internet.
  
  • ELET 6301 - Applied Digital Signal Processing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ELET 4308 and ELET 3301.
    Application of digital signal processing principles and techniques in modern digital communications and control systems.
  
  • ELET 6302 - Advanced Wireless Networks

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ELET 4302, ELET 4315 and ELET 4325 or consent of instructor.
    Digital modulation techniques, multiplexing, and radiowave propagation. Analysis and design of wireless data communication system. Performance evaluation of wireless networks.
  
  • ELET 6303 - Applied Neural Networks

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Simple neural nets for pattern classification, pattern association, backpropagation neural network, adaptive resonance theory, other neural networks, and fuzzy-neural networks.
  
  • ELET 6304 - Applied Digital Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ELET 6340  or consent of the instructor.
    Analysis of sampled-data control systems. Discrete-time controller design, analysis and implementation techniques with applications.
  
  • ELET 6305 - Analytical Methods in Engineering Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of the instructor.
    Coverage of selected mathematical analysis tools in engineering technology application areas.
  
  • ELET 6310 - Research Methods in Computer Tech

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
  
  • ELET 6311 - Applications of Information Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ELET 6301  and TECH 6360 , or consent of instructor.
    Basic information theory is used to study the transmission efficiency of various systems. Signals are analyzed in the time and frequency domains; sampling theory and data compression methods will be studied. Applications will include Spread Spectrum methods and optical and speech recognition.
  
  • ELET 6312 - Network Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Technical undergraduate degree or consent of instructor.
    Introduction to network management with an emphasis upon current practices in managing the operation and maintenance of a computer network.
  
  • ELET 6313 - Network Security

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Technical undergraduate degree or consent of instructor.
    Introduction to current security techniques for computer and other communications networks.
  
  • ELET 6315 - The Principle and Application of Fuel Cell Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Systematic development of fuel cells addressing fundamental principles, current and potential applications, and technology challenges in making fuel cells a clean energy option in the society.
  
  • ELET 6316 - Network Routing Algorithms and Protocols

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ELET 4325 or equivalent and graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    This course explores network routing algorithms and protocols for various networking environments. Interior gateway protocols as well as exterior gateway protocols will be studies. Emphasis will be on analysis, design and implementation.
  
  • ELET 6317 - Optical Networks

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Optical fiber transmission fundamentals, passive optical components, optical transmitters, receivers, optical amplification, and alloptical networking.
  
  • ELET 6318 - Analysis of Data Networks

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate status or consent of instructor.
    Introduction to network performance analysis concepts and tools, including statistical data summarization, queuing and simulation techniques.
  
  • ELET 6319 - The Principle and Application of Fuel Cell Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Systematic development of fuel cells addressing fundamental principles current and potential applications, and technology challenges in making fuel cells a clean energy option in the society.
  
  • ELET 6320 - Smart Grid Essentials

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: ELET 6397 - Special Topics:  Smart Grid Essentials
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Introduction to power systems, focusing on the fundamentals such as conventional generation, transmission and distribution.  Power system control aspects and changes in the electrical grid will change in the future.
  
  • ELET 6325 - Information Processing in Sensor Networks

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite:  .
    Sensor network hardware/software co-design; implications of energy on otherwise resource-constrained nodes; algorithms for network self-configuration and adaption; collaborative data aggregation and processing; tasking and programming.
  
  • ELET 6331 - Fundamentals of Medical Imaging

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate status or consent of instructor.
    Physical principles underlying current medical imaging procedures, including X-Ray Imaging, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, Ultrasound Imaging, Electro-and Magneto-encephalography, Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Thermal Imaging.
  
  • ELET 6332 - Physiological Systems Modeling and Simulation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate status or consent of instructor.
    Basic aspects of human physiology. Introduction of engineering and computational approaches for modeling physiological systems. Hands-on experience with elementary physiological measurements.
  
  • ELET 6334 - Information Processing in Sensor Networks

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Sensor network hardware/software co-design; implications of energy on otherwise resource-constrained nodes; algorithms for network self-configuration and adaption; collaborative data aggregation and processing; tasking and programming.
  
  • ELET 6340 - Electromechanical Systems Control

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of the instructor.
    Electromechanical systems models, sensors and actuators. Classical control design, analysis and implementation techniques with applications.
  
  • ELET 6342 - Modern Control Systems Applications

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ELET 6305  and ELET 6340 .
    State-space representation of systems models, state-space system properties (controllability, observability, stability), regulation and tracking with applications.
  
  • ELET 6346 - Process Control Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ELET 6305  and ELET 6340 .
    Process identification, control models and enhancements to PID controllers. Model predictive and dynamic matrix control applications to industrial processes.
  
  • ELET 6348 - Power Systems Control Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: ELET 6340  or consent of the instructor.
    Electric power systems modeling and analysis. Grid integration of intermittent distributed energy resources. Power system control fundamentals.
  
  • ELET 6396 - Master’s Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Master’s project.
    May be repeated for six semester hours credit.

  
  • ELET 6397 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Approval of department chair.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

 

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