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EEL 5490-Lightning (3) Prereq: EEL 3472. Introduction to light-
ning discharge processes. Electromagnetics relevant to lightning
measurements. Applications for determining lightning charge,
current, location, and characteristics. Lightning protection.
EEL 5544-Noise in Linear Systems (3) Passage of electrical noise
and signals through linear systems. Statistical representation of
random signals, electrical noise, and spectra.
EEL 5547-Introduction to Radar (3) Prereq: EEL 4516 or 5544.
Basic principles of cw and pulsed radar; angle, range, and
doppler tracking; accuracy and resolution; signal design.
EEL 5631-Digital Control Systems (3) Prereq: EEL 3701, 4657. A
study of the digital computer as a control element, classical
sampled data control theory, and application with microcompu-
ters.
EEL 5718C-Computer Communications (3) Prereq: EEL 4514.
Design of data communication networks: modems, terminals,
error control, multiplexing, message switching, and data concen-
tration.
EEL 5719-Digital Filtering (3) Analysis and design of digital
filters for discrete signal processing; spectral analysis; fast Fourier
transform.
EEL 5745C-Microcomputer Hardware and Software (4) Prereq:
EEL 3701 and EEL 3304 or 3003. Functional behavior of micro-
processors, memory, peripheral support integrated circuit hard-
ware; microcomputer system and development software; appli-
cations.
EEL 5761-Hardware-Software Interactions: Time Sharing Sys-
tems (3) Prereq: EEL 4744C or 4712C. Resource sharing and
allocation, I/O, and I/O interfaces within context of time sharing
computer architecture.
EEL 5830-Human-Computer Interaction (3) Prereq: EEL 3701.
Designing human-computer interfacing; cognition, perception,
sensing, displays, speech, dialogs, and graphics.
EEL 5840-Elements of Machine Intelligence (3) Engineering and
hardware concepts pertaining to design of intelligent computer
systems.
EEL 5905-Individual Work (1-4; max: 6) Prereq: consent of
adviser. Selected problems or projects.
EEL 5934-Special Topics in Electrical Engineering (1-3; max: 8)
EEL 6171-Advanced System Theory (4) Structural analysis of
linear dynamical systems. Invariance, F and G invariance, con-
strained reachability, pole assignment and stability, advanced
topics in linear algebra useful in mathematical system theory.
EEL 6200-Advanced Analysis of Electric Machines (3) Prereq:
EEL 3211, MAS 3114 or equivalents. Principles of electrome-
chanical energy conversion, reference frame theory, analysis and
modeling of AC and DC machines, state variable formulation of
systems with electromechanical devices.
EEL 6264-Advanced Electric Energy Systems I (3) Prereq: EEL
5268 or consent of instructor. Energy systems planning and
operation with emphasis on advanced analysis methodologies
and computer simulation.
EEL 6265-Advanced Electric Energy Systems II (3) Prereq: EEL
6264. Continuation of EEL 6264 with additional emphasis given
to the new electric energy technologies.
EEL 6311-Electronic Circuits I (3) Prereq: required undergradu-
ate electronics and control sequences. Analysis and design of
operational amplifier circuits, other topics in electronic circuit
design.
EEL 6312-Electronic Circuits 11 (3) Prereq: EEL 6311. Design of
active circuits, analysis and design of phase-locked loops, and
frequency synthesizers.
EEL 6321-MOS Analog IC Design (3) Prereq: EEL 6311. Design
of analog circuits in NMOS and CMOS IC technologies. MOS
switches, MOS op-amps, A/D and D/A converters, circuit simu-
lation using SPICE.
EEL 6335-Electrical Transport Mechanisms in Semiconductors
(3) Transport processes in degenerate and non-degenerate semi-
conductors: Boltzmann transport equations, formal solutions,
impurity scattering. Discussion of transport mechanisms in the
most widely used semiconductors.
EEL 6354-Device-Related Solid State Physics (3) Prereq:consent
of instructor. Recombination mechanisms and recombination
statistics; tunneling and thermionic emission in various semicon-
ductor contexts; effective-mass theory and the dynamics of
electrons in crystals. Efficiencies of energy conversion.
EEL 6381-Network Representation of Solid-State Devices (3)
Prereq:graduate standing. Relationship between dynamic large-
and small-signal equivalent circuit models and the physical
mechanisms governing device operation. Special attention given
to approximations and methods of reasoning. Emphasis on large-


signal, dynamic models for MOS bipolar transistors and related
devices.
EEL 6382-Semiconductor Physical Electronics I (3) Crystal
structures; imperfections; statistics; lattice dynamics; energy
band theory. Equilibrium properties of electrons and holes in
semiconductors. Electronic transport phenomena. Boltzmann's
equation and transport coefficients in semiconductors.
EEL 6383-Semiconductor Physical Electronics 11 (3) Prereq: EEL
6382. Scattering mechanisms. Recombination-generation and
trapping processes; optical properties. Excess carrier phenom-
ena. Photoelectric effects in semiconductors. Metal-semicon-
ductor contacts. Opto-electronic devices. Junction and MOS
devices. Superconductors and Josephson Junction devices.
EEL 6388-Fluctuation Phenomena (3) Noise theory with appli-
cations to electrical engineering. Sources of noise in electronic
devices; statistical andspectral representation. Influence of noise
upon the performance of circuits and systems. Limitation of
detectors and instruments due to noise.
EEL 6397-Semiconductor Device Theory 1 (3) Prereq: EEL 3396.
Semiconductor material properties, equilibrium and nonequili-
brium processes, quasi-Fermi levels, pn junctions; charge-con-
trol modeling; high level injection, heavy doping effects.
EEL 6398-Semiconductor Device Theory II (3) Prereq: EEL
6397. Basic mechanisms in bipolar junction transistors, low- and
high-current effects; fundamental principles of the MOS system,
surface effects on pn junctions, MOS field-effect transitors.
EEL 6443-Optical Fibers I (3) Prereq: EEL '3473. Review of
electromagnetic theory. Theory of dielectric waveguides, modes
of planar waveguides, strip waveguides, coupled-mode formal-
ism, directional couplers, modulation and switching of light,
wavelength tunable filters, polarization independent devices
and fiber-integrated optical circuit couplers.
EEL 6444-Optical Fibers II (3) Prereq: EEL 6443. Review of
electromagnetic theory. Basic waveguide equations, wave and
ray optics, dielectric slab waveguide, step and graded index
fibers, fiber measurements, fiber splices, polarization properties,
and fiber systems.
EEL 6448-Semiconductor Opto-Electronic Devices (3) Prereq:
EEL 5447. Physical principles, including optical properties, op-
tical gain and absorption, optical waveguides, laser oscillations;
types of semiconductor lasers, LEDs, optical detectors and appli-
cations.
EEL 6486-Electromagnetic Field Theory and Applications I (3)
Prereq: undergraduate course in fields and waves._Advanced
electrostatics, magnetostatics, time-varying electromagnetic fields,
wave propagation, waveguides.
EEL 6487-Electromagnetic Field Theory and Applications II (3)
Prereq: EEL 6486. Electromagnetic radiation, antennas, wave
propagation in anisotropic media.
EEL 6503-Signal Representation and Spread Spectrum Systems
(3) Prereq: EEL 5544. Representation of signals and noise by
orthogonal function series and by use of complex envelopes.
Introduction to spread spectrum systems and synchronization of
spread spectrum codes. Signal design for radar systems.
EEL 6505-Digital Signal Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 5544, EEL
5719. Measurement and analysis of signals and noise. Digital
filtering and spectral analysis; fast Fourier transform.
EEL 6509-Space Communications (3) Prereq: EEL 5544. Teleme-
tering systems, space communication links, satellite communi-
cation systems, space tracking, and navigation systems.
EEL 6524-Statistical Decision Theory (3) Prereq: EEL 5544.
Hypothesis testing of signals in the presence of noise by Bayes,
Neyman-Pearson, minimax criteria; estimation of signal parame-
ters.
EEL 6535-Theory of Communication (3) Prereq: EEL 5544.
Optimum receiver principles; analysis of digital and analog
communication systems in the presence of noise; modeling of
communication channels.
EEL 6562-Image Processing and Computer Vision (3) Pictorial.
data representation; feature encoding; spatial filtering; image
enhancement; image segmentation; cluster seeking; two-dimen-
sional z-transforms; scene analysis; picture description language;
object recognition; pictorial database; interactive graphics; pic-
ture understanding machine.
EEL 6575-Adaptive Signal Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 5719,
5544. Theory of adaptation with stationary signals; performance
measures. LMS, RLS algorithms. Implementation issues and
applications.
EEL 6585-Computer Speech Systems (3) Prereq: EEL 6586.
Design and analysis of speech synthesizers; speech recognizers;