90 / FIELDS OF INSTRUCTION


speaker recognition, verification, and identification; intelligent
interface systems; speech understanding.
EEL 6586-Automatic Speech Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 5719.
Various models of speech production and perception. Operation
of speech synthesizers. Discussion of speech recognition. Mathe-
matical models of speech signals.
EEL 6614-Modern Control Theory I (3) Prereq: EEL 5182.
Optimization of systems using the calculus of variations, dy-
namic programming, and the maximum principle. Extensive
study of the linear plant with a quadratic performance index.
Observers and dynamic compensators. .
EEL 6615-Modern Control Theory 11 (3) Prereq: EEL 6614 or
consent of instructor. Kalman Bucy filters. Discrete and continu-
ous filtering. Computational techniques. Smoothing and system
Identification techniques.
EEL 6617-Linear Multivarible Control (3)4 Prereq: MAS 4015,
EEL 5182. Transfer matrix theory of systems, emphasis on
feedback, internal stability, model matching, and assignment of
invariant factors.
EEL 6667-Kinematics and Dynamics of Robot Manipulators (3)
Algebraic formulation of robot manipulator motion. Homogene-
ous matrices. Methods for computing forward and reverse kine-
matic solutions of robot manipulators. Robot differential dis-
placements and Jacobians. Newton-Euler and Lagrangian deriva-
tions of manipulator dynamics.
EEL 6668-Intelligent Robot Manipulator Systems (3) Prereq: EEL
6667. Trajectory planning and computation for robot manipula-
tors. Splines. Force compliance and hybrid control. Machine
perception and intelligence: touch, vision, collision avoidance,
automatic task planning. Modeling a robotic manufacturing
work cell. Robot computer languages.
EEL 6702-Advanced Topics in Digital Signal Processing (3)
Prereq: analysis and design of digital filters. Introduction to
number transforms, complexity of algorithms, and finite fields.
Development of transforms and digital filter using algebraic
operators and finite fields plus the technological consideration of
DSP system and system integration.
EEL 6733-Abstract Machines and Languages (3) Logic, set
theory, modern algebra, finite and infinite state machines, gram-
mars, language oriented machines. I
EEL 6767-Database Engineering (3) Prereq: EEL 4713C. Archi-'
tecture of database management system, data models and lan-
guages, design, integrity, security, concurrency control, distrib-
uted database management.
EEL 6769-Hardware-Software Interactions: Nonnumeric Proc-
essing (3) Prereq: EEL 6767 or consent of instructor..Information
representations; content and context search methods; associa-
tive memories, retrieval language mapping; parallel processing;
hardware and software garbage collections.
EEL 6799-Topics in Computer Engineering (3) Research topics
relevant to computer engineering, including, but not limited to,
robotics, graphics, database management, algorithm design,
languages, machine intelligence.
EEL 6824-Algorithm Design and Analysis (3) Methods and
techniques for developing and evaluating algorithms. Functional
complexity, computational bounds, program verification and
proof methods.
EEL 6825-Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems (3)
Decision functions; optimum decision criteria; training algo-
rithms; unsupervised learning; feature extraction, data reduction;
potential functions; syntactic pattern description; recognition
grammars; machine intelligence.
EEL 6841-Machine Intelligence and Synthesis (3) Prereq: EEL
5840. Theory of machine intelligence applied to general prob-
lem of engineering intelligent computer systems and architec-
ture. Applications emphasized.
EEL 6905-Individual Work (1-4; max: 6) Prereq: consent of
adviser. Selected problems or projects.
EEL 6910-Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
EEL 6932-Graduate Seminar (1) Discussion of topics in fields of
graduate study and research. S/U.
EEL 6935-Special Topics in Electrical Engineering (1-4; max: 12,
including EEL 5905 and 6905)
EEL 6940-Supervised Teaching (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
EEL 6971-Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EEL 6972-Research for Engineer's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EEL 7936-Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (1-4; max:
6)
EEL 7979-Advanced Research (1-9) Research for doctoral stu-
dents before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with
a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have


been accepted for a doctoral program. Not open to students who
have been admitted to candidacy. S/U.
EEL 7980-Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.


ENGLISH
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

 GRADUATE FACULTY 1989-90
Chair: P. B. Craddock. Graduate Coordinator: R. A. Shoaf.
Graduate Research Professor: J. Seelye. Richard ]. Mil-
bauer Professor of English: N. N. Holland. Professors: D.
Ault; R. E. Brantley; C. S. Carnell; R. H. Carpenter; I. G.
Clark; D. A. Cottom; P. B. Craddock; H. E. Crews; R. A.
deBeaugrande; A. M. Duckworth; W. P. Goldhurst; S. R.
Homan; D. R. Justice; M. S. Kirkpatrick; J. P. Leavey; D.
Leverenz; P. Lisca; M. New; B. J. Paris; J. B. Pickard; W.
R. Robinson; R. A. Shoaf; J. Smith; J. B. Twitchell; G. L.
Ulmer. Associate Professors: W. Bargad; T. K. Beyette; A.
C. Bredahl, Jr.; J. 0. Cech; A. M. Gordon; M. A. Hill-
Lubin; A. Jones; R. B. Kershner; E. J. Langland; D. M.
Locke; W. Logan; W. A. Losano; K. M. McCarthy; B. R.
McCrea; M. Nelson; J. M. Perlette; P: Powell; R. B. Ray; J.
L. Scott; H. B. Shaw; C. G. Snodgrass; B. R. Straus; R. M.
Thompson; R. S. Thdmson; C. E. Tillman. AssistantProfes-
sors:M. C. Bryant; C. A. Flinn; M. A. Reid; M. J. Schueller;
B. C. Schwartz.

 The Department of English offers the Master of Arts
degree with specialization in literature, creative writing,
and linguistics, the Master of Fine Arts degree with spe-
cialization in creative writing, and the Doctor of Philoso-
phy degree with specialization in literature and linguis-
tics. The Department also offers a nonthesis option for the
Master of Arts degree.
 Specific areas of specialization for the Doctor of Phi-
losophy include linguistics, Medieval, Renaissance, Res-
toration and 18th-century, and 19th-century British litera-
ture, American literature to 1900, and contemporary
British and American literature. Specialization in the
literary study of media is also possible.
 After the first year'of doctoral work all students must
undergo a screening process for actual admission into the
doctoral program; prior to this time, all admissions to the
doctoral program are probationary.
 New graduate students should have completed an
undergraduate English major of at least 24 semester hours,
and doctoral students should have a Master of Arts degree
in English. Full information concerning courses of study is
available from the Graduate Coordinator.

AML 6017-Studies in American Literature Before 1900 (3; max:
12)
AML 6027-Studies in 20th Century American Literature (3;
max: 12)
CRW 6130-Fiction Writing (3; max: 12)
CRW 6166-Studies in Literary Form (3; max: 6) Prereq: permis-
sion of instructor. Formal aspects of literature.
CRW 6331-Verse Writing (3; max: 12)
ENG 6009-Bibliography and Methods of Research (3)
ENG 6016-Psychological Approaches to Literature (3; max: 6)
ENG 6018-Studies in Literary Criticism (3; max: 12)
ENG 6137-The Language of Film (3)
ENG 6138-Studies in the Movies (3, max: 12)
ENG 6718-Stylistics (3)
ENG 6906-Individual Work (1-3; max: 12)
ENG 6910-Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U
ENG 6971-Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U
ENG 7939-Seminar in Variable Topics (1-5; max: 12)
ENG 7979-Advanced Research (1-9) Research for doctoral
students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students
with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who
have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not open to students
who have been admitted to candidacy. S/U.