146 / FIELDS OF INSTRUCTION
 Quantitative measure of information and its properties; information sources,
noiseless channels, and information compression; noisy channels and channel capac-
ity; introduction to error-correcting codes.
EE 648-ERROR-CORRECTING CODES. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: EE 660. Algebraic coding theory; group, Hamming, Reed-Muller,
Bose-Chaudhuri, Fire, and recurrent codes, and other burst-error correcting codes.
Encoder and decoder implementation by linear feedback shift registers.
EE 649-DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING. 5 credits
 Prerequisite: EE 640. Measurement and analysis of signals and noise. Digital
filtering and spectral analysis; fast Fourier transform.
EE 651-ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND WAVES. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in fields and waves. Electromagnetic theory
applied to engineering including static field problems and propagation, reflection,
and guiding of electromagnetic waves.
EE 652-ANTENNAS AND WAVE PROPAGATION. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: EE 651. Antenna systems and wave propagation in anisotropic
media.
EE 653-WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMAS. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in fields and waves. Electrical properties
of plasma. Plasma oscillations. Propagation of electromagnetic, space-charge, and
acoustic waves. Microwave diagnostics.
EE 655-ACTIVE MICROWAVE DEVICES. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: EE 651. Generation and amplification of microwaves, with empha-
sis on devices still in the research stage. Solid-state devices utilizing the Gunn
effect (domain, quenched, and LSA modes), avalanche transit-time semiconductor
diodes (IMPATT devices), acoustic wave amplification in solids, traveling-wave
interaction in solids.
EE 656-WAVEGUIDES AND MICROWAVE NETWORKS. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: EE 651. Rectangular and cylindrical waveguides; resonant cavities.
Microwave network theory; one-ports, two-ports, n-ports; scattering matrix. Direc-
tional couplers, magic tees, circulators.
EE 657-COUPLED-MODE THEORY. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: Senior-level course in fields and waves. Theory of the coupled-
mode formalism. Application to coupled linear oscillators, directional couplers,
traveling-wave amplifiers, backward wave oscillators, distributed and lumped circuit
parametric amplifiers.
EE 660-FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION SCIENCE. 3 credits
 Prerequisites: EE 561, EE 562. Problems in information science; regular ex-
pressions; push-down automata; context-free languages; theory of algorithms; symbol
manipulation; stochastic automata; associative memories; information storage and
retrieval.
EE 661-ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF COMBINATIONAL SWITCHING CIRCUITS.
 3 credits
 Prerequisites: EE 561, EE 660. Boolean algebra; switching circuits; minimization
techniques; algorithms for analysis of combinational switching networks; threshold
logic. Applications to computer and switching system design.
EE 662-SEQUENTIAL MACHINE THEORY. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: EE 561. Corequisite: EE 660 or consent of instructor. Moore and