Courses Offered:
Electrical Engineering

  • ELCT 531: Digital Control Systems. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 331) Analysis and design of discrete-time control systems, implementation of control systems using digital electronic systems. Applications to electrical systems.
  • ELCT 551: Power Systems. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 331, ELCT 361) Transmission line design, load flow, and short circuit analysis of power systems. Instructor: Dr. Brice
  • ELCT 553: Electromechanical Energy Conversion. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 331, ELCT 301) Analysis and design of electromechanical energy conversion systems, including electrical machines and electronic drives. Instructor: Dr. Ponci
  • ELCT 562: Wireless Communications. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 332, 361) Second and third generation wireless networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs), Bluetooth, cellular concepts, mobile radio propagation, modulation techniques, multiple access techniques, wireless networking, wireless systems and standards. Restricted to graduate students and senior undergraduate students. Instructor: Dr. Chen
  • ELCT 563: Advanced Semiconductor Materials. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 363) Crystal structures, energy-band theory, and charge-carrier physics.
  • ELCT 564: RF Circuit Design for Wireless. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 361) RF design fundamentals, lumped elements, transmission line theory, transmission lines and waveguides, S-parameters, impedance matching, microwave resonators. Instructor: Dr. Ali
  • ELCT 572: Power Electronics. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 371, ELCT 331) Basic analysis and design of solid-state power electronic devices and circuitry. Instructor: Dr. Santi
  • ELCT 751: Advanced Power Systems Analysis. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 551) Network analysis methods suitable for computer implementation. System studies, including load-flow analysis, short-circuit analysis, and state estimation. Instructor: Dr. Brice
  • ELCT 752: Electrical Transients. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 551) Modeling and analysis techniques used in the design of electric power grounding systems, power system fault analysis, numerical techniques for power system. Instructor: Dr. Brice
  • ELCT 761: Fundamental of Electromagnetics. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 361) Theorems and principles of EM theory, Maxwell's equations, vector and scalar potentials. Solution to Maxwell's equation in one-, two-, and three-dimensions. Green's functions and theorems with applications to radiation and guided-wave propagation.
  • ELCT 762: Signal Integrity for High Speed Circuits. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 561 or equivalent) The concept of signal integrity for high speed circuits, signal parameters, transmission lines, I/O buffer models, clock schemes, serial data, package/die/connector modeling, I/O power delivery, and measurement. Instructor: Dr. Huray
  • ELCT 837: Modern Control Theory. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 331) The analysis and synthesis of linear, nonlinear, and discrete control systems employing the state space approach.
  • ELCT 838: Optimal Control and Estimation. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 331) Optimal filtering, prediction, and smoothing in the presence of uncertainty.
  • ELCT 862: Antennas and Radiation. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 561) Radiation mechanism and fundamental parameters. Dipoles, monopoles, and loop antennas. Antenna arrays. Microstrip, helical, biconical, sleeve, spiral, and log-periodic dipole antennas. Horn and reflector antennas. Antenna measurement and modeling. Instructor: Dr. Ali
  • ELCT 864: Microwave Devices and Circuits. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 521 and 581) Microwave semiconductor diodes and transistors; active and passive microwave circuits. Instructor: Dr. Chen
  • ELCT 865: Signal Integrity on System Bus Technology. (3) (Prereq: ELCT 762) System analysis for industry buses, budget making, cost performance trade-off, system bussing block diagrams, case studies for specific bus systems, and industry direction on new buses. Instructor: Dr. Huray

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