Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET)
The B.5.E.E. degree prepares students for career opportunities in the hardware and software aspects of design, development, and operation of electronic systems and components.
Challenging pOSitions are available in the government, commercial, and education sectors, in the areas of electronics, communication systems, signal and information processing, power, automation, robotics and manufacturing, control, and computers. Within these areas, career opportunities include design, development, research, manufacturing, marketing, operation, field testing, maintenance, and engineering management.
The minimum number of credit hours for graduation is 129, distributed as follows for each diScipline:
Cr.
1. Mathematics and Physical Sciences
a. Calculus: MATH 163, 164, 261, and 262 18
b. Chemistry: CHEM Cll1 and C1l2 7
c. PhysiCS: PHYS 152 and 251 9
2. Communications and Ethics
a. Speech: COMM RllO 3
b. Writing: ENG W131 3
c. Communication in Engineering Practice: TCM 360 2 d. Engineering Ethics and Professionalism: EE 400 and 401 2 3. Humanities and Social Sciences
a. Economics: ECON E201 3
b. Electives 15
4. Freshman Engineering Courses
a. Engineering Problem Solving: EE 196 3
b. Computer Programming: EE 195 3
5. Engineering Science
a. Circuits: EE 201, 202, and 207 7
b. Systems and Fields: EE 301,302,305, and 311 12
c. Mechanical Engineering: ME 200 3
6. Engineering Design
a. Electronics: EE 208 and 255 4
b. Digital Systems: EE 266,267, and 362 8
c. Communication Systems: EE 444 3
d. Control Systems: EE 382 3
e. Capstone Design: EE 492 3
f. Design Electives 15
7. Technical Electives .-3.
129 Semester by semester, the 129 total credit hours should be distributed like this:
Freshman Year
First Semester Second Semester
EE 195 Introduction to Computing for EE 196 Engineering Problem Solving ... 3
CHEM Cll1 Chemical Science I ... ..4 Electrical Engineering ... 3 CHEM C112 Chemical Science 11.. ... 3 COMM RllO Fundamentals of Speech
Communication ... 3 ENG W131 Elementary Composition 1 ... 3 MATH 163 Integrated Calculus and
Analytic Geometry 1 ... 5 15
MATH 164 Integrated Calculus and
Analytic Geometry II ... .5 PHYS 152 Mechanics ... ..4
18
Sophomore Year
Third Semester Fourth Semester
EE 201 Linear Circuit Analysis I... ... 3 EE 207 Electronic Measurement Techniques .... 1 MATH 261 Multivariate Calculus ... .4 PHYS 251 Heat, Electricity, and Optics ... 5
EE 202 Linear Circuit Analysis II ... 3 EE 208 Electronic Devices and Design Lab ... 1 EE 255 Introduction to Electronics Analysis
and Design ... 3 Humanities or Social Science Elective ... 3 ECON E201 Introduction to
Ttl Microeconomics ... 3 MATH 262 Linear Algebra and Differential
Equations ... .4 Humanities or Social Science Elective ... 3 17 Junior Year
Fifth Semester Sixth Semester
EE 266 Digital Logic Design ... 3 EE 302 Probabilistic Methods in Electrical EE 267 Digital Logic Design Lab ... 1 Engineering ... .3 EE 301 Signals and Systems ... 3
EE 311 Electrical and Magnetic Fields ... 3
EE 362 Microprocessor Systems and
Interfacing ... 4 ME 200 Thermodynamics 1... ... 3 EE Electives ... 6 Humanities or Social Science Elective ... 3 Humanities or Social Science Elective ... 3
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Senior Year
Seventh Semester Eighth Semester
EE 305 Semiconductor Devices ... 3 EE 401 Engineering Ethics and
EE 382 Feedback System Analysis and Professionalism ... 1 Design ... 3 EE 492 Senior Design ... 3 EE 400 Undergraduate Seminar ... 1 EE Electives ... 6 EE 444 Introduction to Communication TCM 360 Communication in Engineering
System Analysis ... 3 Practice ... 2 EE Elective ... 3 Technical Elective ... 3
Humanities or Social Science Elective ... 3 15
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After a rigorous, broad education in electrical engineering during the first five semesters, upperclass students may select five advanced electrical engineering courses and one technical elective course from an approved list. Careful selection of these elective courses allows a student to concentrate in a specialized area of electrical engineering. A listing of acceptable electrical engineering and technical elective courses is given below. The actual course selection will depend on the schedule, as not every course is available every semester. Existing upper-level electrical engineering courses are offered in the areas of signal processing, imaging, robotics, control systems, VLSI, electronic circuits and manufacturing, and computer engineering. The Department of Electrical Engineering has a document which groups these and other allowable courses into several areas of specialization. An electrical engineering student should file a plan of study with an academic advisor in either the fifth or sixth semester to decide how to select these electives.
The Department of Electrical Engineering has expanded its upper-level elective courses in the biomedical engineering field. Thus students may both obtain a professional B.s.E.E. degree and prepare themselves for medical or dental school, with only a slight increase in the number of credit hours required for the basic B.s.E.E. degree. These courses are presently taught with the EE 495 variable-topics designation and are announced in the printed class schedule each semester. DeSCriptions of experimental courses are not given in the bulletin, but the descriptions are available from the registrar each semester.
EE Elective Courses
EE 321 Principles of Electromechanical Energy Conversion EE 359/CSCP 362 Data Structures
EE 365 Introduction to the Design of Digital Computers EE 410 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
EE 411 Advanced Techniques in Digital Signal Processing2 EE 427 Semiconductor Power Electronics2
EE 446 Digital Computational Techniques for Electronic Circuits2 EE 449 Design of Analog and Digital Filters
EE 455 Integrated Circuit Engineering2
Electrical Engineering 29
EE 456 Advanced Integrated Circuit Engineering2
EE 468/CSCI1300 Introduction to Compilers and Translation Engineering/System Programming EE 483 Digital Control System Analysis and Design
EE 489 Introduction to Robotics
EE 495 Selected Topics in Electrical Engineering Technical Elective Courses3
Any EE elective course
Any CSCI course shown in the above list of EE electives CSCI 340 Discrete Computational Structures
CSCI 355 Introduction to Programming Languages
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414 Numerical MethodsCSCI 437 Introduction to Computer Graphics CSCI 443 Database Systems
CSCI 450 Principles of Software Engineering CSCl 463 Analysis of Algorithms
CSCI 487 Artificial Intelligence MATH 510 Vector Calculus
MATH 511 Linear Algebra with Applications
MATH 520 Boundary Value Problems of Differential Equations MATH 523 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations MATH 525 Introduction to Complex Analysis
MATH 526 Principles of Mathematical Modeling MATH 530 Functions of a Complex Variable I MATH 531 Functions of a Complex Variable II MATH 544 Real Analysis and Measure Theory ME 274 Basic Mechanics II
ME 301 Thermodynamics II
MSE 345 Introduction to Engineering Materials PHYS 310 Intermediate Mechanics
PHYS 342 Modern Physics PHYS 400 Physical Optics PHYS 520 Mathematical Physics PHYS 530 Electricity and Magnetism PHYS 545 Solid-State Physics
PHYS 550 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
lBy petition, three out of the four electrical engineering elective courses may be replaced with the computer Science equivalent. These substitutions are permiSSible for students specializing in computer engineering in the B.S.RE. program. No other substitutions are implied by this variance.
2This course is not scheduled on a regular basis.
3By petition, completion of at leas I EE Cl99, C299, C399 Cooperative Engineering Sessions may be accepted as a technical elective. By petition, completion of at least EE 1199, U99, 1399 IOtemshlp Engineering Sessions may be accepted as a technical elective.