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2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

*LCCN indicates Louisiana Common Course Number.
 

Electrical and Computer Engineering
  

  • EECE 435G - Wireless Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to wireless communications; cellular mobile telephony: standards, systems, technologies; wireless data networks; personal communication systems (PCS) principles.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 452 
  

  • EECE 436G - Introduction to Embedded Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    An introduction to embedded systems with the focus on modeling, design, and analysis of cyber-physical systems. Applications include medical devices and systems, autonomous vehicles, robotics, consumer electronics, instrumentation, traffic control and safety, process control, energy management, smart sensors, and smart cities.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 342  with a grade of “C” or better.
  

  • EECE 437 - Power Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Analysis of power electronics devices and systems; AC and DC motor drives; thermal dissipation requirements; harmonics; power controllers; converters, inverters and commutation techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 447  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 438G - Green Renewable Energy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to future energy demands and renewable energy resources, cycle analysis, overviews, evaluations, green energy materials and systems, collection, microgrid, storage, and distribution. Included: solar, wind power, geothermal, and hydro, with emphasis in energy conservation methods.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 335  with a grade of “C” or better.
  

  • EECE 442 - Computer Control Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Programmable Controllers with Ladder Logic and PID algorithms. Human Machine Interface, with control of various electro-mechanical and hydraulic processes.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 461G  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 443 - Design Lab I

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Design and construction of semester project, preliminary design of year-long project; preparation of formal laboratory reports.

    Prerequisite(s): All 300-level EECE, CMPS, ENGR, MATH, and PHYS courses in the curriculum, excluding EECE 344  and MATH 302 , with a grade of “C” or better in each course
    Restriction(s): EECE majors only
  

  • EECE 444 - Circuits and Signals III

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Fourier transforms methods and applications. Discrete system methods. Z transform. Analysis and design of Analog and Digital filters and systems.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 356  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 447 - Electrical Machines and Power

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to three-phase systems; electrical machines; electrical power transmission and distribution.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 355  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 448 - Smart Power Grids

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Modeling and design of smart grid renewable energy systems, communication and control requirements, micro-grid photovoltaic and wind energy systems, load flow analysis and fault studies.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 447  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 450G - Power Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Energy sources; transmission line parameters, modeling, performance and design, transients, insulation and arresters, one line diagram and per unit system; voltage and reactive control, symmetrical components, balanced and unbalanced faults. Introduction to network matrices and load flow.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 447  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 451 - Digital Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Analysis and design of digital electronic circuits. Internal details of MOS and Bipolar logic networks. Laboratory: Measurement and characterization of digital logic circuit parameters.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 335  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 452 - Communications Engineering I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Study of communications systems. Mathematical analyses of digital and analog modulation techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 356  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 453 - Communications Engineering Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Experiments in analog and digital communications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 452  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 454G - Introduction to VLSI Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to very-large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design, combinational and sequential circuits; adders, multipliers, shifters, memories, chip I/O, architecture, logic structures, interconnect analysis, layout, simulation, testing, and low power techniques using modern CAD tools.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 353  with a grade of “C” or better.
  

  • EECE 456G - Flexible Microelectronic Devices and Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Microfabrication fundamentals of flexible electronic circuits, MEMS, sensors, biomedical devices, RF antennas, wearable electronics, and photonic; semiconductor materials, deposition methods, oxidation, lithography, ion implantation, patterning and selective etching.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 335  or CHEE 317  or permission from instructor.
  

  • EECE 457G - Introduction to RFID Devices and Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Next generation of RFID with emphasis on miniaturization and wider bandwidth of antennas with application for tracking/identification, internet of things (IoT), asset and infrastructure monitoring, wireless sensors, and wireless biomedical devices.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 353  or permission from instructor.
  

  • EECE 458G - Communications Engineering II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Effects of random noise on modulation systems, including detailed study of digital communication systems and an introduction to information theory and coding.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 233 - Telecommunications  , EECE 452 ; STAT 425G  or EECE 380  
  

  • EECE 459 - Computer Hardware Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Design of Processor and Control Logic hardware. Computer hardware design, input/output and memory design.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 340  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 460 - Design Lab II

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Continuation of Design Lab I, including completion of year-long design project with formal oral and written presentation and prototype demonstration.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 443  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 461G - Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Transfer functions, flow-graphs, state variables for feedback control systems, stability criteria. Digital control system design.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 218 , EECE 260  
    Pre/Corequisite(s): EECE 444  
  

  • EECE 464G - Internet of Things Systems and Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Fundamentals of IoT as a system design paradigm and main challenges in this realm, approaches and methodologies, along with hands on experience for implementing the IoT systems for several engineering applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 240  or CMPS 150  or equivalent course in material or permission from instructor.
  

  • EECE 465 - Internship in Telecommunications II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Supervised work experience in the area of Telecommunications. Does not apply towards satisfying degree requirements in electrical engineering.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 466G - Communications Networks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Fundamentals of Networks including PCs, LANs, MANs and WANs.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 434G  or EECE 413 , and EECE 452 
  

  • EECE 467 - Internship in Electrical Engineering II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Supervised work experience in the area of electrical engineering. Does not apply towards satisfying degree requirements in electrical engineering.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 468 - Internship in Telecommunications III

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Supervised work experience in the area of telecommunications. Does not apply towards satisfying degree requirements in electrical engineering.

    Restriction(s): Permission of Instructor required
  

  • EECE 470 - Physical Electronics II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Physical behavior of semiconductors and electronic properties of devices (diodes, transistors, and charged coupled devices). Application of modern electronic devices (lasers and solar cells).

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 335  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 472G - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Alternate subtitles will appear on student’s transcript. Content varies.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated for credit if subtitle changes.

    Restriction(s): Permission of the instructor required
  

  • EECE 479 - Computer Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Computer control of machines and processes. Microcontroller architecture and capabilities. Discrete controller design, ladder logic, PLCs.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 461G  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • EECE 480G - Computer Aided Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Introduction to the application of computer graphics to the evaluation of new system designs and simulation of system performance in the computer before the first prototype is built.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 481G - Robotic Technology

    Credit Hours: 4
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Robotics principles; imaging; sensors; actuators; feedback control; mobility, navigation and path planning; laboratory projects.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 500 - Random Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Discrete and continuous stochastic processes, correlation and power spectrum, filtering and estimation, Markov Processes.
  

  • EECE 501 - Linear Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Representation of signals and systems, frequency-domain transform techniques, time-domain state-space methods.
  

  • EECE 502 - Digital Signal Processing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Z-transforms, digital filtering; finite and infinite impulse responses, synthesis methods, the discrete Fourier transform.
  

  • EECE 505 - Advanced Control Design in Dynamic Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced control system design and applications. Topics include: stale space design techniques, stability robustness, optimal control design, robust control, and fault tolerant control design.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 461G , MCHE 474G , or CHEE 413G , or equivalent basic control course
  

  • EECE 510 - Communication Networks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Seven-layer OSI model, Data Link Layer and Network Layer protocols, Transport Layer, TCP/IP, higher layers, cross-layer design.
  

  • EECE 511 - Queueing Theory and Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Markov Processes, queuing models, applications to communication networks. 
  

  • EECE 520 - Digital Communication Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Digital baseband modulation systems, Matched filtering, Nyquist criterion for ISI, MPSK, MFSK, and MQAM, AWGN error probability, spread spectrum and OFDM.
  

  • EECE 521 - Information Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Source entropy, discrete memoryless sources, mutual information and capacity, coding theorems, applications. 

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 500  
  

  • EECE 522 - Error Correcting Codes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Linear Block codes, BCH and Reed-Solomon codes, convolutional codes, Viterbi decoding, LDPC codes, turbo codes.
  

  • EECE 530 - Optical Networks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Optical transport technologies, WDM, long-haul networks, metro network, local networks, access networks.
  

  • EECE 531 - Photonic Devices

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Optical fiber technologies, laser sources, fiber amplifiers, photodetectors, wavelength routers, passive components.
  

  • EECE 532 - Fiber Optic Transmission

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Fiber link engineering, losses, dispersion effects, compensation techniques, optical modulation and coding applications.
  

  • EECE 540 - Wireless Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Wireless propagation, shadow fading and multipath effects, wide area cellular telephony, wireless LAN, emerging broadband wireless standards.
  

  • EECE 541 - Mobile Wireless Networks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Mobility effects in wireless propagation, coding, modulation and multiple access.
  

  • EECE 550 - Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced control system design applications. State space techniques, stability, robustness, optimal control, robust control, and fault tolerant control. 

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 461G  or equivalent course
  

  • EECE 551 - Sensors and Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Sensor technologies, incorporation of sensors in control loops, performance analysis, case studies.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 550  
  

  • EECE 552 - Fault Tolerant Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Reliability in control systems, fault detection and mitigation, fault-tolerant control systems, applications to flight control. 

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 550  
  

  • EECE 560 - Physical Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Physics of solid-state and opto-electronic devices, current technologies and applications. 

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 335  or equivalent course
  

  • EECE 561 - Fundamentals of RF IC Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Design of RF integrated circuits, lumped and distributed RLC networks, Smith chart, S-parameters, noise effects. 

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 353  or equivalent course
  

  • EECE 562 - Electronic Devices for Communication Systems I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Physical theory and operation of MOS field-effect transistors and RF performance for wireless and lightwave applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 335  or equivalent course
  

  • EECE 563 - Nanoscale Computational Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Numerical investigation of device phenomena at nanoscale with application to modern devices. 

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 335  or equivalent course
  

  • EECE 564 - RF IC Building Blocks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Design of RFIC building blocks, for wireless and lightwave applications. 

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 561  
  

  • EECE 565 - Low Power Devices and Circuits for Sensory Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Transducers and sensor networks for ultra low power control systems.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 566 - IC and MEMS Fabrication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Principles of planar technology; CMOS, Bipolar, BiCOMOS, MEMS, yield and wafer scale integration, Interconnects and multi-chip modular technology. 

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 567 - Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Building blocks of mixed signal circuits design, current mirrors, differential amplifiers, weighted multipliers, operational amplifiers, and digital gates and circuits.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 353  
  

  • EECE 570 - Power Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Energy sources; transmission line parameters, modeling, performance and design, introduction to network matrices and load flow, faults and outages management.
  

  • EECE 571 - Smart Power Grids

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Power grid concepts, microgrids, smart power grids, solar and wind energy, load flow analysis, fault management.
  

  • EECE 572 - Alternative Energy Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Generation, storage, and efficient use of photovoltaic, solar, wind, nuclear, thermoelectric, geothermal, fuel cell, and other sources of energy.
  

  • EECE 581 - Computer Graphics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Image input and output devices, graphics hardware and software, interactive techniques, animation.
  

  • EECE 582 - Image Processing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    2D digital signal processing, image processing techniques; data compression for image storage and transmission; image reconstruction from noisy projections.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 430G  or equivalent
  

  • EECE 583 - Emerging Interactive Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Mobile devices, electronic kiosks, advanced virtual and augmented interfaces. Multidisciplinary design, technical, and human-factors aspects.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 584 - Mobile Devices and Applications Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Architectures, networks, and displays. Mobile device programming.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 585 - Mobile Graphics Programming

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    2D and 3D graphics for mobile devices. Standards, performance issues, computational and memory constraints.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 590 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    New and emerging topics in electrical engineering.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 597 - Directed Individual Study

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Guided individual study and research in selected topics.
  

  • EECE 598 - Directed Individual Study

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Guided individual study and research in selected topics.
  

  • EECE 599 - Thesis Research and Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3-9
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3-9 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Thesis research and thesis.
  

  • EECE 600 - Advanced Topics in Random Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Selected topics in advanced stochastic processes and applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 500 
  

  • EECE 601 - Linear Filtering and Estimation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    State-space models for linear dynamical systems; Kalman filtering; estimation theory and applications in control and communication systems.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 501 
  

  • EECE 610 - Advanced Topics in Communication Networks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Queuing theoretic modeling and analysis of network performance.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 510 
  

  • EECE 620 - Current Topics in Information and Coding Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Selected topics from current literature.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 521 
  

  • EECE 630 - Advanced Optical Transmission

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced coding, modulation and multiple access methods for ultra high-speed optical transmission.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 530 
  

  • EECE 631 - Advances in Photonic Devices

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Selected readings from current literature in photonic communications devices.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 531 
  

  • EECE 640 - Broadband Wireless Communication Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced coding and modulation systems, space-time coding, MIMO channels, cooperative communications, network coding, emerging standards.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 540  
  

  • EECE 641 - Cognitive Radios

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Cognitive and software radios, architectures and implementations, standards and applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 540  
  

  • EECE 642 - MIMO Wireless Channels and Space-Time Coding

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    MIMO channel modeling, capacity analysis, space-time coding, applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 540 
  

  • EECE 650 - Advanced Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Linear and non-linear dynamical systems, filtering, estimation and prediction, applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 550  
  

  • EECE 651 - Advanced Topics in Sensors and Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Selected readings in sensors and controls from current literature.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 551 
  

  • EECE 660 - Solid State Physics for Devices

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Rigorous application of principles of solid-state physics to electronic and photonic devices.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 560 
  

  • EECE 661 - Introduction to Quantum Devices

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Applications of quantum principles to solid-state devices.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 470  or equivalent course
  

  • EECE 662 - Electronic Devices for Communications II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Physical theory and operation of Bipolar junction transistors and RF performance for wireless lightwave applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 560  
  

  • EECE 663 - Fluctuation Phenomena

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Fundamental study of fluctuation phenomena in solid-state devices which limit device performance for communication applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 500 
  

  • EECE 670 - Advanced Topics in Energy Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Case studies and current readings in emerging trends in energy systems, alternative and hybrid energy sources and smart energy grids.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 570 
  

  • EECE 690 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    New and advanced topics in electrical engineering.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required
  

  • EECE 699 - Dissertation Research and Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3-24
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3-24 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Dissertation research and dissertation.
  

  • EECE 899 - Examination Only

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Required of all graduate non-thesis students taking examinations, oral and/or written, are not registered for any other course.

General Engineering

General Engineering Classes are taught by faculty from various departments in the College of Engineering.
  

  • ENGR 201 - Electrical Circuits

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Analysis of AC and DC electrical circuits using fundamental laws of electricity; study of digital techniques including number systems, logic gates, and circuits, microcomputer organization; study of three phase electrical circuits, motors, transformers and generators.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 201  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ENGR 211 - Statics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Static systems of forces, vectors, moments, couples, centroids, center of gravity, friction, and moment of inertia.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 301  and PHYS 201  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ENGR 218 - Statics and Strength of Materials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Simplification of force systems, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, friction, centroids and moments of inertia. Load classification, normal and shearing stresses and strains, displacements and stresses due to axial, torsional, and flexural, and combined loadings.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 201  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ENGR 219 - Mechanics of Materials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Load classification, normal and shearing stresses and strains, thermal effects, material properties, displacements and stresses due to axial, torsional, flexural, and combined loadings, shear and moment equations and diagrams, statically indeterminate elements; columns under centric and eccentric loadings.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 211  or ENGR 218  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ENGR 220 - Fundamentals of Engineering Innovation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Fundamentals of systematic innovation in process and product development with the ability to identify problems, generate solutions, and communicate these solutions effectively.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 250  or MATH 270  or higher with C or better
  

  • ENGR 301 - Thermodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Laws of thermodynamics, available energy, mixtures, thermodynamic properties of matter, and applications to engineering systems.

    Prerequisite(s):  , and CHEM 108  or PHYS 201 , all with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ENGR 302 - Honors Thermodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Laws of thermodynamics, available energy, mixtures, thermodynamic properties of matter, and applications to engineering systems.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 270 , CHEM 108 , or PHYS 201  with a GPA of 3.2 or greater
  

  • ENGR 304 - Fluid Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Static and dynamic behavior of incompressible fluids. Continuity, energy and momentum equations, using the control volume approach. Dimensional analysis, similitude and model testing laws. Steady, incompressible fluid flow in series, parallel, and branching pressure conduits. Turbulent and laminar boundary layer concepts.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 211  with a grade of “C” or better
    Pre/Corequisite(s): ENGR 313  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ENGR 305 - Transport Phenomena

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Basic theories of fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer; compressible and incompressible fluid flow, rheological equations of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, concepts of laminar and turbulent flows, introductions of two-phase flow and boundary layer theory, flow measurements, hydraulic machinery; conductive, convective, and radioactive heat transfer, heat exchangers; diffusion.

    Pre/Corequisite(s): ENGR 301  
  

  • ENGR 311 - Engineering Data Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Analysis and presentation of engineering data, including compiling, evaluation, refining, and smoothing of data; presentation of data and its utilization in engineering reports; objectives, format, preparation and use of detailed engineering reports and their presentation; analysis and use of information retrieval systems for engineering data, papers, reports and subject matter.
  

  • ENGR 313 - Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies; Newton’s Laws of Motion; work and energy principles; impulse and momentum; and applications to two and three dimensional problems.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 211  with a grade of “C” or better
  

  • ENGR 350 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Content varies. Alternate subtitles will appear on student’s transcript.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required.

    Course Notes: May be used for senior level elective credit if approved by the dean.
  

  • ENGR 397 - Engineering Co-Op I

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Restriction(s): Permission of the department head required
  

  • ENGR 398 - Engineering Co-Op II

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Restriction(s): Permission of the department head required
 

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