May 16, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


*LCCN indicates Louisiana Common Course Number.

 

Educational Leadership

  
  • EDLD 512 - Capstone Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Project that will be presented to the candidate’s committee.

    Restriction(s): Open only to educational leadership students in the semester of graduation

  
  • EDLD 598 - Special Topics in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Content varies. Alternate subtitles will appear on students’ transcripts.

  
  • EDLD 700 - Administration in the Non-Public Sector

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Overview of theories and good practice principles related to school administration and management across the full range of management tasks that exist in a non-public setting.

  
  • EDLD 705 - Educational Philosophy and Ethos

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Survey of traditions of educational philosophy including a focus on specific obligations inherent in non-public school missions.

  
  • EDLD 710 - Financial Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Non-public school processes and responsibilities including budget building, financial management, reading non-profit financial statements, financial planning, and non-traditional financing.

  
  • EDLD 715 - Curriculum Design and Evaluation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Private sector mission/Program/Curriculum critical alignment with an emphasis on assessment of curricular, student, faculty and institutional performance.

  
  • EDLD 720 - Educational Law in the Non-Public Sector

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Legal structures and needs of non-public schools. Contract labor, tort liability and civil rights.

  
  • EDLD 800 - Introduction to Research Design in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prepares students for the dissertation. Discusses quantitative and qualitative methodologies in applied research. Same as EDF 800 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 801 - Writing for Research in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Course is designed to prepare the doctoral student for the conduct of scholarly inquiry and writing. Topics include refining writing style, avoiding plagiarism, adhering to APA style, conducting literature reviews, and critiquing. It is expected that students will have knowledge of and skills in the use of computer applications, research and statistics, and information literacy. Same as EDF 801 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 802 - Quantitative Methods in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduces advanced statistical techniques commonly used in educational research, parametric and non-parametric analysis through the use of statistical analysis software. Same as EDF 802 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 803 - Qualitative Methods in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Future trends, issues and problems in academic educational systems, understanding and developing a qualitative research design, identifying problems and solutions and developing relevant theory in qualitative research. Same as EDF 803 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 810 - Leadership Theory and Practice

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Knowledge of past models of leadership is linked with an analysis of the complexities of contemporary schools, and the skills required to assume the role and responsibilities of the administrator in restructured school environments. Emphasis is placed on skills involving articulation of organizational mission, collegial engagement and consensus building, implementing and sustaining the change process and total quality management.

  
  • EDLD 811 - Educational Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Course is designed to examine the role of superintendents and central office directors in emerging social, economic and political contexts that are changing the nature of schooling, altering how schools are viewed, and are transforming how they lead. A broad range of issues that are critical to the success of new superintendents and issues that affect relationships and impact districts will be explored. Particular attention will be paid to issues of leadership in diverse organizations. Same as EDL 811 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 812 - Supervision in Educational Settings

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Course will include advanced definitions and determinations of staffing needs, supervision, and management and coordination problems. Also to be addressed are policies for recruitment, selection, assignment, salary planning, scheduling, promotion, separation, grievances, reassignment, records, development programs, in-service training, evaluation, benefits and services. Same as EDL 812 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 820 - Legal Issues and Ethics in Educational Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Studies of federal and state constitutions, legislation, regulatory guidelines and court decisions related to the operation of educational organizations such as contractual requirements, church-state relationships, education of special needs students, student and parental rights, tort liability, ethics and morality. Same as EDL 820 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 821 - Politics and Community Relations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Administrative factors in developing community involvement in public schools and individual communication. Uses social science theory for educational policy-making. Same as EDL 821 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 822 - Policy Development and Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Understanding the process by which educational policy is formulated, analyzed, implemented, and evaluated. Same as EDL 822 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 823 - Fiduciary Management of Educational Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Study of the principles of taxation, local, state and federal financing of education and equalization of educational opportunity. Special emphasis given to the complete budget making process at the district level and a detailed study of school business management at the local school level. Sound accounting procedures reviewed and additional topics will include introduction to purchasing, transportation, food service operations and other business-related tasks and functions. Same as EDL 823 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 830 - Foundations of Curriculum Theory and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Investigation of curriculum theory with emphasis on the various approaches to curriculum design and development and other factors that impact curriculum. Same as EDL 830 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 831 - Critical Analysis of Current Research On Effective Educational Practice

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Course will focus on recent research on best practices of leadership for empowering teachers, creating communities of continuous learning, and increasing student achievement. The students will hone their critical thinking skills through analysis, synthesis and evaluation of research reporting. Same as EDL 831 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 832 - Educational Evaluation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Course is designed to provide students with the research and evaluation skills required to implement various program evaluation models. It is also intended to provide the skills necessary for effectively using the standards of the National Joint Committee on Standards for Program Evaluation as required by State certification guidelines. Same EDL 832 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 840 - Change Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Emphasizing the application or organizational development practices related to educational settings, this course is designed to focus on change theory and its implementation in schools. The course is designed to assist in the understanding of change by utilizing some of the concepts of Kurt Lewin, including field theory and action research. Course topics and instruction offer an examination of the fundamental concepts of change and behavioral analysis. Same as EDL 840 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 841 - Organizational Development for Learning Communities

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Theories of leadership and organizational development, and strategies for creating communities of continuous learning. Same as EDL 841 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 842 - Culture, Climate and Change Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Concepts needed for systemic changes in K-12 public education. Same as EDL 842 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 843 - School District Central Office Administration: Organization, Structure and Function

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    In-depth study of organizational structure and supervisory roles and responsibilities of school district central office staff. Examines central office administration’s impact on the overall success of the schools and their professional and non-professional staffs in relation to the students and community they serve.

  
  • EDLD 844 - Survey Design in Educational Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Design, scaling, and development of surveys used in educational research.

  
  • EDLD 845 - Educational Leadership Statistics Lab I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Reinforces concepts and principles taught/learned in EDFL 571  with an emphasis on developing students’ skills in computer-based quantitative data analysis using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software.

  
  • EDLD 846 - K-12 Virtual Schools

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Purpose, function, and roles of virtual schools delivering K-12 instruction. Examines different perspectives of virtual schooling.

  
  • EDLD 847 - Philosophy of Educational Leadership Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Readings in political science, philosophy, leadership and the economics and ethics of human development. Major theme of prospects of liberal democracy in an advanced capitalist society, and the role of educational leadership therein.

  
  • EDLD 848 - Race, Class, and Gender Issues in K-12 Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Establishes a platform for advanced, engaged and critical research on race, class and gender, and how they intersect. Investigates gender, race and the intricate connections in society, and culture by way of historical and contemporary contexts examined from multi-cultural and multi-racial perspectives.

  
  • EDLD 849 - History of Western Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    History and philosophy of pedagogy and education from ancient time to present, evolution of pedagogical theory and practice in different countries, and current state of pedagogy and education in the USA and beyond.

  
  • EDLD 850 - Leadership Theory and Practice in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Examines the most influential leadership theories and models, and explores their implications for contemporary higher education leaders and managers. Emphasizes requisite knowledge, skills, and ethical obligations.

  
  • EDLD 851 - Administration and Management in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Applies best administrative and management theories and practices to contemporary higher education organization and issues.

  
  • EDLD 852 - Student Affairs in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Examines the research and best practices on the development and management of services and education that enhance student success and growth in higher education.

  
  • EDLD 853 - Governance and Legal Aspects of Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Recent development on campus dormitory searches, defamation and plagiarism, and the student’s right to freedom of speech in the classroom.

  
  • EDLD 854 - Public Policy in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    The process of policy formulation in general and policy formulation in higher education in particular. Higher education policy and policy formulation in Louisiana as a comparative case.

  
  • EDLD 855 - Policy Development & Analysis in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Examination of research on the politics of policy formulation with an emphasis on higher education at the national and regional levels.

  
  • EDLD 856 - Financial Management in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Overview of higher education financing and budgetary issues at the national and regional levels.

  
  • EDLD 857 - Academic Affairs in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Examination of issues relevant to University curriculum review. development and new curricular initiatives; faculty hiring and promotion; support for faculty research and teaching; and the administration of all academic departments and programs in the modern university.

  
  • EDLD 858 - Community College Administration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Focuses on understanding the role of community colleges and provides practical experience for community college leaders.

  
  • EDLD 859 - Culture, Climate, and Change Leadership in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Concepts needed for systematic changes in higher education institutions.

  
  • EDLD 860 - Strategic Planning and Human Resources in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Skill sets required of higher education administrators and managers as leaders and effective planners.

  
  • EDLD 861 - History and Philosophy of Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Main lines of the history of higher education in the United States and philosophical work bearing on the question the goals of higher education in America and the kind of curriculum, leadership and management required to achieve those goals.

  
  • EDLD 862 - Planning and Evaluation in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Research, planning, and evaluation skills required to utilize and implement various evaluation models.

  
  • EDLD 863 - Educational Leadership Statistics Lab II

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Reinforces concepts and principles taught/learned in EDLD 802  with an emphasis on developing students’ skills in computer-based quantitative data analysis using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software.

  
  • EDLD 871 - Special Topics in Instructional Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Same as EDL 871 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 875 - Special Topics in Educational Leadership and Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Same as EDL 875 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 880 - Research Practicum in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Data collection, analysis and interpretation to meet student-specific needs. Same as EDL 880 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 881 - Educational Leadership Intercession Seminar I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Addresses current issues in higher education and relates these issues to doctoral student research.

  
  • EDLD 882 - Educational Leadership Intercession Seminar II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Addresses current issues in higher education and relates these issues to doctoral student research.

  
  • EDLD 883 - Educational Leadership Intercession Seminar III

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Addresses current issues in higher education and relates these issues to doctoral student research.

  
  • EDLD 897 - Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Same as EDL 897 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 900 - Doctoral Dissertation Seminar I.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Proposal and dissertation writing. Grades S, U, W. Same as EDF 900 at Southeastern.

  
  • EDLD 999 - Dissertation Research and Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3-24
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3-24 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Grades S, U, W. Same as EDF 990 at Southeastern.


Electrical and Computer Engineering

  
  • EECE 101 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    The engineering profession, history and practice of electrical engineering, ethics, guest speakers, oral and written communications.

  
  • EECE 122 - Micro-Robotics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Robotics; oriented projects building miniaturized robots.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • EECE 140 - Computer Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Number systems, Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, logic gates, combinational circuit design, adders, multiplexers, flip-flops, counters, shift registers. Laboratory: Experiments with TTL logic gates, flip-flops and counters.

    Restriction(s): Placement in MATH 109  or higher level mathematics course

  
  • EECE 233 - Telecommunications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Structure, historical background and tariffs and regulations. Voice, data and imagery communications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 140  with a grade of “C” or better, or permission of instructor
  
  • EECE 240 - Digital Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Combinational logic design using MSI and LSI IC’s. Sequential circuit analysis and design. Register, counter and memory system analysis and design. Register-Transfer Logic design technique.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 140  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 260 - Computational Methods in Electrical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Mathematical software tools in electrical and computer engineering.

    Prerequisite(s): CMPS 150  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 335 - Physical Electronics I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Physical characteristics and processing of electron devices such as diodes, transistors, solar cells, lasers, etc. Development of circuit models from device physics.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202  and MATH 350  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 340 - Microprocessors

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Computer architecture, addressing techniques, types of instructions. Comparison of architecture and instruction sets of microprocessors. Modern microprocessor address decoding, machine cycles, interrupts and hand assembly programming.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 240  with a grade of “C” or better
    Pre/Corequisite(s): CMPS 260  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 342 - Microprocessor Lab

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Digital Logic design and implementation. Microprocessor hardware analysis, timing, and design. Effects of machine instructions on hardware.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 340  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 344 - Engineering Electromagnetics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Applications of vector analysis, fundamental laws of electrostatic fields, electric potential and capacitance, solutions of Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations, steady magnetic fields and forces, time-varying electromagnetic fields and Maxwell’s equations.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202 , MATH 302 , and MATH 350  all with a grade of “C” or better.
  
  • EECE 353 - Electronic Circuits

    Credit Hours: 4
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Multistage amplifiers, feedback amplifiers, frequency response, operational amplifiers and applications, power amplifiers, waveshaping and waveform generation, high-frequency amplifiers. Lab includes design experiences in applications.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 335  and EECE 356  both with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 355 - Circuits and Signals I

    Credit Hours: 4
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Analysis of lumped parameter circuits with dependent and independent sources. Network theorems. Sinusoidal steady state solution, including three phase systems. Matrix formulation and computer solution of networks. Laboratory: Basic circuits and measurements.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 301  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 356 - Circuits and Signals II

    Credit Hours: 4
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Time domain analysis of circuits, conventional and transform methods, convolution, state equations. Fourier Series. Lab includes: computer-generated vs. experimental results.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 355  and MATH 350  both with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 357 - Circuits-1 Tutorials

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Corequisite(s): EECE 355  
  
  • EECE 358 - Circuits 2-Tutorials

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Corequisite(s): EECE 356  
  
  • EECE 365 - Internship in Telecommunications I

    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 367 - Internship in Electrical Engineering I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Supervised work experience in the area of electrical engineering.

    Restriction(s): Permission of department head required.

    Course Notes: Can be applied towards satisfying degree requirements in electrical engineering.
  
  • EECE 371 - Special Projects

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

  
  • EECE 380 - Random Processes for Electrical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Common discrete and continuous random variables in engineering, multiple random variables, random processes, linear systems with random signal inputs, applications in electrical engineering.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 301  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • EECE 413 - Computer Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Overview of common telecommunication and networking techniques using the OSI model with emphasis on the lower layers. LANs are covered in depth.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 240  with a grade of “C” or better
    Course Notes: Not open for students who have earned credit for EECE 434G .
  
  • EECE 423 - Seminar I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Visiting lecturers and practice in oral and written communications.

    Prerequisite(s): Within last two semesters of curriculum
    Corequisite(s): EECE 443  or EECE 460  
  
  • EECE 424 - Seminar II

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Visiting lecturers and practice in oral and written communications.

    Prerequisite(s): Within last two semesters of curriculum
  
  • EECE 428G - Transmission Media

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Study of various transmission media such as fiber optic and coaxial cables, microwaves, satellite links, cellular radio, etc.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 452  
  
  • EECE 430G - Digital Signal Processing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Z-Transform techniques and their real-time implementation, Digital filter design, Discrete Fourier transform techniques and their application.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 260  and EECE 444 
  
  • EECE 431G - Intelligent Cyber Physical System

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    The design of an orchestrated system of computers, machines, and people working together to achieve goals. The advances in the interconnected capabilities of intelligent cyber physical system (ICPS) to enable adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security, and usability in future will be investigated.

    Prerequisite(s): CMPS 260  and EECE 340  both with a grade of “C” or better.
  
  • EECE 432G - Cyber-Secured System Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to Cyber-Secured System Engineering (CSSE). Techniques for containing and eliminating security vulnerabilities by incorporating intelligence and counter measuring techniques in the early stage of system design to achieve maximum security assurance against security threats.

    Prerequisite(s): CMPS 260  and EECE 340  both with a grade of “C” or better.
  
  • EECE 433G - Data Engineering and Machine Learning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks. Special neuromorphic and special neural architecture. Fundamentals of data analytics.

    Prerequisite(s): CMPS 260  and EECE 380  both with a grade of “C” or better.
  
  • EECE 434G - Data Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Computer communications hardware and software, computer network considerations, switching methods, error analysis and data communication systems testing.

    Prerequisite(s): EECE 240  with a grade of “C” or better
    Course Notes: Not open to students who have earned credit for EECE 413  
  
  • 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 , EECE 353 , 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 260  and EECE 380  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
 

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