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Courses of Primary Interest for Electrical Engineering Option GECE 520 Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement 3 credits This course emphasizes the use of National Instruments (NI) tools to perform data acquisition, measurement techniques and instrument control. Data acquisition will include analog and digital I/O, signal conditioning and sensors. Measurement techniques will include time-frequency analysis, data filtering, and distortion measurements. Instrument control will include serial port, GPIB communications and instrument drivers. GECE 521 VLSI Design 3 credits Focuses on the theory, design, implementation, and testing of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Circuits and associated technologies. Primarily focuses on CMOS technologies and their implementation. Includes a review of CMOS circuits & theory, overview of MOS fabrication technology, circuit characterizations and performance estimation, electrical & physical design of logic gates, clocking strategies, I/O structures, system design and test methods, design synthesis, and advanced topics. GECE 527 Intro to Electric Drives 3 credits This course uses an integrative approach to allow examination of all subsystems that make up an electric drive system. The approach requires minimum prerequisites in circuit and system and electromagnetic field theory to understand the essentials of the topics covered. The topics covered include electric machines, power-electronics-based converters, understanding mechanical system requirements, feedback controller design, and interaction of drives with the utility grid. GECE 528 Modern Control Theory 3 credits Linear spaces and operators, mathematical descriptions of systems. Linear dynamical systems and impulse response, matrices. Controllability and observability of linear dynamical systems. Irreducible realizations of rational transfer function matrices. Canonical forms, state feedback and state estimators. Stability of linear systems. Composite systems; linear optimal control and linear distributed systems. GECE 529 Digital Control 3 credits This course deals with the control of dynamic systems by employing classical and model control tools incorporating a digital computer in the control loop. It provides the background needed for those practicing engineers, who have studied the concepts of continuoustime control, to enhance their knowledge in the area of digital control system. Topics include the Z-transform, digital control system design, filters design, and the state-space approach to control system design. Modern software tools such as Matlab/Simulink will be used.
GECE 530 Sensors and Actuators 3 credits This is an introductory course on the subject of control system instrumentation, with an emphasis on sensors, transducer, and actuators. Specifically, this course deals with “instrumentation” a control system through the incorporation of suitable sensors, actuators, and associated interface hardware. The control system architectures are reviewed first prior to a detailed discussion of the component interconnection and signal conditioning, and performance specification and analysis. Then the operation principles and characteristics of a series of analog sensors and digital transducers are studied. Finally, the stepper motors, as well as continuous-drive actuators (DC and AC motors), are covered. GECE 531 Electronic Systems Design & Integration 3 credits This is a hands-on laboratory-based course with emphasis on design and integration of electronic systems. Industry-standard tools such as the circuit simulation software (e.g. Orcad Capture CIS, PSpice), the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design software (e.g. Cadence Layout Plus), PCB maker (e.g. LPKF ProtoMat), and its related software (e.g. CircuitCam) will provide the platform to build, test, and validate systems/subsystems, such as basic OP-AMP circuits, analog computer, traffic light control, power subsystems, bridge driver subsystem, and driver system integration. Electronic systems design and integration will be emphasized through laboratory projects. GECE 537 Advanced Computer Architecture 3 credits Focuses on the design and implementation of the instruction-set architecture. Performance measures, ALU design, data and control path design, evolving into custom high-performance processor design using VHDL, pipelining, memory hierarchy design, cache memory and advanced topics. GECE 545 Advanced Digital Design 2 credits* GECE 546 Advanced Digital Design Lab 1 credit* GECE 547 Embedded Systems Design 3 credits* GECE 549 VHDL 3 credits* GECE 552 Data Integrity on Computer Networks 3 credits* GECE 553 Real-Time Simulator 3 credits* GECE 556 RF Circuit Integration 3 credits Application of concepts from Circuits, Electronics and Fields to radio frequency design techniques as applied to state-of-the-art electronic devices.
