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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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(CMST) Communication Studies (250)

  
  • CMST 497 - Senior Honors Thesis

    3 Credit Hours
    Required of students enrolled in the Honors program.

  
  • CMST 498 - Senior Honors Thesis

    3 Credit Hours
    Required of students enrolled in the Honors program.

  
  • CMST 499 - Proseminar in Communication Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Major theoretical perspectives in communication studies, their interrelationships and applications. Consideration of the significance and ethical implications of communication studies in modern society.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 356.
    Recommended Background: 12 or more hours of 300-400 level Communication Studies courses.
    Registration Restriction(s): Communication studies majors.

(CNST) Cinema Studies (251)

  
  • CNST 235 - Introduction to Digital Media and 16mm Film as Art

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Art Four-Dimensional Arts 235.)
  
  • CNST 236 - Introduction to Cinema and Video Art

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Art Four-Dimensional Arts 236.)
  
  • CNST 281 - Introduction to Film Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    (See English 281.)
  
  • CNST 312 - Popular Culture and American Politics

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Political Science 312.)
  
  • CNST 315 - Asian Film

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Japanese 315.)
  
  • CNST 323 - German Film Survey

    3 Credit Hours
    (See German 323.)
  
  • CNST 325 - Russian Film

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Russian 325.)
  
  • CNST 326 - Brazilian Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Portuguese 326.)
  
  • CNST 334 - Film and American Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    (See English 334.)
  
  • CNST 365 - Writing the Screenplay

    3 Credit Hours
    (See English 365.)
  
  • CNST 366 - Hollywood and the 20th Century

    3 Credit Hours
    (See History – United States 366.)
  
  • CNST 400 - Special Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • CNST 420 - French Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    (See French 420.)
  
  • CNST 422 - Topics in Italian Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Italian 422.)
  
  • CNST 423 - Themes and Genres in German Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    (See German 423.)
  
  • CNST 433 - History of Film and Modern and Contemporary Art

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Art History 433.)
  
  • CNST 434 - Hispanic Culture Through Film

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Spanish 434.)
  
  • CNST 435 - Narrative Filmmaking

    4 Credit Hours
    (See Art Four-Dimensional Arts 435.)
  
  • CNST 436 - Video Art

    4 Credit Hours
    (See Art Four-Dimensional Arts 436.)
  
  • CNST 465 - Latin American Film and Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Spanish 465.)
  
  • CNST 469 - Sexuality and Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Women, Gender, and Sexuality 469.)
  
  • CNST 482 - Special Topics in Global Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures 482.)
  
  • CNST 489 - Special Topics in Film

    3 Credit Hours
    (See English 489.)
  
  • CNST 491 - Foreign Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • CNST 492 - Off-Campus Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • CNST 493 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • CNST 495 - Modern China in Film

    3 Credit Hours
    (See History – Asia 495.)

(COSC) Computer Science (266)

  
  • COSC 100 - Introduction to Computers and Computing

    3 Credit Hours
    Basic concepts of computer hardware and software. Microcomputer systems and workstations. Networking and the Internet. The interdisciplinary science of computing.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (QR)
    Credit Restriction: May not be applied toward the computer science major.
  
  • COSC 102 - Introduction to Computer Science

    4 Credit Hours
    Problem solving and algorithm development. Organization and characteristics of modern digital computers with emphasis on software engineering, building abstractions with procedures and data, and programming in a modern computer language. Includes Level 1 design projects, which require laboratory work.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours lecture and 1 lab.
    Grading Restriction: A, B, C, No Credit grading only.
    Credit Restriction: Students who have received credit for 140 or 160 may not receive subsequent credit for 102 without consent of instructor.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): Mathematics 141 or 147.
  
  • COSC 130 - Computer Organization

    4 Credit Hours
    Number systems, Boolean algebra, combinational and sequential circuits, registers, processor functional units and control, pipelining, memory and caching, stored program computing, memory management, computer system organization, and assembly language programming.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours lecture and 1 lab.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102.
  
  • COSC 140 - Data Structures and Algorithms I

    4 Credit Hours
    Advanced problem solving and algorithm development, programming, data structures and applications, I/O techniques, lists, queues, stacks, hash tables, algorithms, files.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours lecture and 1 lab.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 130.
  
  • COSC 291 - Lower-Division Special Topics

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary. Programming languages, operating systems, and application software packages.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • COSC 302 - Data Structures and Algorithms II

    4 Credit Hours
    Design, analysis, and implementation of fundamental algorithms and data structures, including trees and graphs.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours lecture and 1 lab.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 140.
  
  • COSC 307 - Honors: Data Structures and Algorithms II

    4 Credit Hours
    Same as 302 with additional honors project.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours lecture and 1 lab.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 140.
  
  • COSC 311 - Discrete Structures

    3 Credit Hours
    Sets, functions, relations, equivalence relations, partial orderings and proof techniques, especially mathematical induction. Application of proof techniques to prove correctness of algorithms. Introduction to basic counting and combinatorics.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 140 and either Mathematics 142 or 148.
  
  • COSC 312 - Algorithm Analysis and Automata

    3 Credit Hours
    Counting and combinatorics, with applications to the analysis of algorithms. Introduction to finite automata and regular languages, and to pushdown automata and context free grammars.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
  
  • COSC 317 - Honors: Discrete Structures

    3 Credit Hours
    Same as 311 with additional honors project.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 140 and either Mathematics 142 or 148.
  
  • COSC 340 - Software Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to software processes that can be used on large projects to help design, manage, maintain, and test software.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 302.
  
  • COSC 360 - Systems Programming

    4 Credit Hours
    In-depth introduction to C and its use in system programming. Introduction to memory and process layout, system calls, buffering, file I/O, file systems, directories, metadata, assembly code, stack frames, memory management, process management, and interprocess communication.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours lecture and 1 lab.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 130 and 302.
  
  • COSC 361 - Operating Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Threads, operating system structure, process management, scheduling, synchronization, deadlock, memory management, virtual memory and demand paging, file system management and implementation, mass storage structure, protection, security, and distributed systems.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 130 and 302.
  
  • COSC 365 - Programming Languages and Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Language paradigms (procedural, functional, object-oriented, logic), language design and implementation issues and language issues related to parallelism.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 302.
  
  • COSC 367 - Honors: Systems Programming

    4 Credit Hours
    Same as 360 with additional honors project.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours lecture and 1 lab.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 130 and 302.
  
  • COSC 370 - Introduction to Scientific Computing

    3 Credit Hours
    The design, analysis, and implementation of numerical algorithms for solving problems in science and engineering. Emphasis on program design, including data structures, computational complexity, scientific computing environments, and high-performance software packages.

    Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 370 and Mathematics 371.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 140 and Mathematics 251.
  
  • COSC 377 - Honors: Introduction to Scientific Computing

    3 Credit Hours
    Same as 370 with additional honors project.

    Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 377 and Mathematics 371.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 140 and Mathematics 251.
  
  • COSC 401 - Senior Design Theory

    2 Credit Hours
    A design course that focuses the student’s attention on professional practice, ethics, accumulated background of curricular components, and recent developments in the field. The focus is on teaching both the design process and design principles that allow students to utilize all of the above elements to effectively create designs for major design projects.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 360.
  
  • COSC 402 - Senior Design Practicum

    3 Credit Hours
    A project-oriented course that requires teams of students to design a major project that incorporates the principles taught in 401. The design emphasis is directed to topics within the field of computer science.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (WC) (OC)
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 401.
  
  • COSC 411 - Senior Thesis I

    3 Credit Hours
    Frontiers of computer science technology and research. Students write a senior thesis. Writing-emphasis course.

    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – senior.
  
  • COSC 420 - Biologically-Inspired Computation

    3 Credit Hours
    Recent developments in computational methods inspired by nature, such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, ant-swarm optimization, artificial immune systems, swarm intelligence, cellular automata, multi-agent systems, cooperation, and competition.

    Recommended Background: Completion of core courses.
  
  • COSC 425 - Introduction to Machine Learning

    3 Credit Hours
    Machine learning is concerned with computer programs that automatically improve their performance through experience. This course covers the theory and practice of machine learning from a variety of perspectives. We cover topics such as learning decision trees, neural network learning, statistical learning methods, genetic algorithms, Bayesian learning methods, explanation-based learning, and reinforcement learning. Programming assignments include hands-on experiments with various learning algorithms.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 302; Electrical and Computer Engineering 313 or Mathematics 323.
    Comment(s): Prior knowledge may satisfy prerequisite with consent of instructor.
  
  • COSC 427 - Honors: Biologically-Inspired Computation

    3 Credit Hours
    Same as 420 with additional honors project.

    Recommended Background: Completion of core courses.
  
  • COSC 434 - Network Security

    3 Credit Hours
    In-depth introduction to core Internet and wireless technologies, related security concerns, common security vulnerabilities, and good security practices. Hands-on experience exploiting network protocols and communications, and setting up secure network connections.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Electrical and Computer Engineering 453 and 461.
  
  • COSC 440 - Formal Foundations of Software Engineering

    4 Credit Hours
    Principles of analysis and design of information systems. Principles of program design and verification, formal objects, formal specifications.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
  
  • COSC 445 - Fundamentals of Digital Archeology

    3 Credit Hours
    This is an advanced topic course focused on developing multi-disciplinary skills of discovering, retrieving, analyzing, and presenting operational data. Students will use critical thinking and intense practice solving real-world problems to recognize and address key operational issues: the lack of context, missing observations, and incorrect values. At the end of the course students will be able to discover operational data, to retrieve and store it, to recover context, to estimate the impact of missing events, to identify unreliable or incorrect values, and to present the results.

    Recommended Background: 340, 370, Electrical and Computer Engineering 313.
  
  • COSC 456 - Computer Graphics

    3 Credit Hours
    Digital image synthesis, geometric modeling and animation. Topics may include visual perception, displays and color spaces, frame buffers, affine transformations, data structures for geometric primitives, visible surface determination, shading and texturing, anti-aliasing computing light transport, rendering equation, shader programming, general purpose GPU programming, level of detail, curves and surfaces, and graphics hardware.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 302.
    Comment(s): Prior knowledge may satisfy prerequisite with consent of instructor.
  
  • COSC 461 - Compilers

    3 Credit Hours
    Lexical analysis, parsing, program representation, type systems, runtime environments, code generation, optimization techniques.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 302.
  
  • COSC 462 - Parallel Programming

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles and practice of parallel computing; design, implementation, and evaluation of parallel programs for shared and distributed memory architectures, and vector processors. Sample topics include models of parallel computers, basic communication operations, performance and scalability of parallel systems, and programming techniques including multi-threading and message passing.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 360 or 361.
  
  • COSC 465 - Databases and Scripting Languages

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to database theory, models, and query formation. Survey of scripting languages, their uses, and their interconnectivity with databases.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
  
  • COSC 466 - Web Security

    3 Credit Hours
    In-depth introduction to core web technologies, related security concerns, and common vulnerabilities. Hands on experience with multi-tier web applications (HTML, JavaScript, HTTP, application frameworks, and databases), vulnerability analysis and exploitation (injection, authentication, access control, client-side and server-side issues), and building secure applications.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 302.
  
  • COSC 471 - Numerical Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Mathematics 471.)
  
  • COSC 472 - Numerical Algebra

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Mathematics 472.)
  
  • COSC 482 - Theory of Computation

    3 Credit Hours
    Properties of finite automata/regular sets and push-down automata/context-free languages. Countability, diagonalization, and undecidability. Complexity, including the classes P and NP, NP-completeness, and reduction techniques.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 312.
  
  • COSC 483 - Applied Cryptography

    3 Credit Hours
    In-depth introduction to the underlying mathematics, computational methodologies, associated theoretical considerations, applications and practical cryptographic techniques.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311, Mathematics 251.
  
  • COSC 493 - Independent Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Special project in area of student’s primary interest. Directed by computer science faculty, perhaps jointly with student’s faculty advisor. Intended for students with a specific project to pursue in conjunction with a faculty member. Project may be from a department other than computer science, in which case a faculty member from the appropriate department will help oversee the project.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 45 hours.
    Credit Restriction: Maximum of 6 hours may be applied toward the major.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • COSC 494 - Special Topics in Computer Science

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.

(COUN) Counselor Education (255)

  
  • COUN 110 - Career and Life Planning I

    3 Credit Hours
    Basic career exploration and job seeking skills. Open only to students in the first semester of the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 115 - Digital Literacy I

    3 Credit Hours
    Basic computer, tablet and smart phone technology. Open only to students in the first semester for the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 120 - Career and Life Planning II

    3 Credit Hours
    Addresses workplace soft skills and continues career exploration and job seeking skills started in Career and Life Planning I. Open only to students in the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 100.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 125 - Digital Literacy II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continues learning in basic computer, tablet and smart phone technology for students in the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program. Open only to students in the second semester of the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 115.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 130 - Career and Life Planning III

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced career exploration and job seeking skills for second year students in the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program. Open only to students in the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 120.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 135 - Digital Literacy III

    3 Credit Hours
    Continues learning in computer, tablet and smart phone technology for students in the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program. Open only to students in the third semester of the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 125.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 140 - Career and Life Planning IV

    3 Credit Hours
    Skills from Career and Life Planning I, II, and III are applied in job search and other work settings. This course is open only to students in the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 130.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 145 - Digital Literacy IV

    3 Credit Hours
    Continues learning in computer, tablet and smart phone technology for students in the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program. Open only to students in the fourth semester of the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 135.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 150 - Life Skills

    3 Credit Hours
    Addresses broad set of skills that young adults need in order to live independently, including goal setting, health and exercise, budgeting, decision making, domestic skills, study skills, and personal safety. This course is open only to students in the FUTURE Postsecondary Education Program.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 160 - Personalized Learning

    6 Credit Hours
    This course is designed for students enrolled in the FUTURE Program’s optional third year. Personalized Learning is a student focused curriculum which includes: further instruction in the three main program content areas: digital literacy, life skills and career and life; identification of learning interests and the development of and initial implementation of a lifelong learning; work at a paid or unpaid internship; refinement of written communication, self-expression, and personal reflection skills.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): FUTURE students only. Instructor permission required.
  
  • COUN 205 - Student Development

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Practice in acquiring knowledge and skill in areas such as interpersonal relations, career decision-making, communication, and self-awareness. Individual and small-group format.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • COUN 212 - Career and Personal Development

    3 Credit Hours
    Systematic approaches to facilitating career development and life planning.

  
  • COUN 220 - Helping Skills in Face to Face and Online Settings

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores effective helping skills and how they are changing with new technologies. Covers basic attending skills, reflective listening, mediation skills, and other communication strategies, in both face-to-face and online (e.g. e-mail, social media) contexts. Students will learn to communicate more effectively and understand how communication differs when mediated by technology.

  
  • COUN 333 - Service Learning with Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

    3 Credit Hours
    Through service learning experiences, students will learn about postsecondary education for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Service learning requirement of a minimum of 60 hours outside the classroom.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • COUN 404 - Special Topics

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Instructor-initiated course offered at convenience of the department on various topics of current interest.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • COUN 460 - Practicum in Grief Support

    3 Credit Hours
    Supervised practice and application of knowledge and skills about grief, loss, and life transitions.

  
  • COUN 480 - Skills for Counseling

    3 Credit Hours
    An introduction to basic helping skills necessary to the preparation of counselors, teachers, and others involved in human service delivery.

  
  • COUN 493 - Independent Study

    1-5 Credit Hours
    Independent investigation of problems in educational and counseling psychology.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.

(CSE) Cultural Studies in Education (271)

  
  • CSE 200 - Survey of International Education

    3 Credit Hours
    A study of selected nations, their cultures, and their educational systems, focusing on cross-cultural interpretation and the treatment of common problems and themes within diverse educational institutions.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • CSE 300 - Social Justice, Education and Service Learning

    3 Credit Hours
    A study of selected concepts, theories and policies related to social justice within the American education system.

    Recommended Background: English 101 and 102 or equivalent.

(DSGN) Design

  
  • DSGN 130 - Basic Design Thinking and Innovation

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to design thinking and innovation for first year and second year undergraduate students from all majors. This course will assist students in how to work in multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex whole-to-part real-world problems. Students engage collaborative design thinking methods that emphasize producing unique, feasible, and implementable outcomes that can be applied in future classes and within career opportunities. Students will complete projects by generating a variety of ideas, applying and synthesizing knowledge from their discipline, building prototypes, and evaluating with critical thinking.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (OC)
    Contact Hour Distribution: 1-hour seminar, 2-hour lab.
    Registration Restriction(s): First-year and second-year students only.
  
  • DSGN 430 - Design Thinking and Innovation

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to design thinking and innovation for junior and senior undergraduate students from all majors. This course will assist students in how to work in multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex whole-to-part real-world problems. Students engage collaborative design thinking methods that emphasize producing unique, feasible, and implementable outcomes that can be applied in future classes and within career opportunities. Students will complete projects by generating a variety of ideas, applying and synthesizing knowledge from their discipline, building prototypes, and evaluating with critical thinking.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 1-hour seminar, 2-hour lab.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – junior.
  
  • DSGN 431 - Trans-disciplinary Studio

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Design studio for non-College of Architecture and Design students. Trans-disciplinary studio offered in conjunction with architecture, interior architecture, or landscape architecture studios.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 2-hour lab per credit hour.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.

(ECE) Electrical and Computer Engineering (319)

  
  • ECE 201 - Circuits I

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamental laws of circuit analysis. Ohm’s Law. Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws; the law of conservation of energy; circuits containing independent and dependent voltage, and current sources, resistance, conductance, capacitance, and inductance analyzed using mesh and nodal analysis, superposition, and source of transformations; and Norton’s and Thevenin’s Theorems. Steady state analysis of DC and AC circuits. Complete solution for transient analysis for circuits with one and two storage elements.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Engineering Fundamentals 152 or 158 and Mathematics 142 or 148 with grades of C or better.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): Mathematics 231.
    Registration Permission: Consent of associate department head.
  
  • ECE 202 - Circuits II

    3 Credit Hours
    Operational amplifiers, average, complex, imaginary and real power; effective values of voltage and currents, three phase circuits, delta and wye connections. Complex frequency; sinusoidal forcing functions and natural response. Resonance: general case, special cases in series and parallel circuits. Scaling: magnitude and frequency. Mutual inductance, transformers as circuit elements; linear and ideal transformers. Admittance, impedance and hybrid parameters. Trigonometric and complex Fourier series. Includes laboratory exercises.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 201.
  
  • ECE 255 - Introduction to Logic Design of Digital Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Standard codes, number systems, base conversions, and computer arithmetic. Boolean algebra, minimization and synthesis techniques for combinational and sequential logic. Use of VHDL for logic synthesis. Implementation of circuits using SSI, MSI, and LSI components. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 130.
  
  • ECE 301 - Circuits and Electro Mechanical Components

    3 Credit Hours
    DC and AC circuits, transients, transformers, motors, and generators.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 231.
  
  • ECE 302 - Electronics and Computer Circuits

    3 Credit Hours
    Analog circuits, operational amplifiers, digital systems, logic circuits, and semiconductor devices.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 301.
  
  • ECE 313 - Probability and Random Variables

    3 Credit Hours
    Probability axioms, Bayes’ theorem. Discrete and continuous random variables. Probability mass functions, density functions, and joint distributions. Central limit theorem. Expectation, variance, covariance, and correlation.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 142 or 148.
  
  • ECE 315 - Signals and Systems I

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuous- and discrete-time functions, function transformations, signal energy and power, solution of linear differential equations, system properties, convolution, continuous and discrete-time Fourier series, continuous and discrete-time Fourier transforms, Bode diagrams, and correlation.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 202.
  
  • ECE 316 - Signals and Systems II

    3 Credit Hours
    Sampling theory, theory and application of Laplace transforms, feedback, root locus, gain and phase margin, theory and application of z Transforms, digital filters, and discrete-time state variables.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 315.
  
  • ECE 317 - Honors: Probability and Random Variables

    3 Credit Hours
    Same as 313 with additional honors project.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 142 or 148.
  
  • ECE 325 - Electric Energy System Components

    3 Credit Hours
    Three-phase systems, phasor analysis, AC power, ideal transformers, and per unit notation. Magnetic circuits. Practical transformers ― construction, equivalent circuits, single and three phase. DC machines ― construction, connections, performance, control. Three phase induction motors ― construction equivalent circuit, performance. Synchronous machines ― construction, equivalent circuit, performance, parallel operation in power systems. Single-phase motors ― construction, performance, starting methods. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 202.
 

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