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(COSC) Computer Science (266) |
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COSC 366 - Introduction to Cybersecurity 3 Credit Hours
A broad introduction to cybersecurity concepts. The class will introduce basic topics core to understanding computer security including security goals, threat modeling, software security, operating system security, cryptography, network security, and human factors. Coursework focuses on helping students adapt a security aware mindset when designing, developing, and testing systems.
Credit Restriction: Cannot receive credit for both Electrical and Computer Engineering 461 and Computer Science 366.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 360 or 367.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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COSC 395 - Junior Seminar 1 Credit Hours
Presentations and discussions related to professional development, including registration, ethics, and current topics in computer science.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 302 or 307.
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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.
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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; and English 102, 132, 290, or 298.
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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.
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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.
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COSC 421 - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience 3 Credit Hours
Survey of computational cognitive neuroscience. The focus is on the neuroscience of cognitive processes, including perception, categorization, memory, language, action, and executive control. Course work makes use of computer simulations of neural networks to model cognitive processes and to test hypotheses about their neural implementations.
Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 421 and 521.
Recommended Background: Senior standing.
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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 clustering, decision trees, neural network learning, statistical learning methods, Bayesian learning methods, dimension reduction, kernel methods, and reinforcement learning. Programming assignments include implementation and hands-on experiments with various learning algorithms.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Electrical and Computer Engineering 313 or 317 or Mathematics 323; Mathematics 251 or 257.
Comment(s): Prior knowledge may satisfy prerequisite with consent of instructor.
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COSC 427 - Honors: Biologically-Inspired Computation 3 Credit Hours
Same as 420 with additional honors project.
Recommended Background: Completion of core courses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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COSC 452 - 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 or 307.
Comment(s): Prior knowledge may satisfy prerequisite with consent of instructor.
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COSC 453 - Data Visualization 3 Credit Hours
The goal of this course is to develop a broad understanding of the principles, methods, and techniques for designing effective data visualizations. The course will span a wide range of topics related to interactive data visualization. The course will teach key elements of scientific visualization techniques, which graphically encode data with some physical or geometric correspondence, and information visualization techniques, which focus on abstract data without such correspondences such as symbolic, tabular, networked, hierarchical, or textual information sources. The course will follow a lecture/seminar style with discussion of assigned readings, as well as viewing of videos and hands-on experience with creating visualization tools.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 140.
Recommended Background: 340 and 452.
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COSC 461 - Compilers 3 Credit Hours
Lexical analysis, parsing, program representation, type systems, runtime environments, code generation, optimization techniques.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 302.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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COSC 471 - Numerical Analysis 3 Credit Hours
(See Mathematics 471.)
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COSC 472 - Numerical Algebra 3 Credit Hours
(See Mathematics 472.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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COSC 494 - Special Topics in Computer Science 1-3 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
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(COUN) Counselor Education (255) |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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COUN 212 - Career and Personal Development 3 Credit Hours
Systematic approaches to facilitating career development and life planning.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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COUN 460 - Practicum in Grief Support 3 Credit Hours
Supervised practice and application of knowledge and skills about grief, loss, and life transitions.
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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.
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COUN 493 - Independent Study 1-5 Credit Hours
Independent investigation of problems in educational and counseling psychology.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
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(CSAS) Construction Science and Agricultural Systems |
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CSAS 125 - Fundamentals of Building Systems and Materials 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to construction organization, building systems and construction materials. Emphasis on the building process including codes, zoning, material standards, standard practice, and sustainability.
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CSAS 202 - Materials and Fabrication 3 Credit Hours
Properties of materials including wood, metals, concrete, plastics, and lubricants; drafting and plan reading; fabrication techniques and processes involving hand tools, power equipment, and arc and gas welding.
Contact Hour Distribution: 1 hour lecture and 2 lab.
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CSAS 211 - Construction Documents 3 Credit Hours
Introduction into the development and utilization of construction related documents as used within the construction profession. This course will include bidding documents, contracts, record keeping, bonds, liens, insurance, legal issues, and professional ethics. Students will be provided exposure to various contract standards emphasizing the interpretation and delivery methodology.
Registration Restriction(s): Construction Science and Agricultural Systems major or permission of instructor.
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CSAS 222 - Construction CAD Applications 3 Credit Hours
Introductory course in computer-aided design as related to construction and the building process. Instruction in basic CAD commands, symbols, design techniques, and dimensioning. Instruction on the working drawing package but with emphasis on the drawings associated with Civil and Construction aspects of a project such as: site plans, foundation details, shop drawings, as-built drawings, etc.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture and 1 lab.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 125.
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CSAS 224 - Construction Surveying 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to construction surveying and related surveying data collection. Construction surveying will include introduction to and care of equipment and methods of data collection. Emphasis will be placed on building layout, project control/evaluation, cut/fill, grade staking, and placement of piping and utilities. Surveying graphic concepts will be introduced and will require the use of computer aided graphics.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 125, Mathematics 141 or 151.
(RE) Corequisite(s): 222 or 414.
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CSAS 225 - Mechanical and Electrical Systems in Structures 3 Credit Hours
Study of the systems and materials that comprise standard mechanical and electrical systems in structures. Introduction into related code organizations, standards, terminology, and basic design calculations. Discussion of how electrical, plumbing, and heating/cooling/ventilating systems are integrated within a structure.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 125, 211.
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CSAS 270 - Behavior of Construction Materials 4 Credit Hours
Study of materials used in highway and building construction. This study will include materials associated with soils, concrete (reinforced and unreinforced), asphalt, steel, and timber. Lecture and lab will include the introduction of the physical properties with related industry standards.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 125, Mathematics 141 or 151.
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CSAS 325 - Structural Mechanics in Construction 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to loads, forces; statics and free body diagrams; introduction to shear and bending moment diagrams for statically determinant beams and idealized frames; strength of materials for builders; soil and fluid loading on structures with basic stability investigation.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Letter grade of C or better in Physics 221 or Engineering Fundamentals 151.
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CSAS 335 - Construction Estimating I 3 Credit Hours
Types and interpretation of construction documents, plans, specifications, and schedules of materials, and considerations of document control; introduction to construction estimating, including types of estimates, their uses, quantity takeoffs, costs of work, overhead, submitting the bid, application of spreadsheets for basic estimating.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 125, 211.
(RE) Corequisite(s): Accounting 200.
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CSAS 345 - Green Construction and Construction Safety 3 Credit Hours
Considerations for energy efficient and environmentally sustainable buildings and development practices, practical and measurable aspects of building elements and corresponding building certification systems; construction safety, including the recognition, avoidance, abatement, and prevention of construction safety and health hazards.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 125, 211.
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CSAS 355 - Project Planning and Control 3 Credit Hours
Parameters affecting project planning, presentation of schedule information, network diagramming and calculation with the critical path method, resource allocation and management, productivity planning, computer applications.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Letter grade of C or better in 335.
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CSAS 414 - CAD Applications to Engineering and Technology 3 Credit Hours
Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) applications in agriculture and environmental science. Essentials of CAD software to create drawings of components, systems, flow charts, and process diagrams. Applications in mechanical, structural, and biosystems. 2-D applications with limited exposure to 3-D applications. Computer intensive course. Hands-on experience.
Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 414 and Biosystems Engineering Technology 514.
Recommended Background: Computer proficiency.
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CSAS 425 - Construction Estimating II 3 Credit Hours
Advanced estimation techniques and procedures associated with commercial construction. Analysis of costs developed from detailed construction systems leading to the preparation of bid proposals. Emphasis will be placed on estimating using commercially available computer software.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Letter grade of C or better in 335.
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CSAS 430 - Construction Field Operations 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to construction field operations and project organization. Integrates project management with field supervision, emphasizing the requirements normally associated with on-site commercial construction activities. Special attention will be given in areas of stakeholders, recordkeeping, mobilization, closeout, equipment, implementation tools, communication, safety compliance, and field office function.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 335.
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CSAS 432 - Agricultural and Construction Equipment 3 Credit Hours
Functions, selection, matching, and management of agricultural machinery systems. Tractor power ratings, engine and transmission systems, hydraulic systems, hitching, and ballasting. Field and material capacity, field efficiency, cost analysis, and machinery replacement strategies. Functional analyses of tillage operations, planters and drills, no-tillage systems, hay harvest systems, forage and small grain harvesting, and cotton harvesting. Crop drying processes, off-road machinery safety considerations, and operator ergonomics.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 125 or 141 or 152.
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CSAS 434 - Production Automation and Monitoring 3 Credit Hours
Precision technologies for monitoring and control of agricultural systems. Applications include yield monitoring; variable rate control and sensing systems for planters, sprayers, soil applied nutrients, water management, crop health, and pest pressure; electronic information transfer; and GPS-based vehicle guidance.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture and 1 lab.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Environmental and Soil Sciences 326.
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CSAS 435 - Construction Finance/Accounting and Law 3 Credit Hours
Construction finance and cost accounting, industry formats, fixed and variable costs, record and report practices; capital equipment, depreciation, and expensing; forecasting costs and cash flow requirements, payment processes and time value of money, surety bonds and insurance; construction law, construction contracts, legal roles and responsibilities, the regulatory environment and licensing, lien laws and the contractor’s rights, national and local labor law, administrative procedures to avoid disputes.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Accounting 200.
Comment(s): Graduate standing may satisfy prerequisites.
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CSAS 452 - Small Internal Combustion Engines 3 Credit Hours
Theory, concepts, and mechanics of small internal combustion engines; theoretical cycles; selection, operation, adjustment, troubleshooting, and repair of single-cylinder engines.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture and 1 lab.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 113 or 123 or 141 or 151.
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CSAS 462 - Agricultural Chemical Application Technology 3 Credit Hours
Equipment for application of liquid, solid, and gaseous agricultural chemicals; system components; operational characteristics; calibration; selection and management; safety considerations; materials handling and disposal methods.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture and 1 lab.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 123 or 141 or 151.
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CSAS 474 - Environmental Instrumentation and Monitoring 3 Credit Hours
Equipment and techniques commonly used to measure all aspects of hydrologic cycle – precipitation, runoff, streamflow, and subsurface water movement. Sampling of all flows for contaminants. Design of monitoring systems. Analysis of data.
Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 474 and 574.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Environmental and Soil Sciences 424.
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CSAS 480 - Selected Topics 1-3 Credit Hours
Current issues and problems in construction and agricultural systems and related fields.
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CSAS 486 - Construction Science Capstone 3 Credit Hours
Senior level course which results in a culminating experience where a student integrates information and derives skills from courses in the construction science curriculum. Students are exposed to real-life aspects of a construction enterprise and will generate a strategic construction business plan. This course emphasizes professional written and oral communication skills in the submission of the end project.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 435.
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(CSE) Cultural Studies in Education (271) |
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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)
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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.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education.
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(DSGN) Design |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(ECE) Electrical and Computer Engineering (319) |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ECE 256 - Computer System Interfaces 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to design, implementation, and test of interfaces used in the construction of modern computing systems. Topics covered include memory and I/O devices, component interfaces, real-time operating system concepts, performance analysis, and optimizations. The lectures and lab assignments will cover both hardware and software elements needed to support target applications and interfaces. This includes physical layer and low-level protocol/information-format design and analysis. Other key elements covered in the class include direct memory access, timers, input/output synchronization, and interrupts. Emphasis is placed on hands-on and lab based exercises using an appropriate development system.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 255.
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ECE 301 - Circuits and Electro Mechanical Components 3 Credit Hours
DC and AC circuits, transients, transformers, motors, and generators.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 231.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ECE 317 - Honors: Probability and Random Variables 3 Credit Hours
Same as 313 with additional honors project.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 142 or 148.
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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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ECE 335 - Electronic Devices 3 Credit Hours
Semiconductor physics, theory of p-n junctions. Diodes, field-effect transistors, and bipolar transistors. Modeling of diode and transistor devices. Analysis and design of diode switching and rectifier circuits. Basic transistor switching circuits and single stage amplifiers. Electronic circuit simulation using SPICE. Includes 1-credit laboratory work involving Level 1 design projects.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 202.
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ECE 336 - Electronic Circuits 3 Credit Hours
Multistage transistor amplifier biasing. Gain stages and output stages. Frequency and transient response of open loop linear amplifiers. Fundamentals of integrated circuits and operational amplifier applications in basic feedback configurations. Basic transistor switching circuits. Includes laboratory experiments and design projects.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 335.
(RE) Corequisite(s): 315.
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ECE 341 - Fields 3 Credit Hours
Coulomb’s law, Gauss’ law, Ampere’s law, Maxwell’s equations for electrostatic and magnetostatic cases. Maxwell’s equations for dynamic case, dynamic potentials, and uniform plane wave propagation. Transmission lines.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 202 and Mathematics 241.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): Physics 232.
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ECE 342 - Fundamentals of Communications 3 Credit Hours
Probability and random processes, communication channels, analog modulations, digital modulations, diversity, MIMO, channel coding, information theory, laboratory sessions.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 313, 315.
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ECE 347 - Honors: Fields 3 Credit Hours
Same as 341 with additional honors project.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 202 and Mathematics 241.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): Physics 232.
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ECE 351 - Digital Systems Design 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to techniques and strategies for designing digital systems using hardware description languages and industry-standard design tools. Topics include simulation and synthesis of high-level designs, finite state-machine design, digital memory systems, arithmetic circuit design, circuit delay estimation, timing, and power analysis. Laboratory and project activities include the implementation of digital systems using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 255.
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ECE 356 - Computer Systems Architecture 3 Credit Hours
Architecture and design of microcomputer systems with microprocessors or microcontrollers. Instruction set architectures, software interfaces, processor structures, memory hierarchy, and interfacing. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 256 or 336 or Computer Science 360 or 367.
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ECE 357 - Honors: Digital Systems Design 3 Credit Hours
Same as 351 with additional honors project.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 255.
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ECE 358 - Honors: Computer Systems Architecture 3 Credit Hours
Same as 356 with additional honors project.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 256 or 336 or Computer Science 360 or 367.
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ECE 395 - Junior Seminar 1 Credit Hours
Presentations and discussions related to professional development, including registration, ethics, and current topics in electrical engineering.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 202.
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ECE 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): 315 or 351.
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ECE 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 electrical and computer engineering.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (WC) (OC)
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 401; and English 102, 132, 290, or 298.
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ECE 406 - Introduction to Real-time Digital Signal Processing 3 Credit Hours
Architectures of programmable digital signal processors. Real-time implementation of digital signal processing algorithms on digital processor chips. Case studies including digital filtering, typical communication applications, speech, and image processing. Includes Level 1 design projects.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 315.
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ECE 411 - Linear Systems Theory 3 Credit Hours
Fundamentals of linear systems theory from a state space perspective, controllability and observability, full state feedback, output feedback, and optimal control.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Math 251 or equivalent.
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ECE 415 - Automatic Control Systems 3 Credit Hours
Automatic control systems for physical systems with linear models. The methods presented include steady-state error analysis, stability, root locus, Nyquist theory, and Bode plots.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 316.
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ECE 416 - Digital Control Systems 3 Credit Hours
State representations of continuous and discrete systems, sampling, analog to digital conversion, effect of noise on system dynamics, filtering, and optimal control design.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 316.
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ECE 417 - Honors: Computer Control Systems 3 Credit Hours
Same as 416 with additional honors project.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 316.
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ECE 421 - Electric Energy Systems 3 Credit Hours
Structure and operation of the electrical energy grid, load flow, economic loading, planning, control, and reliability. Balanced and unbalanced faults, system protection, and system stability. Includes Level 1 design projects.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 316 and 325.
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