Lyle School of Engineering
(2010 Undergraduate Catalog)

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Electrical Engineering

Professor Marc P. Christensen, Chair

Professors: Jerome K. Butler, Marc P. Christensen, Scott C. Douglas, Delores M. Etter, Gary A. Evans, W. Milton Gosney, Alireza Khotanzad, Sukumaran Nair, Geoffrey Orsak, Panos E. Papamichalis, Behrouz Peikari, Mitchell A. Thornton. Associate Professors: Jinghong Chen, Carlos E. Davila, James G. Dunham, Ping Gui, Choon S. Lee, Dinesh Rajan. Assistant Professor: Joseph D. Camp. Adjunct Professors: Joseph Cleveland, Ahmed H'mimy, Hossam H'mimy, Shantanu Kangude, Clark Kinnaird, Khiem Le, Nhut Nguyen. Emeritus Professors: Kenneth L. Ashley, Robert R. Fossum, Someshwar C. Gupta, Lorn L. Howard, Mandyam D. Srinath.

The discipline of electrical engineering is at the core of today’s technology-driven society. Personal computers, computer-communications networks, integrated circuits, optical technologies, digital signal processors and wireless communications systems have revolutionized the way people live and work, and extraordinary advances in these fields are announced every day. Because today’s society truly is a technological one, a degree in electrical engineering offers exceptional opportunities for financial security, personal satisfaction and an expansion of the frontiers of technology.

The Department of Electrical Engineering at SMU offers a full complement of courses at the Bachelor’s degree level in communications, networks, digital signal processing, optoelectronics, electromagnetics, microelectronics, and systems and control.

The mission of the department is:
Through quality instruction and scholarly research, engage each student in a challenging electrical engineering education that prepares graduates for the full range of career opportunities in the high-technology marketplace and enables them to reach their fullest potential as a professional and as a member of society.

Departmental goals include:
  • Becoming one of the nation's leading electrical engineering departments by building peaks of excellence in the fields of communications/signal processing and micro/optoelectronics and by being a leader in innovative educational programs.
  • Offering undergraduate curricula that equips graduates for careers that require ingenuity, integrity, logical thinking, and the ability to work and communicate in teams, and for the pursuit of graduate degrees in engineering or other fields such as business, medicine and law.
  • Offering world-class Ph.D. programs that prepare graduates for academic careers, for research careers in the high-technology industry or for technical entrepreneurship.
  • Promoting lifelong learning animated by a passion for the never-ending advance of technology.
The educational objectives of the Electrical Engineering Department undergraduate program are to enable graduates to:
  • Be successful in understanding, formulating, analyzing and solving a variety of electrical engineering problems.
  • Be successful in designing a variety of engineering systems, products or experiments.
  • Be successful in careers and/or graduate study in engineering or other areas such as business, medicine and law.
  • Have the ability to assume leadership and entrepreneurial positions.
  • Successfully function and effectively communicate, both individually and in multidisciplinary teams.
  • Understand the importance of lifelong learning, ethics and professional accountability.
The Electrical Engineering Department undergraduate program outcomes as related to the above educational objectives are as follows:

All graduates of the electrical engineering program are expected to have:
  • An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering.
  • An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
  • An ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.
  • An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.
  • An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems.
  • An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
  • An ability to communicate effectively.
  • The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.
  • A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, lifelong learning.
  • A knowledge of contemporary issues.
  • An ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
The Electrical Engineering Department is engaged in an ongoing assessment process that evaluates the success in meeting the educational objectives and outcomes and enhances the development of the program.

The undergraduate program in electrical engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 – telephone (410) 347-7700.

The SMU Electrical Engineering Department emphasizes the following major areas of research interest:
  1. Biomedical Engineering. Overview of biomedical engineering, biomedical devices and instrumentation, biomedical signal capture, processing, and modeling.
  2. Communications and Information Technology. Detection and estimation theory, digital communications, computer networks, spread spectrum, cellular communications, coding, encryption, compression, and wireless and optical communications.
  3. Control Systems. Linear and nonlinear systems control, robotics, and computer and robot vision.
  4. Digital Signal Processing. Digital filter design, system identification, spectral estimation, adaptive filters, neural networks and DSP implementations.
  5. Image Processing and Computer Vision. Digital image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition.
  6. Lasers, Optoelectronics, Electromagnetic Theory and Microwave Electronics. Classical optics, fiber optics, laser recording, integrated optics, dielectric wave guides, antennas, transmission lines, laser diodes and signal processors, and superconductive microwave and optoelectronic devices.
  7. Solid State Circuits, Computer-Aided Circuit Design and VLSI Design. Electronic circuits, computer-aided design, very-large-scale integration design and memory interfaces.
  8. Electronic Materials and Solid State Devices. Fabrication and characterization of devices and materials, device physics, noise in solid state devices, infrared detectors, AlGaAs and GaAs devices and materials, thin films, superconductivity, superconductive devices and electronics, hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices, ultrafast electronics, and applications of a scanning tunneling microscope.
  9. Telecommunications. Overview of modern telecommunications components and systems, data communications, digital telephony, and digital switching.

Department Facilities

 The department has access to the Lyle School of Engineering academic computing resources, consisting of shared-use computer servers and desktop client systems connected to a network backbone. All of the servers in the Lyle School of Engineering are running some variant of UNIX or Microsoft Windows. There is one primary file server that exports files using FNS or CIFS protocols. Each user, whether faculty, staff or student, has a "home" directory on the central file server. This directory is exported to other servers or desktop computers, regardless of operating systems, as needed. There are over 40 servers whose purposes include the following: file service, UNIX mail, Exchange mail, firewall, UNIX authentication, NT authentication, printer management, lab image download, classroom-specific software, X windows service, news, domain name service, computational resources and general use. This primary file server allows a user's files to be used as a resource in both the UNIX and Microsoft PC environments. Almost all computing equipment within the Lyle School of Engineering is connected to the engineering network at 100 megabits and higher. The network backbone is running at a gigabit per second over fiber. Most servers and all engineering buildings are connected to this gigabit backbone network. The backbone within the Engineering School is connected to both the Internet 2 and the campus network that is then connected to the Internet at large. In addition to servers and shared computational resources, the Lyle School of Engineering maintains a number of individual computing laboratories associated with the departments.

Specific department laboratory facilities for instruction and research include:

Antenna Laboratory. This laboratory consists of two facilities for fabrication and testing. Most of the antennas fabricated at the SMU antenna lab are microstrip antennas. Small and less complex antennas are made with a T-Tech milling machine, and a photolithic/chemical etching method is used to make more complex and large antennas. Fabricated antennas are characterized with a Hewlett-Packard 5810B network analyzer. Workstations are available for antenna design and theoretical computation. Radiation characteristics are measured at the University of Texas at Dallas-SMU Antenna Characterization Lab near the UTD campus.

Biomedical Engineering Laboratory. This laboratory contains instrumentation for carrying out research in electrophysiology, psychophysics and medical ultrasound. Four Grass physiographs permit the measurement of electroencephalograms as well as visual and auditory evoked brain potentials. The lab also contains a state-of-the-art dual Purkinje eye tracker and image stabilizer made by Fourward Technologies Inc., a Vision Research Graphics 21-inch Digital Multisync Monitor for displaying visual stimuli, and a Cambridge Research Systems visual stimulus generator capable of generating a variety of stimuli for use in psychophysical and electrophysiological experiments. Ultrasound data can also measured with a Physical Acoustics apparatus consisting of a water tank, radio frequency pulser/receiver and radio frequency data acquisition system. Several PCs are also available for instrumentation control and data acquisition.

Digital Signal Processing Laboratory. Digital signal processors are programmable semiconductor devices that are used extensively in cellular telephones, high-density disk drives and high-speed modems. Courses in this laboratory focus on programming the Texas Instruments TMS320C55, a fixed-point processor, with emphasis on assembly language programming. Topics include implementation of FIR and IIR filters, the fast Fourier transform and a real-time spectrum analyzer.

Networks Laboratory. This laboratory provides the opportunity to simulate and evaluate different network configurations, from local area networks to the Internet. High-end PCs are configured with OPNET and mathematics software to model telecommunications networks and study their performance. The Networks Laboratory is used for instruction in conjunction with several networking courses offered in the department.

Multimedia Systems Laboratory. This facility includes an acoustic chamber with adjoining recording studio to allow high-quality sound recordings to be made. The chamber is sound-isolating with double- or triple-wall sheet rock on all four sides, as well as an isolating ceiling barrier above the drop ceiling. The walls of the chamber have been constructed to be nonparallel to avoid flutter echo and dominant frequency modes. Acoustic paneling on the walls of the chamber are removable and allow the acoustic reverberation time to be adjusted to simulate different room acoustics. The control room next to the acoustic chamber includes a large, 4-foot-by-8-foot acoustic window and an inert acoustic door facing the acoustic chamber. Up to 16 channels of audio can be carried in or out of the chamber to the control room. Experiments to be conducted in the Multimedia Systems Laboratory include blind source separation, deconvolution and dereverberation. Several of the undergraduate courses in electrical engineering use sound and music to motivate system-level design and signal processing applications. The Multimedia Systems Laboratory can be used in these activities to develop data sets for use in classroom experiments and laboratory projects for students to complete.

High-speed Wireless Communications Laboratory. The laboratory provides a multitier network testbed for research purposes and also serves as a facility for conducting lab courses on wireless communications and networking. The infrastructure in the lab includes 1) GSM-based cellular network that provides wide range connectivity at medium data rates; 2) IEEE 802.11-based wireless LAN offering high data rates in an office environment; and 3) Bluetooth networks that offers low-cost, short-range and low data rate connections. One of the research focus areas is on investigating the total power efficiency of these heterogeneous networks.

Semiconductor Processing Clean Room. The 2,800 square-foot, class 10,000 clean room, consisting of a 2,400 square-foot, class 10,000 room and a class 1,000 lithography area of 400 square feet, is located in the Jerry R. Junkins Engineering Building. A partial list of equipment in this laboratory includes acid and solvent hoods, photoresist spinners, a scanning electron microscope, two contact mask aligners, a thermal evaporator, a plasma asher, a plasma etcher, a turbo-pumped methane hydrogen reactive ion etcher, a four-target sputtering system, a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition reactor, a diffusion-pumped four pocket e-beam evaporator, an ellipsometer, and a profilometer. Other equipment includes a boron-trichloride reactive ion etcher, a chemical-assisted ion-beam etcher and an e-beam evaporator for dielectric deposition. The clean room is capable of processing silicon and compound semiconductors for microelectronic, photonic, nanotechnology devices.

Submicron Grating Laboratory. This laboratory is dedicated to holographic grating fabrication and has the capability of sub tenth-micron lines and spaces. Equipment includes a floating air table, an argon ion laser (ultraviolet lines) and an Atomic Force Microscope. This laboratory is used to make photonic devices with periodic features, such as distributed feedback, distributed Bragg reflector, grating-outcoupled and photonic crystal semiconductor lasers.

Photonic Devices Laboratory. This laboratory is dedicated to characterizing the optical and electrical properties of photonic devices. Equipment includes optical spectrum analyzer, an optical multimeter, visible and infrared cameras, an automated laser characterization system for edge-emitting lasers, a manual probe test system for surface-emitting lasers, a manual probe test system for edge-emitting laser die and bars, and a near- and far-field measurement system.

Photonics Simulation Laboratory. This laboratory has specific computer programs that have been developed and continue to be developed for modeling and designing semiconductor lasers and optical waveguides, couplers and switches. These programs include WAVEGUIDE (calculates near-field, far-field, and effective indices of dielectric waveguides and semiconductor lasers with up to 500 layers. Each layer can contain gain or loss), GAIN (calculates the gain as a function of energy, carrier density and current density for strained and unstrained quantum wells for a variety of material systems), GRATING (uses the Floquet Bloch approach and the boundary element method to calculate reflection, transmission and outcoupling of dielectric waveguides and laser structures with any number of layers), and FIBER (calculates the fields, effective index, group velocity and dispersion for fibers with a circularly symmetric index of refraction profiles). Additional software is under development to model the modulation characteristics of photonic devices.

Photonic Architectures Laboratory. This laboratory is a fully equipped opto-mechanical and electrical prototyping facility, supporting the activities of faculty and graduate students in experimental and analytical tasks. The lab is ideally suited for the packaging, integration and testing of devices, modules and prototypes of optical systems. It has three large vibration isolated tables, a variety of visible and infrared lasers, single element 1-D and 2-D detector arrays, and a large complement of optical and opto-mechanical components and mounting devices. In addition, the laboratory has extensive data acquisition and analysis equipment, including an IEEE 1394 FireWire-capable image capture and processing workstation, specifically designed to evaluate the electrical and optical characteristics of smart pixel devices and FSOI fiber-optic modules. Support electronics hardware includes various test instrumentation, such as arbitrary waveform generators and a variety of CAD tools for optical and electronic design, including optical ray trace and finite difference time domain software.



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Curriculum in Electrical eEngineering

The undergraduate curriculum in electrical engineering provides the student with basic principles through required courses, and specialization through a guided choice of elective courses.

Areas of Specialization
Due to the extensive latitude in course selection and to the wide variety of courses available within the Department of Electrical Engineering and within the University as a whole, it is possible for the electrical engineering student to concentrate his or her studies in a specific professional area. The areas available include the following:
  Biomedical Specialization
  Computer Engineering Specialization
  Engineering Leadership Specialization
  Mathematics Dual Degree Specialization
  Physics Dual Degree Specialization



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Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

The electrical engineering curriculum is administered by the Department of Electrical Engineering.

The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:



Three hours of advanced electrical engineering electives must be selected in each of the three areas listed below:
  EE 5360, 5362, 5370, 5371, 5372, 5373, 5374, 5375 and 5376
  EE 5356, 5357, 5381, 5385 and 5387
  EE 5310, 5312, 5314, 5321, 5330, 5332 and 5333

The remaining six hours of advanced electrical engineering electives may be chosen from any of the above three areas or advanced (5000-level) CSE courses offered by the CSE Department with the approval of the student’s adviser. Please note that EE 8000-level courses are primarily for graduate students but may be taken by highly qualified undergraduates with the approval of the adviser and the instructor. Special topics courses also are available.

Each student is expected to complete and file a plan of study with his or her academic adviser. The plan should state specific choices to meet the foregoing requirements and develop an area of specialization when this is desired. This should be done as soon as possible; however, for many students, it is a process that continues from term to term as the individual becomes better acquainted with the discipline of electrical engineering and with the choices available.

Specializations are offered in five important areas: premedical or biomedical engineering, computer engineering, a dual degree in physics, a dual degree in mathematics, and engineering leadership. Each student may select one of these specializations or may personalize his or her degree by a particular choice of advanced major electives.

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Biomedical Specialization)
The Department of Electrical Engineering offers a B.S.E.E. degree with a specialization in biomedical engineering. This program enables students to satisfy requirements for admission to medical school.

The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:



Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering Specialization)
The Department of Electrical Engineering offers a B.S.E.E. degree with a computer engineering specialization, which brings together aspects of electrical engineering and computer science with the aim of developing state-of-the-art digital computer systems. Students in the computer engineering specialization receive training in a variety of areas ranging from C programming, assembly language and data structures, to logic design, microprocessor interfacing and computer architecture.

The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:



Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Engineering Leadership Specialization)
This specialization prepares graduates to be highly educated engineers with the appropriate interdisciplinary knowledge to assume important management and leadership positions and to become technical entrepreneurs in a globally competitive world.

The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:



Three hours of advanced electrical engineering electives must be selected in each of the three areas listed below:
  EE 5360, 5362, 5370, 5371, 5372, 5373, 5374, 5375 and 5376
  EE 5356, 5357, 5381, 5385 and 5387
  EE 5310, 5312, 5314, 5321, 5330, 5332 and 5333

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science with a Major in Mathematics
The Electrical Engineering Department and the Mathematics Department offer an integrated curriculum that enables a student to obtain both a B.S.E.E. degree and a B.S. degree with a major in mathematics. The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:



Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science with a Major in Physics
The Electrical Engineering Department and the Physics Department offer an integrated curriculum that enables a student to obtain both a B.S.E.E. degree and a B.S. degree with a major in physics.

The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:



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Minor in Electrical Engineering

For information on a minor in electrical engineering, the student should consult the department. A total of 18 term credit hours in electrical engineering courses is necessary to meet the following requirements:

Requirements
  EE 2322 Electronic Circuits I
  EE 3322 Electronic Circuits II
  EE 2350 Circuit Analysis I
  EE 2370 Design and Analysis of Signals and Systems

Elective Courses
  Six term credit hours of electrical engineering courses at the 3000 level or above

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The Courses (EE)

The third digit in a course number designator is representative of the subject area represented by the course. The following designators are used:
  XX1X Electronic Materials
  XX2X Electronic Devices
  XX3X Quantum Electronics and Electromagnetic Theory
  XX4X Biomedical Science
  XX5X Network Theory and Circuits
  XX6X Systems
  XX7X Information Science and Communication Theory
  XX8X Computers and Digital Systems
  XX9X Individual Instruction, Research, Seminar and Special Project
  EETS XX0X Telecommunications

1301. Modern Electronic Technology. A lecture and laboratory course examining a number of topics of general interest, including the fundamentals of electricity, household electricity and electrical safety, an overview of microelectronics, concepts of frequency and spectrum, the phonograph and the compact disc, bar codes, and communication by radio and television. Meets the science/technology laboratory course requirement of the General Education Curriculum. The course is designed for nontechnical students who want to be more knowledgeable. (Not open to EE majors.)

1322. Survey of Electrical and Electronic Devices. This course offers beginning electrical engineering students an introduction to contemporary electrical and electronic devices, including transformers, alternators, generators, motors, relays, loudspeakers, vacuum tubes, transistors, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors and integrated circuits. Students learn how these devices are used in contemporary products. They also will research a device type, build a circuit application and reverse-engineer a product. Prerequisites: Admission as an engineering or physics student is recommended, but not required; some knowledge of calculus would be helpful.

1382. Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. Introduces engineering students to the fundamentals of modern electrical engineering. The material covers the basics of the creation, manipulation, storage and transmission of information in electronic form. Topics will include time and frequency domain signal analysis, mathematics and physics of basic building blocks of electrical systems, sampling, filtering, data coding for compression and reliability, communications, digital imaging, and storage technologies. Weekly laboratory and design assignments will be an integral part of the course.

2122. EE Laboratory: Electronic Circuits I. Experimental study of basic MOS and bipolar transistors in analog and digital applications. Logic gates and linear and nonlinear applications of operational amplifiers. Prerequisite: C- or better in EE 2350. Corequisite: EE 2322.

2170. EE Laboratory: Design and Analysis of Signals and Systems. This laboratory course introduces students to various techniques for analyzing real signals and designing various linear time-invariant, continuous-time systems. The labs incorporate both software-based simulations and actual circuit implementations. Web authoring tools are used for the production of multimedia lab reports. Prerequisite: CSE 1341. Corequisite: EE 2370.

2181. EE Laboratory: Digital Computer Logic. Analysis and synthesis of combinational and sequential digital circuits. Basic digital computer logic circuits are designed, simulated using Verilog HDL and implemented using a Digi-Designer kit and integrated circuits. Corequisite: EE 2381.

2322. Electronic Circuits I. An introduction to nonlinear devices used in electronic circuits. The course will cover the DC and AC analysis of circuits employing diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and MOSFETs. Topics include device I-V characteristics, biasing, transfer characteristic, gain, power dissipation, and the design of amplifier circuits and logic circuits. The SPICE simulation will also be introduced in this course for DC and transient simulations. Prerequisite: C- or better in EE 2350. Corequisite: EE 2122.

2350. Circuit Analysis I. Analysis of resistive electrical circuits, basic theorems governing electrical circuits, power consideration and analysis of circuits with energy storage elements. Transient and sinusoidal steady-state analysis of circuits with inductors and capacitors. Corequisites: PHYS 1304 and MATH 2343.

2370. Design and Analysis of Signals and Systems. This course introduces students to standard mathematical tools for analyzing and designing various continuous-time signals and systems. Frequency domain design and analysis techniques are studied, as well as the Fourier and Laplace transforms. Applications to be studied include modulation and demodulation in communications and processing audio signals. Prerequisites: C- or better in EE 2350, and MATH 2343. Corequisite: EE 2170.

2381. Digital Computer Logic. Digital computers and information; combinational logic circuits; combinational logic design; sequential circuits, including finite-state machines; registers and counters; and memory and programmed logic design. Design and simulation of digital computer logic circuits are studied. Corequisite: EE 2181.

3(1–3)90. Junior Project.

3122. EE Laboratory: Electronic Circuits II. Experiments in analog electronic circuit design. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 2122 and EE 2322. Corequisite: EE 3322. 3181. EE Laboratory: Microprocessors. Fundamentals of microprocessor design and assembly-language programming. An introduction to the HCS12 Freescale processors, CodeWarrior assembler, microprocessor-based system design, assembly programming and hardware interfacing. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 2181 and EE 2381. Corequisite: EE 3381.

3311. Solid-State Devices. This laboratory-oriented elective course introduces undergraduates to the working principles of semiconductor devices by fabricating and testing silicon MOSFET transistors and III-V based semiconductor lasers in the SMU clean room. Lectures will explain the basic operation of diodes, bipolar transistors, field effect transistors, light-emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers and other photonic devices. Additional lectures will discuss the basics of device processing, which include photolithography, oxidation, diffusion, ion-implantation, metallization and etching. Laboratory reports describing the fabrication and testing of devices will account for a major portion of the course grade. Prerequisites: C- or better in EE 2350, and CHEM 1303.

3322. Electronic Circuits II. Introduction to MOSFET analog electronic circuits. The course is designed to provide the student with a background for understanding modern electronic circuits such as digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters, active filters, switched-capacitor circuits, and phase-locked loops. Topics include MOSFET SPICE models, basic MOSFET, single-stage amplifiers, current-mirrors, differential amplifier stages, source-follower buffer stages, high-gain common-source stages, operational amplifier, frequency response and negative feedback. Prerequisites: C- or better in the following: EE 2322, EE 2122 and EE 2350. Corequisite: EE 3122.

3330. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves. Vector analysis applied to static electric and magnetic fields, development of Maxwell's equations, elementary boundary-value problems, and determination of capacitance and inductance. Introduction to time-varying fields, plane waves and transmission lines. Prerequisites: C- or better in EE 2350, and MATH 2339, or permission of the instructor.

3360. Statistical Methods in Electrical Engineering. This course is an introduction to probability, elementary statistics and random processes. Topics include fundamental concepts of probability, random variables, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, elementary hypothesis testing, basic random processes, stationarity, correlation functions, power-spectral-density functions, and the effect of linear systems on such processes. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 2370 and EE 2170.

3372. Introduction to Digital Signal Processing. This course is designed to give juniors a thorough understanding of techniques needed for the analysis of discrete-time signals. Topics include Fourier methods and Z-transform techniques, discrete Fourier transform, fast Fourier transform and applications, and digital filters. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 2370 and EE 2170.

3381. Microprocessors. An introduction to microprocessors and microcomputers. The Freescale HCS12 processors are used to introduce architecture, software and interfacing concepts. Topics include number systems and arithmetic operations for computers, assembly language programming, microprocessor organization and operation, memory and I/O port interfacing, and microprocessor-based controller design. Students will write, assemble and execute microprocessor programs. Prerequisite: C- or better in EE 2381. Corequisite: EE 3181. 4(1–3)90. Senior Project.

4311. Senior Design I. Areas covered in this course will be tailored to the student's area of specialization. The design project segment of this course involves choosing a specific senior design project in electrical engineering from the available projects proposed by the faculty. Depending upon the specifics of the project, each student will design, construct and test a solution, and submit a formal report to the faculty in charge of the project. Prerequisite: EE senior standing.

4312. Senior Design II. Areas covered in this course will be tailored to the student's area of specialization. The design project selected in this course may be a continuation of the project undertaken in EE 4311, a new project selected from the list of available projects offered by the faculty, or a project proposed by the student and approved by the faculty. Depending upon the specifics of the project, a team will design, construct and test a solution, and submit a formal report to the faculty in charge of the project. Prerequisite: EE 4311.

5050. Undergraduate Industrial Internship.

5(1–3)9(0–9). Special Topics. This special-topics course must have a section number associated with a faculty member. The second digit corresponds to the number of term credit hours, which ranges from one to three. The last digit ranges from zero to nine and represents courses with different topics.

5176. Network Simulation Lab. Introductory hands-on course in simulations of computer networks, intended to be taken simultaneously with EE 5376 or other networks courses. Lab exercises use OPNET and other simulation software to visualize network protocols and performance. Students run a number of simulation exercises to set up various network models, specify protocols and collect statistics on network performance. These exercises will be designed to complement classroom instruction. General familiarity with PCs is recommended. Prerequisite: Senior standing. Corequisite: EE 5376.

5310. Introduction to Semiconductors. A study of the basic principles in physics and chemistry of semiconductors that have direct applications on device operation and fabrication. Topics include basic semiconductor properties, elements of quantum mechanics, energy band theory, equilibrium carrier statistics, carrier transport and generation-recombination processes. These physical principles are applied to semiconductor devices. Devices studied include metal-semiconductor junctions, p-n junctions, LEDs, semiconductor lasers, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors and integrated circuits. The emphasis will be on obtaining the governing equations of device operation based on physical principles. Prerequisites: EE 3311 or equivalent, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.

5312. Semiconductor Processing Laboratory. This is a laboratory-oriented elective course for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, providing in-depth coverage of processing of InP and GaAs compounds in addition to silicon integrated circuit processing. Students without fabrication experience will fabricate and characterize MOSFETs and semiconductor lasers. Students with some previous fabrication experience (such as EE 3311) will fabricate and test an advanced device mutually agreed upon by the student(s) and the instructor. Examples of such devices include High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs), Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs), phase shifters, distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers, grating assisted directional couplers, and semiconductor lasers from developing materials such as GaInNAs. The governing equations of photolithography, oxidation, diffusion, ion-implantation, metallization and etching will be derived from fundamental concepts. Silicon process modeling will use the CAD tool SUPREM. Optical components will be modeled using the SMU-developed software WAVEGUIDE, GAIN and GRATING. A laboratory report describing the projects will be peer-reviewed before final submission. Prerequisites: EE3311 or equivalent, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor. EE 5310 is recommended but not required.

5314. Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Devices. Develops the basics for microelectromechanical devices and systems, including microactuators, microsensors and micromotors; principles of operation; micromachining techniques (surface and bulk micromachining); IC-derived microfabrication techniques; and thin film technologies as they apply to MEMS. Prerequisite: EE 3311.

5321. Semiconductor Devices and Circuits. A study of the basics of CMOS integrated analog circuits design. Topics include MOSFET transistor characteristics, DC biasing, small-signal models, different amplifiers, current mirrors, single- and multistage electronic amplifiers, frequency response of electronic amplifiers, amplifiers with negative feedback, and stability of amplifiers. Each student will complete one or more design projects by the end of the course. Prerequisites: EE 3122 and EE 3322.

5330. Electromagnetics: Guided Waves. Topics include application of Maxwell's equations to guided waves; transmission lines, and plane wave propagation and reflection; hollow waveguides and dielectric waveguides; fiber optics; and cavity and dielectric resonators. Prerequisite: EE 3330.

5332. Electromagnetics: Radiation and Antennas. This course covers polarization, reflection, refraction and diffraction of EM waves; dipole, loop and slot/reflector antennas; array analysis and synthesis; self and mutual impedance; and radiation resistance. Prerequisite: EE 3330.

5333. Antennas and Radiowave Propagation for Personal Communications. Concerned with three important aspects of telecommunications: fixed-site antennas, radiowave propagation and small antennas proximate to the body. The topics include electromagnetics fundamentals; general definitions of antenna characteristics; electromagnetic theorems for antenna applications; various antennas for cellular communications, including loop, dipole and patch antennas; wave propagation characteristics, as in earth-satellite communications, radio test sites, urban and suburban paths, and multipath propagation; and radio communication systems. Prerequisite: EE 3330.

5336. Introduction to Integrated Photonics. This course is directed at the issues of integrated photonics. Four major areas are covered: 1) fundamental principles of electromagnetic theory, 2) waveguides, 3) simulation of waveguide modes and 4) photonic structures. The emphasis is slightly heavier on optical waveguides and numerical simulation techniques because advances in optical communications will be based on nanostructure waveguides coupled with new materials. Topics include Maxwell's equations; slab, step index, rectangular and graded index wave guides; dispersion; attenuations; nonlinear effects; numerical methods; and coupled mode theory. Mathematical packages such as MATLAB and/or Mathematica will be used extensively in this class. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 3311 and EE 3330, or permission of instructor.

5340. Biomedical Instrumentation. Application of engineering principles to solving problems encountered in medicine and biomedical research. Topics include transducer principles, electrophysiology and cardiopulmonary measurement systems. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 2122 and EE 2322.

5345. Medical Signal Analysis. A look at the analysis of discrete-time medical signals and images. Topics include the design of discrete-time filters, medical imaging and tomography, signal and image compression, and spectrum estimation. The course project explores the application of these techniques to actual medical data. Prerequisite: EE 3372.

5356 (CSE 5356). VLSI Design and Lab. Laboratory-oriented course for senior and Master's-level graduate students will cover an overview of integrated circuit design and fabrication, basic design rules, and layout techniques. Emphasis will be on digital design. CMOS and NMOS technology will be covered. Each student must complete one or more design projects by the end of the first term. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 2181 and EE 2381, and EE 3311.

5357. CAE Tools for Structured Digital Design. Concentrates on the use of CAE tools for the design and simulation of complex digital systems. Verilog, a registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems Inc., hardware description language will be discussed and used for behavioral and structural hardware modeling. Structured modeling and design will be emphasized. Design case studies include a pipelined processor, cache memory, UART, and a floppy disk controller. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 2181 and EE 2381.

5360. Analog and Digital Control Systems. Feedback control of linear continuous and digital systems in the time and frequency domain. Topics include plant representation, frequency response, stability, root locus, linear state variable feedback and design of compensators. Prerequisite: EE 3372.

5362 (ME 5302). Linear Systems Analysis. Topics include state-space representation of continuous and discrete-time systems, controllability, observability and minimal representations; and linear-state variable feedback, observers and quadratic regulator theory. Prerequisite: EE 3372.

5370. Communication and Information Systems. An introduction to communication in modulation systems in discrete and continuous time, information content of signals, and the transition of signals in the presence of noise. Amplitude, frequency, phase and pulse modulation. Time and frequency division multiplexing. Prerequisite: EE 3360 or equivalent.

5371. Analog and Digital Filter Design. Approximation and analog design of Butterworth, Chebyshey and Bessel filters. Basic frequency transformations for designing low-pass, band-pass, band-reject and high-pass filters. Concept of IIR digital filters using impulse-invariant and bilinear transformations. Design of FIR digital filters using frequency sampling and window methods. Canonical realization of IIR and FIR digital filters. Wave digital filters. Introduction to 2-D filters. Prerequisite: EE 3372.

5372. Topics in Digital Signal Processing. This course is intended to provide extended coverage of processing of discrete-time signals. Discrete-time signals and the analysis of systems in both the time and frequency domains are reviewed. Other topics covered will include multirate signal processing, digital filter structures, filter design and power spectral estimation. Prerequisite: EE 3372.

5373. DSP Programming Laboratory. Digital signal processors (DSPs) are programmable semiconductor devices used extensively in digital cellular phones, high-density disk drives and high-speed modems. This laboratory course focuses on programming the Texas Instruments TMS320C55, a fixed-point processor. The emphasis is on assembly language programming, and the laboratories utilize a hands-on approach that will focus on the essentials of DSP programming while minimizing signal processing theory. Laboratory topics include implementation of FIR and IIR filters, the FFT, and a real-time spectrum analyzer. Suggested: Some basic knowledge of discrete-time signals and digital logic systems. Prerequisite: EE 3372.

5374. Digital Image Processing. Provides an introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of digital image processing. Topics covered will include characterization and representation of images, image enhancement, image restoration, image analysis, image coding, and reconstruction. Prerequisite: EE 5372.

5375. Random Processes in Engineering. An introduction to probability and stochastic processes as used in communication and control. Topics include probability theory, random variables, expected values and moments, multivariate Gaussian distributions, stochastic processes, autocorrelation and power spectral densities, and an introduction to estimation and queuing theory. Prerequisite: EE 3360.

5376. Introduction to Communication Networks. An introductory course that surveys basic topics in communication networks with an emphasis on layered protocols and their design. Topics include OSI protocol reference model, data link protocols, local area networks, routing, congestion control, network management, security and transport layer protocols. Network technologies include telephony, cellular, Ethernet, Internet protocol (IP), TCP and ATM protocol. Assignments may include lab exercises involving computer simulations. Prerequisite: Senior standing. Corequisite: EE 5176.

5377. Wireless Communications and Lab. This course exposes students to a wide variety of real-world experiences in wireless communications. Basic concepts of channel coding, modulation and power control will be studied using specific examples from cellular and wireless LAN systems. Diversity and multiple access aspects of these systems will also be covered. Lab experiments include 1) study of signaling modes and transmission schemes in GSM and characterizing the performance; 2) understanding the basic anatomy of a voice call in GSM; 3) data throughput study in IEEE 802.11-based wireless LANs; and 4) device discovery, topology management and data transfer in Bluetooth networks. Prerequisite: EE 3360 or equivalent.

5381. Digital Computer Design. Emphasizes design of digital systems and register transfer. Design conventions, addressing modes, interrupts, input-output, channel organization, high-speed arithmetic, and hardwired and microprogrammed control. Central processor organization design and memory organization. Each student will complete one or more laboratory projects by the end of the course. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 2181 and EE 2381. Junior standing.

5385. Microprocessors in Digital Design. Intended to help prepare the digital design engineer for utilization of microprocessors as programmable logic components in digital systems design. Topics include fundamentals of hardware and software engineering and their interrelationship with the microprocessor, capabilities and limitations of the Freescale 32-bit microprocessor family, use of hardware/software development systems, assembly language programming for ColdFire, input-output interfacing, and concepts involved in real-time applications. Also, features of similar processors will be covered. Each student will complete one or more laboratory projects by the end of the course. Prerequisites: C- or better in both EE 3181 and EE 3381.

5387 (CSE 5387). Digital Systems Design. Modern topics in digital systems design, including the use of HDLs for circuit specification and automated synthesis tools for realization. Programmable logic devices are emphasized and used throughout the course. This course has heavy laboratory assignment content and a design project. Prerequisite: C- or better in either EE 2381 or CSE 3381.

Telecommunication Courses (EETS)
5301 (CSE 5376). Introduction to Telecommunications. Overview of public and private telecommunications systems, traffic engineering, switching, transmission, and signaling. Channel capacity, media characteristics, Fourier analysis and harmonics, modulation, electromagnetic wave propagation and antennas, modems and interfaces, and digital transmission systems. T1 carriers, digital microwave, satellites, fiber optics and SONET, and the Integrated Services Digital Network. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

5302. Telecommunications Management and Regulation. The managerial sequel to EETS 5301. Provides a historical review of the most significant regulation and management issues affecting the telecommunications industry over the past 100 years. Also explores the regulatory environment the telecommunications industry operates in today through the study of current events, articles, and recent state and federal legislation. Prerequisite: EETS 5301 (formerly EE 5301).

5303. Fiber Optic Telecommunications. Introductory course designed to familiarize students with practical concepts involved in optical fiber communications systems. Basic optical principles are reviewed. Dielectric slab-waveguides, fiber waveguides and integrated optics devices are discussed. The major components of a fiber communications link, including optical sources, detectors and fibers, are covered. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

5304. Internet Protocols. This course is an introductory course on the protocol architecture of the Internet, following a bottom-up approach to the protocol layers. The objective of this core course is to provide an understanding of the internetworking concepts in preparation for advanced networking courses. The first part of the course covers networking technologies such as Local Area Networks, packet switching and the ATM protocol. The second part of this course examines the Internet protocol (IP) and TCP/UDP in depth. The last part of the course is an overview of important application protocols such as HTTP, client/server computing, SMTP, FTP and SNMP. Prerequisite: EETS 5301 (formerly EE 5301) or equivalent.

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