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School of Engineering
Professor Panos E. Papamichalis, Chair
Professors: Jerome K. Butler, Gary A. Evans, W. Milton Gosney, Alireza Khotanzad, Geoffrey Orsak, Panos E. Papamichalis, Behrouz Peikari, Mandyam D. Srinath; Associate Professors: Thomas Chen, Carlos E. Davila, Scott C. Douglas, James G. Dunham, Choon S. Lee, Sukumaran Nair, Mitchell A. Thornton; Assistant Professors: Marc P. Christensen, Ping Gui, Dinesh Rajan; Adjunct Professors: Steven Gray, Bernard Ku, Richard Levine, P.K. Rajasekaran; Adjunct Associate Professors: Hossam H'mimy, Clark Kinnaird, John D. Provence; Adjunct Assistant Professors: Eric Bird, Madhukar Budagavi, Cheng-Chung Chen, Ahmed H'mimy, David Pearson, Leo R. Pucacco, Gordon Sohl; Emeritus Professors: Kenneth L. Ashley, Robert R. Fossum, Someshwar C. Gupta, Kenneth W. Heizer, Lorn L. Howard, John A. Savage; Senior Lecturer: H. Charles Baker.
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 we 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 expanding 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, information technology, networks, digital signal processing, optoelectronics, electromagnetics, microelectronics, and systems and control.
The mission of the department is to offer a value-added educational experience through quality instruction and scholarly research with an entrepreneurial spirit that prepares graduates for the full range of career opportunities in today's high technology marketplace.
The goals of the department are:
To become a leading electrical engineering department in the nation by building peaks of excellence in the fields of communications/signal processing and micro/optoelectronics and by being a leader in innovative educational programs.
To design undergraduate curricula that will allow graduates to choose careers in engineering or engineering management, or to pursue graduate degrees in engineering, business, medicine, or law.
To offer world-class Ph.D. programs that prepare graduates for academic careers, for research careers in the high technology industry, or for technical entrepreneurship.
To be a leader in graduate lifelong learning, developing and offering innovative courses and programs for the working professional and the practicing engineer.
The educational objectives of the department are:
Graduates will be successful in understanding, formulating, analyzing, and solving a variety of electrical engineering problems.
Graduates will be successful in designing a variety of engineering systems, products, or experiments.
Graduates will be successful in careers in engineering or management, or in achieving graduate degrees in engineering, business, medicine, or law.
Graduates will assume leadership and entrepreneurial positions.
Graduates will successfully function and communicate effectively, both individually and in multidisciplinary teams, in culturally diverse and dynamic technical environments.
Graduates will continue to develop a broad education with exposure to contemporary issues and professional ethics, laying a foundation for lifelong learning.
The Electrical Engineering Department is engaged in an ongoing assessment process that evaluates the success in meeting these objectives and enhances the development of the program.
In addition to the B.S.E.E. degree, a professionally oriented Bachelor's degree in telecommunications systems is offered through the Electrical Engineering Department. The courses in this curriculum provide an overview of the telecommunications industry and prepare the student to become immediately involved in the development of new telecommunications products, services, and applications.
The SMU Electrical Engineering Department emphasizes the following major areas of interest:
Biomedical Engineering Overview of biomedical engineering, biomedical devices and instrumentation, biomedical signal capture, processing and modeling.
Communications and Information Technology Detection and estimation theory, digital communications, computer networks, spread spectrum, cellular communications, coding, encryption, compression, and wireless and optical communications.
Control Systems Linear and nonlinear systems control, robotics, and computer and robot vision.
Digital Signal Processing Digital filter design, system identification, spectral estimation, adaptive filters, neural networks, and DSP implementations.
Image Processing and Computer Vision Digital image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition.
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.
Solid State Circuits, Computer Aided Circuit Design, and VLSI Design Electronic circuits, computer-aided design, VLSI design, and memory interfaces.
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 Scanning Tunneling microscope.
Telecommunications Overview of modern telecommunications components and systems, data communications, digital telephony, and digital switching.
The department has access to the 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 School of Engineering are running some variant of UNIX or Microsoft Windows. There is one primary file server that holds 356 GB of data and 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 allows the files to be used as a resource in both the UNIX and Microsoft PC environments.
Almost all computing equipment within the 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 Engineering 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 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. The antenna lab 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 an HP 5810B network analyzer. Workstations are available for antenna design and theoretical computation. Radiation characteristics are measured at the anechoic chamber at the University of Texas at Arlington under a contractual agreement.
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 Perkinje eye tracker and image stabilizer made by Fourward Technologies, Inc., a Vision Research Graphics 21" 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, RF pulser/receiver and RF data acquisition system. Several PC's are also available for instrumentation control and data acquisition.
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory. Digital signal processors (DSPs) 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 TMS320VC510, a fixed-point processor, with emphasis on assembly language programming. Topics include implementation of FIR and IIR filters, the FFT, and a real-time spectrum analyzer.
Networks Laboratory. The Networks 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 inert acoustic door facing the acoustic chamber. Up to sixteen 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 will 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: a) GSM based cellular network that provides wide range connectivity at medium data rates, b) 802.11 based WLAN offering high data rates in an office environment, and c) Bluetooth networks that offers low cost, short range, and low data rate connections. One of the research focus areas is on investigating 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 is dedicated to holographic grating fabrication and has the capability of sub tenth-micron lines and spaces. Equipment in this laboratory 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 in this laboratory program 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 in the process of being set up. When complete, it will have 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 will have two large vibration isolated tables, a variety of visible and infrared lasers, single element 1-D and 2-D detector arrays and a large compliment of optical and opto-mechanical components and mounting devices. In addition, the laboratory will have extensive data acquisition and analysis equipment, including a 1394 (Firewire) capable image capture and processing workstation, specifically designed to evaluate the electrical and optical characteristics of smart pixel devices and FSOI modules. Support electronics hardware includes various test instrumentation, such as arbitrary waveform generators and a variety of CAD tools for optical and electronic design.
The undergraduate curriculum in electrical engineering provides the student with basic principles through required courses, and specialization through a guided choice of elective courses.
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:
Control Systems
Biomedical Engineering
Communications
Computer Engineering
Digital Signal Processing
Electromagnetics and Optics
Electronic Circuits
Electronic Devices and Materials
Networks
Systems
Telecommunications Engineering
In most cases, the concentration is satisfied by systematically taking a specified group of electrical engineering courses at the advanced level. However, the telecommunications engineering, computer engineering, and biomedical options are more specialized. Their requirements are described later.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
The electrical engineering curriculum is administered by the Department of Electrical Engineering and is accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET).
The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:
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Term Credit Hours |
|
| College Requirements: ENGL 1301, 1302, Perspectives including ECO 1311, Cultural Formations, and Wellness |
23 |
| Mathematics: MATH 1337, 1338, 2339, 2343, and a three-hour elective course at the 3000 or above level |
15 |
| Science: CHEM 1303 or 1305; PHYS 1303, 1304, and 1105; and a three-hour elective in physics or chemistry |
13 |
| Computer Science: CSE 1341 and one of CSE 2341, or 2353 |
6 |
| Engineering Leadership: Two of EMIS 3308, ENCE 3302, EMIS 3309 or CSE 4360 |
6 |
| Engineering Elective: One of ME 2310, 2320, 2331, 2342, CSE 2341, 2353, EMIS 2360, EE 3311, 3315, 3330, or 3372 |
3 |
| Core Electrical Engineering: EE 1382, 2122, 2170, 2181, 2322, 2350, 2370, 2381 and 3360 |
21 |
| Junior Electrical Engineering Electives: EE 3122, 3181, 3322, 3381, 3311, 3315, 3330, and 3372 |
20 |
| Advanced Electrical Engineering Electives |
12 |
| Electrical Engineering Senior Design Sequence: EE 4311 and 4312 |
6 |
| Minimum total hours required |
125 |
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, 5380, 5381, and 5385;
EE 5310, 5312, 5314, 5321, 5330, 5332, and 5333.
The remaining three 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. 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 four important areas: premedical or biomedical engineering, computer engineering, a dual degree in physics, and telecommunications engineering. Each student may select one of these specializations or may personalize his or her degree by a particular choice of advanced major electives.
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, and it is carried out in cooperation with the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Students may also work on projects under faculty supervision at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:
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Term Credit Hours |
|
| College Requirements: ENGL 1301, 1302, Perspectives including ECO 1311, Cultural Formations, and Wellness |
23 |
| Mathematics: MATH 1337, 1338, 2339, 2343, and a three-hour elective course at the 3000 level or above |
15 |
| Science: BIOL 1401, 1402, 3304, and 3350; CHEM 1303, 1304, 1113, 1114, 3117, 3118, 3371, and 3372; and PHYS 1303 and 1304* |
36 |
| Computer Science: CSE 1341 |
3 |
| Core Electrical Engineering: EE 1382, 2122, 2170, 2181, 2322, 2350, 2370, 2381, 3181, 3360 and 3381 |
25 |
| Engineering Leadership: One of EMIS 3308, EMIS 3309, ENCE 3302 or CSE 4360 |
3 |
| Junior Electrical Engineering: EE 3372 and two of 3311, 3315, 3322, 3330 |
9 |
| Advanced Electrical Engineering Elective |
3 |
| Biomedical Engineering: EE 5340 and 5345 |
6 |
| Electrical Engineering Senior Design Sequence: EE 4311, 4312 |
6 |
| Minimum total hours required |
129 |
* Students who plan to attend medical school are recommended to also take PHYS 1105 and 1106.
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:
|
Term Credit Hours |
|
| College Requirements: ENGL 1301, 1302, Perspectives including ECO 1311, Cultural Formations, and Wellness |
23 |
| Mathematics: MATH 1337, 1338, 2339, 2343, and one of MATH 3315/CSE 3365, MATH 3337 or 3353 |
15 |
| Science: CHEM 1303 or 1305, PHYS 1303, 1304, 1105 and a three-hour elective in physics or chemistry |
13 |
| Computer Science: CSE 1341, 2341, 2353, and 3358 |
12 |
| Engineering Leadership: Two of EMIS 3308, ENCE 3302, EMIS 3309, or CSE 4360 |
6 |
| Core Electrical Engineering: EE 1382, 2122, 2170, 2181, 2322, 2350, 2370, 2381 and 3360 |
21 |
| Junior Electrical Engineering Electives: EE 3122, 3181, 3322, 3381 and three of 3311, 3315, 3330, or 3372 |
17 |
| Advanced Electrical Engineering Electives: EE 5381, 5385 and two of 5357, 5380 or CSE 5343 |
12 |
| Senior Design Sequence: EE 4311, 4312 |
6 |
| Minimum total hours required |
125 |
The Electrical Engineering Department and the Physics Department offer an integrated curriculum that enables a student to obtain both a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E.) degree and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree with a major in Physics.
The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:
|
Term Credit Hours |
|
| College Requirements: ENGL 1301, 1302, Perspectives including ECO 1311, Cultural Formations, and Wellness |
23 |
| Mathematics: MATH 1337, 1338, 2339, 2343, and a three-hour elective course at the 3000 level or above |
15 |
| Science: CHEM 1303 or 1305; PHYS 1105, 1303, 1304, 3305, 3344, 3345, 4211, 5337, 5382, and 5383; and PHYS 3374 or ME 3341 |
33 |
| Computer Science: CSE 1341 |
3 |
| Engineering Leadership: Two of EMIS 3308, ENCE 3302, EMIS 3309 or CSE 4360 |
6 |
| Core Electrical Engineering: EE 1382, 2122, 2170, 2181, 2322, 2350, 2370, 2381 and 3360 |
21 |
| Junior Electrical Engineering Electives: EE 3122, 3181, 3322, 3381, either 3330 or PHYS 4392; and two of EE 3311, 3315 or 3372 |
17 |
|
Advanced Electrical Engineering Electives |
12 |
| Senior Design Sequence: EE 4311, 4312 |
6 |
| Minimum total hours required |
136 |
Signal processing, in particular digital signal processing (DSP), has come to play a significant role in our daily lives. Literally, DSP involves the processing of various signals such as speech, music, video, and others in digital form. Such processing is usually done with a digital signal processor, a programmable semiconductor device designed to rapidly process digital data. The DSP is an integral component of any system in which information is processed or transmitted, whether over a conventional telephone network, a cellular phone, or the Internet.
The explosive growth of the telecommunications industry and the Internet has generated a tremendous demand for electrical engineers who are versed in the language of DSP. The Communication and Signal Processing specialization is designed to meet this need. Students learn the fundamental principles of DSP during the first year. Concepts and techniques in signal processing and communications are covered in greater depth in each successive year, culminating in a senior-year capstone course in which students design and develop signal processing algorithms and software for a communications system application.
The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:
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Term Credit Hours |
|
| College Requirements: ENGL 1301, 1302, Perspectives including ECO 1311, Cultural Formations, and Wellness |
23 |
| Mathematics: MATH 1337, 1338, 2339, 2343, and a three-hour elective course at the 3000 level or above |
15 |
| Science: CHEM 1303 or 1305; PHYS 1303, 1304, and 1105 and a three-hour elective course at the 3000 level |
13 |
| Computer Science: CSE 1341, 2341, and 2353 and one of CSE 2340 or 3358 |
12 |
| Engineering Leadership: Two of EMIS 3308, EMIS 3309, ENCE 3302, or CSE 4360 |
6 |
| Core Electrical Engineering: EE 1382, 2122, 2170, 2181, 2322, 2350, 2370, 2381, 3330, 3360, and 3372 |
27 |
| Junior Electives: Two of EE 3311, 3315, 3322 or 3381/3181 |
6-7 |
| Advanced Communication and Signal Processing Courses: EE 5176, 5370, 5372, 5373, 5376 and one of EE 5371, 5374, 5375 or 5377 |
17 |
| Senior Design Sequence: EE 4311, 4312 |
6 |
| Minimum total hours required |
125-126 |
Telecommunications includes any type of communication of information at a distance by electronic means. This communication may be between humans, machines, businesses, government entities, computers, or any combination thereof. Example information formats include speech and audio, computer data, facsimile, imaging and video, wire and cable, radio, satellite, Internet, microwave, optical fiber, and others.
Today's intelligent networks, created by embedding computers in telecommunications systems, have given rise to an information society. Corporations, institutions, and government agencies cannot operate effectively in a competitive world without using telecommunications systems efficiently to communicate that information.
All areas of the telecommunications profession need telecommunications engineers. In manufacturing, they work as creators and designers of products. In the service category, they create efficient and cost-effective systems for telephone service providers, Internet and online computer services, and cellular service providers. At the corporate-user end of the profession, they ensure that their companies have the very best telecommunications systems to give their businesses a competitive edge.
Telecommunications engineers face challenges requiring specialized training in electrical engineering, plus breadth that includes regulatory law, economics, management science, and computer science. To ensure their success, SMU candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a telecommunications engineering specialization are grounded in all of these areas. To accomplish this within the context of a four-year program, students take a uniquely formulated curriculum of electrical engineering and telecommunications courses, plus specially selected courses relating to the multiple disciplines mentioned above. In this way, graduates are prepared to face information-age challenges and opportunities, whether in a corporate, institutional, or government environment.
SMU's long historic relationship with local industry provides a wealth of educational opportunities for students in terms of design projects, laboratories, field trips, and, at the student's option, cooperative education. SMU's Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering program with a telecommunications engineering specialization prepares students for careers with a large variety of producers, service providers, and users of telecommunications systems. Graduates of the program should have little difficulty finding employment in the immediate Dallas area or elsewhere.
This 124-term-credit-hour program has several distinctive features:
Early development of research skills using computers and the Internet, allowing students to use these important tools throughout their college experience.
Participation in student teams that work on a variety of industry-sponsored real-world laboratory projects under the joint guidance of faculty and industry representatives.
Option of entering the Cooperative Education Program as explained in the Cooperative Education section to get more than a year of industry experience and income before graduation.
The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:
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Term Credit Hours |
|
| College Requirements: ENGL 1301, 1302, Perspectives including ECO 1311, Cultural Formations, and Wellness |
23 |
| Mathematics: MATH 1337, 1338, 2339, 2343, and 3308 |
15 |
| Science: CHEM 1303 or 1305; PHYS 1303, 1304, and 1105 and a three-hour elective in physics or chemistry |
13 |
| Computer Science: CSE 1341, 2341 |
6 |
| Engineering Leadership: Two of EMIS 3308, EMIS 3309, ENCE 3302, or CSE 4360 |
6 |
| Electrical Engineering: EE 1382, 2122, 2170, 2181, 2322, 2350, 2370, 2381, 3122, 3181, 3322, 3330, 3360, 3372 and 3381 |
35 |
| Junior Elective: One of EE 3311 or 3315 |
3 |
| Advanced Electrical Engineering: EE 5370 and one of EE 5332, 5373, or 5381 |
6 |
| Telecommunications: EETS 5301 and 5302 |
6 |
| Advanced Electives: Six hours of advanced electrical engineering or telecommunications engineering electives approved by adviser |
6 |
| Senior Design Sequence: EE 4311 and 4312 |
6 |
| Minimum number of hours required |
125 |
Microelectronics and Photonics represent the foundation of electrical engineering upon which modern society with its vast spectrum of electronic systems and instrumentation has been built. The microelectronics and photonics specialization develops a fundamental understanding of the principles of electronic and photonic devices and systems. Almost all modern machinery has a significant part of its functionality based in electronic and optical components. The microelectronics revolution of the '60s saw transistors combined into integrated circuits through the vision of Nobel Laureate Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, invented here in Dallas.
The evolution in integrated circuits has resulted in millions of transistors being put to work in a space about the size of a fingernail producing powerful and affordable computers and other conveniences that have fueled the economy and revolutionized human life. The evolution in microelectronics promises to continue at a rapid pace to produce faster, more functional, and cheaper electronics. Mechanical machines are being fabricated with electronic devices in integrated circuits referred to as microelectromechanical systems. Photonics involves the processing and movement of information with light. Fiber optic communications is dominating high volume communications.
At present, individual photonic devices such as lasers are starting to be combined into "integrated" optical devices and circuits much like Jack Kilby combined transistors to form integrated microelectronic and photonic devices and systems upon which students can build their careers. With this knowledge, an imaginative mind could also change the world.
The term credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:
|
Term Credit Hours |
|
| College Requirements: ENGL 1301, 1302, Perspectives including ECO 1311, Cultural Formations, and Wellness |
23 |
| Mathematics: MATH 1337, 1338, 2339, 2343, and one of MATH 3308, MATH 3315/CSE 3365, MATH 3337 and MATH 3353 |
15 |
| Science: CHEM 1303, PHYS 1303, 1304, 1105 or 1106 and one of CHEM 1304, PHYS 3305, 4392, 5337, 5380 and 5382 |
13 |
| Engineering Leadership: Two of EMIS 3308, EMIS 3309, ENCE 3302, or CSE 4360 |
6 |
| Engineering Electives: CSE 1341, and one of CSE 2341 or 2353; ME 2310, 2320, 2331, 2342; EMIS 2360 |
9 |
| Core Electrical Engineering: EE 1382, 2122, 2170, 2181, 2322, 2350, 2370, 2381 and 3360 |
21 |
| Junior Electrical Engineering: EE 3122, 3181, 3311, 3315, 3322, 3330, 3372, and 3381 |
20 |
| Advanced Electrical Engineering: EE 5310, 5312 and two of EE 5314, 5321, 5330, 5332, 5333 or PHYS 5382 |
12 |
| Senior Design Sequence: EE 4311 and 4312 |
6 |
| Minimum number of hours required |
125 |
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:
|
Term Credit Hours |
|
| College Requirements: ENGL 1301, 1302, Perspectives including ECO 1311, Cultural Formations, and Wellness |
23 |
| Mathematics: MATH 1337, 1338, 2339, 2343, and a three-hour elective course at the 3000 or above level |
15 |
| Science: CHEM 1303 or 1305; PHYS 1303, 1304, and 1105; and a three-hour elective in physics or chemistry |
13 |
| Computer Science: CSE 1341 and one of CSE 2341, or 2353 |
6 |
| Engineering Leadership: EMIS 3308, ENCE 3302, EMIS 3309 and CSE 4360 |
12 |
| Engineering Elective: One of ME 2310, 2320, 2331, 2342, CSE 2341, 2351, EMIS 2360, EE 3311, 3315, 3330, or 3372 |
3 |
| Core Electrical Engineering: EE 1382, 2122, 2170, 2181, 2322, 2350, 2370, 2381 and 3360 |
21 |
| Junior Electrical Engineering Electives: EE 3122, 3181, 3322, 3381 and two of 3311, 3315, 3330, or 3372 |
14 |
| Advanced Electrical Engineering Electives |
12 |
| Senior Design Sequence: EE 4311 and 4312 |
6 |
| Minimum number of hours required |
125 |
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, 5380, 5381, and 5385;
EE 5310, 5312, 5314, 5321, 5330, 5332, and 5333.
The remaining three 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.
For information on a minor in electrical engineering, the student should consult the department. A total of 18 TCH 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 TCH of electrical engineering courses at the 3000 level or above
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.)
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 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: EE 2350 (Grade of C- or better), concurrent registration in EE 2322.
2170. EE Laboratory: Design and Analysis of Signals and Systems. This 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, concurrent registration in 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. Concurrent registration in EE 2381.
2305. Creating Interactive Internet Web Sites. Covers programming languages and techniques for two-way communications via the World Wide Web. Goes beyond HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), which is one-way distribution of information for the Web. The techniques covered in this course allow information gathering, such as responses to surveys and conference or seminar registration data, and credit card information needed to create Web sites for electronic commerce. Students are required to attend lectures and labs and will create an e-commerce Web site for a term project. Topics include architecture of the Internet, database software, intermediate and advanced HTML programming techniques, style sheets, frames, pixel mapping, Java Script and Java applets, and other topics as appropriate for the Internet generation. Prerequisite: Any approved SMU Information Technology course.
2322. Electronic Circuits I. An introduction to nonlinear devices used in electronic circuits. The course will cover the DC analysis of circuits employing diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOSFETs, and JFET. Introduction to AC analysis will be covered. Topics include device I-V characteristics, biasing, transfer characteristics, power dissipation, aspects of transient analysis, SPICE, and the mid-band analysis and design of amplifier circuits and logic circuits. Prerequisite: EE 2350 (Grade of C- or better), concurrent registration in EE 2122.
2350. Circuit Analysis I. Analysis of resistive electrical circuits, basic theorems governing electrical circuits, power consideration, analysis of circuits with energy storage elements. Transient and sinusoidal steady-state analysis of circuits with inductors and capacitors. . Corequisite: 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: EE 2350 (Grade of C- or better) and MATH 2343. Concurrent registration in 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; memory and programmed logic design. Design and simulation of digital computer logic circuits are studied. Concurrent registration in EE 2181.
3(1-3)90. Junior Project.
3122. EE Laboratory: Electronic Circuits II. Experiments in analog electronic circuit design. Prerequisite: EE 2122 (Grade of C- or better), EE 2322 (Grade of C- or better) and concurrent registration in EE 3322.
3181. EE Laboratory: Microprocessors. Fundamentals of microprocessor design and assembly-language programming. An introduction to the 6811 Motorola Evaluation Board, 6811 Assembler, microprocessor-based system design, assembly programming, and hardware interfacing. Prerequisite: EE 2181 (Grade of C- or better), EE 2381 (Grade of C- or better) and concurrent registration in EE 3381.
3304. History and Future of Documents in the Digital Era. A look at the omnipresent and diverse documents that fill our lives from sticky notes to e-mail, contracts to digital signatures, encyclopedias to the World Wide Web. Explores the failure of the paperless society and the future of the document. In this period of digital transition from sedentary text to hypertext, what is the future of the book, the library, the copyright, education? Prerequisite: Junior standing.
3311. Solid-State Devices. Introduces the physical principles of semiconductor devices and their practical implementation in electronic circuits. Topics include metal-semiconductor junctions, p-n junctions, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors, integrated circuits, and light emitting diodes. Prerequisites: CHEM 1303 and EE 2350 (Grade of C- or better).
3315. Optoelectronics. Introduces the student to the field of optoelectronics, the devices that form the foundation of optical communication and optical computing systems. Topics include optical propagation including plane waves; polarization; transmission and reflection of light; geometric optics; optical waveguides and fibers; optical modulation and beam steering with electro-optic, magneto-optic, and acousto-optic devices; optical sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes; and optical detectors. Prerequisite: EE 2350 (Grade of C- or better).
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 amplifiers, and comparators. Prerequisites: EE 2322 (Grade of C- or better), 2122 (Grade of C- or better), 2350 (Grade of C- or better) and concurrent registration in 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 capacity and inductance. Introduction to time-varying fields, plane waves, and transmission lines. Prerequisites: EE 2350 (Grade of C- or better) and MATH 2339.
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. Prerequisite: EE 2370 (Grade of C- or better), 2170 (Grade of C- or better).
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. Prerequisite: 2370 (Grade of C- or better) and 2170 (Grade of C- or better).
3381. Microprocessors. An introduction to microprocessors and microcomputers. The Motorola 68HC11 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: EE 2381 (Grade of C- or better), and concurrent registration in 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 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.
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 TCH, which ranges from 1 to 3. The last digit ranges from 0 to 9 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. Concurrent registration in EE 5376 and senior standing.
5310. Introduction to Semiconductors. A study of 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 process. Prerequisite: EE 3311.
5312. Semiconductor Processing Laboratory. A laboratory-oriented elective course for senior and first-year graduate students. Provides an overview of integrated circuit process technology. For both, a bipolar and MOS process, SUPREM, and other CAD tools will be used for process modeling. The laboratory projects will include photolithography, doping, and metallization, as well as scanning electron microscopy and characterization. Prerequisite: EE 3311 .
5314 (ME 5314). Introduction to Micromechanical 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 analog electronic circuits. Topics include relevant characteristics of BJT and FET transistor characteristics, DC biasing, small-signal models, single- and multistage electronic amplifiers, amplifiers with feedback, and frequency response of electronic amplifiers. Both single- and two-power-supply amplifiers are considered, with emphasis on amplifiers based on the differential amplifier stage. Prerequisites: EE 3122 and 3322.
5330. Electromagnetics: Guided Waves. Application of Maxwell's equations to guided waves. Transmission lines, and plane wave propagation and reflection. Hollow waveguides and dielectric waveguides. Fiber optics. Cavity and dielectric resonators. Prerequisite: EE 3330.
5332. Electromagnetics: Radiation and Antennas. Polarization, reflection, refraction, and diffraction of EM waves. Dipole, loop, and slot/reflector antennas. Array analysis and synthesis. Self and mutual impedance. 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.
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. Prerequisite: EE 2122 (Grade of C- or better) and EE 2322 (Grade of C- or better).
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. VLSI Design and Lab. Laboratory-oriented course for senior and master level graduate students will cover an overview of IC circuit design and fabrication process, basic design rule, 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: EE 2181 (Grade of C- or better), 2381 (Grade of C- or better) and 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: EE 2181 (Grade of C- or better) and 2381 (Grade of C- or better).
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). Systems Analysis. State-space representation of continuous and discrete-time systems, controllability, observability, and minimal representations; 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 two-dimensional 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 multi-rate 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. Assignments may include lab exercises involving computer simulations. Senior standing and concurrent registration in 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: i) Study of signaling modes and transmission schemes in GSM and characterizing the performance, ii) Understanding the basic anatomy of a voice call in GSM, iii) Data throughput student in IEEE 802.11 based wireless LANs and iv) Device discovery, topology management and data transfer in Bluetooth networks. Prerequisite: EE 3360 or equivalent.
5380. Logic Design and Implementation. Covers the use of programmable logic devices (PLDs) for design and implementation of digital systems. Design and implementation using programmable read-only memories, programmable gate arrays, programmable logic sequencers, programmable array logic, and programmable generic array logic are discussed. The Altera MAX+plusII CAE tools will be used to model, simulate, and implement a design using modern PLD devices. Prerequisites: EE 2181 (Grade of C- or better), 2381 (Grade of C- or better), and either CSE 2340, or EE 3381 and EE 3181.
5381. Digital Computer Design. Emphasizes design of digital systems and register transfer. Design conventions, addressing modes, interrupts, input-output, channel organization, high-speed arithmetic, hardwired and microprogrammed control. Central processor organization design and memory organization. Prerequisite: EE 2181 (Grade of C- or better) and EE 2381 (Grade of C- or better). 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 both hardware and software engineering and their interrelationship with the microprocessor; capabilities and limitations of the Motorola 68000 microprocessor family; use of hardware/software development systems; assembly language programming for the 68000; input-output interfacing; and concepts involved in real-time applications. Also, features of the 68332 will be covered. Prerequisites: EE 3181 and EE 3381.
Telecommunication Courses (EETS)
5301. 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 Integrated Services Digital Networks. Restriction: Junior standing.
5302. Telecommunications Management and Regulation. The managerial sequel to EE 5301, Introduction to Telecommunications. 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 it 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. Restriction: 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 advance networking courses. The first part of the course covers networking technologies such as Local Area Networks, packet switching, and ATM. 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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