Electrical Engineering Courses [501-531]

[501-531] [532-562] [564-699]

ELEG 501. Graduate Seminar I and II. 0 cr. Presentation of current engineering topics by faculty, students, and invited guest speakers.

ELEG 502. Engineering Analysis A. 3 crs. Ordinary differential equations, finite differences and their applications to engineering problems. Fourier Series and integrals, Laplace transform, partial differential equations, Bessel & Legendre polynomials.

ELEG 503. Engineering Analysis B. 3 crs. Vector calculus, vector fields, dyadics, tensors, boundary value problems, solutions to linear homogeneous boundary value problems, separation of variables method, Bessel function, Legendre polynomials, Hankel functions in homogeneous boundary conditions and Green’s functions, two-dimensional potential problems and conformal mapping, introduction to non-linear differential equations, variational and perturbation methods.  

ELEG 504. Advanced Power Electronics. 3 crs. Course emphasizes inverters, applications and design: line frequency, switch-mode and resonant converters, power supply applications: de motors, induction motors, synchronous motors and stepper motor drives, residential and industrial applications, optimal utility interface, power semiconductor devices and practical converter design applications, emerging devices and circuits, flexible ac transmission line, computer applications in power electronics.

ELEG 505. Power System Control. 3 crs. Elementary constrained optimization, optimum operating strategies, control systems structure, megawatt frequency control, megavar voltage control, optimum system control, power/pool control, and power systems state estimation.

ELEG 506. Advanced Power System Analysis. 3 crs. Power system modeling, stability methods in power system analysis, energy functions for power systems, voltage control and voltage stability, application of neural networks and expert systems, application of parallel processing to power systems, reliability theory and applications.

ELEG 507. Computer-Aided Power Systems Control. 3 crs. Computer application to operation, control and analysis of power systems. Topics include load flow forecasting and scheduling, unit commitment, network modeling, fault study, transient stability analysis, reliability, future expansion of systems, security and contingency analysis, on-line dispatch techniques and state estimation in power systems.

ELEG 508. Intelligent Systems Engineering Applications. 3 crs. Overview of artificial intelligence, representation of knowledge rule based expert systems, introduction to expert system languages such as Lisp, Prolog and Production Languages. Introduction to basic concepts of the fuzzy theory, fuzzy logic, fuzzy rule generation, defuzzyfication, temporal fuzzy logic, and applications. Artificial neural networks concepts (modeling, learning, characteristics of ANN topologies), neural network paradigms (ART, Hopefield, Backpropagation, Cluster). Application of signal processing, communication, intelligent optimization and power and control adjustment.

ELEG 509. Linear Digital Control Systems 1. 3 crs. Writing systems equations, system representation, control system characteristics, root locus, frequency response. Closed loop performance, root locus compensation, and cascade and feedback compensation.

ELEG 510. Linear Digital Control Systems II. 3 crs. Closed loop pole-zero assignment, parameter sensitivity, Liapunov’s Method, introduction to modern control, optimal design by use of quadratic performance, multivariable control observers and trackers, and digital control systems.  

ELEG 520. Electromagnetic Theory. 3 crs. Plane, cylindrical, and spherical wave functions, reflection, refraction, scattering, radiation and radiating systems, interference phenomena, relativistic electrodynamics, and some special topics.

ELEG 525. Microwave Transmission and Radiation 3 crs. Various microwave transmission structures, linear passive devices, solid-state and electron-beam devices and microwave processing networks leading to the state-of-art in microwaves and radiation.

ELEG 526. Antenna Theory. 3 crs. Aperture and frequency independent antennas, performance and parameters, arraying analysis and synthesis, and applications.

ELEG 531. Solid-State Physics I. 3 crs. An introduction to the quantum mechanics of crystalline solids. Topics include: classical Drude theory and quantum mechanical Sommerfeld models of electrons in metals, crystal lattices and the concept of the Bravais lattice, determination of crystal structures by X-ray diffraction, electrons in a periodic potential, Bloch’s Theorem, the quantum mechanics of electrons in a weak periodic potential, band structures of elected metals and semiconductors, and elementary transport phenomena in metals and semiconductors. Prereq.: Working knowledge of introductory quantum mechanics and intermediate electromagnetic theory.