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for California State University, Fresno.
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
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COURSES
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
1. Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering (1)
The electrical and computer engineering professions, career opportunities
and preparation, orientation to the department and college, exposure to
computer productivity tools, laboratory safety, and hands-on projects.
70. Engineering Computations Using C and FORTRAN (3)
Prerequisites: Students must take the ELM exam; students who do not pass
the exam must record a grade of C or better in a college-taught intermediate
algebra course; trigonometry. Use of FORTRAN and C computer languages in
engineering analysis and design. A systematic development in program structure,
specification, testing, and debugging.
71. Engineering Computations (3)
Prerequisites: Students must take the ELM exam; students who do not pass
the exam must record a grade of C or better in a college-taught intermediate
algebra course; trigonometry. Use of the C programming language in engineering
analysis and design. A systematic development in program structure, specification,
documentation, testing, and debugging.
85. Digital Logic Design (3)
Discrete mathematics, logic, and Boolean algebra. Number systems and
binary arithmetic, logic gates, combinatorial logic, minimization techniques.
Analysis and design of combinatorial circuits. Flipflops, multivibrators,
registers, and counters. Introduction to sequential circuits and state machines.
Synchronous state machine design.
85L. Digital Logic Design Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: ECE 85 or concurrently. Usage, design, and implementation
techniques for combinatorial and sequential circuits. Experiments utilizing
logic gates, Karnaugh maps, multiplexers, decoders, programmable logic devices,
latches, flipflops, counters and shift registers. Combinatorial and state
machine design projects. Computer Assisted Engineering (CAE). (3 lab hours)
90. Principles of Electrical Circuits (3)
Prerequisites: PHYS 4B; MATH 77 or concurrently. Direct-current circuit
analysis; circuit theorems; transient phenomena in RL and RC circuits, phasor
concept; sinusoidal steady-state response; power and RMS calculations in
single-phase and polyphase alternating-current circuits; principles of electrical
instruments; computer solutions. (CAN ENGR 12)
90L. Principles of Electrical Circuits Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: ECE 90 or concurrently. Experiments on direct- and alternating-current
circuits, including single-phase and polyphase systems. Use of electrical
instruments, development of laboratory techniques, and verification of basic
principles. (3 lab hours)
91. Introduction to Electrical Engineering (3)
Prerequisites: PHYS 4B; MATH 76. (No credit given for ECE 91 if taken after
ECE 90). Direct current circuit analysis, transient and AC steady state
circuit analysis, basic electronics, diodes, transistors, digital systems,
digital logic circuit, simple microprocessors, DC and AC machines.
91L. Introduction to Electrical Engineering Laboratory (1)
Prerequisites: ECE 91 or concurrently. Experiments on direct and alternating
current, basic electronics, digital logic circuits, and electric machines.
102. Advanced Circuit Analysis (3)
Prerequisites: MATH 81, ECE 90. Transfer functions, RLC transient circuit
analysis, mutual inductance, transformers, two-port circuits, pole-zero
analysis, Bode plots, stability concepts, circuit response to periodic inputs,
Lapace solution techniques, frequency response, analysis of active circuits.
106. Switching Theory and Logical Design (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 85 or equivalent. Quine-McCluskey minimization; switching
functions; finite and nonfinite state machines; state assignments; synchronous
and asynchronous machines; incompletely specified sequential circuits; pulse-mode
circuits.
107. Digital Signal Processing (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 70 or CSCI 40; ECE 85, 124. Data acquisition by computers,
numerical evaluation of Fourier transforms, A/D and D/A conversion, digital
filter design, programming, and emulation of a popular digital signal processor.
114. Physical Electronics (3)
Prerequisites: PHYS 4C, ECE 128 or concurrently. Semiconductor fundamentals:
the valence bond and energy band models of solids, carrier densities and
current components. Discrete devices: the pn junction diode, BJT, MOS FET,
and JFET; the Schottky barrier diode and GaAs MESFET. Integrated circuits
and VLSI Systems. Modern fabrication techniques for discrete and integrated
devices.
115. Computer Organization (2)
Prerequisites: ECE 85 and either CSCI 40 or ECE 70. Structural organization,
hardware architecture and design of digital computer systems; binary representation
of data; CPU, memory and I/O organization; register transfer and micro-operations;
hardware/software design trade-offs. Introduction to RISC architecture and
memory organization.
118. Microprocessor Architecture and Programming (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 85 and either CSCI 40 or ECE 70. Binary representation
of data. Hardware architecture and programming models of a microprocessor.
Assembly Language program specifications, development, testing, and documentation.
Modular programming, parameter passing, macros.
119L. Senior Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of instructor. Hands-on experience
in topics in electrical and computer engineering. (3 lab hours)
120L. Computer Systems Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: ECE 118. Experiments on computer architecture and systems;
logic analyzers; serial communications; hardware and software development.
Design projects. (3 lab hours)
121. Electromechanical Systems and Energy Conversion (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 90 or 91. Principles of direct- and alternating-current
machinery and other energy-conversion devices and associated apparatus.
121L. Electromechanical Systems
and Energy Conversion Laboratory (1)
Corequisite: ECE 121. Experiments and computations on direct- and alternating-current
machinery and on other energy- conversion devices and associated apparatus.
(3 lab hours)
124. Signal and Systems (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 90, MATH 81. Analysis of discrete and continuous
linear circuits, systems, and signals. Fourier transforms, Fourier series.
Difference equations, frequency response, Z-transform. Idealized sampling
and aliasing. Stability analysis.
125. Random Signals and Stochastic System Analysis (3)
Prerequisites: MATH 81, ECE 124. Probability theory and statistical principles,
random variables and their characterization, transformations of random variables,
random processes, correlations and power spectral densities, noise characterization
and noise figure, systems' response to stochastic inputs, matched filters,
applications to communication and control systems.
126. Electromagnetic Theory and Applications I (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 90. Electrostatics; boundary value problems; magnetostatics;
time-varying fields; Maxwell's equations. Transmission of electromagnetic
energy.
128. Electronics I (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 90. Characteristics and properties of solid state devices;
theory and analysis of electronic circuits; power supply design; device
and circuit models; single- and multi-stage amplifier analysis and design;
analysis of digital circuits; computer solutions as appropriate.
128L. Electronics I Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: ECE 128 or concurrently. Experiments on static and dynamic
characteristics of solid state devices in analog and digital electronic
circuits; computer solutions as appropriate. (3 lab hours)
132. Design of Digital Systems (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 115, 118. Design of Digital Systems utilizing microprocessors;
application of assembly programming language to input/output programming,
interrupts and traps, DMA and memory management.
134. Communication Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 124. Mathematical modeling of signals; spectral density;
linear and nonlinear modulation theory; demodulators; phase lock loops;
link analysis; sampling theory; PCM and DM; digital communications; effect
of noise on systems; link design; computer simulations.
135. Digital Communications (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 125. Principles, analysis methodology, statistical performance
characteristics and design considerations of digital communication systems.
Source and channel coding, Viterbi decoding, binary and M-ary digital AM,
FM, PM, and hybrid modulation schemes. Noise performance of receivers, modem
design. Computer simulations.
136. Electromagnetic Theory and Applications II (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 126. Plane wave propagation and reflection; waveguides;
strip-lines and microstrip impedance matching, microwave circuits and S-parameters;
amplifier power gain and stability, amplifier design, antenna analysis and
design; methods for computer solution.
136L. Electromagnetic Theory and Applications Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: ECE 136. Experiments on the transmission of electromagnetic
energy through wires, waveguides, and space; filters and antennas; impedance
matching; cross-over networks; location of faults on lines. (3 lab hours)
138. Electronics II (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 102, 124, 128, 128L. Analysis and design of high frequency
amplifiers; high frequency models of transistors; operational amplifiers
and applications; feedback amplifiers; oscillators, modulators, bandpass
amplifiers, and demodulators for communications. Emphasis on modern design
methods.
138L. Electronics II Laboratory (1)
Corequisite: ECE 138 or concurrently. Design oriented experiments to study
the characteristics, limitations, and design trade-offs of circuits from
ECE 138. Emphasis on circuit and system design to meet preestablished specifications.
Design project included; computer solutions as appropriate. (3 lab hours)
140. VLSI System Design (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 114, 115, 128. Emphasis on the design of a substantial,
full custom VLSI system. Digital circuit design, fabrication principles,
physical and electrical design rules, control and data path design techniques,
system timing, design verification, simulation and testing. Project design
requires utilization of engineering workstations running an industry standard
CAD framework and incorporating a complete suite of IC design tools. Fabrication
is available for potentially successful student design projects. (Computer
lab fee, $15)
146. Computer Networking and Distributed Processing (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 115, 125. Analysis and design of modern computer networks:
layered protocols, routing; flow and congestion control; packet, message,
and circuit switching; error control and recovery; performance analysis.
Local area networks, asynchronous transfer mode and ISDN.
148. Analysis and Design of Digital Circuits (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 85, 114, 128. Analysis and design of solid state digital
circuits utilizing various logic families suitable for integration: TTL,
ECL, NMOS, CMOS; logic gates; multivibrators; ROM, PROM, EPROM, and EEPROM;
SRAM and DRAM.
151. Electrical Power Systems (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 90 (or concurrently). Power system networks and equipment,
steady-state operation, short-circuit analysis, power system stability analysis
by digital computation, synchronous generator excitation and governor systems,
system load representation, numerical analysis techniques.
152. Symmetrical Components and Short Circuit Analysis (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 90 (or concurrently). Theory of symmetrical components
and their use in power systems analysis; sequence impedances of system components;
applications in fault calculations.
155. Control Systems (3)
Prerequisites: MATH 81, ECE 102. Analysis, design, and synthesis of linear
control systems; model ing, performance evaluation, frequency response,
and stability.
162. Analog Integrated Circuits and Applications (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 138. Analysis of monolithic operational amplifiers; case
studies; Widlar and Wilson current sources; linear and non-linear applications;
multipliers, phase-lock loops, phase detectors; higher order active filters;
all-pass equalizers; D/A and A/D converters; oscillators, function generators;
mixers, modulators, regulators; system design.
166. Microwave Devices and Circuits Design (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 136. Microwave theory and techniques: slow-wave structures,
S parameters, and microwave devices, including solid-state devices such
as Gunn, IMPATT, TRAPATT, and BARITT diodes, and vacuum tubes such as klystrons,
reflex klystrons, traveling-wave tubes, magnetrons and gyrotrons.
168. Microwave Amplifier and Oscillator Design (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 136. Small-signal and large-signal amplifier designs such
as high-gain, high -power, low-noise, narrow-band and broadband amplifiers;
microwave oscillator designs such as high-power, broadband, Gunndiode and
IMPATT oscillator designs; power combining and dividing techniques; reflection
amplifier design and microwave measurements.
171. Quantum Electronics (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 126. Review of wave properties; cavity mode theory; radiation
laws; theory and morphology of lasers; laser and fiber-optic communications;
designs of optical communication systems and components.
172. Sequential Machine and Automata Theory (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 106. Structure of sequential machines; covers; partitions;
decompositions and synthesis of multiple machines. State identification
and fault detection experiments; memory characteristics of finite automata.
173. Digital Controls and Robotics (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 155. Introduction to digital controls; development and
classification of robots; components and operation of robots, types of sensors;
vision sensors; artificial intelligence; classroom demonstrations and practice
with a robot.
174. Advanced Computer Architecture (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 115, MATH 107 or ECE 125. Advanced computing architecture
concepts: discrete math; pipelining; multiprocessing and multiprogramming;
cache and virtual memory; direct memory access, local and system bus architectures;
instruction set design and coding; CPU and system performance analysis.
176. Computer-Aided Engineering in Digital Design (3)
Prerequisites: ECE 120L or concurrently. Use of Computer-Aided Engineering
tools in the design and implementation of digital systems utilizing Applications
Specific Integrated Circuits. Design projects from specification through
implementation using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Complex
Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs); simulation, timing analysis, Hardware
Definition Languages. Hands-on exposure to current tools.
186A. Senior Design I (1)
Prerequisites: senior standing in computer or electrical engineering or
permission of instructor; IE 182W or concurrently. Design projects in electrical
electrical and computer engineering.
186B. Senior Design II (2)
Prerequisite: ECE 186A. Design projects in electrical and computer engineering.
190. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6)
See Academic Placement -- Independent
Study. Approved for SP grading. (Formerly E E 190)
191T. Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
(1-3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Investigation of selected electrical
engineering subjects not in current courses. (Formerly EE 191T)
193. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cooperative Internship (1-6; max 12)
Prerequisite: permission of adviser. Engineering practice in an industrial
or governmental installation over a period of about seven months duration.
Each period must span a summer-fall or spring-summer interval. This course
cannot be used to meet graduation requirements. CR/NC grading
only.
GRADUATE COURSES
Electrical Engineering (EE)
241. Applied Electromagnetics (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 136 or permission of coordinator. Electrostatic field
boundary conditions, energy relations, and forces; multidimensional potential
problems; magnetic field boundary conditions, scalar and vector potentials,
and magnetization; Maxwell's equations for stationary and moving media;
energy, force, and momentum in an electromagnetic field; plane waves; waves
near metallic boundaries; inhomogeneous wave equation.
243. Modern Methods in Synchronous Sequential Design (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 172 or permission of coordinator. Synchronous machine
design with PLDs and FPGAs; algorithmic state machines; incompletely specified
machines; maximum compatibility classes; partitioning of sequential machines;
state merging and state splitting.
245. Communications Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 134 or permission of coordinator. Basic modulation concepts;
statistical properties of signals; transmission systems optimization against
noise; digital transmission and modulation methods; attenuation and phase
distortion in analog and digital systems; intermodulation distortion; random
multipath channels; intersystem interference.
247. Modern Semiconductor Devices (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 114 or permission of coordinator. Crystal structures and
elastic constants; lattice energy and vibrations; thermal and dielectric
properties of solids; ferroelectric and magnetic properties of crystals;
free electron model of metals; quantum statistics distributions; band theory;
semiconductor crystals; superconductivity; photoconductivity and luminescence;
dislocations.
249. Advanced Communication Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 245 or permission of coordinator. The measure of information;
noiseless coding; models of communication channels; channel capacity; discrete
memoryless channels; error correcting codes; information sources; discrete
channels with memory; continuous channels.
251. Antennas and Propagation (3)
Wave equation, plane waves, metallic boundary conditions; wave equation
for the potentials Lorentz transformation; covariant formulation of electrodynamics;
radiation from a moving charge; scattering and dispersion; Hamiltonian formulation
of Maxwell's equations.
253. Advanced Asynchronous Machine Design (3)
Asynchronous machine design; primitive flow tables; static/dynamic hazards;
state assignment; covers; partitions; decompositions; state identification
and fault detection experiments; pulse mode circuits; iterative networks;
introduction to hardware description languages.
255. Digital Signal Processing (3)
Prerequisite: ECE 107 or permission of coordinator. Discrete-time signals;
Fourier transforms; random discrete-time signals; filtered random signals;
correlation functions; power-spectral-density estimation; cross-spectral
estimates; detection of signals in noise; estimation of signals in noise;
recursive estimation of time-varying signals.
257. Optical Communications and Lasers (3)
Quantum measure of light, linear, elliptical, and circular polarization;
optical waveguide equations, ray and mode theory; source and detector characteristics;
attenuation, dispersion, and noise effects; correlation, spectral density,
noise equivalent bandwith, coding, modulation, multiplexing techniques;
systems and link design.
259. Radar System Design (3)
The nature and history of radar, the radar equation, PRF and range considerations,
CW and FM radars. MTI and pulse-Doppler radars, tracking radars. Radar power
generation, antenna types and design considerations, receivers, detection
of signals in noise, extraction of information from radar signals, propagation
of radar wave, the effects of clutter, weather and interference. Examples
of radar system engineering and design.
290. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: graduate status in engineering or permission of instructor.
Approved for SP grading.
291T. Topics in Electrical Engineering (1-3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: graduate status in engineering or permission of instructor.
Selected electrical engineering subjects not in current courses.
298. Project (3; max total 3)
Prerequisite: graduate status in engineering. See Criteria for Thesis and
Project. Independent investigation of advanced character such as analysis
and/or design of special engineering systems or projects; critical review
of state-of-the-art special topics, as the culminating requirement of the
master's degree. Abstract required. Approved for SP grading.
299. Thesis (3-6; max total 6)
Prerequisite: see Criteria for Thesis
and Project. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable
thesis for master's degree. Approved for SP grading.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Degree