Courses and Electives
The curriculum in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering includes:
Areas of Concentration
Optional areas of concentration have been defined within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program to allow a student to develop strength in a particular area of interest. Students satisfying the requirements of an area of concentration will have that fact noted on their transcripts.
Curriculum Charts
The following curriculum charts give a visual representation of the EE curriculum over eight terms. In the case of co-op students, these sequences are altered depending on the term the co-op experience is started.
Lab Courses
The Undergraduate Program includes four required laboratory courses. The first, taken during the sophomore year, is the Digital Systems Laboratory. This course complements the circuits, digital logic, and computer organization courses that are being taken at the same time. In the lab projects, students gain practical experience with the analysis techniques being covered in lectures and are introduced to cost, size, and complexity tradeoffs that are part of the design process. Design tools and documentation standards are introduced.
Two electronic laboratories (Electronic Measurements and Circuits and Electronics Circuit Design), taken during the junior year, continue to strengthen the students’ skills in analysis and design. The students work with more complex systems, including power supplies (regulated and unregulated), BJT and FET amplifier designs, and operational amplifier circuits and applications.
The fourth required lab is Digital Signal Processing. Students apply the mathematical concepts presented in the required course Signals and Systems to real engineering problems, such as representation of continuous signals in a computer, determination of system stability, filter design, and real-time computing applications. Students become very proficient with the MATLAB software system, which is incorporated throughout the curriculum and is extensively used in this lab.
In addition to the formal laboratory courses, several of the electives have associated laboratories to provide students with practical experience in applying the techniques covered in lectures.
Seminar
Student are expected to attend the Undergraduate Seminar each term during their sophomore, junior, and senior years.
The seminar presents topics that are not discussed in regular courses but are of importance to the academic and professional development of undergraduate students. Examples of these topics include curriculum planning, how and where engineers work, methods for career development, ethical concerns, and opportunities for engineers in medicine, law, and other professions.
Speakers from within and outside the University community provide different perspectives on these issues that are critical to the professional success of students. The seminar meets for one hour per week during each fall and spring term. Students are required to enroll in and attend the seminar each fall and spring term they are on campus.
The seminar meets for one hour per week during each fall and spring term.
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Special Projects
The ECE 1898 Special Projects Course is a course designed to be used for unique situations that may occur within a particular student's program. The use of this course to fulfill a requirement generally falls into one of the following three categories:
- EE Required or Elective Course
- Technical Elective
- EE Design Course
The approval mechanism for each of these situations is through the EE Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. In each case the student must submit a petition to the undergraduate administrator indicating the work to be accomplished, the rationale for using this particular course number, and the signature of the faculty member who has agreed to monitor the completion of the course work and grading.
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