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College of Engineering 331 Engineering Building General Statement Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Master of Science
Engineering Course Descriptions- |
CE 598, 599. Independent Study. (1-3 s.h.) Special study in a particular aspect of industrial hygiene or environmental health engineering under the direct supervision of an appropriate graduate faculty member.
CE 620. Transportation Engineering Materials. (3 s.h.) The physical properties of asphalt, aggregates, portland cement, portland cement concrete, and their combinations. Advanced techniques in material characterization in the lab and the field. Material variability, sampling, and statistical techniques; impact of these properties on their characterization of the design, construction, rehabilitation and management of transportation facilities including portland cement concrete pavements with steel reinforcement; construction methodologies, recycling, and energy consideration; application of the state-of-the-art computer software packages. CE 635. Computer Modeling of Environmental Transport. (3 s.h.) Theory and computer modeling of transport and diffusion within and across media; application of models to problems of air, water and soil pollution with case studies. CE 641. Water and Wastewater Systems Design. (3 s.h.) The design of water distribution and sewage handling facilities including sewers, pumping stations, seepage beds, septic tanks, spray irrigation and natural treatment systems such as overload and swamp treatment. CE 646. Solid Wastes Engineering. (3 s.h.) The design of solid waste collection, separation and processing facilities, and disposal operations such as incinerators and landfills. CE 676. Construction Equipment Management. (3 s.h.) Concepts and theories of construction equipment operation and ownership costs and their relationship to production systems. Analysis of depreciation and fixed costs for equipment pricing on construction projects. Selection and use of construction equipment. Equipment economics and financing. CE 706. Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Resistant Design. (3 s.h.) Behavior and analysis of simple and complex structures subjected to dynamic loads, using exact and approximate analytical techniques. Determination of free response and force response using modal superposition and numerical integration. Review of the characteristics of earthquakes with consideration of site and structural parameters on the response of buildings. Application of analysis and design procedures required to achieve earthquake resistant structures in accordance with building code specifications. CE 723. Pavement Management and Traffic Systems Management. (3 s.h.) Pavement management and traffic systems management; advanced computer software packages related to these topics. CE 735. Hazardous Waste Management. (3 s.h.) Prerequisite: CE 635. Physical and chemical principles of hazardous waste management, including identification, mitigation and disposal. Permit requirements are presented. CE 776. Advanced Engineering Project Management. (3 s.h.) Prerequisite: CE 635. Analysis of project control, job budgeting and costing, safety and risk management, bidding strategies and management, construction information management. Case studies of construction projects and company profiles.
CE 790. Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering. (3 s.h.) Selected advanced topics in various major research areas in civil and environmental engineering.
CE 795. Research Project. (3 s.h.) Under the guidance of a faculty member, students will select a topic in civil and environmental engineering to be researched using at least five references. An extensive research paper will be written which will be reviewed by two faculty members. Projects related to industrial applications are encouraged. For non-thesis students only.
CE 796, 797. Research I, II. (1-6 s.h. each) Under the guidance of a faculty member, the student will conduct an independent research on a selected topic in civil and environmental engineering. The research results will be presented in the form of a paper.
CE 798. Thesis I. (3 s.h.) Formulation of the thesis topic. Literature review and research of the proposed topic. Written submission of the thesis proposal. CE 799. Thesis II (3 s.h.) Prerequisites: CE 798 and acceptance of the thesis proposal. Completion and oral presentation of the thesis work. Submission of the written thesis. Electrical and Computer Engineering Additional courses are listed below under Engineering (ENGR).
Unless otherwise stated the prerequisite is the instructor's permission.
EE 400. Analog and Digital Communications. (3 s.h.) Baseband pulse, digital, and passband communications systems; properties and bandwidth of signals and noise, distortionless transmission, intersymbol interference, pulse code modulation, amplitude modulation and demodulation hardware systems. A term project will be assigned. EE 410. Digital Signal Processing and Analysis. (3 s.h.) Various types of digital signal processing (DSP) techniques such as convolution, correlation, filtering, sampling, decimation, and interpolation. The Discrete Fourier Transform and its algorithmic counterpart the FFT; spectral analysis and the use of MATLAB as a tool for DSP software tasks. A term project will be assigned. EE 420. Telecommunications Engineering. (3 s.h.) Baseband and bandpass digital modulation techniques, time and frequency division multiplexing, spread spectrum modulation, microwave and satellite link budget analysis, fiber optics, and personal communication services (PCS) in telecommunications engineering. A term project will be assigned. EE 435. Advanced Microprocessor Systems. (3 s.h.) An introduction to the hardware and software interaction of single and multiple task operating systems for instrument and process control: assembly language programming of the INTEL 8086/80286 microprocessor and 8087/80287 math co-processor; high level language interfaces, interrupts, polling, DMA access, intertask communication, dynamic and static memory allocations. A term project will be assigned. EE 455. Microelectronics. (3 s.h.) Advanced study of electronic devices and their applications to linear, non-linear, and digital circuits; transistors, FET's, amplifiers, digital integrated circuits, and VLSI's; Software design emphasized. A term project will be assigned. EE. 475 VLSI Systems Design. (3 s.h.) Prerequisite: EE 455. An introduction to a hierarchical design methodology of VLSI; study of basic logic elements and design methods in nMOS and CMOS; the physics of MOS devices and fabrications processes; design rules and computation of circuit parameters from layout; system level design techniques. A term project will be assigned.
EE 500. Introduction to VLSI Logic Devices (3 s.h) Modeling of the electrical properties of MOS VLSI transistor devices; manufacturing processes and the relationship among the process steps, physical layout, and electrical characteristics; the effect of scaling on device properties; interpretation of design rules for physical layout and rue checking and methodologies; CMOS circuit and logic design issues such as: logic structures, clocking strategies, power dissipation and design of I/O structures; contemporary CMOS design methods and technologies; use of SPICE for circuit modeling, L-EDIT for understanding layout and mask fabrication and EPOCH for automated layout of standard cells. EE 502. Computer Engineering. (3 s.h.) Combinational and sequential logic; state machines; basic logic functions; logic optimization; design for testability; complex computational structures; contemporary implementations; clocking and pipelining; microprogramming; controllers and data path structures, hardware description languages; design abstraction and modeling methodologies; VHDL syntax; simulation of behavioral and RTL level structures using VHDL. EE 503. Physical Electronics. (3 s.h.) Introduction to elemental and compound semiconductors; p-n junction, bipolar transistors, JFETs, MOSFETs; band diagrammatic techniques, scaling laws; device performance and device limitations. EE 542. Applications in Digital Signal Processing. (3 s.h.) Contemporary issues of speech processing and image processing; speech coding, decoding, linear prediction, feature extraction, and MPEG; JPEG compression and methods of high resolution digital television. The computer is extensively used. EE 551. Digital Communications Systems. (3 s.h.) Coherent and non-coherent detection of binary and M-ary signals in noise; waveform coding, linear block coding; convolutional and cyclic codes, and the error probability and bandwidth-efficiency plane in the design of digital communications systems. EE 555. Introduction to Intelligent Systems Engineering (3 s.h) Fundamentals of neural networks, feedforward and recurrent networks, network training, control systems applications; expert systems, knowledge representation and acquisition, qualitative and quantitative reasoning, diagnostic system applications, fuzzy logic, fuzzy sets, and algebra system representation using fuzzy sets, control system implementation and example. EE 598, 599. Independent Study. (1-6 s.h.) Special study in a particular aspect of Electrical Engineering under the direct supervision of a graduate faculty member. EE 600. Introduction to VLSI Logic Design. (3 s.h.) Prerequisite: EE 500. Logic synthesis basics; synthesis of combinational and sequential devices; CAD technology for modeling, simulation, synthesis and layout; design tool integration; VHDL-based design methodologies; VITAL standard; testability, boundary scan and DFT; mapping to standard cells and FPGAs; design from concept to implementation. EE 602. Advanced Computer Engineering. (3 s.h.) Prerequisite: EE 502. Threshold logic, asynchronous sequential circuits, finite automata, introduction to neural networks, levels of simulation, hardware description language performance measurements, evaluation, and testing.
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