EE2003: Electrical Circuit Analysis
EE3113: Signals and Linear Systems
EE7323: Fiber Communication Systems
Last taught: Spring 1996.
Next/Current: N/A
The course covers the basic principles, laws, and methods to solving elementary electrical circuits containing sources and linear elements. The concepts of voltage, current, power, and energy are defined. The properties and equations governing resistors, inductors, capacitors, and operational amplifiers are described and applied. Elementary circuit theorems such as Kirchoff's Voltage and Current Laws, Superposition, Source Transformation, Scaling, and Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits are discovered and used to simplify circuit analysis. Analysis methods and techniques, including Node and Mesh Analysis, Phasors, and Bode Plots are demonstrated and used to discover the behavior of static and dynamic circuits.
Last Taught: Summer 1998.
Next/Current: Summer 1999.
The course is intended to help the student develop a set of fundamental and highly useful tools for the manipulation and analysis of signals and the systems which generate and process the signals. The first part of the course concentrates on signal representation, signal properties, and the properties of systems. The topic of convolution is then discussed, the first method by which the output of a system (electrical or otherwise) can be calculated for each input without analyzing the entire system. Frequency-domain methods for achieving the same goal in an easier and more informative manner are then examined in detail, including fourier series, fourier and laplace transforms. Digital signal concepts and z-transforms are discussed as time permits.
Last Taught: Fall 1998
Next/Current: Fall 1999.
An introduction to nonlinear electrical elements, primarily transistors and diodes, and the methods by which circuits containing these elements can be analyzed and designed.
Last Taught: Spring 1999
Next Current: Spring 2000.
A self-guided laboratory covering many of the topics discussed in Electronics I and introducing the student to the use of curve tracers, oscillating circuits and measurement and diagnostic techniques for evaluating amplifier circuits.
I hope to have the actual lab assignments on the web, if time permits.
Last Taught: Spring 1999
Next Current: Spring 2000
This course expands upon the basic circuits designed in Electronics I and examines methods of modeling, controlling, and measuring the performance of transistor circuits, particularly amplifiers, is examined, and sever new circuits are introduced, including the diferential amplifier, amplifier output stages, current sources, and operational amplifiers. The use of feedback to control and stabilize the performance of circuits (and general systems) is examined, in combination with the two-port network model of linear circuits.
Last Taught: Fall 1995
Next/Current: Unknown
An introduction to the broad area of transmitting information over communication systems. Students begin by defining the concept of information in mathematical terms, and determine how the definition relates to the realities of data transmission. Significant time is spent on analyzing the properties of analog communication systems and discussing problems encountered in the design of such systems, particularly problems resulting from the introduction of noise. Students will need to hone skills in the analysis methods introduced in EE3113 (see above) at this stage to be prepared for the digital system analysis in the last third of the course. Elementary digtial methods are discussed, and recent developments such as spread spectrum communications are introduced.
Last Taught: Summer 1999
Next/Current: Spring 2000
This course is effectively divided into four parts. The first three parts cover one each of the three basic properties of light propagation and manipulation: Direction, amplitude (polarization), and phase. In each of these parts, fundamental concpets regarding these properties are disucssed and demonstrated and applications investigated both in class and in the laboratory. The final section connects all of these properties and concepts in order to describe advanced optics, including fiber optics, lasers, diffraction, and holography. Students will experiemtns with both fundamental and advanced concpets in separately scheduled laboratory sessions.
Last Taught: Fall 2001
Next/Current: Fall 2001
This course looks at the components, structures, and concepts of building and managing optical networks.
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Last Taught: Fall 1998
Next/Current: Fall 1999
The objective of this course is to give the student a working knowledge in the components and operation of optical communications systems, including design evaluation and system budgeting. In particular, recent advances in system components pertinent to future systems will be introduced.