Course Descriptions

Objects and classes, constructors, static variables, constants and methods, visibility modifiers, passing objects and object arrays to methods, immutability, variable scopes, class abstraction and encapsulation, super and subclass concepts, inheritance, polymorphism, overriding, overloading, abstract classes, object-oriented design.

To develop the skills required to analyze electrical properties, such as voltage, current, power and energy, in circuits driven by time varying sources; using mathematical transformations. To develop the ability of using mathematical transformations to model engineering systems.

Circuit simulation and design by SPICE software. Measurements using voltmeters, ammeters, oscilloscopes and other instruments. Application of circuit principles introduced in EE 221 and EE 222: Resistive circuits, circuit analysis, frequency response tests with RL and RC networks. Two-port circuit parameters. Passive and active filters. Design, simulation and measurement of electrical circuits.

Conduction mechanism in metals and semi-conductors, doping in semi-conductors, p-n junction. Diode characteristics and applications. Bipolar Junction. Transistor operation, transistor characteristics, transistor biasing, small-signal modeling and analysis. JFET operation and biasing, MOSFET operation and biasing. FET small-signal modeling and analysis. BJT and JFET amplifiers' frequency response.

Number systems. Boolean algebra, logic networks and their simplification. Logic design with gates. MSI and LSI technologies. Combinatorial circuits, sequential circuits. Counters, shift registers, arithmetic logic, memory and control units.

Experiments with logic gates and combinational circuits, digital arithmetic circuits, multiplexers, flip-flops, counters, shift registers.

Electrostatic fields. Dielectric properties of materials. Stationary electric currents and static magnetic fields. Time-varying electromagnetic fields. Faraday's induction. Maxwell's equations. Time-harmonic electromagnetic waves. Uniform plane waves.

Types of energy, energy conversion principles, electromechanical energy conversion. DC machines: equivalent circuits, operating characteristics, voltage and velocity regulations. Transformers: equivalent circuits, operating characteristics and transformer testing. Induction motors and generators, stepping motors. AC synchronous machines.

Matlab environment. Vector, matrix and array operations. Matlab commands. Plotting and graphics. Symbolic math. Matlab programming. Search and sort algorithms. Simulink and modeling. Graphical user interfaces. Circuit analysis. Signal processing and applications.

Diode characteristics and applications. Transistor biasing. Measurement of transistor parameters. Single and multistage transistor amplifiers. Amplifier frequency response. DC power supplies and regulator circuits. Design and simulation of differential amplifiers, active filters, oscillator circuits and power amplifiers.