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Study of ethical and professional responsibilities in the area of electrical engineering. The impact of solutions related to electrical engineering in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. Students are expected to develop a career plan and gain awareness regarding the importance of lifelong learning skills.

Lumped vs. distributed electrical circuits. Transient response of lossless transmission lines. Sinusoidal steady-state waves on lossless transmission lines. Smith chart and impedance matching techniques and networks. Review of vector calculus. Maxwell's equations and solution of wave equations. Uniform plane electromagnetic waves in a simple unbounded lossless medium.

Introduction to digital systems. TTL and CMOS 74-series logic families. Register-transfer level (RTL) combinational and sequential circuit design principles and practices using 74-series devices. Overview of programmable logic device (PLD) architectures. Combinational and sequential circuit designs using a hardware description language. Fee: $75

Computer systems evolution. Processor to memory interface. Introduction to microcontrollers. Microcontroller instruction set architecture and assembly language programming. Parallel input/output device interfacing. Timers and interrupt handling. UART and Inter-IC (12C) serial communications. Analog-to-digital converter interface. Implementation of a microcontroller-based embedded system. Fee: $75

Basic concepts of electronic circuit analysis and design. Physical operation and modeling of diodes, Bipolar Junction Transistors and MOSFETs. Small-signal analysis of electronic circuits. Amplifier biasing and bias-point stability. Use of SPICE as a design tool.

EE 352 is a continuation of EE 351. It includes advanced analog circuit theory, analysis, and simulation using PSPICE. Topics include 1) BJT and MOS transistor amplifiers, 2) frequency response, 3) feedback and, 4) opamp active filters. EE 352 provides the theoretical foundation for the companion electronics laboratory course, EE 371.

Companion laboratory course to the EE 352 Electronics Circuits II lecture course. Students analyze, assemble, and test various electronic circuits. Students perform rigorous AC and DC measurements using state-of-the-art instrumentation and correlate results to theoretical analysis. Rigorous written reporting of laboratory results is required. Designated as a Writing in the Discipline course. Fee: $50

Familiarization with the laboratory equipment. Basic gate operations. Combinational logic design using SSI, MSI, and LSI logic devices. Logic design with programmable logic devices. Sequential logic circuits. MSI counters. Designated as a Writing in the Discipline course. Fee: $75