Introduction to Electrical Engineering
The basics of analog and digital circuits as an introduction to electrical and computer engineering. Concepts of voltage, current, power, resistance, capacitance, binary numbers, digital coding, and A/D interfacing. Circuit analysis techniques such as Kirchhoff's Laws, branch currents, node voltages, and mesh currents. Thevenin's and Norton's equivalent circuits. Device modeling of simple op amps, diodes, transistors, logic gates, and flip-flops.

Laboratory Instrumentation/Measurement
Laboratory instruction on the proper use of electronic measuring instruments, including function generators, voltmeters, and oscilloscopes. Loading and frequency effects.

Electrical Power and Circuits
Fundamental electric-circuit techniques, including Kirchhoff's laws, superposition, phasor transforms, power in sinusoidal-steady systems, frequency response, filters, Fourier-series methods, Laplace-transform techniques, transformers, and two-port networks.

Engineering Electronics
Fundamentals of electronic circuits and components, network models of amplifiers, basic semiconductor device physics, diodes, bipolar and MOS transistors, basic analog and digital circuit elements, frequency response, feedback and stability. Introduction to computer circuit simulation.

Electromagnetics and Transmission
Brief introduction to vector calculus, definition of electric and magnetic fields. Maxwell’s equations in integral and differential forms, electromagnetic-wave propagation in free space and in material regions, Poynting theorem, and electromagnetic power. Transmission lines (transient and steady-state analysis), Smith chart, and impedance matching techniques. Basic principles of radiation and propagation in waveguides.

Control Systems
Analysis of systems using Laplace transforms; transfer functions, stability, steady-state responses, and transient responses. Feedback control: PID and lead-lag controllers, design using root-locus, and phase-locked loops. Frequency-domain design: Bode plots, filter design, and Nyquist criterion.

Thermodynamics
Thermodynamic properties, open and closed systems, equations of state, heat and work, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, Carnot cycle, introduction to power and refrigeration cycles. Basic mechanisms of heat transfer, law of conservation of energy, conduction, convection, radiation, heat transfer with change of phase, heat exchangers.

Design
Students do necessary library research, develop writing skills, discuss issues of professionalism, prepare and submit a senior-thesis proposal, and receive approval from faculty. Capstone project for computer engineering majors. Formal written reports, one or more oral presentations.

Seminar
Selected presentations from individuals who deal with different aspects of the practice of electrical engineering.