Schedule of Classes

Introduction to electrical engineering. Topics includes: voltage, current, resistance, power, and energy, fundamentals of DC circuit analysis using Ohm's and Kirchoff's laws, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, superposition, DC analysis of operational amplifiers, and simulation and analysis of DC circuits using SPICE.

Introduction to computers and operating systems; introduction to programming in a high level language appropriate to electrical engineering.

Digital communication systems; modulation; demodulation; maximum likelihood detection; trade-offs between bandwidth and power; bit error rate; channel coding techniques: block coding, convolutional coding, and iterative decoding; mutual information; channel capacity; trellis-coded modulation; synchronization. Cross-listed as ECE 532.

Digital communication systems; modulation; demodulation; maximum likelihood detection; trade-offs between bandwidth and power; bit error rate; channel coding techniques: block coding, convolutional coding, and iterative decoding; mutual information; channel capacity; trellis-coded modulation; synchronization. Cross-listed as ECE 432.

Topics of special interest which may vary each time course is offered. Topic stated in current Schedule of Classes. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 semester hours.