Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
INEL 4146. IONOSPHERIC RADIO WAVES
PROPAGATION. Three credit hours. Three hours
of lecture per week. Prerequisite: INEL 4152.
Introduction to magnetoionic theory of ionospheric
radio wave propagation; physics of the ionosphere;
the dispersion equation in the ionosphere; ray
theory; nonlinear processes and discussion of some
ionospheric experiments.
INEL 4151. ELECTROMAGNETICS I. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: (MATE 3063 or MATE 3185) and
(FISI 3172 or FISI 3162). Co-requisite: MATE
4009.
Static and time-varying electric and magnetic
fields; dielectric, magnetic and conducting
materials; capacitance, inductance and
conductivity; magnetic circuits; dielectric and
magnetic hysteresis; Maxwell's equations; wave
equation.
INEL 4152. ELECTROMAGNETICS II. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: MATE 4009 and INEL 4151.
Maxwell equations and the wave equation; plane
electromagnetic waves in dielectric and conducting
media; energy flow and the Poynting vector; wave
polarization, reflection, refraction and diffraction.
Guided waves; transmission lines; conductive and
dielectric wave guides; Smith chart; impedance
matching, cavity resonators; single antenna.
INEL 4201. ELECTRONICS I. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: INEL 3105 and (FISI 3172 or FISI
3162).
Semiconductor device characteristics;
semiconductor diodes, bipolar junction transistors
and field effect transistors; analysis of basic digital
circuits; analysis and design considerations of
transistor amplifiers; introduction to integrated
circuits.
INEL 4202. ELECTRONICS II. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: INEL 4201 and INEL 4102.
Analysis and design of multi-stage amplifiers, wave
generation and power circuits; operational amplifier
characteristics and applications.
INEL 4205. LOGIC CIRCUITS. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: INGE 3016. Co-requisite: INEL
4201.
Boolean algebra, its theorems and postulates.
Design of combinational circuits; minimization and
reduction techniques, use of medium or large scale
integration (MSI/LSI) in digital circuit design;
analysis and design of sequential circuits; practical
design considerations.
INEL 4206. MICROPROCESSORS. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: INEL 4205 and INEL 4201.
Architecture, organization and operation of
microprocessors and their supporting devices;
design of microprocessor-based systems.
INEL 4207. DIGITAL ELECTRONICS. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: INEL 4201 and INEL 4205.
Theory of operation of transistor-transistor logic
(TTL) and metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS)
gates; operation of semiconductor memories;
programmable logic arrays (PLA); operational
amplifiers; multivibrators; analog gates; analog to
digital (A/D) and digital to analog (D/A)
converters.
INEL 4211. ELECTRONICS LABORATORY I.
One credit hour. One three-hour laboratory per
week. Prerequisites: INEL 4115. Co-requisite:
INEL 4201.
Experiments with basic amplifiers and digital
circuits. Design and testing of simple electronic
circuits.
INEL 4212. ELECTRONICS LABORATORY II.
One credit hour. One three-hour laboratory per
week. Prerequisites: INEL 4211. Co-requisite:
INEL 4202.
Experiments and projects with electronic circuits
emphasizing their design.
INEL 4215. COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
AND ORGANIZATION. Three credit hours.
Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:
INEL 4206.
Architectural aspects of general purpose computers:
instruction sets, addressing modes, data types,
registers, support for programming languages and
operating systems. Comparative study of
commercial architectures. Organizational aspects
of general purpose computers: central processing
unit, control unit, microprogramming, arithmetic
and logic units, memory systems, input/output
systems.
298 Undergraduate Catalogue 2004-2005