Graduate Catalog: 2012-2013 - Alabama A&M University

EE 520 Power Systems I - Three semester hours.Same as EE 420. Fundamental concepts of powersystem analysis, transmission line parameters, basicsystem models, steady state performance, networkcalculations, power flow solutions, symmetricalcomponents, fault studies, operating strategies andcontrol. Prerequisite: undergraduate course orexperience in energy conversionEE 521 Power Systems II - Three semester hours.Same as EE 421. Generating station characteristics,transmission line calculations, load studies andeconomic operations, and stability. Prerequisite: EE520 or extensive experience in power systemsEE 524 Advanced Digital Systems - Threesemester hours. Same as EE 424. A course designedto provide digital system design experience usingthe Verilog hardware description language (VerilogHDL). The history of descriptive hardware designand features of hardware description languages areexplained along with design and simulationexamples. With the use of the industry standardsimulation and synthesis tools, designs will beconstructed, synthesized, and configured in FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGA) or otherProgrammable Logic Devices. Prerequisite:undergraduate course or experience withmicroprocessorsEE 531 Advanced Semiconductor Engineering –Three semester hours. Same as EE 431*. Principlesof device electronics, physics of band models,Schottky barriers, bipolar and unipolar devices,conduction phenomena, SRH generationrecombinationstatistics, role of defects and noise.The course provides an introduction to widebandgapsemiconductors and devices. Prerequisite:undergraduate course or experience insemiconductor engineeringEE 541 Digital Signal Processing - Three semesterhours. Same as EE 441. A review of discrete timesignals and systems; sampling of continuous timesignals, sampling theorem; discrete time Fouriertransforms; Z-transforms; region of convergence;applications; discrete Fourier transforms; fastFourier transforms; design of digital filters, IIRfilters, FIR filters, and computer-aided design.Prerequisite: undergraduate course or experience insignal processingEE 545 Advanced Electromagnetic Theory -Three semester hours. Same as EE 445. Solution ofLaplace’s equation in two dimensions, circularharmonics, cylindrical harmonics, method of finitedifferences; wave propagation, perfect dielectrics,conductors, lossy dielectrics, transmission lineanalogy, Smith chart solutions; and computerapplications. Prerequisite: undergraduate course inelectromagnetic theoryEE 551 Integrated Circuit Fabrication - Threesemester hours. Same as EE 451*. Introduction toprinciples of monolithic IC fabrication includingbipolar and MOS transistor processing. The courseincludes active and passive device and processdesign, simulation, cleanroom procedures, inprocessand final test and evaluation techniques,yield, chip assembly and packaging. Prerequisite:undergraduate course or experience insemiconductor devicesEE 552 Semiconductor Instrumentation - Threesemester hours. Same as EE 452*. Basic principlesof semiconductor testing and evaluation. Varioustools and techniques will be introduced for test andevaluation of semiconductor materials, devices andintegrated circuits. Prerequisite: undergraduatecourse or experience in semiconductor devicesEE 555 Optimal Control Theory - Three semesterhours. Same as EE 455. A review of state spacemethods; optimal control problems, performancecriterion, minimum time problems, minimum energyproblems, and minimum fuel problems;optimization, using calculus of variations, Lagrange,Meyer, and Bolza problems, Lagrange equations,solution, applications; Pontryagin’s maximumprinciple, formulation, co-state variables, solution;dynamic programming, principle of optimality,discrete control processes; Hamilton-Jacobiapproach, closed loop control law, matrix Riccatiequation, applications; and stability in the sense ofLyapunov. Prerequisite: undergraduate course incontrol theoryEE 556 Nonlinear Control Systems - Threesemester hours. Same as EE 456. A study ofnonlinearities, classification, saturation, dead zone,hysteresis; phase plane formulation, phase portraits;description of function approach, limit cycles, andrelay servomechanisms. Prerequisite:undergraduate course in control theoryELEMENTARY EDUCATIONELE 509 Evaluation in Elementary Schools –Three semester hours. This course is designed todevelop candidates’ understanding of the principles123