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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Education-Workshops

  
  • EHD 472 - Workshop in Secondary Education (Activity)


    Designed to increase competence of the teacher, administrator, and other school personnel. Considers literature, research and materials concerned with a special aspect of secondary education.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-6

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  
  • ECE 100 - Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar


    Introduces first year and transfer students to different aspects of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering programs and exploration of career paths and professional responsibilities.  Presentations will be made by the instructor, faculty, and industry speakers.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECE 101 - Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering


    Introduction to information and concepts of general use in Electrical and Computer Engineering.  Topics include: basic use of personal computers, mathematical concepts, development of problem solving skills with professional communication.  Students work in teams on projects involving digital and motor control.  

    Prerequisites: Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering majors only or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 177 - Introduction to Programming for Engineers


    Introduction to computer programming with emphasis on algorithms and an understanding of underlying hardware. Topics include syntax, variables, control structures, pointers, operators, functions, and input and output. 

    Prerequisites: ECE 101 and MAT 126.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 198 - Selected Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering


    Topics in electrical engineering not regularly covered in other courses. May include ECE topics suitable for advanced first-year students. Content can be varied to suit current needs.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 1-3
  
  • ECE 209 - Fundamentals of Electric Circuits


    Basic circuit laws and theorems, operational amplifiers, natural and forced response of first order circuits, phasors and steady-state AC circuits, 3 phase circuits. For non-majors. Lec 3.

    Prerequisites: MAT 127, PHY 122.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 210 - Electric Circuits


    Topics include: Basic circuit laws and theorems, nodal analysis, op-amps, natural and forced responses of first and second order systems, phasor concepts, solution of steady-state AC circuits, AC power calculations, frequency response, basic filters, Bode plots, and Fourier Series.

    Prerequisites: MAT 127

    Corequisites: PHY 122

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 211 - Electrical Networks II


    Natural and forced responses of second order systems, polyphase circuits, magnetically coupled circuits, frequency domain analysis, Bode plots, two-port parameters, Fourier series applications. Lec 3

    Prerequisites: ECE 210, MAT 228.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 214 - Electrical Circuits Laboratory


    Lab exercise and circuit simulations demonstrate concepts presented in ECE 210.  Participants become familiar with circuit simulation, safety and grounding considerations, instrumentation, e.g., oscilloscopes, signal sources, multimeters, and signal analyzers.  Also of particular significance will be the development of technical writing skills.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive.

    Prerequisites: ECE 210

    Corequisites: ECP 214

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 2
  
  • ECE 271 - Microcomputer Architecture and Applications


    The microcomputer and its component parts including microprocessors, registers, memory and I/O.  Programming in C and Assembly and applying the microcomputer in engineering systems.  Lec 3.

    Prerequisites: ECE 177.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 275 - Sequential Logic Systems


    Methods of design and testing for logic systems with memory. Includes procedures and the design of system tests, combinational design, multi-level circuits, logic minimization, sequential design, analysis and optimization and the use of computer tools for logic design. Lec 3. (Fall.)

    Prerequisites: ECE 177.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 314 - Signals and Systems


    Analysis of continuous linear time-invariant systems including Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Laplace transform techniques and their applications; transformation and properties of continuous signals and systems, convolution, transfer functions and state variable system representations. 

    Prerequisites: MAT 258 and a grade of  C-  or better in ECE 210.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 316 - Random Signal Analysis


    This course introduces the fundamental concepts of random signal analysis based on probability theory and random processes.  It presents the mathematical and engineering tools to analyze and interpret random events occurring in natural phenomena, games, sciences, and engineering.

    Prerequisites: MAT 228.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 323 - Electric Power Conversion


    AC/DC power conversion, linear and switching power supplies, magnetic circuits, inductors, transformers, fundamentals of electromechanical energy conversion, basic properties of electric motors.

    Prerequisites: ECE 214 and at least a C- in ECE 210.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 331 - Introduction to Unix Systems Administration


    Topics include hardware and devices, file systems, user management, backup and recovery, application management, and network services such as NFS, NIS, DNS, DHCP, electronic mail and web servers. Problem solving and diagnostic methods, performance tuning, legal and professional issues, ethics and policies and security aspects of hosts on the Internet are discussed. Students gain hands-on experience and complete a project.

    Prerequisites: COS 220 or ECE 177.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 342 - Electronics I


    Investigates semiconductor fundamentals of the p-n junction, BJT and MOSFET. Static and low frequency dynamic models are developed and utilized in design and analysis. Explores basic electronic circuit building blocks based on diodes, BJT’s MOSFET’s and fully-compensated op-amps. Digital efforts are concentrated in the CMOS and pseudo-NMOS areas.

    General Education Requirements: Together with ECP 342, this course satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive requirement.

    Prerequisites: ECE 214 and at least a C- in ECE 210

    Corequisites: ECP 342

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 343 - Electronics II


    Introduces design and analysis of semiconductor circuits. Analog networks include amplifiers, power supplies and oscillators. Digital efforts are concentrated in the CMOS and pseudo-NMOS areas with a brief look at the BJT logic. Explores basic concepts of frequency response, feedback and data conversion. Lec 3, Lab 3. (Spring.)

    Prerequisites: ECE 342.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 351 - Fields and Waves


    Topics include: Transmission lines and wave propagation with special emphasis on transverse electromagnetic waves in dielectric and lossy media, complex numbers, vectors, phasors, vector calculus, Smith Chart, electrostatics, magnetostatics, Gauss’s laws, Faraday’s law, Ampere’s law, Maxwell’s equations, properties of dielectric and ferromagnetic materials, time varying fields, wave reflection and transmission, waveguides, radiation.

    Prerequisites: MAT 228 and C- or better in ECE 210.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 394 - Electrical and Computer Engineering Practice


    Work experience in electrical engineering and/or computer engineering. May be repeated for credit.

    (Pass/Fail Grade Only.)

    Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-3

  
  • ECE 401 - Electrical Engineering Design Project


    First of a three semester sequence of courses involving the design, implementation and reporting of an engineering device, system or software package by an individual student or small group. Part one: project selection, feasibility studies and proposal writing. (Spring.)

    Prerequisites: ECE 342 and either ECE 314 or ECE 351; Electrical Engineering Majors

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECE 402 - Electrical Engineering Design Project


    Second of a three semester sequence of courses involving the design, implementation and reporting of an engineering device, system or software package by an individual student or small groups. Part two: resource location, module debugging, prototype testing. (Fall.)

    Prerequisites: ECE 401; Electrical Engineering Majors

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 403 - Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Project


    Third of a three semester sequence of courses involving the design, implementation and reporting of an engineering device, system or software package by an individual student or small group. Part three: written and oral presentation of the completed project.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Capstone Experience Requirements. 

    Prerequisites: ECE 402 or ECE 406.

    Corequisites: ECP 403

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 2
  
  • ECE 405 - Computer Engineering Design Project


    First of a three semester sequence of courses involving the design, implementation and reporting of an engineering device, system or software package by an individual student or small group.  Part one: project selection, feasibility studies and proposal writing.

    Prerequisites: Computer Engineering Majors, ECE 271 and any two of the following courses - ECE 342, ECE 471, ECE 473, and ECE 477.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECE 406 - Computer Engineering Design Project


    Second of a three semester sequence of courses involving the design, implementation and reporting of an engineering device, system or software package by an individual student or small groups.  Part two: resource location, module debugging, prototype testing.

    Prerequisites: Computer Engineering Majors, ECE 405 and ECE 214

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 414 - Feedback Control Systems


    Analysis and design of continuous control systems using transfer function and state variable system representations. Covers signal flow graphs and Mason’s gain formula, decomposition of transfer functions, controllability and observability, root locus techniques, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, Nyquist criterion, controller design in time and frequency domains, State feedback, phase lead and lag controllers, PID type controllers.

    Prerequisites: ECE 314

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 417 - Introduction to Robotics


    Introduces robotics and operation of microcomputer-controlled manipulators with their applications in automation. Includes a general review of robot structure, current application of robots in automation, spatial descriptions and coordinate transformations, manipulator kinematics and solutions, robot control and path planning, dynamics and vision in robot application. Lec 2, Lab 3. (Fall.)

    Prerequisites: MAT 228 and ECE 177 or COS 220.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 427 - Electric Power Systems


    Power system models, power flow solutions, fault analysis, protective relaying.

    Prerequisites: At least a C- in ECE 210.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 435 - Network Engineering


    Focuses on the engineering aspects of data networks including physical media and interconnections, signals and noise, modulation, multiplexing, frame and packet transmission, routing, network design and network management.  Problem solving and diagnostic methods, legal and professional issues, ethics and policies, and security aspects of interconnected networks are discussed.  Students gain hands-on experience and complete networking projects.

    Prerequisites: COS 331 or ECE 331 or ECE 471

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 444 - Analog Integrated Circuits


    Considers topics in the internal circuit design and system applications of analog integrated circuits. Concerns addressed include temperature and power supply sensitivity, gain, bandwidth, stability and I/O characteristics. Specific topics include current sources, differential amplifiers, level shifters, op-amps, regulators and phase-locked loops. Lec 3.

    Prerequisites: ECE 314 and ECE 343.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 445 - Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits


    Reviews device characteristics with emphasis on switching behavior. Considers ramifications of need for designs to be compatible with IC processing technology. Emphasis on CMOS and ECL based systems. Explores interface and optimization problems as related to timing and loading. Brief look at significant parameters needed for accurate computer modeling. Lec 3. (Fall.)

    Prerequisites: ECE 342.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 450 - Power Electronics


    This course is an introduction to switch-mode power conversion. This course covers analysis and control of dc-dc converters, buck converters, boost converters, buck-boost converters, forward converters, flyback converters, dc-ac inverters for motor drives, interfacing renewable energy sources with utility, ac-dc rectifiers, and introduction to power semiconductor devises and magnetic components.

    Prerequisites: ECE 314

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 451 - Power Electronics Lab


    This lab is an introduction to switch-mode power conversion. This lab introduces students to buck converters, boost converters, buck-boost converters, forward converters, flyback converters, control of dc-dc converters, and switching waveforms from mosfets to diodes.

    Prerequisites: ECE 314

    Corequisites: ECE 450

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECE 453 - Microwave Engineering


    Topics include: rectangular and cylindrical waveguides, transmission line models, impedance matching, Smith chart methods, microwave circuits and components, s-parameter measurement techniques and antennas. (Spring.)

    Prerequisites: ECE 351.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 455 - Electric Drives


    This course is an introduction to electric drive and their control. The course covers mechanical dynamics associated with electric drive systems, analysis and control of DC motors, induction motors, and permanent magnet AC motors, four quadrant motor operations, feedback control design for torque, speed and position.

    Prerequisites: ECE 314

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 456 - Electric Drives Lab


    This lab is an introduction to electronic drives and their control. The lab course will introduce characterization of DC motors, and current, torque, and speed control of DC motors. The lab will also introduce characterization of induction motors and V/f speed control. Lastly the lab will introduce control of permanent magnet AC motors.

    Prerequisites: ECE 314.

    Corequisites: ECE 455.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECE 462 - Introduction to Basic Semiconductor Devices and Associated Circuit Models


    Introduces the fundamental device material that is basic to electronics-engineering. Initial concepts include diamond (zinc-blende) crystal structure, holes, free electrons, drift, diffusion, and the energy band model. These are then used to explore p-n junction and MOS structures including the extraction of SPICE model parameters. A more detailed look at reasons behind the characteristics of p-n and Schottky diodes, MOSFETs and BJTs follows. The goal is an understanding of the behavior of the basic semiconductor devices, their limitations and their models. If time permits additional topics from the following list will be discussed: Power Semiconductors, Photonic Devices, Semiconductor Reliability. Lec 3.

    Prerequisites: CHY 121 or  CHY 131 and PHY 122.

    Corequisites:  MAT 258.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 464 - Microelectronics Science and Engineering


    The science and engineering of CMOS and deep sub-micron semiconductor device fabrication. Semiconductor process steps including: diffusion, oxidation, reactive ion etching, chemical etching, surface cleaning, lithography, ion implantation, thin film deposition and chemical-mechanical polishing. A CMOS process flow is outlined. Computer simulation is utilized to provide insight into ion implantation, diffusion and lithography. Lec 3

    Prerequisites: PHY 122 and CHY 121 or 131;

    Corequisites: MAT 258

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 465 - Introduction to Sensors


    Various types of conductometric, acoustic, magnetic, thermal and optical sensors are presented. Techniques for interfacing the sensors using microprocessor control systems and signal processing are discussed. Applications of sensor systems in medicine, environmental monitoring, the automotive industry, the chemical industry, manufacturing and construction are given. (Spring.)

    Prerequisites: junior standing in engineering.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 466 - Sensor Technology and Instrumentation


    Design and fabrication techniques for piezoelectric, thin film, fiber optic and silicon based sensors.  Topics include: cutting, polishing and cleaning crystals, the deposition of electrodes and sensing elements and sensor characterization.  Students will design, fabricate and test a sensor.

    Prerequisites: ECE 465

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 471 - Embedded Systems


    Application of micro-processors to the solution of design problems, including hardware characteristics, peripheral control techniques and system development. Lec 3.

    Prerequisites: ECE 271.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 473 - Computer Architecture and Organization


    Evolution, design implementation, and evaluation of state-of-the-art systems; the organization and structure of computer systems; the architecture of single-processor computer systems; Memory Systems, including interleaving, hierarchies, virtual memory and cache implementations; Communications and I/O, including bus architectures, disk arrays, and DMA. (Fall.)

    Prerequisites: ECE 275.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 477 - Hardware Applications Using C


    Emphasizes the use of the C programming language to control hardware devices.  Review of the necessary features of the C programming language will be included.  Students who are not ECE majors interested in taking the course are encouraged to contact the ECE Department to have the prerequisite waived.

    Prerequisites: ECE 271.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 478 - Industrial Computer Control


    Design of computerized systems for industrial applications.  These include programmable logic controllers, personal computers and embedded controllers.  Interface electronics, communication strategies, design for hostile environments, fault tolerance and fail safe design will also be covered. Students who are not ECE majors interested in taking the course are encouraged to contact the ECE Department to have the prerequisite waived.

    Prerequisites: ECE 271.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 484 - Communications Engineering


    This course includes topics in digital communications systems, multiplexing, signal space, modulation, coding, and information theory.  Concepts such as data compression, protection, and transmission in wireless and wired networks are studied as well.  Real world examples from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee and WiMax standards enriches the practical aspects of the course.

    Prerequisites: ECE 314 and ECE 316.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • ECE 486 - Digital Signal Processing


    A study of discrete-time signals and systems, Z-transforms, discrete Fourier series and transforms. Efficient implementations of discrete-time system and design of IIR, FIR and multirate digital filter structures.

    Prerequisites: ECE 177 and ECE 314.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • ECE 498 - Selected Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering


    Topics in electrical engineering not regularly covered in other courses. May include advanced microprocessor applications, robot applications, instrumentation semiconductor technology, introduction to VLSI design and microwave acoustics. Content can be varied to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit, with departmental permission. 

    Prerequisites: permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1-3

Electrical Engineering Technology

  
  • EET 100 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering Technology


    Develops a thorough insight into the engineering profession and covers important topics such as success in the classroom, problem-solving and teamwork skills, computer tools for engineers, technical communication and ethics. Also of particular importance will be an engineering design project. The development of project documentation and technical writing skills will be emphasized. Lec 3. (Fall.)

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.

    Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering Technology majors only

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • EET 111 - Circuit Analysis I


    Introduction to circuit analysis techniques as applied to AC and DC electrical circuits.  Topics include the basic laws and theorems used in electrical circuit analysis including Kirchoff’s Voltage and Current Laws, Ohms law, capacitor and inductor characteristics, AC phasor representation.  Includes basic computer skills and circuit simulation.  Lec 3, Lab 3.

    Corequisites:  MAT 122.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 112 - Circuit Analysis II


    Introduction to AC circuits, including the study of reactive components, analysis techniques such as superposition and nodal/mesh analysis, passive filter circuits and the application of phasor analysis to steady state single-phase AC circuits. Lec 3, Lab 3.

    Prerequisites: EET 111, and either TME 151 or MAT 122.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 174 - Introduction to Microcontrollers


    The basic architecture of the microcontroller with particular emphasis on the control and I/O sections. Structured assembly language programming of the microcontroller. Series and parallel data transfer. Analog-to-digital conversion principles. A design project will give students hands-on experience in hardware and software design and testing using microcontrollers. Lec 3, Lab 3.

    Prerequisites: EET 111 or EET 330

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 201 - Introduction to CAD


    This course provides students with an introduction into 2-dimensional Computer-Aided Design (CAD) with a focus on electrical engineering applications. Students will learn how to use CAD software programs to design and model electrical projects.

    Prerequisites: EET 100 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 2
  
  • EET 241 - Analog Circuit Fundamentals


    Topics include: semiconductor diodes, bipolar transistors, FETs, operational amplifier fundamentals, d-c and a-c analysis and design of single-transistor end FET amplifiers, hybrid pi circuits. Software simulation of circuits is integral to the course. A design project is required. Lec 3, Lab 3. (Spring.)

    Prerequisites: EET 112.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 242 - Advanced Analog Circuit Design


    Topics include: differential amplifiers, dc and ac analysis of multi-transistor circuits, multi-transistor amplifier frequency analysis, power amplifiers and operational amplifiers. Software simulation of circuits is integral to the course. A design project is required. Lec 3, Lab 3. (Spring.)

    Prerequisites: EET 241.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 275 - Digital Communications


    This course will focus on configuring and utilizing various communications technologies.  Serial communication, Analog-to-Digital Conversion, basic sequential systems and networking, and establishing PLC communication networks will be among the topics discussed.  Combined Lec 3, Lab 2.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 276 - Programmable Logic Controllers


    Emphasis on industrial control using programmable logic controllers.  Major topics include: PLC memory mapping, I/O configurations, and various data communications protocols.  A design project is required.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 321 - Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion


    Covers three-phase power, power system supply and distribution, magnetic circuits and transformers, industrial control and communication protocols and programmable controllers. Lec 3, Lab 3

    Prerequisites: EET 112 

    Corequisites: TME 354 or MAT 258

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 323 - Power Systems Analysis


    Covers three phase, power system modeling and analysis, including per unit. The analysis tools associated with power system operation, maintenance and upgrade will be developed in this course. In addition, real world power systems will be evaluated to determine if there are any concerns. We will also introduce protective devices which help ensure high reliability.

    Prerequisites: EET 321

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 324 - Network Analysis and Applications


    Topics include: classical analysis of electrical circuits utilizing Kirshoff’s laws, differential equations, and Laplace transforms. Modeling of dynamic systems; transfer functions; block diagrams. Transient analysis of first and second order systems.  Modeling of system behavior using simulation software. 

    Prerequisites: EET 111 and MAT 127

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 325 - Design and Applications of Control Systems


    Classical design, simulation and analysis of closed-loop control systems, emphasizing industrial control applications and real-world examples and practices.  Emphasis on time-domain and frequency-response methods. Lec 3, Lab 3

    Prerequisites: EET 324.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 330 - Electrical Applications


    Introduces the basics of AC and DC circuits along with analog and digital circuit principles, amplifiers and transducers. The laboratory will provide students with hands-on experience with the principles and instrumentation commonly used in industry. 

    Prerequisites: PHY 108 or PHY 122 and TME 152 or MAT 126 and Mechanical Engineering Technology major or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 4
  
  • EET 350 - Senior Design Project I


    The first of a three-course sequence intended to provide EET seniors with a capstone learning experience. Requirements include selection of a design project, submission of a proposal and written and oral presentations of project status. Lec 1. (Pass/Fail Grade Only)

    General Education Requirements: Together with EET 451 and EET 452, this course satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.

    Prerequisites: EET 241.

    Corequisites: EET 242

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 1
  
  • EET 386 - Project Management


    Covers the basics with particular emphasis on Technical Project Management. Includes designing a project plan, selecting and allocating resources, team-building skills, project plan implementation, and other topics relevant to Project Management. Focuses on developing the skills needed to effectively manage a variety of technical projects, and to prepare students for certification as Project Management Professionals (PMP). Lec 3.

    Prerequisites: sophomore standing. Engineering or Engineering Technology majors.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • EET 394 - Electrical Engineering Technology Practice


    Cooperative work experience at full-time employment for at least a ten-week period. May be repeated for credit.

    (Pass/Fail Grade Only.)

    Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-3

  
  • EET 414 - Introduction to Printed Circuit Boards


    This course will focus on PCB technology, layout, and construction. Emphasis will be placed on multi-layered PCB technology, schematic capture and circuit board layout using Altium Designer, and actual PCB design and construction using a two-layer milling machine. Advanced PCB technology and manufacturing techniques will also be discussed. Students will be required to use Altium Designer to design and layout their own custom circuit and, at the end of the semester, construct and test their PCB using the University’s milling machine.

    Prerequisites: EET 241 or equivalent or instructor permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  
  • EET 451 - Senior Design Project II


    The second of a three-course sequence intended to provide EET seniors with a capstone learning experience. Requirements include development and completion of a design project and hardware demonstration.

    General Education Requirements: Together with EET 350 and EET 452, this course satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.

    Prerequisites: EET 350.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  
  • EET 452 - Senior Design Project III


    The third of a three-course sequence intended to provide EET seniors with a capstone learning experience. Requirements include development and completion of a design project, hardware demonstration, and written and oral presentations of project status. Lec 1.

    General Education Requirements: Together with EET 350 and EET 451, this course satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement. Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.

    Prerequisites: EET 451 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 2
  
  • EET 460 - Renewable Energy and Electricity Production


    An overview of renewable energy resources, energy conversion and storage for stationary and transportation applications. Topics include: Basics of electrical energy and power generation, load specification, history of electric utilities, distributed generation, the economics of energy, biomass fuels, wind and solar power.

    Prerequisites: PHY 108 or PHY 112 or PHY 122, and MAT 126 or TME 253, and CHY 121 or CHY 131

    Credits: 3
  
  • EET 498 - Selected Topics in Electrical Engineering Technology


    Topics in engineering technology not regularly covered in other courses. Content varies to suit the needs of individuals. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-4
  
  • MET 362 - Power Transmission and Control


    Covers fluid power theory and fundamentals, circuit analysis for hydraulic and pneumatic systems, mechanical and electro-mechanical power transmission design.  Selection and design of componentry for control of load.  (This course is identical to BLE 462.)

    Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3

Engineering Communication Project

  
  • ECP 101 - Technical Writing for Mechanical Engineers I


    The course offers introductory guided practice in applying technical writing strategies such as document organization and design, graphics design, stylistic choices, formatting practices, and editing skills.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive requirement.

    Corequisites: MEE 101 or special permission

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 214 - Technical Writing Workshop for Electrical Networks I


    Consists of supervised workshops and exercises designed to assist students in preparing the technical documents required in ECE 214, Electrical Networks Laboratory.  Students will review and revise their work, as well as complete exercises that will emphasize the technical writing skills they will need in the classroom and on the job.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement when taken with ECE 214.

    Corequisites: ECE 214

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 225 - Civil Engineering Technical Writing I


    Technical writing course for Civil Engineers with focus on employment documents, informal proposal, individual research paper, oral presentations of research paper and group project report. Reports are also submitted to CIE 225. Lec 1. (Spring)

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement when taken with CIE 225.

    Prerequisites: Civil Engineering major or permission.

    Corequisites: CIE 225

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 341 - Technical Writing for Mechanical Engineers I


    This course offers guided practice and instruction in writing informal and formal lab reports for MEE 341.  The course focuses on applying technical writing strategies such as audience analyses, document organization and design, graphics design, stylistic choices, formatting practices, and self-editing skills.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive requirement.

    Corequisites: MEE 341 or special permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 342 - Technical Writing Workshop for Electrical Networks II


    Consists of supervised workshops and exercises designed to assist students in preparing the technical documents required in ECE 342, Electronics I. Students will review and revise their work, as well as complete exercises that will emphasize the technical writing skills they will need in the classroom and on the job.  

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement when taken with ECE 342.

    Corequisites: ECE 342

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 403 - Technical Writing Workshop for Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Project


    Consists of supervised workshops and exercises designed to assist students in preparing the technical documents required in ECE 403, Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Project.  Students will review and revise their work, as well as complete exercises that will emphasize the technical writing skills they will need in the classroom and on the job.

    Corequisites: ECE 403

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 411 - Civil Engineering Technical Writing III


    Technical writing laboratory for civil engineering seniors that culminates in the capstone report.  The topics covered include correspondence, report writing, document design and management, and professional writing style.  Most assignments are prepared and submitted by project teams, which meet frequently with the instructor.  Reports are also submitted to CIE 411.

    General Education Requirements: Together with ECP 225 and ECP 413, this course satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive requirement.

    Corequisites: CIE 411

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 413 - Civil Engineering Technical Writing II


    Technical writing course for civil engineers with focus on preparing persuasive professional documents and a significant proposal. Reports are also submitted to CIE 413. Lec 1. (Spring).

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive when taken with CIE 413.

    Prerequisites: Civil Engineering major or permission.

    Corequisites: CIE 413

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 487 - Technical Writing for Mechanical Engineers II


    This course offers instruction in writing documents related to mechanical engineering senior design projects. Instruction focuses on ethics in professional engineering, writing new project proposals, creating and maintaining a useful project website; and planning, organizing and writing of a design progress report.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Writing Intensive General Education Requirement.

    Prerequisites: ECP 341

    Corequisites:  MEE 487 unless otherwise approved by the instructor and the Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  
  • ECP 488 - Technical Writing for Mechanical Engineers III


    This course offers guided practice and instruction in group writing strategies, performing oral presentations, creating technical posters, writing professional job applications materials, and writing formal design completion records for the MEE 488 capstone project. The course emphasizes small group communication and coordination and technical writing strategies, such as reader-centered document organization and formatting, page and graphics design, and stylistic choices.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive requirement.

    Corequisites: MEE 488 or special permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 1

English

  
  • ENG 100 - College Composition Stretch, Part I


    This course provides intense practice with habits of reading, writing, thinking, and revising essential to postsecondary academic work.  Designed for students who want to create a strong foundation for themselves in academic reading and writing.  Available only during fall semester.  Students who complete ENG 100 move on to ENG 106 during the spring semester.  Students will not earn credit or grades for completing both ENG 101 and either course in the College Composition Stretch Sequence, ENG 100 and ENG 106.

    Students must complete both ENG 100 and ENG 106 with a minimum grade of C or better in each course to satisfy the General Education College Composition requirement.  Neither course taken alone will satisfy this requirement.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENG 101 - College Composition


    Students practice the ways in which writing serves to expand, clarify, and order experience and knowledge, with particular attention to persuasive writing. Satisfactory completion of the course depends upon quality of weekly writing assignments as well as demonstration of proficiency in college-level writing.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 106 - College Composition Stretch, Part II


    his course provides intense practice with habits of reading, writing, thinking, and revising essential to post secondary academic work.  Designed for students who want to create a strong foundation for themselves in academic reading and writing.  Available only during the spring semester.  Students will not earn credit or grades for completing both ENG 101 and either course in the College Composition Stretch Sequence, ENG 100 and ENG 106.

    Students must complete both ENG 100 and ENG 106 with a minimum grade of C or better in each course to satisfy the General Education College Composition requirement.  Neither course taken alone will satisfy this requirement.

    Prerequisites: C or better in ENG 100.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENG 129 - Topics in English


    Offers small-group discussions of literature focusing on a common theme. Each division takes up a different theme, such as utopianism, the quest myth, growing up in America and the like. Students can expect to read texts closely and write regularly about them. May be repeated for credit.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.

    Prerequisites: Open to first-year students only. May be taken before or after ENG 101 or concurrently with permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 131 - The Nature of Story


    Explores the fundamental activity of why and how we create, tell and read/listen to stories. Readings may include selections from folk tale and myth, saga and epic, drama and novel, film and song, poetry and essay–from the ancient world to the modern, from the western cultural tradition and from a variety of other cultures.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 170 - Foundations of Literary Analysis


    An introduction to the close reading of literature. Students write frequently, exploring how conventions of genre, form, and style work in literature. Required of English majors.

    Prerequisites: ENG 101 is strongly recommended.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 201 - Strategies for Writing Across Contexts


    Builds upon ENG 101’s introduction to post secondary writing by developing students’ facility with a range of strategies for tailoring rhetorical style and tone to a range of academic, transactional, and public genres

    General Education Requirements: Fulfills the Writing Intensive General Education requirement.

    Corequisites: Sophomore Standing and ENG 101.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 205 - An Introduction to Creative Writing


    Offers students experience in writing in three major forms: autobiographical narrative, fiction, and poetry.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.

    Prerequisites: ENG 101 is strongly recommended.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 206 - Descriptive and Narrative Writing


    Special emphasis on the informal, autobiographical essay.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.

    Prerequisites: ENG 101 or equivalent.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 222 - Reading Poems


    Focuses on helping students develop critical skills particularly suited to the interpretation and analysis of poetry. Readings will include poems from different eras in both traditional and innovative forms. May cover a range of poetic practices and a variety of media: including, for example, poetry readings, little magazines and presses, digital texts, and poetic movements.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 229 - Topics in Literature


    Subject matter varies with faculty interest.  Previous topics have included: scandalous women, detective fiction, vampires in literature, dark humor in literature, and literature of the Vietnam War.  May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 235 - Literature and the Modern World


    An examination of the modern sensibility as it has manifested itself in 20th century literature. Some attention also to the history, music, visual arts, social thought, and science of the contemporary epoch.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 236 - Intro to Canadian Literature


    A survey of Canadian literature from 1850 to the present. Interpretation and analysis of the poetry and prose of major literary figures. Some examination of the impact of British and American models upon the tradition of Canadian literature.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 237 - Coming of Age in America


    The process of moving from innocence to experience has many faces in America, as our literature in the last few decades has begun to chronicle. Explores stories of coming of age in American fiction, nonfiction and film of the last fifty years from writers to many traditions, including Franco-American, Latino-Latina, Native American, African-American and Asian-American.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 238 - Nature and Literature


    Looks at the many different ways people have looked at nature and examines the philosophies and values which inform humans’ interactions with their environment. Authors will be drawn from traditional literary figures, American nature writers, environmentalists and especially, authors from Maine. Assignment may include field experience.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 243 - Topics in Multicultural Literature


    Topics will vary, including such titles as Ethnicity and Race in American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Third World Literature; and other topics in African, Asian, Francophone, Native American, Chicano and ethnic literatures in the English language.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 244 - Writers of Maine


    An exploration of the varied nature of the Maine experience as exemplified by writers of fiction, poetry, essays, and other creative genres.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English, or permission of instructor.

     

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENG 245 - American Short Fiction


    A study of genre, form, and theme in representative works of American short fiction from Irving to the present.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 246 - American Women’s Literature


    A survey of the main traditions and writers in American women’s literature from the origins to the present.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 249 - American Sports Literature and Film


    Uses readings in fiction, poetry, drama, essays and films to explore social, humanistic, ethical and aesthetic issues in sports and its literature. Examines ways writers capture physical action and the role of sports in various genres and media.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  
  • ENG 251 - English Literature Survey: Beginnings Through Neoclassicism


    The major patterns of development within the English literary tradition, with emphasis on the cultural and historical forces which have shaped this tradition.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.

    Prerequisites: 3 hours of literature or permission. (ENG 170 recommended.)

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
 

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