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Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)
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Circuits with Lab (4-3-1)
Prerequisites: MATH 1301 or department approval.
Laboratory fee required: $12.

Principles and applications of direct and alternating current electricity, including network circuits, Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Law, and network theorems. Applications related to power sources, resistance, inductance, capacitance, magnetism and electromagnetism. Use of circuit simulation software and schematic capture. Applications of circuit construction and measuring instruments.

2421
Electronic Devices and Amplifiers with Lab (4-3-1)
Prerequisite: EET 1412 or department approval.
Laboratory fee required: $12.

Study of solid state devices including diodes, zener diodes, bipolar and field effect transistors and their application in power supply, amplifier and digital circuits. Diode transistor models and amplifier characteristics. Use of simulation software in electronics design. Application of instrumentation.

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2431
Digital Circuits and Systems with Lab (4-3-1)
Corequisite: EET 1412 or department approval.
Laboratory fee required: $12.

Digital circuits and their applications, including logic, basic gates, arithmetic circuits, memory devices, counters, registers and data-handling circuits. Use of digital hardware and electronic simulation software. Application of instrumentation.

3334
Electrical Power Systems (4-3-1)
Prerequisite: EET 1412.

Basic principles and applications of electrical power systems, power generation, transmission and distribution in utility and industrial systems. Included are lighting and grounding design, motor controls, transformers and area classification. Computer simulation of power systems.

3432
Computer Architecture and Design with Lab (4-3-1)
Preprequisite: EET 2431.
Laboratory fee required: $12.

The organization and design of digital computer systems, including microprogramming, register transfer languate, micro-operations and control functions of the computer. Computer input/output. The microcomputer is emphasized. The basics of machine and assembly language are utilized with the hardware. Applications of instrumentation.

3433
Computer Input/Output and Interfacing (4-3-1)
Prerequisites: EET 3432 and CS 2401.

Computer input/output methods and interfacing techniques, including bus systems, peripheral hardware, software design, programmed and interrupt I/O and direct memory access. Emphasis is on microcomputers.

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3435
Fundamentals of Automation and Control with Lab (4-3-1)
Prerequisites: EET 2431 or department approval.
Laboratory fee required: $12.

Control and automation circuits and systems and their applications including industrial control, control electronics, control software and programmable control. Use of Laplace transforms and related methods. Use of ladder logic software. Applications of Instrumentation. Computer simulation of control systems.

3451
Instruments and Transducers with Lab (4-3-1)
Prerequisites: EET 1412 or department approval.
Laboratory fee required: $12.

Study of electronic measurement systems with emphasis on: (1) the electronics design of measurement systems; (2) transducer characteristics and applications; (3) the operational amplifier and other analog integrated circuits in instrument design; (4) capabilities and use of common laboratory instruments, including analog and digital meters, oscilloscopes and function generators. Transducers for plant safety. Applications of instrumentation. Computer simulations.

3461
Analog and Digital Communication Circuits with Lab (4-3-1)
Prerequisites: MATH 2401, PHYS 1308 and EET 2431.
Laboratory fee required: $12.

Analysis of tuned circuits, modulation/demodulation techniques, basic transmission line theory, introduction to Fourier series, data communication techniques and modems. Applications of instrumentation. Computer simulations.

4335
Computer Networking (3-3-0)
Prerequisite: EET 3461. Corequisite: EET 3333.

Principles and applications of computer networking techniques, including the seven layered protocol model, hierarchy of commands, descriptions of the physical layers of the model and descriptions and analysis of popular techniques currently in existence. Development and implementation of NT networks.

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4434
Microprocessor Systems Design (4-3-1)
Laboratory fee required: $12.

Design, application and operation of various electronics systems using microprocessors. Consideration will be given to the specific type of components required, the sources of manufactured components, and the construction of the circuits and systems. Emphasis will be placed on microcomputers and their related peripherals and the use of system design software, PALASM and XILINX. Various electronic circuits will be designed, implemented, and troubleshot using PAL’s and PGA’s. A group electronics systems project using microprocessors will be completed and troubleshot using all aspects of the course.

4442
Real-Time Executive Level Programming (4-3-3)
Prerequisite: EET 3333.
Corequisites: CS 2310 or CS 3308.
Laboratory fee required.

Principles and applications of programming techniques for microcomputers at the executive level to perform multi-tasking and real-time operations. Changes in the software systems to allow more efficient operation of microcomputers for specific tasks, such as control of multiple processes.

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