Apr 19, 2024  
2021-2022 Florida Tech Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Florida Tech Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural, Hon: course may include honors sections during some semesters. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.

 

Criminal Justice

  
  • CRM 4230 Domestic Terrorism

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the historical evolution of domestic militant and terrorist groups and their activites. Describes contemporary terrorist groups and individuals and their known interactions and relationships. Introduces intelligence gathering techniques.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online or an Education Center.
    Prerequisite: CRM 2702  and CRM 3012  
  
  • CRM 4406 Homeland Security and Terrorism

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces and explains international and domestic terrorism. Explores the historical and philosophical underpinnings of terrorism, and local and international prevention efforts.
    Requirement(s): Successful completion of 90 credit hours and enrollment in Florida Tech Online or an Education Center.
    Prerequisite: CRM 2702  and CRM 3150  
  
  • CRM 4712 Criminal Justice Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the various dynamics of ethical behavior. Focuses on ethics in justice policy, administration and research, and the impact on individuals and society.
    Minimum student level - fourth year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 3150  
  
  • CRM 4810 Serial Killers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores research and case analyses of serial killers. Includes profiling, behavioral analysis, types and methods.
    Minimum student level - fourth year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 3104  or PSF 3551  
  
  • CRM 4820 Violent Crime

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores serious and violent offenders, the quest to understand chronic offenders and their interaction in society.
    Minimum student level - fourth year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 3104  or PSF 3551  
  
  • CRM 4830 Organized Crime

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews the history and evolution of organized crime and criminal enterprise, and the impact on society. Includes drug trafficking, prostitution, gambling and other victimless crimes.
    Minimum student level - fourth year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 2702  and CRM 3104  
  
  • CRM 4990 Problem-Solving in Criminal Justice

    Credit Hours: 3
    Uses a practical scenario-based situation requiring identification, analysis and problem-solving strategies previously learned in the criminal justice program. Acts as the capstone for criminal justice degrees.
    (Q)
    Minimum student level - fourth year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 3507 or CRM 3105   

Cooperative Education

  
  • CWE 1000 Introduction to Career and Professional Development

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers fundamentals topics of career-readiness through discussion and exercise-based learning to prepare students for internships and other work experiences. Course objective is to build students “real-world” confidence through application and practice of professionalism and career-related concepts and techniques. 
  
  • CWE 1001 Co-op Education/Internship Experience 1

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Prepares students for professional careers by integrating alternate periods of academic study and career-related work experience. Places students in private industry, business and public agencies. Requires specific academic standards and recommendation by the university to be eligible.
    Requirement(s): Career Services approval. Registration for three credits can classify student as full time. Student must be in good academic standing and have completed 24 credit hours at Florida Tech. Transfer student must have completed one full semester at Florida Tech. 
    Graded pass/fail (P/F)
  
  • CWE 2001 Co-op Education/Internship Experience 2

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Prepares students for professional careers by integrating alternate periods of academic study and career-related work experience. Places students in private industry, business and public agencies. Requires specific academic standards and recommendation by the university to be eligible.
    Requirement(s): Career services approval. Registration for three credits can classify student as full time. Credits may be applied as free elective in most programs. Student must be in good academic standing. 
    Prerequisite: CWE 1001  
    Graded pass/fail (P/F)
  
  • CWE 3001 Co-op Education/Internship Experience 3

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Prepares students for professional careers by integrating alternate periods of academic study and career-related work experience. Places students in private industry, business and public agencies. Requires specific academic standards and recommendation by the university to be eligible.
    Requirement(s): Career services approval. Registration for three credits can classify student as full time. Credits may be applied as free elective in most programs. Student must be in good academic standing. 
    Prerequisite: CWE 2001  
    Graded pass/fail (P/F)
  
  • CWE 3003 Engineering Co-op/Internship Experience

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prepares students for professional careers. Students work on engineering projects including one or more of the following realistic constraints: economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, safety, security and manufacturing.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Requirement(s): Career services approval. Registration for three credits can classify student as full time. Student must be in good academic standing.
    May be used for a maximum of three credits of technical elective
    Graded pass/fail (P/F)
  
  • CWE 4001 Co-op Education/Internship Experience 4

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Prepares students for professional careers by integrating alternate periods of academic study and career-related work experience. Places students in private industry, business and public agencies. Requires specific academic standards and recommendation by the university to be eligible.
    Requirement(s): Career services approval. Registration for three credits can classify student as full time. Credits may be applied as free elective in most programs. Student must be in good academic standing.
    Prerequisite: CWE 3001  
    Graded pass/fail (P/F)
  
  • CWE 5000 Graduate Co-op/Internship Experience

    Credit Hours: 0
    Provides graduate students academic recognition for their major-related work experience. No academic credit is awarded, but in other respects the preceding CWE course descriptions apply. Recognition of completion is noted on the transcript. 
    Requirement(s): Career Services and academic advisor approval prior to registration. Completion of nine graduate credit hours with at least a 3.0 GPA

Economics

  
  • EEC 2303 Introduction to Macroeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the concepts that aid in understanding both aggregate economic conditions and the policy alternatives designed to stabilize national economies. Includes the determination of GDP and national income, inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, economic growth and exchange rates.
    (SS)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: MTH 1000  or MTH 1001  or MTH 1701  or MTH 1702  
  
  • EEC 2304 Introduction to Microeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the neoclassical theory of price determination. Includes supply and demand analysis, production and cost theory, market structures, externalities and public goods, factor payments, income distribution and informational asymmetries.
    (SS)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: MTH 1000  or MTH 1001  or MTH 1010  or MTH 1701  or MTH 1702  

Education

  
  • EDS 0001 Teaching Assistant Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Allows recording of requirement satisfied (S) or requirement unsatisfied (U) for successful completion of mandatory Teaching Assistant Seminar as confirmed by the Office of Graduate Programs.
    S/U
  
  • EDS 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  
  • EDS 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: EDS 0002   Corequisite: EDS 0002  
  
  • EDS 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: EDS 0003   Corequisite: EDS 0003  
  
  • EDS 1021 General Physical Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the concepts and applications of the physical sciences for non-science majors. Includes the processes and history of science, thermodynamics, electricity, waves, chemical reactions, nuclear energy, relativity and the formation of the Earth and the universe.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
  
  • EDS 1022 General Biological Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the concepts and applications of the biological sciences for non-science majors. Includes cell structure, function and reproduction, genetics and genetic engineering, evolution and the environment
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
  
  • EDS 1023 The Final Frontier

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers topics essential for understanding our universe in the 21st century. Introduces astronomy concepts for non-science majors. Includes principles that demonstrate the size of Earth and our solar system, the age of Earth, the origin of the elements, and the age of our universe. Also includes how humans may colonize off-Earth locations.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
  
  • EDS 1031 Survey of Science 1: Physical Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes a survey of physics, chemistry and astronomy including motion, forces, energy, electricity, waves, the metric system and the application of science and technology to everyday living.
  
  • EDS 1032 Survey of Science 2: Life Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Facilitates student understanding of laws, phenomena and processes of cellular and human biology, and to address selected current topics in ecology and environmental science.
  
  • EDS 2501 Special Topics in Education

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Requirement(s): Program chair approval
  
  • EDS 2502 Knowing and Learning Mathematics and Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on science and mathematics as understood from multidisciplinary perspectives. Includes memory and structure of knowledge, problem solving and reasoning, early foundations of learning, regulatory processes and symbolic thinking. Also includes construction of models of knowing and learning that guide classroom practice.
    Requirement(s): Program chair approval or co/prerequisite course
    Prerequisite: EDS 1502   Corequisite: EDS 1502  
  
  • EDS 2503 Classroom Interactions in Mathematics and Science Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an overview of principles for teaching middle and secondary school mathematics or science. Explores the roles of content, pedagogy, curriculum and technology. Continues the preparation of students to teach mathematics or science in upper elementary and secondary settings. Requires design and implementation of instructional activities.
    Prerequisite: EDS 2502  
  
  • EDS 3131 Perspectives on Science and Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores how scientific investigators explain the natural world. Provides an overview of the history of science and mathematics to broaden comprehension. Puts work in science and mathematics pedagogy in historical context. Improves writing, research and analysis skills.
    (HU/SS)
    Requirement(s): Program chair approval
    Prerequisite: COM 1102  
  
  • EDS 3701 Project-Based Instruction in Mathematics and Science Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers project-based instruction (PBI) as a mathematics and science teaching method. Requires teams to develop and teach a project-based unit of instruction in a secondary school setting. Focuses on the tenets, planning and implementation of PBI, national and state curriculum and instruction standards, and how children learn mathematics and science.
    Prerequisite: EDS 2502  
  
  • EDS 4060 Educational Strategies for ESOL

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides the requisite information and background needed to identify limited-English proficient (LEP) K-12 learners and equips them with appropriate instructional strategies to meet all student learning needs
    (SS)
    Prerequisite: EDS 1502   
  
  • EDS 4072 Methods and Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Math

    Credit Hours: 4
    Investigates the principles, skills and methods of teaching mathematics at the middle- and secondary-school level. Emphasizes application and practice with a hands-on, discovery approach.
    Prerequisite: EDS 4051  
  
  • EDS 4081 Content Area Reading

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides maximum interaction and strategies needed by teachers of grades 6-12 to teach their students how to succeed across the curriculum with reading.
    Prerequisite: EDS 1502   
  
  • EDS 4250 Science Education Case Study

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    In conjunction with advisor, student selects a single specific issue of topic in science education and performs an in-depth study of that area.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 4311 Research Methods

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides the tools needed to solve scientific problems and the opportunity to use them in a laboratory setting. Covers how scientists communicate with each other through peer-reviewed literature. Includes how scientists develop new knowledge and insights such as those eventually used in textbooks and taught in conventional classes.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval or prerequisite course
    Prerequisite: EDS 2502  
  
  • EDS 4503 Special Topics in Education

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Prerequisite: EDS 2501   Corequisite: EDS 2501  
  
  • EDS 4900 Interdisciplinary Science Capstone Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    This seminar is part of the capstone experience for a B.S. degree in the interdisciplinary science program. It is taken during the final semester of the program. Students are required to write a paper and present it orally.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 4906 Apprenticeship in Secondary Mathematics and Science Teaching

    Credit Hours: 6
    Serves as the capstone course for students seeking teaching certification. Includes exposure and fieldwork in secondary school classrooms. Requires oversight by a school-based teach and intensive interaction with course instructor. Includes teaching responsibilities for three hours per day over term, using plan developed with teacher/mentor.
    Prerequisite: EDS 2502  
  
  • EDS 5051 Methods and Management of Middle and Secondary School Teaching

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students demonstrate methods of classroom management that constitute effective teaching practice as defined by the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices.
  
  • EDS 5055 Foundations and Management of Classroom Instruction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the contemporary field and foundations of education and the teaching profession. Includes the dynamics of school life, effective teaching practices, classroom management, ethical and legal issues facing teachers, economic and political issues, the history of American education, and educational reform.
  
  • EDS 5060 ESOL Teaching Strategies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prepares future teachers with resources to promote cross-cultural awareness, language development and academic progress. Special attention to approaches, methodologies and techniques designed for limited English proficient children that help all students achieve success in content areas.
    Prerequisite: EDS 4071 or EDS 4072  
  
  • EDS 5067 Measurement and Evaluation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes the foundations of educational measurement and evaluation, the techniques of educational measurement, the presentation and analysis of data collected through measurement and the application of measurement and evaluation.
  
  • EDS 5070 Educational Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes sampling procedures, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, estimation of variability, the normal distribution, differences between two groups, analysis of variance and correlation. Also includes nonparametric techniques, multivariate techniques and computer analysis of educational data.
  
  • EDS 5071 Methods and Strategies of Teaching Middle and High School Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigates the principles, skills and methods of teaching science at the middle and secondary school level. Emphasizes the laboratory-centered inquiry approach.
    Prerequisite: EDS 5051  
  
  • EDS 5072 Methods and Strategies of Teaching Middle and High School Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigates the principles, skills and methods of teaching mathematics at the middle and secondary school level. Emphasizes application and practice with a hands-on discovery approach.
    Prerequisite: EDS 5051  
  
  • EDS 5073 Methods and Strategies for Teaching Specific Middle and High School Content

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigates the principles, skills and methods of teaching specific secondary content at the middle and high school levels.
    Prerequisite: EDS 5051  
  
  • EDS 5081 Research 1

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Individual research work conducted under the supervision of a science education faculty member.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 5095 Essentials of Educational Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes research skills and related competencies involved in the planning, conducting and reporting of applied research studies of the type required for a graduate degree.
  
  • EDS 5114 Special Topics in Education

    Credit Hours: 1-4
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    May be repeated provided topics vary.
  
  • EDS 5120 Content and Methods in Science Education for Lower-Level Elementary Grades

    Credit Hours: 4
    Examines the science content supporting the Sunshine State Standards for science applicable to early elementary grades. Emphasizes teaching approaches that incorporate hands-on inquiry experiences and computer technology.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 5130 Content and Methods in Science Education for Upper-Level Elementary Grades

    Credit Hours: 4
    Examines the science content supporting the Sunshine State Standards for science applicable to upper elementary grades. Emphasizes teaching approaches that incorporate hands-on inquiry experiences and computer technology.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 5135 Reading in the Content Area

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students develop strategies for designing lessons that will lead middle and high school students to become active readers, engaged in the process of learning with textbooks as well as supplemental materials. Explores how to create active learning environments in which students know how, when and why to use all modes of language to learn.
  
  • EDS 5203 Theories and Trends in Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an overview of human development and learning. Topics include behavioral, social and cognitive learning theories. Emphasizes the application and implications of these theories to educational practice. Includes student review of research articles and other publications that relate to human development and learning theories.
  
  • EDS 5226 Introduction to Computers in Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introductory review of various uses for microcomputers in schools. Includes a review of current hardware available, computer application software, use of the World Wide Web, computer assisted instruction software, networking and legal/ethical issues.
  
  • EDS 5227 Educational Software Evaluation and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Proper design and appropriate evaluation of education software. Students write programs using established design techniques and procedures. Covers crash-proofing programs, user help menu methods, documentation techniques and screen formatting.
    Prerequisite: EDS 5226  
  
  • EDS 5250 Case Study: Science Education

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Involves an in-depth study of a specific issue or topic in science education. Allows a student with a special interest in science education to pursue guided study in that area.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 5270 Informal Science Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the theory, practice, organization and research of informal science education. Includes classroom sessions, sessions in various science education venues and presentations by and discussions with informal science educators.
  
  • EDS 5272 Informal Science Education Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    A minimum of 120 hours working at a host informal science education venue. Requires formal written and oral presentations.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 5274 Informal Science Education Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Planning, design and implementation of an informal science education project.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 5298 Current Topics in Science Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Selected current topics in science education.
  
  • EDS 5299 Current Topics in Computer Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Current topics in the use of computers in the educational setting. Course content varies from year to year.
  
  • EDS 5350 Case Study: Mathematics Education

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Involves an in-depth study of a specific issue or topic in mathematics education. Allows a student with a special interest in mathematics education to pursue guided study in that area.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 5410 Foundations of Environmental Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces and overviews the field of environmental education. Includes an overview of the history and definition of EE, models of environmental literacy and behavior, and published needs assessments and status reports. Concludes with an analysis of current needs/problems and opportunities in Florida.
  
  • EDS 5420 Methods in Ecology and Environmental Science Content

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on concepts in ecology and environmental science, and principles for teaching and learning concepts. Introduces students to models for teaching/learning concepts and generating lessons using selected models. Concludes with an analysis of educational materials.
  
  • EDS 5430 Methods for Environmental Problems and Issue Investigation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on skills for analyzing, investigating and evaluating environmental problems and issues. Students practice these skills and apply them in an investigation on a selected problem/issue. Other topics include skill-based teaching strategies and emphasis on these skills in programs and print materials.
  
  • EDS 5440 Methods for Citizenship and Environmental Responsibility

    Credit Hours: 3
    Emphasizes rationales and strategies for teaching citizenship and environmental responsibility. Explores these topics from various perspectives, and develops and applies skills in these areas. Reviews pertinent guidelines and strategies in social studies, science and environmental education.
  
  • EDS 5450 Case Study: Environmental Education

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Involves an in-depth study of a specific issue or topic in environmental education. Allows a student with a special interest in environmental education to pursue guided study in that area.
  
  • EDS 5463 Special Topics in Environmental Education

    Credit Hours: 1-4
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    May be repeated provided topics vary.
  
  • EDS 5514 Special Topics in STEM Education

    Credit Hours: 1-4
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    May be repeated provided topics vary.
  
  • EDS 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  
  • EDS 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual research work under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty on a selected topic.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 6000 Readings in Educational Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigation of relevant research in science, mathematics, environmental or computer education.
    Prerequisite: EDS 5070  and EDS 5095  and EDS 5203  
  
  • EDS 6010 Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3
    Creation of a pilot study in preparation for the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Must be taken in the same semester in which comprehensive examinations are administered
    Prerequisite: EDS 6000  and EDS 6070  
  
  • EDS 6070 Statistics for Educational Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes multiple regression/correlation methods, multivariate techniques and computer analysis of educational data.
    Prerequisite: EDS 5070  and EDS 5095  
  
  • EDS 6095 Research-STEM Education

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Research under the guidance of a member of the science education faculty in a selected area of science education.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • EDS 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  
  • EDS 6999 Dissertation-STEM Education

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Successful completion of the doctoral comprehensive examination.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  
  • ECE 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  
  • ECE 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: ECE 0002   Corequisite: ECE 0002  
  
  • ECE 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: ECE 0003   Corequisite: ECE 0003  
  
  • ECE 1551 Digital Logic

    Credit Hours: 4
    Studies the design of digital circuits. Introduces Boolean algebra. Includes state diagram, state assignment, transition diagram, combinatorial and sequential logic, programmable logic devices, dynamic registers, counters and memories. Provides extensive hands-on experience including logic simulation, hardware implementation, Web experience, circuit drawing and diagramming software.
  
  • ECE 1552 Computer Design

    Credit Hours: 4
    Studies design of computer structures and embedded systems. Includes processor units, instruction set architecture, embedded systems organization and control, input/output organization, timer implementation, interrupts and basic computer organization and design. Also includes development of a working knowledge of the process through lab development, interfacing and programming.
    (CL)
    Prerequisite: ECE 1551  
  
  • ECE 2111 Circuit Theory 1

    Credit Hours: 4
    Includes concepts of transient and steady-state behavior of passive electrical circuits; techniques for circuit analysis including mesh and nodal analysis and equivalent circuits; first- and second-order circuits, superposition, Laplace transform techniques; and lab projects.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 ) and PHY 1001   Corequisite: MTH 2201  or MTH 3200  
  
  • ECE 2112 Circuit Theory 2

    Credit Hours: 4
    Continues ECE 2111 . Includes phasors and steady-state response; AC power and two-port equivalent circuits and transfer functions; Fourier analysis transforms analysis, Laplace transforms; and lab projects.
    Prerequisite: ECE 2111  and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 )
  
  • ECE 2551 Software/Hardware Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies software and hardware aspects of computer design and corresponding interdependencies. Includes use of C++ software development environments. Lab includes the application of high-level language concepts to digital signal processing.
    (CL)
    Prerequisite: ECE 1552   
  
  • ECE 2552 Software/Hardware Integration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Progresses from developing software/hardware modules to the vertical system of application use interfaces. Applies current software engineering techniques including data structures to integrate software and hardware using modern programming languages (e.g., C++).
    (CL)
    Prerequisite: ECE 2551  
  
  • ECE 3111 Electronics

    Credit Hours: 4
    Introduces diodes, bipolar and field-effect transistors; analysis and design of semiconductor circuits; single and multistage amplifiers; design algorithms; operational amplifiers and oscillators. Includes lab projects.
    Prerequisite: ECE 2112  
  
  • ECE 3222 Signals and Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers properties and applications of Fourier, Laplace and z-transforms to linear continuous and discrete systems, and introduces state-space description of systems.
    Prerequisite: ECE 2112  or ECE 4991  
  
  • ECE 3240 Junior Design

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces the concepts, principles and methodology of collaborative electrical or computer engineering design through seminars, discussions and interaction with seniors completing their capstone design projects. Students form teams and study the feasibility of potential senior project selections.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: ECE 2112   Corequisite: ECE 2112  
  
  • ECE 3331 Electron Devices

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies semiconductor materials and physics, electrons and holes, semiconductor diodes, bipolar transistors and field effect devices.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2201 or MTH 3200 ) and PHY 2003  
  
  • ECE 3441 Electromagnetic Fields

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers vector calculus, solutions of electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, electromagnetic boundary conditions, time-changing electric and magnetic fields, and Maxwell’s equations.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  and (MTH 2001  or MTH 2010 )
  
  • ECE 3442 Electromagnetic Waves

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses validity of circuit principles at high frequencies, electromagnetic wave on lines, impedance measurements using Smith chart, impedance matching techniques, waveguides and fiber-optical transmission systems, antennas and radiation waves, satellite data links and radar systems.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2001  or MTH 3200 ) and PHY 2002  
  
  • ECE 3541 Digital State Machines

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes noncontinuous math applicable to computer science and design, and structure theory of sequential machines. Also includes logical propositions and predicate logic, sets and set operations, mathematical descriptions, state machines, homomorphic and isomorphic machines and state assignment.
    Prerequisite: ECE 1552 , and (MTH 1002  or MTH 1020 )
  
  • ECE 3551 Microcomputer Systems 1

    Credit Hours: 4
    Introduces software development for Embedded DSP hardware. Covers data sampling, quantization and digital representation, and data input, processing and output. Requires project research and development.
    Prerequisite: ECE 2551   Corequisite: ECE 2551  
  
  • ECE 3552 Microcomputer Systems 2

    Credit Hours: 4
    Introduces advanced concepts of software development for Embedded DSP hardware. Covers data coding and transmission, and video image processing. Requires project research and development.
    Prerequisite: ECE 3551  
  
  • ECE 3553 Multifarious Systems 1

    Credit Hours: 4
    Studies Internet and Web application development and software. Includes markup languages (XHTML, cascading style sheets, XML), client solutions (JavaScript), Web servers (IIS, Apache), server solutions (perl, CGI, PHP), databases (mySQL,® Microsoft® Access®), multimedia (audio, video, speech), dynamic Web pages (AJAX), and recent technologies.
    Prerequisite: ECE 2552  
  
  • ECE 4112 Digital Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the fundamentals of digital electronics. Emphasizes CMOS circuits. Discusses power and speed considerations pertaining to integrated circuits. Also discusses logic families and large-scale circuits.
    Prerequisite: ECE 2111  
  
  • ECE 4113 Electronics Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes analysis and design of analog microelectronic circuits. Includes differential and multistage amplifiers, frequency response, feedback, output stages, analog integrated circuits, fibers and waveform-shaping circuits.
    Prerequisite: ECE 3111  
  
  • ECE 4221 Communication Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes review of signals in electrical communication; Fourier transform, noise and signal-to-noise ratio, power spectral density and autocorrelation function, linear (amplitude) modulation; exponential (angle) modulation; generation and detection of amplitude and angle modulated waves; sampling theory.
    Prerequisite: ECE 3222  
  
  • ECE 4224 Communications and Control Systems Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes experiments on VCOs, tuned circuits, amplifiers, filters, balanced modulator, AM and FM generation and detection, sampling/aliasing. Control theory experiments (OP-AMP stability, cardiac pacemaker control, single axis lunar excursion module, magnetic levitation system) using MATLAB.®
    Prerequisite: ECE 4221   Corequisite: ECE 4221  
 

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