Nov 23, 2024

2012-2013 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

2012-2013 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Electrical Engineering, B.S.

Program Director:

Dr. Richard Kelnhofer
Office: S-300
Phone: (414) 277-7420
Fax: (414) 277-7465
Email: kelnhofer@msoe.edu
Website: www.msoe.edu/eecs/ee

Have you ever thought about who created items you so commonly use? Your livelihood depends on electrically engineered products such as your cell phone, HDTV, GPS navigators and implantable defibrillators. Electrical engineers create all such things that use electricity to improve peoples’ lives.

Consider becoming an electrical engineer if you:

like to work with physical things you can touch and see, such as electronic components and products, yet use a computer to control and interact with these components and products.
want a broad choice of career opportunities, yet be able to specialize in topics of your choosing.
are looking for a career that can last a lifetime, yet can also serve as a springboard for other opportunities, such as management, business and law.

Consider studying electrical engineering at MSOE for the following reasons:

The curriculum is broadly based with a primary focus on hardware equipment that is real; objects you can see, hold and break. Some of what you will work with can only be seen under a microscope (integrated circuits, nanotechnology) and some will dwarf you (power station generators, wind turbines and solar arrays).
You will experience a strong emphasis on design and hands-on laboratory experimentation.
You will learn about communications, controls, motors, embedded systems, electronics, microprocessors and more, and use software applications.
The curriculum has one or more electrical engineering courses in every quarter of each academic year, including the entire freshman year.

Program Educational Objectives

The electrical engineering program is preparing graduates to attain the following objectives within a few years of graduation:

The technical maturity necessary to be productive and successful in their chosen field.
Active participation in the affairs of their profession and continued professional development.

Student Outcomes

In support of the program objectives, graduates of the program will have:

an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering.
an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability and sustainability.
an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.
an ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems.
an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
an ability to communicate effectively.
the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.
a recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in life-long learning.
a knowledge of contemporary issues.
an ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
an ability to apply knowledge of probability and statistics to electrical engineering.

The Electrical Engineering Curriculum

The electrical engineering program (BSEE) at MSOE places a very strong emphasis on design, applications and hands-on laboratory experimentation. Think for a moment of how you can demonstrate that you learned something very well. What if, in addition to the normal exams, you designed, built and debugged an electronic circuit that functions just like it is supposed to? The laboratory is a great place to work out the details of your understanding of the theory. Consequently, the BSEE program at MSOE prepares its graduates for successful entry into the engineering profession, as well as for graduate school.

Design and laboratory projects grow in complexity throughout the four-year BSEE curriculum. In the freshman year students start with experiments that range over electrical engineering topics, such as microprocessors, communications, motors and digital circuits. Students learn structured programming executed on an embedded system and the basics of circuit theory. In succeeding years typical topics covered include: designing decision-making circuits and sing the software applications MATLAB and Simulink in the analysis and design of automatic control systems.

This design process culminates in the senior design project where a team of senior students (often coming together from different disciplines) work on a single major project for the entire academic year. The project is taken from concept to a working prototype. Recent projects included:

Tactical Response SWAT Robot
Internet-Enabled Heart Health Monitor
Universal Test Platform for NASA Zero-Gravity Flights
Solar Powered Boat for Competitive Racing
SAE Formula Hybrid Vehicle

Many of the projects use wireless communication and microprocessors. The projects are usually defined by the students, sometimes with the help of faculty and/or local industry. Because of its urban location, MSOE has a very strong relationship with local industry. This is very advantageous for students, not just for design projects, but also for industry internships or summer jobs.

BSEE students have the option of a very unique junior year study-abroad program with the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences in Lübeck, Germany. This is a tremendous opportunity for anyone who is thinking about a career path that involves the global economy and viewpoint. For details, please see Electrical Engineering, German Study-Abroad, MSOE Students, B.S. of this catalog.

Careers in Electrical Engineering

Graduating with a degree in electrical engineering prepares the student for an extremely wide variety of careers in almost any industry.

Examples of the types of industries graduates could work in include:

Aerospace
Automation
Automotive
Communications
Computers
Electronics
Instrumentation
Integrated circuits
Medical
Power generation/distribution

Examples of typical electrical engineering topical areas implemented in these industries are:

Expert systems
High-definition television
Micro-electromechanical systems
Microprocessor controls
Optical communications
Programmable controllers
Robotics
Wireless communications

Examples of the types of jobs that are available:

Computer automation
Computer modeling/simulations
Development of new products
Design of products or equipment
Manufacturing/production
Project leader
Researcher of new ideas
Technical marketing

Examples of specific career opportunities:

Design engineer - Uses computer simulations and modeling to design new high-frequency circuits for digital cellular phones.
Research engineer - Invents new optoelectronic devices to build an optical computer.
Project engineer - Leads a team of engineers from different disciplines to design, test and manufacture an undersea optical amplifier.
Test engineer - Writes and implements the computer program to do automated testing of an electronic ignition system.
Application engineer - Defines and integrates existing equipment to solve customer problems.
System engineer - Defines and develops a communications network.

Model Full-time Track - V15.4

Year One

Fall

EE 100 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering 2 credits
MA 136 - Calculus for Engineers I 4 credits
EN 131 - Composition 3 credits
HU 100 - Contemporary Issues in the Humanities 3 credits
OR 100 - Freshman Orientation 0 credits ¹
Elective (Business) 3 credits ²

Total: 15 lecture hours - 2 lab hours - 15 credits

Winter

EE 1910 - Introduction to Embedded Systems Programming 4 credits
MA 137 - Calculus for Engineers II 4 credits
EN 132 - Technical Composition 3 credits
CH 200 - Chemistry I 4 credits
AE 1311 - Introduction to CAD 1 credits

Total: 14 lecture hours - 6 lab hours - 16 credits

Spring

EE 2050 - Linear Circuits - Steady State I 4 credits
MA 231 - Calculus for Engineers III 4 credits
EN 241 - Speech 3 credits
EG 1260 - Engineering Graphics – Visualization 1 credits
PH 2010 - Physics I – Mechanics 4 credits

Total: 12 lecture hours - 9 lab hours - 16 credits

Year Two

Fall

EE 2060 - Linear Circuits - Steady State II 4 credits
EE 2920 - Embedded Systems 4 credits
MA 235 - Differential Equations for Engineers 4 credits
PH 2020 - Physics II - Electromagnetism and Optics 4 credits

Total: 13 lecture hours - 9 lab hours - 16 credits

Winter

EE 2070 - Linear Circuits – Transients 3 credits
EE 2930 - Systems Interfacing 3 credits
EE 2900 - Combinational Logic Circuits 4 credits
MA 232 - Calculus for Engineers IV 3 credits
PH 2030 - Physics III - Thermodynamics and Quantum Physics 4 credits

Total: 14 lecture hours - 8 lab hours - 17 credits

Spring

EE 2902 - Sequential Logic Circuits 4 credits
CS 2510 - Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming 3 credits
MA 383 - Linear Algebra 3 credits
ME 255 - Engineering Statics for Nonmechanical Engineers 3 credits
ME 354 - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer 3 credits

Total: 14 lecture hours - 5 lab hours - 16 credits

Year Three

Fall

EE 3050 - Dynamic Systems 3 credits
EE 3101 - Operational Amplifier Design 4 credits
EE 3921 - Digital System Design 4 credits
IE 423 - Engineering Economy 3 credits
SS 461 - Organizational Psychology 3 credits

Total: 15 lecture hours - 5 lab hours - 17 credits

Winter

EE 3111 - Electronic Devices and Circuits 4 credits
EE 3202 - Electric and Magnetic Fields 3 credits
EE 3220 - Digital Signal Processing 4 credits
EE 3720 - Control Systems 4 credits
GE 300 - Career and Professional Guidance 1 credits

Total: 12 lecture hours - 10 lab hours - 16 credits

Spring

EE 3101 - Operational Amplifier Design 4 credits
EE 3212 - Electromagnetic Waves 4 credits
EE 3401 - Electromechanical Energy Conversion 4 credits
MA 3620 - Random Variables and Statistics 3 credits
Elective (Science) 3 credits ²

Total: 16 lecture hours - 5 lab hours - 18 credits

Year Four

Fall

EE 407 - Senior Design Project I 3 credits
EE 4021 - Principles of Communications 4 credits
PH 360 - Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Devices 4 credits
Elective (Technical) 3 credits ²
Elective (HU/SS) 3 credits ²

Total: 15 lecture hours - 5 lab hours - 17 credits

Winter

EE 408 - Senior Design Project II 3 credits
Elective (Technical) 3 credits ²
Elective (Technical) 3 credits ²
Elective (HU/SS) 3 credits ²
Elective (HU/SS) 3 credits ²

Total: 14 lecture hours - 3 lab hours - 15 credits

Spring

EE 409 - Senior Design Project III 3 credits
HU 432 - Ethics for Professional Managers and Engineers 3 credits
Elective (Technical) 3 credits ²
Elective (HU/SS) 3 credits ²
Elective (HU/SS) 3 credits ²

Total: 14 lecture hours - 3 lab hours - 15 credits

Note:

¹ Transfer students who have completed 36 quarter credits or 24 semester credits will be waived from OR 100 , but will be required to complete OR 301 Transfer Student Orientation.

² The 33 credits of elective subjects in the electrical engineering program must be taken as follows:

15 required credits of humanities and social science electives: 6 credits of humanities (HU), 6 credits of social science (SS), and 3 credits of humanities or social science.
12 credits of approved EE program technical electives.
3 credits of approved science elective.
3 credits of approved business (economics/entrepreneurship) elective.

Engineering technology courses may not be used to satisfy any electrical engineering program requirements.

Students in Air Force ROTC may make the following course substitutions: the course combination AF-400/401 for SS 455 (a social science elective), AF-402 for a technical elective, and the course sequence AF-300/301/302 for both EE 3212 and SS 461 . Additional AF courses cannot be used to satisfy any electrical engineering requirements.

Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.

Electrical Engineering Electives

CE 4950 - Networking I 3 credits
EE 393 - VLSI Design 4 credits
EE 4050 - Low-Noise Analog System Design 3 credits
EE 4060 - Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos 3 credits
EE 4112 - Advanced Analog Electronics 3 credits
EE 421 - Digital Communication Systems 3 credits
EE 423 - Applications of Digital Signal Processing 3 credits
EE 424 - Data Communications 3 credits
EE 425 - Radio Frequency Circuit Design 3 credits
EE 4250 - Advanced Signal Processing 3 credits
EE 429 - Microwave Engineering 3 credits
EE 444 - Power Electronics 3 credits
EE 447 - Power System Analysis I 3 credits
EE 449 - Power System Analysis II 3 credits
EE 4720 - Control Systems Applications 3 credits
EE 474 - Programmable Controllers 3 credits
EE 481 - Fuzzy Sets and Applications 3 credits
EE 484 - Neural Networks 3 credits
EE 487 - Machine Vision 3 credits
EE 488 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems 3 credits
EE 493 - Advanced Microprocessors 3 credits
EE 499 - Independent Study 3 credits

Electrical Engineering Cooperative Education Program

Cooperative education is designed to integrate classroom study with planned and supervised work experiences. The co-op program offers students an opportunity to gain industrial experience as part of their formal education. Co-op students are employed in technical capacities in research, development, design, manufacturing and engineering departments of industrial companies, consulting firms and in federal and state agencies. The employment sessions begin in the summer following the sophomore year and typically include three rotations of co-op experience. Each rotation lasts for one academic term and one summer.

The co-op program is optional and positions are not guaranteed. Positions are awarded at the discretion of the employer after a competitive interviewing process.

Anyone interested in a co-op position should contact the Career Services Office at (414) 277-7120.

Advantages to the Student

The co-op program:

provides practical work experience.
increases educational motivation.
develops greater professional understanding: Students develop greater understanding of other people and learn varied techniques of human relations by their personal contact with their fellow workers and peers.

accelerates maturation: Students mature more quickly by their association with professional people in their everyday work.
provides orientation to the world of work. The co-op program provides a solid foundation for career planning and career guidance in the following ways:
- test interests and abilities in connection with real jobs.
- gain firsthand career information and guidance in the co-op environment.
- discover strengths and weaknesses through co-op employment.
provides financial aid.
provides useful employment contacts.

Requirements for the Electrical Engineering Co-op Program

Full-time student status in electrical engineering at MSOE.
Maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.50.
Must have completed the sophomore year and receive prior approval from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department co-op administrator prior to applying for a co-op experience.
Any student who wishes to pursue placement in a co-op position must have an application form on file in the Career Placement Office and a resume completed on Career Net.