Current Undergraduate Courses
ECE 4360: High Voltage Engineering
2011-2019, 2021-2022, 2023-Present
Course Objectives
The course serves as an introduction to high voltage engineering, including basics of electrical breakdown, high voltage generation, high voltage test systems, measurement and analysis techniques as applied to power system apparatus such as cables, insulators, transformers, and generators.
Course Content
The following topics will be covered:
– Generation of high voltage: AC, DC, and impulse generating equipment.
– High voltage measuring systems.
– Quasi-electrostatic field calculation and simulation models.
– Standard high voltage laboratory test and measurement methods and analysis of results.
– Electrical breakdown fundamentals; electrical breakdown in solids, liquids, and gases.
– Non-destructive tests such as corona testing and partial discharge.
– Insulation coordination as related to equipment ratings and test requirements.
– Review of other industrial applications of high voltage engineering.
ECE 3760: Electronics 3E
2006-2007, 2023-Present
Course Objectives
As a continuation of ECE 2160 Electronics 2E, the objectives of this course are for students to learn to both analyze and design fundamental electronic circuits, and to explore their practical applications.
Course Content
The following topics will be covered:
– MOSFETs
– Differential Amplifiers: Common-mode vs. differential mode, common-mode rejection ratio, small-signal and large-signal operation, input/output characteristics, non-ideal characteristics, active load, frequency response.
– Single-stage IC Amplifiers: BJT, biasing, high-frequency response, large-signal transfer characteristics, follower circuits, paired transistors, current mirror.
– Feedback: Theory, feedback topologies, examples of feedback circuits, circuit characteristics improvement using feedback.
– Oscillators: Loop-gain criteria, Wien-Bridge oscillators, tank circuit/tuned circuit oscillators, crystal oscillators, multi-vibrators, timers.
– Power Amplifiers: Classification, some common configurations, detailed class B power amplifiers.
– Digital Circuits: Inverter characteristic, noise margins, loading and fan-out, power dissipation.
Previous Undergraduate Courses
ECE 3580: Foundations of Electromagnetics (2018-2021)
ECE 3590: Electromagnetic Theory (2018)
ECE 4600: Group Design Project (2012-2014)
ECE 2262: Electric Circuits (2011-2014)
ECE 3540: Advanced Circuits (2009)
ENG 1450: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering (2006-2010)
24.226: Circuits and Transmission Lines (2006)
24.378: Signal Processing 1 (2005)
130.118: Introduction to Electric Circuits (2005)
24.222: Digital Logic (2004)
24.478: Electromagnetic Compatibility (2003)
24.483: Signal Processing 2 (2002)
Current Graduate Courses
Advanced Transmission Line Theory
2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015-2020, 2024-2025
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
Transmission lines have applications in a wide range of areas, from electronic circuits to power systems. The objective of this course is to provide the fundamental theory of multiconductor transmission lines (MTL), frequency-domain and time-domain solution of multiconductor transmission line equations, and practical applications. Further, classic numerical techniques are reviewed and their application in the simulation of transmission lines is presented.
The following topics will be discussed:
Part A: Transmission Line Theory
– Review
– The multiconductor transmission-line equations
– The per-unit-length parameters
– Frequency-domain analysis
– Time-domain analysis
– Incident-field excitation of the line
Part B: Review of Computational Electromagnetics
– Finite difference techniques
– Finite element method
Part C: Application of Numerical Techniques in the Analysis of Transmission Lines
Previous Graduate Courses
Electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Systems (2021-2023)
Advanced High Voltage Engineering (2014)