Jun 30, 2024  
USC Catalogue 2018-2019 
    
USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction


The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.

 

Education

  
  • EDUC 675 Literacy Development and Instruction in Elementary Education

    Units: 3
    Literacy development and instruction, with a focus on the importance of literacy for academic success and civic participation.
    Registration Restriction: MAT Students Only
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 504 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 676 Literacy Development and Instruction in Secondary Education

    Units: 3
    Prepares prospective secondary teachers to integrate literacy instruction within their content area by creating authentic opportunities for learners to develop literacy skills.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to MAT students
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 505 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 677 Applications of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Part B

    Units: 4
    Building on EDUC 673 , prepares candidates to apply curricular principles to lesson development and determine how content should be delivered to maximize learning.
    Registration Restriction: MAT Students Only
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 678 Applying Knowledge and Strategies for Teaching All Students

    Units: 2
    Building on EDUC 673 , prepares candidates to apply curricular principals to lesson development and determine how content should be delivered to maximize learning.
    Registration Restriction: MAT Students Only
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 679 Blended Learning Experiences for Students in Urban Schools

    Units: 2
    Design, implement, and evaluate technology-rich learning environments to customize and individualize learning opportunities and assessments for K-12 students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to MAT students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 687 Capstone Seminar

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Synthesize institutional, public, and non-public sources of data to write and orally present an enrollment management plan for both campus and external stakeholders.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 688 Institutions, Organizations, and Equity in Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examine how sociologists and organizational theorists conceptualize institutions, stasis, and change. Learn to apply these perspectives to pressing issues of educational equity.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 689 Fiscal Support and Expenditure in Higher Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analyses of private and public financial support and expenditure patterns; includes recent trends in state and federal legislation related to higher education.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 690 Framing and Enrollment Management

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Identify and research enrollment management practices while developing academic literacy skills. Students will understand roles and responsibilities in Enrollment Management offices.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 691 Admission Policy and Practice

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examines admission policy within the contexts of history, social class, professional practice, and the interplay of institutions and society.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 692 Role of Diversity in Admissions

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Addresses college access, the manifestations of diversity through the admission process, and a primer on the role of identities, demographics, and intersectionality within them.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 693 Institutional Positioning in Student Recruitment

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Explores market research, demand, pricing, value, segmentation, positioning, consumer-centric communication, and the characteristics of a market-oriented enrollment management unit.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 694 Legal Issues in Enrollment Management

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examines legal issues in enrollment management and addresses the intersection of law and policy, including implications for decision-making by higher education officials.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 695 Organizations and Leadership in Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Emphasizes models of educational organizations and how they are influenced by the contexts and problems they experience, with emphasis on leadership, change management, and governance.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 696 Financial Aid in Enrollment Management

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examines institutional budgets, the role of tuition, influences on the price of higher education, and the purpose and processes of applying for and packaging financial aid.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 697 Research, Planning, and Accountability

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Develop a research perspective related to understanding and solving complex problems and strategic planning in enrollment management.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 698 Enhancing Student Retention

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examines how student characteristics are associated with persistence and graduation, how rates vary with institutional type, and the institutional role in student success.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Enrollment Management and Policy majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 700 Research and Practice in the Preparation of Teachers

    Units: 3
    Research on the preparation of teachers for diverse populations. Measures of teacher quality and student achievement. Existing practices in teacher education from multiple perspectives.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 701 Pedagogy in Teacher Education

    Units: 3
    A critical examination of pedagogical practices in teacher education. The design of pedagogical approaches and programs for diverse and underserved students in urban schools.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 702 Curriculum, Teacher Preparation, and Student Learning

    Units: 3
    The process and role of curriculum in a variety of urban settings, teacher preparation, and professional growth. The philosophical and psychological foundations of curriculum development. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 703 Examining Literacy Theories and Practice

    Units: 3
    Literacy theories as practiced in urban, teacher education and professional development settings using an inquiry approach to examine best practice. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 704 Evaluation and Assessment in Teacher Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Evaluation and assessment in the context of public schools, teacher preparation and professional growth in urban settings. Policy implications of data-based decision making and program implementation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 705 Survey Design and Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Design, collection, and analysis of survey data; survey analysis techniques including classical test theory, item response theory, differential item functioning, scaling, linking.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 706 Proseminar in Higher Education

    Units: 3
    Critical issues in urban higher education from historical and philosophical perspectives.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 707 Administration in Higher Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Administrative issues in higher education. Academic leadership related to undergraduate and graduate education. Quality standards and assessment. How administrators create efficiency, effectiveness, performance, and change.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 708 Advanced Student Development Theory

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examination of traditional and emergent student development theories.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 709 Finance in Higher Education

    Units: 3
    Local, national, and global economic and policy environments and their effect on institutional policies and practices.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 710 Assessment, Organizational Learning and Performance

    Units: 3
    The role of assessment in higher education. An analysis of the purpose and value of particular assessment approaches and instruments, in particular those addressing classroom learning and institutional effectiveness.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 711 Social Factors Influencing Learning and Motivation

    Units: 3
    Social psychological principles and research techniques applied to educational problems; school environment, group behavior, teacher effectiveness, teacher-student interaction, behavioral change. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 712 Issues in Human Motivation

    Units: 3
    Analysis of motivational principles; diagnosis and solutions to motivation gaps in learning environments; and motivation and efficacy theories and principles. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 713 Issues in Lifespan Development

    Units: 3
    An examination of issues related to the development of diverse students and the development of environments that promote motivated behavior. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 714 Measurement and Evaluation for Decision-Making

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Collecting, analyzing, and using quantitative data to solve problems of practice and in evaluating educational institutions, programs, and policies. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 715 Current Research in Learning

    Units: 3
    Current research in the application of learning theories, and the applicability of this research across a variety of contexts. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 716 Instructional Leadership

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Examines the role of instructional leaders in improving student performance; current issues in curriculum design and implementation; and effective instructional leadership approaches for school improvement. Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former CTSE 688.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 717 Schooling as an Economic Enterprise

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Applying economic theory to the study of education. Application of market theory to education, partnerships, allocation of resources, and the examination of educational enterprises. Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDPA 615.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 718 Maximizing Human Resources in Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Strategically understanding the management of human capital to ensure high student performance. How to attract and retain top quality teachers. Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDPA 610.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 719 The Policies and Politics of Education Governance

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Major issues facing educators in the 21st century. Emphasis on how educational policy can focus on incentives for schools to improve student learning. Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDPA 613.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 720 Leadership for Principals

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    The role of the principal as an instructional leader with a focus on improving student achievement. Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDPA 600.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 721 Leadership for Superintendents

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    The role of the superintendent in establishing a focus on student achievement and holding school sites accountable. How superintendents support student learning through leadership. Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDPA 618.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 723 Evaluating and Assessing Educational System Outcomes

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Evaluating impact. Examination of key assessment theories; planning and implementation of learning and program effectiveness.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 631  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 724 Creating Policy Alternatives for Educational Settings

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Effective policy-making and constructing alternatives. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 725 Analyzing Organizational Change and Its Effectiveness

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Designed to help leaders apply research about learning and motivation to the strengthening of organizational performance in organizations around the world.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 726 Making Choices: Deciding Among Policy Alternatives

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Models of decision making including cost-benefit analysis, risk-benefit analysis, and decision analysis. Ethical considerations and the political environment. Open only to doctoral students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 727 Implementing Policy in Educational Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Effective policy-making. Human and financial resources to support implementation. Targeting resources to support implementation to attain policy goals.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 726  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 728 Global Trends: Emerging Ideas, Emerging Markets

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examination of a range of emerging markets in education. Global efforts of institutions of higher education to access new markets through collaborations and offshore endeavors. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 729 Assessing Policy Impact in Educational Settings

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theory and practice of educational policy evaluation. Limits of rationality and the political forces that shape policy. Preparation of an evaluation design.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 727  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 730 Using Communication to Facilitate Organizational Change

    Units: 2, 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Addresses communication strategies that leaders use to facilitate positive change in their organization. Reinforces written, non-verbal, and verbal communication skills through leadership situations.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Organizational Change and Leadership majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 731 Economics of Organizational Change and Learning Environments

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Leadership, problem solving, communication, research, reflection, and professional dispositions will concurrently expand. Candidates will acquire the knowledge and skills to identify and implement economic change.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 732 Building Capacity for Organizational Change

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Focuses on learning issues related to building organizational capacity for change through leadership and development of personnel within an organization.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 733 Analyzing Data and Identifying Solutions

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Designed to help students interpret study data and construct evidence-based solutions for real-time organizational problems of practice.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 629  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Rossier School of Education students
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 725  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EDUC 764a Consulting Project

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of consulting project. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 764b Consulting Project

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of consulting project. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 764c Consulting Project

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of consulting project. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 764d Consulting Project

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of consulting project. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 764z Consulting Project

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of consulting project. Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 791 Proposal for Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Preparation of initial dissertation proposal.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 792 Critique of Research in Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A survey and critical analysis of selected research and literature. Open to students admitted to the EdD only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • EDUC 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit


Education Expanded

  
  • EDUE 596 Internship for Curricular Practical Training

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 03
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Part-time or full-time, practical work experience in the student’s field of study. The internship must be located at an off-campus facility. Students are individually supervised by faculty. May not be taken until the student has completed at least one semester of enrollment in the graduate program with a cumulative 3.0 GPA.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit


Electrical Engineering

  
  • EE 101 Introduction to Digital Logic

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Boolean algebra; number systems; Boolean function synthesis; binary arithmetic; codes; combinational logic devices; sequential circuits; state machine design and implementation.
    Duplicates Credit in former EE 154.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CSCI-110
  
  • EE 105 Introduction to Electrical Engineering

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Electrical engineering overview: communications, computers, circuits, components, signals, electromagnetics, microelectronics; data encoding and compression, USPS and UPC product codes, DVDs, semiconductor devices, and integrated circuits.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 109L Introduction to Embedded Systems

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Information representations, embedded programming, digital and serial I/O, analog-to-digital conversion, and interrupt mechanisms. Elementary analog, logic, and state-machine design.
    Corequisite: EE 155L  or CSCI 103L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 141L Applied Linear Algebra for Engineering

    Units: 4
    Introduction to linear algebra with engineering applications. Weekly laboratory exercises using MATLAB.
    Duplicates Credit in former EE 241
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 150L Engineering Computational Methods

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Algorithms and computational methods for efficient solution of engineering problems. Introduction to engineering software tools.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 155L Introduction to Computer Programming for Electrical Engineers

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to solving engineering problems using computational methods. Survey of various programming languages and their strengths and weaknesses. Program structure, input/output, conditionals, loops, functions, arrays.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 202L Linear Circuits

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Lumped circuit elements; network equations; zero-input and zerostate responses; sinusoidal steady-state analysis; impedance; resonance; network functions; power concepts; transformers; Laplace transforms.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 152L 
    Corequisite: MATH 245 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 209 Foundations of Digital System Design

    Units: 4
    Logic-function synthesis, state machines, combinational and sequential data-path components. Physical principles used to analyze and design digital integrated circuits.
    Prerequisite: EE 109  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 222 Fundamentals of Audio Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to basic audio engineering principles and techniques, with emphasis on practical sound-system analysis and design. Sound measurements, microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and system integration.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME-222
  
  • EE 250L Distributed Systems for the Internet of Things

    Units: 4
    Introduction to hardware, operating systems, signal processing and control, network protocols, mobile applications, databases, cloud computing, machine learning, and security for the Internet of Things.
    Prerequisite: EE 109L  and EE 155L 
    Recommended Preparation: Experience with DIY electronics, Linux, and programming in a distributed, networked environment
    Registration Restriction: Open only to students with at least a sophomore standing
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 277L Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits

    Units: 2
    Physical principles and circuit theory used to analyze and design digital integrated circuits. Introduction to digital abstractions that bridge the gap between basic circuit theory and VLSI.
    Prerequisite: EE 109 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 301L Linear Systems

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Representation and analysis of linear time-invariant systems primarily for the continuous time case. Convolution, Fourier series and transform, Laplace transform, controls and communications applications.
    Prerequisite: EE 202L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 322 Introduction to Digital Audio

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fundamentals of sound, acoustics and digital audio signal processing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 326Lx Essentials of Electrical Engineering

    Units: 4
    Network analysis and theorems; transient analysis; transformers; semiconductor physics and circuits; power amplifiers, modulation and demodulation, and pulse, digital, and switching circuits. Introduction to instrumentation.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 152L , MATH 126 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 330 Electromagnetics I

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Basic static and dynamic electromagnetic field theory and applications; electrostatics, magnetostatics, Maxwell’s equations, energy flow, plane waves incident on planar boundaries, transmission lines.
    Prerequisite: EE 202L , MATH 445 , PHYS 152L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 337L Engineering Nano-Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Methods to control and exploit the phenomena of nanoscience, and the integration of nano-technology into systems. Development of fundamental concepts through a series of experimental modules.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 152 .
    Duplicates Credit in former EE 238L.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 338 Physical Electronics

    Units: 4
    Semiconductor device characteristics and applications. Physical models of electronic conduction in solids, p-n junctions, bipolar and field effect transistors and other solid-state devices.
    Prerequisite: EE 202L  and PHYS 152L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 348L Electronic Circuits

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Basic analog and digital circuit design using Bipolar Junction Transistors, Field Effect Transistors and integrated circuits.
    Corequisite: EE 338 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 351 Programming and Multimedia on the World Wide Web

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in CSCI 351 )
  
  • EE 352L Computer Organization and Architecture

    Units: 3
    Computer organization and architecture. Concepts include: computer evolution and performance, system busses, cache memory, internal and external memory, input/output, operating system support, computer arithmetic.
    Prerequisite: CSCI 104 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CSCI-352
  
  • EE 354L Introduction to Digital Circuits

    Units: 4
    Digital system design and implementation; synchronous design of datapath and control; schematic/Verilog-based design, simulation, and implementation in Field Programmable Gate Arrays; timing analysis; semester-end project.
    Prerequisite: EE 101  or EE 209  
    Duplicates Credit in EE 254
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 355x Software Design for Electrical Engineers

    Units: 4
    Object-oriented programming techniques, basic data structures, and elementary complexity analysis for the modeling, simulation, and solution of engineering problems.
    Prerequisite: EE 155L 
    Credit Restriction: Not available for credit for CSCI, CSGM, CSBA, or CECS majors
    Duplicates Credit in former CSCI 355x
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 364 Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to concepts of randomness and uncertainty: probability, random variables, statistics. Applications to digital communications, signal processing, automatic control, computer engineering and computer science.
    Prerequisite: MATH 225  or MATH 245 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 370 Electromagnetics for Engineering Systems

    Units: 4
    Electromagnetic plane-wave propagation and interactions with simple media, transmission/reception of wireless signals in complex environments. Optimization design methods for system applications.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 172L  or PHYS 162L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 415 Introduction to MEMS

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in AME 455 )
  
  • EE 422x Electromagnetic Systems Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Applied electromagnetics for large- and small-scale electromechanical systems. Comprehensive design project. Capstone design experience.
    Prerequisite: EE 330 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 423Lx Loudspeaker and Sound-System Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Project-based design of loudspeaker transducers, filters, and enclosures. Measurement of transfer functions, acoustical performance, distortion, Thiele-Small parameters, and power handling. Listening evaluations. Capstone design experience.
    Prerequisite: EE 301  or AME 302 ; PHYS 152 ;
    Recommended Preparation: EE 330 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME-423
  
  • EE 434Lx Digital Signal Processing Design Laboratory

    Units: 4
    Experiments and design project in digital signal processing (e.g., real-time DSP, acoustics, video) including: systems specification, preliminary analysis, trade-off studies, implementation, presentation. Capstone design experience.
    Prerequisite: EE 483 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 436 Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular, Sp
    (Enroll in PHYS 440 )
  
  • EE 438L Processing for Microelectronics

    Units: 3
    Applications and electrical evaluation of selected processes used in electronic microfabrication.
    Prerequisite: EE 338 .
    Duplicates Credit in former MASC 438L.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as MASC-438
  
  • EE 439 Principles of Semiconductor Processing

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in MASC 439 )
  
  • EE 443 Introduction to Power Systems

    Units: 4
    Components of power systems; analysis techniques in electrical power generation transmission and utilization; and environmental and economic considerations in system operations and planning.
    Prerequisite: EE 370 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 444 Power Systems Technology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Comprehensive assessment of the technical, environmental, and regulatory challenges that affect the future delivery and utilization of electric power. Case-study analysis.
    Prerequisite: EE 202L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • EE 445 Introduction to Robotics

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in CSCI 445 )
  
  • EE 447Lx Mixed Signal Electronic Circuits

    Units: 4
    Application of solid-state electronic devices to the design of linear and mixed-signal systems. Laboratory experiments and projects involving the design of electronic hardware. Capstone design experience.
    Prerequisite: EE 348 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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