This course is for 2nd year undergraduate students. Calendar description: Circuit element definitions. Circuit laws: Ohm's, KVL, KCL. Resistive voltage and current dividers. Basic loop and nodal analysis. Dependent sources. Circuit theorems: linearity, superposition, maximum power transfer, Thevenin, Norton. Time domain behavior of inductance and capacitance, energy storage. Sinusoidal signals, complex numbers, phasor and impedance concepts. Magnetically coupled networks. Single phase power and power factor. Prerequisites: Math 101, 102.
This course is for 3rd year undergraduate students. Calendar description: PN junction semiconductor basics, charge flow and diode equation. Zener diodes. BJT and MOSFET devices and operating regions. Amplifier basics: biasing, gain, input and output resistance, analysis and design. Large signal effects. Prerequisites: ECE 203 or E E 250.
This course is for senior undergraduate students. Calendar description: Microfluidic and nanobiotechnological devices. Fabrication techniques for devices: self-assembly, lithographic technologies. Applications of nanobiotechnology in computing, electronics, human health, environment and manufacture. Prerequisites: MATH 201 or PHYS 230. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 455 or E E 455.
This course is for senior undergraduate students. Calendar description: Microfabrication processes for CMOS, bipolar, MEMs, and microfluidics devices. Laboratory safety. Deposition processes of oxidation, evaporation, and sputtering. Lithography, wet and dry etch, and device characterization. Note: consent of department required.