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Undergraduate Certificate Embedded Systems

Curriculum

Prerequisite

Course NameCourse #Credits
EEE21233

College of Engineering
ELEC

Fundamental laws. Circuit parameters, elementary network theory. Forced and transient response, semi-conductor devices, electronic circuits, digital logic and counting circuits. The course includes hands-on experiments. The following courses can be taken concurrently with this course: MCS 2423, PHY 2423.

EEE32333

College of Engineering
ELEC

Architecture, timing, instruction set, memory and input/output techniques for various microprocessors, design of a microcomputer system.

MCS 11422

College of Arts + Sciences
MATH

An introduction to writing programs using C programming language. Brief introduction to computer hardware and software history. Binary, decimal, hex, and octal representations. Variable types, conditional statements, loops, arrays, functions including sending and returning values, formatted input, and output including file operations. Simple pointer types.


Certificate

Course NameCourse #Credits
EEE32211

College of Engineering
ELEC

Laboratory experiments covering the principles studied in EEE3223. PLDs, I/O and peripheral circuitry, image processing, digital signal processing, and other related topics. The following course may be taken concurrently with this course: EEE 3223.

EEE42433

College of Engineering
ELEC

Utilization of microcontrollers in design of instruments and embedded controllers. Description of on-chip resources, programming framework, parallel I/O, main timer and real-time interrupt, pulse accumulator, A/D converter and serial communication subsystems. Interfacing techniques.

EEE42411

College of Engineering
ELEC

Program development using a microcontroller evaluation module board (EVB); design of experiments using an EVB development tool; various I/O interfacing design examples. Term design project. The following course may be taken concurrently with this course: EEE 4243.

EEE42733

College of Engineering
ELEC

Analysis of real time systems from both a hardware and software point of view. Timing and hardware constraints. Study of task assignments scheduling algorithms; resource allocation, and reliability and fault tolerance. Introduction to various real time operating systems. Examples are given of typical real time system applications.


Elective

Course NameCourse #Credits
EEE42633

College of Engineering
ELEC

Local asynchronous communication; extending LANs modems, repeaters, bridges; switches; packet switches; service paradigms; protocols and layering; binding protocol address; network management software; network security-filtering and firewalls. Course contains lecture and laboratory sections.

EEE43333

College of Engineering
ELEC

Introduction to principles of automotive electronics. Basic function of automotive engine and vehicles. Vehicle power supply. Electrical, temperature, environmental requirements. Electronic ignition. Electronic engine and transmission management, including open and closed loop control design, diagnostics. Vehicle controls: system concept, sensors, actuators, control design, diagnostics. Instrumentation principles. Example hardware systems. Introduction to electric vehicles

EEE45833

College of Engineering
ELEC

Analyze and design signal conditioning circuits for measuring temperature, force pressure, flow, fluid level. Interfacing techniques such as voltage to frequency. Converter, A to D, 4-20mH current loop and multiplexing.

EEE55334

College of Engineering
ELEC

Must have departmental approval. Discrete time mathematics, Z-transforms, sampling rates, zero and first-order hold, time delays, system stability, continuous and discrete time systems, interfacing, computer control implementation concepts, state space realization. Lecture 4 hours.

EEE56544

College of Engineering
ELEC

Sampling theory and sampling hardware. Z Transform. Architecture of VLSI digital signal processors. Design and implementation of real time polynomial, Fir, IIR, and adaptive filters. Spectral analysis with FFT. Design of DSP application in communication and digital control.

EEE 4XX33

College of Engineering
ELEC

 

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