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Bachelors of Electrical Engineering

Texas A&M University

Graduating August 2002

 

 

 

 

ELECTIVE COURSE WORK

 

 

Electronic Circuits (ELEN326 - A) –

 Basic circuits used in electronic systems; differential and multistage amplifiers; output stages and power amplifiers; frequency response, feedback circuits, stability and oscillators, analog integrated circuits, active filters.  [SPICE simulations and physical circuits]

 

Microprocessor System Design (ELEN449 - A) –

Introduction to microprocessors; 16/32 bit single board computer hardware and software designs; chip select equations for memory board design, serial and parallel I/O interfacing; ROM. static and dynamic RAM circuits for no wait-state design; assembly language programming, stack models, subroutines and I/O processing.  [Motorola 68000 microprocessor platform]

 

Linear Control Systems (ELEN420 - A) –

Application of state variable and frequency domain techniques to modeling, analysis and synthesis of single input, single output linear control systems.

 

Structured Programming in C (CPSC206 - B) –

Basic concepts, nomenclature and historical perspective of computers and computing; internal representation of data; software design principles and practices; structured programming in C; use of terminals, operation of editors and execution of student-written programs.

 

Advanced Logic Design (ELEN468 - A) –

Introduction to design, modeling and verification of complex digital systems; modern design methodologies for logic design; development of tools for the design and testing of digital systems.  [Verilog and VHDL]

 

Control Engineering and Design (ELEN422 - A) –

Modeling, specifications, rating and operating principles of sensors, actuators and other control system components; experiments on conceptual design, simulation and physical implementation of control systems.

 

Computer Architecture and Design (ELEN350 - A)

Computer architecture and design; use of register transfer languages and simulation tools to describe and simulate computer operation; central processing unit organization, microprogramming, input/output and memory system architectures.

 

Electric Power Systems I (ELEN459 - A)

General considerations in transmission and distribution of electrical energy as related power systems; calculation of electric transmission line constants; general theory of symmetrical components and application to analysis of power systems during fault conditions.