Calendar 2005-2006 - The University of Akron

466/566 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING 3 credits
Prerequisite: 361. Vehicle and urban travel characteristics, traffic flow theory, traffic studies, accidents
and safety, traffic signs and marking, traffic signal planning, traffic control and transportation
administration.
467 ADVANCED HIGHWAY DESIGN 3 credits
Prerequisites: 464, autoCAD capability, or permission. Computer-aided geometrical design of highways
including survey data input, digital terrain modeling, cross-section templates, horizontal and
vertical roadway design, earthwork computations, and advanced topics.
468/568 HIGHWAY MATERIALS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 361, 380 or permission. Properties of aggregates, manufacture and properties of
portland cement concrete, properties of asphaltic materials, design and testing of hot mix asphalt
pavement mixes and of surface treatments. Laboratory preparation of specimens and determination
of properties. Graduate student requirement: Graduate students will be required to perform an
additional eight-hour asphalt laboratory (Abson recovery of asphalt from solution) and to prepare a
paper on a highway materials topic.
471 CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION 3 credits
Prerequisite: senior standing or permission. Organization for construction, construction contracts,
estimating, bidding, bonds and insurance. Construction financial management and supervision of
construction, scheduling using critical path method.
472 CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING 3 credits
Prerequisite: senior standing or permission. Construction equipment selection and management.
Techniques of various engineering construction operations including blasting, tunneling, concrete
framework and dewatering.
473 CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS 2 credits
Prerequisites: 380, 4200:305. Composition, structure and mechanical behavior of structural materials
such as concrete, wood, masonry, plastics and composite materials. Discussion of applications
and principles of evaluating material properties.
474/574 UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION 2 credits
Prerequisite: 314. Description of practices and techniques of underground construction. Selection
of proper method for individual job. Design of underground openings, support systems and linings.
480 RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN 3 credits
Prerequisite: 3470:261 and senior standing. Probability concepts in civil engineering. Risk analysis
and reliability based design.
481 CIVIL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS 2 credits
Prerequisite: senior standing. Systems approach to civil engineering problems. Mathematical programming;
project planning, scheduling and cost analysis; basic operations research methods;
decision analysis. Management of engineering design of complex civil engineering projects.
482 SPECIAL PROJECTS 1-3 credits
Prerequisites: senior standing and permission. Directed individual or group research or study in student’s
field of interest. Topic subject to approval by advisor.
490 SENIOR DESIGN 3 credits
Prerequisites: senior standing. A civil engineering design project that emphasizes interdisciplinary
teamwork to solve a substantial, currently relevant problem.
497 HONORS PROJECT 1-3 credits
(May be repeated for a total of six credits) Prerequisite: senior standing in Honors College.
Individual creative project or design relevant to civil engineering, supervised by faculty member of
the department.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
4400:
101 TOOLS FOR ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 3 credit
Corequisite: 3450:221 or 149. Orientation to degree programs and design practice in electrical
and computer engineering and in computer science. Introduction to computer applications and
resources for engineering studies.
230 CIRCUITS I LABORATORY 1 credit
Corequisite: 231. Computation, computer aided circuit analysis, circuit theorem confirmation,
report writing to include data analysis and reduction, introduction to electrical measurements.
231 CIRCUITS I 3 credits
Prerequisite: 3650:291. Corequisite: 230, 3450:223, 3650:292. Fundamentals of circuit analysis
including loop and nodal methods, phasor techniques, resonance, polyphase circuits and magnetic
coupling
263 SWITCHING AND LOGIC 4 credits
Prerequisites: 230, 231. Analysis of computer circuits. Introduction to use of Boolean algebra and
mapping techniques in analyzing switching circuits. Sequential circuits.
320 BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 4 credits
Prerequisite: junior standing in engineering; corequisite: 3450:335. Covers fundamental aspects of
electrical circuits, electronics and electrical machinery. Not open to an electrical engineering major.
330 CIRCUITS II LABORATORY 1 credit
Corequisite: 332. Computation, computer aided circuit analysis, circuit theorem confirmation,
report writing to include data analysis and reduction, intermediate electrical measurements
332 CIRCUITS II 3 credits
Prerequisite: 231. Corequisite:330; 3450:335. Network theorems, Fourier methods, transfer functions.
Laplace and Fourier transforms and their use in analyzing dynamic operation of circuits.
341 COMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 3 credits
Prerequisite: 263, 343. Introduces analog and digital communication systems and signal processing.
Time-sampling and filtering. Modulation and demodulation techniques. Noise and
bandwidth requirements. System design and performance analysis.
4400:Electrical Engineering 2005-2006 251
343 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS 4 credits
Prerequisites: 3450:335 and 4400:231. Linear systems theory and transform analysis techniques
for continuous and discrete systems. Convolutions, Laplace transforms, continuous and discrete
Fourier transforms. Difference equations and Z transforms.
353 ELECTROMAGNETICS I 4 credits
Prerequisites: 231, 3450:335. Vector analysis. Electrostatics: electrostatic field, scalar potential,
dielectrics, boundary-value problems. Magnetostatics: magnetic circuits. Maxwell’s equations:
Faraday’s law, time-harmonic fields. Introduction to plane waves.
354 ELECTROMAGNETICS II 3 credits
Prerequisite: 353. Theory and application of transmission lines: transient and steady-state waves.
Plane EM waves: propagation, reflection, and refraction. Waveguides open and closed-boundary
guiding structures.
360 PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 263, 332. PN junction, diffusion, tunneling, FET and BJT device physics, equivalent
circuits for electronic devices, time and frequency analysis, biasing and logic families.
361 ELECTRONIC DESIGN 4 credits
Prerequisites: 343, 360. Power amplification, feedback, oscillators, linear integrated circuits, modulation
and demodulation circuits.
371 CONTROL SYSTEMS I 4 credits
Prerequisite: 343. Introduction to servomechanisms and feedback. Modeling and response of
feedback control systems. Stability of linear systems. Experiments include analog simulation and
basic servomechanism.
381 ENERGY CONVERSION 4 credits
Prerequisites: 332. Corequisite: 353. Nonelectrical to electrical energy conversions and vice versa:
thermal, chemical, solar. Fundamentals of electromechanical energy conversion. Principles of operation
of transformers, commutator machines, induction and synchronous machines.
391 PROBLEMS 1-3 credits
(May be taken more than once) Prerequisite: permission of department head. Select comprehensive
problems, supervised discussions and computation periods.
400 SENIOR SEMINAR 1 credit
Students present Senior Design Project proposals, progress reports, and final reports. Professional
and societal impact aspects of design are considered.
401 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT I 2 credits
Prerequisites: senior standing and permission. Corequisite: 400. Design and preparation phase
of an engineering project. Requires project presentation, approval of a written proposal, and
ordering of required parts.
402 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT II 3 credits
Prerequisite: 401. Implementation and evaluation phases of an engineering design project.
Requires a project presentation and report.
434 ACTIVE CIRCUITS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 343. Applications of operational amplifiers including bilinear transfer functions, scaling,
cascade design, biquad circuits, lowpass, high pass, bandpass-filters, Butterworth and Chebyshev
response, sensitivity, delay filters, frequency transformations, ladder design, simulated element
design, leapfrog simulation and switched-capacitors.
447 RANDOM SIGNALS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 343. Applications of set theory, discrete and continuous sample spaces; probability,
random variables, distribution functions, density functions, stochastic processes, random signals,
system function, power spectrum and correlation functions.
448 OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 341, 354. Optical waveguides and integrated components. Optical transmitters and
receivers. Optical communications network design.
449/549 DIGITAL COMMUNICATION 3 credits
Prerequisite: 341. Introduction to digital communication theory and systems; coding of analog and
digital information; digital modulation techniques. Introduction to information theory.
451 ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY 3 credits
Prerequisite: 360. Introduction to electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, crosstalk and
effects on computers, communication lines and systems.
453/553 ANTENNA THEORY 3 credits
Prerequisite: 354. Theory of EM radiation. Wire antennas, arrays, receiving antennas, reciprocity.
Integral equations for induced currents, self and mutual impedances. Equivalence principle, radiation
from aperture antennas.
455/555 MICROWAVES 4 credits
Prerequisite: 354. Dynamic fields, Maxwell’s equation and wave equations. Field analysis of wave
guides, microwave components, techniques and systems.
457/557 WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 449. Theory and analysis of wireless communication systems, wireless propagation,
multiple access, modulation, demodulation, multipath channel characterization, diversity,
cellular and PCS services and standards.
461 OPTICAL ELECTRONICS AND PHOTONIC DEVICES 3 credits
Prerequisites: 360, 341; 354 or 451. Lightwave engineering, photonic principles and optical electronic
device technology.
465/565 PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC 3 credits
Prerequisite: 263. Digital design with programmable devices. PLD and FPGA architectures. Logic
design and technology mapping tools.
470 MICROPROCESSOR INTERFACING 3 credits
Prerequisites: 3460:209 or 4450:208. Microprocessor structure, Bus Interface. Digital controller
devices and their relationship to both the microcomputer and physical environment.
472/572 CONTROL SYSTEMS II 4 credits
Prerequisite: 371. Sampled-data control system analysis and design. Discrete-time representation
of sampled-data systems. Cascade, feedforward and state-variable compensation techniques.
Digital computer implementation.