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This course introduces students to the computer-based tools used by engineers in the course of their work. Tools include Matlab, Maple, CAD, Excel, SPSS, and C++.

This course provides a modern introduction to logic design and digital systems. Topics include logic gates, arithmetic circuits, and flip-flops and how these are combined to implement counters, registers, memory, and state machines. Students will represent these devices using a variety of diagrams.

This course introduces students to how electrical and electronic circuits function. Topics include electrical current and voltage, electrical energy, and electrical power. Circuit components such as resistors, inductors, and capacitors are explained both in terms of their underlying physics and how they influence the behavior of electric circuits. Circuit analysis techniques such as Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws, Thevenin and Norton transformations, and the superposition theorem are explained and used to solve problems. Basic electrical measurement techniques are demonstrated and applied in a series of laboratory experiments.

This course provides an introduction to concepts and methodology of linear dynamic systems in relation to discrete- and continuous-time signals. Topics include representation of systems and signals; Fourier, Laplace, and Z-transforms; and convolution. Linear systems are described in terms of inputs and outputs  and expressed as transfer functions. Systems are analyzed in the time domain and the frequency domain. Filtering and processing of signals will be discussed as applications of the theory. System response will be modeled and visualized using Matlab.

This course covers the material properties of semiconductors, the physics of semiconductor operation, and the operating principles of diodes, bipolar and field-effect transistors, feedback and operational amplifiers and regulated power supplies. Circuit analysis techniques are applied and industry-standard tools and applications are used to model and understand the characteristics, operation, performance and limitations of fundamental electronic devices. Topics include wave-particle duality, semiconductor energy bands, formation of n and p-type carriers, p-n junctions, I-V characteristics, BJT and FET operating modes, and power regulators.