ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E) 311, section XE (streaming media)

Credit: 4 undergraduate or nonmajor graduate credits

Tuition: undergraduate $892, graduate $1388, plus $720 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 -May 9, 2008

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Fundamentals and applications of electric and magnetic fields and materials. Uniform plane electromagnetic waves; reflection and transmission at planar interfaces; Poynting vector; propagation in lossless and lossy media; dispersion. Transmission lines under transient and sinusoidal steady-state conditions. Smith chart. Guided waves. Introductory radiation and antenna concepts. Reduction to electrostatics and magnetostatics, potentials, capacitance and inductance, energy, force, torque. For more information, visit Engineering Distance Education at www.ede.iastate.edu

Prerequisite: E E 201, Math 267 , Physics 222 , credit or registration in Math 267 . On-campus students who wish to enroll should contact Engineering Distance Education at (515) 294-7470.

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Instructor: Mani Mina

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Semiconductor Materials and Devices

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E/MatE) 332

Credit: 3 undergraduate or nonmajor graduate credits

Tuition: undergraduate $636, graduate $990, plus $540 delivery fee (If you drop this course, part or all of the delivery fee may be refunded dependent on the date of the drop.)

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Introduction to semiconductor material and device physics. Quantum mechanics and band theory of semiconductors. Charge carrier distributions, generation/recombination, transport properties. Physical and electrical properties and fabrication of semiconductor devices such as MOSFETs, bipolar transistors, laser diodes and LED's. Nonmajor graduate credit. On-campus students who wish to enroll should contact Engineering Distance Education at (515) 294-7470. For more information, visit Engineering Distance Education at www.ede.iastate.edu

Prerequisite: Mat E 331 and Phys 222

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Instructor: Vikram Dalal

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Communication Systems II

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E) 442, XE

Credit: 3 undergraduate, 3 graduate

Tuition: $669 undergraduate, $1041 graduate, plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Classes: Tuesday, Thursday; 4:10-5:30 pm

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2005

   Introduction to probability and random processes; Performance of analog systems with noise; Performance of digital communication with noise; optimum receivers, transmission impairments, and error rates; Introduction to information theory and coding: source coding, channel coding, channel capacity

Prerequisite: EE 421 and enrollment in EE 423

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Instructor: Yao Ma

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Power System Analysis II

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E) 457, section XE

Credit: 3 undergraduate or nonmajor graduate credits

Tuition: undergraduate $636, graduate $990, plus $540 delivery fee (If you drop this course, part or all of the delivery fee may be refunded dependent on the date of the drop.)

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Power system protection, symmetrical components, faults, stability. Power systems operations including the new utility environment. On-campus students who wish to enroll should contact Engineering Distance Education at (515) 294-7470. For more information, visit Engineering Distance Education at www.ede.iastate.edu

Prerequisite: E E 303; credit or registration in E E 324

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Instructor: Chen-ching Liu

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Economic Systems for Electric Power Planning

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E) 458, section XE/Economics 458, section XE

Credit: 3 undergraduate credits; 3 nonmajor graduate credits

Tuition: $669 undergraduate, $1041 graduate, plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 4, 2008

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Evolution of electric power industry. Power system operation and planning and related information systems. Integer optimization methods. Control technologies and associated planning methods. Short-term electricity markets and locational marginal prices. Risk management and financial derivatives. Basics of public good economics. Cost recovery models including tax treatment for transmission investments. For more information or to register for this course visit Engineering Distance Education at http://www.ede.iastate.edu/courses.asp.

Prerequisites: E E 303 (Energy Systems and Power Electronics) or Econ 301 (Intermediate Microeconomics)

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Certificate in Power Systems Engineering, Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering

Instructor: Jim McCalley

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Modern Optical Communications

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E) 511, section XE

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $990 graduate, plus $540 delivery fee (If you drop this course, part or all of the delivery fee may be refunded dependent on the date of the drop.)

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Propagation in optical media. Optical fibers. Optical sources and detectors. Fiber optic communications systems. DWDM considerations. For more information, visit Engineering Distance Education at www.ede.iastate.edu On-campus students who wish to enroll should contact Engineering Distance Education at (515) 294-7470.

Prerequisite: E E 311 (Electromagnetic Fields and Waves)

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Instructor: Robert Weber

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Selected Topics in Communications and Signal Processing

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E) 520, section XE

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $954 graduate plus $540 delivery fee

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Classes: Tuesday, Thursday; 2:10-3:30pm

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Space-time processing. Multiuser communications. Statistical signal processing. Pattern recognition. Coding theory. Multirate communications and signal processing. Signal processing and communications applications. For more information, visit Engineering Distance Education at www.ede.iastate.edu

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Instructor: Sang W. Kim

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Detection and Estimation Theory

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E) 527, section XE

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $990 graduate plus $540 delivery fee (If you drop this course, part or all of the delivery fee may be refunded dependent on the date of the drop.)

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Classical statistical decision theory, decision criteria, binary and composite hypothesis tests. Error probability and Chernoff bound. Statistical estimation theory and performance measures. Maximum likelihood estimation and sufficiency, Cramer-Rao bound, Bayesian estimation, optimum demodulation, signal design. Applications. For more information, visit Engineering Distance Education at www.ede.iastate.edu

Prerequisite: E E 422

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward: Certificate in Environmental Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Instructor: Namrata Vaswani

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Information Theory

Course Number: Electrical Engineering (E E) 622, section XE

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $990 graduate plus $540 delivery fee (If you drop this course, part or all of the delivery fee may be refunded dependent on the date of the drop.)

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Dates: January 14 - May 9, 2008

Enrollment Deadline: January 4, 2008

   Information system overview. Entropy and mutual information. Data Compression and source encoding. Discrete memory-less channel capacity. Noisy channel coding theorem. Rate distortion theory. Waveform channels. Advanced topics in information theory. For more information, visit Engineering Distance Education at www.ede.iastate.edu

Prerequisites: EE 521, EE 523

Computer Requirements: College of Engineering Requirements

Note: May be applied toward Certificate in Environmental Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Instructor: Zhengdao Wang

For information visit: www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineSpring08.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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