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ECON 302 - Minority Economic Problems
Economic status of minority groups in the United States; productivity and economic theories of discrimination; and public and private programs to achieve minority economic development.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 310 - Monetary Policy
Roles of monetary theory and policy with emphasis on their implications for dealing with current economic problems within the structure of the U.S. monetary system.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 261.
Credits: 3
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ECON 315 - Sports Economics
The application of microeconomic analysis to the understanding of the market for professional and amateur sports. Topics include the industrial organization of sports markets, competitive balance in sports, public finance of sports facilities, labor markets and discrimination in sports, and amateur and college sports.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 320 - Government and Business
Introductory analysis of the structure, conduct, and performance of American industry. Emphasis on role of government policy through such measures as antitrust, regulation, and public ownership.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 330 - International Economics
International trade, foreign exchange markets, balance of payments, and international monetary relations. Includes relevant theoretical foundations, institutions, and policy alternatives.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260 and ECON 261.
Credits: 3
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ECON 360 - Intermediate Microeconomics
Exposition of economic price theory and resource allocation; commodity and factor price and output determination.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 361 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
Theory of aggregate income, output, and employment; the price level and interest rates; and economic stabilization policy.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 261.
Credits: 3
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ECON 370 - Current Economic Issues
Topics of current importance to consumers, resource owners, business, and government. May be repeated up to 6 hours as topics change.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260 and ECON 261.
Credits: 3
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ECON 371 - Health Economics
Applies microeconomic analysis to the behavior of individuals, health care providers, managed care organizations, insurers, pharmaceutical firms, and government to strengthen students’ understanding of the health care system and health care policy.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 372 - Income Distribution and Poverty
Introduction with emphasis on conditions in the United States, past and present. Understanding the link between inequality and the performance of an economy is an integral part of understanding the very process of development and the effects of different policies. Introduction to the complex issues facing policy makers.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 373 - Economics and Equity
How different forms of economic activities, policies, and methods of government resource allocations affect the distribution of welfare, income, and resources across and among various groups of people and businesses. Understanding how to measure and analyze the poverty, discrimination, equity, and efficiency effects of government programs.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260 and ECON 261.
Credits: 3
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ECON 374 - Game Theory
Analysis of decision makers who are aware that their actions and any assumptions made by others about their actions will affect the actions of those others. In the last 25 years, game theory has become the core of economic theory, both micro and macro. Introduction to the tools of game theory and the usefulness of this approach by analyzing several examples.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 375 - Industrial Economics
Theoretical aspects of industrial organization (IO), the field of economics that studies the structure of markets and the behavior of firms, as well as empirical examples that come from “real life” business practice. Additional focus on industry policies and regulations. Topics include: Theory of the firm and market structure, monopoly practice, oligopoly and collusion, entry deterrence, product differentiation, advertising, and industry regulation.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 376 - Economic Issues and Government Policy
Provides a practical understanding of economic tools and applies these tools to the analysis of important economic issues and government policies. Exploration and analysis of topics in micro- and macroeconomics that are of current importance to consumers, resource owners, business, and government.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260 and ECON 261.
Credits: 3
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ECON 385 - Introduction to Urban and Regional Economics
Emphasis on the economic aspects of urban and regional problems and issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 386 - Environmental Economics
Theoretical foundations and economic analyses of pollution, congestion, resource depletion, and other environmental problems accompanying economic growth, population growth, technological change, and urbanization. Environmental policies and quality control, resource and energy conservation, population, technology, and economic growth policies.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260.
Credits: 3
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ECON 390 - Basic Econometrics and Economic Applications
Introduction to econometric concepts. Topics include simple linear estimation of consumption functions and of demand and supply functions; multiple regression as applied to money demand functions; prediction; and distributed lag models.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: STAT 200 or STAT 300 or UBUS 223. CRQ: ECON 390A.
Credits: 3
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ECON 390A - Basic Econometrics Laboratory
Econometric applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
CRQ: ECON 390.
Credits: 1
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ECON 393 - Introduction to Mathematical Methods in Economics
Descriptions of static economic models by means of elementary calculus and matrix algebra; application and interpretation of the general linear model in economics.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: MATH 211 or MATH 229; ECON 260 and ECON 261.
Credits: 3
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ECON 397 - Directed Study
Selected readings and study taken in conjunction with an upper division economics course. May be repeated to a maximum of 4 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260 and ECON 261.
Credits: 1
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ECON 401X - Third Clinical Secondary School Experience in History/Social Sciences
Crosslisted as ANTH 401X, GEOG 401X, HIST 401, POLS 401X, PSYC 401X, and SOCI 401X. Discipline-based clinical experiences for prospective secondary teachers in history and social sciences. Observations, evaluation, and practicum on methods and problems in teaching in the discipline. Includes a minimum of 40 clock hours of supervised and formally evaluated experiences in the particular setting likely for the student teaching experience. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department. CRQ: ANTH 496X or ECON 496X or GEOG 496X or HIST 496 or POLS 496X or PSYC 496X or SOCI 496X.
Credits: 1-2
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ECON 403 - Economics of Human Resources
Analysis of factors affecting demand for and supply of labor. Human capital analysis, discrimination, labor market operations, and public policy.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 420 - Antitrust Economics
Detailed analysis of monopoly, near monopoly, and various business practices. Examination of legal and economic foundations of current and past public policies toward monopoly.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 423 - Public Utilities
General economic characteristics of and governmental policy toward public utilities. Problems such as pricing, finance, and private, cooperative, and public ownership.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 425 - Economic Education
Exploration of selected economic concepts, topics, and classroom materials/applications to assist elementary or secondary teachers in developing K-12 economics curricula and instructional activities that meet State of Illinois standards. May be repeated to a maximum of 3 semester hours when topic varies.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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ECON 443 - Economic Development
Analysis of major problems and issues of a theoretical and a policy nature concerning developing economies.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360 or ECON 361, or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 450 - Public Economics
Analysis of the structure and effects of national, state, and local revenue and outlay systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 452 - Fiscal Policy
Examination of the role of the federal budget in fiscal policy. Public expenditures, taxes, and debt management are evaluated as tools of economic stabilization since World War II.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 361.
Credits: 3
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ECON 454 - State and Local Finance
Analysis of the expenditure revenue process in state and local governments. Effect of intergovernmental grants and future of fiscal federalism.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 466 - Business Cycles
History of business fluctuations; theories and techniques of analysis; counter cyclical monetary and fiscal policies; and survey of selected forecasting techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 361 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 470 - History of Economic Thought
Development of economic thought to the mid-19th century. Emphasis on Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, and Marx.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260 and ECON 261, or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 474 - Economic History of the United States
Evolution and development of American economic institutions and processes from colonial times to the 20th century. Modern economic approach developed and applied to various topics.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 260 and ECON 261, or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 484X - Financial Derivatives
Crosslisted as ACSC 460. Review of financial derivatives including futures, European and American options, and exotic options. Greeks, trading and hedging strategies. Pricing derivative securities with appropriate boundary conditions, including Black-Scholes formula, binomial trees, lattice models and finite difference methods. Simulation and variance reduction techniques. Interest rate models. Covers the learning outcomes regarding financial models in the exam MFE of the Society of Actuaries (SOA), which is also the Exam 3F of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS).
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACSC 405.
Credits: 3
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ECON 485 - Urban Economic Problems and Policies
Economic analysis of urban growth and land use and selected urban problems such as urban transportation, public finance, housing, poverty, and environmental quality.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360 and ECON 385, or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 489 - Seminar in Economic Analysis
Economic analysis of a topic beyond the level usually reached in undergraduate courses. Examples of topics include aspects of economic growth and development, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, health economics, monetary economics, public finance, agricultural economics, quantitative economics, financial economics, and economic theory. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours when topics change.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360, ECON 361, and MATH 211 or MATH 229.
Credits: 3
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ECON 490 - Economic Statistics and Econometrics
Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression analysis, as applied to economic models.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: MATH 230 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 491 - Mathematical Methods for Economics
Mathematical methods used in economics with applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360, ECON 361, MATH 229, and consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 492 - Research Methods in Economics
Analysis of societal issues in an economic framework; use of library, Internet, and computer resources to conduct research; and organizing and writing an effective research paper. Students write a substantial research paper on a topic of their choice and present their findings to the class.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Economic majors must have completed required non-elective courses prior to enrolling.
Credits: 3
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ECON 494 - Internship in Economics
Student works for a firm or government agency under the sponsorship of an economics faculty member. Work experience must be approved by NIU’s Cooperative Education/Internship Program and the Department of Economics. Student prepares a written report under the direction of the faculty member in the economics department. S/U grading. May be repeated up to a maximum of 6 semester hours with department approval. Up to 3 semester hours may be applied toward satisfying the requirements for the B.A. or B.S. in Economics.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Junior or senior standing with a declared major in economics and consent of a department faculty member.
Credits: 1-6
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ECON 495 - Seminar in Current Problems
Issues and policies in government, politics, and economics.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360 and ECON 361 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ECON 496X - History and Social Science Instruction for Secondary and Middle Grades Educators
Crosslisted as ANTH 496X, GEOG 496X, HIST 496, POLS 496X, PSYC 496X, and SOCI 496X. Organization and presentation of materials for history and social science courses at the middle grades and secondary levels.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Admission to the history or social science secondary or middle grades educator licensure program and permission of the Department of History’s office of secondary educator licensure.
Credits: 3
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ECON 497 - Independent Study in Economics
Individually arranged study within the various fields of economics. Not open to economics graduate students.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ECON 360, ECON 361, and senior standing.
Credits: 3
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ECON 498 - Undergraduate Research
Independent work in economics under the direction of a faculty member. Open only to seniors. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 3
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LEEA 329 - Spiritually-Centered Leadership
Opportunity to explore the intertwining of personal spirituality, epistemology, life work, and leadership. Designed to be inclusive of all religions, faiths, beliefs, and the lack thereof. Based in part on the experiences and suggestions of students in the class and will include practical ideas for using spirituality as a way to lead consciously. Particular emphasis will be placed on three aspects of spiritually-centered leadership: our personal beliefs and practices, spirituality with work colleagues, and spirituality with those whom our organization serves.
Credits: 3
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LEEA 490 - Workshop in Educational Administration
Concentrated study of curriculum, contemporary issues, and problems of the community and the public schools. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Acceptance by director of workshop.
Credits: 1-3
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LEEA 492 - Special Topics in Educational Administration
Topics announced. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours when topic varies.
Credits: 1-3
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LEEA 497 - Independent Study
Independent study under direction of a faculty member. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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EPS 282X - Educational Participation in Clinical Experiences: Elementary Education
Crosslisted as TLEE 282. Pre-student teaching practicum. Observation, assessment, and analysis of child development and behavior. Observation and analysis of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and classroom management in culturally/economically diverse classrooms. Design, implementation, and evaluation of lesson plans. Requires a minimum of 16 clock hours working directly with elementary grade students and teachers to apply information and skills learned in college courses to classroom settings. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of elementary education adviser. Concurrent enrollment in EPS 304 is required.
Credits: 1
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EPS 300 - Educational Psychology
Application of psychological principles to teaching with attention given to the learning process.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: GPA of 2.00 or higher and PSYC 102.
Credits: 3
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EPS 304 - Development of the Elementary School Child
Psychological and social forces affecting development of children from birth through puberty. Emphasis on implications for school practice.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: GPA of 2.50 or higher, and sophomore standing.
Credits: 3
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EPS 307 - Development of the Adolescent
Intellectual, social, personality, and physical development of the adolescent. Emphasis on implications for school practice.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: PSYC 102.
Credits: 3
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EPS 382 - Educational Participation in Clinical Experience: Middle Level Education
Pre-student-teaching practicum. Observation and analysis of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and behavior management practices in multicultural middle grades classrooms (grades 5-8). Design, implementation, and evaluation of lesson plans. Requires a minimum of 16 clock hours per semester hour. May be repeated to a maximum of 4 semester hours. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department. CRQ: EPS 419.
Credits: 1-2
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EPS 405 - Issues in Human Development in the Elementary Through High School Years
Cognitive, socioemotional, and physical development of children and adolescents within their families, schools, and sociocultural contexts. Focus on relationships between these aspects of student development and their implications for educational approaches and teaching within a school setting. Designed for students needing K-12 educator licensure.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: PSYC 102, minimum GPA of 2.50, at least junior standing, and admission to an educator licensure program. CRQ: Documented clinical experience or supervised participation in schools.
Credits: 3
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EPS 406 - Issues in Human Development and Learning in the Middle School and High School Years
Cognitive, socioemotional, and physical characteristics of youth and their implications for educational practices with respect to student learning and performance in middle school and high school. Designed for students seeking educator licensure in grades 5-12 only.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Minimum GPA of 2.50, at least junior standing, and admission to an educator licensure program. CRQ: Clinical experience or supervised participation in schools.
Credits: 3
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EPS 418 - Human Motivation and Learning
Students analyze motivation theories, and connect theory to practice and engagement in a variety of learning contexts, such as education, workplace, and sports. The course emphasizes applying theory to real-life contexts and situations. Students learn how to support and encourage human motivation and learning in their own lives.
Credits: 3
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EPS 419 - The Middle School Child
Examination of the match between characteristics of early adolescents (10-14 years) and characteristics of middle school programs. Biological, cultural, psychological, and social forces affecting the development of young adolescents. Focus on the role of the teacher, school, and community in helping the adolescent to deal with the impact of changes in these types of forces.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: PSYC 102.
Credits: 3
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EPS 426 - Foundations of Psychedelic Studies in Education
Crosslisted as EPFE 426X. An exploration of psychological, social, historical, philosophical, and anthropological implications of psychedelics for educational practice and policy.
Credits: 3
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EPS 430 - Becoming Adult in Postmodern Contexts
A cross-disciplinary approach to explore the meaning(s) of adulthood and the reasons for the delay in the transition to adulthood in contemporary society utilizing psychological, sociological, historical, and anthropological approaches. Focus on identity theories, postmodern critiques of identity, and contested definitions of adulthood. Reflection on identity development and growth toward adulthood is encouraged.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: PSYC 102.
Credits: 3
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EPS 450 - Classroom Management
Applications of motivation and management principles and procedures to maintain a positive learning environment in classrooms.
Credits: 2
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EPS 452 - Classroom Management for Adolescent Students
Applications of motivation and management principles and procedures to maintain a positive learning environment in classrooms, focusing particularly on the developmental needs of adolescent students. Topics include building relationships with students, establishing classroom structures and expectations, managing and resolving conflict appropriately, responding effectively to student misbehavior, and effectively implementing a variety of instructional modalities. Intended for middle and secondary licensure.
Credits: 3
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EPS 454 - The Gifted Student
Characteristics of the gifted. Emphasis on identification, growth and development, creativity, motivation, guidance, and evaluation of the gifted.
Credits: 3
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EPS 490 - Workshop in Education
Concentrated study of curriculum, contemporary issues, and problems of the community and the public schools. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Acceptance by director of workshop.
Credits: 1-3
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EPS 492 - Special Topics in Educational Psychology
Topics announced. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours when topic varies.
Credits: 1-3
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EPS 497 - Independent Study
Independent study under direction of a faculty member. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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ELE 100 - Elements of Electronics
Basic principles used to explain the operation of electrical and electronic devices such as radios, stereos, televisions, radars, computers, microwave ovens, and other common electronic equipment.
Credits: 3
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ELE 210 - Engineering Circuit Analysis
Properties of electric circuit elements, Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s laws; node and loop equations; AC sources and impedance; time domain transient and frequency domain; and steady state analysis. Three lectures and one recitation per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: MATH 230 and PHYS 273, both with a grade of C or better.
Credits: 3
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ELE 210U - Engineering Circuit Laboratory Project
Laboratory to design and build electrical circuit projects. Team project must be designed and implemented by the end of the semester. Meets two hours a week.
Prerequisites & Notes
CRQ: ELE 210.
Credits: 1
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ELE 250 - Computer Engineering I
Design of digital circuits using SSI, LSI, and VLSI components. Combinational design techniques as well as sequential design techniques presented with the use of Boolean algebra, map method, tabulation method, and state transition diagrams.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 210 with a grade of C or better.
Credits: 3
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ELE 250U - Computer Engineering I Laboratory
Laboratory experiments related to the design and implementation of digital systems. Combinational and sequential circuits are investigated.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 210U. CRQ: ELE 250.
Credits: 1
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ELE 315 - Signals and Systems
Analysis of RLC circuits with applications to filters; Bode Plot; Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, introduction to discrete time systems; 2-port network.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 210 with a grade of C or better and MATH 336.
Credits: 3
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ELE 330 - Electronic Circuits
Unified treatment of the applications of semiconductor devices, including p-n junctions, bipolar transistors, and field effect devices. Topics include device modeling, biasing, input impedance, output impedance, voltage gain, current gain, and power gain and Op.Amp. design and analysis of single and multiple stage amplifiers. Lecture, discussion three periods per week; laboratory session two periods per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 210 and ELE 210U and MATH 336 all with a grade of C or better.
Credits: 4
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ELE 335 - Theory of Semiconductor Devices I
Unified treatment of the theory of operation of semiconductor devices, including p-n junctions, bipolar transistors, and field effect transistors. Topics include doping, band gap, mobility, carrier lifetime, photolithographic techniques, passivation, chemical etching, metallization, and device testing.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: CHEM 210 and CHEM 212 with a grade of C or better, ELE 210, and PHYS 283.
Credits: 3
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ELE 340 - Electrical Power Systems
Study of the fundamentals of magnetic circuits and Faraday’s law to create electrical or mechanical energy. Study of transformers, mutual inductance, 3-phase power systems, induction motors, synchronous machines, and DC machines, with emphasis on the applications in engineering practice. Lecture, discussion three periods per week; laboratory, problem session two periods per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 210 and ELE 210U with a grade of C or better and PHYS 273.
Credits: 4
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ELE 356 - Computer Engineering II
Analysis of microprocessors with emphasis on architecture, bus cycle, internal registers, addressing modes, and instruction sets. Memory and I/O interface techniques. Lecture, discussion three periods per week; laboratory, problem session two periods per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: CSCI 240 or other high-level programming language and ELE 250 and ELE 250U.
Credits: 4
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ELE 360 - Communications Systems
Introduction to communication system analysis. Analysis and design of radio frequency electronic circuits; building blocks of radio transmitters and receivers; circuit conditions required to produce oscillation, frequency translation, modulation, and detection. Introduction to phase locked-loop circuit design. Lecture, discussion three periods per week; laboratory, problem session two periods per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 315, ELE 330, and ISYE 335 or STAT 300.
Credits: 4
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ELE 370 - Engineering Electromagnetics
Fundamentals of electromagnetic field theory; concepts of force, energy, potential, capacitance, and inductance in electromagnetic fields; analytical and experimental solutions of Laplace’s equation; Maxwell’s equations in differential and integral form.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 210, MATH 232, and MATH 336.
Credits: 3
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ELE 380 - Control Systems I
Control system modeling for electromechanical systems using block diagram, flow chart, flow graphs, and derivation of transfer function using Laplace transforms. Time and frequency domain analysis and controller design using root-locus, Routh-Hurwitz stability method, and Bode Plots. Software for control system used as an aid in the control system analysis and design process.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 315; and either ELE 330 or BME 320.
Credits: 4
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ELE 395 - Electrical Engineering Junior Design
Introduction to the fundamentals of project design and execution, proposal writing and professional development as it pertains to the electrical engineering profession. Instructor facilitated, student-led, uncovering the basics of project design/management, and serving to bring together relevant concepts and engineering tools towards the execution of an electrical engineering project. Individual project proposals and projects reports required.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Junior standing, or consent of the department.
Credits: 1
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ELE 420 - Biomedical Instrumentation
Design and application of electrodes, bio-potential amplifiers, biosensor applications, therapeutic devices. Medical imaging. Electrical safety. Measurement of ventilation, blood pressure and flow. Three hours lecture per week and 10 laboratory sessions (3 hours each). Not available for credit to students with credit in BME 420.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 330 or BME 320.
Credits: 4
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ELE 421 - Biomedical Sensor Engineering
Theory, analysis, and design of biomedical sensors. Topics include biological elements; immobilization of biological components; medical, biological, and chemical sensors; and transducers based on electrochemistry, optics, and solid state devices. Not available for credit to students with credit in BME 421.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 330 or ELE 335 or BME 320.
Credits: 3
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ELE 425 - Biomedical Signal Processing
Modeling of biomedical signals and analysis of biomedical systems using both time-domain and frequency-domain techniques. Design of linear and nonlinear filters for biomedical applications and medical imaging. Practical applications in cardiac and neurological signal processing. Not available for credit to students with credit in ELE 451 or BME 425.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 315.
Credits: 3
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ELE 429 - Biomedical Engineering Design Project
Students create a solution to the proposed biomedical engineering design problem. The solution incorporates knowledge of biological sciences, engineering and design concepts. Analytical and computational tools address the complete solution which includes safety and cost effectiveness. Team project required.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Completion of all ELE 300-level courses required by the major, and ELE 491, and either ELE 420 or ELE 425.
Credits: 3
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ELE 430 - Design with Field Programmable Logic Devices
Design of high performance logic designs utilizing programmable logic gates. Design of finite state machines and introduction to latest computer-aided tools.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 250.
Credits: 3
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ELE 431 - Theory of Semiconductor Devices II
Continuation of ELE 335 dealing with complex semiconductor devices. Theory of operation of integrated circuits, solid state lasers, switching devices, and negative conductance microwave devices.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 335.
Credits: 3
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ELE 432 - Semiconductor Device Fabrication Laboratory
Design and fabrication of active semiconductor devices. Laboratory exercises include artwork and pattern generation, mask making, oxidation, photolithographic processing, diffusion, metallization, and device testing.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 335.
Credits: 3
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ELE 433 - Design of Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuits
Fundamentals of GaAs devices and logic families; fabrication processes; physical layout for VLSI circuits; interconnection and testing of high speed systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 335.
Credits: 3
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ELE 434 - Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization
Study of fundamentals and principles of semiconductor material properties with applications to device characterization. Modern measurement techniques of semiconductor industry including electrical, optical, chemical, and physical methods.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 335.
Credits: 3
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ELE 435 - Integrated Circuit Engineering
Basic theory of integrated circuits including MOS processing technology. Principles of layout design, simulation, and design rule checking of large-scale integrated circuits. Introduction to design tools and techniques including utilization of available design software packages. Requirements include the design, simulation and layout of an integrated circuit to the point of mask generation.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 250 and ELE 330.
Credits: 3
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ELE 436 - Analog MOS VLSI Engineering
Introduction to analog CMOS circuits. Introduction to physical layout of VLSI circuits and SPICE modeling of MOS transistors for analog circuits. Introduction to design methodologies and advances in analog designs. Design of different MOS circuits such as current mirrors, voltage references, amplifiers, operational amplifiers, and OTAs.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 330.
Credits: 3
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ELE 437 - Hybrid Circuit Design
Lecture/laboratory course covering thick film processing techniques as they apply to the design and fabrication of miniature electronic circuits. Topics include minimum design rules, design of electronic components, artwork generation, screen preparation, screen printing, drying and firing profiles, and trimming.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Senior standing.
Credits: 3
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ELE 438 - Thin Film Engineering
Lecture/laboratory course designed to demonstrate theory and principles of thin film processing including vacuum processing and deposition techniques. Topics include resistive evaporation, DC sputtering, RF sputtering, ion beam sputtering, electron beam evaporation, methods of achieving vacuum, and measurement techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 335.
Credits: 3
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ELE 440 - Power Electronics
Introduction to concepts involved with switch mode power electronic circuits. Analysis of basic circuit topologies including AC/DC, DC/DC, and DC/AC converters. Discussion of the desired outputs of these circuits as well as undesired components such as harmonies and ripple.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 315 and ELE 330 and ELE 340.
Credits: 3
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ELE 441 - Electric Drives
Advanced discussion of different types of electric motors under various load conditions. Application of power electronic drives to electric motors. Topics include DC drives, AC induction motor drive, and AC synchronous motor drives. Efficiency and harmonic effects discussed for each drive system.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 315 and ELE 330 and ELE 340.
Credits: 3
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ELE 450 - Digital Design with HDL
Design, simulation, and synthesis of digital circuits and systems using Verilog HDL or VHDL. Topics include digital design methodologies, finite state automata, behavioral models, structural design, finite state machines and datapath controllers, and algorithms and architectures for digital signal processors. Includes term project to design, simulate, and synthesize a digital circuit/system.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 250 and CSCI 240.
Credits: 3
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ELE 451 - Digital Filter Design
Difference equations, z-transform, Fourier representation of sequences, discrete-time system transfer functions, and infinite impulse response discrete-time filters design. Includes implementation considerations and computer aided filter design. Practical examples and computer simulations. Not available for credit to students with credit in BME 425.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 315.
Credits: 3
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ELE 452 - Real-Time Digital Signal Processing
In-depth presentation of the use of single-chip programmable signal processors. Hardware design aspects of digital signal processing (DSP) systems, architectural issues, and fixed versus floating pointing representations for implementing DSP algorithms. Applications to speech processing, adaptive filtering, and telecommunications.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 315 and ELE 356.
Credits: 3
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ELE 454 - Introduction to Digital Image Processing
Principles, techniques, and algorithms for enhancements of degraded images, compression of pictorial information, recognition of patterns in scenes, reconstruction of a picture from projections, and descriptions of objects in a scene.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Senior standing and CSCI 240.
Credits: 3
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ELE 455 - Computer System Architecture
Register transfer and micro-operation, basic computer organization and design; central processing unit; micro-programmed control; pipeline and vector processing; computer arithmetic; input/output organization, and memory organization.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ELE 250.
Credits: 3
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ELE 456 - Introduction to Pattern Recognition
Theory and design of pattern recognition systems. Topics include pattern recognition and perception, nonparametric decision theoretical classification, statistical discriminant functions, Fisher’s approach, unsupervised learning systems (clustering) and their performance, and neural networks for pattern recognition.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: CSCI 240 or CSCI 241; and ELE 250; and STAT 300 or ISYE 335.
Credits: 3
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