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EE417 Communications Electronics
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Senior Level Standing
This course covers common electronic circuits used in communication systems, beginning with
operational amplifiers and basic circuits. Topics include power amplifiers, oscillators, mixers,
phase-locked loops, filters, and their application in modulation/demodulation.

EE423 Data Communication Networks
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Senior Level Standing
This course introduces network architecture and protocols, covering layering, OSI and TCP/IP
models, physical layer transmission media, data encoding, asynchronous and synchronous
transmission, data link layer functions, packet switching, routing, congestion control,
internetworking, and local area networks.

EE424 Digital Communications
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Senior Level Standing
This course covers the analysis and design of digital communication systems, introducing
probability concepts, sampling, quantization, digital pulse modulation, digital baseband
transmission, channel noise, and the performance of digital systems in band-limited channels.

EE425 Wireless Communications Systems
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Senior Level Standing
This course covers fundamentals of wireless communications with a focus on wireless channel
modeling, digital modulation, diversity techniques, multiple access techniques, multicarrier
transmission, multiple antenna systems, and the cellular concept.

EE426 Antenna and Wave Propagation
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Senior Level Standing
This course provides an understanding of basic principles of antenna analysis and design, covering
fundamental characteristics, parameters, and methods used in analyzing antennas, including
linear antennas, loop antennas, and antenna arrays.

EE433 Mechatronics
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Senior Level Standing
A multidisciplinary course introducing mechatronics, including electro-mechanical systems
controlled by microcontrollers, instrumentation, measurement systems, sensors, actuators,
computer data acquisition, and control, integrating mechanisms, sensors, interfaces, actuators,
microcontrollers, and information technology.

EE434 PLC Microcontrollers
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Senior Level Standing
Covers basic concepts of microcontrollers and programmable logic controllers (PLCs): structure,
I/O, relays, counters, timers, ladder diagram concepts, data manipulation, industrial applications,
and PLC communications.

EE435 Robotics and Automation
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Senior Level Standing
Basic configurations of robots, industrial applications, kinematics of robotic manipulators,
workspace calculations, robotic forces, torques, compliant motions, and introduction to robot
motion dynamics and control.

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