ELET 1100: Electrical Circuits I Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: concurrent enrollment in ELET and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1330. Measurement and analysis of direct current parameters and introduction to alternating current circuits. Lab is project-based with prelabs, postlabs, technical report writings, and project presentations.
ELET 1101: Electrical Circuits II Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: ELET 1300, concurrent enrollment in ELET 1301, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1431. Measurement and analysis of circuit parameters for single phase, alternating current and introductory semiconductor devices. Lab is calculus and project-based with prelabs, postlabs, technical report writings, and project presentations.
ELET 1300: Electrical Circuits I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1330 and concurrent enrollment in ELET 1100. Principles of direct current electricity and their applications to series, parallel, and series-parallel circuitry including Ohm's Law, Kirchoff's Laws, mesh and nodal analysis, resistance, capacitance, inductance, magnetism, and electromagnetism.
ELET 1301: Electrical Circuits II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 1300, credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1431, and concurrent enrollment in ELET 1101. Principles of single-phase alternating current circuits including Thevenin's, Norton's, and superposition theorems, and loop and nodal analysis.
ELET 2101: Poly-Phase Circuits and Transformers Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ELET 2301. Experiments in poly-phase circuits and power transformers.
ELET 2103: Digital Systems Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Corequisite: ELET 2303. Experiments in digital systems, including basic gates, combinational and sequential systems, binary arithmetic circuits, MUX/DEMUX, decoder and encoder devices. Use of modern software simulation tools is emphasized.
ELET 2105: Semiconductor Devices and Circuits Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Corequisite: ELET 2305. Experiments in semiconductor circuits and systems.
ELET 2300: Introduction to C++ Programming
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1330. Fundamentals of C++ programming, conditional and looping constructs, functions and function overloading, arrays, pointers and references, class concepts, and files. Emphasis on practical applications.
ELET 2301: Poly-phase Circuits and Transformers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 1301 and MATH 1330 or equivalents. Poly-phase circuit analysis and fundamentals of power transformers.
ELET 2303: Digital Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 1300 or 2307 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1330. Corequisite: ELET 2103. Basic digital systems and their applications, basic gates, Boolean algebra, simplification methods, design of combinational logic circuits, counters, IC characteristics, MSI and memory devices.
ELET 2305: Semiconductor Devices and Circuits
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 1301 or 2307 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in PHYS 1302. Corequisite: ELET 2105. Solid-state devices and circuits, including single stage and multistage amplifiers, frequency response, and semiconductor circuit applications.
ELET 2307: Electrical-Electronic Circuits
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1330. For non-CETE and non-EPTE majors. Basic dc and ac circuits.
ELET 3104: Control Instrumentation Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in ELET 3304. Experiments related to signal conditioning and measurements in control systems.
ELET 3107: Electrical Machines and Controls Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1431 and ELET 3307 or equivalents. Experiments in the characteristics, operation, and control of DC and AC motors and generators.
ELET 3110: Electrical Systems Design Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: ELET 3310. Laboratory project in the design and layout of a commercial/industrial electrical system.
ELET 3112: Rotating Machine Controls Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in ELET 3312. Experiments in electromechanical, PLC, and solid-state controls for rotating machines.
ELET 3301: Linear Systems Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 2305 and MATH 1432. Differential equations, Fourier series & transforms, Laplace transforms, and their application to linear systems. Electrical circuits, communication, signal processing, and control. Introduction to discrete-time systems and use of modern simulation software packages.
ELET 3304: Control Instrumentation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ELET 2305, ELET 2105 and MATH 1432 or consent of instructor. Corequisite: ELET 3104. Control, analog and digital signal conditioning. Transducers used for measurement of temperature, displacement, pressure, flow, and optical processes.
ELET 3307: Electrical Machines and Controls
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ELET 2301 and MATH 1431 or consent of instructor. Characteristics and operation of dc and ac motors, generators, and basic motor control principles.
ELET 3312: Programmable Logic Controllers and Motor Control Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 3307 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ELET 3301. Programmable Logic Controllers and microprocessor-based controls for electrical motors and generators.
ELET 3399-4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of department chair. Independent work in Electrical-Electronics Technology under the supervision of a faculty member. Both must be completed for credit.
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ELET 3402: Communications Circuits
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ELET 3403 and 3301. Analysis of tuned circuits, rf oscillators, amplifiers, modulation/demodulation theory and circuits, and rf and fiber optic transmission lines.
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ELET 3402: Communications Circuits (formerly ELET 3302)
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ELET 2305, 2105, and 3403. Analysis of tuned circuits, rf oscillators, amplifiers, modulation/demodulation theory and circuits, and rf transmission lines and antennas.
ELET 3403: Sensor Applications (formerly ELET 3303)
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ELET 2305 and MATH 1431. Fundamentals of sensor technology and its applications. Operational amplifier and signal conditioning circuits, modern sensors, ADC/DAC, AC/DC and step motor control circuits, and interfaces between these components.
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ELET 3405: Microprocessor Architecture
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ELET 2300 and 2303. Architecture and operation of microprocessor-based systems including basic hardware, software, and interfaces.
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ELET 3405: Microprocessor Architecture (formerly ELET 3305)
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ELET 2103 and 2303. Architecture and operation of microprocessor-based systems, including basic hardware, software and interfaces.
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ELET 3425: Embedded Systems
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ELET 3403 and 3405. Hardware and software design of embedded microprocessor/microcontroller systems. Microprocessor/microcontroller system architecture, memory management, I/O programming, real-time operating systems, and application development using high level programming languages.
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ELET 3425: Embedded Systems (formerly ELET 3325)
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ELET 2300 and 3405. Hardware and software design of embedded microprocessor/microcontroller systems. Microcontroller/microprocessor system architecture, memory management, I/O programming, real-time operating systems, and application development using high level programming languages such as C.
ELET 4104: Control Systems Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Corequisite: ELET 4304. Experiments in feedback control. Simulation using modern software packages.
ELET 4198:4398: Special Problems
Cr. 1, 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
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ELET 4208: Senior Project Laboratory
Cr. 2. (0-6). Prerequisite: ELET 4308. Senior project laboratory in computer engineering technology including progress reports, prototypes construction and testing, final project reports, and presentations.
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ELET 4208: Senior Project Laboratory (formerly 4108)
Cr. 2. (0-6). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in ELET 4308. Senior project laboratory in computer engineering technology, including progress reports, prototype construction and testing, and final project reports and presentations.
ELET 4300: Unix Operating System
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3425. Unix operating system concepts, fundamental command-line features, file and directory system navigation, file security, simple editors and vi text editor, command shells, shell scripts, mail, and basic network use.
ELET 4302: Data Communication Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3402. Analysis and design of communication systems, emphasizing system performance evaluation, microwave channels, linear, nonlinear, and pulse/digital modulation, multiplexing, and propagation effects.
ELET 4303: Computer-Based Power Distribution and Transmission
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3307. Principles of operation and applied design of bulk power distribution and transmission systems and substations.
ELET 4304: Control Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3301. Modeling and analysis of single-input, single-output feedback control systems. Tuning of cascade compensator parameters, stability, analog and digital implementation, frequency-domain methods, and simulation using modern software packages.
ELET 4305: Project Management and Economic Considerations for Power Systems (formerly ELET 3310)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 3307. Management, economic factors, design, and layout of electrical power systems for commercial and industrial facilities.
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ELET 4308: Senior Project
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 3402 and 3425 and TELS 3363. Senior projects in computer engineering technology including project management, creativity and integrated hardware and software design, report writing, and presentations.
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ELET 4308: Senior Project
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 3403 and 3425 and concurrent enrollment in ELET 4208, senior standing and CETE major. Senior projects in computer engineering technology, including project management, creativity in integrated hardware and software design, report writing and presentations.
ELET 4309: Object-Oriented Applications Programming
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3425 or consent of instructor. Object-oriented concepts, implementation using modern programming languages such as C++, Java, and C#. Concepts of class, methods, overloading, abstract classes and plymorphism, inheritance, exception handling and files. Software design processes and tools, program efficiency, and differences and similarities between OOPLs.
ELET 4310: Alternative Electrical Energy Sources
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3307. Relative advantages and economic factors associated with alternative energy sources, utility interface issues and their impact on power quality.
ELET 4311: Computer-Based Communications and Security Issues for Electrical Power Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3307. Computer-based communications and security issues for electrical power system operation and SCADA.
ELET 4315: Telecommunications
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 4302. Topics in telecommunications, including digital transmission systems, digital switching, and communication techniques in wired, wireless, and optical systems.
ELET 4317: Computer-Based Electrical System Protection and Safety
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3307. Computer-based protection of electrical systems and components. Electrical system safety practices.
ELET 4319: Electrical Power Systems and Industry Practices
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3307. History, regulatory and legal issues in electrical power. Relationships among institutions involved in electrical power: FERC, North American Reliability Council, state regulation boards, and EPRI. Basic electrical power generation plant principles.
ELET 4325: Advanced Microcomputer Networks
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 4421. Advanced topics in microcomputer networking, including internetworking and routers, and network management.
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ELET 4326: Power Converter Circuits
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: ELET 2305 and 3301. Electric power converter circuits: rectifiers, inverters, dc-dc converters, power supplies, and power quality issues associated with the operation of converters. PSpice simulation and laboratory experiments involving converter circuits control/application.
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ELET 4326: Power Converter Circuits
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ELET 2305 and 3301. Electric power converter circuits: rectifiers, inverters, dc-dc converters, power supplies, and power quality issues associated with the operation of converters.
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ELET 4327: Optical Circuits
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ELET 3402. Fiber optic communication systems and related optical circuits and systems. Fundamental concepts to understand the design, operation, and capabilities of optical fiber communications systems.
ELET 4397: Selected Topics in Electrical-Electronics Technology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: approval of department chair. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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ELET 4421: Computer Networks
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisite: ELET 3402. Introduction to computer networking: local area networking, access technologies, and internet protocol. Laboratory instruction in network implementation and development and operating system management.
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ELET 4421: Computer Networks (formerly ELET 4321)
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ELET 3402 and 3405. Introduction to computer networking: Local area networking, access technologies, and internet protocol. Laboratory instruction in network implementation and development and operating system management.
For graduate-level course descriptions,
please see the graduate catalog:
http://www.uh.edu/grad_catalog/tec/elet_courses.html
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