Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEN)
Prerequisites: Open to first year students only or by permission.
Description: An overview of the electrical engineering field. Introduction to some basic concepts and skills needed in electrical engineering. Professionalism and ethics are addressed as well as the need for lifelong learning experiences. Information on professional careers available upon graduation.
Prerequisites: MATH 106 or (UNO) MATH 1950, or parallel.
Description: Introduction to DC circuit analysis and digital logic. Ohm's and Kirchoff's laws, mesh and nodal analysis, Boolean algebra, logic gates, minimization, counters, and flip-flops. Uses of computer based resources for data analysis and report generation. Use of internet to locate and retrieve engineering resources.
Description: Introduction to assembly language programming of microprocessors / microcontrollers, assemblers, and debugging tool utilization. Microprocessor system hardware components, control signals, and 'C' language micro-controller programming.
Prerequisites: MATH 102 or a Math Placement Test score for MATH 103 or higher. Credit toward the degree may be earned in only one of: CSCE 155, CSCE 155A, CSCE 155E/ECEN 155E, CSCE 155H, CSCE 155N, or CSCE 155T.
Credit may be earned in only one CSCE 155 course. Recommended for students interested in systems engineering, such as operating systems, mobile computing, and embedded devices.
Description: Introduction to problem solving with computers. Topics include problem solving methods, software development principles, computer programming, and computing in society
Prerequisites: A grade of "P" or "C" or better in CSCE 155A, CSCE 155E, CSCE 155H, CSCE 155N, or CSCE 155T; coreq: MATH 106.
Laboratories supplement the lecture material and give an opportunity to practice concepts.
Description: Data structures, including linked lists, stacks, queues, and trees; algorithms, including searching, sorting, and recursion; programming language topics, including object-oriented programming; pointers, references, and memory management; design and implementation of a multilayer application with SQL database.
Project-based introduction to the computer engineering field.
Description: Introduction to basic concepts and skills needed in computer engineering. Practical application of basic computing concepts through an introduction to programming an embedded system.
Requires an ECE departmentally approved proposal.
Description: Special topics in emerging areas of electrical and computer engineering which may not covered in other courses in the electrical and computer engineering curriculum.
Prerequisites: Freshman standing.
Description: Individual study in a selected area of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision and guidance of an Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Supervised undergraduate research
Not for electrical engineering majors.
Description: Basic circuit analysis including direct and alternating currents and operational amplifiers. Digital signals and circuits.
Description: Electrical circuit theory, Kirchoff's and Ohm's laws, circuit analysis theorems, Norton and Thevenin equivalence. The analysis of resistor circuits, with capacitors and inductors, in DC and AC steady state. Transients and variable frequency responses are studied, including computer solutions to circuit problems.
Description: Introduction to the analysis of electrical circuits in sinusoidal steady states. The concepts of impedance, phasors, power, frequency response, resonance, magnetic circuits, and two-port networks. Transform techniques for circuit analysis.
Prerequisites: Prerequisite or parallel: MATH 208/(UNO) MATH 1970.
Description: Introduction to electrical engineering circuit theory. Kirchhoff's laws and circuit analysis theorems applied to steady state DC resistive circuits. Analysis of transient RLC and sinusoidal steady-state circuits. Modern computer methods employed.
Prerequisites: ECEN 215 with a grade of "C" or better. Prerequisite or parallel: MATH 221/(UNO) MATH 2350 or MATH 221H.
Description: Steady state power calculations for sinusoidal single-phase and balanced three-phase circuits. Mutual inductance. Frequency response. Introduction to fundamentals of semiconductor theory and their application to p-n junction devices. Kirchhoff's laws and circuit analysis theorems applied to steady state diode circuits. Modern computer methods employed.
Prerequisites: ECEN 213
This course is for computer engineering majors only.
Description: Analysis of first and second order RLC circuits using differential equations and Laplace transforms. Variable frequency network performance analysis.
Description: Basic hardware and software concepts of embedded microprocessor systems and interfacing with other hardware components. Simple circuits are designed and drivers to run them are written. Design and build hardware and write drivers in assembly or C programming languages.
Description: Analysis and design of modern electronic circuits. Diode circuits, bipolar and field effect transistor switching and amplifier circuits, and operational amplifier circuits.
Prerequisites: ECEN 106; CSCE 155A, 155E, 155H, 155N, 155T or (UNO) CIST 1400; MATH 107/107H or (UNO) MATH 1960.
Description: The use of mathematical and digital computation tools key to engineering applications. Auditory and visual senses are used in the presentation and study of sinusoidal signals, sampling, frequency response and filtering theory.
Prerequisites: ECEN 103 or parallel
Description: An overview of electrical, computer, electronics and telecommunication fields. There will be information on professional careers available upon graduation. Professionalism and ethics are addressed as well as the need for lifelong learning experiences.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 213
Laboratories supplement the lecture material and give an opportunity to practice concepts.
Description: Introduction to organization and structure of computer systems. Boolean logic, digital arithmetic, processor organization, machine language programming, input/output, memory organization, system support software, communication, and ethics.
Familiarity with at least one high-level programming language.
Description: Introduction to the Unix operating system. Unix file system. Unix tools and utilities. Shell programming.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Requires a ECE departmentally approved proposal.
Description: Special topics in emerging areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the Electrical and Computer Engineering curriculum.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Description: Individual study in a selected area of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision and guidance of an Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Supervised undergraduate research.
Prerequisites: ECEN 214 or ECEN 216 with a grade of "C" or better; MATH 221 or 221H or (UNO) MATH 2350.
Description: Mathematical modeling of physical systems and signals. Representation of signals in terms of basis functions. Fourier series expansions, Fourier Transforms, Laplace and z-Transforms. Input-output relations, convolution. Transfer functions. System Stability. Poles/zeros and s- and z-plane methods. Applications.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 494
Prerequisites: ECEN 216; PHYS 212 or (UNO) PHYS 2120; MATH 208 or (UNO) MATH 1970; MATH 221 or (UNO) 2350.
Description: Complex vectors. Maxwell's equations. Uniform plane waves. Wave reflection and transmission at interfaces. Waveguides and resonators. Transmission line principles. Antennas. Topics in waves.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 494
Lab exercises provide practical experience with design tools and the design process.
Description: Digital design from both the circuit and system perspectives. The structure and analysis of digital integrated circuits, interface signal integrity, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design and synthesis, and software simulation.
Prerequisites: ECEN 106
Description: Combinational circuit analysis and design. State machine analysis and design. Synchronous/clock mode circuits and asynchronous sequential circuits. Minimization, race, and hazard elimination are covered. Circuits are implemented in discrete logic and in CPLD and FPGA devices. VHDL hardware description language is used to describe circuits. Circuits are implemented in discrete logic and in CPLD/FPGA devices.
Prerequisites: ECEN 216 with a grade of 'C' or better.
Description: Kirchhoff's laws and circuit analysis theorems applied to steady state transistor circuits. Frequency response of filters and amplifiers. Basic power amplifier types. Advanced operational amplifier circuits. Introduction to the fundamentals of semiconductor theory and their application to p-n junction and field devices.
Description: Communication: amplitude-, frequency/phase-modulation, sampling theorem, pulse-code modulation, OFDM, channel coding, and communication system/analysis. Networking: multiplexing, WANs, ATM, LANs, Internet/transport protocols, and data/computer communications.
Description: Transmission lines. Discontinuities, different termination, and matching methods. Application of vector analysis to Maxwell's equations. Uniform plane waves including reflection/transmission. S-parameters. Principles of antennas. LW, MW, SW, USW propagation.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 329
Prerequisites: ECEN 328
Description: Metallic wave guides with rectangular, circular, and coaxial cross section, antennas, free space, propagation in free space, applications.
Prerequisites: ECEN 106
Description: Architecture and assembly language programming of 8-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers. Assemblers and debugging tool utilization.
Description: Introduction to the primary issues spanning the field of mobile robotics, including robotics history, robot components (sensors, actuators), robot system design considerations, low-level control (feedback control) and robotics control architectures. The lab focuses on the practical implementation of autonomous robot control on a real mobile robot using behavior-based methods in the C language.
Prerequisites: Co-requisite UGEP 350/(UNO) ENGR 3500. Open to Electrical and Computer Engineering majors only. Approval of faculty sponsor prior to the Co-op is required.
International students have to complete a curricular practical training (CPT) application for the campus which issued their I-20. Students should start with ISSO at UNL if they are City Campus, or ISA at UNO if they are Scott Campus. They need to then meet with Engineering Career Services.
Description: For Cooperatives primarily technical in nature lasting 4.5 months or greater. Weekly communication and/or final report required. Must be taken during or after the semester in which the Co-op occurs.
Prerequisites: A grade of "P" or "C" or better in CSCE 230 or CSCE 231 and CSCE 310, CSCE 310H, CSCE 311, SOFT 260, SOFT 260H or RAIK 283H.
Description: An introduction to management of computing resources, including CPUs, shared memory, I/O devices, address spaces, and threads of execution, with a focus on implementation.
Prerequisites: ECEN 222/(UNO) CEEN 2220.
Description: Operational amplifier circuit design and analysis feedback and stability. Design and analysis of large signal power amplifiers. Other integrated devices such as: regulators, comparators, Schmitt triggers, oscillators, and active filters.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 362
Prerequisites: ECEN 214
Description: Continuous and discrete representations of signals. System modeling and analysis using differential and difference equations. Fourier, Laplace, and Z transforms. State description of continuous and discrete time transfer functions. The primary mathematical tools used in the analysis of continuous and discrete time systems.
Prerequisites: ECEN 316
Description: Analog and digital electronics for discrete and integrated circuits. Multistage amplifiers, frequency response, feedback amplifiers, simple filters and amplifiers, MOS and bipolar logic gates and families, A/D and D/A converters.
Description: Noise and signal distortions in communication systems, impedance matching techniques, high frequency measurement techniques, design of high frequency amplifiers and oscillators, PLL and frequency synthesizers, data synchronization and multiplexing techniques, Antennas and their arrays.
Description: Combinational and sequential logic circuits. MSI chips, programmable logic devices (PAL, ROM, PLA) used to design combinational and sequential circuits. CAD tools. LSI and PLD components and their use. Hardware design experience.
Prerequisites: Permission
Requires a ECE departmentally approved proposal.
Description: Special topics in emerging areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the Electrical and Computer Engineering curriculum.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Individual study in a selected area of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision and guidance of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member.
Prerequisites: Open to Electrical and Computer Engineering majors only. Approval of faculty sponsor prior to the internship is required.
Weekly communication and/or final report is required. Must be taken during or after the semester in which internship occurs.
Description: Provides the experience of Internship Education
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Supervised undergraduate research.
Prerequisites: Electrical engineering seniors.
Description: Research accompanied by a written report of the results.
Description: Independent research project executed under the guidance of a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering which contributes to the advancement of knowledge in the field. Culminates in a written thesis or report and an oral presentation. For electrical engineering majors selecting the research option.
Prerequisites: Senior standing in engineering
Description: Applications of analog and digital devices to electronic instrumentation. Includes transducers, instrumentation amplifiers, mechanical and solid-state switches, data acquisition systems, phase-lock loops, and modulation techniques. Demonstrations with working circuits and systems.
Prerequisites: ECEN 305
Description: Economic evaluation, load forecasting, generation planning, transmission planning, production simulation, power plant reliability characteristics, and generation system reliability.
Prerequisites: ECEN 306
Laboratory experiments.
Description: Applied electromagnetics: Transmission lines in digital electronics and communication. The quasistatic electric and magnetic fields: electric and magnetic circuits and electromechanical energy conversion. Guided waves: rectangular and cylindrical metallic waveguides and optical fibers. Radiation and antennas: line and aperture antennas and arrays.
Prerequisites: ECEN 305
Description: Probability space, random vectors, multivariate distributions, moment generating functions, conditional expectations, discrete and continuous-time random processes, random process characterization and representation, linear systems with random inputs.
Prerequisites: PHYS 212/(UNO) PHYS 2120
Description: Survey of fundamentals and applications of devices used for memory, logic, and display. Magnetic, superconductive, semiconductive, and dielectric materials.
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing.
Description: Physics of plasmas and gas discharges developed. Includes basic collisional theory, the Boltzman equation and the concept of electron energy distributions. Results are related to specific gas discharge systems used in semiconductor processing, such as sputtering, etching, and deposition systems.
Prerequisites: PHYS 213/(UNO) PHYS 2130
Description: Introduction to semiconductor fundamentals, charge carrier concentration and carrier transport, energy bands, and recombination. PN junctions, static and dynamic, and special PN junction diode devices.
Description: Introduction to structural, thermal, electrical, and magnetic properties of solids, based on concepts of atomic structure, chemical bonding in molecules, and electron states in solids. Principles underlying molecular design of materials and solid-state devices.
Prerequisites: Senior standing
Description: Engineering principles of both the mechanical/aero dynamical and electrical components and systems, along with economic and environmental considerations for citing and public policy, to appropriately cover the relevant topics associated with all scales of wind energy implementations.
Description: Discussion of different microprocessor hardware and software systems designs including; microprocessor bus interfacing, memory systems, peripheral design and interfacing, interrupts, Direct Memory Access, and other hardware related topics. Software includes system code, firmware generation, and designing device drivers. Design, build, program, and show successful operation of a microprocessor board with memory, I/O and other related peripheral systems.
The prerequisite is different from the syllabus.
Description: Microcontroller architecture: design, programming, and interfacing for embedded systems. Including advanced RISC based microcontroller architecture and design, standard asynchronous and synchronous serial communications, I2C, SPI, USB, and related board design, development, and fabrication with surface mount technology. Design, build, program and show successful operation of a single microcontroller board with a specific application.
Description: Provides a solid background in electric machine analysis, covering fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods for analysis and design. Discussion of transformers and presentation of some new systems and applications.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 932
Prerequisites: ECEN 435/835
Description: Parallel and distributed processing concepts, principles, techniques, and machines.
Description: Introduction to the basics of computer architectural details under the context of computer system programming. Topics include representing and manipulating information, machine level representation of programs, processor architecture and pipelining, compiling and linking, optimizing program performance from the system level, memory hierarchy, dynamic memory allocation and exceptional control flow. Linux system programming tool chain will also be introduced.
Prerequisites: MATH 221/(UNO) MATH 2350
Description: Applications of partial differential equations, matrices, vector analysis, complex variables, and infinite series to problems in electrical engineering.
Prerequisites: ECEN 304
Description: Classical (transfer function) and modern (state variable) control techniques. Both time domain and frequency domain techniques are studied. Traditional proportional, lead, lag, and PID compensators are examined, as well as state variable feedback.
Description: Principles of engineering economy including time value of money, net present value and internal rate of return. Use of influence diagram and ecision tree to structure and analyze decision situations under uncertainty including use of stochastic dominance, value of information, and utility theory. Fundamentals of two-person matrix games including Nash equilibrium.
Prerequisites: Computer programming language and ECEN 305 or MECH 321 or STAT 380/(UNO) STAT 3800 or equivalent
Description: Examination of how information is organized in biological sequences such as DNA and proteins and computational techniques which make use of this structure. Various biochemical processes that involve these sequences are studied to understand how these processes affect the structure of these sequences. In the process bioinformatics algorithms, tools, and techniques which are used to explore genomic and amino acid sequences are also introduced.
Prerequisites: ECEN 310
Description: The concepts, principles, and methodology at all levels of digital VLSI system design and focused on gate-level VLSI implementation.
Prerequisites: ECEN 310
Description: The concepts, simulation techniques and methodology in computer-aided digital design at system and logic levels.
Prerequisites: By permission.
Basic knowledge of probability and statistics (e.g. ECEN 305 or STAT 380) and basic programming skills are recommended. May also be taught as a distance course for the Omaha campus.
Description: Provides the required biology primer and covers functional genomics, transcriptomics, differential expression, clustering, classification, prediction, biomarker discovery, pathway analysis and network based approaches to high throughput biological data analysis. Includes the development of databases, algorithms, web-based and other tools regarding management and analysis of life science data. Areas of study include DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analysis, functional genomics and proteomics, 3D macromolecule structure prediction, and systems/network approach.
Prerequisites: ECEN 338
Description: Characteristics and generating units. Control of generation, economic dispatch, transmission losses, unit commitment, generation with limited supply, hydrothermal coordination, and interchange evaluation and power pool.
Prerequisites: Prior programming experience
Description: Labview as a programming language and for applications to acquire and analyze data, to access the network, control lab instruments, and for video and sound applications.
Prerequisites: ECEN 305
Description: Introduction to the concepts of Information Theory and Redundancy removal. Simulation of various data compression schemes such as Delta Modulation, Differential Pulse Code Modulation, Transform Coding and Runlength Coding.
Prerequisites: ECEN 362; ECEN 461/861 or parallel.
Description: Standard telecommunications protocols, architecture of long distance integrated data networks, local area networks, wide area networks, radio and satellite networks. Network management, internetworking, system modeling and performance analysis.
Prerequisites: ECEN 361
Description: Analysis and design of analog integrated circuits both bipolar and MOS. Basic circuit elements such as differential pairs, current sources, active loads, output drivers used in the design of more complex analog integrated circuits.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 913
Description: Introduction to VLSI design techniques for analog and digital circuits. Fabrication technology and device modelling. Design rules for integrated circuit layout. LSI design options with emphasis on the standard cell approach of digital and analog circuits. Lab experiments, computer simulation and layout exercises.
Prerequisites: ECEN 325
Description: High-speed access control protocols, routing protocols, traffic management, and network topologies. Giga-bit Ethernet, ATM, and TCP/IP. Performance modeling and simulation techniques.
Prerequisites: ECEN 304 or graduate standing
Description: Introduces fundamental principles and theory for computer vision, image understanding, and pattern recognition, perception, and signal processing. Specific attention given to analysis of the geometric properties and appearance of objects in images, such as region size, connectedness, topology, color, and texture.
Prerequisites: ECEN 325
Description: Concepts on mobile and personal communications. Modulation techniques for mobile radio, equalization, diversity, channel coding, and speech coding.
Prerequisites: ECEN 325
Description: The fundamental concepts of satellite communications. Orbits, launching satellites, modulation and multiplexing, multiple access, earth stations, coding, interference and special problems in satellite communications.
Description: The fundamental concepts of wireless communications. Basic communications concepts such as multiple access and spectrum. Propagation, radio standards and internet working. Current issues in wireless communications.
Description: Designed to provide a solid grasp of the methods of machine learning (ML) and how to build powerful ML models for discovering statistical regularities from both structured and unstructured data. Offers an introduction to Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
Prerequisites: ECEN 461/861
Description: Fundamentals of lightwave communication in optical fiber waveguides, physical description of fiber optic systems. Properties of the optical fiber and fiber components. Electro-optic devices: light sources and modulators, detectors and amplifiers; optical transmitter and receiver systems. Fiber optic link design and specification; fiber optic networks.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 979
Prerequisites: PHYS 213/(UNO) PHYS 2130
Description: Physics of electronic transition production stimulated emission of radiation. Threshold conditions for laser oscillation. Types of lasers and their applications in engineering.
Prerequisites: ECEN 328
Description: Fundamental theory of antennas and radio propagation for wireless communications. Basic antenna characteristics and various antennas and antenna arrays. Basic propagation mechanisms and various channel models, such as Friis free space model, Hata model, lognormal distribution, and multipath model. Includes practical antenna design for high radio frequency (RF) with modeling software tools such as Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC) and Advanced Design System (ADS). Design projects will be assigned as the main part of course.
Prerequisites: ECEN 325
Description: Network security and cryptographic protocols. Classical encryption techniques, block ciphers and stream cyphers, public-key cryptography, authentications digital signatures, key management and distributions, network vulnerabilities, transport-level security, IP security.
Prerequisites: ECEN 306
Description: Introduction to the use of electromagnetic radiation for performing optical measurements in engineering applications. Basic electromagnetic theory and light interaction with matter are covered with corresponding laboratory experiments conducted.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 986
Prerequisites: A grade of "P" or "C" or better in CSCE 310, CSCE 310H, CSCE 311, SOFT 260, SOFT 260H or RAIK 283H.
Description: Concepts and principles of data and network security. Focuses on practical aspects and application of crypto systems in security protocols for networks such as the Internet. Topics include: applications of cryptography and cryptosystems for digital signatures, authentication, network security protocols for wired and wireless networks, cyberattacks and countermeasures, and security in modern computing platforms.
Prerequisites: ECEN 325
Description: A comprehensive overview on the recent advances in wireless network and system security. Covers security issues and solutions in emerging wireless access networks and systems as well as multihop wireless networks.
Prerequisites: Senior standing
Description: Special topics in the emerging areas of electrical, computer, and electronics engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the electrical and computer engineering curriculum.
Prerequisites: Senior standing
Requires an ECE departmentally approved proposal.
Description: Special topic in emerging areas of electrical and computer engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the electrical and computer engineering curriculum.
Prerequisites: ECEN 222 or ECEN 316; ECEN 313 or ECEN 370; ECEN 304; ECEN 306; ECEN 347; ENGL 151 (or JGEN 200)/(UNO) ENGL 1160
The first in a two semester electrical engineering capstone senior design course sequence.
Description: A substantial design project that allows application of electrical engineering skills to a multidisciplinary project. Requires project definition, planning and scheduling, effective written and oral communication of technical ideas, incorporation of realistic constraints and engineering standards, functioning effectively on a multidisciplinary team, and applying new ideas as needed to meet project goals.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 495
Prerequisites: ECEN 494 or permission; admission to the College of Engineering.
The second in a two semester capstone senior design course sequence.
Description: A substantial design project that allows application of electrical engineering skills to a multidisciplinary project. Requires project definition, planning and scheduling, effective written and oral communication of technical ideas, incorporation of realistic constraints and engineering standards, functioning effectively on a multidisciplinary team, and applying new ideas as needed to meet project goals.
The first in a two semester computer engineering capstone senior design course sequence.
Description: A substantial design project that allows application of computer engineering skills to a multidisciplinary project. Requires project definition, planning and scheduling, effective written and oral communication of technical ideas, incorporation of realistic constraints and engineering standards, functioning effectively on a multidisciplinary team, and applying new ideas as needed to meet project goals.
This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 499
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Research in a selected area of electrical engineering under the supervision and guidance of an Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member.
Prerequisites: ECEN 496 or permission; admission to the College of Engineering.
The second in a two semester capstone senior design course sequence.
Description: A substantial design project that allows application of computer engineering skills to a multidisciplinary project. Requires project definition, planning and scheduling, effective written and oral communication of technical ideas, incorporation of realistic constraints and engineering standards, functioning effectively on a multidisciplinary team, and applying new ideas as needed to meet project goals.
Prerequisites: Senior standing in electrical engineering; admission to the University Honors Program
Description: Honors thesis research project meeting the requirements of the University Honors Program. Independent research project executed under the guidance of a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering which contributes to the advancement of knowledge in the field. Culminates in the presentation of an honors thesis to the department and college.