City University Los Angeles

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

A program for senior, corporate and staff engineers. Professional Engineers (PE) and Sales Engineers who have advanced corporate and experiential qualifications may also participate.

REQUIREMENTS:

32 semester/48 quarter credits
Critical Analysis, Annotated Bibliography, Proposal and Thesis
26 semester/39 quarter credits through this program
At least 8 semester/12 quarter credits in core curriculum.

PREREQUISITES:

A bachelor degree in this field; a recognized license in the field; certified professional membership in the field, including any laboratory, practicum, clinical requirements, or licensure qualifications.

INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:

DISTANCE EDUCATION

CURRICULUM:

(CORE REQUIREMENTS)

Digital Signal Processing
Electronic Instrumentation for Physical Science
Network Synthesis
Telemetry Systems
Electrodes and Electrical Processes in Biology and Medicine
Elecronics Laboratory
Network Analysis
Software Engineering

COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI

1. Course Designation:

1.1 School: Arts and Sciences

1.2 Department: Electrical Engineering

1.3 Course Number: ENG 310

   Title: Digital Signal Processing

1.4 Recommended Text List:

FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION

Course Objectives: Student will understand digital signal processing.

Course Description: Sampling as a modulation process: aliasing; the sampling theorem; the z-transform and discrete time system analysis; direct and computer-aided design of recursive and nonrecursive digital filters; the Discrete Fourier Transform 9DFT) and Fast Fourier Transform 9FFT); digital filtering using the FFT; analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion; effects of quantization and finite-word-length arithmetic.

1. Course Designation:

1.1 School: Arts and Sciences

1.2 Department: Electrical Engineering

1.3 Course Number: ENG 311

   Title: Electronic Instrumentation For Physical Science

1.4 Recommended Text List:

FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION

Course Objectives: Student will understand instrumentation systems

Course Description: The concept of instrumentation systems from sensor to readout; discussions of transducer, system dynamics, precision and accuracy; measurement of electrical parameters; direct differential, and potentiometric measurements; bridge measurements, time and frequency measurement, wave form generation and display.

1. Course Designation:

1.1 School: Arts and Sciences

1.2 Department: Electrical Engineering

1.3 Course Number: ENG 312

   Title: Network Synthesis

1.4 Recommended Text List:

FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION

Course Objectives: Student can show reasonable efficiency in network synthesis.

Course Description: Active and passive components, passivity, bounded and positive real, RC properties and synthesis, Brune and Darlington synthesis, transfer-voltage and 1/21 synthesis, active feedback configurations image parameter design, computer-aided optimization synthesis via the embedding concept.

1. Course Designation:

1.1 School: Arts and Sciences

1.2 Department: Electrical Engineering

1.3 Course Number: ENG 313

   Title: Telemetry Systems

1.4 Recommended Text List:

FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION

Course Objectives: Student will know about telemetry systems.

Course Description: Selected digital circuits; frequency division multiplexing; FM/AM systems, SSB/FM systems; time division multiplexed systems; pulse amplitude modulation; pulse duration modulation; pulse code modulation; analog to digital converters; multiplexers and DC-commutators.

1. Course Designation:

1.1 School: Arts and Sciences

1.2 Department: Electrical Engineering

1.3 Course Number: ENG 314

   Title: Electrodes and Electrical Processes in Biology and Medicine

1.4 Recommended Text List:

FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION

Course Objectives: Student will understand current techniques for recording biological signals.

Course Description: Techniques for recording biological signals such as brain, muscle and cardial electrical potentials; membrane theory; half-cell potentials, liquid junction potentials, polarization of electrodes; biological and medical instrumentation; and applications in the design of cardial pacemakers, or a similar case study.

1. Course Designation:

1.1 School: Arts and Sciences

1.2 Department: Electrical Engineering

1.3 Course Number: ENG 315

   Title: Electronics Laboratory

1.4 Recommended Text List:

FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION

Course Objectives: Student will understand design and testing of basic electronic circuits and practical interconnection.

Course Description: Provides experience in the specification, design and testing of basic electronic circuits and practical interconnection. Emphasis on design with discrete solid state and integrated ciruit components for both analog and pulse circuits.

1. Course Designation:

1.1 School: Arts and Sciences

1.2 Department: Electrical Engineering

1.3 Course Number: ENG 316

   Title: Network Analysis

1.4 Recommended Text List:

FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION

Course Objectives: Student will understand the different methods and and parts of Network Analysis.

Course Description: Descriptions and generalization; Y, S, hybrid matrices; descriptions properties; symmetry, para-unity, etc.; basic topological analysis; state-space techniques; computer-aided analysis; sensitivity analysis; approximation theory.

1. Course Designation:

1.1 School: Arts and Sciences

1.2 Department: Electrical Engineering

1.3 Course Number: ENG 317

   Title: Software Engineering

1.4 Recommended Text List:

FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION

Course Objectives: Student will have the ability to write various computer languages.

Course Description: Machine language and machine structure; assembly language and assemblers; macro-language and macro-processor; loaders and links; programming languages and language structure; compilers and interpreters; operating systems.