What a great break! I got to do everything from ice skating to tubing to snowboarding to seeing the traveling Broadway production of Grease to making Norwegian potato pancakes! Alas, it is all over, and school is back in session. I've got quite a course load this year! Each of the course descriptions come directly from the UNT Course Catalog.
EENG 2620: Signals and Systems:
This course introduces elementary concepts of continues-time and discrete-time signals and systems. Specific topics include linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, impulse response, convolution, Fourier series, Fourier transforms, frequency-domain analysis of LTI systems, Laplace transforms, z-transforms, rational function descriptions of LTI systems, and principle of sampling and modulation.
EENG 3510: Electronics 1
The course covers fundamental device characteristics including operational amplifiers, diodes, MOS field-effect transistor, and bipolar junction transistor. The main goal is to present the students to the concept of modeling and analysis of modeling as applied to electronic devices and circuits.
EENG 4010: Topics in Electrical Engineering
Technical elective course specifically designed by the instructor each term / semester to cover the topics in the laterst state-of-the-art technology advancements in electrical engineering.
EENG 1920: Introduction to Electrical Engineering
This course provides the students the foundation necessary for the successful execution of electrical engineering design projects. The design process embodies the steps required to take an idea from concept to successful design. These steps include the requirements specification, architectural model, concept generation and evaluation, feasibility study, functional decomposition, design, testing, an overview of ethical and legal issues, and maintenance. Technical design tools, such as MATLAB, VHDL and Spice software, critical to designing a project are introduced. Small projects using these design tools are implemented. A final project requires team work, an oral presentation, and a written project report.
EENG 2910: Digital System Design
Digital system design projects that provide students substantial experience in logic analysis, design, logic synthesis in VHDL, and testing. Project documentation including all the phases of project cycle from requirement analysis to testing as well as a project presentation providing the students an opportunity to enhance their communication and presentation skills, are essential components of this course. Instructor may choose to include a mini-project for breadboard implementation with discrete components as a part of this course.
SPAN 3090: Advanced Spanish Grammar 1
In-depth study of selected areas of Spanish grammar for third-year students, particularly verbal aspect and mood, spelling and punctuation, and agreement.
Whew! It should be a pretty interesting year. I also plan on mentoring high school students again and giving tours of our fabulous campus. I'm also going to be looking for a co-op in the DFW area. In my next blog I'll discuss some ways that I stay organized with all that I've got going on.
Random Fact: Before toothpaste was invented people used all kinds of dry, rough things as an abrasive to clean their teeth – things like crushed eggshell, pumice the burnt hooves of animals!
