Senior level courses prepare students for a career in this field. Digital Systems Courses at the junior level acquaint students with digital circuits and microprocessor technologies, with applications extending across the boundaries of controls, signal processing, communications, power, and physical phenomena. Senior level courses students for careers in digital system design and computer applications. Control Systems Focusing on physical processes and the methods used to control them, students in junior level courses learn techniques of modeling and analysis. At the senior level, students learn modern and classical methods of control system design, with emphasis on digital technology.
Computer software is used extensively for modeling, analysis and design.
Electric Power Concentrating on the generation, transmission, and utilization of electric power, courses in this area at the junior and senior levels cover the use of electrical machines for energy conversion, the analysis of power systems, and the use of power electronic systems in industrial applications. Nuclear Energy Aimed at preparing students for careers in nuclear power generation, courses in this area focus on nuclear power plant operation and design, including mathematical calculations and computer modeling of the plants. Physical Phenomena Electromagnetic and semiconductor theory is the basis for many new technologies and advances such as compace and laser discs, integrated circuits and optical communications. The theory is thoroughly developed in courses at the junior level, and then in applied to advanced courses in electroptics, microwaves, antennas, semiconductor devices, plasma, nuclear fusion and lasers.