These changes will provide opportunities for power engineers to work individually or on teams to identify new hardware and software technologies to improve operations and reduce expenses. The courses below are described in more detail in your catalog. 4630 Power Electronics Return to the top of the page Telecommunications Area General Description Telecommunications is a rapidly growing field. In just one century telecommunications has progressed from telegraph systems capable of sending only a few letters per second over wires to radio and optical communications systems capable of sending voice, pictures, and digital data anywhere in the world at rates up to one billion bits per second. Advances in telecommunications make possible modern devices such as the telephone, radio, television, computer modems, FAX machines, and radionavigation systems.
Telecommunications is related to most of the ares of electrical engineering.
Signals and systems provides the basic signal processing theory which is necessary for the study of all communications systems. The physical phenomena area covers the operation of devices essential for building a communication sytem such as transistors, laser diodes, and traveling wave tubes. This area also covers antenna systems and wave propagation. The controls area provides theory necessary for the design and analysis of synchronization systems, which are used in most communication systems. Analog electronics covers the implementation of circuits such as amplifiers, oscillators, filters, and mixers.