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Last updated on: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 05:00:00 pm
CTE101
Fundamentals of Digital Logic
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| 3 Credit Hours, 3 Lecture Hours |
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Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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CTE103 Digital Design Laboratory |
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| Course Description | The mechanics of automatic computation including number systems, digital codes, logic gates, Boolean algebra, Karnaugh map simplification, combinational logic, sequential logic, adders, counters, shift registers, etc. will be covered. | |
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CTE103
Digital Design Laboratory
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| 2 Credit Hours, 1 Lecture Hour, 2 Lab Hours |
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Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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CTE101 Fundamentals of Digital Logic |
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| Course Description | Students will perform experiments emphasizing the design, construction and troubleshooting of digital logic circuits in electrical and computer engineering. | |
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CTE105
Green Technology
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| 3 Credit Hours, 2 Lecture Hours, 2 Lab Hours |
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Computer, Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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| Course Description | Students explore lifestyle changes that empower them to reduce both their personal and community Carbon Footprint, resulting in a greener society through technology. The course also introduces the theoretical and practical concepts of energy sources with an emphasis on solving problems related to sustainable renewable energy use and conservation. Topics include carbon footprint calculations, the expanded use of wind, solar and hydroelectric power. With hands-on lab experiments, elementary engineering projects and computer internet research, students discover several aspects contributing to carbon emissions and developing a Low Carbon Diet. | |
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CTE111
Circuit Analysis I
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| 4 Credit Hours, 3 Lecture Hours, 2 Lab Hours |
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Computer, Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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CoRequisites: |
MAT115 Applied Technical Mathematics or MAT130 College Algebra & Trigonometry |
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| Course Description | Introduction to the analysis of electric circuits using DC sources. Applications of Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws, Superposition, loop analysis, nodal analysis and Thevenin's Theorem will be covered. | |
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CTE201
Electronics I
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| 4 Credit Hours, 3 Lecture Hours, 2 Lab Hours |
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Computer, Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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Prerequisites/
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CTE111 Circuit Analysis I |
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CTE112 Circuit Analysis II |
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| Course Description | An introductory course in semiconductor physics and semiconductor devices. Biasing and stability of devices and small signal models of same. Applications of semiconductors in rectifiers and amplifiers will be covered. | |
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CTE202
Electronics II
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| 4 Credit Hours, 3 Lecture Hours, 2 Lab Hours |
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Computer, Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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Prerequisites/
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CTE201 Electronics I |
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| Course Description | Analysis of the behavior of multistage amplifiers, power amplifiers, tuned circuit amplifiers, feedback amplifiers and oscillators. Integrated circuits, including differential and operational amplifiers and voltage regulators will be covered. | |
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CTE210
Microcomputers
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| 4 Credit Hours, 3 Lecture Hours, 2 Lab Hours |
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Computer, Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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| Course Description | This course serves as a comprehensive treatment of microcontroller fundamentals. The following topics will be covered: microcontroller architecture, assembly language programming, and their role in embedded systems. The course will focus on the Microchip PIC16F and PIC18F microcontroller families. We will use these in order to understand their architectures, CPUs, registers, addressing modes, parallel and serial I/O ad well as the role they play in today's technology.
Laboratory work is hands-on using the Microchip PICkit sets and the PIC18F simulator.
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CTE221
Electronic Communication Systems
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| 4 Credit Hours, 3 Lecture Hours, 2 Lab Hours |
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Computer, Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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CTE202 Electronics II and MAT140 Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry |
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| Course Description | Types and characteristics of electronic systems such as amplitude modulation, frequency modulation and single-side-band will be covered. Also, receivers, transmitters and their system components including phase locked loops, tuned amplifiers, modulators and demodulators and an introduction to fiber optics. | |
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CTE222
Digital Communications
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| 3 Credit Hours, 3 Lecture Hours |
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Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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Prerequisites/
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CTE202 Electronics II and MAT140 Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry |
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| Course Description | This course is a study of digital communication techniques including modulation methods, modems and local area networks. | |
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CTE241
Embedded Systems I
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| 4 Credit Hours, 3 Lecture Hours, 2 Lab Hours |
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Open/Free, Technical, Technology |
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Prerequisites/
Proficiencies: |
CIS140 Introduction to Computer Science or CTE101 Fundamentals of Digital Logic and CTE103 Digital Design Laboratory |
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| Course Description | This course will provide students with the knowledge of why, where and how they would deploy an embedded system, utilizing industry standard microprocessors. The course covers the architectures of various PICs and microcontrollers, CPUs, registers, addressing modes, parallel and serial I/O. Laboratory work is hands-on based on real world applications. | |
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