Introduction to personal computers and computer architecture. Includes computer hardware and software principles, products, and applications. A+ certification concepts emphasized. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include configuring, installing, testing, troubleshooting, and analyzing personal computers. Prerequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1010.
Introduction to the concepts and fundamentals of electronic devices, circuits and systems. An electronics overview course for technology majors. Topics include direct current electricity, alternating current electricity, transistors and integrated circuits, amplifiers and oscillators, transmitters and receivers, digital logic circuits, electronic memory, and computers. Prerequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1010.
Introduction to the concepts and fundamentals of information technology. An information technology overview course for technology majors. Topics include the World Wide Web, data protocols, graphics and visual information, data compression, bandwidth and information technology, transmission and storage technology, networks and the Internet, voice over IP, and electronic commerce. Prerequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1010.
Introduction to digital electronics, integrated circuits, numbering systems, Boolean algebra, gates, flip-flops, multiplexers, sequential circuits, combinational circuits, programmable logic devices, and computer architecture. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, analysis, and measurement of basic digital systems. Prerequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1010.
Introduction to AC and DC circuit fundamentals, analysis, theorems, laws, components, measuring devices, and equipment. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include circuit design, construction, and analysis of AC/DC circuits. The introduction and use of measuring instruments, power supplies, and signal generators. Prerequisite: CEET 1110 and MATH QL1080 or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1060.
Industrial electronics course for Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology majors. Introduction to DC and AC circuits, machines, and power systems. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, and analysis of DC/AC circuits and machinery. Prerequisite: MATH 1010.
An introduction to science, engineering and technology career fields. Industrial leaders, as guest speakers, will share their engineering experiences and provide insight into career opportunities, hiring criteria, job responsibilities, engineering ethics, and professional development. The student will identify and contact industrial companies using online searches, personal interviews, and library resources. The student will attend senior project design reviews.
Introduction to the design and analysis of semiconductor circuits using diodes, transistors, op-amps, field effect devices, thyristors, and regulators. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis of semiconductor circuits, amplifiers and power supplies. Prerequisite: CEET 1140.
Introduction to AC and DC motors, relays, transformers, power measurements, National Electrical Code, ladder logic, wiring, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, and analysis of basic power circuits and machinery configurations. Prerequisite: CEET 1140.
An introduction to the design of printed circuit boards and packaging with emphasis on the design, simulation, analysis and packaging of circuits. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include the design, construction, and testing of prototype circuit boards. CAD programs will be used for the design and layout of circuit boards. Prerequisite: CEET 2110.
Introduction to digital and wireless communication circuits. Topics to include radio frequency circuits, modulation, detection, transmitters, receivers, transmission lines, antennas, and measurement instruments. Digital communications topics to include parallel and serial data transmission. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis of communication circuits. Prerequisites: CEET 2110 and MATH SI1210.
A study of microprocessors, embedded controllers, operational characteristics, computer architecture, machine code programming, memory devices, and interfacing. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include the design, construction, and analysis of microprocessor based systems. Analysis techniques include the use of assemblers, cross-assemblers, and emulators. Prerequisite: CEET 1130, CS 2250 (preferred) or CS 1400.
An introduction to troubleshooting techniques and skills. Topics include the use of diagnostic electronic test equipment such as multi-meters, power supplies, signal generators, digital storage oscilloscopes, and spectrum analyzers. Students will diagnose and repair electronic circuits and systems. Lecture and laboratory combination. Prerequisite: CEET 2110 and CEET 2150.
Introduction to industrial control systems for manufacturing and automated test applications. The course will focus on LabVIEW control systems and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). Students will configure, program, and troubleshoot industrial control systems. Lecture and lab combination. Prerequisite: CEET 1140.
Telecommunications technology course for Telecommunications majors. Introduction to telecommunications technology. The course introduces the fundamentals of DC theory, AC theory, power, electronic components, semiconductor devices, digital fundamentals, integrated circuits, computer circuits, frequency, fiber optics, and wireless communications. Two one-hour lectures per week.
Scope and aims of engineering ethics, moral reasoning, ethical theories, social experimentation, responsibility for safety and to employers, rights, global issues, management, consulting, and leadership. Prerequisite: PHIL HU1120.
An introduction to computational tools associated with solving electrical engineering technology problems. This will include MATLAB, C programming language and selected topics. Laboratory activities will include programming and computer simulations. Prerequisite: MATH 1210. Co-requisite: CEET 3010.
Advanced calculus-based topics related to electronic circuit analysis, Laplace transforms, differential equations, Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and applications. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include circuit design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis. CEET 2110 and MATH 1220. Co-requisite: CEET 3005.
Continuation of Circuit Analysis, CEET SI3010. Topics include active and passive filters, Pole-zero analysis, stability, Bode diagrams, frequency response, and applications. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include circuit design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis. Prerequisite: CEET SI3010.
Introduction to field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the use of computer design tools to design, model, simulate, and program gate arrays and application specific integrated circuits. Prerequisite: CEET 2150.
Introduction to electronic data acquisition, data analysis, error analysis, signal measurement, and automatic testing techniques. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, and analysis of measurement circuits, data acquisition circuits, instrumentation devices, and automatic testing. Prerequisite: CEET 2110.
Small computer architecture, computer I/O, graphics, assembly language fundamentals, BIOS, device drivers, advanced assembly language techniques. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include design, simulation, computer programming, analysis, and troubleshooting. Prerequisite: CEET 2150.
An introduction to real-time kernals and operating systems. Priority-based pre-emptive scheduling, intertask communication, and intertask sychronization will be studied. Other topics include priority inversions, semaphores, mutexes, context switches, rate monotonic analysis (RMA), various kernal services, finite state machines, and nested state machines. Prerequisites: CEET 2110, C Programming Language, CEET 2150.
Engineering problem solving using the Internet, professional journals, and human networking. Three styles of writing emphasized; technical descriptions, historical perspectives of technology, and technical defensible arguments. Prerequisite: AAS degree in CET or EET.
This course provides an in-depth study of several serial communication standards and how to implement them in embedded systems. The standards addressed in this class include RS232, RS485, Controller Area Network (CAN), and Ethernet. Emphasis will be placed on utilizing the stacks and protocols for each standard. The channel bandwidth, noise, and data error rate will be addressed. Wireless methods of serial communication will be surveyed. Prerequisites: CEET 2110, CEET 2150, MATH 1210.
An introduction to project management. The course prepares students for Senior Projects. Course will include the writing of contracts, goal setting, project leadership and team building principles of engineering economics, team work, quality, statistics, and continuous improvement will be discussed. Other topics include project life cycles, organization, and risk management. Project scheduling and performance will be discussed. The course will be taught as a seminar.
An introduction to science, engineering and technology career fields. Industrial leaders, as guest speakers, will share their engineering experiences and provide insight into career opportunities, hiring criteria, job responsibilities, engineering ethics, and professional development. The student will identify and contact industrial companies using online searches, personal interviews, and library resources. The student will conduct one class period by interviewing, inviting, and introducing a guest speaker. Prerequisite: CEET 2000.
Students will work on teams to design, construct, test, and install a significant engineering project. The course includes selecting a team, selecting a project, writing a contract, maintaining a logbook, creating and following project milestones, setting and completing weekly goals, writing a manual, and making a final presentation to students, faculty, and industry advisers. Prerequisite: CEET 3090.
A continuation of CEET 4010 Senior Project I. Students will work on teams to design, construct, test, and install a significant engineering project. The course includes selecting a team, selecting a project, writing a contract, maintaining a logbook, creating and following project milestones, setting and completing weekly goals, writing a manual, and making a final presentation to students, faculty, and industry advisers. Prerequisite: CEET 4010.
Introduction to automatic control theory, analysis, and testing, pole, zero, Bode plots, and frequency response. The design and application of programmable controllers using ladder logic, sequential functions charts, PID, and data highway. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include computer simulation, servo-system construction, and analysis. Prerequisite: CEET 3020.
An introduction to digital signal processing, digital filters, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, quantization, introduction to adaptive filters, industrial applications, and DSP hardware. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include the design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis of digital signal processing circuits. Prerequisite: CEET 3010.
A review of materials that are typically found on the Engineering Fundamentals Exam (F.E.). Topics are taught by faculty members according to their area of expertise. Topics included are mathematics, DC electricity, AC electricity, logic, engineering economics, statics, dynamics, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, chemistry, and thermodynamics. Two one-hour lectures per week. Prerequisite: Departmental approval required.
Introduction to satellite communications, spread spectrum techniques, digital satellite communications, antennas, small signal amplifiers, Smith charts, and "S" parameter analysis. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, computer simulation and analysis of wireless communications circuits and systems. Prerequisites: CEET 3020.
An introduction to the fundamentals of large-scale systems. The first part deals with systems analysis, design and integration with emphasis on input/output models, transfer functions, and interface issues. The second part discusses a variety of systems design and management approaches, particularly those concerned with system requirements, interface control, evaluation, quality assurance through configuration management, audits and reviews, and the human role in systems. Example systems from biomedical, aerospace, and manufacturing will be explored. Prerequisite: MATH 1210.
The student will receive credit for approved studies in an area not covered in the CEET program. A maximum of four credits can be counted as electives for CEET majors.
The student will receive credit for approved electronics industrial experience. Professional development activities will include resume writing, goal setting, progress reports, and a supervisor's evaluation. Two credits are required for the BS CET and EET major. The course can be taken a maximum of three times for a total of 6 credits.
This course is to serve as an assessment tool, whereby BS degree-seeking students in the Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology demonstrate their learned knowledge of electronics and engineering principles. This knowledge will be demonstrated through the use of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam (FE) administered by the State of Utah.
A one-time special study course designed to introduce a new relevant topic that is not covered in the CEET program. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to support the selected course topic. A maximum of four credits can be counted for CEET majors.
DE is a course in applied digital logic. The use of digital circuits is increasing so rapidly that it's hard to imagine the limits. Students are introduced to the digital circuits found in video games, watches, calculators, digital cameras, and thousands of other devices. Students study the application of digital logic and how digital devices are used to control automated equipment. Students use industry-standard, electronic design software to build circuits and to export designs to a printed circuit autorouting program that generates printed circuit boards using chips and other components. The course meets for a total of 75 hours over a two-week period and focuses on the content as well as teaching methods appropriate for the course. This course is designed specifically and only for current high school teachers who have been assigned by their schools and districts to teach the Project Lead the Way courses in their respective schools. These courses carry graduate credit for those teachers who would use them as part of a master's degree program or for recertification.
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