Electrical Engineering is a very broad field, which provides the student with a great flexibility in preparing for a rich and rewarding career. It encompasses activities in electric power, electronics, computers, and telecommunications. In the area of electric power, electrical engineers design the devices that are used to generate, transmit, distribute and utilize electrical power as well as plan the systems that bring electrical energy from the generating stations to the consumers. Among these are motors, transformers, generators, transmission lines and sub-stations. In the area of electronics, electrical engineers design and develop electronic equipment such as microprocessors, anti-lock brakes and electronic auto entry systems, sophisticated controls used in satellite systems, cellular phones, internet-controlled appliances, etc. In the area of computers, electrical engineers design the architecture and the operating systems used in PC's and sophisticated mainframes. In the area of telecommunications, electrical engineers design the detection and transmission schemes of signals carrying information. Typical examples are the Internet, satellite television and global telephone communication that have revolutionized the information transmission technology.

Vision of the Electrical Engineering Department

To become the first choice for all motivated students who wish to pursue an electrical engineering education in Puerto Rico.

Mission of the Electrical Engineering Department

To professionally prepare electrical engineering graduates who are capable of fulfilling the technological needs of society and excel in the design and creation of electrical systems.

Educational Objectives of the Electrical Engineering Department

1. To prepare graduates with the skills and knowledge necessary to practice electrical engineering successfully.

2. To educate graduates that can pursue advanced degrees in academic institutions or professional trainings.

The Faculty of the School of Engineering, through a set of measurable outcomes, and with the input of students and an Industry Curriculum Advisory Board, systematically measures the effectiveness of the program in satisfying its educational objectives and continuously strives to improve.

Electrical Engineering Faculty

Electrical Engineering Technical Staff

Electrical Engineering Curriculum
(151 credits; 4 ½ ye

Electrical Engineering Electives

In addition to the required engineering courses, students pursuing the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering choose three Electrical Engineering electives and one Complimentary Technical Elective. These electives are in the areas of Power, Electronics, Computers and/or Telecommunications. Some of the electives listed below are referenced in more than one area when there is overlap.

Electric Power Electives (EE ELECTIVE)

ELEN 436 Power Electronics 3 cr

ELEN 480 Power Systems Analysis I 3 cr

ELEN 481 Power Systems Analysis II 3 cr

ELEN 484 Power Transmission and Distribution 3 cr

ELEN 488 Power Systems Reliability 3 cr

ELEN 495 Special Topics 3 cr

Electronics Electives (EE ELECTIVE)

ELEN 434 Instrumentation 3 cr

ELEN 436 Power Electronics 3 cr

ELEN 441 Digital Logic Design II 3 cr

ELEN 443 Microprocessors II 3 cr

ELEN 495 Special Topics 3 cr

Computer Electives (EE ELECTIVE)

ELEN 441 Digital Logic Design II 3 cr

ELEN 443 Microprocessors II 3 cr

ELEN 444 Computer Architecture and Organization 3 cr

ELEN 446 Computer Networks 3 cr

ELEN 452 Operating Systems 3 cr

ELEN 458 Object Oriented Programming 3 cr

ELEN 460 Digital Signal Processing 3 cr

ELEN 495 Special Topics 3 cr

Telecommunications Electives (EE ELECTIVE)

ELEN 446 Computer Networks 3 cr

ELEN 460 Digital Signal Processing 3 cr

ELEN 472 Antennas and Transmission Lines 3 cr

ELEN 474 Communications I 3 cr

ELEN 475 Communications II   3 cr

ELEN 478 RF Design 3 cr

ELEN 495 Special Topics 3 cr

Complementary Technical Electives (TECH ELECTIVE)

IMEN 405 Statistical Quality Control 3 cr

MFEN 490 Robotics 3 cr

MATH 345 Abstract Algebra 3 cr

MATH 370 Numerical Analysis 3 cr

PHSC 359 Modern Physics 3 cr

Electives in Socio/Humanistic (HUMA ELECTIVE)

HIST 203 Ancient History 3 cr

HIST 230 Renaissance, Reform and Rise of the State 3 cr

HIST 232 Contemporary World Problems 3 cr

HIST 251 History of Puerto Rico I 3 cr

HIST 253 History of Puerto Rico (Compendium) 3 cr

HIST 261 Latin American History I 3 cr

HIST 271 History of the USA I 3 cr

HIST 305 History of the Caribbean 3 cr

HIST 315 History of Spain 3 cr

HIST 320 History of Africa 3 cr

PHIL 201 Introduction to Philosophy I 3 cr

SPAN 213 Literary Genres I 3 cr

Electrical Engineering Course Descriptions

General Engineering (ENGI)

ENGI 100 Introduction to Engineering

Three credit-hours. Two hours of lecture-discussion and two hours of workshop-discussion per week. Introductory required course for all first year engineering students. Introduction to the various specialties within the engineering profession. Basic concepts of engineering design and technical communication. Laws and ethics of the engineering profession.

Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Engineering.

ENGI 122 Computer Fundamentals

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture-discussion per week. Introduction to computer programming and the C programming language. Basic computer architecture and function of the computer; problem analysis; design and implementation of algorithms; structured programming concepts; C language syntax; programming tools.

Pre-requisites: MATH 301 Calculus I.

ENGI 160 Engineering Graphics

Three credit-hours. Two hours of lecture and one 3-hour lab per week. Includes principles of engineering drawing with sketching and computer graphics (AutoCAD)
with an introduction to descriptive geometry. The fundamentals of orthographic projection, pictorials, auxiliary views, sectioning, dimensioning, tolerance, threads and working drawings are presented.

Pre-requisites: MATH 155 Pre-Calculus.

ENGI 223 Intermediate Programming

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture-discussion per week. Continued development of programming skills required for Electrical Engineering students. Data structures, algorithms and their applications; pointers, arrays, multidimensional arrays, strings, string processing, string searching, dynamic memory, structures, lists, queues, stacks, sorting, searching, data abstraction, design of algorithms.

Pre-requisites: ENGI 122 Introduction to Computer Programming

ENGI 233 Statics

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the vector concepts of force and moment; analytical and graphical techniques for analysis of point forces, distributed forces and moments, centroid, center of mass; static equilibrium of a rigid body and systems of rigid bodies such as frames, trusses, and machines; shear and moment diagrams; static friction forces.

Pre-requisites: PHSC 205 Physics I.

ENGI 244 Engineering Materials

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Governing principles of material properties and behavior. Atomic structures and bonding; crystalline structures, defects and dislocations. Diffusion, deformation, and material strengthening. Phase transformations and diagrams. Polymers, ceramics, and composites. Corrosion.

Pre-requisites: CHEM 203 Chemistry I, MATH 155 Pre - Calculus.

ENGI 310 General Thermodynamics

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. This course is designed for engineering students in programs other than mechanical engineering. Introduction to first and second law of thermodynamics with applications. Introduction to heat transfer with general applications, including material involved with heat transfer in the cooling of electronic equipment.

Pre-requisites: PHSC 206 Physics 2, ENGI 233 Statics, CHEM 203 General Chemistry 1.

ENGI 334 Dynamics

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies in plane motion; translation, rotation and complex motion of rigid bodies; mass moments of inertia; concepts underlying the work-energy principle and impact-momentum principle as applied to particle and rigid body plane motion.

Pre-requisites: ENGI 233 Statics.

ENGI 410 Engineering Economics

Three-credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to engineering economy, concepts of cost estimation, sensitivity and risk analysis.

Pre-requisites: MATH 360 Probability and Statistics.

Electrical Engineering (ELEN)

ELEN 301 Electrical Networks 1

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the analysis of linear electrical circuits. Electrical quantities, resistance, sources, Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws, node-voltage analysis, loop-current current, theorems of Thevenin and Norton, maximum power transfer, capacitance, inductance, phasors, impedance, complex power, frequency response, three-phase systems.

Prerequisites: PHSC 206 Physics II

ELEN 302 Electrical Networks I Laboratory

One credit-hour. One three-hour laboratory per week. Application of the theory learned in ELEN-301 Electrical Networks I. Characteristics of electrical components and circuits; use of electronic test equipment.

PHSC 206 Physics II, ELEN 301 Electrical Networks I (corequisite)

ELEN 311 Electrical Networks II

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. The continuation of ELEN-301 Electrical Networks I. Transient response of RLC circuits, resonance, Lap lace domain analysis, transfer functions, convolution, frequency response, two-port networks, mutual inductance.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 301 Electrical Networks I

ELEN 312 Digital Logic Design I

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to fundamental digital design concepts. Number systems; codes; Boolean algebra; logic function minimization; Karnauh maps; combinatorial logic; logic arrays; sequential logic; algorithmic state machines.

Pre-requisites: ENGI 122 Introduction to Computer Programming, ELEN 301 Electrical Networks I.

ELEN 313 Digital Logic Design I Lab

One credit-hour. One three-hour laboratory per week. Introductory laboratory that examines the design, construction and evaluation of digital circuits.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 302 Electrical Networks I Lab, Corequisite: ELEN 312 Digital Logic Design I.

ELEN 330 Electronics I

Three credit-hours . Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the operating principles, modeling and application of electronic devices. Linear and nonlinear operational amplifier applications, non-ideal operational amplifiers, semiconductor fundamentals, diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field effect transistors, biasing, small signal models, h parameters, y parameters, single stage amplifiers and the fundamentals of digital switching circuits.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 301 Electrical Networks I

ELEN 370 Electromagnetics

Four credit-hours. Four hours of lecture per week. Introduction to electromagnetic systems. Transmission lines, electrostatics, magnetostatics, boundary value problems, Maxwell's equations, wave propagation, wave-guides, radiating systems.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 301 Electrical Networks I, MATH 313 Calculus III.

ELEN 414 Linear Systems

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the description and analysis of signals and linear systems. Signal classification, convolution, Laplace transform, Fourier series, Fourier transform, linear time-invariant systems, sampling theory, difference equations, Z-transform, discrete Fourier transform, discrete convolution, fast Fourier transform.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 311 Electrical Networks II, MATH 395 Differential Equations

ELEN 416 Control Systems

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the modeling, analysis and design of control systems. Feedback system classification, modeling, transfer functions, signal flow graphs, state-variable techniques, time-domain analysis, stability criteria, root locus diagrams, Nyquist and Bode diagrams, compensator design, discrete time systems.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 414 Linear Systems

ELEN 420 Electromechanical Energy Conversion

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Principles of electrical energy conversion. Three phase systems, magnetic circuits, transformers, DC machines, synchronous machines, induction machines, steady state and dynamic characteristics.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 301 Electrical Networks I

ELEN 421 Electromechanical Energy Conversion Laboratory

One credit-hour. One three-hour laboratory per week. Laboratory that explores the characterization and application of typical electrical energy conversion components. Polyphase systems, magnetic circuits, transformers, DC machines, synchronous machines, induction machines, synchronous capacitors, steady state and dynamic characteristics.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 302 Electrical Networks I Laboratory, ELEN 420 Electromechanical Energy Conversion

ELEN 431 Electronics II

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the concerns and techniques of practical electronic design. Untuned amplifiers, tuned amplifiers, frequency response, multistage amplifiers, feedback and stability, power amplifiers, active filters, oscillators, digital-to-analog converters, analog-to-digital converters, logic family implementations and characteristics, memory, switched-capacitor applications, and advanced semiconductor properties.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 311 Electrical Networks II, ELEN 330 Electronics I.

ELEN 432 Electronics Laboratory

One credit-hour. One three-hour laboratory per week. Design, simulation, construction and testing of electronic circuits. Introduction to computer controlled test equipment.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 311 Electrical Networks II, Corequisite: ELEN 431 Electronics II.

ELEN 434 Instrumentation (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the design of electronic systems for the measurement of physical variables. Sensors and transducers, signal conditioning, noise, noise reduction techniques, grounding, shielding, signal recovery techniques, sampling, digital-to-analog conversion, analog-to-digital conversion, precision electronics, automated test equipment. Design, construction and evaluation of instrumentation systems.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 414 Linear Systems, ELEN 431 Electronics II, ELEN 432 Electronics Laboratory

ELEN 436 Power Electronics (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Application of electronic devices to the conversion of electrical power and devices. Device fundamentals, controlled rectifiers, AC voltage controllers, AC-DC converters, inverters, motor controllers, snubbers, thermal design considerations, and the design of inductors and transformers. Design, simulation, construction and testing of power electronic components and systems.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 420 Electromechanical Energy Conversion, ELEN 431 Electronics II, ELEN 432 Electronics Laboratory .

ELEN 441 Digital Logic Design II (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Additional theory and practical aspects in the design of digital systems. Additional minimization techniques, synthesis techniques, asynchronous sequential logic, interfacing, programmable logic devices, design considerations for practical systems, high speed logic design, design for testability, implementation of logic circuits using MSI, LSI, PLDs, FPGAs, VHDL, CAD tools and digital test equipment.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 312 Digital Logic Design I, ELEN 330 Electronics I

ELEN 442 Microprocessors

Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to computers and microprocessors that focus primarily on software aspects. CPU architecture, microprocessors, micro controllers, assembly language programming, interrupts, I/O, peripherals, memory, system architecture, simple interfacing.

Pre-requisites: ENGI 223 Intermediate Programming, ELEN 312 Digital Logic Design I

ELEN 443 Microprocessors II (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Advanced topics in microprocessor systems design. System timing, memory, memory architecture, cache design, interrupts, interfacing peripherals, design for testability, system buses, embedded and real-time systems, hardware and software aspects of interfacing, hardware-software trade-offs, high level languages, in circuit emulators, ROM emulators, disassembling logic analyzers, simulators.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 442 Microprocessors I, ELEN 431 Electronics II

ELEN 444 Computer Architecture and Organization (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Survey of the basic concepts of computer design. Information representation, instruction sets, addressing modes, arithmetic/logic units, floating point units, control units, microprogramming, hardwired control, memory hierarchy, caches, associative memory, memory management, input-output, DMA, interrupts, system organization, CISC, RISC, super scalar machines, special purpose machines, and multiprocessing.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 442 Microprocessors I

ELEN 446 Computer Networks (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to data communications and computer networking. Encoding, channel capacity, link control, multiplexing, circuit switching, cell relay, frame relay, packet switching, local area networks, wide area networks, routing, traffic control, protocols, OSI model, TCP/IP protocol suite, networking standards.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 312 Digital Logic Design I, ELEN 474 Communications I

ELEN 452 Operating Systems (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to basic operating systems concepts. Process management, communication and scheduling; I/O devices, drivers, interrupts handlers, and deadlock; memory management, swapping and virtual memory; file systems, security and protection.

Pre-requisites: ENGI 223 Intermediate Programming, ELEN 442 Microprocessors I

ELEN 458 Object-Oriented Programming (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to object-oriented programming and design using C++. Encapsulation, data abstraction, constructors, destructors, composition, inheritance, polymorphism, virtual functions, operator overloading, templates, object oriented data structures, object oriented design.

Pre-requisites: ENGI 223 Intermediate Programming

ELEN 460 Digital Signal Processing (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Applications of digital signal processing and filtering. DFT, sampling, linear-time-invariant systems, minimum phase systems, structures for discrete time systems, IIR filters, FIR filters, quantization, FFT algorithms, spectral analysis. Design and implementation of signal processing algorithms in high level languages and dedicated DSP hardware.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 414 Linear Systems, ELEN 442 Microprocessors I

ELEN 472 Antennas and Transmission Lines (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to analysis, characterization, and design of transmission lines, wave-guides, and antennas. Telegraphy equations, lossless lines, characteristic impedance matching, bounded wave propagation modes, cavity resonators, planar and dielectric wave guides, vector potential, antenna types, impedance, radiation patterns, arrays, antenna feeds, randomness.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 370 Electromagnetics.

ELEN 474 Communications I (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the fundamental aspects of analog and digital communications. Fundamentals of communications systems, signal representation, power spectral density, analog and digital modulation techniques, channel capacity, system characterization, performance measures, link budget, system architecture.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 414 Linear Systems

ELEN 475 Communications II (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to the analysis of communications systems in the presence of noise. Random processes, Wiener-Kinchin theorem, Gaussian random processes, probability of error, bipodal signals, antipodal signals, SNR in analog systems, digital system performance, optimal receivers, introduction to error-control coding.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 474 Communications I, MATH 360 Probability and Statistics

ELEN 478 RF Design (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Theory and practical aspects of the design and behavior of electronic systems at radio frequencies. Device models, y-parameters, s-parameters, super heterodyne receivers, RF amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, IF amplifiers, demodulators, decoders, RF test equipment; design, construction and testing of RF subsystems and subsystem integration.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 431 Electronics II, ELEN 432 Electronics Laboratory, ELEN 474 Communications I

ELEN 480 Power Systems Analysis I (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Power system structure, per unit representation, transformer models, three phase network analysis, three phase fault analysis, symmetrical components, unbalanced fault analysis, protection system design and analysis, and an introduction to power system stability.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 311 Electrical Networks II, ELEN 420 Electromechanical Energy Conversion

ELEN 481 Power System Analysis II (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to power system modeling, load flow, voltage and power flow regulation, economic dispatch, numerical and computer methods for power system analysis, automatic generation control, power system planning, transient stability, and reliability evaluation.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 480 Power Systems Analysis I.

ELEN 484 Power Transmission and Distribution (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Transmission line characteristics, inductance and capacitance calculations, steady-state analysis, transmission losses, transmission system design, distribution system analysis, voltage regulation, distribution system design.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 480 Power Systems Analysis I

ELEN 488 Power Systems Reliability (Elective)

Three credit-hours. Introduction to the analysis of power systems reliability and the probabilistic modeling of power systems. Basic reliability concepts; reliability of series, parallel, and combined systems; Markov models for repairable systems; analysis of static and spinning generating requirements; capacity outage probability; reliability of interconnected systems, transmission systems, and composite systems; power system planning using probabilistic criteria; outage data collection and classification.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 480 Power Systems Analysis I, MATH 360 Probability and Statistics.

ELEN 490 Electrical Engineering Capstone Design

Three credit-hours. Open-ended design experience requiring the application of a broad spectrum of the student's engineering knowledge to a practical design problem.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 416 Control Systems, ELEN 421 Electromechanical Energy Conversion Laboratory

ELEN 495, 496, 497 Special Topics (Elective)

One, Two and Three credit-hours respectively. Special topics in electrical engineering. Format will depend on course topic.

Prerequisite: Dean's Permission

Technical Electives for Electrical Engineering Program

IMEN 405 Statistical Quality Control (Technical Elective for Electrical Engineering)

Four credit-hours. Three hours of lecture and a two-hour lab per week. The application of statistics to the control of processes. Techniques include Military Tables, Variable and Attributes Charts, Design of Experiments, Cause and Effect Diagrams, Pareto Chart and others.

Pre-requisites: MATH 360 Probability and Statistics.

MEEN 490 Robotics (Technical Elective for Electrical Engineering)

Three credit-hours. Two hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory per week. Introduction to robotics, robot anatomy, motion analysis, control, and industrial applications.

Pre-requisites: ELEN 301 Electrical Networks I, MEEN 312 Kinematics.