2022-2023 Course List

Continues building skills in automation components and subsystems involving sensors, transistors, logic, amplifiers, software, microprocessors, PLC's, actuators, encoders, stages, motors, controllers and drives. Students design, simulate, build, test and document automation systems for Capstone projects.

Prerequisites:

EET 461 

An overview of a communication system. Phase Shift Keying. Amplitude Shift Keying and Frequency Shift Keying. Coherent and non-coherent detection. Maximum likelihood receiver and Matched filter. Noise power, Noise figure, and Noise codes and convolution codes. Spread Spectrum Techniques.

Prerequisites:

STAT 154, EET 456

Overview of wireless communication and control systems. Characterization and measurement of RF networks. Transmission lines. Antennas. Radio wave propagation. Fading. Smith Chart. RF transistor amplifiers, oscillators and mixer/modulator circuits. Klystrons, magnetrons and TWTs. Spread spectrum techniques. SAW matched filters.

Prerequisites:

PHYS 212, EET 223

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Semiconductor industry and overview of integrated circuit manufacturing, integrated circuit types, crystal growth and wafer manufacturing, physics of semiconductor materials, detail of major IC fabrication steps, process yield, semiconductor devices and integrated circuit formation, packaging, and semiconductor measurements, introduction to layout tools.

Prerequisites:

EET 223 

This class provides students pursuing a minor in Global Solutions in Engineering and Technology with an opportunity to explore a set of topics related to achieving success in advance of and following an international experience (internship, study abroad, etc.). Speakers will include faculty, graduate students, visiting researchers and industry members as well as student participants. Returning students will be required to participate in mentoring of students preparing for their international experience and provide written and/or oral presentations of various topics during the semester. This course is required both before and after participation in the international experience (min. 2 cr.)

Should be taken at end of junior year. Permission required. Pre: 40 hrs EET credits or written permission from program coordinator.

Varied topics in Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology. May be repeated as topics change. Prereq: to be determined by course topic

Prerequisites:

to be determined by course topic 

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An early course for elementary education majors. Exploration of the career field, introduction to the role of standards in education, overview of general methodology for the elementary classroom.

Goal Areas:

GE-12

This course provides students opportunities to: 1) understand the theories and contributions of major educational psychologists and theorists; 2) develop and demonstrate skills in educational technologies; and 3) develop context for the knowledge and skills described above through activities/field experience.

Study of interpersonal skills, motivation and group skills. Applied to educational settings. Meets State of Minnesota human relations requirement for teacher licensure.

Goal Areas:

GE-07, GE-11

Diverse Cultures:

Gold

The middle school concept, curriculum, and teaching methods.

For teachers of students whose dominant language is other than English.

Teacher candidates will think critically about the context in which all students learn and will learn about historical and current patterns of inequitable education that marginalize students who have been minoritized according to race, culture, language, or ability. The course will focus on research-based practices that teacher candidates can use to create identity-safe classrooms and how they can work with families and communities using an asset lens.

Prerequisites:

Admission to Professional Education and the Elementary Education program.

Students learn to use a variety of developmentally appropriate, motivating techniques to disrupt predictable patterns of achievement and to advance children¿s: oral and written language, knowledge of phonemic awareness, phonics, and concepts about print within a balanced literacy framework. Additionally, the interdependent nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, stages of spelling development, and role of vocabulary and fluency in reading comprehension are addressed.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates with the understanding and application of concepts related to human diversity and interactions, structures of power, the identity of individuals and communities, and explicitly connects social studies concepts with their influence on educational experiences of diverse learners.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

This course introduces elementary teacher candidates to areas of exceptionality in learning. Teacher candidates within the course will analyze elementary instruction within the general education classroom and learn to develop antiracist instruction that builds on students¿ assets and cultural capital with consideration of individual differences.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

The focus of this course will be providing teacher candidates with strategies and tools in providing daily instruction for diverse learners in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, language, religion, sexuality, social economic status and class. The course will focus on learners with complex and multiple disabilities that requires a variety of materials, strategies, and differentiation. The teacher candidates will have an opportunity to implement their plans in the classroom during field experience while closely working with a classroom mentor teacher and university mentor.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

This course will engage teacher candidates in critically analyzing children¿s texts. Teacher candidates will learn how to integrate diverse literature across the elementary curriculum and meet objectives and standards in math, literacy, social studies, science, and the arts. Teacher candidates will learn how to guide students in developing their literacy identities in order to promote reading engagement and students as independent and collaborative readers.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

This course is centered around three goals to help prepare teacher candidates to enact practices that develop learners¿ mathematical proficiency. The first goal is to explicitly teach skills for disrupting patterns of injustices and inequities that often get reproduced within the context of elementary mathematics classrooms. The second goal is to develop professional skills for the high-leverage practices of eliciting and interpreting students¿ thinking and leading a group discussion. The third goal is to gain the mathematical knowledge needed for engaging learners in inquiry-based instruction for number sense & operations, place value, computation, and rational number concepts in grades K-6.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

This course will provide elementary teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills necessary to: (a) Identify concepts to be explored through scientific investigations, and then design and conduct investigations of those concepts, using appropriate scientific apparatus and mathematical tools to improve their investigations; (b) know and apply basic concepts in the physical, biological and earth sciences; (c) know and apply appropriate pedagogies to foster inquiry the elementary classroom; (d) identify and mitigate their students¿ science misconceptions; and (e) understand and apply guidelines for proper procedures and safety practices while teaching science.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

Presents strategies for teaching reading and writing knowledge, attitudes and skills in the various teaching content areas.

This course will explore the incorporation and extension of physical education and the arts into the elementary curriculum to strengthen subject matter learning, support artistic expression, and promote physical fitness.

This course will explore the incorporation and extension of physical education and the arts into the elementary curriculum to enhance children's initiative, creativity, and self-esteem while focusing on fine and gross motor development.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program