<p>Hello. I am an undergraduate electrical engineering student. I will have to choose electives very soon.
My choices are:
- Communications/Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Computer
- Electronics
- Electromagnetics
- Solid State Electronics & Photonics
- Energy & Power
- Control</p>
<p>I am not sure what to choose. Can electrical engineers tell me what each will be about / what types of projects I can do with examples?</p>
<p>Thank you. </p>
<p>you should probably talk to your professor, adviser, and read the course catalog, because some of these titles are generic. </p>
<p>-Digital Signal Processing (DSP)- signal processing in discrete time. It uses a lot of transforms like: Discrete Fourier Series, Discrete Time Fourier Transform,Discrete Fourier Transform, and the Fast Fourier transform. You will work on analyzing a system response. Typically, I think, a continuous time SP class is taken first. It can be rather math intensive</p>
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<li><p>Computer- I don’t know.</p></li>
<li><p>Electronics- Probably covers some basic circuit analysis and looking at fundamental building blocks such as diode/schottky diode, transistors, rectifiers. </p></li>
<li><p>Electromagnetics-broadly speaking, it deals with Maxwell’s Equations relating electricity and magnetism. This can be rather math intensive especially using integral calculus. Looking at how charge is distributed over different surfaces. </p></li>
<li><p>Solid State Electronics & Photonics- while electronics says a transistor is build of a diode. This class will look at how a diode is build (a pn junction often times). You’ll learn about doping, bandbending of the conduction and valence bands, you’ll perform analysis looking at current and charge density. You’ll look at a transistor, then you’ll look at sensors and actuators that use these.</p></li>
<li><p>Energy & Power- very broad. Probably look at how power is distributed. </p></li>
<li><p>Control- how to take a system and model it, build a controller that meets the requirements (rise time, steady state error, overshoot, etc). You’ll use differential equations to model a system’s dynamics, you’ll plot the systems response, using Bode and root locus among others, to look at how it responds to an input. Then you’ll design a controller to change its response.</p></li>
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