Special Topic Courses
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Permanent Course Descriptions and Outlines
ECE-Only Single-Semester Capstone Design.
A single-semester ECE culminating design experience forming ECE-only teams, proposing, prototyping, testing, demonstrating, formally presenting and documenting projects incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints.
Senior Analog Electronics Laboratory
Theory and experiments related to the design, analysis, construction, and measurement of advanced analog electronic circuits using discrete devices (diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOSFETs).
Research Methods
Course provides methods and practices for literature searching, reference management, and summary preparation. Coverage includes journals, conferences, theses, patents, grants, roadmaps, and companies.
Advanced Computer Architecture
Comprehensive coverage of the architecture and system issues that confront the design of high-performance workstation/PC computer architectures with emphasis on quantitative evaluation. Credit is not allowed for both ECE 4100 and any of the following courses: ECE 6100, CS 4290, CS 6290.
Internetwork Security
Hands on experimentation and evaluation of Internet Security theory, principles, and practices. Laboratory component involves implementing both defensive and offensive security techniques.
Introduction to Computer Security
Introductory topics in computer security are presented with an emphasis on fundamental security primitives and current security challenges facing society.
Introduction to Malware Reverse Engineering
This course exposes students to an immersive, hands-on experience in the dissection and analysis of the code, structure, and functionality of malicious software.
Advanced Programming Techniques for Engineering Applications
Course covers a number of programming techniques for distributed and parallel computing and other advanced methods, such as multiprecision arithmetic and nonblocking I/O.
Advanced VLSI Systems
An advanced treatment of VLSI systems analysis, design, and testing with emphasis on complex systems and how they are incorporated into a silicon environment.
Adv Malware Analysis
This course covers advanced approaches for the analysis of malicious software and explores recent research and unsolved problems in software protection and forensics.
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing technologies, computation models, and applications; design methodologies for cloud applications; use of cloud-based languages and tools in developing advanced applications.
Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust
Fundamental concepts, foundation, and methodologies for the design of trustworthy circuits including protection of the hardware platform against tampering. Physical cloning of cryptographic VLSI circuits.
Embedded Systems Design
Processors, chipsets, busses, and I/O devices for high-end embedded
systems. Embedded operating systems; device drivers and applications for
embedded systems.
systems. Embedded operating systems; device drivers and applications for
embedded systems.
Fundamentals of Machine Learning (FunML)
An introduction to the fundamentals and applications of Machine Learning. Students cannot receive credit for both ECE 4252 and CS 4641.
Digital Image Processing
An introduction to the fundamentals and the theory of multidimensional signal processing, digital image processing, machine learning for visual data, key applications in multimedia products and services.
Random Signals and Applications
Introduction to random signals and processes with emphasis on applications in ECE. Includes basic estimation theory, linear prediction, and statistical modeling.
Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing
Introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Sampling Theorem,Discrete-time
Fourier transform,power spectrum,discrete Fourier transform and the FFT
algorithm,z-Transform, digital filter design and implementation.
Fourier transform,power spectrum,discrete Fourier transform and the FFT
algorithm,z-Transform, digital filter design and implementation.
Applications of Digital Signal Processing
Applications of DSP in speech, image processing, radar, pattern recognition, and adaptive filtering requiring working software implementations applied to the analysis of real signals.
Power System Analysis & Control
Introduces basic concepts in electric power generation, distribution,system control and economic operation.
Power System Engineering
To introduce basic concepts of electric power system design, encompassing protection, stability and control.
Power Electronics
Introduces power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters, including single-phase and three-phase ac/dc rectifiers, ac voltage controllers, dc/dc converters and dc/ac inverters.
Electric Machinery Analysis
Advanced theory of AC machines, including AC motor winding design, finite element analysis, induction motor design, permanent magnet machine design, and synchronous machine dynamics. Credit not allowed for both ECE 4335 and ECE 6335.
Electromagnetic and Microwave Applications
presents concepts of electromagnetics applied to the design of microwave/RF circuits, modules, and systems encompassing transmission and radiation for applications up to optical frequencies
Antenna Engineering Laboratory
Experimentation to develop a practical understanding of antennas and their properties.
Introduction to Radar and Electromagnetic Sensing
Radar transmission, scattering, detection. Air traffic control, meteorological, others. Signal processing, doppler shifts, tracking, estimation, rain and clutter, atmospheric propagation, antennas. Remote sensing, LIDAR, SONAR.
Electromagnetic Compatibility
To study electromagnetic interference and susceptibility of electrical systems, with application to analog and digital circuits.
RF Engineering I
Fundamentals of RF engineering. Components at high frequencies, device modeling, amplifiers, lumped-element and microstrip impedance transformation networks, S-parameter-based design of RF and microwave amplifiers.
RF Engineering II
Fundamentals learned in RF-I are employed to design the elements of radio receivers, transmitters, and similar systems. Systems analysis, mixers, detectors, power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, and oscillators are covered.
Digital Integrated Circuits
Analysis and design of MOS digital integrated circuit families and their applications in modern electronic systems.
Analog Integrated Circuits
Analysis and design of analog ICs using analytic techniques and CAD tools. Topics include amplifiers, current sources, output circuits and other analog building blocks.
Operational Amplifier Design
Analysis and design techniques for the utilization of integrated circuit operational amplifiers for applications in electronic systems.
Audio Engineering
Concepts of acoustics and electroacoustic modeling for the analysis and design of microphones, loudspeakers, and crossover networks. Methods of analysis and design of audio power amplifiers.
Audio Engineering Laboratory
A companion laboratory to ECE 4445. Design, analysis, construction, modeling, and testing of circuits and systems pertaining to audio engineering.
Guitar Amp and Effects
Mathematical analysis and laboratory measurement of vibrating strings, electromagnetic pickups, vacuum tube amplifiers, solid-state distortion, and swept filter effects.
Analog Circuits for Music Synthesis
Circuits from classic analog synthesizers: voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers; nonlinear waveshapers. Operational transconductance amplifiers. Exploitation of dynamic resistance of semiconductors. Hands-on projects.
Integrated Circuit Fabrication
Introduction to microelectronic processing technologies and CMOS. Includes a laboratory for fabrication/testing of MOS transistors, basic CMOS circuits, integrated resistors and capacitors.
Introduction to Electronic Systems Packaging
Introduction to packaging technologies, technology drivers, electrical performance, thermal management, materials, optoelectronics, RF integration, reliability, system issues, assembly, and testing.
Devices for Renewable Energy
Students study the engineering compromises, operational physics and environmental impact of a variety of devices from solar cells, batteries, thermoelectric devices and wind generators.
Optical Engineering
Introduction to applications of geometric & physical optics to
engineering, including optical measurements, matrix methods,
instruments, interference, holography, beam optics, Fourier
optics & diffraction.
engineering, including optical measurements, matrix methods,
instruments, interference, holography, beam optics, Fourier
optics & diffraction.