GPU Programming for Video Games
3-D graphics pipelines. Physically-based rendering. Game engine architectures. GPU architectures. Graphics APIs. Vertex and pixel shader programming. Post-processing effects. Deferred rendering.
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.
Guitar Amp and Effects
Mathematical analysis and laboratory measurement of vibrating strings, electromagnetic pickups, vacuum tube amplifiers, solid-state distortion, and swept filter effects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Optimization for Information Systems
An introduction to the fundamentals of optimization with a focus on algorithms and applications in signal processing, control systems, machine learning, and robotics.
Analog Electronics
Analysis and design of electronic circuits and systems. Biasing, small-signal analysis, frequency response, feedback amplifiers, active filters, non-linear op-amp applications, and oscillators.
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.
Cryptographic Hardware for Embedded Systems
Introduction to cryptography and authentication from a hardware-centric perspective. Historic ciphers, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and power analysis attacks are taught from a digital and VLSI design perspective.
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.
Communication Systems
To present the fundamentals of modern digital communication systems and evaluate their performance with realistic channel models.
Wireless Communications
Cellular concept, wireless propagation modeling, types of digital modulation used in wireless systems, diversity combining, performance over fading channels, and multiple access techniques.
Introduction to Signal Processing
Introduction to discrete-time signal processing and linear systems. Sampling theorem, filtering, frequency response, Discrete Fourier Transform, Z-Transform. Laboratory emphasizes computer-based signal processing.
Physical Foundations of Computer Engineering
Basic principles governing the physical realization of computing systems and their relationship to characteristics such as performance, energy, and robustness. Implementation technologies.
Electrical Energy Systems
Non-renewable and renewable/sustainable energy sources. Processes, costs, and environmental impact of conversion into electric energy. Delivery and control of electric energy, electromechanical systems.
VLSI and Advanced Digital Design
Advanced digital design issues in the context of VLSI systems. Introduction to a design methodology that encompasses the range from architectural models to circuit simulation.
Semiconductor Devices
Properties of semiconductor devices. Applications in current and future computers, fiber optic and wireless communication systems. Future needs of high frequency, GHz-range, device operation.
Feedback Control Systems
Analysis and design of control systems. Laplace transforms, transfer functions, and stability. Feedback systems: tracking and disturbance rejection. Graphical design techniques.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Control System Design
Design of control algorithms using state-space methods, microcontroller implementation of control algorithms, and laboratory projects emphasizing motion control applications.
Electronics Packaging Assembly, Reliability, Thermal Management, and Test
The course provides hands-on instruction in electronics packaging, including assembly, reliability, thermal management, and test of next-generation microsystems. Crosslisted with ME and MSE 4754.
Computational Computer Vision
Computational and theoretical aspects of computer vision. Application areas include robotics, autonomous vehicles, tracking, and image-guided surgery. Includes major project.
Topics in Networks
Reviews on networking fundamentals. Latest networking technologies in wireless and wireline networks. Machine learning and data science in networks or other emerging topics. Projects included.
Mobile and Wireless Networks
Basics of mobile and wireless networking. Architectures and communication protocols for wireless sensor networks, wireless local area networks, ad-hoc networks, cellular systems, WiMAX, and Wireless Mesh Networks.
Telecommunications Systems Laboratory
Basic digital telecommunications systems are examined in a laboratory setting using electronic modules, covering concepts such as modulation, channel coding, AWGN, eye diagrams, and BER.
Laser Theory and Applications
Provides an introduction to the theory and applications of laser principles and related instrumentation. Emphasis is on the fundamental principles underlying laser action. Crosslisted with PHYS 4751.
Electronic Packaging Substrate Fabrication
Hands-on instruction in interconnect design, substrate material selection and properties, photodielectric deposition, via formation and photolithography, copper metallization, and substrate testing. Crosslisted with CHE 4755.
Biomedical Instrumentation
A study of physiological sensing topics from a systems viewpoint. Pertinent physiological and electro-physiological concepts will be covered. Crosslisted with CHE and ME 4781
Biosystems Analysis
Signal processing and modeling tools are presented for analyzing biomedical signals, with a particular focus on physiologic monitoring for human health and performance. Crosslisted with CHE and ME 4782.