ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING

520.137 (E,Q)

INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (3) Tran   Limit 40 per section   Open to freshman Engineering majors & any Arts & Sciences majors. An introductory course covering the principles of electrical engineering including sinusoidal wave forms, electrical measurements, digital circuits, and applications of electrical and computer engineering. Laboratory exercises, the use of computers, and a design project are included in the course.

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520.213 (E,Q)

CIRCUITS (4) Weinert Prereq: 110.108-109   Limit 35 per section   An introductory course on electric circuits covers analysis techniques in time and frequency domains, transient and steady state response, and operational amplifiers.

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520.218 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO OPTICS AND PHOTONICS (3) Sova Prereq: 171.101-1029 An introductory course in optics and photonics with laboratory experiments that parallel the lecture notes. Basic concepts in optics and photonics are covered that include geometric optics, interferometry, diffraction, radiometry, spectroscopy, dielectric media, non-liner optics, fiber-optics and lasers. We will apply these concepts to understanding how optical systems work in the areas of bio-photonics, laser remote sensing and optical communications.Course added 4/05/06

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520.219 (E,N)

FIELDS, MATTER & WAVES (3) Joseph
Prereq: 171.101-102, 110.108-109; Coreq: 110.202  Limit 40 Vector analysis, electrostatic fields in vacuum and material media, stationary currents in conducting media, magnetostatic fields in vacuum and material media. Maxwell's equations and time-dependent electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves and radiation, transmission lines, wave guides, applications.

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520.345 (E)

ECE LAB (3) Kang Limit 30 Prereq: 171.101-102, 520.213 This course consists of 11 one-week laboratory experiments intended to provide an introduction to analog and digital circuits commonly used in engineering. Topics include phase and frequency response, transistors, operational amplifiers, filters, and other analog circuits.The experiments are done using computer controlled digital oscilloscopes, function generators, and power supplies. Course added 4/05/06

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520.349 (E)

MICROPROCESSOR LAB I (3) Glaser    Prereq: 520.142 or equivalent Limit 20 per section   This course introduces the student to the programming of computers at the machine level. General concepts relevant to microcontrollers are presented, including memory access, numerical representations, programming models, and coding techniques.

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520.353 (E,Q)

CONTROL SYSTEMS (3) Iglesias Prereq: 520.214 & 110.201 or 550.291 Limit 65  Modeling, analysis, and an introduction to design for feedback control systems. Topics include state equation and transfer function representations, stability, performance measures, root locus methods, and frequency response methods (Nyquist, Bode).

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520.391 (E)

CAD DESIGN/ DIGITAL VLSI (3) Pouliquen   Limit 10  (intended for Juniors) Prereq: 520.142, 520.216 or equiv.; Coreq: 600.333, 600.334, 520.349 or 520.372     An introductory course in which students, manually and through computer simulations, design digital CMOS integrated circuits and systems. The design flow covers transistor, physical, and behavioral level descriptions, using SPICE, Layout, and VerilogHD1 VLSI CAD tools. After design computer verification, students can fabricate and test their semester-long class projects.

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TW 5:30-7pm

520.401 (E)

BASIC COMMUNICATIONS (3) Davidson   Prereq: 520.214   Limit 45 This course covers the principles of modern analog and digital communication systems. Topics include: amplitude modulation formats (DSB, SSC VSB), exponential modulation formats (PM, FM), superheterodyne receivers, digital representation of analog signals, sampling theorem, pulse code modulation formats (PCM, DPCM, DM, spread-spectrum), signals with additive Gaussian noise, maximum likelihood receiver design, matched filtering, and bit error rate analyses of digital communication systems.

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520.407 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES (3) Khurgin Prereq: 171.101-102, 520.219 This course is designed to develop and enhance the understanding of the basic physical processes taking place in the electronic and optical devices and to prepare students for taking classes in semiconductor devices and circuits, optics, lasers, and microwave devices, as well as graduate courses. Both classical and quantum approaches are used. Specific topics include theory of molecular bonding; basics of solid state thory; mechanical, transport, magnetic, and optical properties of the metals; semiconductors; and dielectrics. Course added 03/23/06

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MW 2-3:30

520.414 (E)

IMAGE PROCESSING & ANALYSIS (3) Goutsias    Prereq: 520.214   Limit 40  The course covers fundamental methods for the processing and analysis of images and describes standard and modern techniques for the understanding of images by humans and computers. Topics include elements of visual perception, sampling and quantization, image transforms, image enhancement, color image processing, image restoration, image segmentation, and multiresolution image representation. Laboratory exercises demonstrate key aspects of the course.

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MW 4-5:15

520.419 (E,Q)

THEORY AND DESIGN OF ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS (3) Meyer   Prereq: 110.201-202   Limit 20
An introduction to the study of the structure, behavior and design of iterative algorithms. Topics include problem formulations, algorithm description and classification, the deterministic iterative (DI) schema, doubling schema, cluster point sets, periodic points, DI schemas without stop rule, the monotonic DI schema, contractive and affine maps, bounded and Cauchy sequences, asymptotically regular sequences, monotonic sequences.

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520.424 (E,Q)

FPGA SYNTHESIS LABORATORY (3) Jenkins   Limit 15 per section  
Prereq: 520.142, 520.345, 600.333 or 520.349 or 520.372 Advanced competence in computer systems. An advanced laboratory course in the application of FPGA technology to information processing, using VHDL synthesis methods for hardware development.  The student will use commercial CAD software for VHDL simulation and synthesis, and implement their systems in programmable XILINX 20,000 gate FPGA devices.  The lab will consist of a series of digital projects demonstrating VHDL design and synthesis methodology, building up to final projects at least the size of an 8-bit RISC computer.  Projects will encompass such things as system clocking, flip-flop registers, state-machine control, and arithmetic. The students will learn VHDL methods as they proceed through the lab projects, and prior experience with VHDL is not a pre-requisite.

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520.425 (E)

FPGA PROJECTS LABORATORY (3) Jenkins   Limit 25
Prereq: 520.424 (no exceptions) Course added 4/14/06

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520.433 (E)

MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS (3) Prince  Limit 20 Prereq: 520.432 or 580.472 (Medical Imagin Systems), 550.310 or 550.311 (Probability and Statistics) This course covers the principles and algorithms used in the processing and analysis of medical images. Topics include, interpolation, registration, enhancement, feature extraction, classification, segmentation, quantification, shape analysis, motion estimation, and visualiztion. Analysis of both anatomical and functional images from the most common medical imaging modalities will be used. Projects and assignments will provide students experience working with actual medical imaging data. Course added 3/23/06

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ThF 10:30-11:50

520.435 (E)

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (4) Weinert    Limit 90   Prereq: 520.214 Methods for processing discrete-time signals. Topics include signal and system representations, z- transforms, sampling, discrete Fourier transforms, fast Fourier transforms, digital filters.

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520.447 (E,Q)

INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION THEORY AND CODING (3) Jelinek Prereq: 550.310 or equivalent Limit 25  This course will address some basic scientific questions about systems that store or communicate information. Mathematical models will be developed for (1) the process of error-free data compression leading to the notion of entropy, (2) data (e.g. image) compression with slightly degraded reproduction leading to rate-distortion theory and (3) error-free communication of information over noisy channels leading to the notion of channel capacity. It will be shown how these quantitative measures of information have fundamental connections with statistical physics (thermodynamics), computer science (string complexity), economics (optimal portfolios), probability theory (large deviations) and statistics (Fisher information, hypothesis testing).

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520.457 (E,Q)

BASICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS FOR ENGINEERS (3)
Course added 8/29/06

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520.466 (E,Q)

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS II (3) Limit 25 Cooper  Prereq:  520.465 Achieving reliable and efficient digital communications over noisy channels is studied.  Shannon’s Noisy Channel Coding Theorem provides the basis and the goal.  Bounds on code performance in noisy channels are developed. Important block and convolutional codes and codes on graphs are examined jointly with their respective decoders.

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520.491 (E)

CAD DESIGN OF DIGITAL VLSI SYSTEMS I (3) Pouliquen Etienne-Cummings  Limit 25  (intended for Seniors & Graduate students) Prereq: 520.142, 520.216 or equiv.; Coreq: 600.333, 600.334, 520.349 or 520.372     An introductory course in which students, manually and through computer simulations, design digital CMOS integrated circuits and systems. The design flow covers transistor, physical, and behavioral level descriptions, using SPICE, Layout, and VerilogHD1 VLSI CAD tools. After design computer verification, students can fabricate and test their semester-long class projects.

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TW 5:30-7pm

520.494 (E)

ASYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL SYSTEMS (3) Ekanayake   Limit 20   Prereq: 520.142, 520.216 or equivalents     Introduction to asynchronous design in the context of computer architecture and VLSI. We will focus on modeling digital systems as concurrent programs and synthesizing robust self-timed (clockless) digital circuits through formal program transformations. Topics include delay-insensitive design techniques, circuit compilation, asynchronous circuit templates, high-performance micro-pipelines, timing/energy analysis, and case studies of complex asynchronous designs. Students will complete an asynchronous digital design project. Course canceled 8/25/06

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520.495 (E)

MICROFABRICATION LAB (4) Wang/Andreou  Perm. Req’d. Seniors only   Limit 4 9 per section This laboratory course is an introduction to the principles of microfabrication for microelectronics, sensors, MEMS, and other synthetic microsystems that have applications in medicine and biology. Course comprises of laboratory work and accompanying lectures that cover silicon oxidation, aluminum evaporation, photoresist deposition, photolithography, plating, etching, packaging, design and analysis CAD tools, and foundry services.
Co-listed as 580.495 & 530.495

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520.498

SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT  Course added 5/02/06

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520.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY  Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. The program of study or research, including the credit to be assigned, must be worked out in advance between the student and the faculty member involved. May be taken either term by freshmen or sophomores.

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520.503

INDEPENDENT STUDY  Course added 9/19/06

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520.545

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

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520.601

LINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS Staff   Prereq: Undergraduate courses in Control Systems & Linear Algebra A beginning graduate course in linear, time-invariant systems. Topics include state-equation representations, input-output representations, response properties, controllability, observability, realization theory, stability, and linear feedback. Course canceled 8/25/06

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520.619

OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS Davidson   Limit 15     Fundamentals of direct and coherent (heterodyne) detection optical communication receivers. Topics include Poisson nature of photon detection; estimation and detection for photon counting receivers; marked, filtered and doubly stochastic Poisson processes; and information theory for the photon communication channel.

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MW 4-5:15

520.636

FEEDBACK CONTROL IN BIOLOGICAL SIGNALING PATHWAYS Iglesias     Limit 20

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520.651

RANDOM SIGNAL ANALYSIS Khudanpur   Limit 40  A course covering second-order properties of random processes with applications in estimation and detection. A foundation course for further work in stochastic systems, signal processing, and communications. Prerequisites: elementary courses in probability, signals, and linear systems.

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ThF 9-10:30

520.667

ENGINEERING MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Iglesias Limit 15
Course added 8/30/06

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MW 3:30-5

520.673

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE COURSE Osman 
Course added 8/29/06

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Th 9-12

520.744

SEMINAR IN COMPUTER INTEGRATED SURGERY Etienne-Cummings  Limit 10 Current research topics in computer integrated surgery, presented primarily by pre-eminent invited speakers in the field. Course added 4/11/06

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W 12-1:30

520.773

ADVANCED TOPICS IN FABRICATION AND MICROENGINEERING Andreou  Perm. Req’d. Limit 12 20   Graduate-level course on topics that relate to microsystem integration of complex functional units across different physical scales from nano to micro and macro. Topics wil include emerging fabrication technologies, micro-electromechanical systems, nanolithography, nanotechnology, soft lithography, self-assembly, and soft materials. Discussion will also include biological systems as models of microsystem integration and functional complexity.

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520.778

SEMINAR: ADVANCED TOPICS ON CIRCUIT INFORMATION PROCESSING AND DYNAMICS Sotiradis Perm Req'd. There is vast number of important and challenging problems in modeling, optimizing and designing circuits and complex circuit systmes, that involve an extensive use of information, communication, optimization, control and systems dynamics theory. The seminar intends to expose the students to the beauty of such interdisciplinary problems. Participating students are expected to have fair graduate-level background in circuits and applied mathematics. Course added 03/23/06

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M 3:30-6:30pm

520.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

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520.801

DISSERTATION RESEARCH

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520.809

SPECIAL STUDIES

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