Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses

ECE417 - Systems Modeling and Verification

Principles of Model-Based Systems Engineering. Data modeling and rule modeling. Functional architecture. Behavioral models and executable models. Verification requirements. Requirements analysis. System test and evaluation. Process validation and verification. SysML graphical modeling language. Prerequisites: ECE 315 and ECE 327 with grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE418 - Hardware Security

Introduction to hardware security. Hardware attacks. Trust and countermeasures on the electronic supply chain. Hardware IP piracy and reverse engineering. Attacks: Side channel, test-oriented, physical, PCB. Hardware security primitives. Hardware obfuscation. PCB authentication. Prerequisite: ECE 327 with a C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE419 - Computer Systems Reliability

Combinatorial aspects of system reliability. Parallel, standby, n-modular redundancy. Common cause failures. Information coding techniques. Reliability optimization and apportionment. Fault-tolerant computer design techniques. Prerequisites: ECE 315 and ECE 327 with grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE429 - Computer Systems Architecture

Principles of performance evaluation, processor microarchitecture, instruction-level parallelism, static and dynamic pipeline considerations. Superscalar processors. Multiprocessor systems. Memory hierarchy design, cache design. Mutual exclusion and synchronization mechanisms. Prerequisite: ECE 329 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE434 - Computer Systems Security

Principles of computer systems security. Vulnerabilities, attacks and defenses, cryptographic primitives, authentication, digital signature, access control. Software systems security: buffer overflow, virus, SQL injection. Networking security: denial of service attack, firewall and IDS, Wi-fi security. Hardware systems security: secure processing and secure co-processor. Cloud, edge and IoT security. Prerequisite: ECE 315 with a C or better and consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE435 - Data Analysis in Engineering with R

R programming language: Vectors, Matrices, Lists, Data Frames, Factors, Tables. Review of machine learning techniques: Numerical Regression, Logistic Regression, k-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees. ROC curves. Various application case studies. Prerequisite: ECE 315 or equivalent with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE459 - MEMS and Micro-Engineering

ECE468A - Digital Signal Processing

Discrete-time signals and systems: z-transform; discrete Fourier transform, fast Fourier transform algorithms; digital filter design; digital filter realizations. Lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: ECE 355. Lab fee: $20 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE468B - Digital Signal Processing

Discrete-time signals and systems: z-transform; discrete Fourier transform, fast Fourier transform algorithms; digital filter design; digital filter realizations. Lecture and laboratory. Restricted to graduate standing. Lab fee: $20 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE469 - Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineering Applications

Basic machine learning concepts: Model selection, feature scaling, bias-variance trade-off, regularization, Performance metrics and validation techniques, Probability and statistics review. Supervised learning: Linear/non-linear regression and logistic regression, Generalized linear models, Generative learning models, Bayes decision theory, Naive Bayes classifier, Nearest neighbor classifiers, Hidden-Markov models, Support vector machines, Kernel methods, Bagging, Boosting. Unsupervised Learning: Clustering: K-means, Expectation-maximization, Anomaly detection, Dimensionality Reduction: Principal components analysis, transform techniques. Basics of reinforcement learning and deep learning. Restricted to Senior or graduate standing.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE470 - Fundamentals of Neural Networks in Data Science

Anatomy and physiology of the cerebral cortex, Feed-forward Networks, Multilayer Perceptrons, Recurrent Networks, Hopfield Networks, Self-organizing Networks, Convolutional Neural Network, Applications to pattern recognition, robotics, image processing, and speech processing. Prerequisite: MATH 305 or ECE 315 or ECE 351 with a C or better or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE471 - Wireless Communication Systems

This course covers fundamentals of wireless communication systems. Topics include wireless system architectures, channel modeling, introduction to cellular systems, digital modulation and multiple-access techniques, introduction to multi-antenna techniques, performance analysis, wireless physical layer security, future trends in wireless communications. Prerequisites: ECE 315 and ECE 355 or consent of instructor. Project-based fee: $20 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE475 - Digital Health Cyber Systems

Introduction to cyber systems in digital health, fundamentals of medical informatics, electronic health, biometric recognition and security, cybersecurity for medical devices and digital technology integration, cybersecurity for healthcare facilities, ethics and federal regulations. Prerequisite: MATH 251 or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE477 - Fields and Waves I

Transmission lines for communications. Guided wave principles and resonators. Applications in electronics, optoelectronics and photonics. Principles of radiation. Solution techniques for Laplace's equation and one-dimensional wave equation. Prerequisite: ECE 375.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE486 - Clean Electric Energy

History and future of energy resources and their use as a component of electrical systems. Fossil fuels and renewable energy sources. Environmental and economical impacts of various energy sources. Electric energy generating plants and distributed generation. Design of hybrid renewable energy systems. Prerequisite: ECE 385 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE487 - Power Systems Analysis

Modeling and analysis of electric power systems. Topics covered: ac power, generators, power transformers, transmission line parameters and steady state operation, computation of power flows. The course uses power system analysis software. Lecture. Prerequisite: ECE 385 with a minimum grade of C.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE494 - Diagnostic Ultrasound

Diagnostic ultrasound is an ultrasound-based biomedical imaging technique used to visualize muscles, tissue, and many internal organs, to capture their size, structure and any pathological lesions. This course is an introduction to the principles and applications of biomedical ultrasound. This course will focus on fundamentals of acoustic theory, principles of ultrasonic detection and imaging, design and use of currently available tools for performance evaluation of diagnostic devices, and biological effects of ultrasound. Prerequisite: MATH 305 and ECE 355 with a grade of C or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE programs. Lab fee: $30 to help defray cost of equipment, supplies, and software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE511 - Software Hardware Co-design for Deep Neural Networks

Analysis of deep learning techniques such as deep feedforward networks, regularization, optimization algorithms, convolutional networks, and sequence modeling. Utilization of machine learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and Pytorch. Investigation of hardware architectures for machine learning applications such as GPUs, TPUs, and systolic arrays.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE512 - Wireless Networks

Compared to infrastructure based wireless communication systems, ad hoc wireless networks present several unique advantages. Thus, it has been widely studied as an important wireless communication paradigm. This graduate level course first introduces several widely adopted wireless communication technologies and then presents the concept, structure, and principles of ad hoc wireless networks. The course also introduces the details of several popular ad hoc wireless networks including mobile ad hoc networks, delay tolerant networks, wireless sensor networks, and connected vehicle networks. Novel applications in those networks will also be introduced. The course work will include paper and literature review, presentations, assignments, and a project that will enable students to be familiar with ad hoc wireless networks. NS2 will be used for student project in this course. Students can gain experience on NS2. Students who have taken ECE 412 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $10 to help defray cost of equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE513 - Digital VLSI Design

Principles of the design and layout of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits concentrating on the CMOS technology. MOS transistor theory and the CMOS technology. Characterization and performance estimation of CMOS gates, CMOS gate and circuit design. Layout and simulation using CAD tools. CMOS design of datapath subsystems. Design of finite state machines. Examples of CMOS system designs. Laboratory experience in CMOS VLSI design. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Students who have taken ECE 423 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $35 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE514 - Design of Embedded Systems

Introduction of modern embedded system application, platform architecture and software development. Principles of embedded processor architecture, operating systems and networking connectivity. Design and optimize in terms of system power, security and performance. Rapid prototyping using Intel-Atom based platform. Lecture and laboratory. Students who have taken ECE 424 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $10 to help defray cost of equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE515 - Three Dimensional Integration Systems

This course introduces the design of three dimensional VLSI integration systems, including through-silicon-via (TSV) process, characterization and modeling, 3D IC systems design, mixed signal simulation, data management, testing, process, variation, thermal and reliability challenges, as well as review of 3D system design examples. Laboratory experience in design tools (Cadence Virtuoso and Liberate, AMS simulator). Prerequisite: ECE 345 and ECE 423 with a grade of C or better. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE516 - Implementation of VLSI Systems with HDL

This course is dedicated for advanced Digital VLSI architecture and system implementation for high performance and low power digital signal processing applications. Application-specific processors and architectures to support real time processing of signal processing systems will be studied. Hands-on experience of using state-of-the-art CAD tools on designing such kind of VLSI architecture and systems. Upon completion of this course, students will entail large HDL-based implementation of a complete VLSI system. Students who have taken ECE 426 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: ECE 327 with a grade of C or better. Project-based fee: $35 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE517 - Edge Computing

Analysis of IoT architectures and core IoT modules, integration of sensors and data acquisition systems, power-aware optimizations, and embedded operating systems. Investigation of cloudlet topologies and services, edge to cloud protocols, and security. Special focus will be given on data analytics and machine learning in the cloud and the edge.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE518 - Advanced Hardware Security and Trust

Cryptographic systems and hardware. Advances in physically unclonable functions. Random number generators. Watermarking. Hardware metering. Side channel attacks including fault injection and power analysis. Types of hardware Trojan attacks (forms and sizes). Detection of hardware Trojans. Hardware tampering and obfuscation. Countermeasures against hardware attacks and hardware authentication. Counterfeit circuits: detection and avoidance. Trust issues in FPGAs. JTAG security and trust. SoC security requirements and secure design. Prerequisite: ECE 418 or graduate standing.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE519 - Advanced Computer Security

Systems Security: Programming, Exploitation, Shellcode, Countermeasures. Network Security: Network Protocol Security, DDoS attack, Web Security and Intrusion Detection Systems. State-of-the-art research topics in computer security: Security and Privacy issues for IoT, human factors and economic and policy issues.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE520 - VLSI Design and Test Automation

Principles of the automated synthesis, verification, testing and layout of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits concentrating on the CMOS technology. Resource allocation and scheduling in high-level synthesis. Automation of the logic synthesis for combinational and sequential logic. The physical design automation cycle and CMOS technology considerations. Fault modeling and testing. Timing analysis. Laboratory experience using commercial tools for synthesis and layout. Students who completed ECE 425 can't take ECE 520. They are similar. Prerequisite: ECE 327 with a C- or better or enrollment in ECE graduate programs. Project-based fee: $30 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE521 - Fault-Tolerant Computer Design

Concepts of error detection, location and correction in digital systems. Codes for error detection and correction. Models and simulations of faults. Design of tests for combinatorial and sequential circuits. Testability. Design of digital systems with testability. Prerequisite: ECE 423, ECE 425 or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE522 - VLSI Circuit Testing

Theoretical and practical aspects of production testing of VLSI circuits. Relations between physical defects and fault models. Procedures for generating test inputs. Design modifications for test application and theory of built-in self-test. Prerequisite: ECE 425 or ECE 520 with a minimum grade of C or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $25 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE523 - Low Power VLSI Design

Source of power dissipation, technology impact on power dissipation, low power circuit techniques, energy recovery, synthesis of low power circuits, low power components. Prerequisite: ECE 423 or ECE 513 with a minimum grade of C or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $35 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE524 - Synthesis and Verification of Digital Circuits

Binary decision diagrams, finite state machines and finite automata. Design automation concepts in logic level synthesis, optimization and verification for combinational as well as sequential logic. Technology mapping. Prerequisite: ECE 425 or ECE 520 with a minimum grade of C or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $35 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE525 - Advances in Physical Design Automation

Advances in the automation of VLSI layouts with emphasis on recent developments in deep submicron, FPGA and MCM technologies. Floor planning, placement, routing objectives in high performance designs using deep submicron technology. Timing analysis in the presence of crosstalk. FPGA architectures and design with dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs. Physical design automation for MCMs. Prerequisite: ECE 425 or ECE 520 with a minimum grade of C or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $35 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE526 - Network Processing Systems Design

Protocol processing, packet processing algorithms, classification and forwarding, queuing theory, switching fabrics, network processors, network systems design tradeoffs. Prerequisite: ECE 422 and ECE 429 or consent of the instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE527 - Integrated Interconnection Networks

Importance of interconnection networks and networks-on-chip (NOCs). Specifications and constraints. Topology, routing, flow control, deadlock, livelock, arbitration, allocation, performance analysis, simulation. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE528 - Programmable ASIC Design

Principle and practice of designing and implementing Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC). Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). Timing analysis, timing closure and managing difference clock domains in ASIC design. Complex arithmetic circuits. Digital signal processing (DSP) circuits. FPGA microprocessors. Students who have taken ECE 428 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $50 to help defray cost of equipment and consumable items.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE529 - Computer Systems Architecture

Credit Hours: 3

ECE530 - Engineering Data Acquisition

(Same as ENGR 530) Theory of data acquisition and measurement systems. Criteria for selection of data acquisition hardware and software, instruments, sensors and other components of scientific and engineering experimentation. Methods for sampled data acquisition, signal conditioning, interpretation, analysis and error estimation. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $60 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE531 - Mixed-Signal VLSI Design

Analysis and design of mixed-signal integrated circuits. Digital to analog converter (DAC). Analog to digital converter (ADC). Sigma-delta data converters. Performance analysis of signal chains containing both analog and digital signal processing functions. Prerequisite: ECE 446 with a minimum grade of C. Restricted enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $60 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE532 - Programming Parallel Processors

Multi-core architecture, threads, thread execution models, thread priority and scheduling, concurrency, multi-threaded programming models, synchronization, performance measurement and local balance, software tools for multi-threaded programming. Restricted to ECE students or consent of advisor. Students who have taken ECE 432 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $20 to help defray cost of equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE533 - Speech Processing

(Same as BME 533) Fundamentals of speech production system, signal analysis of speech, speech coding, linear prediction analysis, speech synthesizing, and speech recognition algorithms. Students who have taken ECE 474 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: MATH 250, ECE 355 with grades of C or better or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE534 - Biomedical Signal Analysis

(Same as BME 536) The nature of biomedical signals. Electricity in living tissue. Biomedical signal processing and modeling. Modeling and simulation of biomedical systems. Prerequisite: MATH 250, ECE 355 with a grade of C or better or consent of instructor. Project-based fee: $20 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE535 - CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuit Design

Introduction of RF IC, passive RLC Networks, passive IC components, MOS Transistors, distributed systems, Smith Chart and S-Parameters, introduction to Band-width estimation, biasing and voltage reference, basic High Frequency Amplifiers, introduction to: noise in RF IC, Low Noise Amplifiers, Power Amplifiers, Phase-Locked Loops and Oscillators. Lecture and laboratory. Students who have taken ECE 440 are ineligible to enroll. Lab fee: $35 to defray the cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE536 - Embedded Systems Programming

Advanced software concepts and techniques to develop complex software projects on embedded systems. Concepts and techniques include system calls, structure of operating systems, advanced dynamic memory management, cross-compilation, scheduling techniques, and resource management. Students who have completed ECE 430 cannot take ECE 536. They are similar.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE537 - Integrated Photonics

Fundamentals of electromagnetic theory, waveguides, photonic structures including photonic crystals and integrated micro-ring resonator, numerical simulations of photonic integrated circuits using the beam propagation method, finite-difference time-domain method, rate equations, and fabrication processes. Prerequisite: ECE 441 or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE538 - Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design

This course introduces the students to the field of medical instrumentation. Medical instrumentation is the application of advanced engineering technology to problems in biology and medicine. The course will focus on fundamentals of instrumentation systems, sensors, amplifiers, and signal precondition. In addition, the course also includes design and applications of medical instrumentation, biopotential measurement, biomedical signal processing, and other related topics. Students who have taken BME 438 or ECE 438 cannot receive credit for this course. Prerequisite: MATH 305 and ECE 355 or equivalent courses with a grade of C or better, or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECBE programs. Project-based fee: $45 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE539 - Diagnostic Ultrasound

Diagnostic ultrasound is an ultrasound-based medical imaging technique used to visualize muscles, tissue, and many internal organs, to capture their size, structure and any pathological lesions. This course is an introduction to the principles and applications of biomedical ultrasound. This course will focus on fundamentals of acoustic theory, principles of ultrasonic detection and imaging, design and use of currently available tools for performance evaluation of diagnostic devices, and biological effects of ultrasound. Students who have taken BME 439 or ECE 494 cannot receive credit for this course. Prerequisite: MATH 305 and ECE 355 or equivalent courses with a grade of C or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECBE programs. Project-based fee: $30 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE540 - CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuit Design II

High frequency amplifier design techniques, noise in RF IC and CMOS low noise amplifiers (LNA), mixers, oscillators, PLLs, frequency synthesizers, power amplifiers, an overview of wireless architectures. Prerequisite: ECE 440 or ECE 535 or equivalent. Lab fee: $50 to defray the cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE541 - Quantum Information Processing and Devices

Fundamentals of information theory: uncertainty and information, thermodynamics of information. Quantum information processing: essential quantum mechanics of states, measurements and Bell's theorem, operations, and their representations as matrices; quantum Shannon theory (von Neumann entropy); quantum entanglement. Quantum cryptography. Various quantum algorithms and computational complexity. Building blocks: qubits and qubit operations, quantum machines. Decoherence, quantum error correction, and fault tolerance. Physical realization and quantum devices: double quantum dot charge qubit, Rabi oscillations of an excitonic qubit, Quantum dot spin-qubits, Photonic quantum computing, Superconducting qubits. Prerequisite: Familiarity with electronic and photonic devices, information theory, theoretical computer science, or quantum mechanics will be beneficial.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE542 - Photonics I

Ray optics, wave optics, beam optics, polarization of light, statistical optics, photons and atoms. Students who have taken ECE 441 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: ECE 375 with a grade of C or better. Project-based fee: $50 to help defray cost of equipment and consumable items.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE543 - Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design

Analysis and design of CMOS analog integrated circuits. Circuit noise analysis. Low-voltage high-performance operational amplifiers. Voltage and current reference circuits. Integrated analog filter circuits. Micropower circuits. Prerequisite: ECE 446 or ECE 546 with a minimum grade of C or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $35 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE544 - Photonics II

Fourier optics, fiber optics, electro-optics, nonlinear optical media, acousto-optics, photonic switching, optical and interconnections and optical storage. Students who have taken ECE 448 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: ECE 441 or consent of instructor. Project-based fee: $80 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE545 - Advanced Semiconductor Devices

Technology drivers: Moore, More-Moore, and More-than-Moore trends. Case Study: Integrated health monitoring systems, 3-D SoCs. Review of Solid-State Theory: electronic, magnetic, optical and thermal properties of semiconductors. Energy Related Devices: solid-state lighting, solar cells, thermoelectric devices, piezoelectric devices, energy storages and supercapacitors. Optoelectronic and Photonic Devices: Imagers, LEDs, OLEDs, Lasers, LCDs, thin-film transistors (TFTs). Sensors and Detectors. Microwave and Terahertz Devices. Prerequisite: ECE 447 or ECE 423 or ECE 446 or PHYS 425 or PHYS 430 or instructor consent.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE546 - Analog Circuit Design

Analysis and design of electronic circuits, both discrete and integrated. Computer-aided circuit design and analysis. Design of amplifier and filter circuits. Circuit stability analysis and frequency compensation techniques. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Students who have taken ECE 446 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $10 to help defray cost of equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE547 - Semiconductor Devices

Semiconductor industry and Moore's law. Review of quantum mechanics of atoms. From atoms to crystals: energy bands, effective mass and density-of-states. Semiconductor statistics. Carrier transport phenomena. PN junctions. Schottky junctions. Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). MOSFETs: capacitance-voltage and current-voltage characteristics, threshold voltage, scaling and short-channel effects, SPICE models. CMOS process integration. Basic optoelectronic devices: LEDs and solar cells. Lecture and laboratory. Students who have taken ECE 447 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: ECE 345 or equivalent. Project-based fee: $25 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE548 - Quantum Phenomena and Devices

Introduction: Classical Phenomena and Devices. Why Quantum Devices? Current Picture: Academia and Industry. Essential Statistical Mechanics. Essential Quantum Mechanics. Quantum Theory of Electrons: Quantization, Tunneling, Quantum Interference, Quantum Hall Effect, Scattering and Broadening, Dephasing and Shot Noise. Coulomb Blockade. Quantum Optics. Collective Phenomena and Spin. Relativistic Quantum Phenomena. Quantum Phase Transition. Quantum Computation. Prerequisite: ECE 447 or ECE 423 or ECE 446 or PHYS 425 or PHYS 430 with C or better or instructor consent.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE549 - Fiber Optic Communications

Fundamentals of step index and graded index fiber waveguides using geometrical optics and Maxwell's equations. Other topics include design criteria, practical coupling techniques, discussion of optical sources and detectors used in light-wave communications, system examples, characterization and measurement techniques. Prerequisite: ECE 447 or ECE 448 or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE550 - Nanoscale VLSI Devices

Review of fundamental principles of semiconductor devices. NanoTransistor: Charge-based devices-MOSFETs, non-ideal, atomistic, and quantum effects in nanoscale MOSFETs, charge-coupled devices. Advanced MOSFETs: FinFETs, SOI, SiGe and III-Vs, carbon nanotubes, graphene and 2-D semiconductors, nanowires. High electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), HBTs, and power MOSFETs. Compact and SPICE models for MOS devices. VLSI interconnects, parasitic elements, 3-D integration and reliability issues. Non-charge based devices-tunnel FETs, spin-based devices. NanoMemory: EEPROM and Flash, phase change memory, memristors, magnetic and ferroelectric, spin-torque devices, DRAM and ZRAM cells. TCAD simulation of semiconductor devices. Prerequisite: ECE 447 or ECE 423 or ECE 446 or PHYS 425 or PHYS 430 with a C or better or instructor consent. Project-based fee: $25 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE551 - Probability and Stochastic Processes for Engineers

Axioms of probability, random variables and vectors, joint distributions, correlation, conditional statistics, sequences of random variables, stochastic convergence, central limit theorem, stochastic processes, stationarity, ergodicity, spectral analysis, and Markov processes. Restricted to graduate student status. Students who have taken BME 351 or ECE 351 cannot receive credit for this course. Restricted to enrollment in ECBE. Project-based fee: $20 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE552 - Signal Detection and Estimation

Estimation theory: parameter estimation, minimum variance unbiased estimators, sufficient statistics, Cramer-Rao lower bound, best linear unbiased estimators, maximum likelihood estimators, least squares, Bayesian estimation, maximum a posteriori estimators, minimum mean square error estimators, linear minimum mean square error estimators, Wiener filtering. Detection theory: hypothesis testing, likelihood ratios, Neyman-Pearson detection, Bayesian hypothesis testing, matched filtering, multiple hypothesis testing, sequential detection, composite hypothesis testing, uniformly most powerful tests, generalized likelihood-ratio tests. Prerequisite: ECE 551 or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE553 - Computer Network System Architecture

Principles of Computer Networks. Protocols and system level implementations. Socket programming, router and switching fabric architecture, security and packet classification techniques, multimedia networking and QoS. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Students who have taken ECE 422 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $10 to help defray cost of equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE554 - Broadband Wireless Communications

Statistical models for broadband wireless channels: angular, delay, Doppler and spatial domain characterizations, near/far-field propagation characteristics, spatial non-stationary propagation, and spatial wide-band fading. Broadband channel estimation, hybrid beamforming/detection and massive multi-antenna (MIMO) techniques. Millimeter-wave, terahertz, and holographic communication models. Reconfigurable/reflective intelligent surfaces and performance analysis. Broadband modulation multiple access techniques: index modulation, orthogonal time frequency space modulation, and orthogonal/non-orthogonal multiple access techniques. Prerequisites: ECE 315 and ECE 355 or consent of instructor. Restricted to EE or CEGR majors or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE555 - Introduction to Information Theory and Channel Coding

Entropy and Mutual Information. Channel Capacity. Gaussian Channel. Linear Block Codes. Convolutional Codes. Advance Channel Coding Techniques. Students who have taken ECE 476 are ineligible to enroll. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE556 - Digital Communications

Digital communication signals and systems characterization. Deterministic receiver design. Probabilistic receiver design. Error control coding. Communication over band limited channels. Prerequisite: ECE 551 or consent of the instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE557 - Computational Electronics

Elements of computational science/engineering. High-performance clusters and software tools for HPCs. Essential numerical methods. Review of solid-state theory. Fundamental physics of charge transport in semiconductor VLSI devices. Numerical solution of Poisson's and carrier continuity equations in semiconductor devices. Boltzmann transport equation and Monte Carlo solutions. Electronic bandstructure calculations using the tight-banding formalism. Introduction to NEGF formalism. Commercial and non-commercial semiconductor device modeling tools. Prerequisite: Familiarity with physics of semiconductor devices (e.g., ECE 447 or ECE 423 or PHYS 425 with a grade of C or better, or instructor consent). Project-based fee: $25 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE558 - Digital Image Processing I

Basic concepts, scope and examples of digital image processing, digital image fundamentals, image sampling and quantization, an image model, relationship between pixels, enhancement in the spatial domain, enhancement in the frequency domain, image segmentation, basics of color image processing. Students who have taken ECE 458 are ineligible to enroll. Special approval needed from the instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE560 - VLSI Material and Device Characterization

Introduction to semiconductors. Materials for modern VLSI: crystals, tubular and monolayer materials, organic materials, heterostructures, wafers and notations. VLSI unit processes, contacts and interconnects, integration and packaging. Spontaneous formation and ordering of nanostructures. VLSI device characterization: wafer mapping, line width and contact resistance, measurement of MOS parameters, defect characterization using DLTS, carrier mobility and lifetime measurements. Optical characterization, electron beam microscopy, particle and X-ray techniques. Reliability and lifetime measurements: failure statistics and modes, hot carriers, NBTI, oxide integrity, electromigration and electrostatic discharge. Power dissipation and cooling. Prerequisite: Familiarity with physics of semiconductor devices (e.g., ECE 447 or ECE 423 or PHYS 425 with a grade of C or better, or instructor consent).

Credit Hours: 3

ECE561 - Mechatronics and Embedded Control

Components of mechatronics systems, mathematical modeling, system identification, numerical tools for design and analysis, single-loop controller design, embedded systems, data acquisition and signal conditioning, sensors, actuators, networked control. This course includes lab session. Students who have taken ECE 456 are ineligible to enroll. Lab fee: $35 to help defray the cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE562 - Microwave Engineering I

Electromagnetic theory, analysis, design, fabrication, measurement and CAD applied to passive networks at microwave frequencies. Topics include: Transmission lines, Waveguides, Impedance matching, Tuning, Resonators, Scattering parameters, the Smith Chart. Lecture and Laboratory. Students who have taken ECE 479 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: ECE 375 or equivalent. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $100 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE564 - Optimal Control

Optimization techniques for linear and nonlinear systems. Variational calculus. Dynamic programming. Pontryagin's maximum principle. Hamilton-Jacobi theory. Linear regulator. Bang Bang control, minimum time control, singular control. Discrete variational calculus. Combined estimation and control. Computational methods in optimal control. Prerequisite: ECE 456 or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE565 - Nonlinear Control Systems

Analysis and design of nonlinear dynamical systems. Topics include: nonlinear differential equations, stability, Lyapunov stability analysis, stability of perturbed systems, linearization, and central manifold theorem. Stabilization, feedback linearization, and controller design methods such as backstepping and sliding mode control.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE566 - Linear Systems Theory

Introduction to the structure and analysis of linear dynamical systems in time domain. Linear algebra review, solutions of linear differential equations, state-space representations, state transition matrix, and time varying systems. Introduction to fundamental mathematics of linear spaces and linear operator theory. Structural properties of linear systems such as controllability, observability, and stability. Design and synthesis of controllers and state observers for linear systems. Linear quadratic regulatory theory and Kalman filter.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE567 - Modern Biomedical Imaging

Modern biomedical imaging. Diagnostic x-ray projection imaging. Tomographic imaging. Ultrasound imaging and therapy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Signal and noise characteristics. Image quality evaluation. Three-dimensional image reconstruction algorithms. Students who have taken BME 432 cannot receive credit for this course. Prerequisite: MATH 305 and ECE 355 with grade of C- or better, or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $30 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE568 - Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineering Applications

Credit Hours: 3

ECE569 - Biomedical Instrumentation

(Same as BME 538) Basic concept of Medical instrumentation, basic sensors and principles, amplifiers, biopotential electrodes, blood pressure and sound, measurement of respiratory system, chemical biosensors, Cellular measurements, Nervous system measurements, magnetic resonance imaging. Prerequisites: PHSL 410A or CHEM 444 or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Lab fee: $45 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE570 - Principles of Communication Systems

This course covers principles of communication systems. Topics include representation of signals and systems, amplitude modulation, angle modulation, probability theory and random processes for communication system designs, transition from analog to digital and pulse code/delta modulation, baseband digital transmission, digital band-pass transmission techniques, introduction to information theory and coding, wireless channel modeling, cellular systems and performance analysis. Lectures and laboratory projects. Prerequisites: ECE 315 and ECE 355 or consent of instructor. Students having passed ECE 478 are not eligible to enroll.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE571 - Advanced Wireless Communication

This course covers advanced topics in wireless communications. Topics include wireless system architectures, wireless channel modeling, cellular systems and co-channel interference, advanced digital modulation and multiple-access techniques, massive MIMO, mm-wave communications, performance analysis, radio resource allocation and optimization, wireless physical layer security, enabling technologies for 5G. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program or consent of instructor. Project-based fee: $20 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE572 - Neural Networks

Anatomy and physiology of the cerebral cortex, Feed-forward Networks, Linear Associator, Multilayer Perceptrons, Feedback Networks, Hopfield Networks, ART. Applications to pattern recognition, robotics, image processing, and speech processing. Optical and electronic implementations. Students who have taken BME 470 or ECE 470 cannot receive credit for this course. Prerequisite: MATH 305 with a C or better or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE573 - Field and Waves II

Time-harmonic electromagnetic fields in dielectric and lossy media, transmission lines, antennas and resonators. Techniques include duality, image theory, reciprocity and integral equations. Boundary value problems solved for several frequently encountered symmetries. Prerequisite: ECE 477. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE574 - Nonlinear Optics

Coupled-mode-analysis applied to nonlinear wave interactions, harmonic generation, parametric amplification, backward wave amplifiers, backward oscillation in laser systems, phase conjugation and multiple-wave mixing systems, Pockel and Kerr effects, and electro-optical modulations in optical communication systems. Prerequisite: ECE 375 or consent of instructor. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE575 - Antennas I

Analysis, design, fabrication, measurement and CAD applied to basic antenna types. Fundamental parameters. Friis transmission equation. Impedance and pattern measurements. Resonant microstrip and wire antennas. Arrays and line sources. Lecture and laboratory. Students who have taken ECE 472 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: ECE 375 or equivalent. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Project-based fee: $120 to help defray cost of software licenses.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE576 - Numerical Electromagnetics

Numerical solution of electromagnetic problems by methods that include finite element, integral equation, moment, spectral domain and finite difference. Examination of electromagnetic problems and their solutions in current literature. Prerequisite: ECE 573. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE577 - Antennas II

ECE578 - Digital Image Processing II

Full-color image processing, image noise and degradation models, image restoration, inverse filtering, Wiener filtering, geometric transformations, image compression models, error-free compression, lossy compression, compression standards, dilation and erosion, opening and closing operations, morphological filtering, boundary descriptors, regional descriptors, principal components, vision-based pattern recognition. Prerequisite: ECE 558. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE579 - Microwave Engineering II

Analysis and design of passive and active devices at microwave frequencies. Topics include: power dividers, couplers, filters, ferrite devices, noise, noise effects in detectors, mixers, modulators, amplifier and oscillator design, and an introduction to microwave systems. Prerequisite: ECE 479. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE580 - Seminar

Study and formal presentation by students of selected research in electrical and computer engineering. Restricted to students in the graduate program in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Special approval needed from the instructor.

Credit Hours: 1

ECE581 - Wind and Solar Energy Power Systems

The course introduces students to wind and solar energy power systems. Planning of wind generation; and operation of wind generators, mechanical and electrical design, power conditioning, control and protection. Planning, operation and design of electric solar plants; power conditioning, control and protection. Students who have taken ECE 481 are ineligible to enroll.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE582 - Power Converter Design and Control

This course covers all the steps required for designing an actual power converter or electric drive system. The power stage design considerations, gate drive circuits, isolated high voltage/current measuring circuits, and application of a Texas Instrument Digital Signal Processor (DSP) for implementing different control schemes are discussed in detail. A brief introduction about the digital control theory and implementation of digital controller transfer functions using the DSP are provided as well. Students who have taken ECE 482 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $65 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE583 - Electric Drive Systems

Course content is roughly 1/3 power electronics, 1/3 applied control and 1/3 electric machinery and focuses on analysis, simulation, and control design of electric drive based speed, torque, and position control systems. Advanced topics depending on the semester are taught. Students who have taken ECE 483 are ineligible to enroll. Project-based fee: $65 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE584 - Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

This course covers an entire range of topics related to analysis, design, control, and optimization of electric, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid power trains including automotive applications of adjustable speed motor drives, energy storage systems, and advanced power converters. Students who have taken ECE 484 are ineligible to enroll. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program or consent of the instructor. Lab fee: $65 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE585 - Power Systems Stability and Control

Fundamentals of power system stability, synchronous machine modeling and simulation, transient and small signal stability, control and protection, power system stabilizers, voltage stability, voltage collapse, concepts and devices of flexible ac transmission, mid-term and long-term stability.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE586 - Computational Methods in Power Systems

The course covers advanced methods for the computation and analysis of power systems. Topics: circuit graph theory and network matrices, computation of electromagnetic transients, computation of power flows and faults, computation of system stability, stochastic methods in power systems, load forecasting, state estimation, unit dispatch. The course uses power system software. Lecture. Restricted to enrollment in the ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE587 - Modern Power Systems Operation

This course provides students with a comprehensive picture of the techniques used in modern power systems operation. The course introduces central "terminal" characteristics for thermal and hydroelectric power generation systems, along with new optimization techniques for tackling "real-world" power systems operating problems. The topics include: analysis of different bidding strategies in competitive electricity markets, prediction of load and price, analysis of power systems security, different methods of optimal power flow, analysis of power systems uncertainty and reliability, economic dispatch, and unit commitment analysis. Project-based fee: $65 to help defray cost of software licenses and equipment.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE588 - Power System Engineering

The course covers topics involving the design and operation of a power system. Topics: symmetrical and unsymmetrical power system faults, power system protection design, transient stability of power generators, power system economic operation, power system control, transient operation of transmission lines. The course uses power system software. Lecture. Students who have taken ECE 488 are ineligible to enroll.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE589 - Electric Power Distribution

Design of primary and secondary distribution networks. Load characteristics. Voltage regulation. Metering techniques and systems. Protection of distribution systems. Special topics related to power distribution. Students who have taken ECE 489 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: ECE 235.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE592 - Special Investigations in Electrical Engineering

ECE593A - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Antennas and Propagation

Lectures on advanced topics of special interest to students in various areas of Electrical & Computer Engineering. This course is designed to offer and test new experimental courses in ECE. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program. Special approval needed from the instructor.

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593B - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-ASIC Design

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593C - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Communications

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593D - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Computer Architecture

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593E - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Control Systems

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593F - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Design Automation

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593G - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Digital Design

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593H - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Digital Testing and Verification

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593I - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593J - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Embedded Systems

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593K - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Medical Imaging

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593L - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Mixed-Signal Testing and Design

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593M - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Nanotechnology

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593N - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Network Systems

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593O - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Photonics

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593P - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Physical Design Automation

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593Q - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Power Electronic Converters and Drive Systems

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593R - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Power Quality

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593S - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Power System Control and Protection

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593T - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Renewable Energy

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593U - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-RF and Microwave Systems

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593V - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Signal Processing

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593W - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Software Engineering

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE593X - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering-Wireless Systems

Credit Hours: 1-3

ECE595 - Communication Skills for Engineering Graduate Students

This course prepares graduate engineering students to communicate technical information to various audiences and for various purposes. Principles and strategies are applied to theses, dissertations, scholarly presentations, and other engineering documents such as lab reports, user manuals, business correspondences, job application materials, and engineering ethics. Research tools and software programs prepare students to deliver oral presentations on current engineering topics. Restricted to graduate standing. Does not count toward the hours required for graduation in the ECE program. Restricted to enrollment in ECE program.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE596 - Principles of Biomedical Engineering

(Same as BME 596) Principles of biomechanics, biomaterials, electrophysiology, modeling, instrumentation, biosignal processing, medical imaging, and biomedical optics. Professional moral and ethical issues in biomedical research and development. Students who have taken ECE 460 are ineligible to enroll. Prerequisite: MATH 250 with a grade of C or better or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

ECE599 - Thesis

ECE600 - Doctoral Dissertation

ECE601 - Continuing Enrollment

For those graduate students who have not finished their degree programs and who are in the process of working on their dissertation, thesis, or research paper. The student must have completed a minimum of 24 hours of dissertation research, or the minimum thesis, or research hours before being eligible to register for this course. Concurrent enrollment in any other course is not permitted. Graded S/U or DEF only.

Credit Hours: 1

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