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ECE 1620 - Egr Prog & Applic

Description: Engineering problem solving using the C programming language. C control structures, data files, debugging, functions, arrays, elementary data structures, and pointers. Introduction to Java. Two lecture hours per week and 1 lab period per week.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Summer 2007

ECE 2042 - Fund Computer Engineering I

Description: Introduction to logic design and digital computer fundamentals. Topics include computer arithmetic, Boolean algebra and logical design, assembly language programming basics, and basic concepts of computer architecture.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: ECE 2043
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

ECE 2043 - Fund of Comp Engineering I Lab

Description: This laboratory course is intended to be taken concurrently with ECE 2042. The laboratory includes exercises on logic design and on programming the 68000 microprocessor in assembly language.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: ECE 2042
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

ECE 2044 - Fund Comp Engineering II

Description: Continuation of ECE 2041. Topics include the PIC Microprocessor, VHDL, Quine-McCuskey method, fault detection and localization, state machine minimization, state machine testing, and codes.
Prerequisites: (ECE 2042 and ECE 2043)
Corequisites: ECE 2045
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007

ECE 2045 - Fund Comp Engineering II Lab

Description: This laboratory course in intended to be taken concurrently with ECE 2044. Includes exerises on the PIC and the uses of VHDL.
Prerequisites: (ECE 2043 and ECE 2042)
Corequisites: ECE 2044
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007

ECE 2052 - Fund Electrical Engineering I

Description: Basic electrical concepts, dc circuit analysis, network theorems, energy storage devices, basic theory and analysis of circuits with op-amps, diodes and BJTs.
Prerequisites: MAT 1505
Corequisites: ECE 2053
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

ECE 2053 - Fund Elect Engineering I Lab

Description: Must be taken concurrently with ECE 2052. Laboratory exercises cover electrical safety and laboratory practice, basic instrumentation, computer-aided circuit analysis, and applications of electronic devices.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: ECE 2052
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

ECE 2054 - Fund of Elect Engineering II

Description: First-order transient circuits, ac circuit analysis, ac power, ideal transformer, frequency response, basic theory and analysis of circuits with MOSFETs.
Prerequisites: ECE 2052
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Summer 2009, Spring 2009

ECE 2055 - Fund Elect Engineering II Lab

Description: Must be taken concurrently with ECE 2054. Laboratory projects in system design that employ both analog and digita electronic components and various types of input/output devices.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: ECE 2054
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 2409 - Fundamentals of MATLAB

Description: Use of MATLAB, a matrix oriented, high level programming language, for the simulation and modeling of physical systems. Matrix operations, extensive 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional graphing, introduction to MATLAB toolboxes. Lectures are conducted in parallel with hands-on programming and computer simulations. One lecture hour and one laboratory period per week.
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Fall 2008

ECE 2420 - Eng Programming & Applications

Description: Topics in C programming: File input/output, error recovery, bit operators, pointers, dynamic memory allocation, structures, functions and function operators. Applications: engineering numerical computations, Boolean algebra, circuits, signal processing. Introduction to Java.
Prerequisites: EGR 1611
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002, Fall 2001

ECE 2550 - Intro to Electronics & Applic.

Description: Basic electronic concepts. Electronic circuit applications are investigated through the creation of laboratory design projects which address contemporary topics in Electrical Engineering.
Prerequisites: ECE 2052
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010

ECE 2620 - C++, Algorithms & Data Struct

Description: This is an introductory course in algorithms and data structures, and object-oriented programming using C++. Topics include algorithm analysis, lists, stacks, queues, trees, hashing, searching, sorting, graph algorithms and C++. Some class time will be devoted to programming practice in C++.
Prerequisites: ECE 1620
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 2900 - Intro to Elec & Comp Engr

Description: Hands-on exploration of electrical and computer engineering projects involving both hardware and software components. Possible topics include digitally manipulating images, digital timing circuits, power generation and distribution (field trip).
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 3220 - Signal Processing

Description: Signal representation, Fourier series, Fourier transform, discrete-time systems, convolution, discrete-time Fourier transform, Z-transform. Practicum includes MATLAB exercises on transform properties and their use in modulation and filtering. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: (ECE 2051 or ECE 2054) and ECE 2409 and MAT 2705
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 3240 - Discrete-Time Signals & System

Description: Discrete-time signal and system representation; sampling of continuous signals; discrete-time Fourier and z transforms; frequency content of signals and frequency response of systems; system analysis and filtering. Practicum includes use of MATLAB on filtering, channel equalization, music synthesis and spectrum analysis. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: ECE 2052 and ECE 2409 and MAT 2705
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 3445 - Computer Architecture

Description: Fundamentals of instruction sets and their efficient execution - e.g., pipelines, caches, out-of-order execution, and branch prediction mechanisms. Performance analysis, superscalar, VLIW, multithreading, and multiprocessing are among the topics studied. Trace-driven simulators are used in practicums to explore concepts learned in class. Three lecture hours with a two-hour practicum each week.
Prerequisites: (ECE 2042 and ECE 2043) or ECE 2040
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008

ECE 3450 - Digital Electronics

Description: Digital logic families with primary emphasis on external electrical characteristics of the logic devices. Applications and designs at the board-level, involving topics such as series/parallel conversion and analog/digital conversion.
Prerequisites: ECE 2042 and ECE 2052
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

ECE 3500 - Electronic Materials & Devices

Description: Physics of crystal structures, energy bands, Fermi level, charge carriers, the pn junction, and excess carriers. Devices: diodes, bipolar junction transistors and field effect transistors. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: ECE 2510 or ECE 2051 or ECE 2054
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 3550 - Analog Electronics

Description: Analysis, design, and simulation of analog electronic circuits. Single and multistage amplifiers, amplifier frequency response, power amplifiers, linear and nonlinear op-amp circuits, active filters, oscillators. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: ECE 2051 or ECE 2054 or ECE 2054
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007

ECE 3690 - Engineering Electromagnetics

Description: Maxwell's equations, plane waves, dissipative media, reflection and transmission of waves at an interface, metallic and optical waveguides, transmission lines, linear and array antennas. Practicum includes computer projects, laboratory demonstrations and problem solving. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: MAT 2500 and PHY 2402
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 3720 - Eng Probability & Statistics

Description: Basic set theory, axioms of probability, probability relationships. Concepts of a random variable. Joint random variables. Selected topics in statistics from: estimation, hypotheseis testing and regression. Selected topics from: functions of a random variable, random processes, Markov chains, applications (e.g. reliability, queuing, microprocessor control, digital communications, detection). Prerequisites: junior CPE or junior EE standing.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

ECE 3770 - Electrical Communications

Description: Analog and digital communications systems: characterization of communication channels, bandwidth and signal distortion; AM and FM, FM stereo and Dolby noise reduction; sample and hold, source encoding, matched filtering, digital modulations and error control coding. Practicum includes analysis and simulation of products such as compact discs and high speed modems.
Prerequisites: ECE 3220 or ECE 3240 and ECE 3720
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 3900 - Prof Development Seminar

Description: Various professional development activities including: initiation into mentoring program, introduction to engineering ethics and professional responsibilities, field trips and other events on contemporary issues, peer evaluation process, development of oral and written communication skills, workshops on a variety of professional skills. Prerequisites: Junior standing in CPE or EE.
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 3970 - Design Seminar - EE

Description: Areas and career paths in electrical engineering. Overview of required senior project courses and faculty project sponsors. Engineering design, project selection requirements, technical communications, information gathering. Requires selection of design project adviser, project topic, and a formal written project proposal.
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 3971 - Design Seminar - CPE

Description: Areas and career paths in computer engineering. Overview of required senior project courses and faculty project sponsors. Engineering design, project selection requirements, technical communications, information gathering. Requires selection of design project adviser, project topic, and a formal written project proposal.
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 4290 - Engr System Models & Control

Description: Modeling and analysis of electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical systems; open-loop and feedback systems; frequency domain models; state equations; linearization; time response; steady-state error; block diagrams and signal flow graphs; stability criteria; root locus method. Practicum includes laboratory experiments involving actual engineering systems. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: (ECE 2290 or ECE 2051 or ECE 2054) and PHY 2402
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 4420 - Reliability w Eng Applications

Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of reliability evaluation. Reliability function, hazard rates, MTTF, component reliability, reliability network modeling, various approaches to reliability evaluation, reliability of systems with repair, MTBF, approximations to systems reliability, introduction to software reliability.
Prerequisites: ECE 3720
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Fall 1997, Fall 1996, Fall 1995

ECE 4470 - Computer Networks

Description: Computer network technologies including asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), Internet, and telephony; protocol layering; multiple access; switching; scheduling; naming, addressing, and routing; error and flow control; traffic management; analysis of common protocols used in Internet, and ATM networks; protocol implementation techniques used in real networks. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008

ECE 4970 - Design Project - EE

Description: Completion of the design project presented in ECE 3970. Requirements: written and oral progress reports, demonstration of achieved objectives, formal written final report, oral presentation. Design groups meet weekly with their instructors. Senior standing.
Prerequisites: ECE 3970
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 4971 - Design Project - CPE

Description: Completion of the design project presented in ECE 3971. Written and oral progress reports, demonstration of achieved objectives, formal written final report, oral presentation. Design groups meet weekly with their instructors. Senior standing.
Prerequisites: ECE 3971
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 4972 - Design Project Report - EE

Description: Preparation and presentation of a final written report and a formal presentation of each project team's senior design project completed in ECE 4970.
Prerequisites: ECE 4970
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 4973 - Design Project Report - CPE

Description: Preparation and presentation of a final written report and a formal presentation of each project team's senior design project completed in ECE 4971.
Prerequisites: ECE 4971
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 5010 - ECE Summer Internship

Description: Academic credit for a summer internship. Requirements: Senior standing, a technical GPA of 3.0 or greater, and sponsorship by a full-time faculty member arranged prior to the start of the internship. Program details available from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Chairman, Tolentine Hall, Room 403. (610-519-4971).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007

ECE 5240 - Multimedia

Description: Algorithms and standards that make possible multimedia communication and storage over the internet, including baseline JPEG, JPEG 2000, video compression (MPEG-1, 2, 4), audio compression and MP3, DVD, video conferencing and streaming, multimedia over broadband (DSL and cable), multimedia database search and retrieval and digital watermarking for multimedia content ownership and intellectual property rights protection. Prerequisites: Senior CPE or senior EE standing.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 5250 - Biomedical Instrumentation

Description: Introductory course in Biomedical Engineering emphasizing human physiology & medical measurement tools & techniques. Topics include the nervous system, the cardiovascular system & the respiratory system.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008

ECE 5251 - Biomedical Signal Processing

Description: Signal processing of bioelectrical signals. Cardiac, neurological, & electromyographic signal processing. Ultrasound array processing. Introduction to biomedical image processing modalities. Biomedical signal filtering, frequency analysis, detection & parameter estimation.
Prerequisites: ECE 3220 or ECE 3240 and ECE 3720
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2007

ECE 5390 - Control System Design

Description: Problem formulation, design techniques and evaluations, time domain and frequency domain design methods. Incorporates computer-aided analysis and design in conjunction with required laboratory projects. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: ECE 4290 or ME 4102
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2004

ECE 5430 - Microcomputer System Design

Description: Design and construction of a functional microcomputer using a lab trainer, a set of integrated circuit chips, a microprocessor, RAM, ROM, and interface components.
Prerequisites: ECE 3490 or (ECE 2041) or (ECE 2044) or ECE 2044
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 5444 - Introduction to Fuzzy Logic

Description: Applications and methodologies of fuzzy logic using MATLAB.
Prerequisites: MAT 2705 and ECE 2409
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000

ECE 5445 - Intro to Neural Networks

Description: Applications and methodologies of neural networks using MATLAB.
Prerequisites: MAT 2705 and ECE 2409
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2002

ECE 5448 - Proc & Mem Microarchitecture

Description: Instruction and thread level parallelism, memory hierarchy design, speculation (e.g., branch, data value, and address prediction), advanced pipelines (e.g., forwarding, register renaming, instruction dispatch and routing), modern superscalar and VLIW processors.
Prerequisites: ECE 3445
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006

ECE 5450 - Microcontrollers & Applic

Description: Architecture of an 8-bit microcontroller, I/O ports, serial interface, external memory and I/O, A/D converters, UARTS, pulse width modulators.
Prerequisites: ECE 3490 or ECE 2041 or ECE 2044 or ECE 2044
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 5460 - Intro to VLSI Design

Description: Design disciplines for Very Large Scale Integration, switching models of MOS systems, basic device equations, combinational and sequential systems design, simulation, timing verification. UNIX CAD VLSI tools will be used for projects.
Prerequisites: ECE 3445
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:

ECE 5470 - Topics in Computer Networks

Description: High speed ATM and SONET networks. Techniques such as MPLS for fast packet switching/forwarding. Implementation approaches for Quality of Service (QoS). The future of IP addressing (IPv6). Introduction to current and future mobile wireless networks.
Prerequisites: ECE 4470
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007

ECE 5484 - Adv Digital System Design

Description: In-depth treatment of combinational logic design, state machine design, and systems-level design. CAD tools, hardware description languages (VHDL) for design and simulation, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA).
Prerequisites: or ECE 2040ECE 2490
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Fall 1999

ECE 5520 - Audio Engineering

Description: Selected topics in audio engineering and acoustics, tied together through their application to the problem of high-quality transmission of sound.
Prerequisites: or ECE 3240ECE 3220
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Spring 1998, Fall 1996

ECE 5525 - Electronic Music Synthesis

Description: Generation of musical sounds via signal waveforms, spectra, and associated mathematical models, using both hardware and software synthesis.
Prerequisites: ECE 3220 or ECE 3240
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:

ECE 5545 - Microelectronic Fabrication

Description: Basic fabrication processes of silicon microelectronic circuits. Interrelationships between the material processing and the operational characteristics of a device. Integration of the various material processes in forming bipolar and MOS integrated circuit technologies.
Prerequisites: ECE 3500
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:

ECE 5680 - Photovoltaic Power Generation

Description: Nature and availability of solar energy; solar cell design, including materials selection; photovoltaic modules and arrays; inverters; stand-alone systems; grid interconnection; economic considerations.
Prerequisites: ECE 3500
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1995

ECE 5690 - Microwave Networks

Description: Plane wave propagation; propagation in TEM transmission lines and waveguides; IMPATT; TRAPAT; Gunn-Effect and parametric devices; microstrip lines and microwave integrated circuits; laboratory work includes measurement of SWR, impedance, and power at microwave frequencies. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: ECE 3690
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 5730 - RF Circuit Design

Description: Design of active circuits and antennas for RF and wireless systems, including semiconductor control circuits, S-parameter based amplifier and oscillator design, mixers, and antennas for portable and base station applications. CAD tools and laboratory-based projects are emphasized.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2005

ECE 5760 - Intro to Optoelectronics

Description: Introduction to various optoelectronic devices, including light emitting devices, photodetectors, optical modulators, solar cells and display devices. Applications to systems.
Prerequisites: ECE 3500
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

ECE 5790 - Digital Signal Processing

Description: Review of discrete-time signals and systems; design and implementation of digital filters; Fast Fourier transform algorithms and applications; introduction to statistical signal processing; computer-aided design projects. Three lecture hours and a two-hour practicum per week.
Prerequisites: ECE 3220 or ECE 3240
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

ECE 5792 - Real-Time Dig Sig Processing

Description: Real-time computation of digital signal processing including reverberation effects, band selective filtering, multirate processing, adaptive filtering, and spectrum estimation; implementation on a real-time DSP signal processing chip; chip architecture, assembly language; aliasing, data quantization, computational limitations, signal level limiting, scaling and I/O handling.
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Corequisites: ECE 5790
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005

ECE 5793 - Hardware Digital Signal Proc

Description: Hardware implementation of real-time DSP. Parallel processing and architecture size/speed tradeoffs; Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and the use of the VHDL design language; development tools and libraries; FPGA implementation of filters and filter banks, multirate processors, optimum/adaptive filters and sensor array processors, digital communication system components.
Prerequisites: ECE 5790
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006

ECE 5800 - Electric Machines

Description: Magnetic circuits; electromechanical energy conversion; single-phase power transformers; induction motors; synchronous machines; dc machines; permanent magnet motors.
Prerequisites: ECE 2051 or ECE 6020 or ECE 2054 or ECE 2054
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007

ECE 5810 - Power Systems

Description: Three-phase circuits and power, transmission line parameters and models, transformer models, the per-unit system, power flow analysis, synchronous generator models.
Prerequisites: ECE 2051
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Summer 2004, Fall 2002, Spring 2002

ECE 5815 - Power System Analysis

Description: Balanced three-phase circuit analysis, three-phrase power transformers, per-unit analysis, power flow analysis and control, balanced and unbalanced short-circuit analysis, power system stability.
Prerequisites: ECE 2051 or ECE 2054 or ECE 6020
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

ECE 5820 - Operation of Elec Power System

Description: Economic operation, system stability, unbalanced fault analysis, protective relaying, voltage control, power line communication, power control.
Prerequisites: ECE 5810
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Spring 2000, Spring 1999, Spring 1998

ECE 5990 - Intro to Entrep Egr Mgr

Description: Course is geared to seniors and second semester juniors to prepare for the technical business environment. It includes such topics as: entrepreneurship, forms of companies, business plan development, project management, R&D management, relationship building, new business, and communications. Three lecture hours per week.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:

ECE 5991 - Elec Eng Research I

Description: Students work with faculty on current research topics. Weekly meetings with faculty adviser and a final written report and/or oral presentation are required.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009

ECE 5992 - Elec Eng Research II

Description: Continuation of ECE 5991.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008

ECE 6020 - Intro to Electrical Systems

Description: A survey course for non-electrical engineering students. Electrical components, dc circuits, ac circuits, power systems, electric machines, analog and digital electronics.
Prerequisites: PHY 2402 or PHY 2412
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007