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EDLF 8657 - Economics and Finance of Higher Education
This course examines contemporary policies and practices in the financing of American higher education. The interpretation and uses of financial data, sources and methods of securing funds, budget processes, and policies and issues regarding the financing of higher education are some of the topics covered.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8658 - Management Planning in Higher Education
This course addresses information-gathering, analysis, decision-making, and long-range planning in institutions of higher education.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8659 - Legal Aspects of College Administration
This course examines the broad legal framework of higher education, including constitutional and contractual rights to due process, equal protection, and free speech; other legal and policy issues regarding tenure, promotion, intellectual property, and the constitutive role of the state in higher education; and tort liability and the impact of federal statutes such as the ADA, Title IX, FERPA, and the DMCA on the administration of colleges and universities.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8661 - The Adult Learner
Study of adults as learners, the implications of their characteristics for adult learning, and the practice of adult education. Attention is given to current issues facing adult education.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8662 - Politics and Education
Applies political and social theories to politics, policy and power in K-16 education. Concepts: role of the State, pluralism, rational choice, mobilization of bias, public goods, interest groups and social movements. Key issues: access and success, equity, school choice, stratification, governance, and reform. Goal is to enable students to conduct research using political theory and policy frameworks in educational settings.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8663 - The American Professoriate
This course provides students with an understanding of the role and circumstances of American faculty members and the issues and policy forces that affect the professoriate. It explores aspects of the professoriate and institutional policies and external factors that shape the viability and vitality of the profession.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8664 - The Community College
In this course students study the institutional character of the community college, including a review of its history, purposes, clientele, organization, financing, programs, societal functions, and current issues.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8665 - Contemporary Issues: Entrepeneurship in Higher Education
Public as well as private and for-profit colleges and universities face increasing competition for students, faculty, and leaders and need to maximize revenue through private gifts and corporate as well as public support. These demands require them to behave entrepreneurially and to reconsider the essential purposes of the university. This course will explore the origins and purposes of the new entrepreneurialism in the U.S. higher education system and internationally, considering examples from areas such as institutional development, links to corporations, and connections to local and state economic development.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8670 - Politics of Education
Serves as a foundation course in the politics of education, tracing the means by which American schools can be viewed as political. Considers local, state, and federal conversion processes; investigates the origins, foundations, and demand inputs of, as well as the access channels to, school decision- and policy-making. Controversial political theories, cross-cultural research and analysis, and dominant conceptual frameworks will inform and guide discussions.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8680 - Economics and Education Policy
This course is designed for those without training in economics who want a better understanding of how economic concepts and methods are used in analyzing education policy issues. It examines market concepts and forms of government involvement in the market and uses economic research in education. Students develop the skills of economic analysis by applying them to current issues in public education.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8690 - Educational Policy Formulation and Implementation II
Provides in-depth analysis of processes of policy development at federal, state, and local levels; processes of policy implementation; and critical issues in the analysis of implementation strategies and policy effects.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8697 - Master’s Thesis
A thesis project conducted under the guidance of the master’s advisor or others approved by the departmental chair. A formal plan must be filed in the Office of Student Affairs and the final project approved by at least two Curry faculty members.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EDLF 8700 - Seminar: Contemporary Educational Policy Studies
Topical seminar in educational policy studies.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8801 - Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Leadership
Explores the moral and ethical dimensions of leadership within the context of education. Assumes that educational administration is fundamentally an ethical undertaking, or, as Christopher Hodgkinson claims, ‘philosophy in action.’ Readings, activities, and discussions are all designed to assist practicing and aspiring administrators, as well as other educators, in the explication and resolution of ethical dilemmas. Considers different moral positions and encourages students to examine both personal values and professional ethics.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8802 - Organizational Theory
Examines organizational and administrative theory and its uses in the management and functioning of school systems. Attention is given to the requisites for adequate theory and to methodological considerations in the study of organizations and administrative processes.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8803 - Organizational Change
Examines the relationships between the intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, political, and professional contexts of change. Topics include the nature of instructional change, case studies of successful and unsuccessful organizational change, planning for instructional improvement, and implementing and evaluating change.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8980 - Practicum
Practicum
Credits: 1 to 6
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EDLF 8981 - Practicum in Educational Administration
Practicum in Educational Administration
Credits: 3 to 6
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EDLF 8984 - Master’s Internship: Social Foundations
Two year educational experience (2 credits per semester for each of four semesters) Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 2
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EDLF 8985 - Master’s Internship: SAPHE
Students in the Students Affairs Practice in Higher Education (SAPHE) program are required to serve about 20 hours a week during the fall and spring semesters in an internship related to their studies. In this weekly seminar, they discuss and analyze their internship experience.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EDLF 8986 - Masters Internship: Administration and Supervision
Masters Internship: Administration and Supervision
Credits: 1 to 12
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EDLF 8988 - Administrative Internship
Administrative Internship
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8991 - Masters Capstone Project SAPHE
Final course in SAPHE sequence where tsudents complete capstone project and cover topics related to professional development.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 8998 - Masters Research Internship
Designed to give masters students experience conducting research in professional settings appropriate to their disciplines. Prerequisites: Permission of Advisor
Credits: 1 to 12
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EDLF 8999 - Masters Thesis
For master’s research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EDLF 9000 - Advanced Seminar: Administration and Supervision
Required for all doctoral degree candidates; deals with dissertation proposal development for students in educational administration.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 9740 - Internship in College Teaching or Supervision
Opportunities for experienced doctoral students to teach courses or partial courses at the University, or to supervise student teachers under the guidance of a faculty member. Opportunities are arranged by the students with the assistance of the sponsoring faculty member.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EDLF 9800 - Higher Education Seminar: Current Literature
May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 9810 - Research Seminar in Higher Education
This is a seminar for advanced doctoral students, in which they develop research topics and strategies and write the qualifying paper.
Credits: 3
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EDLF 9820 - EDLF Dissertation Seminar
This seminar is designed as workshop to assist students in the dissertation process. Instructor/students will work collaboratively to design/conduct research and foster students’ dissertation progress. Students are expected to work closely with their dissertation advisors and other committee members throughout the dissertation process. Feedback from the instructor will in no way supersede the judgment of the dissertation advisor or committee.
Credits: 3 to 6
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EDLF 9991 - Ed.D. Research
Students conduct systematic inquiry to address an important problem in education, through the application of discipline knowledge and research skills, with the goal of improving practice.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EDLF 9993 - Independent Study
Under close faculty guidance, students work on an area of interest not covered by the curriculum. A plan of study must be signed by the faculty sponsor and filed in the student’s permanent file in the Office of Student Affairs. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EDLF 9995 - Independent Research
Independent Research
Credits: 1 to 12
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EDLF 9998 - Doctoral Research Apprenticeship
Designed to give doctoral students experience conducting research in professional settings appropriate to their disciplines. Prerequisites: Advisor Permission Required.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EDLF 9999 - Doctoral Dissertation
Doctoral Dissertation
Credits: 1 to 12
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Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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ECE 5150 - Microelectronic Integrated Circuit Fabrication
Explores fabrication technologies for the manufacture of integrated circuits and microsystems. Emphasizes processes used for monolithic silicon-based systems and basic technologies for compound material devices. Topics include crystal properties and growth, Miller indices, Czochralski growth, impurity diffusion, concentration profiles, silicon oxidation, oxide growth kinetics, local oxidation, ion implantation, crystal annealing, photolithography and pattern transfer, wet and dry etching processes, anisotropic etches, plasma etching, reactive ion etching, plasma ashing, chemical vapor deposition and epitaxy; evaporation, sputtering, thin film evaluation, chemical-mechanical polishing, multilevel metal, device contacts, rapid thermal annealing, trench isolation, process integration, and wafer yield. Prerequisite: ECE 303 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 5241 - Optics and Lasers
Reviews the electromagnetic principles of optics; Maxwell’s equations; reflection and transmission of electromagnetic fields at dielectric interfaces; Gaussian beams; interference and diffraction; laser theory with illustrations chosen from atomic, gas and semiconductor laser systems; detectors including photomultipliers and semiconductor-based detectors; and noise theory and noise sources in optical detection. Prerequisite: ECE 303, 309, 323.
Credits: 3
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ECE 5260 - Microwave Engineering I
Design and analysis of passive microwave circuits. Topics include transmission lines, electromagnetic field theory, waveguides, microwave network analysis and signal flow graphs, impedance matching and tuning, resonators, power dividers and directional couplers, and microwave filters. Prerequisite: ECE 309 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 5501 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
A first-level graduate/advanced undergraduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the course offerings. The topic usually reflects new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: .5 to 3
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ECE 5502 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
A first-level graduate/advanced undergraduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the course offerings. The topic usually reflects new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ECE 5555 - Special Topics in Distance Learning
Special Topics in Distance Learning
Credits: 3
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ECE 5630 - Introduction to VLSI
Digital CMOS circuit design and analysis: combinational and sequential circuits, arithmetic structures, memories. Modern design issues: leakage, optimization, clocking, and interconnect. VLSI circuit design, simulation, and layout. Prerequisite: ECE 203, 230. Desirable: ECE 303, ECE 333 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 5750 - Digital Signal Processing
Fundamentals of discrete-time signal processing are presented. Topics include discrete-time linear systems, z-transforms, the DFT and FFT algorithms, digital filter design, and problem-solving using the computer. Prerequisite: ECE 323 and 324, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 5755 - Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
This course provides hands-on exposure to real-time digital signal sampling (DSP) using general-purpose DSP processors. The laboratory sequence explores sampling/reconstruction, aliasing, quantization errors, fast Fourier transform, spectral analysis, and FIR/IIR digital filter design and implementation. Programming is primarily in C++, with exposure to assembly coding. Prerequisite: ECE 323 and 324; corequisite: ECE 576.
Credits: 1.5
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ECE 6155 - Microelectronic Integrated Circuit Fabrication Laboratory
Topics include the determination of semiconductor material parameters: crystal orientation, type, resistivity, layer thickness, and majority carrier concentration; silicon device fabrication and analysis techniques: thermal oxidation, oxide masking, solid state diffusion of intentional impurities, metal electrode evaporation, layer thickness determination by surface profiling and optical interferometer; MOS transistor design and fabrication using the above techniques, characterization, and verification of design models used. Corequisite: ECE 564.
Credits: 1.5
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ECE 6163 - Solid State Devices
Introduces semiconductor device operation based on energy bands and carrier statistics. Describes operation of p-n junctions and metal-semiconductor junctions. Extends this knowledge to descriptions of bipolar and field effect transistors, and other microelectronic devices. Related courses: ECE 564, 666, and 667. Prerequisite: ECE 303 or equivalent, or solid state materials/physics course.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6167 - Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Examines the fundamentals, materials, and engineering properties of semiconductors; and the integration of semiconductors with other materials to make optoelectronic and microelectronic devices. Includes basic properties of electrons in solids; electronic, optical, thermal and mechanical properties of semiconductors; survey of available semiconductors and materials choice for device design; fundamental principles of important semiconductor devices; sub-micron engineering of semiconductors, metals, insulators and polymers for integrated circuit manufacturing; materials characterization techniques; and other electronic materials. Cross-listed as MSE 6167. Prerequisite: Some background in solid state materials and elementary quantum principles.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6261 - Microwave Engineering II
Explores theory and design of active microwave circuits. Review of transmission line theory, impedance matching networks and scattering matrices. Transistor s-parameters, amplifier stability and gain, and low-noise amplifier design. Other topics include noise in two-port microwave networks, negative resistance oscillators, injection-locked oscillators, video detectors, and microwave mixers. Prerequisite: ECE 556 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6265 - Microwave Engineering Laboratory
Explores measurement and behavior of high-frequency circuits and components. Equivalent circuit models for lumped elements. Measurement of standing waves, power, and frequency. Use of vector network analyzers and spectrum analyzers. Computer-aided design, fabrication, and characterization of microstrip circuits. Corequisite: ECE 556 or instructor permission.
Credits: 1.5
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ECE 6331 - Advanced Switching Theory
Review of Boolean Algebra; synchronous and asynchronous machine synthesis; functional decomposition; fault location and detection; design for testability techniques. Prerequisite: ECE 230 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6332 - VLSI Design
Digital CMOS circuit design and analysis: combinational circuits, sequential circuits, and memory. Second order circuit issues. Global design issues: clocking and interconnect. Use of Cadence CAD tools. Semester long team research project investigating new areas in circuit design. Prerequisites: ECE 203, ECE 230.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6415 - Performance Analysis of Communication Networks
Analyzes topologies arising in communication networks; queuing theory; Markov Chains and ergodicity conditions; theory of regenerative processes; routing algorithms; multiple-access and random-access transmission algorithms; mathematical methodologies for throughput and delay analyses and evaluations; performance evaluation; performance monitoring; local area networks (LANs); interactive LANs; multimedia and ATM networks. Cross-listed as CS 715. Prerequisite: ECE /CS 457, APMA 310, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6434 - Dependable Computing Systems
Examines techniques for designing and analyzing dependable computer-based systems. Topics include fault models and effects, fault avoidance techniques, hardware redundancy, error detecting and correcting codes, time redundancy, software redundancy, combinatorial reliability modeling, Markov reliability modeling, availability modeling, maintainability modeling, safety modeling, trade-off analysis, design for testability, and the testing of redundant digital systems. Includes a research project and investigation of current topics.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6435 - Computer Organization and Design
Integration of computer organization concepts such as data flow, instruction interpretation, memory systems, interfacing, and microprogramming with practical and systematic digital design methods such as behavioral versus structural descriptions, divide-and-conquer, hierarchical conceptual levels, trade-offs, iteration, and postponement of detail. Design exercises are accomplished using a hardware description language and simulation. Prerequisite by topic: Digital Logic Design (ECE 230 or equivalent), Introductory Computer Architecture (ECE 333 or equivalent), Assembly Language Programming.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6501 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
A first-level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. The topic will usually reflect new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6502 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
A first-level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. The topic will usually reflect new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6505 - Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar
This one-hour weekly seminar course features presentations given by ECE faculty members, to introduce various research areas, topics, and advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering. It is a one-credit course required for all first-year ECE graduate students.
Credits: 1
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ECE 6555 - Special Topics in Distance Learning
Special Topics in Distance Learning
Credits: 3
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ECE 6642 - Optoelectronic Devices
Optoelectronics merges optics and microelectronics. Optoelectronic devices and circuits have become core technologies for several key technical areas such as telecommunications, information processing, optical storage, and sensors. This course will cover devices that generate (semiconductor light emitting diodes and lasers), modulate, amplify, switch, and detect optical signals. Also included are solar cells, photonic crystals, and plasmonics.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6660 - Analog Integrated Circuits
Design and analysis of analog integrated circuits. Topics include feedback amplifier analysis and design including stability, compensation, and offset-correction; layout and floor-planning issues associated with mixed-signal IC design; selected applications of analog circuits such as A/D and D/A converters, references, and comparators; and extensive use of CAD tools for design entry, simulation, and layout. Includes an analog integrated circuit design project. Prerequisite: ECE 303 and 307, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6710 - Pattern Recognition
Studies feature extraction and classification concepts: analysis of decision surfaces, discriminant functions, potential functions, deterministic methods, automatic training of classifiers, analysis of training algorithms and classifier performance, statistical classification including optimality and design of optimal decision rules, clustering and non-supervised learning, feature selection and dimensionality reduction. Assignments include programming and analytical problem sets and a final computer project. Prerequisite: ECE 611 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6711 - Probability and Stochastic Processes
Topics include probability spaces (samples spaces, event spaces, probability measures); random variables and vectors (distribution functions, expectation, generating functions); and random sequences and processes; especially specification and classification. Includes detailed discussion of second-order stationary processes and Markov processes; inequalities, convergence, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem, ergodic, theorems; and MS estimation, Linear MS estimation, and the Orthogonality Principle. Prerequisite: APMA 310, MATH 310, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6713 - Communication Systems Engineering
A first graduate course in principles of communications engineering. Topics include a brief review of random process theory, principles of optimum receiver design for discrete and continuous messages, matched filters and correlation receivers, signal design, error performance for various signal geometries, Mary signaling, linear and nonlinear analog modulation, and quantization. The course also treats aspects of system design such as propagation, link power calculations, noise models, RF components, and antennas. Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in probability.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6714 - Estimation Theory
Presents estimation theory from a discrete-time viewpoint. One-half of the course is devoted to parameter estimation, and the other half to state estimation using Kalman filtering. The presentation blends theory with applications and provides the fundamental properties of, and interrelationships among, basic estimation theory algorithms. Although the algorithms are presented as a neutral adjunct to signal processing, the material is also appropriate for students with interests in pattern recognition, communications, controls, and related engineering fields. Prerequisite: ECE 611 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6782 - Digital Image Processing
Analyzes the basic concepts of image formation and image analysis: imaging geometries, sampling, filtering, edge detection, Hough transforms, region extraction and representation, extracting and modeling three-dimension objects. Students will be assigned analytical and programming assignments to explore these concepts. Cross-listed as CS 682. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6784 - Wireless Communications
This is a survey course in the theory and technology of modern wireless communication systems, exemplified in cellular telephony, paging, microwave distribution systems, wireless networks, and even garage door openers. Wireless technology is inherently interdisciplinary, and the course seeks to serve the interests of a variety of students. Prerequisites: ECE 323/324, and ECE 420.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6785 - Optical Communications
This course covers the basics of optical communications. The first part of the course is spent describing optical devices including the LED, laser, optical fiber, PIN photodiode, APD detectors, optical amplifiers, modulators, etc. Characteristics of devices and their effect on the overall system are discussed. The second part of the course is devoted to system design and analysis. The emphasis is on modulation/demodulation and channel control methods, defining performance measures, and describing network architectures. Common applications of optical communications are then discussed. This course is intended to complement training in communications and in optics. Prerequisites: ECE 323 and APMA 310.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6851 - Linear Automatic Control Systems
Provides a working knowledge of the analysis and design of linear automatic control systems using classical methods. Introduces state space techniques; dynamic models of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and other systems; transfer functions; block diagrams; stability of linear systems, and Nyquist criterion; frequency response methods of feedback systems design and Bode diagram; Root locus method; System design to satisfy specifications; PID controllers; compensation using Bode plots and the root locus. Powerful software is used for system design. Cross-listed as MAE 651. Prerequisite: ECE 323 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6852 - Linear State Space Control Systems
Studies linear dynamical systems emphasizing canonical representation and decomposition, state representation, controllability, observability, stability normal systems, state feedbacks and the decoupling problem. Representative physical examples. Cross-listed as MAE 652. Prerequisite: APMA 615, ECE 621, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6993 - Independent Study
Detailed study of graduate course material on an independent basis under the guidance of a faculty member.
Credits: 3
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ECE 6995 - Supervised Project Research
Formal record of student commitment to project research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. A project report is required at the completion of each semester. May be repeated as necessary.
Credits: 3 to 6
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ECE 6996 - Supervised Graduate Teaching Experience
A guided teaching experience for Ph.D. students, with selected teaching assignments and directed performance evaluation, under the supervision of a faculty member, as a part of Ph.D. training designed for students’ development of independent teaching skills.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7163 - Physics of Semiconductors
Analyzes semiconductor band theory; constant energy surfaces and effective mass concepts; statistics treating normal and degenerate materials; spin degeneracy in impurities; excited impurity states and impurity recombination; carrier transport; scattering mechanisms; and prediction techniques. Prerequisite: ECE 663 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7168 - Semiconductor Materials and Characterization Techniques
Analyzes semiconductor growth and characterization methods applicable to III-V heteroepitaxial growth along with etching and contact formation mechanisms; and the physical, structural, and electrical characterization tools including X-ray diffraction, Auger, Hall and C(V). Prerequisite: ECE 663 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7209 - Electromagnetic Field Theory
Topics include techniques for solving and analyzing engineering electromagnetic systems; relation of fundamental concepts of electromagnetic field theory and circuit theory, including duality, equivalence principles, reciprocity, and Green’s functions; applications of electromagnetic principles to antennas, waveguide discontinuities, and equivalent impedance calculations. Prerequisite: ECE 409 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7332 - Advanced VLSI Systems Design
This course surveys advanced, challenging topics related to digital circuit design, using SRAM as a design driver. Topics include CMOS scaling and technology changes, variation tolerant design, leakage reduction, design for reliability, alternative devices, and advanced memory design. The class draws heavily from current literature on these topics. Students will conduct a semester long project related to the class topics.
Prerequisites: ECE 4332 or ECE 6332 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7438 - Computer System Reliability Engineering
A mathematical introduction to system reliability theory, emphasizing the analysis of digital computer systems. Includes time-to-failure models and distributions, fault tree analysis, Markov models and counting processes, failure and repair dependencies, sensitivity and importance analysis, hardware and software redundancy management, and dependability measurement.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7457 - Computer Networks
Analyzes network topologies; backbone design; performance and queuing theory; data-grams and virtual circuits; technology issues; layered architectures; standards; survey of commercial networks, local area networks, and contention-based communication protocols; encryption; and security. Cross-listed as CS 757. Prerequisite: CS 656 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7501 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
A second level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. Topics usually reflect new developments in electrical and computer engineering and are based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7502 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
A second level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. Topics usually reflect new developments in electrical and computer engineering and are based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7555 - Advanced Topics in Distance Learning
Advanced Topics in Distance Learning
Credits: 3
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ECE 7712 - Digital Communications
An in-depth treatment of digital communications techniques and performance. Topics include performance of uncoded systems such as Mary, PSK, FSK, and multi-level signaling; orthogonal and bi-orthogonal codes; block and convolutional coding with algebraic and maximum likelihood decoding; burst correcting codes; efficiency and bandwidth; synchronization for carrier reference and bit timing; baseband signaling techniques; intersymbol interference; and equalization. Prerequisite: ECE 611.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7714 - Advanced Detection and Estimation
Analyzes classical detection theory and hypothesis testing (Bayes, Neymon-Pearson, minimax); robust hypothesis testing; decision criteria; sequential and nonparametric detection; classical estimation theory (Bayes, minimax, maximum likelihood); performance bounds; robust-outlier resistant estimation of location parameters; stochastic distance measures; parametric and robust operations in time series (Prediction, interpolation, filtering). Applications to problems in communications, control, pattern recognition, signal processing. Prerequisite: ECE 611 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7717 - Information Theory and Coding
A comprehensive treatment of information theory and its application to channel coding and source coding. Topics include the nature of information and its mathematical description for discrete and continuous sources; noiseless coding for a discrete source; channel capacity and channel coding theorems of Shannon; error correcting codes; introduction to rate distortion theory and practice of data compression; information and statistical measures. Prerequisite: two years of college-level mathematics including discrete probability, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7774 - Adaptive and Statistical Signal Processing
Topics include a review of probability and stochastic processes, parametric and non-parametric spectral estimation, optimal filtering, linear prediction, methods of steepest descent, LMS filters, methods of least squares, RLS filters, Kalman filters, and array signal processing techniques. Prerequisite: ECE 611, 576, or equivalent; corequisite: ECE 614.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7776 - Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing
Provides the background of multi-dimensional digital signal processing, emphasizing the differences and similarities between the one-dimensional and multi-dimensional cases. Includes M-D Fourier transforms, M-D sampling and reconstruction, M-D DFT, M-D filtering, M-D spectral estimation, and inverse problems such as tomography, iterative signal reconstruction, and coherent imaging. Broad applications in radar, sonar, seismic, medical, and astronomical data processing are introduced. Prerequisite: ECE 576 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7853 - Optimal Control Systems
Analyzes the development and utilization of Pontryagin’s maximum principle, the calculus of variations, Hamilton-Jacobi theory and dynamic programming in solving optimal control problems; performance criteria including time, fuel, and energy; optimal regulators and trackers for quadratic cost index designed via the Ricatti equation; introduction to numerical optimization techniques. Cross-listed as MAE 753. Prerequisite: ECE 622 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7855 - Multivariable Robust Control Systems
Studies advanced topics in modern multivariable control theory; matrix fraction descriptions, state-space realizations, multivariable poles and zeroes; operator norms, singular value analysis; representation of unstructured and structured uncertainty, linear fractional transformation, stability robustness and performance robustness, parametrization of stabilizing controllers; approaches to controller synthesis; H2-optimal control and loop transfer recovery; H2-optimal control and state-space solution methods. Cross-listed as MAE 755. Prerequisite: ECE 622 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7856 - Nonlinear Control Systems
Studies the dynamic response of nonlinear systems; analyzes nonlinear systems using approximate analytical methods; stability analysis using the second method of Liapunov, describing functions, and other methods. May include adaptive, neural, and switched systems. Cross-listed as MAE 756. Prerequisite: ECE 621 and 622.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7858 - Digital Control Systems
Includes sampling processes and theorems, z-transforms, modified transforms, transfer functions, and stability criteria; analysis in frequency and time domains; discrete state models of systems containing digital computers; and advanced discrete-time control techniques. Some in-class experiments using small computers to control dynamic processes. Cross-listed as MAE 758. Prerequisite: ECE 412 and 621, APMA 615, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7993 - Independent Study
Detailed study of graduate course material on an independent basis under the guidance of a faculty member.
Credits: 3
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ECE 7995 - Supervised Project Research
Formal record of student commitment to project research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary.
Credits: 3 to 6
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ECE 8162 - High Speed Transistors
Includes the principles of operation, device physics, basic technology, and modeling of high speed transistors. A brief review of material properties of most important compound semiconductors and heterostructure systems, followed by the discussion of high speed Bipolar Junction Transistor technology, Heterojuction Bipolar Transistors, and Tunneling Emitter Bipolar Transistors and by the theory and a comparative study of MESFETs, HFETs, and Variable-Threshold and Split-gate Field Effect Transistors. Also includes advanced transistor concepts based on ballistic and hot electron transport in semiconductors such as Ballistic Injection Transistors and Real Space Transfer Transistors (RSTs) concepts. Prerequisite: ECE 663 or 768 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 8163 - High Frequency Diodes
Lectures on the basic two terminal solid state devices that are still extensively used in high frequency microwave and millimeter-wave detector and oscillator circuits. Devices discussed are PIN Diode limiters and phase shifters; Schottky Diode mixers and varactors; Planar-Doped Barrier and Heterostructure Barrier mixer diodes; Superconducting-Insulating- Superconducting mixer devices; Metal-Semiconductor-Metal photodetectors; Transferred Electron Devices; IMPATT Diodes; and Resonant Tunelling Diodes. Basic concepts related to Noise in high frequency circuits, Mixers, Resonators, and Oscillators are reviewed. Emphasis on basic device theory, and device fabrication. Prerequisite: ECE 556, 663, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 8501 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
A third-level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. The topic will usually reflect new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 8502 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
A third-level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. The topic will usually reflect new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 8825 - Adaptive Control
Analyzes parametrized control system models, signal norms, Lyapunov stability, passivity, error models, gradient and least squares algorithms for parameter estimation, adaptive observers, direct adaptive control, indirect adaptive control, certainty equivalence principle, multivariable adaptive control, stability theory of adaptive control, and applications to robot control systems. Prerequisite: ECE 621 and 622, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 8897 - Graduate Teaching Instruction
For master’s students.
Credits: 1 to 12
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ECE 8999 - Thesis
Formal record of student commitment to master’s thesis research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. May be repeated as necessary.
Credits: 1 to 12
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ECE 9897 - Graduate Teaching Instruction
For doctoral students.
Credits: 1 to 12
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