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EDLF 8440 - Advanced Qualitative Analysis
Advanced course in methods and practices of qualitative research. Students determine their own philosophy of inquiry and become increasingly proficient in the application of qualitative methods. Assumes an introductory course in qualitative methods. Focuses on research design and proposal development, data collection and analysis techniques, and presentation of findings. The course is field-based and guides students through the complete qualitative research cycle.
Credits: 3 |
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EDLF 8450 - Qualitative Data Analysis with Computers
An advanced course in qualitative research methods that emphasizes the application of qualitative analysis using a qualitative data analysis software package as a tool. Readings focus on various approaches to qualitative analysis and the issues surrounding software use in relation to these approaches. A general knowledge of qualitative research design and methods and comfort with computers is assumed. Part of each class serves a workshop to learn a qualitative data analysis program and, therefore, the class is most useful for students who have data to analyze.
Prerequisites: EDLF 7404 (Introduction to Qual) or equivalent cours is required: EDLF 8440 (Advanced Qual) is recommended
Credits: 3 |
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EDLF 8481 - Advanced Seminar in Foundations of Education Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3 to 6 |
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EDLF 8482 - Advanced Seminar in Educational Studies Advanced Seminar in Educational Studies
Credits: 1 to 6 |
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EDLF 8500 - Special Topics Special topics in education leadership, foundations and policy.
Credits: 1 to 6 |
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EDLF 8647 - Student Affairs in Colleges and Universities
This course is a survey of current theory and practice in student affairs programming, organizations, and administration in institutions of higher education. It emphasizes philosophy, services provided, and trends and issues within the profession, including research and literature analysis.
Credits: 3 |
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EDLF 8648 - College Student Development
This course promotes an understanding of contemporary, traditional-aged college students from sociological, psychological, and historical perspectives. Topics include the social and cultural context of entering college students, student development theory, student outcomes assessment, student attrition, and the dynamics of student change.
Credits: 3 |
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EDLF 8651 - History of Higher Education
This course emphasizes the historical development of American higher education, the growth of colleges and universities, and the major philosophical and sociological forces that have shaped their development.
Credits: 3 |
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EDLF 8652 - College Student Experience
This course examines trends and changes in the characteristics of college students and institutions they attend, as well as the larger social context in which they operate. It will explore emerging theories and methodologies that address student experience and research related to how college affects students.
Credits: 3 |
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EDLF 8653 - Curriculum in Higher Education
This course examines curricular structures and processes in postsecondary institutions. It includes historical, political, and theoretical perspectives on the curriculum, as well as state and national policies shaping curricular design in higher education.
Credits: 3 |
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EDLF 8654 - Organization and Governance in Higher Education
This course addresses the organization of and governance and decision-making in postsecondary institutions. Through the application of theoretical frameworks based in a variety of social theories, it focuses on the impact of politics, culture, and policy on the organization and governance of higher education.
Credits: 3 |
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EDLF 8655 - Politics of Difference
This course explores the dynamics of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in higher education policy, theory, and practice. Using a variety of theoretical frames and emerging research, the course will examine group differences in experience and perspective within American higher education.
Credits: 3 |
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 8999 - Masters Thesis For master’s research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
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 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 9995 - Independent Research Independent Research
Credits: 1 to 12 |
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EDLF 9999 - Doctoral Dissertation Doctoral Dissertation
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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 3103 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 3103, 3209, 3750.
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 3209 or instructor permission.
Credits: 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 2630, 2330. Desirable: ECE 3103, ECE 3330 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 3750 and 3760, 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 3750 and 3760
corequisite: ECE 5750.
Credits: 1.5 |
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ECE 6140 - Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics
Today’s electronic devices are reaching nanometer dimensions where fundamental quantum and atomistic processes dominate. Instead of the traditional ‘top-down’ classical viewpoint in “Solid State Device” courses, quantum transport principles are needed to understand `bottom-up’ how current flows through individual atoms, molecules, nanotubes or spintronic devices. This course provides a convenient starting point.
Credits: 3 |
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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 5150.
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 5150, 6155, and 6167.
Prerequisite: ECE 3103 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 5260 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 5260 or instructor permission.
Credits: 1.5 |
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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 2630, ECE 2330.
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 6415.
Prerequisite: ECE /CS 4457, APMA 3100, 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 2330 or equivalent), Introductory Computer Architecture (ECE 3330 or equivalent), Assembly Language Programming.
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 3103 and 3632, 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 6711 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 3100, MATH 3100, 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 6711 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.
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 3750/3760, and ECE 4710.
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 3750 and APMA 3100.
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 6610.
Prerequisite: ECE 3750 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 6620.
Prerequisite: APMA 6150, ECE 6851, 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: 1 to 3 |
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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 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 6163 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 4209 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 7457.
Prerequisite: CS 6456 or 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 6711.
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 6711 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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