ECEN 2011 Experimental Methods I
Description: Laboratory associated with ECEN 2714 taken mostly by transfer students who have completed a similar course as ECEN 2714 without the accompanying laboratory. Previously offered as ECEN 3013.
ECEN 2714 Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Description: Circuit analysis techniques including equivalent networks and mesh/node formulation of network equations; operational amplifiers; RL, RC and RLC transient and steady-state circuit analysis; energy and power; electrical measurements and instrumentation.
ECEN 3020 Supervised Research Project
Description: Supervised research project for qualified students. May be repeated no more than three times for a total of three credit hours.
Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 3 credit hours.
ECEN 3113 Energy, Environment and Economics
Description: Topics relevant to understanding the close relationship between energy use, its impact on the environment, and overall economic implications. Green energy technologies (wind, solar, hydro) will be considered along with conventional techniques. Both conventional and non-conventional energy technologies will be discussed.
ECEN 3213 Computer Based Systems in Engineering
Description: A comprehensive introduction to technology and applications of microprocessors. Topics include computer hardware, software, programming, computation, interfacing, I/O, communication, data acquisition, data representation, and numerical analysis. Applications of general-purpose and application-specific processors in various disciplines of engineering and engineering problem solving. Previously offered as ENSC 3213.
ECEN 3233 Digital Logic Design
Description: Boolean algebra, optimization of logic networks. Design using SSI, and MSI, LSI components. ROM and PLA applications. Analysis and design of clock sequential logic networks. Flip-flops, counters, registers. Asynchronous circuit design and analysis. Laboratory experience in implementing combinational and sequential logic devices.
ECEN 3314 Electronic Devices and Applications
Description: Semiconductor electronic components including MOSFETs, BJTs, JFETs, and OpAmps. Emphasis on device models and use of solid state electronic devices to analyze, synthesize and design amplifiers and switching circuits. SPICE simulations are extensively utilized. Basic building blocks for analog and digital applications. Theoretical concepts and methods are demonstrated and reinforced through laboratory exercises. Course previously offered as ECEN 3313.
ECEN 3513 Signal Analysis
Description: Deterministic signals. Fourier series and Fourier transforms. Impulse response, convolution and correlation. Sampling theorem. Analog modulation techniques.
ECEN 3613 Applied Fields and Waves I
Description: Circuit model of transmission lines, wave propagation, energy transfer, impedance mismatch, and transients. Field analysis of voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, and inductance. Coupled circuits.
ECEN 3623 Applied Fields and Waves II
Description: Continuation of ECEN 3613. Plane-wave propagation in free space, power flow, reflection and transmission. Guided waves and resonators. Radiation and introduction to antenna systems. Boundary value problem analysis.
ECEN 3714 Network Analysis
Description: Advanced mathematical analysis techniques used in circuit analysis including Laplace transforms, Fourier transforms, and Fourier series. Circuit frequency response, Bode plots, and filters, including passive, active, low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass filters. Theory of linear circuits; two-port circuit models and parameters. Course previously offered as ECEN 3713.
ECEN 3723 Systems I
Description: Physical and mathematical modeling of electrical and mechanical dynamic systems. Transient response of first and second order systems. Laplace transform techniques for solving differential equations, transfer functions, frequency response and resonance. Course previously offered as ECEN 3413.
ECEN 3903 Introduction to Semiconductor Devices
Description: Crystal structure, the quantum theory of solids. The physics of semiconductor materials and the projunction, with an emphasis on applications to semiconductor devices. Same course as PHYS 3313.
ECEN 3913 Solid State Electronic Devices
Description: Solid state physics basis of modern electronic devices. Introductory quantum mechanics. Energy bands in solids. Electronic properties of semiconductors. Junction diodes. Bipolar transistors. Field effect transistor.
ECEN 4010 Special Topics
Description: Engineering topics not normally included in existing courses. Repeat credit may be earned with different course subtitles assigned.
Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 12 credit hours.
ECEN 4013 Design of Engineering Systems
Description: Complete design cycle for several small design projects, each including establishing objectives, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation. Use of modern lab equipment and fabrication techniques. Development of communication skills.
ECEN 4024 Capstone Design
Description: Continuation of ECEN 4013. Student project teams design, build, test and present results for realistic projects from university and industrial sponsors. Formulation of specifications, consideration of alternative solutions, feasibility considerations, detailed system descriptions, economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact. Course previously offered as ECEN 4023.
ECEN 4030 Undergraduate Professional Practice
Description: Experience in application of electrical engineering principles to typical problems encountered in industry. Solutions to the problems by student participation in the role of engineer or engineering intern.
Offered for variable credit, 1-8 credit hours, maximum of 8 credit hours.
ECEN 4133 Power Electronics
Description: Power electronic devices, components, and their characteristics; DC to AC conversion; fundamentals of inverters and waveshaping devices; application aspects; control aspects; characteristics and state-of-the-art of advanced power inverter and power conditioning topologies.
ECEN 4153 Power System Analysis and Design
Description: Power system component models from circuit theory. Formulation and design of the load flow model and the optimum economic generator allocation problem utilizing computer methods.
ECEN 4213 Embedded Computer Systems Design
Description: Design of microprocessor-based systems through proper integration of hardware and software. Serial and parallel communications, sensor interfacing, computer control of external devices, and color graphics hardware. Design of PASCAL and assembly language modules for optimum real-time system performance.
ECEN 4233 High Speed Computer Arithmetic
Description: Course covers computer arithmetic as applied to general purpose and application-specific processors. Focus is on developing high-speed arithmetic algorithms and understanding their implementation in VLSI technology at the gate level.
ECEN 4243 Computer Architecture
Description: Functional organization and hardware design of digital computer systems with emphasis on microprocessor-based systems. CPU organization, features of microprocessors including advanced 32-bit CPU's, memory system design including cache, virtual memory, error detection and correction, I/O operations, including direct memory access and peripheral interface design.
ECEN 4273 Software Engineering
Description: Fundamental characteristics of the software life cycle. Tools, techniques, and management controls for development and maintenance of large software systems. Software metrics and models. Human factors and experimental design. Same course as CS 4273.
ECEN 4283 Computer Networks
Description: Computer networks, distributed systems and their systematic design. Introduction to the use, structure, and architecture of computer networks. Networking experiments to describe network topology. ISO reference model. Same course as CS 4283.
ECEN 4303 Digital Integrated Circuit Design
Description: Theory of digital and electronics circuits. Digital logic families TTL, IIL, ECL, NMOS, CMOS, GaAs. Large signal models for transistors. Implementation at RAM and ROM. Circuit design for LSI and VLSI.
ECEN 4313 Linear Electronics Circuit Design
Description: Overview of semiconductor device physics (MOSFETs and BJTs) and integrated-circuit design environment. Building blocks for analog systems (differential amplifiers, operational amplifiers, output stages, and voltage references). Understanding of frequency response (Bode plot, transfer function, pole-zero analysis, feedback, and stability). Extensive SPICE-based design for performance optimization and design tradeoffs.
ECEN 4353 Communication Electronics
Description: Introduction to radio-frequency (RF) communication systems with a primary focus on transistor- and circuit-level analysis. Investigations of RF system properties (noise, linearity, and matching) modulation schemes, and transceiver architectures. Operation principles and basic design of low-noise amplifiers, mixers, power amplifiers, and oscillators.
ECEN 4413 Automatic Control Systems
Description: Properties of feedback control systems, mathematical models of basic components, state-variable models of feedback systems, time-domain analysis, stability, transform analysis, frequency domain techniques, root-locus design of single input single output systems and simple compensation techniques. Same course as MAE 4053.
ECEN 4493 Artificial Intelligence in Engineering
Description: Elementary concepts of artificial intelligence and its applications in engineering, including but not limited to automation, manufacturing, computer vision, robotics and mechatronics. Emphasis is on deep neural network architectures and learning algorithms along with topics related to machine learning, computer vision and data analytics. Online computer programs, such as Python and AI Libraries, collated from open-source repositories will be given along with hands-on experience.
ECEN 4503 Applications of Probability and Statistics to Random Signals
Description: Concepts of probability, statistics, and random variables necessary for study of signals and systems involving uncertainty and randomness. Applications of probability and statistics to practical problems in electrical and computer engineering including communications, signal processing, image processing, and control systems.
ECEN 4523 Communication Theory
Description: Noise in modulation systems. Digital data transmission. Design of optimal receivers. Introduction to information theory.
ECEN 4533 Data Communications
Description: Signal detection in noise. Tradeoffs between bandwidth signal-to-noise ratio and rate of information transfer. Transmission multiplexing and error handling. Elements of computer network design. Data link protocols.
ECEN 4613 Microwave Engineering
Description: Review of EM and transmission line theory. Microwave network theory: Impedance and admittance matrices, scattering matrix and S-parameters, ABCD and transfer matrices. Signal-flow diagrams. Matching circuits and microwave filters. Passive microwave devices: power dividers, hybrids, couplers, resonators, isolators, and circulators. Class projects such as radar, communication, imaging, or sensing systems.
ECEN 4743 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Modeling and Systems
Description: An overview of the field of biomedical engineering and an introduction of the modeling approaches implemented in biomedical engineering. Topics include bio-electronics, biomechanics, compartmental modeling, bio-signal processing, biomedical optics, etc. The course will demonstrate a few of major fields of activity in which biomedical engineers are engaged and modeling approaches are implemented.
ECEN 4763 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
Description: Introduction to discrete linear systems using difference equations and z-transforms. Discrete Fourier analysis. Design of digital filters. Sampling theorem. Applications of digital signal processing.
ECEN 4773 Real Time Digital Signal Processing
Description: DSP Processor architectures and programming. A/D, D/A, polled and interrupt-driven I/O. Realtime implementation of FIR/IIR filters, the FFT, and other DSP algorithms on special purpose DSP hardware from Motorola, Texas Instruments and others. Link between DSP theory and practical implementation.
ECEN 4823 Design of Optical Systems
Description: Introduction to optics through the design, construction, and characterization of optical systems. Emphasis on geometrical optics and spectroscopy. Course previously offered as ECEN 3813.
ECEN 4843 Design of Lasers and Systems
Description: Introduction of the design of lasers and optical systems based on lasers including the design, construction, and characterization of lasers. Gaussian beams and optics, laser gain materials, laser cavities, advanced topics. Course previously offered as ECEN 4813.
ECEN 5000 Thesis
Description: A student studying for the master's degree will enroll in this course for a maximum of six credit hours.
Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
ECEN 5030 Professional Practice
Description: Experience in application of electrical engineering principles to typical problems encountered in industry and government engineering design and development projects. Solutions to the problems require participation by the student in the role of junior engineer or engineer-intern.
Offered for variable credit, 1-8 credit hours, maximum of 8 credit hours.
ECEN 5060 Special Topics
Description: Engineering topics not normally included in existing courses. Repeat credit may be earned with different course subtitles assigned.
Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
ECEN 5070 Directed Studies
Description: Investigation outside of the classroom of topics not normally covered in lecture courses.
Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
ECEN 5080 Fundamental Topics
Description: Fundamental topics that are typically introduced in the senior year curriculum with additional depth and breadth commensurate with the graduate program. Repeat credit may be earned with difference course subtitles assigned.
Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours.
ECEN 5113 Power Systems Analysis by Computer Methods
Description: Quasi-static control of power systems and analysis of power systems under abnormal operating conditions. Transient stability studies. Models formulated and solutions outlined for implementation on the computer.
ECEN 5123 Engineering Systems Reliability Evaluation
Description: Techniques and concepts needed for evaluating the long-term and short-term reliability of a system. Topics include static and spinning generation capacity; transmission, composite, interconnected, and dc system reliability evaluations; and power system security. Applications to systems other than power systems included. For students with little or no background in probability or statistics.
ECEN 5133 Power Electronics and Renewables
Description: Modeling and control aspects of power electronics for integrating renewable energy systems. Topics covered here will focus on power converter dynamics, indirect converter topologies, PWM technique, sliding mode control of converters, game theory based control, Maximum power point tracking, control of generators for different renewable energy systems. Simulation tools will be discussed as appropriate.
ECEN 5153 Direct Energy Conversion
Description: Energy conversion techniques and applications; thermo-electrics, thermionics, fuel cells, MHD and other processes involving electrical, mechanical and thermal energies. State-of-the-art developments in direct energy conversion using selected papers from journals and other publications. Gives the student a proper perspective of the possibilities and problems associated with satisfying future energy requirements.
ECEN 5163 Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Grid
Description: A comprehensive overview of advanced cyber-physical technologies and ideas that make the power grid smart. Topics covered include: basics of electric power systems; fundamentals of smart grids; the role of measurement, communications and monitoring technologies in smart grids; integrated applications of control and information advancements in a smart grid; Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) including renewable energy resources, energy storage systems, electric vehicles, and demand response; various functions and tools for managing smart grids; and interoperability, standards, and cyber security in smart grids.
ECEN 5193 Power Economics and Regulation
Description: Natural monopoly, regulated mono-polities. Power pricing. Deregulation and the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Bulk power markets, transmission access and wheeling. Economic dispatch and system operations. Security and reliability. Environmental externalities and Clean Air Act compliance. Procurement of new capacity and integrated resource planning. Co-generators and independent power producers.
ECEN 5223 Digital Systems Testing
Description: Testing of combinational and sequential circuits. Test generation techniques. Design of reliable and testable circuits and systems. Testing for LSI and VLSI.
ECEN 5233 Embedded Sensor Networks
Description: Analysis and design of wireless networks, including the integration of sensing, computation, and wireless communication within an embedded system. Mobile sensor networks and body sensor networks. Real world application and new innovations.
ECEN 5253 Digital Computer Design
Description: Arithmetic algorithms and the design of the arithmetic/logic unit (ALU). Serial and parallel data processing; control and timing systems; microprogramming; memory organization alternatives; input/output interfaces. Same course as CS 5253.
ECEN 5263 VLSI Digital Systems Design
Description: Design of very large-scale digital systems on a single chip. Review of MOS technology. Design rules imposed by fabrication techniques. Systematic structures for control and data flow; system timing; highly concurrent systems. Experimental opportunities available.
ECEN 5283 Computer Vision
Description: Fundamental concepts and tools in computer vision. Image formation and camera calibration. Early vision: edge detection, feature extraction, texture analysis. Mid-level vision: clustering, segmentation and object detection. High-level vision: object recognition using principal component analysis (PCA) and video analysis by hidden Markov models (HMMs).
ECEN 5313 Analog Integrated Circuits
Description: Advanced studies of analog CMOS IC design with an emphasis on EDA. Topics include bandgap reference, oscillators, PLL, linear regulators, DC-OC converters, low voltage, low power, and energy harvesting techniques.
ECEN 5333 Semiconductor Devices
Description: Semiconductor crystal structure and device fabrication, carrier distribution and transport, pn junction and diode, metal-semiconductor heterojunction, MOSFET, BJT and optoelectronic devices.
ECEN 5363 Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
Description: Analysis and design of CMOS mixed-signal IC for VLSI systems. Topics include comparators, switched-capacitor circuits, sample-and-hold, Nyquist and oversampling ADC/DAC, delta-sigma modulation, and digital calibration techniques.
ECEN 5373 RF Microwave Circuit Design
Description: Smith chart, single- and multi-port network, filter design, RF/microwave components and modeling, matching and biasing network, amplifier, oscillators and mixers.
ECEN 5413 Optimal Control
Description: Optimal control theory for modern systems design. Specification of optimum performance indices. Dynamic programming, calculus of variations and Pontryagin's minimum principle. Iterative numerical techniques for trajectory optimization. Same course as MAE 5413.
ECEN 5433 Robotics Kinematics, Dynamics and Control
Description: Kinematic and dynamic analysis of robot manipulators. Inverse kinematics, motion planning and trajectory generation. Industrial practice in robot servo control. Dynamics and control in the presence of constraints. Actuators and sensors. Force sensors and vision systems. Robotic force control and its applications in industry. Passivity-based control algorithms. Advanced control techniques for motion and force control. Same course as MAE 5433.
ECEN 5463 Nonlinear System Analysis and Control
Description: Failure of superposition of effects; phase-plane analysis; limit-cycles; Lyapunov stability; hyperstability and input-output stability; controllability and observability of nonlinear systems; feedback linearization; robust nonlinear control system design. Same course as MAE 5463. Course previously offered as ECEN 5723.
ECEN 5473 Digital Control Systems
Description: Input-output and state-space representation of linear discrete-time systems. Approximate methods in discrete-time representation. Stability methods. Controllability, observability, state estimation, and parameter identification. Design and analysis of feedback control system using frequency-domain and state-space methods. Introduction to optimal control. Same course as MAE 5473. Course previously offered as ECEN 6413.
ECEN 5483 Advanced Mechatronics Design
Description: Optimizing C programming code for microcontrollers using the assembly language instruction set. RS-232 microcontroller communication protocol. Controller Area Network (CAN) communication protocol plus hands-on CAN bus development boards, advanced topics which could include but are not limited to sensor design, real time operating systems, and advanced communication protocols. Same course as MAE 5483.
ECEN 5513 Stochastic Systems
Description: Theory and applications involving probability, random variables, functions of random variables, and stochastic processes, including Gaussian and Markov processes. Operations on random variables, transformation of random variables, single and multiple random variables, correlation, power spectral density, and stationary and non-stationary random processes. Random sums and sequences. Response of linear systems to stochastic processes. State-space formulation and covariance analysis. Same course as MAE 5513.
ECEN 5533 Modern Communication Theory
Description: Noise as a random process, analog and digital signal detection in the presence of noise, optimum receiver design using signal space concepts and introduction to information theory. Trade-offs between bandwidth, signal-to-noise ratio and the rate of information transfer. Example system designs include earth satellite, deep space and terrestrial communication systems and computer communication networks.
ECEN 5543 Data Transportation and Protection
Description: Data and its representation; finite field matrices, pseudorandom sequences; information protection; space division networks; synchronization; and channel and error control.
ECEN 5553 Telecommunications Systems
Description: Surveys the ways and means that voice, data and video are moved long distances. Covers computer networks (Ethernet LAN's, Internet WAN's); telephone systems (PSTN, VolP and cellular telephony); video (MPEG, H.323, and IPTV); and last mile delivery systems.
ECEN 5573 Wireless Communication
Description: Wireless channel characterization: large-scale and small scale fading. Techniques to combat fading; diversity techniques, coding techniques, CDMA, OFDM, MIMO. Advanced communication systems such as 5G and Beyond cellular systems, mmWave and Teraherz communications, massive MIMO, and UAV-assisted communications.
ECEN 5613 Electromagnetic Theory
Description: First graduate level treatment of classical electromagnetic theory. Wave equation, potential theory, boundary conditions. Rectangular, cylindrical and spherical wave functions. Conducting and dielectric guiding structures. Scattering and radiation. Introduction to numerical techniques.
ECEN 5623 Antenna Theory
Description: Fundamental antenna parameters, including directivity, efficiency, radiation resistance, and pattern. Analysis of dipole, loop, aperture, broad- band, and traveling wave antennas. Array theory. Introduction to numerical techniques used in modern antenna design.
ECEN 5633 Radar Theory
Description: Theoretical treatment of radar principles. Overview of radar systems and techniques, radar equation, integration of signals. Radar cross-section of single and multiple targets. Waveform design, resolution, ambiguities and accuracy. Range, speed and angular measurements. Detection of targets in noise. Statistical description of clutter. Signal processing techniques.
ECEN 5643 Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communications
Description: Aspects of radiowave propagation for fixed and mobile communication systems. Review of Maxwell's equations and plane wave propagation, antenna principles. Reflection, refraction, diffraction, fading and scintillation, attenuation, ducting, diversity. Propagation in a cellular environment. Satellite communications.
ECEN 5683 Biomedical Optics
Description: Biomedical optics, also often termed as biophotonics, is highly interdisciplinary subject on applying light for diagnostic detection and manipulation of biological tissue. This course introduces fundamental concepts and principal technologies of biomedical optics or biophotonics to graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students. The course includes three parts: The first part discusses light- tissue interaction. The second part introduces approaches to modeling photon propagation in tissue. The third part details several representative light-based sensing and imaging technologies for probing biological tissues at different spatial, spectral, and temporal scales for either morphological or functional diagnosis. Topics of therapeutic use of light will also be discussed.
ECEN 5713 Linear Systems
Description: Introduction to the fundamental theory of finite-dimensional linear systems with emphasis on the state-space representation. Mathematical representations of systems; linear dynamic solutions; controllability, observability, and stability; linearization and realization theory; and state feedback and state observer. Same course as MAE 5713.
ECEN 5733 Neural Networks
Description: Introduction to mathematical analysis of networks and learning rules, and on the application of neural networks to certain engineering problems in image and signal processing and control systems. Same course as CHE 5733 and MAE 5733.
ECEN 5763 Digital Signal Processing
Description: Discrete-time signals and systems; transform analysis of linear systems; design and implementation of digital filters; analog to digital conversion, quantization effects, and oversampling; discrete Fourier transform and the FFT; Fourier analysis using the DFT; introduction to parametric signal modeling; and practical applications of digital signal processing.
ECEN 5773 Intelligent Systems
Description: Introduction to the state-of-the art intelligent control and system successfully deployed to industrial and defense applications. Emerging intelligent algorithms (e.g., NN, FS, GA, EP, DES); intelligent control architecture (e.g., bottom-up, top-down, seminotics); reinforcement learning and hybrid systems; and case studies and design projects. Same course as MAE 5773.
ECEN 5783 Medical Imaging
Description: A comprehensive introduction to the physics and engineering foundations of the standard medical imaging modalities used today. Topics include radiation, radiation-interaction with matter, X-ray radiography, ultrasonography, X-ray computed tomography, image reconstruction and analysis, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear radiation based imaging, and image monitoring aspects of radiation therapy. The fundamental mathematics underlying each imaging modality is reviewed and the hardware needed to implement each system is examined.
ECEN 5793 Digital Image Processing
Description: Digital image processing including image acquisition, enhancement, restoration, color image processing, morphological processing, segmentation, representation and description.
ECEN 5803 Geometrical Optics
Description: Foundations of geometrical optics, geometrical theory of optical imaging, geometrical theory aberrations, image forming instruments. Same course as PHYS 5123.
ECEN 5823 Physical Optics
Description: Multiple beam interference, diffractions, imaging, near field optical probes of matter, surface plasmons, light scattering from random media, optical coherence tomography- biomedical applications, negative materials, perfect lenses and super resolution. Same course as PHYS 5303.
ECEN 5833 Fiber-Optic Communication Systems
Description: The fundamentals of fiber-optic communication systems are described in detail. Fiber electromagnetic behaviors, laser and LED transmitters, photodetectors and semiconductor receivers and other hardware components are covered. System level design and integration concepts are covered including modulation schemes, multiplexing, dispersion and power budget, sampling, incoherent and coherent detection, error control, and network distribution. A historical framework shows how technical capabilities and growing communication needs forced fiber systems evolution.
ECEN 5843 Microelectronic Fabrication
Description: Contamination control and clean-room, vacuum systems, wafer manufacturing. Photolithography and alternative lithographic techniques. Physical and chemical vapor deposition, oxidation, etching, doping, packaging, formation of semiconductor devices and circuits. A series of Fabrication lab projects is conducted starting from bare silicon wafers to fabricate Optoelectronic circuits.
ECEN 5853 Ultrafast Optoelectronics
Description: Principles in ultrafast lasers and terahertz radiation are discussed. Topics include generation, propagation, amplification, and measurement of femtosecond optical pulses. Generation, detection, and manipulation of terahertz waves as fundamentals to understand how time-domain spectroscopy and imaging work will be described. Selected advanced topics in ultrafast metamaterials and plasmonics will also be discussed.
ECEN 5923 Introduction to MEMS
Description: Fundamentals of Microsystems. Topics include: energy transduction mechanisms, energy dissipation modeling, energy methods, mechanics of small scale, fabrication process design, micromachining, electronic interface.
ECEN 6000 Dissertation
Description: Independent research for students continuing graduate study beyond the level of the MS degree.
Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 36 credit hours.
ECEN 6001 PhD Seminar Series
Description: Seminar series for PhD studies and research.
ECEN 6050 Preliminary PhD Research and Proposal
Description: Independent research and report of an advanced electrical engineering problem. Work performed serves as foundation of the oral PhD preliminary exam.
Offered for fixed credit, 3 credit hours.
ECEN 6060 Special Topics
Description: Advanced engineering topics not normally included in existing courses. Repeat credit may be earned with different course subtitles assigned.
Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
ECEN 6070 Advanced Directed Studies
Description: Investigation outside of the classroom of topics not normally covered in lecture courses.
Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 12 credit hours.
ECEN 6123 Special Topics in Power Systems
Description: Selected relevant current topics related to power system operation and planning.
ECEN 6253 Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture
Description: Innovations in the architecture and organization of computers, with an emphasis on parallelism. Topics may include pipelining, multiprocessors, data flow, and reduction machines. Same course as CS 6253.
ECEN 6263 Advanced VLSI Design and Applications
Description: System timing. Designing testable integrated circuits. Specialized parallel processing architectures. Application examples.
ECEN 6453 Adaptive Control
Description: Analysis and design of control techniques that modify their performance to adapt to changes in system operation. Review of systems analysis techniques, including state variable representations, linearization, discretization, covariance analysis, stability, and linear quadratic Gaussian design. On-line parameter estimation, model reference adaptive systems, self-tuning regulators, stable adaptive systems. Same course as MAE 6453. Course previously offered as ECEN 6450.
ECEN 6483 Robust Multivariate Control Systems
Description: Introduction to multivariable systems: SISO robustness vs. MIMO robustness; multivariable system poles and zeros; MIMO transfer functions; multivariable frequency response analysis; multivariable Nyquist theorem; performance specifications; stability of feedback systems; linear fractional transformations (LFT's); parameterization of all stabilizing controllers; structured singular value; algebraic ricatti equations; H2 optimal control; H-infinity controller design. Same course as MAE 6483.
ECEN 6523 Information Theory
Description: Mathematical theory of information (Shannon theory) including information measure and transmission rates and capacities. Source coding theory including algebraic and error-correcting codes. Design of waiver-forms for noise immunity. Information transfer in learning systems.
ECEN 6803 Photonics I: Advanced Optics
Description: Advanced optics including spectral and time characteristics of detectors, characteristics of lasers, time, spectral and spatial parameters of laser emission, interferometric techniques, and nonlinear effects such as two-photon absorption and second and third harmonic generations. Emphasis on ultrashort laser pulses. Same course as CHEM 6803 & PHYS 6803.
ECEN 6810 Photonics II: THz Photonics and THz-TD
Description: Concepts and techniques of driving electronic circuitry with ultra short laser pulses to generate and detect freely propagating pulses of THz electromagnetic radiation using several operational research systems. Same course as CHEM 6810 & PHYS 6810. Course previously offered as ECEN 6811.
Offered for fixed credit, maximum of 4 credit hours.
ECEN 6820 Photonics II: Spectroscopy II
Description: Operating principles and applications of laser spectroscopy of atoms, molecules, solids and complex fluids. Absorption, emission, photon correlation, coherence, time resolved Fourier transform. Raman spectroscopy and non-linear optical. Same course as CHEM 6820 & PHYS 6820. Course previously offered as ECEN 6821.
Offered for fixed credit, maximum of 4 credit hours.
ECEN 6823 Advanced Optical Techniques
Description: State-of-the-art optical devices and research methodologies. Investigation and discussion of contemporary developments in non-linear optical devices and laser applications. Includes both analytical and experimental techniques.
ECEN 6830 Photonics II: Spectroscopy III
Description: Advanced spectroscopic instruments and methods used for investigation of semi-conductors and solid state material. Stimulated emission characterized both in wavelength and in time. Time-resolved fluorescence measurements. Multiphotonic excitations. Fast measuring techniques, including subnanosecond detectors, picosecond streak cameras, and ultra fast four-wave mixing and correlation techniques. Time-dependent photoconductivity measurements. Same course as CHEM 6830 & PHYS 6830. Course previously offered as ECEN 6831.
Offered for 1 fixed credit hour, maximum of 4 credit hours.
ECEN 6840 Photonics III: Microscopy I
Description: The structure and imaging of solid surfaces. Basics of scanning probe microscopy (SPM). Contact and non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) in air. Same course as CHEM 6840 & PHYS 6840. Course previously offered as ECEN 6841.
Offered for fixed credit hours, maximum of 4 credit hours.
ECEN 6843 Advanced Microelectronic Fabrication
Description: Photolithography, wet and dry etching, thermal and electron beam evaporation, photomask design using L-Edit, silicon devices processing, quartz devices processing, silicon-on-sapphire devices processing. GaAs devices processing and MEMS devices processing.
ECEN 6850 Photonics III: Microscopy II
Description: Advanced techniques of scanning probe microscopy (SPM). Magnetic force microscopy, Kelvin force microscopy, scanning probe microscopy (STM) in vacuum. Characterization of materials with SPM. Nanolithography with SPM. Device manufacturing and analysis. Same course as CHEM 6850 & PHYS 6850. Course previously offered as ECEN 6851.
Offered for 1 fixed credit hour, maximum of 4 credit hours.
ECEN 6860 Photonics III: Microscopy III and Image Processing
Description: Digital image processing, including projects. Image acquisition and display, image enhancement, geometric operations, linear and nonlinear filtering, image restoration, edge detection, image analysis, morphology, segmentation, recognition, and coding/compression. Same course as CHEM 6860 & PHYS 6860.
Offered for fixed credit hours, maximum of 4 credit hours.
ECEN 6870 Photonics IV: Synthesis and Devices I
Description: Preparation of functional nanostructures and related optical/electronic devices. Physical and chemical methods of thin film deposition. Engineering of prototypes of light emitting diodes, sensors, optical limiting coatings, lithographic patterns. Same course as CHEM 6870 & PHYS 6870. Course previously offered as ECEN 6871.
Offered for 1 fixed credit hour, maximum of 4 credit hours.
ECEN 6880 Photonics IV: Semiconductor Devices, Testing and Characterization
Description: Test and characterization of semiconductor and optoelectronic devices. Hall effect, four point probe, CV and IV measurements, optical pump-probe, photoluminescence and electro-optics sampling. Same course as CHEM 6880 & PHYS 6880. Course previously offered as ECEN 6881.
Offered for 1 fixed credit hour, maximum of 4 credit hours.
ECEN 6890 Photonics IV: Semiconductor Synthesis and Devices III
Description: Processing, fabrication and characterization of semiconductor optoelectronic devices in class 100/10000 cleanrooms. Cleanroom operation including general procedure for material processing and device fabrication. Device processing using a variety of processing such as mask aligner, vacuum evaporators and rapid thermal annealer. Testing using optical and electrical testing apparatus such as I-V, C-V, Hall, and optical spectral measurement systems. Same course as CHEM 6890 & PHYS 6890. Course previously offered as ECEN 6891.
Offered for fixed 1 credit hour, maximum of 4 credit hours.