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2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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How to Read Catalog Course Descriptions

Texas Tech offers nearly 5,000 courses as part of its curriculum. These courses are listed alphabetically by subject prefix within each college and departmental section of this catalog. The courses appear in numerical order, moving from beginning freshman or developmental level courses to graduate, research, and professional courses.

Not all courses listed in this catalog are offered every year. An online class schedule published before each registration period indicates courses that will be available during the upcoming term or semester and when each class will meet. The class schedule can be found at (www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/class_schedule/index.php). The university reserves the right to cancel any scheduled course or withdraw any program from the list of offerings when the best interests of the institution require such action.

Courses are designated by a subject prefix and number along with a descriptive title. Learn more  about interpreting the course descriptions found throughout the catalog.
 

ECE - Electrical and Computer Engineering (Undergraduate Courses)
  

  • ECE 1304 - Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in MATH 1451  (may be taken concurrently). Introduction to the electrical and computer engineering disciplines including familiarization with relevant design tools. Overview of the profession, contemporary issues, and ethics.
  

  • ECE 1305 - Introduction to Engineering and Computer Programming

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in MATH 1451  (may be taken concurrently). An introduction to the fundamentals of computing and structured programming for electrical engineering.
  

  • ECE 2372 - Modern Digital System Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in MATH 1451  (may be taken concurrently). An introduction to combinational and sequential digital systems.
  

  • ECE 3301 - General Electrical Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CE, CHE, CONE, CS, ENVE, IE, ME, and PETR majors only; 2.0 TTU GPA; C or better in MATH 1452 .  Analysis of electric circuits. Introduction to electronic instrumentation and electromechanics. For non-majors only. For non-majors only.
  

  • ECE 3302 - Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in MATH 1452 , majors only. Principles of electric circuits. DC, transient, and sinusoidal steady-state analysis.
  

  • ECE 3303 - Linear System Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 1304  and ECE 3302 . Corequisite: MATH 3350 . Concepts of signal and system analysis in time and frequency domains as applied to electric circuits. Laplace transform, Fourier series, and Fourier transform techniques are stressed.
  

  • ECE 3304 - Discrete-Time Signals and Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3303  (may be taken concurrently). For majors only or departmental consent. Discrete-time signal processing, sampling, z-transform, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, infinite and finite impulse response digital filter design and implementation.
  

  • ECE 3306 - Electric Circuits II

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3302 . For majors only or departmental consent. Includes concepts of inductively coupled circuits, three phase circuits, frequency dependent circuits, active and passive filters, Laplace methods of circuits, transfer functions for linear circuits, and two port networks.
  

  • ECE 3311 - Electronics I

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3302 . Introduction to electronic devices, amplifiers, and electronic systems. Principles of electronic circuit design and analysis.
  

  • ECE 3312 - Electronics II

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3311 , ECE 3303 , and MATH 3350 . For majors only or departmental consent. Analysis and design of special-purpose amplifiers and oscillators.
  

  • ECE 3323 - Principles of Communication Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3303 , MATH 3342  or IE 3341 . For majors only or departmental consent. Random processes and spectral densities. Fourier Transforms and linear systems concepts. Amplitude, phase angle, and pulse modulation communication systems.
  

  • ECE 3331 - Project Laboratory I

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ENGL 1302 ; ECE 1305  or CS 1412 ; ECE 2372  and ECE 3302 . A laboratory course to accompany second-year basic courses in electrical or computer engineering. (CL)
  

  • ECE 3332 - Project Laboratory II

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3303 , ECE 3311 , ECE 3331 , and ECE 3362 . For ECE and CMPE majors only or departmental consent. A laboratory course to accompany third-year basic courses in electrical engineering. (CL)
  

  • ECE 3333 - Project Laboratory III

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3312 , ECE 3323 , and ECE 3332 . For majors only or departmental consent. A laboratory course to accompany third-year basic courses in electrical or computer engineering. (CL)
  

  • ECE 3334 - Computer Engineering Project Laboratory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3304  and ECE 3332 . For CMPE majors only or departmental consent. A laboratory course to accompany third-year basic courses in computer engineering. (CL)
  

  • ECE 3341 - Electromagnetic Theory I

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3303 ; PHYS 2401 , MATH 3350 . For majors only or departmental consent. Vector analysis. Partial differential equations. General treatment of static, electric, and magnetic fields from the vector viewpoint.
  

  • ECE 3342 - Electromagnetic Theory II

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3341  and MATH 3351 . For majors only or departmental consent General solutions for Maxwell’s equations. Traveling waves in scalar media. Boundary conditions and constraints imposed by bounding surfaces.
  

  • ECE 3353 - Feedback Control Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3303  and MATH 3350 . For majors only or departmental consent. An introduction to the analysis and design of automatic control systems. Control system concepts. Controller design and digital control.
  

  • ECE 3362 - Microcontrollers

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 1305  or CS 1412  and ECE 2372  (may be taken concurrently). Advanced digital systems design. Assembly language programming, interfacing, and applications of microcontrollers.
  

  • ECE 4120 - ECE Seminar

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Readings and discussion of the electrical and computer engineering professions, history, ethics, career paths, and research opportunities.
  

  • ECE 4132 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Minimum 2.50 TTU GPA, majors only or departmental consent. Elaboration on a special topic of current interest in electrical engineering. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ECE 4232 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

    2 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Minimum of 2.50 TTU GPA, majors only or departmental consent. Elaboration on a special topic of current interest in electrical engineering. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ECE 4310 - Introduction to VLSI Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3311 . For majors only or departmental consent. A basic introduction to very large-scale integrated design of circuits and devices. Geometrical patterns of semiconductor devices on a chip, MOS circuits, masking and patterning, and automation tools.
  

  • ECE 4314 - Solid State Devices

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3312 , ECE 3341 , and CHEM 1307 . For majors only or departmental consent. Principles and properties of semiconductor devices and optical devices. Thyristors and other switches. Integrated circuit devices. Device modeling.
  

  • ECE 4316 - Power Electronics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3312 , ECE 3323 , and ECE 3353 . For majors only or departmental consent. Switch-mode power conversion, power supplies, inverters, motor drives, power semiconductor devices, and magnetics. System analysis, design, and modeling.
  

  • ECE 4321 - Applications of Analog Integrated Circuits

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3312 , ECE 3323 , ECE 3353 . For majors only or departmental consent. Principles involved in designing analog integrated circuits. Device physics, small-signal and large-signal models. Biasing and basic circuit building blocks. Applications.
  

  • ECE 4323 - Modern Communication Circuits

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3312  and ECE 3323 . For majors only or departmental consent. Analysis and design techniques for modern communication circuits.
  

  • ECE 4325 - Telecommunication Networks

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3304  or ECE 3323 . For majors only or departmental consent. Networking and standards. Data and voice network architectures, cellular, satellite and telephone networks. Protocols. Network modeling and optimization. Queuing theory.
  

  • ECE 4331 - Individual Studies in Electrical Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA, instructor consent. For majors only or departmental consent. For majors only or departmental consent. Individual study involving a rigorous theoretical investigation of some aspect of an electrical engineering problem of current interest. Formal written and oral reports are required. May not be repeated for credit.
  

  • ECE 4332 - Topics in Electrical Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA, majors only or departmental consent. Elaboration on a special topic of current interest in electrical engineering. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ECE 4333 - Project Laboratory IV

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3333  or ECE 3334 . For majors only or departmental consent. A laboratory course to accompany fourth-year courses in electrical or computer engineering. (CL)
  

  • ECE 4334 - Project Laboratory V

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3333  or ECE 3334 . For majors only or departmental consent. A laboratory course to accompany fourth-year courses in electrical or computer engineering.
  

  • ECE 4341 - Microwave Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3342 . For majors only or departmental consent. Analysis and design of microwave passive components, including transmission lines, waveguides, resonators, hybrids, couplers, attenuators, filters, circulators, switches, and phase shifters.
  

  • ECE 4342 - Microwave Solid-State Circuits

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3312 . For majors only or departmental consent. Review of transmission-line and waveguide theory, scattering matrix, impedance matching, resonators, passive three- and four-port devices, filters, active circuits.
  

  • ECE 4343 - Introduction to Power Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3341 . For majors only or departmental consent. Electrical power transmission and distribution systems; power generation systems, system modeling, planning, management and protection.
  

  • ECE 4344 - Antennas and Radiating Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3342 . For majors only or departmental consent. Antenna fundamentals, uniformly spaced arrays, wire antennas of various types, aperture radiation, antennas for special applications.
  

  • ECE 4354 - Power Semiconductor Devices

    3 Semester Credit Hours
     Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 4314 . For majors only or departmental consent. An introduction to the design and simulation of power semiconductor devices. Covers the operation of power diodes, power MOSFETS, and IGBTs. Power devices will be modeled using a physic-based simulator.
  

  • ECE 4360 - Fiber Optic Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3312 , ECE 3323 , ECE 3341  and CHEM 1307 . For majors only or departmental consent Optical fibers, couplers, sources, and detectors; applications to communications and sensing.
  

  • ECE 4362 - Modern Optics for Engineers

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3323  and ECE 3342 . For majors only or departmental consent. Modern concepts in optics related to engineering applications. Geometrical optics; matrix methods in optics; polarization, interference, coherence, and lasers; Fourier optics; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction.
  

  • ECE 4363 - Pattern Recognition

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in MATH 3342 , MATH 3350 , ECE 3303 , and ECE 3304  or ECE 3323 . For majors only or departmental consent. Foundational topics in pattern recognition, linear discriminant functions, support vector machines, generalized decision functions, Bayes classifier, and various clustering techniques.
  

  • ECE 4364 - Digital Signal Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3304 . For majors only or departmental consent. An introduction to digital signal processing. Sampling, z-transform, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, flowgraphs, design techniques for digital filters, effects of finite word length, and applications.
  

  • ECE 4365 - Parametric and Functional Device Testing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: C or better in ECE 3332  and MATH 3342  or IE 3341 ; GPA 2.5; majors only or departmental consent. Fundamentals of semiconductor device chip and wafer testing. Parametric and functional tests, test philosophy, C programming for testing, and commercial wafer level testers.
  

  • ECE 4366 - Testing of Digital Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Prerequisite: C or better in ECE 3332  and MATH 3342  or IE 3341 ; 2.5 GPA; majors only or departmental consent. High level test synthesis, fault modeling and diagnosis, design for test, built-in self test, test code generation, and applications.
  

  • ECE 4367 - Image Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3303 ; ECE 3304  or ECE 3323 ; MATH 3342  and MATH 3350 . For majors or departmental consent. Imaging fundamentals. Linear operations in both spatial and frequency domains. Image enhancement and restoration techniques. Analysis and coding of images.
  

  • ECE 4375 - Microprocessor Architecture

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in CS 2350  or ECE 3362 . For majors only or departmental consent. An introduction to the architecture, organization, and design of microprocessors. Hardware design related to various microprocessors. Analysis of current microprocessors and applications.
  

  • ECE 4377 - Technology Startup Laboratory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3333  or ECE 3334 . Provides a working knowledge of technology commercialization through a systematic concept refinement process. Prototypes are developed and evaluated by potential customers.
  

  • ECE 4378 - Solar Energy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3333  or ECE 3334 . Provides an overview of photovoltaic materials, devices, and systems. Students learn to analyze performance based on available solar light. Design projects provide practical experience.
  

  • ECE 4380 - Embedded Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 GPA; C or better in ECE 3362  or CS 2350 , and ECE 3304  or ECE 3323 . For majors only or departmental consent. Control of peripherals. Streaming data. Implementation of discrete convolution. Real-time operating systems.
  

  • ECE 4381 - VLSI Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3311 , PHYS 2401  and MATH 3350 . For majors only or departmental consent. Introduction to the physical principles, techniques, and technologies involved with the fabrication of very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI).
  

  • ECE 4382 - Digital IC Analysis and Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3312  and ECE 3362 . For majors only or departmental consent. Design of VLSI digital integrated circuits including basic device theory and processing technologies.
  

  • ECE 4385 - Introduction to Microsystems I

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 3303  and ECE 3311 . For majors only or departmental consent. Fundamentals of microelectromechanical (MEMS) and microfluidic systems. Project-based course introduces microsystem design, analysis, simulation, and manufacture through several case studies using representative devices.
  

  • ECE 4386 - Introduction to Microsystems II

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better in ECE 4385 . For majors only or departmental consent. Application of microfabrication to create microsensor systems. Integration of optics, optoelectronics, and microfluids. Includes other MEMS projects.
  

  • ECE 4391 - Electric Machines and Drives

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.5 TTU GPA; C or better inECE 3341 . For majors only or departmental consent. Analysis and control of DC machines and induction machines. Space vector theory. Field oriented control. Modeling of machine and controller dynamics.

ECE - Electrical and Computer Engineering (Graduate Courses)
  

  • ECE 5120 - Electrical Engineering Graduate Seminar

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Discussion will concern present research conducted in electrical engineering and other topics of interest to electrical engineers.
  

  • ECE 5310 - Introduction to VLSI Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A basic introduction to very large-scale integrated (VLSI) design of circuits and devices. Geometrical patterns of semiconductor devices on a chip, MOS circuits, masking and patterning, and automation tools.
  

  • ECE 5312 - Low Power VLSI

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Advanced and low power CMOS processes and devices, modeling and simulation, low power design, power management, systems-on-a-chip integration issues.
  

  • ECE 5314 - Solid State Devices

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Semiconductor materials and band theory of solids. Physics of semiconductor devices, charge transport, PN junctions, diodes, bipolar junction transistors, optoelectronic devices, and MOS devices.
  

  • ECE 5316 - Power Electronics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Switch mode power conversion, converters and inverters, power supplies and regulators, and power semiconductor circuits.
  

  • ECE 5320 - DC-DC Converter Design and Test

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Focuses on the design and testing of low-power DC converters, including Buck, Boost, Buck-boost, and LDOs. Covers steady state and transient performance and includes a lab component.
  

  • ECE 5321 - Design and Analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Principles involved in designing analog integrated circuits. Device physics, small signal, and large signal models. Biasing and basic circuit building blocks. Applications.
  

  • ECE 5322 - Random Signals and Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Modeling and analysis of uncertainty or randomness; applying probability, random variables, and random processes to a variety of applications.
  

  • ECE 5323 - Modern Communication Circuits

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Analysis and design techniques for modern communication circuits.
  

  • ECE 5325 - Telecommunication Networks

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Networking and standards. Data and voice network architectures, cellular, satellite and telephone networks. Protocols. Network modeling and optimization. Queuing theory.
  

  • ECE 5331 - Individual Studies in Engineering Applications

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Graduate standing in engineering and consent of instructor. An individual study course involving a rigorous theoretical investigation of some aspect of an engineering problem of current interest. A formal report is required. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ECE 5332 - Topics in Electrical Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Elaborates on a special topic of current interest in electrical engineering. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ECE 5341 - Microwave Engineering: Passive Components

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Analysis and design of microwave passive components, including transmission lines, waveguides, resonators, hybrids, couplers, attenuators, filters, circulators, switches, and phase shifters.
  

  • ECE 5342 - Microwave Solid State Circuits

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Review of transmission-line and waveguide theory, scattering matrix, impedance matching, resonators, passive three- and four-port devices, filters, active circuits.
  

  • ECE 5343 - Power Systems Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Electrical power transmission and distribution systems; power generation systems; system modeling, planning, management and protection.
  

  • ECE 5344 - Antennas and Radiating Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ECE 3342 . Antenna fundamentals, uniformly spaced arrays, wire antennas of various types, aperture radiation, antennas for special applications.
  

  • ECE 5345 - Pulsed Power

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ECE 3342 . Fundamentals of pulsed power circuits, components, and systems. Pulse forming lines, energy storage, voltage multipliers, switching, materials, grounding and shielding, measurements, and applications.
  

  • ECE 5346 - Plasma Engineering: An Introductory Course in Plasma Physics and Technology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Fundamentals of plasma physics and technology, including gas discharge processes, plasma surface treatment, role of non-thermal plasmas, material processing, and biomedical treatment.
  

  • ECE 5347 - Laser Diagnostic Techniques

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Fundamentals of basic problems in laser physics and laser diagnostic techniques, specifically non-linear laser spectroscopy methods and applications, including environmental sensing and plasma diagnostics.
  

  • ECE 5348 - Computational Electromagnetics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Computational electromagnetics in guided-wave structures, wave scattering, and radiation. Emphasizes finite difference time domain and frequency domain methods and moment methods.
  

  • ECE 5350 - Introduction to Medical Instrumentation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Biomedical instrumentation, transducers, signals, circuits and filters, utilization of biopotential techniques in respiration, cardiac, and audiology.
  

  • ECE 5351 - Biomedical Signal Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An overview of conventional and modern signal processing techniques and their applications taught in the context of biomedical signals and signal models.
  

  • ECE 5352 - Medical Imaging

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Medical imaging techniques including radiography and ionizing radiation, computer aided tomography, PET, MRI, and image reconstruction and processing techniques.
  

  • ECE 5353 - Gaseous Electronics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Kinetic theory of gases, collisions, emission processes, self sustained discharge, paschen law, glow discharge, arc discharge, streamers, spark discharge, corona discharge, gas lasers.
  

  • ECE 5354 - Power Semiconductor Devices

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ECE 5314 . Introduction to the design and simulation of power semiconductors. Topics include high voltage breakdown, high current density, and temperature effects.
  

  • ECE 5355 - Genomic Signal Processing and Control

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An introduction to genomics with techniques from signal processing and control. Intergene relationships, classification of disease, genetic regulatory networks, and dynamic behavior.
  

  • ECE 5356 - Biosensors and Bioelectronics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Biosensors and semiconductor devices, cells, and other biomaterials. Bio-Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (Bio-MEMS) and low-power wearable/implantable medical devices.
  

  • ECE 5358 - Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Introduction to the physical principles and techniques involved with the semiconductor processing of different electronic and optoelectronic devices.
  

  • ECE 5360 - Fiber Optic Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Optical fibers, couplers, sources, and detectors; applications to communications and sensing. Integrated optics.
  

  • ECE 5361 - Advanced Communication Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Information transmission in electronic systems. Random variables and stochastic processes, noise in analog and digital modulation systems, and optimal receivers.
  

  • ECE 5362 - Modern Optics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Modern concepts in optics related to engineering applications. Geometrical, physical, and quantum optics; Fourier optics, holography, and image processing.
  

  • ECE 5363 - Pattern Recognition

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Foundational topics in pattern recognition. Linear discriminant functions, support vector machines, generalized decision functions, Bayes classifier, and various clustering techniques.
  

  • ECE 5364 - Digital Signal Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An introduction to digital signal processing. Sampling, z-transform, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, flowgraphs, design techniques for digital filters, effects of finite word length and applications.
  

  • ECE 5365 - Parametric and Functional Device Testing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Fundamentals of semiconductor device chip and wafer testing. Parametric and functional tests, test philosophy, C programming for testing, and commercial wafer level testers.
  

  • ECE 5366 - Testing of Digital Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    High level test synthesis, fault modeling and diagnosis, design for test, built-in self test, test code generation, and applications.
  

  • ECE 5367 - Image Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Imaging fundamentals. Linear operators in spatial and spatial-frequency domains. Image enhancement and restoration techniques. Analysis and coding of images.
  

  • ECE 5368 - Advanced Control Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An introduction to advanced control systems. Optimal, adaptive, and robust control of linear and nonlinear systems. Fuzzy logic and neural network applications to control systems.
  

  • ECE 5371 - Engineering Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Application of mathematical methods and algorithms to engineering problems, stochastic linear system models, vector spaces and operators, orthogonality principle and its applications, adaptive filtering, matrix factorizational application of eigendecomposition methods.
  

  • ECE 5375 - Computer Architecture

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An introduction to the architecture, organization and design of microprocessors. Hardware design related to various microprocessors. Analysis of current microprocessors and applications.
  

  • ECE 5376 - System Modeling and Simulation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Mixed-signal system specification, behavioral modeling and analysis, functional modeling and analysis, mixed-signal system design, and evaluation.
  

  • ECE 5377 - Technology Startup Laboratory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Provides a working knowledge of technology commercialization through a systematic concept refinement process. Prototypes are developed and evaluated by potential customers.
  

  • ECE 5378 - Solar Energy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Provides an overview of photovoltaic materials, devices, and systems. Students learn to analyze performance based on available solar light. Design projects provide practical experience.
  

  • ECE 5380 - Embedded Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Control of peripherals, streaming of data, implementation of discrete convolution, real-time operating systems.
  

  • ECE 5381 - Introduction to Semiconductor Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to the physical principles, techniques, and technologies involved with the fabrication of very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI).
  

  • ECE 5382 - Advanced Digital System Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Advanced VLSI design. Computer arithmetic. High speed computation. Digital hardware design. CAD tools for VLSI design.
  

  • ECE 5383 - Communication Integrated Circuits Design I

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Covers the fundamentals of RF-SoC (Radio-Frequency System-on-a-Chip) design. For students interested in RF/analog IC and SoC design, semiconductor products testing, and device/process engineering.
  

  • ECE 5384 - Communication Integrated Circuits Design II

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Theory and design of RF/analog block-level IC and RF-SoC architectural design. Hands-on design projects for students to gain IC and SoC experience.
 

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