Prerequisite: Computer Engineering 271 and Electrical Engineering 410 with a grade of C- (1.7) or better in each course.

Wide area and local area networks, multi-layered protocols, telephone systems, modems, and network applications.

Prerequisite: Credit or concurrent registration in Computer Engineering 560.

Design and implementation of multimedia communication systems. Image compression, JPEG, VQ, cell- B standards. Video and audio compression standards, MPEG, MPEG-2, H.26X, G.72X. Data storage systems and multimedia requirements. Networking requirements and networks as multimedia carriers. Transport and network protocols for carrying multimedia over data networks. Multimedia system design, scheduling, congestion control, traffic shaping, buffer management.

Prerequisite: Computer Engineering 470 with a grade of C (2.0) or better.

VLSI systems at the architectural level for digital signal processing applications: feedforward and feedback systems, fixed-point and floating-point representations, folding, iteration bound, parallel architectures, pipelining, retiming, unfolding, wave and asynchronous pipelining.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 330 with a grade of C- (1.7) or better.

Recent developments in electronic assistive devices and microcomputers for persons with various disabilities; assessment of disabled persons for suitable technological assistive devices.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 410 and Electrical Engineering 430 (or for Mechanical Engineering majors, Electrical Engineering 204, Mechanical Engineering 330, and Aerospace Engineering 280 with a grade of C- (1.7) or better).

Instrumentation systems to monitor, image, control, and record physiological functions.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 420.

Digital controls systems; design algorithms including analog invariance methods, direct digital techniques, and non-parametric approaches such as fuzzy control, neural networks, and evolutionary systems; implementation considerations. (Formerly numberd Electrical Engineering 622.)

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 430 with minimum grade of C-.

Advanced treatment of transistor pairs, device mismatches, differential amplifiers, current mirrors, active loads, level shifting, and output stages. Parasitic and distributed device parameters. Economics of IC fabrication and impact on design.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 440. Recommended: Aerospace Engineering 515.

Applications of Maxwell’s equations to wave propagation. Microwave network parameters; guided wave transmission and reflection. Design of filters, couplers, power dividers and amplifiers. Applications in radar and telecommunications systems.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 458.

Design of baseband digital communication systems; noise characterization, sampling, quantization, matched filter receivers, bit-error performance, inter-symbol interference, link budget analysis.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 480.

Three-phase faults, symmetrical components, unsymmetrical faults, protective relay operating principles, economic dispatch of thermal power generation units, power system controls, voltage and power stability.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 380 and 430 with a grade of C- (1.7) or better in each course.

Design and analysis of power electronic devices. Permanentmagnet and pulse-width modulation ac- to-ac converters, dc-to-ac inverters, power electronics applications, power semiconductor switches, and switch-mode power supplies. (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 484.)

Prerequisite: Credit or concurrent registration in Electrical Engineering 584.

Experimental design of dc-dc converters (boost, buck, buck-boost), flyback and forward converters, voltage and current mode control design and implementation. Basic photovoltaics and maximum-power-point-tracking (MPPT) design and battery charge control using switched-mode dc-dc converters.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 430.

Ultra-low power computing electronics concepts mimicking computing by biological neurons. Commercial neuromorphic systems and processors for machine learning applications.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 420.

State models and solutions of the state equations, stability, controllability and observability, realizability and minimal realizations, linear state and output feedback control, introduction to linear optimal control.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 410.

Random signals, correlation functions, power spectral densities, the Gaussian process, narrow band processes. Applications to communication systems.
(Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 553)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

Unconstrained and constrained optimization problems. Convex sets, functions, analysis, and optimization problems. Least-squares, linear, and quadratic programs. Optimality conditions, duality theory.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 540.

RF component and circuit design in frequency domain and scattering parameter terms. Linear amplifiers, stability considerations, unilateralization, matching techniques, low-noise amplifiers, wideband designs, power amplifiers, linearity considerations, oscillators, and mixers.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 440.

Antenna radiation mechanism, antenna types, fundamental antenna parameters, microstrip patch antennas, theory and design of various array and wire antennas, antenna measurement techniques and radio wave propagation in different propagation environments to include mobile communications, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications, and satellite communications.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 558 and 602.

Information measure of data sources; Shannon’s theorem and capacity of communication links; rate- distortion theory and performance of source codes.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 450 and 602.

Constrained and unconstrained Wiener filters. Performance surfaces and gradient-based search methods. LMS and RLS algorithms. Lattice filters. Applications of adaptive filters in beamforming, channel equalization, echo cancellation, and system modeling.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 450 and 558.

System level and DSP design of modems for wireless and wireline communications. Study modems for QAM, OFDM, CDMA, and T-1 modulation.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 450 and 602.

Advanced topics in FIR and IIR filter design. Quantization effects in digital filters. Sigma-delta modulation. Signal modeling. Parametric and non-parametric spectral estimation. Optimum filtering.

Prerequisite: Computer Engineering 560.

Sensor platforms, wireless channel characteristics, time synchronization, medium access control, topology control, routing protocols, localization, coverage and placement, detection and tracking, query processing.

Prerequisite: Computer Engineering 560.

Cross-layer protocol design, multimedia QoS-aware 4G, 5G, CRN, WLAN networks; multimedia source and bitstream characteristics, quality of service, and roles of processing capacity and power consumption.

Prerequisite: Computer Engineering 572.

High-performance and low-power digital application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips.

Prerequisite: Computer Engineering 470.

Theory and techniques for testing VLSI circuits and systems. Analog/mixed-signal testing, Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG), boundary scan and core-based testing, Built-in Self-Test (BIST), defect and fault diagnosis, Design For Testability (DFT), logic/fault simulation, memory test, machine learning applications in VLSI testing, scan design/architecture.

Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 440 and Computer Engineering 572.

Interconnect and power distribution network design in very-largescale integration systems packaging. High-speed transmission lines and crosstalk, macromodeling of interconnects. Switching noise, decoupling, numerical methodologies in power integrity design.

Prerequisite: Graduate level coursework in the area and consent of instructor.

Selected topics in electromagnetic fields and waves, optoelectronics, and semiconductor devices. May be repeated with new content and consent of graduate adviser. Maximum Credits: six units applicable to a master’s degree.

Prerequisite: Eighteen units of graduate level coursework in electrical engineering and consent of adviser.

Supervised internship or practicum experience with approval of graduate adviser. Not applicable to an advanced degree. Maximum credit three units.

Prerequisite: Consent of department chair. Open only to students in Plan A Thesis.

Research in engineering. Maximum credit six units applicable to a master’s degree for students in Plan A only.

Prerequisite: Consent of department chair. Open only to students in Plan B Project.

Individual study. Maximum credit three units applicable to a master’s degree for students in Plan B study.

Prerequisite: An officially appointed thesis committee and advancement to candidacy.

Preparation of a thesis for the master’s degree.

Prerequisite: Prior registration in Thesis 799A with an assigned grade symbol of RP.

Registration required in any semester or term following assignment of RP in Course 799A in which the student expects to use the facilities and resources of the university; also student must be registered in the course when the completed thesis is granted final approval.