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UMKC CATALOG
2009-2010 Catalog Graduate Courses School of Computing & Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
E&C-ENGR 5501 AP      Special Topics In Electrical Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5501 NN      Special Topics In Electrical Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5512      Microwave Remote Sensing
Basic principles of remote sensing including scattering, absorption, transmission, and reflection of microwave energy. Basic radiative transfer theory. Microwave remote sensing systems including altimeters, scatterometers, radiometers, & synthetic-aperture systems. Principle applications of remote sensing systems including imaging, atmospheric sounding, oceanographic monitoring, ice-sheet dynamics, etc. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 414.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5516      Computer Networks
Concepts and goals of computer networking, structure of computer networks, OSI model and layers, network control, analysis, design and management, data communication techniques including fiber optics, WAN, MAN and LAN architecture and protocols, internetworking, case studies and hand-on studying the performance by analytic modeling and computer simulation. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 424 or instructor's consent.
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E&C-ENGR 5528      Digital Hardware Systems Design
Characteristics and parameters of various hardware subsystem including main memory, auxiliary memory, arithmetic units, card equipment, etc., and principles of organization into efficient system. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 428.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5530      Digital Electronics
Electronic hardware aspects of digital systems. Includes state-of-the-art information on integrated-circuit logic devices and their applications. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 435 or instructor's consent.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5532      Biomedical Instrumentation
Biomedical objectives, physical and engineering principles; optimal equipment design and actual performance of biomedical instrumentation; considers practical instrumentation problem solutions and unsolved problems. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 330 and instructor's consent.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5535      Hdl-Based Digital Systems Design
This course covers hardware design techniques using a Hardware Description Language (HDL). It also discusses several digital system design methodologies, including structural specifications of hardware, HDL-based simulations and testbenches. Courses focus on the synthesis methodologies for use-defined primitives (UPD), data types, operators, Verilog constructs multiplexed datapaths, buses, bus drivers, FSMs, assignments, case, functions, tasks, named events and rapid protyping techniques with Verlog HDL, ASICs and FPGAs. Prerequisites: E&C-ENGR 226 (Logic Design) or consent of instructor.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5536      Power Electronics II
Circuit concepts and analysis techniques for transistor switching regulators, thyristor choppers, transistor inverters, self-commutated thyristor investers and cycloconverters. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 436.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5568      Economics Of Power Systems
Transmission loss formula coefficients, incremental costs and losses, economic scheduling of generation, and applications. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 466 and E&C-ENGR 467.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5572      Antennas & Propagation For Wireless Systems
This course introduces the mathematical aspects of the basic antenna parameters such as vector potential, gain, directivity, impedance, radiation patterns, and develops a comprehensive theory of antenna arrays including the effects of mutual coupling. In-depth modeling studies for wire, aperture and mircrstrip antennas, is presented; diffraction of plane electromagnetic (TE and TM) waves by perfectly conducting half-planes and wedges- applications to site-specific propagation path modeling in wireless systems. Prerequisites: E&C-ENGR 412 and E&C-ENGR 341 (or their equivalents) and written communication skills; must have a knowledge of MATLAB, C or C++ for computational work. Recommended: Prior or concurrent enrollment in PHYSICS 5500.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5579      Digital Signal Processing In Telecommunications
Applications of digital signal processing in telecommunications systems; oversampling and quantization, Delta-Sigma modulation, linear predictive speech coding, adaptive filtering, echo canceller, adaptive receivers and equalizers for wireless communication, digital cellular, CDMA. Prerequisites: E&C-ENGR 474 and E&C-ENGR 480.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5580      Advanced Digital Signal Processing
Topics in digital signal analysis and filtering, including hardware implementation, speech synthesis and recognition, multi-dimensional transforms, random-signal concepts, design methods and computer aids to analysis and design. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 480.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5586      Pattern Recognition
Decision functions, distance measures, minimum distance classifiers, hard clustering methods, fuzzy clustering methods, statistical pattern recognition methods, Bayesian classifiers, error probabilities, estimation of density functions, perceptrons, least-mean-square algorithms, feature selection, dimensionality reduction and syntactic pattern recognition. Prerequisites: COMP-SCI 394R or MATH 436, course in high-level programming language, some matrix theory and linear algebra or instructor's consent.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5588      Communication Theory I
Generalized communication systems, signal processing, signals as random processes, optimum receivers. Prerequisite: A statistics course, E&C-ENGR 478, and COMP-SCI 394R
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 AE      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 AN      Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 AS      Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics
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E&C-ENGR 5590 B      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 BB      Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 BP      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 C      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 CA      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 CD      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 CI      Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 CL      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 CS      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 CT      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 DC      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 DE      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 DS      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 ER      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 ES      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 ET      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 IE      Special Topics
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E&C-ENGR 5590 IP      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 MC      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 NA      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 NN      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 NR      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 ON      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 PD      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 PG      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 PL      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 PR      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 PS      Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 RD      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 RF      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 SD      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 T      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590 WW      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
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E&C-ENGR 5590      Special Topics
1-3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5590 XX      Special Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5597      Directed Readings
Readings in an electrical and computer engineering areas selected by the graduate student in consultation with a faculty member. Arrangements must be made prior to registration. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
1-3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5598      Research Seminar
Graduate research and/or readings in an electrical and computer engineering area selected by the graduate student in consultation with a faculty member. Arrangements must be made prior to registration. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
1-3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5599      Research
Independent investigation in field of electrical engineering to be presented in the form of a thesis.
1-6 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5600      Problems
Supervised investigation in electrical engineering to be presented in form of report.
2-5 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5606      Electromagnetic Scattering And Antenna Theory
Dyadic analysis; integral equations and Green's functions; field theorems-uniqueness, induction equivalence, reciprocity; image and Babinet's Principles; applications to antennas; method of stationary phase and applications to aperture antennas; array antennas and mutual coupling analysis; method of moments; asymptotic techniques and applications to EM scattering from wedges, sylinders, and spheres; RF propogation path loss modeling and conformal antennas. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 412 is required and PHYSICS 500 is recommended.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5616      Parallel And Distributed Processing
Covers the fundamental issues involved in designing and writing programs for simultaneous execution. Semaphores and monitor constructs are covered to provide a basis for critical section programming. Expansion of these concepts provide a basis for the analysis and design of control systems for multiprocessor devices and computer networks. Prerequisites: A suitable systems programming course or instructors consent.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5617      Neural Network Based Computing System
The course will consider computing systems based on neural networks and learning models, along with implementations and applications of such systems. Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5618      Artificial Intelligence
Concepts, theories, and models pertaining to neural nets, pattern recognition, learning systems, and programmed problem solving. Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5619      Theory Of Automata
Sequential machines: Turing machines; deterministic and stochastic automata; applications of automata. Prerequisite: instructor's consent.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5624      Digital Software Systems Design
Characteristics and parameters of various software subsystem including assemblers, compilers, utility programs, special programming packages, interpreters, and operating systems; and principles of organization into efficient systems. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 524.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5635      Vlsi Systems Design
Course discuss design of the MOSFETs (nFETs and pFETs), and high speed CMOS cascades in VLSI. It also covers the design of various arithmetic circuits, different fast adders, memories, and chip-level physical designs requirements in the VLSI subsystems are also the focus of this course. It uses Verilog HDL/VHDL as a tool to design VLSI systems. Prerequisites: E&C-ENGR 535 or knowledge of VHDL or instructor's consents
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5642      Advanced Integrated Circuits
Fundamentals of advanced integrated circuit design; diffusion, ion implantation and epitaxy; MOS and bipolar techniques; survey of current LSI design, fabrication and testing.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5644      Liapunov And Related Nonlinear Methods In Automatic Control
A study of nonlinear methods in automatic control including phase plane analysis, describing function techniques, basic definitions and theorems of Liapunov, methods of generating Liapunov functions, applications of Liapunov's methods, and Popov's methods. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 544.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5645      Optimal Control Theory
Analysis and design of dynamic systems using optimal control theory parameter optimization, dynamic optimization, computational methods, differential games. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 544.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5646      Stochastic Optimal Estimation And Control
Surveys random process theory; stochastic control and optimization; estimation and filtering based on Kalman-Bucy techniques; stochastic stability; adaptive and learning control systems. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 544.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5660      Power-Systems Stability
Performance of synchronous machines under transient conditions, power system stability, system fault computations using symmetrical components; computer solutions of power system problems.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5661      Solid State Energy Conversion
Solid state direct energy conversion; and design of thermoelectric generators and heat pumps.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5662      Power Electronic Drives
Advanced study of dc and ac motor drives controlled by power electronic methods, including phase controlled rectifier de chopper, cycloconvertyer, variable frequency inverters. Prerequisite: ECE 536 or consent of instructor. Recommended: E&C-ENGR 544 and E&C-ENGR 562.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5664      Lightning And Switching Surges In Power Systems
Overvoltage, switching surge and lightning effects of a power system. Use of grounding and lightning arresters. Effects of surges off and on machines. Prerequisites: ECE 466 and ECE 467, or equivalent.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5668      Advanced Computer Methods In Power System Analysis
Power system matrices. Sparse matrix methods. Advanced load flow analysis techniques and concepts. Contingency analysis. State estimation. Prerequisites: E&C-ENGR 466K and strong background in FORTRAN or C.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5670      Direct Current Power Systems
Characteristic and performance analysis of DC transmission lines and associated conversion systems.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5672      Power Systems Relaying
Theory of relaying systems for power system protection, improvement of power system stability. Relay coordination; performance of relays during transient swings and out-of-step conditions. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 466.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5674      Machine Intelligence
Formal languages in relation to natural language processing; formal languages, graphs, and image processing; formal logic and automated theorem proving; natural language processing; aspects of problem solving and heuristic programming.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5675      Introduction To The Modeling And Management Of Uncertainty
Theoretical and practical issues in the modeling and management of uncertainty. Topics include probabilistic uncertainty, belief theory and fuzzy set theory. Applications to computer vision, pattern recognition and expert systems.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5676      Advanced Electric Circuit Analysis
Specialized study of mathematical analysis as applied to solutions of circuit networks with fixed and variable parameters.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5677      Network Synthesis
Surveys linear active and nonreciprocal circuit elements, realizability conditions, methods for synthesizing active networks, and practical applications. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 676.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5680      Digital And Sample-Data Systems
Introduces sampling and quantization, design of digital and sample-data systems, digital filters, adaptive sampling and quantization. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 480.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5681      Applications Of Transforms
Applications of Laplace and other transform methods of solution of circuit and field problems.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5682      Coding Theory II
Further study of error-correcting codes; ring and cyclic codes, linear switching circuits, burst error codes, codes for arithmetic units, etc. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 579.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5684      Computer Vision
Image processing methods for segmentation, object representation, scene description and scene interpretation. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 484 or consent of instructor.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5688      Communication Theory II
Probability theory of analog and digital communication in the presence of random process noise. Encoding systems, detection systems, optimum receivers. Prerequisite: E&C-ENGR 472.
3 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5690      Advanced Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5690 EM      Advanced Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5690 ET      Advanced Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering
1-4 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5697      Advanced Directed Readings
Advanced readings in an electrical and computer engineering area selected by the graduate student in consultation with a faculty member. Arrangements must be made prior to registration. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Offered: Every semester
1-5 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5698      Advanced Research Seminar
Advanced Graduate research and/or readings in an electrical and computer engineering area selected by the doctoral student in consultation with a faculty member. Arrangements must be made prior to registration. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Offered: Every semester
1-5 hrs
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E&C-ENGR 5699      Dissertation Research
Doctoral Dissertation
1-9 hrs
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