Electrical and Computer Engineering 1

ECE 407. Pattern Recognition I. 3 or 4 hours.

Electrical and Computer The design of automated systems for detection, recognition, classification
and diagnosis. Parametric and nonparametric decision-making
Engineering techniques. Applications in computerized medical and industrial image
and waveform analysis. Course Information: Same as BME 407. 3
undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 341 or
Contact Information:
BIOE 339 or IE 342 or STAT 381.
http://
ECE 410. Advanced Circuit Analysis. 3 or 4 hours.
Mailing Address: Matrix algebra for network analysis, network parameters, macromodeling,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (MC 154) high-frequency measurements, network functions and theorems. Topics
851 South Morgan Street in computer-aided analysis. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours.
Chicago, IL 60607-7053 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): MATH 310 and grade of C or better in
ECE 310.
Contact Information:
Department Office: 1020 SEO Student Affairs Office: 1020 SEO ECE 412. Introduction to Filter Synthesis. 3 or 4 hours.
(312) 413-2291 or (312) 996-4325 Fundamentals of network synthesis, filter approximations and frequency
ecestudentaffairs@uic.edu transformations. Active filter synthesis using bi-linear and bi-quad circuits.
www.ece.uic.edu Topics in computer-aided design. Course Information: 3 undergraduate
hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or better in ECE
Administration: 310.
Interim Department Head: Daniela Tuninetti
ECE 415. Image Analysis and Computer Vision I. 3 or 4 hours.
Director of Graduate Studies: Danilo Erricolo
Image formation, geometry and stereo. Two-dimensional image
Program Codes: analysis by fourier and other 2-D transforms. Image enhancement,
20FS1200MS (MS) color, image segmentation, compression, feature extraction, object
20FS1200PHD (PhD) recognition. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate
hours. Prerequisite(s): MATH 310 or a grade of C or better in ECE 310.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers graduate ECE 417. Digital Signal Processing II. 0-5 hours.
programs leading to the Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees Computer-aided design of digital filters; FFT algorithms and applications;
at the master’s and doctoral levels. Updated information about the multirate signal processing and wavelets; random signals and Wiener
curriculum, requirements, policies, courses, faculty, and staff is found on filtering; basics of 2-D DSP.Course Information: 4 undergraduate hours.
the ECE home page. 5 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 317. Class Schedule Information:
To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Laboratory and
The department offers a comprehensive range of courses in the field
one Lecture-Discussion.
of electrical engineering and computer engineering. Major research
areas include bioelectronics and biomimetics, computer engineering, ECE 418. Statistical Digital Signal Processing. 3 or 4 hours.
electromagnetics, device physics and electronics, and information Stochastic signal models, LMS identification, identification of signals from
systems. noise, Wiener filtering, blind separation of mixed signal, discrete Wavelet
Transforms, compression and denoising, ceptral analysis. Course
Research facilities in ECE include the Nanotechnology Core Facility, Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s):
a versatile MEMS/Nano facility, which also contains a microfabrication ECE 317 and ECE 341.
laboratory with a 3,000-square-foot Class 100/1000 clean room that
ECE 421. Introduction to Antennas and Wireless Propagation. 3 or 4
enables a broad spectrum of innovative multidisciplinary research,
hours.
and, a microfluidics center for studying properties of nanodrops;
Potential, antenna parameters, radiation from linear wires and loops,
Andrews Electromagnetics Laboratory; Computational Intelligence
impedance, arrays, communication links and path loss, tropospheric
Laboratory; Robotics Laboratory; Design Automation and Reconfiguration
propagation, fading and diversity. Course Information: 3 undergraduate
Technology Laboratory; Laboratory for Energy and Switching Electronics
hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 225 and ECE 322.
Systems; Nanoengineering Research Laboratory; Micromechatronic
Systems Laboratory; Networking Research Laboratory; Waveform ECE 423. Electromagnetic Compatibility. 0-5 hours.
Optimization Laboratory; 3D Nano-Fabrication for Drug Discovery and EMC requirements for electronic systems. Nonideal behavior of
Bio-Medical Application Labs; Advanced Semiconductor Materials and components. Radiated and conducted emissions. Susceptibility. Coupling
Devices Lab; High Performance Circuits and Systems (HIPERCAS) and shielding. Electrostatic discharge. System design for EMS. Course
Lab; Networks Information Communications and Engineering Systems Information: Prerequisite(s): MATH 310 and ECE 322. To be properly
Laboratory (NICEST); Power Energy Innovation Lab; and Advanced registered, students must enroll in one Lecture-Discussion and one
Electronics of Nano-Devices Laboratory. Laboratory.

Admission and Degree Requirements

• MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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ECE 424. RF and Microwave Guided Propagation. 0-5 hours. ECE 448. Transistors. 3 or 4 hours.
Maxwell's equations, transmission lines, Smith chart, strip lines, Bipolar junction transistors, electronic processes in surface-controlled
rectangular and circular waveguides, TE and TM waves, wave semiconductor and dielectric devices. Metal oxide semiconductor filed
impedance, resonators, two-portal parameters, power and energy effect transistors, surface and interface effects, diode lasers, integrated
considerations. Course Information: 4 undergraduate hours. 5 graduate optoelectronic devices. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4
hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 225 and ECE 322. Class Schedule graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 346.
Information: To be properly registered, students must enroll in one ECE 449. Microdevices and Micromachining Technology. 0-5 hours.
Laboratory and one Lecture-Discussion. Microfabrication techniques for microsensors, microstructures, and
ECE 432. Digital Communications. 3 or 4 hours. microdevices. Selected examples of physical/chemical sensors and
Source coding, quantization, signal representation, channel noise, actuators. Simulation experiments. Course Information: Same as ME 449.
optimum signal reception, digital modulation: ASK, PSK, FSK, MSK, M- 4 undergraduate hours. 5 graduate hours. Laboratory. Prerequisite(s):
ary modulation. Probability of error. Inter-symbol interference. Course ECE 347; or consent of the instructor. Class Schedule Information: To
Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): be properly registered, students must enroll in one Laboratory and one
MATH 310, ECE 311 and ECE 341. Lecture-Discussion.
ECE 434. Multimedia Systems. 3 or 4 hours. ECE 451. Control Engineering. 3 or 4 hours.
Multimedia systems; compression standards; asynchronous transfer Continuous-and discrete-time state-space models; solutions to state
mode; Internet; wireless networks; television; videoconferencing; equations; stability; reachabilty/controllability, state feedback, tracking;
telephony; applications. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 observability, observers, output feedback; optimal control and estimation.
graduate hours. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): ECE Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.
310. Prerequisite(s): ECE 350; and Grade of C or better in MATH 310.
ECE 436. Computer Communication Networks II. 3 or 4 hours. ECE 452. Robotics: Algorithms and Control. 3 or 4 hours.
Explores integrated network architecture of service, control signaling Kinematic and dynamic modeling of robots; configuration space; motion
and management, examples of high-speed LAN/WAN, next generation planning algorithms; control of robots; sensors and perception; reasoning;
Internet and mobile wireless network. Course Information: 3 mobile robots. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate
undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Extensive computer use hours. Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or better in ECE 310; and MATH 310.
required. Prerequisite(s): ECE 333. ECE 454. Mechatronic Embedded Systems Design. 0-5 hours.
ECE 437. Wireless Communications. 3 or 4 hours. Design and fabrication of scaled-down autonomous vehicles, from an
Cellular concept, frequency reuse, mobile radio propagation, channel embed system perspective; mechatronic components such as motors,
fading, noise in analog communications, mobile radio channel microcontrollers, power supply, sensors, control algorithms, project
equalization, multiple access techniques (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA), oriented, culminating in racing competition. Course Information: 4
wireless networking. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 undergraduate hours. 5 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 266 and
graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 311 and ECE 341. ECE 310 and ECE 340; or consent of the instructor. Recommended
Background: ECE 350 and ECE 412 and ECE 451. Class Schedule
ECE 440. Nanoelectronics. 3 or 4 hours.
Information: To be properly registered, students must enroll in one
Wave-particle duality, Schrodinger equation, atomic orbitals, band
Laboratory and one Lecture.
theory of solids. Semiconductor and carbon nanoelectronic materials.
Nanostructure device fabrication. Nanoelectromechanical systems. ECE 458. Electromechanical Energy Conversion. 0-4 hours.
Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Electromagnetic forces and torque; magnetic circuits and transformers;
Prerequisite(s): ECE 346; or consent of the instructor. DC machines; three-phase AC synchronous and induction machines;
laboratory-demonstrations. Projects are required. Course Information:
ECE 442. Power Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits. 0-5
3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): Grade of
hours.
C or better in ECE 225. Class Schedule Information: To be properly
Encompasses fundamentals of primarily silicon based power
registered, students must enroll in one Laboratory-Discussion and one
semiconductors with regard to basic physical principles, breakdown
Lecture-Discussion.
mechanisms, high voltage bipolar and insulated gate devices, and
basic packaging issues.Course Information: 4 undergraduate hours. 5 ECE 464. Testing and Reliability of Digital Systems. 3 or 4 hours.
graduate hours. Credit is not given for ECE 442 if the student has credit Theory, practice and recent innovations in the testing and reliability of
for EECS 442. ECE 442 is a supplement for ECE 445 and ECE 545. modern digital systems. Topics: fault modeling / simulation, automatic test
Prerequisite(s): ECE 346. Class Schedule Information: To be properly pattern generation, built-in self-test, fault tolerance. Course Information:
registered, students must enroll in one Laboratory-Discussion and one 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Extensive computer use
Lecture-Discussion. required. Prerequisite(s): CS 251; and ECE 366.
ECE 445. Analysis and Design of Power Electronic Circuits. 0-5 ECE 465. Digital Systems Design. 3 or 4 hours.
hours. Switching algebra, combinational circuits, Mux, ROM, DCD, PLA-based
Analysis of different isolated and non-isolated power-converter designs, advanced combinational circuit minimization techniques,
topologies, understanding of power-converter components, switching sychronous and asynchronous sequential circuit synthesis (minimization,
schemes. Course Information: 4 undergraduate hours. 5 graduate hours. hazards, races, state assignment) testing. Course Information: 3
Prerequisite(s): ECE 342. Class Schedule Information: To be properly undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): Grade C or
registered, students must enroll in one Laboratory-Discussion and one better in PHYS 142; and ECE 366.
Lecture-Discussion.
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ECE 466. Advanced Computer Architecture. 3 or 4 hours. ECE 499. Professional Development Seminar. 0 hours.
Design and analysis of high performance uniprocessors. Topics include Graduating seniors will be provided with information regarding future
arithmetic: multiplication, division, shifting; processor: pipelining, multiple career paths and will provide information regarding the program to
function units. instruction sets; memory: caches, modules; virtual be used for assessment purposes. Course Information: Satisfactory/
machines. Course Information: Same as CS 466. 3 undergraduate hours. Unsatisfactory grading only. Prerequisite(s): Open only to seniors; and
4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 366 or CS 261. approval of the department. Must be taken in the student's last semester
of study.
ECE 467. Introduction to VLSI Design. 0-5 hours.
MOS, CMOS circuits VLSI technology, CMOS circuit characterization ECE 508. Convex Optimization. 4 hours.
and evaluation. Static and dynamic MOS circuits, system design, Convex sets, functions, and optimization problems; duality theory;
faults, testing, and symbolic layout. Laboratory. Course Information: 4 Optimization algorithms: gradient method, Newton’s method, interior-
undergraduate hours. 5 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 340. Class point methods; Applications to machine learning, signal processing,
Schedule Information: To be properly registered, students must enroll in and others related to electrical and computer engineering. Course
one Laboratory-Discussion and one Lecture-Discussion. Information: Prerequisite(s): MATH 310; and ECE 341; or consent of the
instructor.
ECE 468. Analog and Mixed - Signal Integrated Circuits. 0-5 hours.
Review of basic analog concepts; Sampling and mixed-signal interface ECE 510. Advanced Network Analysis. 4 hours.
circuits; analytical analysis and CAD-based design/simulation; emphasis Characterizations of networks. The indefinite-admittance matrix. Active
on compact modeling, design tradeoffs, and intuitive design approaches. two-port networks. Theory of feedback amplifiers. Stability of feedback
Course Information: 4 undergraduate hours. 5 graduate hours. amplifiers. Multiple-loop feedback amplifiers. Course Information:
Prerequisite(s): ECE 342.Class Schedule Information: To be properly Prerequisite(s): ECE 410.
registered, students must enroll in one Laboratory-Discussion and one ECE 515. Image Analysis and Computer Vision II. 4 hours.
Lecture-Discussion. Image analysis techniques, 2D and 3D shape representation,
ECE 469. Hardware Description Language Based Digital and segmentation, camera and stereo modeling, motion, generic object and
Computer System Design. 0-5 hours. face recognition, parallel and neural architectures for image and visual
Hardware description language (HDL) introduction; digital system processing. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 415; or consent of
design including arithmetic circuit, datapath and control; basic processor the instructor.
architecture and design; use of CAD tools for simulation, synthesis, ECE 516. Adaptive Digital Filters. 4 hours.
and verification. Course Information: 4 undergraduate hours. 5 Properties of signals; optimal filters, Wiener and Kalman filters; signal
graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): CS 366; and ECE 465. Class Schedule modeling, adaptive filters channel equalizing, echo canceling, noise
Information: To be properly registered, students must enroll in one canceling, and linear prediction; filter properties. Course Information:
Lecture and one Laboratory. Prerequisite(s): ECE 317 and ECE 341; and MATH 310 or MATH 320.
ECE 491. Seminar. 1-4 hours. ECE 517. Digital Image Processing. 4 hours.
Topics of mutual interest to a faculty member and a group of students. Operations on 2-D digital images: transforms, enhancement, restoration,
Offered as announced by department bulletin or the Timetable. Course warping, segmentation, registration, compression, water marking,
Information: May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. steganography, and reconstruction from projection. Course Information:
ECE 493. Special Problems. 1-5 hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 317 and ECE 341.
Special problems or reading by special arrangement with the faculty. ECE 520. Electromagnetic Field Theory. 4 hours.
Course Information: No graduation credit for students in the following: Maxwell's equations. Potentials. Constitutive relations. Special relativity.
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering or PhD in Electrical and Boundary conditions. Green's functions. Polarization. Radiation from
Computer Engineering. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. antennas and charged particles. Waveguides and resonators. Exterior
ECE 496. Undergraduate Senior Design Thesis I. 0-8 hours. boundary - value problems. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE
Introduction to engineering design and research methods: design tools, 421.
product conception and development, simulation, prototyping, technical ECE 521. Computational Electromagnetics. 4 hours.
reports and presentations, literature survey and undergraduate thesis. Finite-element, finite-difference solution. Computer aided solutions:
Course Information: Credit for ECE 496 only given to non-degree integral equations, method of moments, transform and iterative solutions.
students. No graduation credit is given for ECE 496 to students enrolled FD-TD, singularity expansion method. Practical problems in radiation and
in any degree program in Engineering. Extensive computer use required. scattering. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 520.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.
ECE 522. Advanced Microwave Theory. 4 hours.
ECE 497. Undergraduate Senior Design Thesis II. 0-8 hours. Microwave integrated circuits: analysis, design. Microwave devices:
Introduction to engineering design and research methods: design tools, filters, cavities and phase shifters. Millimeter waves: components and
product conception and development, simulation, prototyping, technical circuits, millimeter wave applications. Course Information: Prerequisite(s):
reports and presentations, literature survey and undergraduate thesis. ECE 420 and ECE 520.
Course Information: Credit only given to non-degree students. No
graduation credit given to students enrolled in Engineering. Extensive ECE 523. Advanced Antenna Engineering. 4 hours.
computer use required. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. Radiation from helix and spiral; aperture antennas; linear and planar
array synthesis; Hallen's and other methods for impedance; design
of array feeds; reflector and lens antennas. Course Information:
Prerequisite(s): ECE 421 and ECE 520.
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ECE 526. Electromagnetic Scattering. 4 hours. ECE 551. Optimal Control. 4 hours.
Exact solutions of exterior boundary-value problems. Low-frequency Optimal control of dynamic systems in continuous and discrete time,
expansions. High-frequency methods, including geometrical and physical maximum principle, dynamic programming and constraints, learning
theories of diffraction. Hybrid techniques. Radar cross-sections. Course systems. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 550 or consent of the
Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 520. instructor.
ECE 530. Random Signal Analysis. 4 hours. ECE 552. Nonlinear Control. 4 hours.
Probability for communications, properties and series representations Nonlinear phenomena, linear and piecewise linear approximations,
of random processes, random processes through linear and non- describing functions, servomechanisms, phase plane, limit cycles,
linear systems, minimum MSE and maximum SNR systems. Course Lyapunov's stability theory, bifurcation, bilinear control, vibrational control,
Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 341 or consent of the instructor. learning systems. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 550 or
consent of the instructor.
ECE 531. Detection and Estimation Theory. 4 hours.
Bayes, Neyman-Pearson and minimax detection for discrete and ECE 559. Neural Networks. 4 hours.
continuous time random processes. Estimation of random and non- Mathematical neuron models, learning methods, the perceptron,
random signal parameters. Estimation of signals. Course Information: basic nonlinear optimization, backpropagation algorithm, associative
Prerequisite(s): ECE 418 or consent of the instructor. memory, hopfield networks, SVM, vector quantization, SOM, PCA,
convolutional networks, deep learning. Course Information: Same as CS
ECE 532. Advanced Digital Communications. 4 hours.
559. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. - Knowledge of calculus,
Characteristics of digitally modulated signals; digital signals in additive
linear algebra, and the ability to write computer programs are assumed.
noise; communication over fading channels and with intersymbol
interference; source and channel coding; synchronization; spread ECE 564. Hardware Security and Trust. 4 hours.
spectrum techniques. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 432 or Hardware security based on physical disorder; hardware metering and
consent of the instructor. watermarking; trusted embedded system design; countermeasures
against invasive and non-invasive attacks; hardware trojan detection
ECE 533. Advanced Computer Communication Networks. 4 hours.
and prevention. Prerequisite(s): ECE 465; or consent of the instructor.
Computer and telecommunication networks; integrated (data, voice, and
Recommended background: An understanding of digital system design.
video) services; network performance; Quality of Service provisioning.
Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 333 and ECE 341; or consent ECE 565. Physical Design Automation. 4 hours.
of the instructor. Computer-aided physical design of integrated circuits; circuit partitioning
and placement; floorplanning; global and detailed routing; timing
ECE 534. Elements of Information Theory. 4 hours.
optimization; general optimization tools: local search, constraint
Entropy and mutual information, fundamentals of coding theory, data
relaxation. Course Information: Same as CS 565. Prerequisite(s): CS
compression, complexity of sources, channel mutual information and
401; and CS 466 or ECE 465.
capacity, rate distortion theory, information theory applications. Course
Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 341 or consent of the instructor. ECE 566. Parallel Processing. 4 hours.
Parallel processing from the computer science perspective. Includes
ECE 540. Physics of Semiconductor Devices. 4 hours.
Architecture (bus based, lockstep, SIMD), Programming Languages
Electrons in periodic lattice; equilibrium carrier distribution; energy band
(Functional, traditional and extensions), compilers, interconnection
diagrams in junctions, in homogeneous semiconductors; recombination
networks, and algorithms. Course Information: Same as CS 566.
and generation; non-equilibrum processes, radiation and electric fields;
Prerequisite(s): CS 466 or ECE 466; and CS 401.
diodes. Course Information: Same as PHYS 540. Prerequisite(s): ECE
346 or the equivalent. ECE 567. Advanced VLSI Design. 4 hours.
VLSI subsystem and system design: synthesis, design styles, design
ECE 541. Microelectronic Fabrication Techniques. 4 hours.
process, testing. Case Studies: switching networks, graphics engine,
Current fabrication techniques of microelectronic technology; plasma and
CPU. Projects use computer-aided design tools. Course Information:
CVD processes; etching techniques; ion implantation; surface analytical
Prerequisite(s): ECE 467.
methods. Course Information: Same as ME 541. Prerequisite(s): ECE
347 or ECE 449. ECE 568. Advanced Microprocessor Architecture and Design. 4
hours.
ECE 542. Advanced Semiconductor Devices. 4 hours.
Microprocessors; embedded control; processor core; system-on-chip;
Bipolar Transistor and Related Devices, MOSFET Transistor and Related
power-aware design; SMT design; Java processors; media processors;
Devices, MESFET and Related Devices, Quantum-Effect Devices,
network processors; crypto processors; trusted processor architectures;
Photonic Devices. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 540.
architecture simulation. Course Information: Extensive computer use
ECE 545. Advanced Power-Electronics Design. 4 hours. required. Prerequisite(s): ECE 466 and consent of the instructor.
High-frequency-magnetics design and measurement, parasitics,
ECE 569. High-Performance Processors and Systems. 4 hours.
modeling, estimation, and measurement, soft switching for DC-DC
Instruction-level parallelism, multiple-instruction issue, branch prediction,
converters, distributed DC-DC converters, and design layout. Course
instruction and data prefetching, novel cache and DRAM organization,
Information: Prerequisite(s): ECE 445.
high-performance interconnect, compilation issues, case studies. Course
ECE 550. Linear Systems Theory and Design. 4 hours. Information: Same as CS 569. Prerequisite(s): CS 466 or ECE 466; and
State variable description, linear operators, impulse response matrix, graduate standing.
controllability, observability, reducible and irreducible realizations,
state feedback, state observers and stability. Course Information:
Prerequisite(s): ECE 350.
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ECE 572. Nanoscale Semiconductor Structures: Electronic and

Optical Properties. 4 hours.
Electronic and optical properties of nanscale semiconductors and
devices, carrier interactions in dimensionally-confined nanostructures,
deformation potential, piezoelectric potential, polar-optical-phonon
interaction potential. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): PHYS 244 &
ECE 346. Recommended background: Background in semiconductor
device fundamentals such as covered in ECE 346 as well as the
underlying physical principles as covered in PHYS 244.
ECE 591. Electric al and Computer Engineering Practicum. 1 hour.
Provides students with the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge
gained in previous engineering courses within a professional, working
environment. Course Information: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading
only. May be repeated. A maximum of 2 hours awarded toward degree
requirements. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department.
ECE 594. Special Topics. 4 hours.
Subject matter varies from term to term and section to section, depending
on the specialities of the instructor. Course Information: May be repeated.
Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the instructor.
ECE 595. Departmental Seminar. 0 hours.
Seminar by faculty and invited speakers. Course Information:
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated.
ECE 596. Individual Study. 1-4 hours.
Individual study or research under close supervision of a faculty member.
Course Information: May be repeated. Students may register in more
than one section per term. No graduation credit for students in the
following: MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the
instructor.
ECE 598. M.S. Thesis Research. 0-16 hours.
M.S. thesis work under the supervision of a graduate advisor. Course
Information: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated.
Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the instructor. For ECE majors only.
ECE 599. Ph.D. Thesis Research. 0-16 hours.
Ph.D. thesis work under supervision of a graduate advisor. Course
Information: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated.
Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the instructor. For ECE majors only.