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Students learn and experiment with ECE 520 – Advanced Power by introducing 2D and 3D projective
building their own microcontroller System Analysis transformations, then presents
printed circuit board and interface Credit Hour: 3 features extraction and matching,
it to external hardware such as Prerequisite: Graduate Standing camera calibration, epipolar
different sensors and actuators. They geometry and 3D reconstruction. The
then move to discuss networking This course builds on the course then present more advanced
aspects of embedded systems at the fundamental knowledge the students topics in computer and machine
low-level using USART, SPI, and I2C, have gained in their undergraduate vision such as Pattern recognition
and the high-level using HTTP over program. It starts from the review techniques and applications.
WiFi. They experiment with RTOS of various topics covered in the
for microcontroller. Finally, students pre-requisite course. Then it will MEM 501 – Project Management
study Linux for embedded system cover optimal power flow, unit Credit Hour: 3
design and use its powerful feature commitment, economic dispatch, Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
set to build advanced embedded automatic generation control,
Linux applications. system stability analysis for multi- This course covers the elements
machine systems and advanced of project management critical
ECE 510 – Advanced Control Strategies for power systems to the success of engineering
Communication Systems to enhance system stability and projects: project management
Credit Hour: 3 automatic control. framework, strategic management
Prerequisite Graduate Standing ECE 611 – Advanced Mixed Mode and project selection, project
organization, human aspects of
The course covers recent advances Integrated Circuit Design project management, conflicts and
of today’s communication systems. Credit Hour: 3 negotiations, scope management,
The analog and digital transmission Prerequisite: Graduate Standing time management, cost
is reviewed at the beginning of the management, risk management,
course. Consequently, advanced The increasing market demand contracts and procurement, project
topics of communication systems on integrated system-on-chip termination, the project management
are presented. The tentative topics applications creates wide demand office, and modern developments
include light propagation in special for integrated circuits (ICs) that can in project management. Integrates
fibers, optical waveguides, slowly process both analog signals and and clarifies the principles and tools
varying envelope approximation, digital logic. This course covers through case studies from a variety
group velocity dispersion, chirp, electrical system building blocks of disciplines.
dispersion management in working between the analog and
communication system design, digital world that are used in
optical amplification, and soliton integrated circuits. Such structures Project Option
signaling. include e.g. comparators, Nyquist-
Rate analog to digital converters,
ECE 512 - Smart Grids and Nyquist-Rate digital to analog ECE 690 - Electrical and
Renewable Energy converters, and oversampling Computer Engineering Project
Credit Hour: 3 converters. Credit Hour: 3
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing The students will learn the Prerequisite: 15 credit hours
methodologies to carry out a design
The purpose of this course of a mixed-mode IC, and related The objective of this course is to
is to understand and analyze computer-aided design (CAD) provide guided experience in wide
requirements and challenges software tools to improve the quality areas of Electrical and Computer
for implementing future smart and optimality of mixed-signal IC Engineering to student teams
grids including different forms of designs. working on design projects. The
distributed generation. Recent projects will integrate various
approaches for implementing smart ECE 621 – Computer and Electrical and Computer Engineering
grids will be covered in more detail. Machine Vision skills into operational prototypes.
Then renewable energy resources Credit Hour: 3 The projects will emphasize problem
will be covered with details of system definition, design conceptualization,
constraints, challenges, design and Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
control. Case studies will be included This course introduces students to implementation and system
integration in software and hardware
to understand the major challenges the applications of computer and
in wind and solar power integration machine vision. The course starts aspects. There are no formal lectures
associated with the course. Teams of
in Europe and North America.
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