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Course Descriptions

 

Specialized Programs in Urban Education (EDUR)
  

  • EDUR 400 Sociocultural Analysis of Education

    3 semester hours

    A study of the sociological and anthropological analysis of contemporary education with emphases on historical and cultural contexts, culturally sensitive pedagogy, cultural and ethnic diversity, social/cultural issues, equity, access to the core curriculum, and demographic trends in schools and society. Emphasis is placed on the preparation of professionals for the teaching profession and their awareness of social, psychological, and cultural forces shaping society today so that they are prepared to work with all learners. This course is designed for undergraduates in the traditional and/or blended teacher preparation program.

    Sophomore or higher standing required.
  

  • EDUR 498 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • EDUR 499 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • EDUR 5000 Cultural Paradigms of Education

    3 semester hours

    A study of the sociological and anthropological analysis of contemporary education with emphases on cultural contexts, culturally sensitive pedagogy, cultural and ethnic diversity, social/cultural issues, and demographic trends in schools and society. Emphasis is placed on the preparation of professionals for the teaching profession and their awareness of social, psychological, and cultural forces shaping society today.

    Fieldwork is required.
  

  • EDUR 5004 Elementary School Literacy and Language Development

    2 semester hours

    The theoretical basis of literacy and approaches, methods, and techniques for teaching literacy skills in diverse urban school settings, will be explored. Training is provided in a variety of instructional methodologies including strategies designed for culturally and linguistically diverse students, ELD, and SDAIE. The course will provide students with opportunities to acquire knowledge, skills, and the ability to deliver comprehensible instruction to English Learners and to develop lessons promoting students’ access and achievement in relation to state adopted academic content standards. Strategies are grounded in theories of language acquisition and the state standards for English Language Arts.
  

  • EDUR 5005 Literacy in the Content Areas

    2 semester hours

    This course is designed to develop an understanding of the nature of literacy and how it impacts content area learning. Training is provided in a variety of instructional methodologies including strategies designed for culturally and linguistically diverse students, ELD and SDAIE. The course will provide students with opportunities to acquire knowledge, skills, and the ability to deliver comprehensible instruction to English Learners and to develop lessons promoting students access and achievement in relation to state adopted academic content standards. Strategies are grounded in theories of language acquisition.
  

  • EDUR 5010 Theories of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

    2 semester hours

    Candidates will be exposed to current theories of teaching, learning, and assessment. Special attention will be given to the practical application of the theories in urban PK-12 school settings.
  

  • EDUR 5012 Culture and Language Learning in Urban Education

    3 semester hours

    Sociological and anthropological analysis of the role that language and culture play in urban education. Second language acquisition will be explored in depth.
  

  • EDUR 5014 Multiple Subjects in Curriculum and Instruction

    3 semester hours

    This course covers curriculum and instruction in a multiple subjects classroom. Content includes unit and lesson design in Math, Science, Social Science. Culturally and linguistically diverse student needs will be emphasized.
  

  • EDUR 5016 Teaching Students with Special Needs in Urban Education

    3 semester hours

    This class will focus on the education of special needs students in urban K-12 classrooms.
  

  • EDUR 5018 Research in Urban Education

    3 semester hours

    This is the capstone course in the Urban Education program. Students will be expected to complete a research project focusing in urban education.
  

  • EDUR 5020 Research Project in Urban Education

    1 semester hours

    This course is a continuation of EDUR 5018 (Research in Urban Education) . Candidates focus on collecting and analyzing findings of the research project started in EDUR 5018 . In addition to regular class meetings, candidates are expected to meet individually with a faculty advisor to refine and revise the final research project. A final research paper, approved by a faculty committee, is required for the course.

    Prerequisite: EDUR 5018 .
  

  • EDUR 5501 Practicum: Educational Practices in Action in Secondary Math and Science Classrooms

    3 semester hours

    Candidates learn how to model professional behavior that addresses job responsibilities and the expectations of mathematics or science secondary teachers working in a multilingual, multicultural, and economically diverse community.
  

  • EDUR 5503 Practicum: Differentiated Education in Action in Secondary Math and Science Urban Education

    3 semester hours

    Candidates learn how to consistently strategically apply math or science teaching practices that involve students as active participants in the assessment process where both become advocates for student learning
    and achievement needs.

    Consent of Coordinator required.
  

  • EDUR 5505 Research-Supported Math/Science Practices in Urban Education

    3 semester hours

    This course helps candidates design and implement a mathematical or scientific learning environment that builds on the strengths that students bring to the teaching/learning process and reverses the achievement
    gap between subgroups within a school.

    Consent of Coordinator required.
  

  • EDUR 5580 Teaching Mathematics and Science in Urban Schools

    3 semester hours

    Candidates learn how to implement instruction that reverses the achievement gap and improve student engagement and achievement in mathematics or science by engaging students in a learning culture that values mathematical and scientific thinking.
  

  • EDUR 5581 Mentorship in Math and Science Education

    3 semester hours

    This course is designed to build authentic and trusting relationships that value a teacher’s paradigm within the context of expected exceptional practice aligned with effective students learning. The use of data to create and move through disequilibrium to strengthen student learning of math or science will be discussed.
  

  • EDUR 5582 Collaboration in Math and Science Education

    3 semester hours

    Candidates learn how to design, plan, and implement a learning environment based on cooperative planning, constant collaboration, close unity, unrestrained communication, and sincere sharing. Candidates learn how to collaborate on learning, risk-taking, innovation, and change within the context of interdependence.

    Consent of Coordinator required.
  

  • EDUR 5998 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • EDUR 5999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • EDUR 6100 Anthropological Analysis of Cultural Diversity

    3 semester hours

    An in-depth study of cultural diversity using methods from educational sociology and anthropology. The course will examine the major theoretical models advocating responses to cultural diversity and their practical implications for education. Themes/issues covered: contemporary demographics, genetic and cultural deficit theory, cultural mismatch theory, cultural ecological theory, sociocultural theory (neo-Vygotskian) and culturally responsive instruction, multicultural education and intercultural communication, critical pedagogy, and qualitative evaluation.
  

  • EDUR 6102 The Context of Schooling

    3 semester hours

    This course focuses on the governmental, political, financial, legal, and historical perspectives of education in the United States. Students are given opportunities to integrate course topics and relate policy initiatives to the welfare of all students in responsible and ethical ways. School governance and management of human and fiscal resources in culturally diverse settings are stressed.
  

  • EDUR 6252 Secondary School Curriculum and Methods for Language Arts and Social Studies

    3 semester hours

    Objectives, methods, materials, and problems involved in teaching language arts and social studies in the secondary schools. Explores methods of long and short range planning, course overviews, unit plans and lesson planning. Presents alternative strategies of instruction and methods of diagnosing needs and evaluating learning. Current approaches to classroom discipline, management, and organization are studied.
  

  • EDUR 6324 Technology in Multilingual Settings

    3 semester hours

    Offered as an elective, this course emphasizes the use of instructional technologies with multilingual population. Of particular emphasis is the bridging of the Digital Divide, access and equity in technology with diverse populations, and uses of instructional technology within dual language contexts.
  

  • EDUR 6327 Learning and Teaching with Technology

    3 semester hours

    In this course, constructivism will be explored as a foundation for teaching and learning with technology. The course will explore how technology can be used to promote the notion that students construct knowledge rather than just receive knowledge passively.
  

  • EDUR 6328 Survey of Digital Technologies for Urban Education

    3 semester hours

    This course explores how different technologies can be used to promote equity in teaching and learning in urban schools. As technology evolves, candidates study how new forms of technology, beyond the personal computer, can be used for teaching and learning. Candidates will create projects using these new technologies.
  

  • EDUR 6329 Assistive Technology

    3 semester hours

    Students with special needs benefit the most from the use of technology for teaching and learning. In this course, candidates learn the principles of university design for learning, review federal and state laws regarding the education of students with special needs, and the use of appropriate technology to promote high standards for all students.
  

  • EDUR 6955 Master’s Thesis I

    1 semester hours

    This course is intended for students working on a Master’s thesis. The committee chair provides ongoing support for the Master’s thesis.

    Credit/No Credit.
  

  • EDUR 6956 Master’s Thesis II

    1 semester hours

    A continuation of Master’s Thesis I for students who have not completed their Master’s thesis.

    Credit/No Credit.

    Special approval required.
  

  • EDUR 6957 Master’s Thesis III

    1 semester hours

    A continuation of Master’s Thesis II for students who have not completed their Master’s thesis.

    Credit/No Credit.

    Special approval required.
  

  • EDUR 6960 Introduction to Teaching and Learning

    3 semester hours

    This course is for candidates who are employed as full-time teachers either in a private/parochial school or with an emergency permit or intern credential in a public school. This prerequisite should be one of the first courses in the combined Master’s/teaching credential program sequence. Seminars focus on analysis of effective classroom practices and problem solving. Initial on-site assessment will be made by a university supervisor as to professional competency in all phases of the multiple or single subject credential program. Areas for professional growth and development are identified and addressed individually through portfolio assessment. Candidates must submit a school-site supervisor/mentor contract agreement. Additionally, for private/parochial school teachers, this course requires 30 hours of public school observation/participation and a comprehensive journal. Application for fingerprint clearance must be submitted by private/parochial teachers immediately upon enrollment in this course.

    Special approval required.
  

  • EDUR 6961 Fieldwork Supervision: Portfolio and Assessment of Teaching

    3 semester hours

    This course is for candidates who are employed as full-time teachers either in a private/parochial school or with an emergency permit or intern credential in a public school. This should be the last course in the combined Masters/teaching credential program sequence. Supervised field experience, portfolio assessment of personal growth, development, problem solving and documentation of teaching competencies will be completed during this course. Candidates must submit a school site supervisor/mentor contract agreement. Additionally, for private/parochial school teachers, this course requires 30 hours of public school observation/participation and a comprehensive journal. The EDUR 6960 /6961 course sequence meets the California State requirement of student teaching for multiple and single subject credential candidates. Only one other course may be taken during the semester of fieldwork supervision.

    Special approval required.

    Prerequisites: EDUR 6960 , all professional education courses in program sequence, including Health Education (EDES 8000) , formal documentation of completed subject matter competency, and passage of all appropriate examinations.
  

  • EDUR 6963 Seminar in Advanced Teaching Methodologies

    3 semester hours

    Candidates build on the material that was learned in the methodology course for the teaching credential program. In this course, candidates are presented with more strategies that promote high standards for all students. The theories behind these strategies are also discussed.
  

  • EDUR 6968 Action Research in Urban Education

    3 semester hours

    In this course, candidates will learn how to use self-reflection to improve their practice as urban classroom teachers. Using real classroom experiences, candidates will learn how to systematically and collaboratively identify a problem, collect data, and evaluate solutions. Emphasis is placed on journal writing, observation skills, and methods for sharing the action research project. Case studies will be examined, and candidates will create an action research project in an urban education setting.
  

  • EDUR 6995 Comprehensive Examination

    0 semester hours

    The Comprehensive Examination is usually taken during, or immediately following, the last semester of coursework completion. It may be a written and/or oral examination. Candidates should register for the specific section required for their program.

    Fee required.

    Credit/No Credit

    Special approval required.
  

  • EDUR 6998 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • EDUR 6999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours


Electrical Engineering (ELEC)
  

  • ELEC 210 Electric Circuit Analysis

    3 semester hours

    Introduction to the principles of electric circuit analysis, DC, AC, transient and steady-state response of electric circuits; electric power.

    Lecture, 3 hours; Laboratory, 2 hours.

    Corequisite: ELEC 213 .

    Prerequisite: MATH 131 .
  

  • ELEC 213 Electric Circuit Analysis Lab

    0 semester hours

    Laboratory experiments on electric circuits. This is a companion laboratory course to the electric circuit analysis course.

    Corequisite: ELEC 210 .

    Prerequisite: MATH 131 .

    Engineering majors only.
  

  • ELEC 220 Electric Circuit Applications

    3 semester hours

    Laplace transform applications, network functions, frequency response, analog filters, two-port networks, three phase power, magnetic circuits.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 210 ; MATH 245  or concurrent enrollment.
  

  • ELEC 260 Introduction to Electricity and Applications

    3 semester hours

    Presentation of a brief history of electricity and electrical devices. Introduction to basic concepts of circuit and system analysis, electronic instruments, devices and modern electric equipment. Demonstrations of concepts and devices are included.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: MATH 101  or higher, or placement into MATH 106  or higher.
  

  • ELEC 281 Logic Design

    3 semester hours

    Introduction to computer systems, number systems. Boolean algebra, combinational and sequential logic design, minimization and analysis techniques. Concepts of programmable logic devices.

    Lecture, 3 hours.
  

  • ELEC 298 Special Studies

    0 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • ELEC 299 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • ELEC 301 Junior Lab I

    3 semester hours

    Introduction to the use of contemporary lab equipment and techniques of measurement and experimentation; introduction to technical report writing; class is used to provide a laboratory experience related to junior level courses.

    Laboratory, 3 hours; Lecture, 1 hour.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 220 , ELEC 281 , and concurrent enrollment in ELEC 353  or permission of the instructor.
  

  • ELEC 302 Junior Lab II

    3 semester hours

    Continuation of ELEC 301  with emphasis on design; introduction to use of CAD tools and FPGA based system design.

    Laboratory, 4 hours.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 301  and ELEC 383 ; concurrent enrollment in ELEC 354 .
  

  • ELEC 353 Electronics I

    3 semester hours

    Fundamentals of semiconductor devices and the physics of their operation. Applications of semiconductor devices in electronic circuits and device modeling. Introduction to CAD tools. Design of single stage amplifiers.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 220 .
  

  • ELEC 354 Electronics II

    3 semester hours

    Introduction to engineering design methods utilized in the synthesis of contemporary analog electronic circuits including extensive use of CAD tools. Topics include multitransistor circuits, large signal limitations, feedback techniques, amplifier frequency response, stability and oscillation.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 353 .
  

  • ELEC 361 Electromagnetics

    3 semester hours

    Introduction to Maxwell’s equations, wave propagation, transmission line theory, and the solution of static and time varying field problems.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisites: MATH 355  and PHYS 201 .
  

  • ELEC 371 Linear Systems

    3 semester hours

    Time and frequency domain analysis of continuous and discrete-time signals and systems. Signal characterization, Laplace transform, Z-transform, Fourier series, Fourier transform, discrete Fourier transform, State variable analysis. Applications to differential and difference equations.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 220 .
  

  • ELEC 383 Introduction to Microprocessors

    3 semester hours

    Basic concepts in design and organization of microprocessors and microcomputers. Assembly language programming design for incorporating peripheral devices in solving application designs.

    Not open to CMSI majors.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 281 .
  

  • ELEC 385 Computer System Design

    3 semester hours

    Formal description of digital systems. Design of functional subsystems. Organization and design of general purpose digital computers and of special purpose digital systems.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisites: CMSI 284  and ELEC 281 .
  

  • ELEC 398 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • ELEC 399 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • ELEC 400 Design Methodology

    2 semester hours

    An introduction to systems engineering, including a study of design methodology and development of professional project-oriented skills such as communication, team management, creative problem solving, interpersonal management, and leadership skills.

    Lecture, 2 hours.

    Corequisite: ELEC 401 .
  

  • ELEC 401 Senior Lab I

    3 semester hours

    Course is intended to provide a laboratory experience related to other senior level courses; emphasis is on design, technical report writing, and oral presentation.

    Laboratory, 4 hours.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 302 , ELEC 354 , and ELEC 383 .

    Corequisite: ELEC 400 .
  

  • ELEC 402 Senior Project

    3 semester hours

    A study of design methodology and development of professional project-oriented skills including communication, team management, creative problem solving, interpersonal management, and leadership skills. Team project activities are used to apply project-oriented skills to solution of design problems. Periodic design reports and design reviews are presented to, and critiqued by the faculty and the design team.

    Lecture, 1 hour; Laboratory, 3 hours.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 400  and ELEC 401 .
  

  • ELEC 423 Communications I

    3 semester hours

    Review of topics in Signals and Systems, Fourier transform and frequency-domain analysis. Introduction to the principles of operation of typical analog and digital communication systems. Extensive discussion on modulation and demodulation.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 371 .
  

  • ELEC 424 Communications II

    3 semester hours

    Fundamentals of probability, random variables, and random processes. Performance analysis of typical communication systems. Introduction to information theory and coding theory.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 423 .
  

  • ELEC 453 Digital Integrated Electronics

    3 semester hours

    Extensive coverage of digital integrated circuit design, including TTL, NMOS, CMOS and BiCMOS digital logic circuits, Read Only Memory (ROM), and Random Access Memory (RAM).

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 281  and ELEC 354 .
  

  • ELEC 462 Microwave and Optical Communications

    3 semester hours

    Applications of electromagnetic theory. Topics include transmission lines, waveguides, impedance transformations and matching, passive devices, scatter parameters and their applications in circuits, antennas and wave propagation, fiber optics and other communication links.

    Lecture, 2 hours; Laboratory, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 361 .
  

  • ELEC 472 Control Systems

    3 semester hours

    Analysis and design of feedback systems using root locus, Bode, Nyquist, and state variable techniques; introduction to discrete feedback control system analysis.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 371 .
  

  • ELEC 481 Introduction to Computer Networks

    3 semester hours

    This course provides a basic introduction to computer networking. The topics covered include: types and uses of computer networks, data transmission, protocols and protocol layering, packets, message transactions, layered architecture, and a client-server introduction.

    Lecture, 3 hours.

    Senior standing and permission of instructor required.
  

  • ELEC 498 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • ELEC 499 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • ELEC 521 Introduction to Communication Systems

    3 semester hours

    The concepts of signal formulation, modulation, transmission and reception, and demodulation of signals in noise will be discussed.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 423  and ELEC 532 , or equivalents.
  

  • ELEC 525 Digital Signal Processing

    3 semester hours

    The representation, analysis, and processing of discrete signals are discussed. Topics include sampling, quantization, Z-transform of signal, discrete Fourier and fast Fourier transforms, analysis and design of digital filters, and spectral estimation of random digital signals.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 371 .
  

  • ELEC 532 Probability and Random Processes

    3 semester hours

    Studies of probability, random variables, stochastic processes, correlation, power spectral density, and linear mean-square estimation with emphasis on their application to electrical engineering are included.

    Senior or graduate standing required.
  

  • ELEC 552 Semiconductor Device Physics

    3 semester hours

    In-depth coverage of semiconductor device physics, including: principle of quantum mechanics, carrier transport phenomena in semiconductor materials, P-N junctions, metal-semiconductor and semiconductor heterojunctions, and MOS transistors.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 353  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 561 IC Fabrication Processes

    3 semester hours

    Overview of processes in manufacture of integrated circuits. Topics include: single crystal growth, oxide growth, photolithographic processes, ion implantation and impurity diffusion, metal deposition, and passivation and packaging of chips. Use is made of Unix workstations for modeling and simulation.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 353  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 562 Digital System Design with VHDL

    3 semester hours

    Computer aided design of digital VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated) systems using Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL).

    Prerequisites: ELEC 281  and ELEC 383 , or equivalents.
  

  • ELEC 563 ASIC Design

    3 semester hours

    Topics include programmable logic devices and gate array architectures, programmability of PLDs and gate arrays, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and applications of FPGAs in digital system design. Course includes laboratory experiments and extensive use of Computer Aided Design tools.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 383  and ELEC 562 , or permission of instructor.
  

  • ELEC 567 Introduction to Digital VLSI Design

    3 semester hours

    Custom and semi-custom design of VLSI circuits using standard cells, design methodologies of advanced complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuits, and simulation of designed circuits will be emphasized. At the end of the semester, circuits designed by the students will be sent for fabrication through MOSIS and later tested by the students for functionality.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 383  or permission of instructor.
  

  • ELEC 583 Finite State Machines

    3 semester hours

    An introduction to the theory and design of finite state automata and sequential machines.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 281  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 584 Introduction to Microprocessors II

    3 semester hours

    Design and applications of 32-bit microprocessors. Topics include: basic concepts, software, architecture, programming, interfacing, and system design.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 383  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 585 Computer Organization and Architecture

    3 semester hours

    System structure of minicomputers and main frame computers. Structured memory based systems; parallel and multiunit processors; introduction to input/output processing.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 385  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 598 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • ELEC 599 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • ELEC 601 Graduate Seminar

    3 semester hours

    Project-based seminar in which students will be required to select, research, write about, and discuss some aspect of a broad area of current interest to computer scientists and electrical engineers (e.g. computer networks, digital communication).

    Prerequisites: Successful completion of coursework and the endorsement of the faculty advisor. (The seminar can be taken during the final semester of coursework subject to the approval of the faculty advisor.)
  

  • ELEC 621 Information Theory and Coding

    3 semester hours

    The concepts of information measures and channel capacity are introduced. The applications of Shannon theory to evaluate the effectiveness of practical communication links is developed. Error correction coding and its application in reliable communications are emphasized in this class.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 532 .
  

  • ELEC 624 Digital Communication Theory

    3 semester hours

    This course provides the foundation of digital communication theory. Topics include representation of bandpass signals, frequency and phase shift keying, M-ary signal, detection in additive Gaussian noise channel, intersymbol interference, and efficient signaling with coding.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 521  and ELEC 532 .
  

  • ELEC 626 Satellite Communication Systems

    3 semester hours

    This course provides an introduction to the practical and theoretical analysis of the performance of satellite communications links. Topics in link design, satellite orbit dynamics, antenna gain and coverage, frequency and time division multiple access, component and subsystem nonlinearity, signal format, and error correction coding will be discussed.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 521  and ELEC 532 .
  

  • ELEC 627 Phase-Lock Techniques for Communication and Control

    3 semester hours

    Phase-lock loop concepts, stability, noise response, acquisition, frequency response and topics of applications in coherent communications such as PLL costas loop, byte synchronization will be discussed.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 532 .
  

  • ELEC 628 Spread Spectrum Systems

    3 semester hours

    The system performance and signal design of spread communication systems will be discussed. Topics addressed are frequency hopping and direct sequence systems and their performance in jamming and CDMA environments.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 521 , ELEC 532 , and ELEC 624  are recommended.
  

  • ELEC 631 Numerical Methods in Engineering

    3 semester hours

    A course in numerical techniques of computing. Numerical techniques; errors in computing; generation of functions; roots of polynomials, integration techniques; solution of simultaneous linear equations; ordinary differential equations; partial differential equations.
  

  • ELEC 632 Optimization Technique in Signal Processing

    3 semester hours

    An introduction to the theory , analysis, and design of optimal signal processing systems in both discrete and continuous time. Topics include spectral factorization, least-mean-square theory and estimation algorithms, linear signal estimation, Wiener and Kalman filtering, linear prediction, spectral estimation, and matched filtering. Access to computer with MATLAB, Fortran, Pascal, or other high level language compiler for assignments is required.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 532 .
  

  • ELEC 637 Optical Communication Systems

    3 semester hours

    This course presents the analytical basis for fiber optic and laser communication systems.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 521  and ELEC 532 .
  

  • ELEC 651 Communication Electronics

    3 semester hours

    Theory and design aspects of analog electronic circuits as applied to the generation, amplification, detection, transmission, and modulation of electrical signals will be discussed.

    Prerequisite: Undergraduate electronics course.
  

  • ELEC 662 Analog VLSI Design

    3 semester hours

    Topics in computer-aided design of analog VLSI systems. Topics include: custom and semi-custom design, design methodologies, and simulation of designed circuits. Circuits designed will be fabricated for testing by student.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 354  and ELEC 383  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 663 Digital VLSI Design

    3 semester hours

    Topics in computer-aided design of digital VLSI systems. Topics include: Custom and semi-custom design, design methodologies of advanced CMOS circuits, and simulation of designed circuits. Circuits designed will be fabricated for testing by student.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 354  and ELEC 383  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 670 Radar Engineering

    3 semester hours

    Radar fundamentals will be covered including radar applications, frequency allocation, radar space-time coordinates, target and clutter scattering, radar range performance and signal/target detection and location. Also waveform and non-coherent/coherent signal processing design and analysis will be treated for targets embedded in various types of clutter. The course will also address simple antenna and transmitter/ receiver design and performance. A sample radar system design problem will be accomplished.
  

  • ELEC 682 Arithmetic Processors

    3 semester hours

    Concepts of number systems, digital numbers algorithms; logic and organization of digital arithmetic processors; conventional arithmetic; algorithm acceleration; floating-point and significance arithmetics; redundant, signed-digit, residue number systems; error detection in digital arithmetic.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 585  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 685 Diagnostic Design and Fault-Tolerant Computers

    3 semester hours

    Theories and techniques for testing digital circuits and systems, design techniques for fault-tolerant digital systems, test generation for combinational and sequence circuits, self-checking and self-testing circuits, gate- level simulation on a fault-model.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 584  and ELEC 585 .
  

  • ELEC 686 Microprocessor Applications

    3 semester hours

    Applications of microprocessors and microprocessor control in the design of digital and hybrid systems, including digital computer systems.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 584  or equivalent.
  

  • ELEC 687 Computer Networks

    3 semester hours

    Concepts in and design of large-scale distributed networks and local area networks, including topologies, standards, and protocols.
  

  • ELEC 688 Advanced Computer Architecture

    3 semester hours

    Design and implementation of reduced instruction set computer architectures. Topics include pipelining, parameter passing, register windows compiling techniques, and comparison with CISC architectures.

    Prerequisite: ELEC 585 .
  

  • ELEC 689 Advanced Topics in Computer Design

    3 semester hours

    Selected topics from microprogramming, performance measurement, and chip-slice architectures.
  

  • ELEC 695 Master’s Thesis I

    3 semester hours

    Graduate students electing the thesis option must obtain a thesis advisor before departmental consent will be considered and comply with the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering Master’s Thesis Requirements.

    Credit/No Credit grading.

    Prerequisite: 

      or concurrent enrollment.
  

  • ELEC 696 Master’s Thesis II

    3 semester hours

    Students could choose to continue with further research and/or development of their Thesis project for a second semester after successfully finishing ELEC 695. Consents of the Department and the advisor are required.

    Credit/No Credit grading.

    Prerequisite: 

     .
  

  • ELEC 697 Master’s Thesis III

    3 semester hours

    Students could choose to continue with further research and/or development of their Thesis project for a third semester after successfully finishing   and  . Consents of the Department and the advisor are required.

    Credit/No Credit grading.

    Prerequisites: ELEC 695  and ELEC 696 .
 

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