2008–2009 - Florida Institute of Technology

ECE 3551 MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEMS 1 (4 credits). Introduces software
development for Embedded DSP hardware. Covers data sampling, quantization
and digital representation, and data input, processing and output. Requires project
research and development. Prerequisites: ECE 1552, ECE 2111.
ECE 3552 MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEMS 2 (4 credits). Introduces advanced
concepts of software development for Embedded DSP hardware. Covers data coding
and transmission, and video image processing. Requires project research and development.
Prerequisites: ECE 3111, ECE 3551.
ECE 3553 MULTIFARIOUS SYSTEMS 1 (4 credits). Studies Internet and Web
application development and software. Includes markup languages (XHTML, cascading
style sheets, XML), client solutions (JavaScript), Web servers (IIS, Apache),
server solutions (perl, CGI, PHP), databases (mySQL, Microsoft(R) Access), multimedia
(audio, video, speech), dynamic Web pages (AJAX), and recent technologies.
Prerequisites: ECE 2552.
ECE 4001 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING (1 credit). Offers lab or lecture in selected fields of computer and
electrical engineering. May be repeated as needed.
ECE 4112 DIGITAL ELECTRONICS (3 credits). Covers the fundamentals of
digital electronics. Emphasizes analytical reasoning and integrated circuits. Discusses
logic families and large-scale circuits. Uses electronic design automation tools such
as VHDL and Quartus 11. Prerequisites: ECE 3111, PHY 2003.
ECE 4221 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (3 credits). Includes review of signals
in electrical communication; Fourier transform, noise and signal-to-noise ratio,
power spectral density and autocorrelation function, linear (amplitude) modulation;
exponential (angle) modulation; generation and detection of amplitude and angle
modulated waves; sampling theory. Prerequisites: ECE 3222.
ECE 4224 COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORA-
TORY (3 credits). Includes experiments on VCOs, tuned circuits, amplifiers, filters,
balanced modulator, AM and FM generation and detection, sampling/aliasing. Control
theory experiments (OP-AMP stability, cardiac pacemaker control, single axis
lunar excursion module, magnetic levitation system) using MATLAB. Corequisites:
ECE 4221.
ECE 4226 PATTERN RECOGNITION AND DETECTION (3 credits).
Introduces Bayesian adaptive and nonadaptive decision and its application to the
design, analysis and evaluation of optimal systems for detection, pattern recognition
and feature extraction. Includes applications to communications, failure detection
and target detection and recognition.
ECE 4231 CONTROL SYSTEMS (3 credits). Covers analysis and design of
linear time-invariant control systems. Includes electrical, mechanical, thermal, fluid
and information handling elements encountered in control systems; modeling of systems
of interconnected elements; transfer function (classical) and state space (modern)
descriptions of control systems; signal flow graphs. Prerequisites: ECE 3222.
ECE 4241 SYSTEM DESIGN 1 (3 credits). Applies engineering design fundamentals
to student design projects. Includes the study of the design process and
related topics such as optimization techniques, reliability prediction, engineering
economics, safety, aesthetics, ethics and social impact. Students carry out a project
from conception through design, fabrication, testing and delivery. (Requirement:
Senior standing.) (Q)
ECE 4242 SYSTEM DESIGN 2 (3 credits). Applies engineering design fundamentals
to student design projects. Includes the study of the design process and
related topics such as optimization techniques, reliability prediction, engineering
economics, safety, aesthetics, ethics and social impact. Students carry out a project
from conception through design, fabrication, testing and delivery. (Requirement:
Senior standing.) (Q) Prerequisites: ECE 4241.
ECE 4311 MICROELECTRONICS FABRICATION LABORATORY (3 credits).
Students fabricate silicon p-channel transistors. Includes lectures on transistor
processing and fabrication in the clean room. (Requirement: Senior standing or
instructor approval.)
ECE 4330 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN AND LAYOUT LABORA-
TORY (3 credits). Introduces the design and layout of integrated circuits at the
transistor level. Integrated circuits are designed using standard engineering techniques.
Stresses the understanding and use of IC development tools. Prerequisites: ECE 3111.
ECE 4332 ELECTROOPTIC DEVICES AND SYSTEMS (3 credits).
Discusses the theory of operation of key photonic/fiber-optic devices used in a wide
variety of electronic systems. Devices include lasers, light emitting diodes, photodetectors,
CCD arrays, liquid crystal displays, optical fibers, etc. Explains the basic
operation of various electrooptic systems. Prerequisites: ECE 3331, ECE 3442.
ECE 4333 LIGHTWAVE LABORATORY (3 credits). Lectures and introductory
experiments in fiber-optics. Emphasizes typical components, and communication
and sensor systems. (Requirement: Senior standing in ECE or instructor approval.)
Prerequisites: PHY 2003.
ECE 4342 VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION LAB (3 credits). Lectures and
experiments in programming, data acquisition and analysis of virtual instruments
using state-of-the-art and industry standard virtual instrumentation software and
hardware tools. (Requirement: Senior standing in ECE or instructor approval.)
ECE 4551 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (3 credits). Covers instruction set
design, processor and control unit design, handling of exceptions, ALU arithmetic
and implementation, pipelining, pipeline hazards, memory hierarchy, cache memory
types and I/O interface design. Prerequisites: CSE 3101 or ECE 3551.
ECE 4561 COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS (3 credits). Theory, design
and analysis of computer communication systems. Includes TCP/IP, Internet, the
World Wide Web, ISO-OSI network architecture, LANs, wireless communications,
satellite networks, UNIX network programming, network modeling and simulation.
Prerequisites: ECE 2552.
ECE 4681 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS
(3 credits). Comprehensively studies power system modeling and analysis. Includes
power system representation, transmission lines, transformers, machines, the powerflow
problem, operation and control, fault analysis and protection. Prerequisites:
ECE 2112 or ECE 4991.
ECE 4800 INDEPENDENT STUDY (3 credits). Special projects are undertaken
on a cooperative basis between a student and a member of the faculty. May include
such work as a literature search in a given area of design and fabrication of equipment
as a laboratory project.
ECE 4991 ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS (3 credits). Studies
circuit theory for nonelectrical engineering students; transient and steady-state
behavior of passive linear-lumped-parameter electric circuits; and AC circuit theory,
network equations, network theorems; transfer functions and equivalent circuits.
Prerequisites: MTH 2001, PHY 2002.
ECE 5111 RADIO FREQUENCY PROPAGATION (3 credits). Link budgets,
free space antenna radiation patterns, multipath, fading, interference, propagation,
antenna radiation patterns, multipath, fading, interference, reflection, refraction, rain
attenuation, indoor propagation and RF safety. Considers applications to radar and
terrestrial as well as satellite communication systems. Real world affects and impairment
reduction methods. Prerequisites: ECE 3442, ECE 4221, MTH 2401.
ECE 5112 INTRODUCTION TO WIRELESS SYSTEMS AND APPLICA-
TIONS (3 credits). Develops principles, fundamental equations and functional components
that use RF propagation for various applications. Describes a broad variety
of applications (e.g., communications, radar) including the functions and interconnection
of subsystems required for these applications. System design considerations
for applications. Prerequisites: ECE 3442, ECE 4221, MTH 2401.
ECE 5113 WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (3 credits). Provides the
basics of wireless networking and WLAN technologies, the leading WLAN standards,
WLAN configurations, WLAN implementation considerations, the benefits
and applications of WLANs, WLAN trends and case studies.
ECE 5115 MODERN WIRELESS DESIGN CONCEPTS (3 credits). Key
design criteria, techniques and component technologies of major components or
sub-systems for wireless applications are treated, including transmitters and power
amplifiers, receivers, modems, synthesizers, mixers, and duplexers. Prerequisites:
ECE 3442, ECE 4221.
ECE 5117 MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (3 credits). Introduces
multimedia, continuous and discrete media, multimedia data compression, image
coding and video coding basics, JPEG and MPEG standards, multimedia networking,
multimedia over Internet, multimedia over wireless networks. (Requirement:
Graduate standing.) Prerequisites: ECE 3222.
ECE 5118 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (3 credits). Pervasive networks
and network embedded systems, power-aware issues in wireless sensor networks,
collaborative signal and information processing, routing and MAC protocols in sensor
networks, clustering and coordination in sensor networks, sensor networks applications.
(Requirement: Graduate standing.)
ECE 5201 LINEAR SYSTEMS 1 (3 credits). Studies linear spaces, linear operators
and matrix calculus; mathematical description of linear dynamic systems, the
relation between state variable descriptions and system transfer functions; controllability
and observability of systems, realization of rational transfer function matrices
and introduces nonlinear analysis. Prerequisites: ECE 4231 or MTH 2201.
ECE 5202 LINEAR SYSTEMS 2 (3 credits). Continues study of linear spaces,
linear operators and matrix calculus; mathematical description of linear dynamic systems,
the relation between state variable descriptions and system transfer functions;
controllability and observability of systems, realization of rational transfer function
matrices and the introduction to nonlinear analysis. Prerequisites: MTH 5201.
ECE 5221 PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (3 credits). Overviews
the principles of operation, general architectures, access methods, modulation
schemes and performance of cellular and personal communications systems. Presents
design criteria for modern systems and use of real world tools to demonstrate
design concepts. Prerequisites: ECE 4221.
ECE 5223 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS (3 credits). Covers physical media,
digital modulation, detection, intersymbol interference, adaptive equalization, spectrum
control, error control and synchronization. Prerequisites: ECE 4221, MTH 5425.
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