2012–2013 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

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 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. Corequisites: 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 power-flow 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 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.
ECE 5233 SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS (3 credits). A comprehensive
study of the systems aspects of satellite communications, with emphasis on digital
communications. Includes an analysis of AWGN channels, performance degradation
caused by band limiting, nonlinearities, phase noise, etc. Presents a survey of existing
operational satellite systems. Prerequisites: ECE 4221.
ECE 5234 COMMUNICATIONS THEORY (3 credits). Covers theory of signal
spaces; dimensionality and distance; optimum methods of statistical detection and
estimation; characteristics of noise; introduction to information theory, including
channel capacity, source coding and channel coding; and time-bandwidth limitations
and rate-distortion theory. Prerequisites: ECE 4221.
ECE 5238 ERROR CONTROL CODING (3 credits). Introduces algebra, linear
block codes, Galois fields, cyclic codes, circuits for cyclic codes, BCH codes, spectral
techniques for encoding and decoding, and convolutional codes.
ECE 5243 DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS (3 credits). Analyzes and designs
digital control systems using state-variable techniques and time-domain analysis;
sampling, z-transform analysis and the frequency domain; and controllability and
observability. Prerequisites: ECE 5201.
ECE 5245 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING 1 (3 credits). Describes discretetime
signals in the time and frequency domains; z-transform, discrete Fourier
transform, FFT algorithms; introduction to classical digital filter design techniques;
and filter banks.
ECE 5246 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING 2 (3 credits). Modern methods of
data compression, signal modeling spectral estimation and linear prediction; Wiener
filtering and an introduction to Kalman filtering and adaptive filtering; and other topics
from the current literature. Prerequisites: ECE 5245, MTH 5425.
ECE 5248 ADVANCED FILTERING (3 credits). Bayesian estimation theory;
filtering, smoothing and prediction for linear and nonlinear systems, Gaussian and
non-Gaussian models, and for known or unknown models; fast algorithms for filter
design and implementation; linear, nonlinear and adaptive filters; applications.
Prerequisites: ECE 5201, MTH 5425.
ECE 5251 RADAR SYSTEMS (3 credits). Covers characteristics of radar, prediction
of range and performance, types of radar (pulse-Doppler, MTI, CW, etc.); modern
radar technologies, phased-array systems, clutter, jamming; and introduces signal
processing methods.
ECE 5256 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING (3 credits). Investigates image
processing by machine for such purposes as robotics, biomedicine, remote sensing and
photogrammetry. Includes image enhancement and analysis, transform techniques
including wavelet transform, feature extraction, segmentation, compression and
morphology.
ECE 5258 PATTERN RECOGNITION (3 credits). Includes Bayes decision
theory; optimal pattern recognition algorithms; feature extraction criteria and algorithms;
adaptive pattern recognition; supervised and unsupervised learning; applications
to failure detection; and target, image and speech recognition. Prerequisites:
ECE 5201, MTH 5425.
ECE 5259 MEDICAL IMAGING (3 credits). Presents the interdisciplinary principles
of medical imaging techniques such as diagnostic ultrasound, radiography, x-ray
computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Includes the
physical principles, noise modeling and signal processing for each imaging modality.
Prerequisites: MTH 2201, MTH 2401.
ECE 5268 THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS
(3 credits). Includes learning in a single neuron, single- and multi-layer perceptrons,
recurrent neural networks, structured neural networks, neural networks to perform
principal component analysis, principal component regression and partial least squares
regression. (Requirement: Instructor approval or prerequisite course.) Prerequisites:
ECE 5201 or MTH 5102.
ECE 5270 SPECIAL TOPICS IN SYSTEMS (3 credits). Topics of current
interest in the technical literature on systems.
ECE 5301 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE THEORY (3 credits). Reviews basic
semiconductor physics and band theory; development of detailed theory of p-n junctions;
Schottky barrier diodes, bipolar transistors and heterojunctions. Introduction
of field effect transistor theory include JFETs, MOSFETs and VLSI technologies.
Prerequisites: ECE 3331.
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