2007-09 - Graduate School - The University of Alabama

Graduate Catalog: Section 11.6.6http://graduate.ua.edu/catalog/24300.htmlmachine drives.ECE 455 Power/Machines Laboratory. (0-3) One hour.Prerequisite: ECE 350.Test and analysis of power/machines devices; and design of systems using these devices.ECE 456 Power Systems I. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisite: ECE 350.Corequisite: GES 451 or MATH 237.Basic power system concepts and per-unit quantities; transmission line, transformer, and rotating machine modeling;and power flow.ECE 457 Power Systems II. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisite: ECE 456.Economic operation, fault analysis, symmetrical components, and system protection.ECE 467 Engineering Optics. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisites: ECE 340 or PH 332 and either GES 451 or MATH 237.Corequisite: ECE 370.Principles of laser holography, optical communication, and image processing and their engineering applications(including propagation, polarization, diffraction, coherence and interference, and spatial Fourier transformation oflight waves).ECE 475 Control Systems Analysis. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisite: ECE 326.Classical and modern feedback control system methods; stability; and Bode, root locus, state variable, and computeranalysis.ECE 476 Control Systems Laboratory. (0-3) One hour. Same as AEM 476.Corequisite: ECE 475.Practical analysis and design of feedback control systems and components; and electrical, mechanical, andelectromechanical systems.ECE 479 Digital Control Systems. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisites: ECE 370, ECE 475, and either GES 451 or MATH 237.Frequency and time methods in discrete time control systems; sampling of continuous-time signals, stability,transform design techniques, and state variable analysis and design techniques.ECE 480 Digital Systems Design. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisite: ECE 383.Corequisite: ECE 481.Digital systems design with hardware description languages, programmable implementation technologies, electronicdesign automation design flows, design considerations and constraints, design for test, system on a chip designs, IPcores, reconfigurable computing, digital system design examples and applications.ECE 481 Digital Systems Design Laboratory. (0-3) One hour.Prerequisite: ECE 383.Corequisite: ECE 480.Logic design and simulation via hardware description languages, use of electronic design automation tools, and CPUdesign.ECE 482 Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisites: MATH 355 and CS 124, or permission of the instructor.Introduction to computer vision and digital image processing with an emphasis on image representation, transforms,filtering, compression, boundary detection, and pattern matching.ECE 483 Computer Graphics Design. (3-0) Three hours. Same as CS 435.Prerequisite: ECE 383.Selected topics in computer graphics and graphics algorithms; design projects.ECE 484 Computer Architecture. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisite: ECE 480.Computer architectures, computer design, memory systems design, parallel processing concepts, supercomputers,networks, and multiprocessing systems.ECE 486 Embedded Systems. (3-0) Three hours.Prerequisite: ECE 383Corequisite: ECE 487Integration of microprocessors into digital systems. Includes hardware interfacing, bus protocols and peripheralsystems, embedded and real-time operating systems, real-time constraints, networking and distributed process