ABET Format Syllabus for ECE 5870 - College of Engineering

ABET Format Syllabus (sample)4/9/13 11:37 AM1. Overview of Optical Fiber Communications (1/2 week)2. Geometrical optics: (1/2 week)3. Physical Optics (1 week)4. Optical Fibers: Structure, wave guide, material, fiber fabrication (1-1/2 week)5. Signal degradation in optical fibers: Attenuation, signal distortion in optical wave guide, pulsebroadening, mode coupling and design optimization of single mode fibers (1-1/2 weeks)6. Optical source: Review on semiconductor physics, Light emitting diodes, laser diodes, light sourcelinearity, modal, partition, and reflection noises, and reliability (2 weeks)7. Power launching and coupling: Source-to-fiber power launching, lensing schemes for couplingimprovement, fiber-to-fiber joints, LED coupling to single-mode fibers, fiber splicing, optical fiberconnectors (1 weeks)8. Photodetectors: Physical principle of photodetectors, photodetector noise, detector response time,avalanche multiplication noise, structures for APDS, temperature effect on avalanche gain,comparison of photodetectors (1-1/2 weeks)9. Optical receiver operations: Fundamentals, digital receiver performance, detailed performancecalculations, preamplifier types, analog receiver (1 week)10. Wavelength division multiplexing: Operational principles of WDM, passive components, tunablesources, tunable filters (2 weeks)Course Structure: The ECE 4850 is largely lecture based 4 credit hour course. The class will be held twotimes a week and each class will be two-hour lecture. To encourage students and give them opportunityto drill their learning, three midterms are scheduled and one-final exam is planed. The class notes will beposted on blackboard (http://blackboard.wayne.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_127589_1).Computer Resources: There will be a series of problems assigned using Excel, MathCad, or MatLab.These programs are available on the PCs in the College’s PC laboratory, Rooms 2351 and 2359,Engineering Building. The PC lab’s hours are posted in front of the lab.Laboratory Resources: Not applicableLaboratory Policy: Not applicableDistribution of Points: Suggested: Homework (20%), Midterm 1 (10%), Midterm 2 (15 %), Midterm 3(15 %) and Final (40%).The midterm and final exam will be closed book and closed notebooks. The due of homework is the firstclass of the next week.Grading Scale: 100-95 A; 94-90 A-; 89-85 B+; 84-80 B; 79-75 B-;74-70 C+; 69-65 C; 64-60 C-; Below 60Fail.Attendance: You are expected to attend every class in its entirety. Do not schedule other classes orcommitments that conflict with any part of the time during which your class is scheduled. ClassParticipation and attendance will be checked and it will be reflected to the final grade with maximum 5 %of the final grade.Schedule:http://ece.eng.wayne.edu/~patrick/ecewebsite/ABETsyllabus/Syllabus_ECE4850.htmPage 2 of 6