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ECE 5470 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ELECTRO-
MAGNETICS (3 credits). Topics of current interest
in the technical literature on electromagnetics.
(Requirement: Instructor approval.)
ECE 5495 SPECIAL PROJECT IN ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING (3 credits). Special graduate projects
are undertaken on a cooperative basis between
the student and a member of the graduate faculty.
(Requirement: Instructor approval.)
ECE 5525 SPEECH PROCESSING (3 credits).
Fundamentals of digital speech processing, digital
models for speech signals, acoustic theory of
speech production, speech perception, speech
analysis, homomorphic speech processing, coding
of speech signals, linear predictive coding, methods
for speech recognition and digital speech processing
for man-machine communication by voice.
Prerequisites: ECE 3222.
ECE 5526 SPEECH RECOGNITION (3 credits).
Basic approaches in speech recognition, dynamic
time warping, hidden Markov models and neural
networks. Prerequisites: ECE 5525.
ECE 5527 SEARCH AND DECODING IN
SPEECH RECOGNITION (3 credits). Issues
with searching for best answers from recognition
hypotheses generated by the recognizer, including
lattice networks, dictionaries, language modeling
and its use in speech recognition, network search
algorithms, word networks and standard lattice
format, finite state grammars, Bi-grams, N-grams
and other language modeling techniques. Prerequisites:
ECE 5226.
ECE 5528 ACOUSTICS OF AMERICAN ENG-
LISH SPEECH (3 credits). American English
phonemes, speech and sound analysis, static
properties of speech sounds; consonants, vowels,
obsturent and vowel transitions, consonantal
sonorant and vowels, consonant interactions; and
acoustic variability.
ECE 5534 COMPUTER NETWORKS 1 (3
credits). Theory, design and analysis of computer
communications systems. Topics include TCP/IP,
Internet, the World Wide Web, ISO-OSI network
architecture, LANs (Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token
Ring, Token Bus, etc.), ATM, SONET, wireless communications,
satellite networks, network modeling
and simulation. Prerequisites: ECE 4561.
ECE 5535 COMPUTER NETWORKS 2 (3 credits).
Continues ECE 5534. Includes computer network
design and analysis topics: network security,
network management, distributed network environment,
bridges, routers, gateways, congestion control,
UNIX network programming, multimedia and network
applications. Prerequisites: ECE 5534.
ECE 5546 SURVIVABLE NETWORK OBJECTS
(3 credits). Develops distributed applications capable
of surviving and roaming throughout the Internet
by adapting to new environments while protecting
their states. Includes encryption, authentication,
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digital signature, digital certification, secure socket
layer, agent-based network applications and object
registry. Prerequisites: ECE 5534.
ECE 5547 PRACTICAL INTERNET (3 credits).
Network planning and configuration, switches, routers,
firewalls, intrusion detection systems, private
networks and virtual private networks, network
management, client-server applications. Prerequisites:
CSE 5231 or ECE 4561 or ECE 5534.
ECE 5555 WAVELET TRANSFORMS FOR
IMAGE PROCESSING (3 credits). Includes
wavelet transforms, multiresolution analysis and
wavelet design. Discusses applications to signal
compression, de-noising and feature detection.
Prerequisites: ECE 5201 or ECE 5245.
ECE 5561 SWITCHING CONCEPTS (3 credits).
The theory and logic design of combinational
and sequential circuits. Includes Boolean algebra,
combinational circuit analysis, synthesis, decomposition,
symmetric functions, threshold functions
and logical completeness; sequential circuit analysis,
synthesis and state minimization; and linear
sequential circuits. Prerequisites: ECE 1552.
ECE 5570 SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMPUTER
ENGINEERING (3 credits). State-of-the-art topics
in the current literature in computer engineering.
Requirement: Instructor approval.)
ECE 5571 DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN 1 (3
credits). Applies techniques learned in switching
theory to the hardware organization of digital systems.
Includes organization and programming of
a small computer; design convention; introduction
to a hardware-design programming language and
hardware programs; control unit microprogramming;
intersystem communication; interrupt and
input/output.
ECE 5572 DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN 2 (3
credits). Applies techniques learned in switching
theory to the hardware organization of digital systems.
Includes organization and programming of
a small computer; design convention; introduction
to a hardware-design programming language and
hardware programs; control unit microprogramming;
intersystem communication; interrupt and
input/output. Prerequisites: ECE 5571.
ECE 5595 SPECIAL PROJECTS IN COMPUTER
ENGINEERING (3 credits). Special graduate projects
undertaken on a cooperative basis between
the student and a member of the graduate faculty.
(Requirement: Instructor approval.)
ECE 5684 POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND
PLANNING (3 credits). An appraisal of modern
techniques for assessing the adequacy of power
systems and for evaluating expansion alternatives.
Topics include reliability theory, the state-space
method, assessment techniques for various system
topologies and determination of feasible expansion.
Prerequisites: ECE 4681.