Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This hands-on course immerse students in an engineering design and problem solving team process that exposes them to the challenges and rewards of practicing engineers. The course targets two groups. First, freshman and sophomores who are considering an engineering major but who want information on the principles of engineering design and the profession. Second, non-engineering majors who want to experience and understand the design process that creates the technology that permeates today's economy, society, and political decisions. Teams of three students design, construct and program a small autonomous robot to engage in a competition at the end of the semester. The course is completely self-contained and assumes no prerequisites.

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: An overview of computer engineering, starting with fundamental building blocks including transistors, bits, data representation, logic and state machines, progressing to computer organization, instruction sets, interrupts, input/output, assembly language programming, and linkage conventions, and ending with an introduction to architectural performance enhancements and computing services.

Long Title: MICROCONTROLLER AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Basic introduction to microcontroller-based embedded systems development. Includes structured laboratory exercises in: assembly programming, C language programming, peripheral interfacing, interrupt management, structured programming, task scheduling, simple digital signal processing (DSP), and other related topics. This course assumes no prerequisites and is primarily intended for first and second year engineering students.

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: The creation, manipulation, transmission, and reception of information by electronic means, elementary signal theory; time and frequency-domain analysis; sampling theorem. Digital information theory; digital transmission of analog signals; error-correcting codes. Laboratory demonstrating the principles of information management by electronic means.

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING II

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 241

Description: Formulation and solution of equations describing electric circuits and electromechanical systems. Behavior of dynamic systems in the time and frequency domains. Basic electronic devices and circuits, including diodes, transistors, optoelectronics, gates, and amplifiers. Introduction to feedback control and digital systems.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONICS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): MATH 101 AND MATH 102

Description: Introduction to analog and digital circuit analysis and design. Basic circuit elements, transistors, OP Amps, digital devices and systems. Intended for non-majors.

Long Title: ELECTRONIC MATERIALS AND QUANTUM DEVICES

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An overview of fundamental topics in physical electronics including a semiclassical approach to the electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of materials as well as an introduction to quantum mechanics, atomic physics, crystal lattices, and electronic band structure.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO WAVES AND PHOTONICS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (PHYS 101 OR PHYS 111 OR PHYS 125 OR PHYS 141) AND (PHYS 102 OR PHYS 112 OR PHYS 126 OR PHYS 142)

Description: Introduction to the concepts of waves and oscillatory motion with a particular focus on electromagnetic waves and their interaction with dielectric materials, and on the use of these ideas in the fields of optical fiber communications, laser design, non-linear optics, and Fourier optics.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SIGNALS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 241

Description: Analytical framework for analyzing signals and systems. Time and frequency domain analysis of continuous and discrete time signals and systems, convolution, and the Laplace and Z transforms. REGISTRATION NOTE: The prerequisite ELEC 303 may be taken concurrently with ELEC 301 Recommended co or prerequisite(s): CAAM 335 or MATH 355. ELEC 303 may be taken the same semester to satisfy prerequisite requirement.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 301

Description: A study of linear dynamical systems based on state-space representation. Includes the structural properties of systems such as controllability and observability. About one third of the course is devoted to the study of linear algebraic concepts, like range, null space, eigenvalues diagonalizability. Applications to control problems.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the basic physical properties of electronics, semiconductors, transistors, integrated circuits, transmission line and signal propagation.

Long Title: ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND DEVICES

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 305

Description: A course to introduce students to various electrical engineering aspects and devices based on electromagnetic field theory. Includes basic concepts of waveguides, resonators, optical fibers, waveguide devices, a survey of antennas, and a discussion of radar, lidar, and remote sensing principles.

Long Title: APPLIED ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Long Title: DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 220

Description: Gates, flip-flops, combinational and sequential switching circuits, registers, logical and arithmetic operations, introduction to the Verilog hardware description language. Cross-list: COMP 326.

Long Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 326

Description: This course concerns the implementation of digital systems using the Verilog hardware description language. Lecture topics include Verilog test benches and timing simulations and techniques for implementing control units, data-flow units, pipelining and interrupts. The course also requires the completion of a significant project involving the implementation of a modern instruction set architecture.

Long Title: APPLIED PROBABILITY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See STAT 331. Cross-list: STAT 331.

Long Title: ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 242

Description: Models of diodes, bipolar and field effect transistors. Biasing methods, distortion analysis, two-port analysis, single-stage and multistage amplifiers, frequency domain characteristics, feedback, stability, analog and digital power amplifiers. Lab culminates in the design and testing of a low-distortion audio frequency power amplifier.

Long Title: QUANTUM MECHANICS FOR ENGINEERS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202

Description: This course provides the background in quantum mechanics and solid state physics necessary for further studies in device physics (ELEC 462) and quantum Electronics (ELEC 463).

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the electrophysiology of excitable cells, and the development of mathematical models of their electrochemical activity. Forms the basis for a better understanding of clinical recordings of heart, brain and muscular activity (ECG, EEG, and EMG, respectively). Cross-list: BIOE 381.

Long Title: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Issues related to engineering professional practice and other career choices for electrical engineering graduates. Topics will include intellectual property rights, engineering ethics, technical presentations, entrepreneurship, venture capitalism, career paths, and graduate study. Required for BSEE degree students.

Long Title: HIGH-SPEED EMBEDED SYSTM DESGN

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: The specification, design, and implementation of high-speed DSP and microcontroller-based systems, taking into account cost constraints available technology, and other factors. Includes instruction on high-speed design theory, hardware/software interface, and approaches to designing practical hardware systems. Major hardware/software design project required. Must complete ELEC 494 to receive credit for ELEC 410.

Long Title: HIGH SPEED SYSTEMS DESIGN II FOR VIDEO APPLICATIONS WITH FPGA/DSP

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 410

Description: ELEC 411 is a continuation of the ELEC 424 (ELEC 410), High Speed System Design I. Students will implement video systems in student design hardware designed in ELEC 434 (ELEC 410). Enrollment in ELEC 411 without ELEC 424 (ELEC 410) requires instructor permission.

Long Title: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See COMP 482. Cross-list: COMP 482.

Long Title: OPERATING SYSTEMS AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: See COMP 421. Cross-list: COMP 421.

Long Title: VLSI DESIGN I

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: A study of VLSI technology and design. MOS devices, characteristics and fabrication. Logic design and implementation. VLSI design methodology, circuit simulation and verification. Must complete ELEC 494 to receive design credit for ELEC 422. Course includes group design projects.

Long Title: MOBILE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN AND APPLICATION

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 326

Description: ELEC 424 introduces mobile and embedded system design and applications to undergraduate students and provides them hands-on design experience. It consists of three interlearning parts: lectures, student design project, and student presentations. Student teams continue to work on the design project in the following semester as ELEC 494.

Long Title: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Network architectures, algorithms and protocols. Local- and wide-area networking. Intra- and inter-domain routing. Transmission reliability. Flow and congestion control. TCP/IP. Multicast. Quality of Service. Network security. Networked applications. Cross-list: COMP 429.

Long Title: COMMUNICATION THEORY AND SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 331 AND ELEC 301

Description: Course in digital communications, designed to prepare students for engineering work in high-tech industries and for graduate work in communications, signal processing, and computer systems. Covers basic concepts and useful tools for design and performance analysis of transmitters and receivers in the physical layer of a communication system.

Long Title: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 301

Description: Analysis of discrete-time signals and systems. Includes filter design and implementation, an introduction to least squares and statistical signal processing, and applications in speech and image processing.

Long Title: DIGITAL RADIO SYSTEM DESIGN

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Analysis and design of digital radio communication systems including architectures, algorithms, hardware components, and system characterization. Must complete ELEC 494 to receive design credit for ELEC 432.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 430

Description: This is an FPGA laboratory course in which students will embark upon a detailed study and implementation of the software design project will be required. Major functional blocks of end-to-end wireless communication systems. Students will work in groups on a specific functional element. A major group hardware or software design project will be required.

Long Title: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING LAB

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 321

Description: Understand the architecture and software tools for code development and optimization of the Texas Instruments TMS320C6x digital signal processor family. Includes laboratory exercises such as digital filtering to demonstrate both fixed-point and floating-point DSPs. Use will also be made DSP Starter Kits (DSK-6416 and/or DSK-6713). Requires DSP term project of the student's choice.

Long Title: ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES AND SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 242 OR ELEC 243

Description: Introduction to the physical and engineering aspects of electromechanical sensors and actuators, including underlying physical phenomena, practical devices, electrical and mechanical interfacing, and control of electromechanical systems. Cross-list: MECH 435.

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF CONTROL SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See MECH 420. Cross-list: MECH 420.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 331 OR STAT 331

Description: Introduction to design and analysis of communication networks. Topics include wireless networks, media access, routing traffic modeling, congestion control, and scheduling.

Long Title: WIRELESS NETWORKING FOR UNDER-RESOURCED URBAN COMMUNITIES

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Rice Networks Group and the non-profit organization Technology For All have recently deployed a state-of-the art multi-hop wireless network in one of Houston's most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. The objective of this network is to empower under-resourced communities with access to technology and educational and work-at-home tools. In this course project teams will perform measurement studies both in the Rice Networks Lab and in the East End neighborhood to characterize the system capacity; optimize placement of wireless nodes; study the effects of traffic and channel characteristics on system-wide performance; and plan deployment of additional nodes to extend the coverage area.

Long Title: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 431 or permission of instructor

Description: Modern techniques for image analysis, processing, and enhancement: two dimensional system and transform theory; sampling; linear and non-linear filtering; feature extraction; compression and coding; imaging systems.

Long Title: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: See COMP 440. Cross-list: COMP 440.

Long Title: ADVANCED ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 342

Description: An in-depth extension of material covered in ELEC 342 such as discrete, dc-coupled, multistage op-amps, wideband amplifiers, principles of feedback, feed-forward, automatic gain control, active filtering, the design of data converters and analog multipliers/dividers.

Long Title: ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE/COMPATIBILITY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Fundamental EMI/EMC principles, development of regulations and requirements, non-ideal and nonlinear behavior of components, radiated and conducted emissions and susceptibility, testing techniques to determine compliance, electrical/mechanical techniques to ensure compliance, modeling and electrostatic discharge. Lab is application of principles to analog and/or digital circuits.

Long Title: MOBILE WIRELESS SERVICES PROJECT

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): COMP 410 OR COMP 415 OR COMP 314

Description: Design and implement a wireless mobile information system utilizing Windows Mobile hardware (SMART Phone and PDA), Visual Studio.Net and .NET services to run over cellular data networks (EV-DO, EDGE) and the Rice 8oz. 11b wireless infrastructure. Students will be provided with hardware, required software and access to a .NET server. Preferences given to students who have experience with Visual Studio or have taken COMP 410, COMP 415 or ELEC 694. Cross-list: COMP 446. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Survey of physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor devices. Bipolar and MOS transistors. IC circuit fabrication.

Long Title: LASER AND PHOTONICS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 201 OR ELEC 261

Description: Introduction to the physics and technology of lasers and related devices. The course consists of lectures, homework, and student presentations on particular topics.

Long Title: PHOTONIC MEASUREMENTS: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Presentation of the parameters and physics of using light to determine physical properties or state; principles and characteristics of photonic sources and detectors; team-based design of a photonic sensor system. Must complete ELEC 494 to receive design credit for ELEC 464.

Long Title: PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS PRACTICUM

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 201 OR ELEC 261

Description: A laboratory course, with lecture, to introduce students to a variety of experimental techniques, methods, and instruments of current interest. The content will generally correspond to the ideas and concepts introduced in the Physical Electronics courses, ELEC 305, 306, 461, and 463, including: general optics; lasers and fiber optics; spectroscopy.

Long Title: COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 381

Description: An introduction to anatomy and physiology of the brain. Development of models of neurons and natural neural networks. Cross-list: BIOE 481.

Long Title: PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Nervous system control of biological systems using simulation methods, as well as techniques common to linear and nonlinear control theory. Examples from cardiovascular, respiratory, and visual systems. Cross-list: BIOE 482.

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL IMAGING I

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will introduce basic medical imaging modalities, such as x-ray, CT, and MRI, used to identify the anatomy of human organs, as well as other modalities, such as PET, SPECT, FMRI, and MEG, specifically developed to localize brain function. The course includes visits to clinical sites. Cross-list: BIOE 485, COMP 485.

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL IMAGING II

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 485 OR BIOE 485 OR COMP 485

Description: Course focuses on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) physical principles, image formation, processing, and clinical applications and lays the foundations for understanding PET tracer kinetic modeling. A trip to MD Anderson's PET facility provides hands-on experience of PET imaging. Cross-list: BIOE 486, COMP 486.

Long Title: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH PROJECTS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction. May be repeated for a total of 6 credit hours. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT DESIGN PROJECT

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Students who wish to pursue substantial, independent projects or participate in engineering design competitions should enroll in 491 as the first semester of their design sequence. All projects must be approved by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Must complete ELEC 494 to receive design credit for ELEC 491.

Long Title: SENIOR DESIGN SEMINAR

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Covers design methodology, project planning, engineering documentation, and other design related topics. Required for all BSEE degree students. Recommended corequisite(s): Approved BSEE design electives.

Long Title: SENIOR DESIGN

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Team of students will specify, design, and build a system to meet a prescribed set of requirement. A substantial document and a formal presentation describing the design will be required. Required of all BSEE degree students.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: APPROXIMATION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course describes projection methods for model reduction that seek to replace scale systems (VLSI circuits, weather prediction models, and MEMS) with systems of computational complexity that the original dynamical system requires while still maintaining model fidelity.

Long Title: NEURAL NETWORKS AND INFORMATION THEORY I

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 430 OR ELEC 431 or permission of instructor

Description: Review of major Artificial Neural Network paradigms. Analytical discussion of supervised and unsupervised learning. Emphasis on state-of-the-art Hebbian (biologically most plausible) learning paradigms and their relation to information theoretical methods. Applications to data analysis such as pattern recognition, clustering, classification, blind source separation, non-linear PCA. Cross-list: COMP 502.

Long Title: NON LINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Analytical methods, including singular point and phase plane analysis, describing functions, stability analysis via Lyapunov functions; digital computer simulation methods; parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis is included. An introduction to the chaotic behavior of nonlinear dynamic systems is included. Cross-list: MECH 507.

Long Title: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS: ANALYSIS AND CONTROL

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mathematical background and fundamental properties of nonlinear systems: Vector norms, matrix norms, matrix measures, existence and uniqueness of solutions of ordinary differential equations. Linearization, second order systems, periodic solutions, approximate methods. Lyapunov stability: Stability definitions, Lyapunov's direct method, invariance theory, stability of linear systems, Lyapunov's linearization method, converse theorems. Selected topics in nonlinear systems analysis and nonlinear control from: Input/Output stability: Small gain theorem, passivity theorem. Perturbation theory, averaging, and singular perturbations Feedback linearization control. Other methods in the control of nonlinear systems such as backstepping, sliding mode and other Lyapunov-based design methods. Advanced nonlinear and adaptive robot control. Cross-list: CAAM 508, MECH 508.

Long Title: PARALLEL ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Parallel architectures: shared memory, VLSI, message-passing. Structure and relation between architectures. Parallel time, work, and efficiency. Parallel algorithms for fundamental computational problems and applications. Network routing. Cross-list: COMP 583.

Long Title: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: See COMP 520. Cross-list: COMP 520.

Long Title: HIGH SPEED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 326

Description: This course gives an overview of the critical issues in the design of high performance VLSI circuits. This course focuses on the modeling and design automation of high performance CMOS circuits. The course covers scaling trends in CMOS technologies, interconnect modeling, power modeling, noise in digital CMOS circuits, high-performance CMOS design methodologies, model order reduction techniques, high performance clock distribution design, electro migration effects and power distribution.

Long Title: ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 422

Description: Design and analysis of algorithm-specific VLSI processor architectures. Topics include the implementation of pipelined and systolic processor arrays. Techniques for mapping numerical algorithms onto custom processor arrays. Course includes design project using high-level VLSI synthesis tools.

Long Title: COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN FOR VLSI

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Fundamental topics in computer-aided design for VLSI-Logic synthesis and formal verification, timing analysis and optimization, technology mapping, logic and fault simulation, testing, and physical design will be covered. Relevant topics in algorithms and data structures, generic programming, and the C++ standard template library will also be covered. Cross-list: COMP 523.

Long Title: MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ADVANCED MICROPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 425 OR COMP 425

Description: See COMP 525. Cross-list: COMP 525.

Long Title: HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 525 OR COMP 525 or permission of instructor

Description: Design of high performance computer systems, including shared-memory and message-passing multiprocessors and vector systems. Hardware and software techniques to tolerate and reduce memory and communication latency. Case studies and performance simulation of high-performance systems. Cross-list: COMP 526.

Long Title: COMPUTING DESIGN WITH NANOTECHNOLOGIES

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CMOS transistors, building elements of modern computing are entering the nanometer era. This course aims at providing basic knowledge of nanotechnologies-based computing. It starts with addressing immediate challenges facing CMOS-based computing. It then covers emerging non-standard CMOS and non CMOS devices, their physical properties, fabrications, circuit design, and impacts on the existing design flow and computing paradigms.

Long Title: MOBILE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course consists of three interlearning parts. The instructor surveys different aspects of mobile and embedded systems. Students present research topics based on discussion with the instructor. As the final project, students interact with the instructor to identify a research problem and design initial solutions for it.

Long Title: COMPUTER NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): COMP 429 OR ELEC 429

Description: See COMP 529. Cross-list: COMP 529.

Long Title: DETECTION THEORY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Classic and modern methods of optimal decisions in communications and signal processing. Continuous- and discrete-time methods. Gaussian and non-Gaussian problems.

Long Title: STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 431

Description: Statistical models for single- and multi-channel signals. Optimal detection and estimation solutions for Gaussian and non-Gaussian environments.

Long Title: WAVELET AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Classical and modern techniques for characterizing the frequency content of signals. Periodogram; parametric techniques, including autogressive (AR) and autoregressive moving average (ARMA) modeling; nonparametric techniques, including minimum variance and eigenspace methods, and time-varying spectral analysis. Cross-list: STAT 586.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO RANDOM PROCESSES AND APPLICATION

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Review of basic probability; Sequence of random variables; Random vectors and estimation; Basic concepts of random processes; Random processes in linear systems, expansion of random processes; Wiener filtering; Spectral representation of random processes; White-noise integrals. Cross-list: CAAM 583, STAT 583.

Long Title: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 430

Description: This is a graduate course on wireless and mobile communication systems, with an emphasis on understanding the unique characteristics of these systems--their analysis and design. Topics include: cellular principles, mobile radio propagation and path loss, characterization of multipath fading channels, modulation and equalization techniques for mobile radio systems, multiple (media) access, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system design, and cellular system capacity.

Long Title: INFORMATION AND CODING THEORY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 331

Description: Introduction to information theory concepts; basic theorems of channel coding and source coding with a fidelity criterion. Techniques of channel coding, parity check codes, introduction to algebraic coding theory, introduction to convolutional codes. Variable-length source coding.

Long Title: APPLICATION OF MODERN STATISTICAL LEARNING THEORY IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course covers a broad range of statistical modeling and learning methods that find usage in embedded systems, distributed embedded systems and modern processes.

Long Title: COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate-level introduction to design and analysis of communication networks. Topics include wireless networks, media access, routine, traffic modeling, congestion control, and scheduling. Cross-list: MECH 537.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPUTER NETWORKING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 533 AND ELEC 534 AND ELEC 537

Description: Advanced topics in protocols, modeling, and analysis of wireless networks.

Long Title: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Modern techniques for image analysis, processing, and enhancement: Two dimensional system and transform theory; sampling; linear and non-linear filtering; feature extraction; compression and coding; imaging systems.

Long Title: SOURCE CODING AND COMPRESSION

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Review of information theory, scalar quantization, vector quantization theory, scalar quantization, vector quantization, quantizer Design Algorithms, Entropy coding, transform coding, rate-distortion optimization application to image and video coding, wavelet and multi-resolution compression algorithms.

Long Title: ERROR CORRECTING CODES

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 430

Description: Introductory course on error correcting codes. Topics covered include linear block codes, convolutional codes, turbo codes and space-time codes.

Long Title: DIGITAL AUDIO AND VIDEO SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 302 OR ELEC 431

Description: This course covers practical audio and video system design techniques and DSP architectures for implementing real time video and audio algorithms. Topics: A&V circuit and system design fundamentals, digital audio amplifiers, digital audio algorithms, DSP architectures, NTSC and HDTV video systems, MPEG video algorithms, HDTV receiver design and personal video recorder design.

Long Title: THIN FILMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See MSCI 545. Cross-list: MSCI 545.

Long Title: PHYSICS OF SENSOR MATERIALS AND NANOSENSOR TECHNOLOGY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 306

Description: A seminar course consisting of lectures, discussions of journal articles, and student presentations on topics in optical fiber propagation, including linear and nonlinear effects.

Long Title: SUBMICROMETER AND NANOMETER DEVICE TECHNOLOGY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Surveys techniques to design, fabricate, and analyze submicron and nanometer structures with emphasis on applications in microelectronics, microphotonics, information storage and nanotechnology.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SOLID STATE PHYSICS I

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See PHYS 563. Cross-list: PHYS 563.

Long Title: SOLID-STATE PHYSICS II

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See PHYS 564. Cross-list: PHYS 564.

Long Title: LASER SPECTROSCOPY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of laser spectroscopy as applied to atomic and molecular systems. The course covers fundamentals of spectroscopy, lasers and spectroscopic light sources, high resolution and time resolved laser spectroscopy with applications in atmospheric chemistry, environmental science and medicine. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PHENOMENA

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course covers the generation, propagation, and measurement of short laser pulses, of duration less than one picosecond. Concepts include mode locking, the effects of dispersion, optical pulse amplification, and time-domain non-linear optical phenomena. Intended as an introduction to ultrafast phenomena for graduate students or advanced undergraduates; a basic understanding of electromagnetic waves and of quantum mechanics is assumed. Cross-list: PHYS 569.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN LASER SPECTROSCOPY

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Advanced topics in Laser Spectroscopy with an emphasis on recent spectroscopic and chemical sensing research publications. Format will include a combination of lectures and student presentations. Offered Spring. Instructor (s): Tittel.

Long Title: IMAGING AT THE NANOSCALE

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the techniques used in imaging submicron and nanometer structures with an emphasis on applications in chemistry, physics, biology, and materials science. The course includes an introduction to scanning probe microscopy and single photon counting including STM, AFM, NSOM, and confocal microscopy, as well as discussions on the fundamental and practical aspects of image acquisition, analysis, and artifacts.

Long Title: CARDIOPULMONARY DYNAMICS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mathematical modeling of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and their neural control. Integration of these system models into a human cardiopulmonary model capable of simulating measured data from functional tests. Cross-list: BIOE 581.

Long Title: ELECTRICAL PROJECTS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FIRST YEAR GRAD STUDENT PROJECTS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 6

Description: Supervised project required of all first-year graduate students in the Ph.D. program.

Long Title: NEURAL NETWORKS AND INFORMATION THEORY II

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Advanced topics in ANN theories, with a focus on Self-Organizing Maps and unsupervised learning. The course will be a mix of lectures and seminar discussions with active student participation, based on most recent research publications. Students will have access to professional software environment to implement theories. Cross-list: COMP 602.

Long Title: NANO-OPTICS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: This course is a seminar where all IGERT students and their advisors meet to discuss research problems both in formal presentations and in an informal "open-mic" session. This course also includes a Nanophotics journal club featuring just-published papers. All IGERT students will be enrolled in this seminar throughout the course of their graduate study. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: COMPUTATIONAL ELECTRODYNAMICS AND NANOPHOTONICS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See PHYS 605. Cross-list: PHYS 605. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 531 AND ELEC 533

Description: Topic vary from semester to semester. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on topics of current research interest in image and video processing. Students participate in selecting and presenting papers from technical literature. Discussions aim at identifying common themes and important trends in the field.

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL IMAGING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will introduce basic medical imaging modalities, such as x-ray, CT, and MRI, used to identify the anatomy of human organs, as well as other modalities, such as PET, SPECT, fMRI, and MEG, specifically developed to localize brain function. The course includes visits to clinical sites. Cross-list: COMP 685. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS-COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: This computer architecture seminar is a discussion oriented class about state of the art work in computer architecture, with additional discussion on the relationship to embedded computing, compiler technology, and applications. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FUTURE PERSONAL COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the component and standards trends that are the basis of personal computers and digital appliances with the aim of predicting technologies, solutions, and new products five years into the future. Cross-list: COMP 694. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONS AND STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 534 AND ELEC 535

Description: This is a graduate seminar class focused on the role of information theory in engineering wireless network. Students will survey, read, and present both classic as well as recent papers in the area.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE SEMINAR ***** Discussion of recent research papers in computer architecture and current computer architecture at Rice. May be repeated for credit. ***** Instructor(s): Pai, Rixner Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: APPLICATIONS OF MODERN STATISTICAL MODELING AND LEARNING IN SENSOR NETWORKS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We discuss the importance of nonparametic statistical modeling and learning and its applications in embedded systems and sensor networks. The discussions of the modefying methods is interleaved with real world problems and challenges related to real systems.

Long Title: BAYLOR/RICE MD/PHD PROGRAM

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.