Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTRO TO ENGINEERING DESIGN ***** This is a hands on introduction to engineering design. Using skills developed in the course, teams of students will design and construct a functional robot, and program this robot to perform simple tasks. The course is completely self-contained, assumes no prerequisites, and is intended for both engineering majors and non-majors. ***** Instructor(s): Young

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING ***** An overview of fundamental topics in computer engineering, including bits, logic, state machines, instruction sets, assembly language, linkage conventions, pipeline, storage, hierarchies, interrupts, input/output, and networking. Intended for ECE/CS majors.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MICROCONTROLLER & EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LABORATORY ***** Basic introduction to microcontroller-based embedded systems development. Includes structures 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. ***** Instructor(s): Frantz

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Orchard

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 241

Description: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING II ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 241 ***** Instructor(s): Wise

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 ELECTRONICS ***** Introduction to analog and digital circuit analysis and design. Basic circuit elements, transistors, OP Amps, digital devices and systems. Intended for non-majors. ***** Prerequisite(s): MATH 101 and 102. ***** Instructor(s): Wilson.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO WAVES & PHOTONICS ***** Introduction to the concepts of waves and oscillatory motion with a partcular 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. ***** Instructor(s): Mittleman

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 241

Description: INTRODUCTION TO SIGNALS ***** Analytical framework for analyzing signals and systems. Time and frequency domain analysis of continuous time signals and systems, solution of differential equations, convolution, and the Laplace transform. Fourier analysis. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 241 ***** Corequisite(s): CAAM 335, MATH 355, or equivalent linear algebra course. ***** Instructor(s): Baraniuk

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 301

Description: INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 301 ***** Corequisite(s): ELEC 303 ***** Instructor(s): Antoulas

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 2

Description: SYSTEMS LAB ***** To be taken concurrently with ELEC 302. ***** Instructor(s): Choi

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS ***** Study of transmission lines and pulse propagation: basic semiconductor devices; waves; and lasers. ***** Instructor(s): Wilson

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 305

Description: ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS & DEVICES ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 305 ***** Instructor(s): Tittel

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: APPLIED ALGORITHMS AND DATA ***** See COMP 314.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN ***** Gates, flip-flops, combinational and sequential switching circuits, registers, logical and arithmetic operations, introduction to the Verilog hardware description language. ***** Instructor(s): Jump

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 326

Description: IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL SYSTEMS ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 326 ***** Instructor(s): Jump, Mohanram

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APPLIED PROBABILITY ***** See STAT 331.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 242

Description: ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS ***** 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, and power amplifiers. Lab culminates in the design and testing of a low-distortion audio frequencypower amplifier. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 242 ***** Instructor(s): Massey

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202

Description: ELECTRONIC MATERIALS & QUANTUM DEVICES ***** 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). ***** Prerequiste(s): PHYS 202 ***** Instructor(s): Kelly

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY ***** 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). ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. ***** Also offered as BIOE 381. ***** Instructor(s): Clark

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTATION AND ANALYSIS ***** See BIOE 383. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Sinclair, Wilson

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS ***** See COMP 482.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: OPERATING SYSTEMS & CONCURRENT PROGRAMS ***** See COMP 421.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: VLSI DESIGN I ***** A study of VLSI technology and design. MOS devices, characteristics and fabrication. Logic design and implementation. VLSI design methodology, circuit simulation and verification. Course includes group design projects. ***** Instructor(s): Massoud

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 422

Description: VLSI DESIGN II ***** Testing and evaluation of VLSI circuits designed in VLSI Design I, ELEC 422. Efficient test methodologies. Topics in computer aided design. ***** PREREQUISITE: ELEC 422 ***** Instructor(s): Cavallaro

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: HIGH-SPEED AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN I ***** The specification, design, and implementation of high-speed DSP and microcontroler-based systems, taking into account cost constrants available technology, and other factors. Includes instruction on high-speed design theory, hardware/software interface, and approaches to designing practical hardware systems. Major hardware design project required. Must complete ELEC 427 to receive credit for ELEC 424. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Frantz

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE ***** See COMP 425. ***** Instructor(s): Rixner

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 424

Description: HIGH SPEED AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN II ***** PERMSSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED. Continuation of ELEC 424. Includes testing and evaluation of printed circuit boards designed in preceeding course. Includes instruction on programming embedded systems in C an assembly. Revision of design projects as needed. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 424 ***** Instructor(s): Frantz

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 331

Description: COMPUTER SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE ***** Analytical models of computer systems. Queueing theory and Markov chains. Queueing networks. Simulation and analysis of simulation results. Operational analysis. Course will include programming projects in C or C++. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 331 or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Sinclair

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKS ***** Network architectures and basic protocols. Routing flow control. Access methods. Transmission media, error management. Network performance. The course will cover several types of networks, including CSMA/CD, token ring, and ATM. ***** Also offered as COMP 429. ***** Instructor(s): Knightly

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 331

Description: COMMUNICATION THEORY & SYSTEMS ***** 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. ***** Prerequiste(s): ELEC 331 ***** Instructor(s): Aazhang

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 301

Description: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ***** 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. ***** Prerequiste: ELEC 301 ***** Instructor(s): Don Johnson

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ***** This is a seminar course in which students will embark upon a detailed study of the major functional blocks of end-to-end wireless communications systems. Students will work in groups and be required to make weekly presentations on a specific functional element. A major group hardware or software design project will be required. ***** Enrollment is limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Frantz

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING LABORATORY ***** Design and implementation of real-time digital signal processing (DSP) systems using a DSP microprocessor. Includes several structured laboratory exercises, such as sampling, digital filtering, and FFT , using both fixed-point and floating-point DSP processors. Requires an extensive DSP project of the student's choice. ***** Instructor(s): Choi

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES & SYSTEMS ***** 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. ***** Also offered as MECH 435. ***** Instructor(s): Wise

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 302

Description: FUNDAMENTALS OF CONTROL SYSTEMS ***** See MECH 420.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: MULTITIER WIRELESS NETWORKS ***** Topics in multitier wireless networks. Lectures from a range of faculty from ECE and CS. Focused team projects. Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students of all levels. Instructor(s): Baraniuk

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DEPLOYMENT AND MEASUREMENTS OF WIRELESS ***** 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.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING ***** 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. Instructor(s): Orchard

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ***** See COMP 440.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: ADVANCED ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS ***** An in-depth extension of material covered in ELEC 342 such as discrete, de-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. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 342 Instructor(s): Massey

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: POWER ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS ***** Minimization of power consumption in electronic circuits with the required system performance. Design of high-efficiency power amplifiers. Electronic circuits used in power systems, including the principles of phase-controlled rectification, high-frequency inversion, and DC-DC conversion, with emphasis on design and lab project. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 342 Instructor(s): Massey

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE/COMPATABILITY ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Massey

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 342

Description: WIRELESS ELECTRONICS ***** Fundamental radio frequency electronic principles; government regulations on noninterference, nonlinear and nonideal behavior of electronic components, positive and negative feedback including ac stability, basic dipole antenna theory, wireless receiver and transmitter architectures and circuits. The lab project is a transceiver design for maximum range while satisfying government regulations. ***** Prerequiste(s): ELEC 342 Instructor(s): Massey

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MOBILE WIRELESS SERVICES PROJECT ***** Design and implement a wireless mobile information system utilizing PocketPC hardware, Visual Studio .NET and .NET services to run over the Rice 802.11b wireless infrastructure. Students will be provided with PocketPCs, required software and access to a .NET server. Preference given to students who have experience with Visual Studio or have taken ELEC 694. ***** Class limited to a maximum of 8 people (4 on clients and 4 on services). Permission of Instructor ***** Instructor(s): Cutler Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES ***** Survey of physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor devices. Bipolar and MOS transistors. IC circuit fabrication. ***** Instructor(s): Wilson

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 201 OR ELEC 261

Description: LASERS & PHOTONICS ***** Introduction to the physics and technology of lasers and related devices. The course consists of lectures, homework, and student presentations on particular topics. ***** Prerequisite(s): PHYS 201 or ELEC 261. ***** Instructor(s): Young

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 201 OR ELEC 261

Description: PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS PRACTICUM ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): PHYS 201 or ELEC 261. ***** Instructor(s): Wilson

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE ***** An introduction to anatomy and physiology of the brain. Development of models of neurons and natural neural networks. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 381 or permission of instructor ***** Also offered as BIOE 481. ***** Instructor(s): Clark

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 381

Description: PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS ***** 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. ***** Also offered as BIOE 482. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 381 or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Clark

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL IMAGING I ***** 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. ***** Also offered as BIOE 485 and COMP 485. ***** Instructor(s): Mawlawi

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: FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL IMAGING II ***** Course focuses on Positron Emisson 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. ***** Also offered as BIOE 486 and COMP 486. ***** Instructor(s): Mawlawi

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: ELEC ENGINEERING PROJECTS ***** Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction. May be repeated for a total of 6 credit hours. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT I ***** A capstone design experience in electrical and computer engineering. This course provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills acquired in previous courses to the solution of a realistic engineering problem. Teams of students will specify, design, and build a system to meet a prescribed set of requirements. The topics covered in this course will include design methodology, effective teamwork, project management, documentation, and presentation skills. Must complete ELEC 492 to receive credit for ELEC 491. ***** Instructor(s): Wise

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 491

Description: SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT II ***** Continuation of ELEC 491 ***** Instructor(s): Wise

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS ***** See MECH 498/COMP 498.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APPROXIMATION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Antoulas

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEURAL NETWORKS AND INFORMATION THEORY I ***** 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. More at http://www.ece.rice.edu/~erzsebet/ANNcourse.html ***** Also offered as COMP 502. ***** Prerequisite(s):ELEC 430, 431, or equivalent or consent of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Merenyi

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ***** 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. ***** Also offered as MECH 507. ***** Instructor(s): Clark

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS ANAYSIS II ***** Review of fundamental properties of nonlinear systems. Nonlinear ordinary differential equations: Existence and uniqueness of solution. Lyapunov Stability: Stability definitions, Lyapunov's direct method, invariance theory, stability of linear systems, Lyapunov's linearization method, converse theorems. Input-Output stability: Small gain theorem, passivity theorem. Case studies: Application to control problems including nonlinear and adaptive control and robotics. Also listed as MECH 508. ***** INSTRUCTOR: Ghorbel

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PARALLEL ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURE ***** 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. ***** Also offered as COMP 583.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ***** See COMP 520.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODELING AND DESIGN OF HIGH SPEED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ***** This course gives an overview of the critical issues in the design of high perfomance 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. ***** Instructor(s): Massoud

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 422 OR ELEC 423

Description: ADV VLSI DESIGN ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 422, 423 ***** Instructor(s): Cavallaro

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN FOR VLSI ***** 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. ***** Also offered as COMP 523. ***** Instructor(s): Mohanram

Long Title: MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See COMP 524.

Long Title: ADV MICROPROCESSOR ARCH

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.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE ***** 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. ***** Also offered as COMP 526. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC/COMP 525 or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Pai

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: ADVANCED HIGH-SPEED AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN ***** Specification, design, and implementation of complex high-speed DSP and microcontroller-based systems, with an emphasis on mixed-signal and communications hardware. Includes instruction in advanced circuit design and analysis (analog, digital and mixed-signal). Emphasis on good design practices. Major hardware design project required. Limited enrollment. Instructor(s): Frantz

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: COMPUTER NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND SYSTEMS ***** See COMP 529. ***** Prerequisite(s): COMP 429 or ELEC 429.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DETECTION THEORY ***** Classic and modern methods of optimal decisions in communications and signal processing. Continuous- and discrete-time methods. Gaussian and non-Gaussian problems. Instructor(s): Don Johnson

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ***** Statistical models for single- and multi-channel signals. Optimal detection and estimation solutions for Gaussian and non-Gaussian environments. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 431 Co-requisite(s): ELEC 533 ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WAVELET AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS ***** Classical and modern techniques for characterizing the frequency content of signals. Review of random processes and linear algebra; fourier transform-based methods and the 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. ***** Also offered as STAT 586. ***** Instructor(s): Baraniuk

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION RANDOM PROCESSES AND APPLICATION ***** 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. ***** Also offered as CAAM 583 and STAT 583.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Aazhang

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 331

Description: INFORMATION AND CODING THEORY ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 331 ***** Instructor(s): Choi

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SELECTED TOPICS IN CONTROL THEORY ***** The course objective is to design feedback control systems that meet performance specifications in the presence of uncertainties such as disturbances, measurement noise, and unmolded plant dynamics.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGN AND CONTROL OF COMPUTER NETWORKS ***** Graduate-level introduction to fundamental concepts for the design and control of computer networks. Topics include resource allocation, routing, traffic modeling, congestion control, service disciplines, and multicasting. Concepts are applied to state- of-the-art systems and protocols such as current and future Internet architectures. ***** Also offered as MECH 537. ***** Instructor(s): Knightly

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPUTER NETWORKING ***** Advanced topics in protocols, modeling, and analysis of wireless networks. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 533, 534 and 537. ***** Instructor(s): Knightly

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Orchard

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOURCE CODING AND COMPRESSION ***** Review of information 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. ***** Instructor(s): Orchard

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 302 OR ELEC 431

Description: DIGITAL AUDIO & VIDEO SYSTEMS DESIGN ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 302; ELEC 431 preferred. ***** Instructor(s): Tran

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THIN FILMS ***** Exploration of materials issues relevant to thin films. Includes techniques for vapor phase deposition of thin films (e.g., evaporation, sputtering, and chemical vapor deposition), epitaxy, generation of thin film defects, strain, growth anistropy, and grain structure, as well as electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of thin film materials and structures. ***** Also offered as MSCI 545.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MOBILE WIRELESS SERVICE PROJECTS II ***** Design and implement a wireless mobile information system utilizing PocketPC hardware, Visual Studio .NET and .NET services to run over the Rice 802.11b wireless infrastructure. Students will be provided with PocketPCs, required software and access to a .NET server. Preference given to students who have experience with Visual Studio or have taken ELEC 694. ***** Class will be limited to a maximum of 8 people (4 on clients and 4 on services). ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Cutler Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 306

Description: INTEGRATED AND FIBER OPTICS ***** A seminar course consisting of lectures, discussions of journal articles, and student presentations on topics in optical fiber propagation, including linear and nonlinear effects. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 306 ***** Instructor(s): Halas

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ELEC 462

Description: TOPICS IN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING ***** Advanced methods for simulation and control of the fabrication of modern integrated circuits. Quality and reliability assurance. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 462 ***** Instructor(s): Wilson

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SUBMICROMETER & NANOMETER DEVICE TECHNOLOGY ***** Surveys techniques to design, fabricate, and analyze submicron and nanometer structures with emphasis on applications in microelectronics, microphotonics, information storage, and nanotechnology. ***** Instructor(s): Kelly

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO SOLID STATE PHYSICS I ***** Introduction to the fundamental concepts of crystalline solids, including the Drude theory of metals, crystal structures, Bloch's theorem, band structure, effective mass approximation, phonons, plasmons, excitons, and polaritons. ***** Also offered as PHYS 563. ***** Instructor(s): Kono

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOLID-STATE PHYSICS II ***** See PHYS 564.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES ***** Lectures/discussions on advanced topics in semiconductor nanostructures. The topics include: the quantum hall effect; excitons and polaritons; Bose-Einstein condensation; mesoscopic phenomena; spectroscopy of wires and dots; Bloch oscillations; ultrafast/nonlinear optics; spintronics; and quantum information processing. Students read original research papers and review articles, and present seminars on assigned topics. ***** Instructor(s): Kono

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS PROJECTS ***** Includes standard experiments, development of new experiments, and special projects undertaken in collaboration with a faculty member. Permission of instructor required. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APPLIED QUANTUM MECHANICS ***** Survey the basic principles and methods of quantum mechanics; investigate real problems of contemporary interest, based on solid-state physics and quantum optics. Specific topics: 'spintropic' phenomena and devices, quantum information processing in quantum engineered structures, physics and applications of carbon nanotubes, non-perturbative nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons. Students will present seminars on assigned topics. ***** Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202, 311, 412 and 425. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): J. Kono.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LASER SPECTROSCOPY ***** 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 chemistry, enviromental science and medicine. ***** Instructor(s): Tittel

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PHENOMENA ***** 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. ***** Also offered as PHYS 569. ***** Instructor(s): Mittleman

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED NEURONAL MODELING AND NETWORKS ***** Emphasis on neuron models exhibiting pacing and bursting activity important in central pattern generation. Introduction to natural and artificial neural networks, as well as neuromorphic systems. ***** Also offered as BIOE 580. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 381, 481 or ppermission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Clark

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CARDIOPULMONARY DYNAMICS ***** Mathematical modeling of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and their neural control. Integration of these sytem models into a human cardiopulmonary model capable of simulating measured data from functional tests. ***** Also offered as BIOE 581. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 482 or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Clark

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: ELECTRICAL PROJECTS ***** Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction. Course may be repeated for up to a total of 6 credit hours. Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FOURIER OPTICS ***** Survey of optical diffraction and image formation using the technique of Fourier analysis. Both monochromatic and polychromatic light will be considered. Optical systems and system elements such as lenses, waveguides, gratings and interferometers are analyzed. Applications to holography, integrated optics and fiber optics are considered.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 6

Description: FIRST YEAR GRAD STUDENT PROJECTS ***** Supervised project required of all first-year graduate students in the Ph.D. program. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEURAL NETWORKS AND INFORMATION THEORY II ***** 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. ***** Enrollment is limited to 10. ***** Also offered as COMP 602. ***** Instructor(s): Merenyi

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NANO-OPTICS ***** This is a seminar-based course for seniors and graduate students where a variety of currently hot areas in subwavelength optics will be studied. The main topics include: near field optics, microscopy and sensing, single molecule spectroscopy, nanoparticles and their optical properties, and photonic crystals and arrays. Format will include a combination of lectures and student presentations. ***** Instructor(s): Halas Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MULTITIER WIRELESS NETWORKS ***** Topics in multitier wireless networks. Lectures from a range of faculty from ECE and CS. Focused team projects. Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students of all levels. ***** Instructor(s): Baraniuk

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING ***** Foundations of inference and learning theory in signal and image processing including graphical models, manifold learning, supervised and unsupervised learning. ***** Prerequisite(s): ELEC 531 and ELEC 533. ***** Instructor(s): Baraniuk Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Orchard

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL IMAGING ***** 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 modalties, such as PET, SPECT, fMRI, and MEG, specifically developed to localize brain function. The course includes visits to clinical sites. ***** Also offered as BIOE 685 and COMP 685.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: ADV TOPICS - COMPUTER SYSTEMS ***** Permission of instructor required. May be repeated for credit. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FUTURE PERSONAL COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Cutler Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADV TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONS & STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESS'G ***** Advanced topics in digital image processing. Permission of instructor required.

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.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRO TO FRACTAL PROCESSES ***** In this course we try to balance an introduction to the mathematical background of fractals and multifractals with applications of theoretical and practical importance, e.g., in Internet traffic modeling and in image processing. Thereby, we will keep things as simple as possible, making the course accessible to a wide audience.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BAYLOR/RICE MD/PHD PROGRAM ***** Departmental permission required. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: RESEARCH AND THESIS ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.