ECE 1100: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cr. 1. (0-2). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1431. Should be taken by Electrical and Computer Engineering students in the first semester in which the prerequisite is satisfied. An overview of electrical and computer engineering and the professional opportunities available.
ECE 1121: Electrical Engineering Workshop
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Principles of laboratory-based design using basic digital logic. Boolean algebra; truth tables; logic circuit design. Credit may not be applied toward a degree in engineering.
ECE 1331: Computers and Problems Solving
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MATH 1431 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 1100. Introduction to personal computers and engineering workstations; techniques and standards for networked computers; computer-based tools for engineering problem-solving; programming constructs, algorithms, and applications.
ECE 2100: Circuit Analysis Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 2300. Introduction to the electronics laboratory equipment. Introductory experiments in circuit analysis. Formal report writing. This laboratory course is a prerequisite for all other ECE laboratory courses.
ECE 2300: Circuit Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 1100, ENGL 1304, MATH 2433, PHYS 1322, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 2331 and MATH 3321. Basic concepts of electric circuit analysis techniques. Inductors, capacitors, first order circuits. Sinusoidal analysis.
ECE 2317: Applied Electricity and Magnetism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1117, CHEM 1372, ECE 1100, MATH 2433, PHYS 1322, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 2331 and MATH 3321. Fundamentals of electricity and magnetism, vector calculus, Maxwell's equations, Kirchhoff's laws, static electric and magnetic fields, resistance, capacitance, inductance, magnetic circuits and transformers.
ECE 2331: Numerical Methods for Electrical and Computer Engineers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 1100, ECE 1331 and MATH 1432. Basic linear algebra and numerical analysis with engineering applications. Emphasis on use of computer-based solution techniques.
ECE 3317: Applied Electromagnetic Waves
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 2300, ECE 2317, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 3337. Maxwell's equations in time and frequency domains, Poynting's theorem, plane wave propagation, reflection and transmission in lossless and lossy media, transmission lines, waveguides, and antennas.
ECE 3331: Programming Applications in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 2331 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 2300. Procedural programming in C and C++, with applications in electrical and computer engineering. Introduction to FORTRAN.
ECE 3332: Advanced Engineering Programming
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3331 and COSC 2320. Advanced programming skills for electrical and computer engineers, including object oriented programming, event-driven systems, graphical user interfaces, multithreaded applications, and network programming.
ECE 3336: Introduction to Circuits and Electronics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MATH 2433 and PHYS 1322. For non-electrical engineering majors only. Electric circuit analysis, as circuits and frequency response, transformers, power supplies, ac power and power distribution, diodes, op amps, introduction to solid state devices.
ECE 3337: Electrical Engineering Analysis I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MATH 3321, ECE 2300, ECE 2317, and ECE 2331. Time and frequency domain techniques for signal and system analysis. Engineering applications of the convolution sum and integral, Fourier series and transforms, and Laplace transforms.
ECE 3338: Electrical Engineering Analysis II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 3337. For electrical engineering majors only. Solution of field equation problems in electrical engineering. Vector calculus, partial differential equations, boundary and initial value problems, separation of variables, Green's functions and special functions.
ECE 3364: Circuits and Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 2300, ECE 2317, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 3337 and ECE 2100. Balanced three-phase circuits, mutual inductance and transformers, Laplace transform and circuit analysis, frequency-selective circuits, control system characteristics and stability.
ECE 3366: Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 3337. Credit may not be received for more than one of ECE 3366 and BIOE 3366. Discrete-time signals and systems, discrete Fourier methods, sampling, z-transform, modulation, synthesis of discrete-time filters using digital signal processors. Examples will be taken from bioelectrical signals.
ECE 3399-4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of chair.
ECE 3441: Digital Logic Design
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100, ECE 2300, and ECE 2317. Initial course in Boolean algebra, combinational logic, sequential machine analysis and synthesis.
ECE 3455: Electronics
Cr. 4. (3-4). Prerequisites: ECE 2300, ECE 2100, ECE 2317, approved technical communications course, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 3337. Signal and amplifier concepts. Operational amplifiers. Diodes and nonlinear circuits. Bipolar junction transistors. Biasing, small and large signal analysis. Transistor amplifiers. Two-port networks. Concepts of logic circuits. TTL circuits.
ECE 3456: Analog Electronics
Cr. 4. (3-4). Prerequisites: ECE 3337 and ECE 3455. Bipolar transistors. Multistage amplifier design. Frequency response and feedback concepts. Analysis and design using discrete and integrated devices.
ECE 3457: Digital Electronics
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ECE 3337 and ECE 3455. Analysis of discrete and integrated digital electronic devices and components and their use in the design and implementation of digital circuits.
ECE 4113: Energy Conversion Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4363. Selected experiments in electromechanical energy conversion devices.
ECE 4115: Control Systems Laboratory I
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100, ECE 3337, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4375. Introductory experiments in automatic control systems.
ECE 4117: Telecommunications Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-1). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4371. Selected experiments in telecommunications.
ECE 4119: Solid State Devices Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4339. Introduction to the methods of solid state device characterization and the use of CAD tools in the design of discrete devices.
ECE 4198:4298:4398:4498:4598: Special Problems
Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.
ECE 4317: Experimental Techniques In Electromagnetics
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100 and ECE 3317. Selected experiments and measurement techniques in electromagnetics, chosen from the areas of transmission lines, waveguides, antennas, RF and microwaves, optics, electrostatics and magnetostatics.
ECE 4334: Electrical and Computer Engineering Systems Design (also INDE 4334, MECE 4334)
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: ECE 3455, ECE 3337, ECE 3441, INDE 2333, approved technical communications course, a core approved economics elective, and graduating senior standing. Credit may not be applied for more than one of ECE 4334, INDE 4334 and MECE 4334. Applications of analytical, experimental, and computational techniques in open-ended problems supplied by industry and faculty.
ECE 4339: Physical Principles of Solid State Devices
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3455, ECE 3317, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4119. Electronics, modern physics, and electromagnetism used to develop fundamental understanding of bipolar, Schottky, and MOS solid state device operation.
ECE 4363: Electromechanical Energy Conversion
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3364 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4113. Electromechanical energy conversion principles, transformers, rotating machines, and solid-state motor control.
ECE 4371: Introduction to Telecommunications Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3337 and INDE 2333. Linear systems, filters, convolution, spectra, random processes, noise, baseband transmission, amplitude modulation and angle modulation, baseband digital communication and digital modulation.
ECE 4375: Automatic Control Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 2300, ECE 3337, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4115. Automatic Control System: mathematical modeling, block diagram, transfer function, system response, stability, root-locus, Bode analysis, Nyquist analysis, Nichols analysis, compensator design.
ECE 4436: Microprocessor Systems
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ECE 3455, ECE 3441 and ECE 3331. Semiconductor memory devices and systems, microcomputer architecture, assembly language programming, I/O programming, I/O interface design, I/O peripheral devices, data communications, and data acquisition systems. Several laboratory exercises will be assigned both in assembly language programming and hardware system design.
ECE 4437: Embedded Microcomputer Systems
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisite: ECE 4436. Hardware and software components of real-time embedded microcomputer systems. Programming and interfacing to real-time external devices.
ECE 4458: Bioinstrumentation
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ECE 3337 and ECE 3455. Credit may not be received for more than one of ECE 4458 and BIOE 4458. BJT review; FETs; differential amplifiers; Op amp non-ideal characteristics; electrical safety; ECG, EMG, and EEG. Signal conditioning, bioelectrodes, electrical conduction in nerve cells, noise reduction, transducers, and imaging.
ECE 5112: Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5364. Experiments in the design and application of linear integrated circuits.
ECE 5113: Microwave Engineering Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5317. Selected topics in microwave engineering.
ECE 5114: Antenna Engineering Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5318. Selected topics in antenna engineering.
ECE 5115: Control Systems Laboratory II
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100, ECE 4375, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5335. Computer simulations and computer-aided control system design.
ECE 5116: Integrated Circuit Engineering Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5366. Fabrication and testing of integrated circuits.
ECE 5118: Control Systems Laboratory III
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100, ECE 4375, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5385. Experiments in automatic control systems.
ECE 5127: Power Transmission and Distribution Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: ECE 2100 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5377. Real and reactive power, power flow and voltage regulation, parallel lines and transformers, series and parallel network compensation, phase shift transformers, protection.
ECE 5197:5397:5497: Selected Topics
Cr. 1-4 per semester. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ECE 5314: Introduction to Design and Fabrication of Nanoscale Devices
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3317 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4339. Fundamentals of nanoscale science and engineering. Effects of nanoscale phenomena on device scaling; technological advantages and challenges. Design, fabrication, metrology, and device integration at nanoscale.
ECE 5317: Microwave Engineering (formerly ECE 5337)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 3317. Transmission lines, waveguides, microstrip circuits, microwave circuit theory, scattering matrices, impedance transformers, passive microwave devices, resonators, microwave tubes, and solid state active devices.
ECE 5318: Antenna Engineering (formerly ECE 5338)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 3317. Antenna concepts, linear wire antennas, linear arrays, aperture and horn antennas, printed-circuit radiators, frequency-independent antennas, and measurement techniques.
ECE 5335: State-Space Control Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 4375. State-space modeling, matrix algebra, system response, coordinate transformation, stability, controllability, observability, realization, state-feedback design and observers, nonlinear systems, Lyapunov functions, and optimal control.
ECE 5340: Introduction to Well-Logging Techniques
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 3317 or GEOL 4330 or PHYS 4321 or consent of instructor. Logging tools, including electrical resistivity, induction, acoustic, dielectric, natural gamma ray, neutron density, pulse neutron, NMR, and dipmeter. Production tools, along with well-log data transmission, processing, and recording.
ECE 5346: VLSI Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 3456 or ECE 3457. Integrated circuit design using computer-aided design methods; MOS, GaAs and bipolar techniques; standard cells, digital subcircuit and memory layout and design. Includes project requiring students to design and to have fabricated a functional integrated circuit.
ECE 5351: Data Communications and Networks I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 3366 or ECE 4371. Transmission media, analog and digital signals, communications standards, LANs, contention strategies for shared transmission media, error detection and correction, multiplexing, flow control, network topologies, data security, Ethernet, token ring, FDDI and ATM, WAN protocols, packet-switched networks and TCP/IP, ISDN.
ECE 5354: Digital Video
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 3337 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4436. Concepts, theory, and applications of digital video compression. Sampling and quantization, data compression, adaptive coding, BMP and JPEG image standards, H.261 video-conferencing, MPEG codecs, mathematical animation techniques.
ECE 5356: CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 3456. Analysis and design of CMOS analog integrated circuits at the transistor level, single-stage and multistage amplifiers, differential pairs, current source biasing circuits, current mirrors, and operational amplifier circuit design.
ECE 5364: Electronic Circuit Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3456 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5112. Design of linear integrated circuits. Op-amp design and modeling, op-amp parameters and their effects on designs. Electronics noise sources and their control. Design and simulation of differential amplifiers, active filters, oscillators, and other linear and non-linear circuits using linear integrated circuits.
ECE 5366: Integrated Circuit Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 4339 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 5116. Design, fabrication, and testing of integrated circuits.
ECE 5367: Introduction to Computer Architecture and Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 4436 . Computer organization; computer arithmetic; instruction sets; programming with MIPS assembly language; CPU design; pipelining; memory hierarchy including caching and virtual memory.
ECE 5377: Power Transmission and Distribution
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3364 and concurrent enrollment in ECE 5127. Power transmission and distribution network architecture and composition; load curves; symmetrical components; parameters and equivilent circuits in symmetrical components for overhead and underground lines, transformers, generators and loads; sub-stations; industrial networks; network steady-state analysis; faults; protection systems; switching equipment; voltage and power static control; surge voltages and protection. A term project will be required.
ECE 5380: Power Electronics and Electric Drives
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3455. Power electronics; power semiconductor switches; converters and inverters; DC, induction and synchronous motor drives; industrial applications; harmonics and filtering.
ECE 5385: Control System Component Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 4375 . Analysis and design of control system components; transfer function descriptions, and determination of criteria for specifying and designing components of given control systems.
ECE 5392: Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ECE 3366, ECE 3441, and ECE 3455. Physiological systems: cellular, neural, muscular, sensory, and cardiovascular, with emphasis on electrically measurable processes with their intrinsic significance, laboratory procedures and techniques for obtaining measurements, analysis and interpretations of data, and prostheses.
ECE 5436: Advanced Microprocessor Systems
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisite: ECE 4436. Microcomputer assembly language programming, I/O programming, I/O interface design, memory interfacing.
ECE 5440: Advanced Digital Design
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: ECE 3441, ECE 3455 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4436. Design fundamentals and techniques using application specific integrated circuit development and synthesis tools and field programmable gate arrays. Design of control units, arithmetic and logic units, memory and I/O subsystems and cache.
ECE 5451: Principles of Internetworking
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: credit for ECE 3331 and ECE 3441 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 4371. Local area networks, IP addressing, routing protocols, TCP flow, congestion and error control, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and Network Address Translation (NAT). Selected applications.
For graduate-level course descriptions,
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http://www.uh.edu/gs/grad_catalog/egr/ece_courses.html
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