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Fall Semester 2017

 

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Yufeng Lu • BECC 4256 • 309-677-3564
ECE100Introduction to EE: Circuits and Digital Systems Laboratory (2 hours)
 01 W2:00 PM -2:50 PM JOB308 Mohammed Imtiaz  
 LabA Tu9:00 AM -11:50 AM JOB143 Mohammed Imtiaz  
 02 W3:00 PM -3:50 PM JOB300 Mohammed Imtiaz  
 LabB Tu2:00 PM -4:50 PM JOB143 Mohammed Imtiaz  
ECE103Intro to EE: Computers and Programming (3 hours)
 01 *R* MWF2:00 PM -2:50 PM JOB330 Mohammed Imtiaz  
 02 *R* MWF3:00 PM -3:50 PM JOB330 Mohammed Imtiaz  
ECE200Engineering Co-Op (0 hours)
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing in the College of Engineering and Technology, 2.0 overall grade point average at Bradley, approval of engineering and technology Co-op coordinator and Co-op faculty advisor.
 01 Arr     Julie Reyer  
ECE204AC Circuits and Introduction to Systems (3 hours)
Prerequisite: ECE 101 with a minimum grade of C
 01 Canceled
 02 MWF11:00 AM -11:50 AM JOB341 Jing Wang  
ECE205Microcontroller Architecture and Programming (3 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in: ECE 102, ECE103
 01 MWF10:00 AM -10:50 AM JOB302 Gary L Dempsey  
 02 MWF2:00 PM -2:50 PM JOB302 Gary L Dempsey  
ECE227Electrical Engineering Fundamentals (4 hours)
Prerequisite: PHY 201
Corequisite: MTH 224
 01 MWF9:00 AM -9:50 AM BR132 Prasad Shastry  
 LabA M2:00 PM -4:00 PM JOB143 Suruz Miah  
 02 MWF10:00 AM -10:50 AM BR235 Suruz Miah  
 LabB W2:00 PM -4:00 PM JOB143 Suruz Miah  
 03 MWF9:00 AM -9:50 AM BR132 Prasad Shastry  
 LabC Th9:00 AM -11:00 AM JOB143 Steven D Gutschlag  
 04 MWF10:00 AM -10:50 AM BR235 Suruz Miah  
 LabD Th9:00 AM -11:00 AM JOB143 Steven D Gutschlag  
ECE301Discrete-time Signals and Systems (3 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in: ECE 206
 01 MWF10:00 AM -10:50 AM JOB341 Yufeng Lu  
ECE302Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes for EE (3 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in: ECE 206
 01 MWF9:00 AM -9:50 AM JOB341 In Soo Ahn  
ECE303Electronics (3 hours)
Prerequisite: ECE 204 with a minimum grade of C.
 01 MW4:00 PM -5:15 PM JOB330 Brian D Huggins  
ECE322Electronics and Interfacing Laboratory (2 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in: ECE 205, ECE 221
Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECE 303
 01 TT9:00 AM -11:50 AM JOB250 Aleksander Malinowski  
 02 TT2:00 PM -4:50 PM JOB250 Steven D Gutschlag  
ECE327Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I (3 hours)
Prerequisite: MTH 224.
 01 Canceled
 02 Canceled
ECE401Undergraduate Design Seminar I (1 hour)
Prerequisite: ECE 497 with a minimum grade of C.
 01 W12:00 PM -12:50 PM JOB330 Brian D Huggins  
ECE409Special Topics (1 to 6 hours)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
 01 TT9:00 AM -10:15 AM JOB326 Jing Wang  
 "Dynamic Systems Analy"
ECE431Communication Theory I (3 hours)
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in ECE 206
Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECE 302
 01 MWF2:00 PM -2:50 PM JOB327 In Soo Ahn  
ECE440Electromechanical Systems (3 hours)
Prerequisite: ECE 206 with a minimum grade of C
Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECE303
 01 MWF2:00 PM -2:50 PM JOB326 Steven D Gutschlag  
ECE441Control System Theory I (3 hours)
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in ECE 206 and ECE 221
Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECE 303
 01 MWF1:00 PM -1:50 PM JOB302 Jing Wang  
ECE451Radio Frequency Circuits and Systems (3 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in: ECE208, ECE221.
Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECE303.
 01 MWF1:00 PM -1:50 PM JOB215 Prasad Shastry  
ECE452Wireless Communication Systems (3 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in: ECE 206, ECE 208
Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECE303
 01 MWF3:00 PM -3:50 PM JOB215 Prasad Shastry  
ECE463Medical Imaging (3 hours)
Prerequisite: ECE 206 with a minimum grade of C.
 01 TT1:30 PM -2:45 PM JOB330 John Engdahl  
ECE470Embedded Data Structures and Object Oriented Programming (3 hours)
Prerequisite: ECE 205 with a minimum grade of C.
 01 TT12:00 PM -1:15 PM JOB330 Aleksander Malinowski  
ECE481Digital Systems: Design and Synthesis (3 hours)
Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECE322.
 01 MWF11:00 AM -11:50 AM JOB215 Yufeng Lu  
ECE483Digital systems: Microprocessor Architecture and Design (3 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in ECE 205.
 01 MWF11:00 AM -11:50 AM JOB330 Aleksander Malinowski  
ECE497Capstone Project System Level Design (1 hour)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in ECE 301, ECE 302, ECE 303, and ECE 322. Concurrent enrollment in two core courses.
 01 TT11:00 AM -11:50 AM JOB330 Yufeng Lu  
 Class meets August 23 through October 12;  Last day to add: August 29
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: August 31;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: October 3
ECE498Senior Capstone Project I (2 hours)
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECE 497.
 01 TT     In Soo Ahn  
 Class meets October 16 through December 13;  Last day to add: October 22
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: October 26;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: December 1
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
 02 TT     Mohammed Imtiaz  
 Class meets October 16 through December 13;  Last day to add: October 22
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: October 26;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: December 1
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
 03 TT     Brian D Huggins  
 Class meets October 16 through December 13;  Last day to add: October 22
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: October 26;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: December 1
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
 04 TT     Yufeng Lu  
 Class meets October 16 through December 13;  Last day to add: October 22
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: October 26;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: December 1
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
 05 TT     Aleksander Malinowski  
 Class meets October 16 through December 13;  Last day to add: October 22
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: October 26;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: December 1
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
 06 TT     Suruz Miah  
 Class meets October 16 through December 13;  Last day to add: October 22
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: October 26;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: December 1
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
 07 TT     Prasad Shastry  
 Class meets October 16 through December 13;  Last day to add: October 22
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: October 26;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: December 1
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
 08 TT     Jing Wang  
 Class meets October 16 through December 13;  Last day to add: October 22
 Last day to drop without "W" on transcript: October 26;  Last day to drop with "W" on transcript: December 1
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
 99 Canceled
 Students will choose either Tuesday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM. Or Thursday 8-11 AM and 2-5 PM.
ECE531Communication Theory I (3 hours)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or a minimum grade of C in: ECE 206, ECE 302 or equivalents. Not open to students with credit in ECE 431.
 01 MWF2:00 PM -2:50 PM JOB327 In Soo Ahn  
ECE551Radio Frequency Circuits and Systems (3 hours)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or a minimum grade of C in: ECE 208, ECE 221, ECE 303 or equivalents. Not open to students with credit in ECE 451.
 01 MWF1:00 PM -1:50 PM JOB215 Prasad Shastry  
ECE552Wireless Communication Systems (3 hours)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or a minimum grade of C in: ECE 206, ECE 208, ECE 303 or equivalents. Not open to students with credit in ECE 452.
 01 MWF3:00 PM -3:50 PM JOB215 Prasad Shastry  
ECE563Medical Imaging (3 hours)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or a minimum grade of C in ECE 206 or equivalent. Not open to students with credit in ECE 463.
 01 TT1:30 PM -2:45 PM JOB330 John Engdahl  
ECE570Embedded Data Structures and Object Oriented Programming (3 hours)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or a minimum grade of C in ECE 205 or equivalent.
 01 TT12:00 PM -1:15 PM JOB330 Aleksander Malinowski  
ECE581Digital Systems: Design and Synthesis (3 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in ECE 322 or equivalent, or graduate standing, or consent of the instructor. Not open to students with credit in ECE 481.
 01 MWF11:00 AM -11:50 AM JOB215 Yufeng Lu  
ECE583Digital Systems: Microprocessor Architecture and Design (3 hours)
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of C in ECE 205 or equivalent, or graduate standing, or consent of the instructor. Not open to students with credit in ECE 483.
 01 MWF11:00 AM -11:50 AM JOB330 Aleksander Malinowski  
ECE640Dynamic Systems Analysis (3 hours)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or a minimum grade of C in ECE 441 or equivalent.
 01 TT9:00 AM -10:15 AM JOB215 Jing Wang  
ECE681Topics in Electrical Engineering (0 to 6 hours)
 01 Arr     Staff  
 02 Arr     Staff  
 03 Arr     Jing Wang  
 04 Arr     In Soo Ahn  
 05 *R* Arr     Aleksander Malinowski  
 "Ether+IP Net on ARM32"
 06 *R* Arr     Aleksander Malinowski  
 "uC Linux for FPGA SoC"
 07 *R* Arr     Aleksander Malinowski  
 "ARM Ctrl on Ether Net"
ECE691Research I (0 to 6 hours)
 01 Arr     Staff  
ECE699Thesis (0 to 6 hours)
Prerequisite: Consent of department chair; unconditional status.
 01 Arr     Staff  
 
Introduction to fundamental concepts in electrical and computer engineering.
Introduction to computers and operating systems; introduction to programming in a high level language appropriate to electrical engineering.
Full-time cooperative education assignment for electrical engineering students who alternate periods of full-time school with periods of full-time academic or career-related work in industry. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.
The study of AC circuits with a dynamical systems approach. Topic covered: capacitance, inductance, phasors, impedance, admittance, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, operational amplifiers, differential equation models of linear circuits and systems, impulse and step responses, convolution integral, Laplace transform, frequency response, and transformers. Simulation and analysis of AC circuits using SPICE and MATLAB.
Introduction to an 8-bit microcontroller. Topics include: architecture, instruction set, assembly language programming, assembler directives, input/output operations, C language programming for an 8-bit embedded device, timers, analog-to-digital conversion, interrupts, timing analysis, embedded design project, and discussion of an integrated design environment that includes a assembler, compiler, and debugger.
Introduce fundamentals of electrical engineering principles. Basic circuit theory, Operational Amplifiers, First and second order passive circuits, AC sinusoidal analysis, Frequency Responses, Digital logic circuits, DC motors and generators, and accompanying laboratory experiments and projects. Open to non-electrical engineering majors only.
The study of signals and systems using the discrete-time approach. Topic covered: modeling of discrete-time physical systems, sampling and reconstruction of signals, analog-to-digital converters, quantization, arithmetic formats (fixed- and floating-point), analysis of discrete-time LTI systems, Implementation of discrete-time systems, Z-transforms, frequency analysis of discrete-time signals, frequency domain analysis of LTI systems, discrete Fourier transform, design of FIR and IIR filters. Simulation and analysis of systems using MATLAB and Simulink.
Exploration of probability, statistics and random processes with emphasis on engineering applications. Topics covered: probability models, probability axioms, statistical independence, conditional probability, random variables, probability distributions, joint probability density functions, correlation, covariance, statistical estimate of random parameters, sampling distributions, reliability, random processes, power spectral density, and response of LTI systems to random inputs. Simulation and analysis using MATLAB.
Fundamentals of macro-electronic circuits and systems. Topics covered: transistor switch, diodes, zener diodes, operational amplifiers and their imperfections, transistor biasing, small and large signal models of transistors, transistor amplifiers, digital interface, and introduction to power electronics. Simulations and analysis of electronic circuits and systems using SPICE.
Laboratory sequence with focus on design of electronic interfaces to embedded devices. Topics include: transistor switches, analog-to-digital conversion, digital-to-analog conversion, pulse-width modulation, communication interfaces. Culminates in a design project.
Analysis of circuits; transient and steady state phenomena; general analysis techniques. Open to non-electrical engineering students only.
Entrepreneurship and business plans, marketing and engineering, teamwork dynamics and interpersonal skills, product liability, professional ethics via ethics game, and guest lectures.
Topics of special interest which may vary each time course is offered. Topic stated in current Schedule of Classes.
Orthogonal signal representation; review of Fourier series and Fourier transform; basic probability theory; random processes; power spectral density; Shannon's channel capacity; sampling theorem; baseband signaling; bandpass signaling; complex envelop representation of signals and systems; analog modulations; binary and M-ary digital modulations; phase locked loops, demodulation circuits; matched filter; error performance in digital communications. Cross-listed as ECE 531.
Introduction to dynamic systems analysis with emphasis on mathematical modeling of sensors and electromechanical devices for control system applications. Fundamentals of power and industrial electronics.
Analysis and design of linear automatic control systems for continuous-time systems using classical control theory. Root locus and Bode methods. Modeling of physical systems. Introduction to digital control. Computer-aided design and simulation.
Review of transmission lines, impedance matching and transformations, S-parameters, passive RF junctions, RF amplifier design, RF systems, and front-end design. Cross-listed as ECE 551.
Introduction to wireless communication systems; modulation and detection; noise, attenuation; multipath and fading; sensitivity, distortion, inter-modulation, and dynamic range; wireless link RF design; transmitter and receiver architectures; RF components and subsystems; selected wireless systems including multiple-access cellular systems. Cross-listed as ECE 552.
Introduction to the common methods and devices employed for medical imaging, including conventional x-ray imaging, x-ray computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine (single photon planar imaging), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultra-sound imaging. The physics and design of systems, typical clinical applications, medical image processing, and tomographic reconstruction. Cross-listed as ECE 563 and ME 582.
Introduction to data structures, object-oriented programming, memory management, problems of efficiency and complexity of algorithms applicable to embedded systems. Cross-listed as ECE 570.
A structured guide to the modeling of the design of digital systems, using VHDL, a hardware description language. VHDL is designed to fill a number of needs in the design process. It allows description of the structure of a system and the specification of the function using familiar programming language forms. As a result it allows the design of a system to be simulated and synthesized. Cross-listed as ECE 581.
Architectures of CISC & RISC microprocessors: CPU, Control Unit, ALU, MMU, pipelines, etc. Design trade-offs investigated. Cross-listed as ECE 583.
The primary goal of this course is to have the student (and partner) choose a senior project and use a top-down design approach prior to implementation in senior lab. In addition, the student will serve on a Design Review Team (DRT) that will analyze other senior projects.
Design and implementation of senior design capstone project. Requires an oral progress presentation.
Orthogonal signal representation; review of Fourier series and Fourier transform; basic probability theory; random processes; power spectral density; Shannon's channel capacity; sampling theorem; baseband signaling; bandpass signaling; complex envelop representation of signals and systems; analog modulations; binary and M-ary digital modulations; phase locked loops, demodulation circuits; matched filter; error performance in digital communications. Cross-listed as ECE 431.
Review of transmission lines, impedance matching and transformations, S-parameters, passive RF junctions, RF amplifier design, RF systems, and front-end design. Cross-listed as ECE 451.
Introduction to wireless communication systems; modulation and detection; noise, attenuation; multipath and fading; sensitivity distortion, inter-modulation, and dynamic range; wireless link RF design; transmitter and receiver architectures; RF components and subsystems; selected wireless systems including multiple-access cellular systems. Cross-listed as ECE 452.
Introduction to the common methods and devices employed for medical imaging, including conventional x-ray imaging, x-ray computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine (single photon planar imaging), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultra-sound imaging. The physics and design of systems, typical clinical applications, medical image processing, and tomographic reconstruction. Cross-listed as ECE 463.
Introduction to data structures, object-oriented programming, memory management, problems of efficiency and complexity of algorithms applicable to embedded systems. Cross-listed as ECE 470.
A structured guide to the modeling of the design of digital systems, using VHDL, a hardware description language. VHDL is designed to fill a number of needs in the design process. It allows description of the structure of a system and the specification of the function using familiar programming language forms. As a result it allows the design of a system to be simulated and synthesized. Cross-listed as ECE 481.
Architectures of CISC & RISC microprocessors: CPU, Control Unit, ALU, MMU, pipelines, etc. Design trade-offs investigated. Cross-listed as ECE 483.
Advanced techniques for analysis of electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical systems. State function concepts are emphasized with applications for determining state equations, system stability, and control.
Topics of special interest which may vary each time course is offered. Topic stated in current Schedule of Classes. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Graduate research on a project selected by student and advisor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Advanced electrical and computer engineering research or design under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Required of students choosing thesis option. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
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