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design of operational amplifier circuits, other topics in electronic
circuit design.
EEL 6312-Electronic Circuits II (3) Prereq: EEL 6311. Design
of active circuits, analysis and design of phase-locked loops and
frequency synthesizers.
EEL 6315-Solid-State Circuits I (3) Prereq: EEL 3396 and one
of the following: EEL 4310, 4374, 4331, or4351. Integrated cir-
cuits design study and design practice.
EEL 6316-Solid-State Circuits 11 (3) Prereq: EEL 6315. MOS
integrated circuits. Emphasis on transistor structures and model-
ing and on analog circuit applications.
EEL 6381-Network Representation of Solid-State Devices (2)
Prereq: EEL 3396 or consent of instructor. Relationship between
equivalent-circuit models and the physical mechanisms govern-
ing device operation. Special attention given to approximations
and methods of reasoning. Emphasis on large signal, dynamic
models for MOS transistors and related devices.
EEL 6382-Semiconductor Physical Electronics I (3) Crystal
structures; imperfections; statistics; lattice dynamics; energy
band theory. Equilibrium properties of electrons and holes in
semiconductors. Electronic transport phenomena. Boltzmann's
equation and transport coefficients in semiconductors.
EEL 6383-Semiconductor Physical Electronics II (3) Prereq:
EEL 6382. Scattering mechanisms. Recombination-generation
and trapping processes; optical properties. Excess carrier
phenomena. Photoelectric effects in semiconductors. Metal-
semiconductor contacts. Opto-electronic devices. Junction and
MOS devices. Superconductors and Josephson Junction devices.
EEL 6388-Fluctuation Phenomena 1 (3) Prereq: EEL 5544.
Noise theory with applications to electrical engineering. Sources
of noise in electronic devices; statistical and spectral represen-
tation. Influence of noise upon the performance of circuits and
systems. Limitation of detectors and instruments due to noise.
EEL 6391-Fluctuation Phenomena 11 (3) Prereq: EEL 6388. Prin-
ciples of stochastic processes, generating and characteristic func-
tions, spectral density theorems, applied to noise in physical
and electrical systems. Generation-recombination noise,
Brownian noise, transport noise.
EEL 6397-Semiconductor Device Theory 1 (3) Prereq: EEL 3396
or consent of instructor. Semiconductor material properties,
equilibrium and nonequilibrium processes, quasi-Fermi levels,
pn junctions; charge-control modeling; high level injection,
heavy doping effects.
EEL 6398-Semiconductor Device Theory 11 (3) Prereq: EEL
6397. Basic mechanisms in bipolar junction transistors, low- and
high-current effects; fundamental principles of the MOS system,
surface effects on pn junctions, MOS field-effect transistors.
EEL 6442-Physical Optics for Engineers (3) Fourier analysis
approach to physical optics; spread and transfer functions, effects
of optical spectrum limitations. Noise. Holography. Abberations,
lens system design and optimization.
EEL 6443-Electro-Optical Devices (3) Prereq: EEL 3473 or
equivalent. Review of electromagnetic theory. Theory of dielec-
tric waveguides, modes of planar waveguides, strip waveguides,
coupled-mode formalism, directional couplers, modulation and
switching of light, wavelength tunable filters, polarization inde-
pendent devices and fiber-integrated optical circuit couplers.
EEL 6444-Introduction to Optical Fibers (3) Prereq: EEL 6443.
Review of electromagnetic theory; basic waveguide equations,
wave and ray optics, dielectric slab waveguide, step and graded
index fibers, fiber measurements, fiber splices, polarization prop-
erties, and fiber systems.
EEL 6486-Electromagnetic Field Theory and Applications I
(3) Prereq: undergraduate course in fields and waves. Advanced
electrostatics, magnetostatics, time-varying electromagnetic
fields, wave propagation, waveguides.
EEL 6487-Electromagnetic Field Theory and Applications II
(3) Prereq: EEL 6486. Electromagnetic radiation, antennas, wave
propagation in anisotropic media.
EEL 6489-Current Topics in Applied Magnetics (3) Physical
principles of technical magnetism with emphasis on magnetic
domains.
EEL 6503-Signal Representation and Design (3) Prereq: EEL
5544 or equivalent. Representation of signals and noise by
sampling. Fourier and other transform methods, complex
variable techniques. Criteria of optimality in communication and
ranging systems. Analytical signal theory; digital signal design.
EEL 6505-Digital Signal Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 5544, EEL


5719. Measurement and analysis of signals and noise. Digital
filtering and spectral analysis; fast Fourier transform.
EEL 6509-Space Communications (3) Prereq: EEL 5544.
Telemetering systems, space communication links, satellite com-
munication systems, space tracking, and navigation systems.
EEL 6524-Statistical Decision Theory (3) Prereq: EEL 5544.
Hypothesis testing of signals in the presence of noise by Bayes,
Neyman-Pearson, minimax criteria; estimation of signal param-
eters.
EEL 6534-Analog Communication Concepts (3) Prereq: EEL
5544. Filtering, modulation, and demodulation of signals cor-
rupted by noise; passage of electrical noise and signals through
nonlinear filters and systems.
EEL 6535-Theory of Communication (3) Prereq: EEL 5544.
Optimum receiver principles; analysis of digital and analog
communication systems in the presence of noise; modeling of
communication channels.
EEL 6614-Modern Control Theory I (3) Prereq: EEL 5182.
Optimization of systems using the calculus of variations, dynamic
programming, and the maximum principle. Extensive study of
the linear plant with a quadratic performance index. Observers
and dynamic compensators.
EEL 6615-Modern Control Theory II (3) Prereq: EEL 6614 or
consent of instructor. Kalman Bucy filters. Discrete and con-
tinuous filtering. Computational techniques. Smoothing and
system identification techniques.
EEL 6733-Abstract Machines and Languages (3) Logic, set
theory, modern algebra, finite and infinite state machines, gram-
mars, language oriented machines.
EEL 6769-Hardware-Software Interactions: Nonnumeric
Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 5821 or consent of instructor. Infor-
mation representations; content and context search methods;
associative memories, retrieval language mapping; parallel
processing; hardware and software garbage collections.
EEL 6823-Image Processing and Computer Vision (3) Pictorial
data representation; feature encoding; spatial filtering; image
enhancement; image segmentation; cluster seeking; two-
dimensional z-transforms; scene analysis; picture description
language; object recognition; pictorial database; interactive
graphics; picture understanding machine.
EEL 6824-Algorithm Design and Analysis (3) Methods and
techniques for developing and evaluating algorithms. Functional
complexity, computational bounds, program verification and
proof methods.
EEL 6825-Pattern'Recognition and Intelligent Systems (3)
Decision functions; optimum decision criteria; training
algorithms; unsupervised learning; feature extraction; data
reduction; potential functions; syntactic pattern description;
recognition grammars; machine intelligence.
EEL 6827-Topics in Computer Engineering (3) Research topics
relevant to computer engineering, including, but not limited to,
robotics, graphics, data base management, algorithm design,
languages, machine intelligence.
EEL 6905-Individual Work (1-4; max: 8) Prereq: consent of
adviser. Selected problems or projects.
EEL 6910-Supervised Research (1-5) S/U.
EEL 6932-Graduate Seminar (1) Discussion of topics in fields
of graduate study and research. S/U.
EEL 6935-Special Topics in Electrical Engineering (1-4; max:
12, including EEL 6905)
EEL 6940-Supervised Teaching (1-5) S/U.
EEL 6971-Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EEL 7980-Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
ELR 5112-Automatic Speech Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 3135.
Various models of speech production and perception. Opera-
tion-of mechanical speech synthesizers and a discussion of
automatic speech recognition. Introduction to various measuring
devices commonly used in speech laboratories.
ELR 5210-Cybernetics (3) Topics in communication, control,
information processing, and intelligence in man and machines,
man-machine, and machine-machine interactions.
ELR 6225-Electrical Activity of the Nervous System (2) Prereq:
MAP3302, EEL 3135, or PHY2712L. Coreq: EML 3100 or PHY
4523. Analysis of the electrical signals of peripheral nerve and
brain with application of systems engineering techniques.
ELR 6226-Biophysical Models of Nerve Impulse Propagation
(2) Prereq: ELR 6225. Analysis of chemical, electrical, hydro-