98 / FIELDS OF INSTRUCTION contacts. Opto-electronic devices. Junction and MOS devices. Superconductors and Josephson Junction devices. EEL 6388-Fluctuation Phenomena (3) Noise theory with appli- cations to electrical engineering. Sources of noise in electronic devices; statistical and spectral representation. Influence of noise upon the performance of circuits and systems. Limitation of detectors and instruments due to noise. EEL 6397-Semiconductor Device Theory I (3) Prereq: EEL 3396. Semiconductor material properties, equilibrium and nonequili- brium processes, quasi-Fermi levels, pn junctions; charge-control modeling; high level injection, heavy doping effects. EEL 6398-Semiconductor Device Theory II (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 transitors. EEL 6443-Integrated and Fiber Optics (3) Prereq: EEL 5441. Review of electromagnetic waves. Dielectric interfaces, propaga- tion in graded-index media, slab waveguides, coupled waveguides, waveguide fabrication and characterization. EEL 6444-Advanced Guided Wave Devices (3) Prereq: EEL 6443. Review ofwaveguides. Modecoupling, waveguidebranches, polarizers, filters, multiplexers, modulators/switches, optical fil- ters, optoelectronic sources, and monolithic integration. EEL 6447-Laser Electronics (3) Prereq: EEL 3473 and 5441 or equivalent. Study of lasers from basic principles to operational characteristics. EEL 6448-Semiconductor Opto-Electronic Devices (3) Prereq: EEL 5447. Physical principles, including optical properties, opti- cal gain and absorption, optical waveguides, laser oscillations; types of semiconductor lasers, LEDs, optical detectors and appli- cations. EEL 6452-Quantized Structures and Opto-Electronic Devices (3) Prereq: EEL 3473,4351, and 6382 orequivalents. Fundamen- tal properties of quantized structures, growth of Ill-V heterostructures, strained layer superlattices, optical device appli- cation of MQWs, quantum defined heterostructure lasers, bandgap engineering, trapping and associated effects of heterostructures. 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 6502-Adaptive Signal Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 5719, 5544. Theory of adaptation with stationary signals; performance measures. LMS, RLS algorithms. Implementation issues and applications. EEL 6503-Signal Representation and Spread Spectrum Systems (3) Prereq: EEL 5544 and 6535. Representation of signals and noise by orthogonal function series and by use of complex envelopes. Introduction to spread spectrum systems for military and commercial applications. EEL 6505-Digital Signal Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 5544, 5719. Measurement and analysis of signals and noise. Digital filtering and spectral analysis; fast Fourier transform. EEL 6509-Space Communications (3) Prereq: EEL 5544. Tel- emetering systems, space communication links, satellite commu- nication 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 parame- ters. 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 6550-Error Correction Coding (3) Prereq: EEL 5544 or equivalent; coreq: EEL 5544 or 4516. Introduction to abstract algebra, block coding and decoding, convolutional coding and decoding, trellis coded modulation, run-length-limited codes. EEL 6562-Image Processing and Computer Vision (3) Pictorial data representation; feature encoding; spatial filtering; image enhancement; image segmentation; cluster seeking; two-dimen- sional z-transforms; scene analysis; picture description language; object recognition; pictorial database; interactive graphics; pic- ture understanding machine. EEL 6585--Computer Speech Systems (3) Prereq: EEL 6586. Design and analysis of speech synthesizers; speech recognizers; speaker recognition, verification, and identification; intelligent interface systems; speech understanding. EEL 6586-Automatic Speech Processing (3) Prereq: EEL 5719. Various models of speech production and perception. Operation of speech synthesizers. Discussion of speech recognition. Mathe- matical models of speech signals. 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 5182 or consent of instructor. Kalman Bucy filters. Discrete and continu- ous filtering. Computational techniques. Smoothing and system identification techniques. EEL 6617-Linear Multivarible Control (3) Prereq: MAS 4015, EEL 5182. Transfer matrix theory of systems, emphasis on feedback, internal stability, model matching, and assignment of invariant factors. EEL 6667-Kinematics and Dynamics of Robot Manipulators (3) Algebraic formulation of robot manipulator motion. Homogene- ous matrices. Methods for computing forward and reverse kine- matic solutions of robot manipulators. Robot differential displace- ments and Jacobians. Newton-Eulerand Lagrangian derivations of manipulator dynamics. EEL 6668-Intelligent Robot Manipulator Systems (3) Prereq:EEL 6667. Trajectory planning and computation for robot manipula- tors. Splines. Force compliance and hybrid control. Machine perception and intelligence: touch, vision, collision avoidance, automatic task planning. Modeling a robotic manufacturing work cell. Robot computer languages. EEL 6702-Advanced Topics in Digital Signal Processing (3) Prereq: analysis and design of digital filters. Introduction to number transforms, complexity of algorithms, and finite fields. Development of transforms and digital filter using algebraic operators and finite fields plus the technological consideration of DSP system and system integration. EEL 6733-Abstract Machines and Languages (3) Logic, set theory, modern algebra, finite and infinite state machines, gram- mars, language oriented machines. EEL 6767-Database Engineering (3) Prereq: EEL 4713C. Archi- tecture of database management system, data models and lan- guages, design, integrity, security, concurrency control, distrib- uted database management. EEL 6769-Hardware-Software Interactions: Nonnumeric Proc- essing (3) Prereq: EEL 6767 or CIS 6120 or consent of instructor. Information representations; content and context search methods; associative memories, retrieval language mapping; parallel pro- cessing; hardware and software garbage collections. EEL 6799-Topics in Computer Engineering (3) Research topics relevant to computer engineering, including, but not limited to, robotics, graphics, database management, algorithm design, lan- guages, machine intelligence. 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) De- cision functions; optimum decision criteria; training algorithms; unsupervised learning; feature extraction, data reduction; poten- tial functions; syntactic pattern description; recognition gram- mars; machine intelligence. EEL 6841-Machine Intelligence and Synthesis (3) Prereq: EEL 5840. Theory of machine intelligence applied to general problem of engineering intelligent computer systems and architecture. Applications emphasized. EEL 6905-Individual Work (1-4; max: 6) Prereq: consent of adviser. Selected problems or projects. EEL 6910-Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U. EEL 6932-Graduate Seminar (1; max: 12) Discussion of topics in fields of graduate study and research. S/U.