University of Puerto Rico Mayagьez Campus Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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University of Puerto RicoMayagüez
CampusDepartment of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Graduate Studies in Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Raúl Torres, Sandra Montalvo December 19, 2006
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UPRM Background

• Mayagüez is a Land-Grant, Sea-Grant, and
  Space-Grant College Founded 1911
• Student Population Around 11,305 undergraduate
  and 1,075 graduate
• 4,498 Undergraduate and 369 Graduate Students in
  Engineering
• Approximately 1,283 undergraduate students and
  139 graduate students in ECE
• 57 Faculty in ECE

General Library
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ECE Timeline
1928
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2008
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CpE ABET
MSCpE
EE ABET
CpE
PhD CISE
PhD EE
BSEE
MSEE
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ECE Faculty

• 57 Faculty members
• 30 Professors
• 13 Associate Professors
• 12 Assistant Professors
• 2 Instructors
• 51 members of the faculty have a PhD

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ECE Research

• Approximately 5M/year in sponsored research (ECE
  accounts for 4.2 of faculty members at UPRM and
  generates 24 of external funds)
• Among the top 2 departments in external funding.
• NSF
• NASA
• DoD
• DoE
• Government
• Industry

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ECE Research

• Major Awards
• 1 Presidential Early Career Award Recipient
• M.Vélez
• 4 NSF CAREER Program Recipients
• R. Rodríguez
• M. Rodríguez
• E. ONeill
• J. L. Cruz
• 1 NASA FAR
• Sandra Cruz-Pol

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ECE Research

• Examples of Major Awards
• 2 NSF MRI Grants
• Radiation Lab
• J.Colom
• R. Rodríguez
• Enhancement to EEPSYL
• ONeill, Vélez
• R. Cedeño
• A. Irizarry
• L. Orama.
• 1 NSF NGS Award
• J. Arroyo
• 1 NSF CISE Award - (PRECISE)
• D. Rodríguez
• 3 NSF ERC Award - (CPES, CenSSIS, CASA)
• M. Vélez s. Cruz-Pol
• 1 NASA URC Dr. M. Velez
• TI ICDL Dr. Manuel Jiménez

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Research Centers

• Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES)
  www.cpes.vt.edu
• Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
  (CenSSIS) larsip.uprm.edu/censsis
• Collaborative and Adaptive Sensing of the
  Atmosphere ERC casa.ece.uprm.edu/
• Institute for Computing and Informatics Studies
  (ICIS) ece.uprm.edu/icis
• Institute for Research in Integrative Systems and
  Engineering (Irise) www.uprm.edu/iress
• Tropical Center for Earth and Space
  Studies(TCESS) www.uprm.edu/iress/tcess

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Laboratories

• Advanced Databases Lab, CID, M. Rodriguez
• Atmospheric Phenomena, L. Orama
• Automated Information Processing Lab, CID, D.
  Rodriguez
• CLiMMATE CLoud Microwave Measurements of
  ATmospheric Events S-201, S. Cruz-Pol
• Control Systems Laboratory S-212 S-213, G.
  Beauchamp
• Computing Research Lab S-105A, N. Rodríguez
• Electric Energy Processing Systems Lab. CID 204,
  206, 212 217, M. Vélez Reyes E. ONeill
• ICDL Integrated Circuits Design Lab, S210, M.
  Jiménez
• Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image
  Processing (LARSIP) larsip.uprm.edu CID 218 ?
  224, M. Vélez Reyes
• Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC), CID, W.
  Rivera
• Power Electronics Laboratory S-101, K.
  Venkatesan
• Power Quality CID 204-207, E. ONeill
• Radiation Laboratory R. Rodríguez Solís
• RaSP Rapid Systems Prototyping, S208, M. Jiménez
• Robotics Laboratory S-102, R. Torres
• Space Information Laboratory (SIL), CID 226,
  M.Vélez

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Location of ECE Research Laboratories
RD Center LARSIP EEPSyL ICIS IRESS SIL Power
Quality PDC ADM AIP
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Stefani Bldg Climmate Radiation ICDL HPC Biomedica
l RaSP CRL
x
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Example of Industry and Government Collaborators
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Computing Resources

• System Administrator
• Pablo R. Rebollo
• Office S105B
• Computer Accounts
• Wireless Connection
• Laboratory Access
• Pablo.rebollo_at_ece.uprm.edu
• Ext. 3798
• help_at_ece.uprm.edu

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Graduate Programs _at_ ECE

• Electrical Engineering MSEE MEEE (Ph.D. in
  Aug. 2008)
• Computer Engineering MSCpE MECpE
• Computing and Information Sciences and
  Engineering Ph.D. (joint with Mathematics
  Department)
• administered outside ECE Program director Dr.
  Manuel Rodriguez
• Graduate School Director
• Dr. J. Mari Mutt
• Web site grad.uprm.edu

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People

• Chairman
• Associate Director Academic Affairs

Isidoro Couvertier
José R. Cedeño
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People

• Associate Director Accreditation and Graduate
  Studies, President of Graduate Committee
• Academic Advisor

Raúl E. Torres Muñiz
Sandra Montalvo
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Administration of the Graduate Program

• ECE Graduate Committee
• Establishes policies regarding the graduate
  program
• Changes to student program of studies
• Course validations, accreditations, and
  deficiencies removal
• Admissions, re-admissions, transfers
• Dr. Raul Torres, president

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Administration of the Graduate Program

• Student Graduate Committee
• Selected by student in coordination with the
  thesis advisor
• At least three member
• Majority from ECE Department
• Need to be approved by the Associate Director
  Accreditation and Graduate Studies (Raul Torres)
• ECE Academic Affairs
• Course offerings in coordination with graduate
  committee
• Departmental assistantships
• Administrative matters
• Mrs. Sandra Montalvo
• Administrative support for the graduate program
• One person many students!!!

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Graduate Studies in ECE

• Types of admissions
• Assistantships
• Graduation Requirements
• Rules
• Courses

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Types of Admissions

• Total
• No deficiencies
• Part time or full time
• Conditional
• At most 2 courses in deficiencies (ECE rule)
• Need to approve during first year of admission
  (ECE requirement)
• At most 2 years in special cases
• Need to approve with at least a grade of B in
  each course (ECE requirement).
• Special or visiting students
• Non degree granting status

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Assistantships

• Types
• Teaching
• Laboratory Instructors (Measurements,
  Electronics, Power).
• Laboratory Assistants (INCADEL, ECENET, UNIX, )
• Graders for courses
• Research
• Working on a research project
• External funding most of the time
• Professional
• Examples Web development, programming, etc.

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Assistantships

• What do they cover
• Tuition
• Tuition
• Some include fees and health insurance
• Stipend
• Varies with duties. For lab instructors and RA at
  least 917/month for 18 hrs/wk. Graders 700/mo.
• Responsabilities
• Full assistantship is equivalent to 6 credits
• One credit of assistantship equals to 3 hours per
  week.
• Duration of granted assistanship
• Teaching 1 semester
• Research up to a year

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Assistantships

• Some Regulations
• A Master degree student can receive
  assistantship, regardless of the source, for up
  to two years (4 semesters)
• A fifth semester might be granted under special
  circumstances.
• Last priority.
• Need to be a regular student
• Registered in at least 9 credits OR
• Registered in thesis
• Cannot be in probation
• Probation
• GPA below 3.0
• NS in thesis
• Three times probation and the student is
  suspended from graduate school

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Assistantships

• Supervisors
• Research Projects ? Faculty in charge of the
  project (Examples)
• Aeronomy Mario Ierkic
• Analog Electronics Omayra Ducoudray
• Antennas Rafael Rodriguez
• Artificial Intelligence Fernando Vega, Jorge
  Ortiz
• Biomedical Acoustics - Eduardo Juan
• Computer Performance Nayda Santiago
• Computer Security Andres Moura
• Databases Manuel Rodriguez
• Digital Electronics Manuel Jimenez, Rogelio
  Palomera, Manuel Toledo
• Digital Signal Processing Domingo Rodriguez,
  Shawn Hunt
• Distributed Computing Wilson Rivera, Pedro
  Rivera, Jaime Seguel
• Electromagnetics Jose Rosado
• Human Computer Interaction / Usability Nestor
  Rodriguez, Jose Borges
• Hyperspectral Imaging, Identification, Simulation
  and Control of Dynamic Systems Miguel Velez
• Image Processing Hamed Parsiani, Raul Torres,
  Vidya Manian
• Information Discovery and Retrieval Bienvenido
  Velez
• Knowledge Based Systems Fernando Vega

GO TO ECE WEB SITE
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Assistantships

• Supervisors
• Teaching
• Electronics to be announced
• Power Juan Caro
• Courses Faculty teaching the course
• Labs Laboratory director

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General Graduation Requirements

• General requirements
• Approval of a study plan with GPA ?3.0
• Meet residency requirement (60 of courses taken
  at UPRM)
• Meet departmental requirements
• MS ME general requirements
• Plan I (MS), II (ME) or III (ME)
• Plan I
• Master of Science
• 24 credits of course work and completion of a
  thesis (6 credits of thesis)
• Plan II
• Master of Engineering
• 24 or 27credits of course work and completion of
  a project (3 or 6credits of project)
• Plan III
• Master of Engineering
• 36 credits of course work and a comprehensive
  test approval

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EE Rules for Success

• Get information about area of interest from the
  WEB
• www.ece.uprm.edu
• Talk to faculty about research topics
• Select a thesis advisor before the end of the
  first semester
• Study program before the end of the first
  semester
• Select your graduate committee
• Talk to the potential members first!
• Prepare a course program curriculum
• Join the graduate student association
• Start the literature review previous to register
  for thesis or project
• Involve your graduate committee in your work
• Publish your findings previous to defend your
  work
• Have fun and work hard!

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General Rules

• Classrooms and Laboratories
• Eating, drinking or chewing gum is prohibited.
• Radios, televisions, or similar devices are
  restricted to educational purposes only.
• Environment Free of
• Drugs and Alcohol
• Violence and Weapons
• Sexual Harassment
• Counseling
• Mental and Emotional Madeline Rodríguez Ext.
  2419
• Claims
• Students Deans Office
• Student Ombudsperson Vilma López

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Registration Procedure

• Visit the Graduate School
• Monzon 303
• Visit the Immigration Office
• Srta. Zulma Aldahondo
• Monzon 304
• Visit the University Medical Center
• Present all required documentation asked in the
  admission letter.
• They will give you a certification of completion.

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Registration Procedure
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Registration Procedure

• Visit the Register Office
• Present the certification of completion given by
  the Medical Center
• They will give you an access number to register
• Go to ECE Department
• Stefani 224, Sandra Montalvo
• Register in courses
• Print your Registration
• Cafeteria Lodge
• If you have a research assistantship, go to the
  administrator of the grant for exception document
• Most typical Maribel Feliciano or Yanira Ramirez
• ECE Department
• Visit Sandra Montalvo to pay the registration
  fees with your assistantship (S-224)
• Visit the financial office (Terrats Building) to
  pay any balance due
• Usually health insurance, fees, and other
  miscellaneous

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Program Areas
EE (Tracks)

• Power Systems
• Power Electronics
• Electronics
• Control Systems
• Digital Signal Processing
• Applied Electromagnetics

CpE (Options)

• Computing Systems
• Digital Signal Processing
• Hardware and Embedded Systems

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EE Graduate Programs

• Need to meet general requirements as specified by
  graduate school
• 30 credits
• No more than 9 credits _at_ 5000 level
• At least 21 credits _at_ 6000 level
• Up to 6 credits in thesis or project
• 6-9 credits in courses outside major area but
  related (not free electives)
• Course requirements
• 21-24 credits in area of specialization
• Control Systems
• Power Engineering Power Systems and Power
  Electronics
• Electronics
• Applied Electromagnetics
• Digital Signal Processing
• Each area has its own particular course
  requirements
• How to distribute the 21-24 credits
• 6-9 credits in courses outside specialization but
  in related areas
• Can be ECE courses in other areas

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Area Coordinators

• Electrical Engineering
• Applied Electromagnetics
• Dr. Rafael Rodríguez Solís S 222C
• Communications and Signal Processing
• Dr. Miguel Vélez S 404
• Control Systems
• Dr. Eduardo Juan T 215
• Electronics
• Dra. Gladys O. Ducodray T 219
• Power Engineering (Power Systems and Power
  Electronics)
• Dr. Efraín ONeill S 212

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Color Caption for Course Offering
Fall Semesters
Fall Semesters every other year
Spring Semesters
Spring Semesters every other year
Every Semester
Upon Demand, rarely offered
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Control Systems

• Required Course INEL 5505 Linear Systems
• Waived if you took equivalent course at the
  undergraduate level
• Core Course
• INEL 6001 Feedback Control Systems I
• Major Courses
• INEL 5508 Digital Control Systems
• INEL 5516 Automation And Robotics
• INEL 6078 Estimation, Detection and Stochastic
  Processes
• INEL 6088 Computer Vision
• INEL 5208 Principles of Biomedical
  Instrumentation
• INEL 6059 Intelligent Control Systems
• INEL 5505 Linear Systems Analysis
• INEL 5506 Process Instrumentation And Control
  Engineering
• INEL 6076 Adaptive and Optimal Signal Processing
• INEL 6000 Introduction To Nonlinear Control
  Systems
• Other courses as determined by the student
  graduate committee

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Digital Signal Processing

• Required Course INEL 5309 Introduction to DSP
• Waived if you took equivalent course at the
  undergraduate level
• Core courses
• INEL 6076 Adaptive and Optimal Signal Processing
• INEL 6078 Estimation, Detection and Stochastic
  Processes
• Major Electives
• INEL 6049 Multidimensional Signal Processing
• INEL 6088 Computer Vision
• INEL 5046 Pattern Recognition
• INEL 6069 Microwave Remote Sensing
• INEL 6007 Introduction to Remote Sensing
• INEL 6050 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
  Algorithms
• INEL 5327 Image Processing
• INEL 5415 Communication Theory II
• INEL 5326 Communication System Design Signal
  Processing
• INEL 5505 Linear Systems Analysis
• Other courses as determined by the student
  graduate committee

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Applied Electromagnetics

• Required Course INEL 6216 Advanced
  Electromagnetics
• All students in the option must register and
  pass this course
• Major Electives
• INEL 6068 Microwave Antenna Engineering
• INEL 6069 Microwave Remote Sensing
• INEL 6105 Active Remote Sensing Techniques
• INEL 6115 Active Microwave Circuits
• INEL 6106 Introduction to Radar Systems
• INEL 5029 Telecommunication Electronics
• INEL 5305 Microwave Engineering
• INEL 5325 Communication Systems Design Circuits
  and Antennas
• INEL 5306 Antenna Theory and Design
• INEL 5316 Wireless Communications
• Recommended Courses (Plan III)
• INEL 6007 Introduction to Remote Sensing
• INEL 6078 Estimation, Detection and Stochastic
  Processes
• Other courses as determined by the student
  graduate committee

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Electronics

• Core Courses (at least 2)
• INEL 6080 VLSI Systems Design
• INEL 6085 Analysis and Design of Power
  Semiconductor Circuits
• INEL 6009 Computer Systems Architecture
• INEL 6055 Solid State Electronics
• Major Electives
• INEL 5205 Instrumentation
• INEL 5206 Digital Systems Design
• INEL 5207 Design with OpAmps and Analog ICs
• INEL 5265 Analog Integrated Circuit Design
• INEL 6048 Advanced Microprocessor Interfacing
• INEL 6075 Integrated Circuit Fabrication
• INEL 6995 Special Topics in Electrical
  Engineering
• INEL 6079 Advanced IC Design Techniques
• INEL 6005 Integrated Circuits Analysis and Design
• Other courses as determined by the student
  graduate committee

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Power Systems PES

• Core Courses
• INEL 6027 Power System Dynamics and Control
• INEL 6028 Economic Operation of Power Systems
• Major Electives
• INEL 5406 Transmission and Distribution
• INEL 6085 Advanced Power Electronics
• INEL 5415 Power System Protection Design
• INEL 6066 Electric Drive Systems
• INEL 6077 Surge Phenomena
• INEL 6025 Advanced Energy Conversion
• INEL 6096 Power Quality
• INEL 6026 Computational Methods For Power System
  Analysis
• INEL 5407 Computer Aided Power System Design
• INEL 6995 Power System Economics
• Other courses as determined by the student
  graduate committee

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Power Electronics PELS

• Core Courses
• INEL 6085 Advanced Power Electronics
• INEL 6066 Electric Drive Systems
• Major Electives
• INEL 5408 Motor Control
• INEL 5496 Design Power Electronic Systems
• INEL 6025 Advanced Energy Conversion
• INEL 6096 Power Quality
• INEL 6995 Special Topics in Electrical
  Engineering
• INEL 6058 High Frequency Power Converters
• CPES Distance Learning Courses
• Other courses as determined by the student
  graduate committee

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Computer Engineering Graduate Program

• Need to meet general requirements as specified by
  graduate school
• Areas of Specialization
• Computing Systems
• Hardware Embedded Systems
• Digital Signal Processing
• Particular course requirements
• Regarding 6000 level courses
• At least 12 credits at 6000 level in major area
• 6 credits in software engineering (at least 3 crs
  at 6000 level)
• 3 credits _at_ 6000 level in one of the other two
  Cp.E. areas
• Regarding 5000 level courses
• No more than 6 credits at 5000 level
• Regarding electives
• 6 credits in courses outside ICOM specialization
  areas but in related areas.
• This is established in the ICOM program creation
  document

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Computer Engineering Graduate Program

• Computing Systems
• One course in DSP or Hardware Embedded Systems
• Two electives outside ICOM
• Hardware and Embedded Systems
• Two courses in Software
• Two electives outside ICOM
• DSP
• Two course in Software
• Two electives outside ICOM

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Area Coordinators

• Computer Engineering
• Hardware and Embedded Systems
• Dr. Gladys O. Ducodray T 219
• Digital Signal Processing
• Dr. Domingo Rodríguez S 608
• Computing Systems
• Dr. Bienvenido Vélez T 212

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Computing System

• No core courses
• Major Courses
• ICOM 5005 Database Systems
• ICOM 5007 Operating Systems
• ICOM 5015 ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE
• ICOM 5018 Cripto. Network Security
• ICOM 6005 Design of Database Systems
• ICOM 6006 Distributed Operating Systems
• ICOM 6015 Artificial Neural Networks
• ICOM 6089 Object-Oriented Software Design
• ICOM 6087 Artificial Intelligence Techniques and
  Applications
• ICOM 6095 Human Computer Interaction
• ICOM 6115 Topics in Computer Engineering
• ICOM 6117 Usability Engineering
• ICOM 6205 Advanced Software Engineering
• INEL 6215 Expert Systems
• ICOM 6995 Independent Studies
• Courses from the Ph.D. program CIIC
• Need to take a 6000 level course (at least 3crs)
  in one of the other ICOM areas

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Digital Signal Processing

• Required Course INEL 5309 Introduction to DSP
• Core Courses
• INEL 5326 Communication System Design Signal
  Processing
• INEL 6050 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
  Algorithms
• ICOM 6087 Artificial Intelligence Techniques and
  Applications
• Major Courses
• INEL 5046 Pattern Recognition
• ICOM 6215 Expert Systems
• INEL 5327 Image Processing
• INEL 6007 Introduction to Remote Sensing
• INEL 6049 Multidimensional Signal Processing
• INEL 6076 Adaptive and Optimal Signal Processing
• INEL 6078 Estimation, Detection and Stochastic
  Processes
• INEL 6088 Computer Vision
• INEL 5315 Communication Theory II
• INEL 5326 Communication System Design Signal
  Processing
• Need to meet ICOM SW requirement
• 6 credits in software engineering (at least 3 crs
  at 6000 level)
• Other courses as determined by the student
  graduate committee

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Hardware and Embedded Systems

• Core Courses (at least 2)
• INEL 6009 Computer Systems Architecture
• INEL 5206 Digital Systems Design
• INEL 6080 VLSI Systems Design
• Major Electives
• INEL 5065 Analog Integrated Circuit Design
• INEL 5207 Design with OpAmps and Analog ICs
• INEL 6005 Integrated Circuits Analysis and Design
• INEL 6048 Advanced Microprocessor Interfacing
• INEL 6075 Integrated Circuit Fabrication
• INEL 6079 Advanced IC Design Techniques
• INEL 6995 Special Topics in Electrical
  Engineering
• Need to meet ICOM SW requirement
• 6 credits in software engineering (at least 3 crs
  at 6000 level)
• Other courses as determined by the student
  graduate committee

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More information

• ECE Contacts
• Miguel Velez, S-404, Ext. 2888,
  mvelez_at_ece.uprm.edu
• Isidoro Couvertier, S-224, Ext.3094,
  couvertier_at_ece.uprm.edu
• Sandra Montalvo, S-224, Ext. 3182,
  sandra_at_ece.uprm.edu
• Raúl E. Torres, S-223, Ext. 3094,
  Raul_E.Torres_at_ieee.org
• José R. Cedeño, S-223, Ext. 3090,
  jcedeno_at_ece.uprm.edu
• More detailed information
• www.ece.uprm.edu under academics
• UPRM General Policy
• Cert 97-21 available at grad.uprm.edu