The Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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The Charles L. BrownDepartment ofElectrical
and Computer Engineering
Welcome!!!!
Nathan Swami (EE Grad Director) Eileen Thacker
(EE Grad Coordinator)
August 25, 2008
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ECE Grad Orientation Agenda
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ECE Fall 08 TA Assignments
Green 20 hours/week Red 10 hours/week Blue
Ph.D. students satisfying Independent Teaching
Requirement (3-5 hours/week)
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Microelectronics - Courses
ECE 556 (Weikle) Microwave Engineering I
(Spring) ECE 652 (Weikle) Microwave
Engineering Lab (Spring) ECE 632 (Calhoun)
Introduction to VLSI (Fall) ECE 587 (Gupta)
Introduction to Microsystem Design (Spring) ECE
655 (Weikle) Microwave Engineering II (Fall
08 10) ECE 753 (Weikle) Electromagnetic
Field Theory (Fall 07 09) ECE 541
(Campbell) Optics and Lasers (Fall) ECE 642
(Gupta) Optics for Optoelectronics (Fall) (PHYS
531 Optics) (PHYS 532 Fundamentals of
Photonics) ECE 862 High Speed Transistors
(not offered, on catalogue) ECE 863 High
Frequency Diodes (not offered, on catalogue)
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Semiconductor Devices Courses
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Signal and Image Processing

• Fall
• ECE 576 DSP (Acton)
• ECE 578 DSP Lab
• ECE 586 Biometrics (Johnson)
• ECE 611 Probability and Stochastic Processes
  (Berger Spring?)
• BIOM 691 Biomed Imaging Systems Theory (Meyer)
• ECE 781 Pattern Recognition (DeVore)
• BIOM 783 Medical Imaging Modalities
  (Knight-Scott)
• BIOM 691 Engineering Physiology (Helmke)

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Communication Systems
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Control Systems

• ECE 621/MAE651 Linear Automatic Control
  Systems
• ECE 622/MAE652 Linear Systems Theory
• ECE 723/MAE 723 Optimal Control Systems
• ECE 725/MAE755 Multivariable Robust Control
  Systems
• ECE 726/MAE 756 Nonlinear Control Systems
• ECE 728/MAE 758 Digital Control Systems
• ECE 825 Adaptive Control

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Computer Engineering-ish Courses (Fall 2003)

• ECE 563 Introduction to VLSI
• ECE 586/715Performance and Analysis of
  Communication Networks
• ECE 611 Probability and Stochastic Processes
• ECE 631 Advanced Switching Theory
• ECE 634 Fault-Tolerant Computing
• ECE 635 Computer Graphics in Engineering Design
• ECE 686 Computer Organization and Design
• ECE 738 Computer System Reliability Engineering
• ECE 757 Computer Networks
• CS 551/651 Dependable Computing
• CS 650 Building Complex Software Systems
• CS 654 Computer Organization
• CS 851 Wireless Sensor Networks

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Computer Engineering-ish Courses (Spring)

• ECE 563 Introduction to VLSI
• ECE 673 Analog Integrated Circuits
• ECE 686 Computer and Network Security
• ECE 787 Performance-Based System Design
• CS 651 Advanced Modeling and Simulation
• CS 656 Operating Systems
• CS 771 Compilers
• CS 851 Biologically-Inspired Computing