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GECE 587 Wireless Data Communications 3 credits This course introduces a comprehensive list of topics in the emerging field of wireless data communications. Focused on upper layer (above the physical layer) protocols and operations for wireless data transmission. Topics include wireless cellular system infrastructures, wireless circuit data, wireless packet data, mobile IP, and packet data in third generation wireless networks. Various existing and soon-to-be available wireless data systems and technologies are also discussed. GECE 588 Simulation of Communication Systems 3 credits Comprehensive course for simulation-based design and analysis of communication systems; Focused on the physical layer in the context of the OSI-layer model of communication systems, topics include modeling of communication systems, performance measures and statistical methods for interpretation of simulation results, simulation techniques and technology, and case studies. GECE 590-599 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering 1-3 credits Special courses developed from study interest in all areas of Electrical Engineering and Embedded Software. Brief description of current content to be announced in schedule of classes. GECE 625 Advanced Control Systems 3 credits This course treats the analysis and design of linear control systems from the point view of state space representations. Topics will include system modeling, coordinate transformation, controllability, observability, output feedback, state feedback, linear quadratic regulators, and linear estimators. Additionally, an introduction to nonlinear control is presented with the topics of feedback linearization and adaptive control. Applications from interdisciplinary current state-of-art systems will be presented. GECE 626 Advanced Control Technologies 3 credits This course emphasizes the applications of advanced control technologies. The advanced control technologies covered in this course include active disturbance rejection control, reduced-order active disturbance rejection control, discrete active disturbance rejection control, and discrete time optimal control. Applications include motor control, power systems, chemical processes, and micro-electro-mechanical systems. GECE 671 Design of Electrical Machinery 3 credits A design-oriented course which emphasizes realistic characteristics and specifications applicable to AC and DC motors and generators leading to an individual design project.
GECE 672 Digital Image Processing 3 credits Prerequisite: GECE 572 This course presents strategies to process digital image data. Topics covered will include the representation and perception of images, the use of operations in the spatial and spatial-frequency domains to segment, enhance, filter, and restore digital images as well as transformations of images for multi-resolution analysis. Algorithms will be implemented and evaluated in Matlab/Simulink. GECE 673 Control of AC Drives 3 credits This course introduces the concept of AC drives. Various types of converters and inverters suitable for AC drives and the related control issues are presented and studied. The modeling and dynamical aspects of AC machines will be examined prior to the detailed discussion of the control issues and techniques such as vector control and field orientation, etc. GECE 680 Digital Communication 3 credits This is a graduate course in the analysis of digital communication systems. Methods to understand and analyze digitally modulated signals are presented. Optimum receiver designs, synchronization issues, and coding strategies for different channel models are developed. Communications over fading, multipath and bandlimited channels is studied using Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) schemes and Spread Spectrum (SS) approaches. GECE 681 Optical Devices and Systems 3 credits This course is an introduction to electroptics. This includes wave propagation, interaction with both iso and anisotropic materials, modulation techniques, lenses and lens systems and optical sources and detectors. Subsystems are considered initially but typical optical systems and applications are considered. GECE 690-699 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering 1-3 credits Special courses developed from study interest in all areas of Electrical Engineering or Embedded Software. Brief description of current content to be announced in schedule of classes. Graduate courses in the 600 series are open to graduate students only. * Please see course description in the Embedded Software Engineering Option