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ELEC   201 INTRO TO ENGINEERING DESIGN              Credits 4.00  Fall 99
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
This is a "hands on" introduction to engineering design.  Using skills
developed in the course, teams of students will design and construct a
functional robot, and program this robot to perform simple tasks.  The
course is completely self-contained, assumes no prerequisites, and is
intended for both engineering majors and non-majors.
Also offered as Engi 201.
A FOUNDATION COURSE
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM PL*212   Bennett, John                  *CURRENT ENR: 125
001                                  Young, James                   *CURRENT ENR: 125

ELEC   241 FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I Credits 4.00  Fall 99
The creation, manipulation, transmission, and reception of information
by electronic means, Elementary signal theory; time-and frequency-domain
analysis; Sampling Theorem.  Digital information theory; digital
transmission of analog signals; error-correcting codes.  Laboratory
demonstrating the principles of information management by electronic
means.
Prereq- Math 101, 102.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM BL*131   Johnson, Don                   *CURRENT ENR: 60

ELEC   301 INTRODUCTION TO SIGNALS                  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Analytical framework for analyzing signals and systems.  Time and
frequency domain analysis of continuous time signals and systems,
solution of differential equations, convolution, and the Laplace
transform.  Fourier analysis.
Prereq- Elec 241
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM DH*1070  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 63

ELEC   305 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS     Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Study of transmission lines and pulse propagation: basic semiconductor
devices; waves; and lasers.
Prereq- Elec 241, 242.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM DH*1070  Wilson, William                *CURRENT ENR: 55

ELEC   326 DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN                     Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Study of gates, flip-flops, combinational and sequential switching
circuits, registers, logical and arithmetic operations.
Prereq- Comp 210 or Caam 210.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM PL*AMP   Sinclair, James                *CURRENT ENR: 44

ELEC   331 APPLIED PROBABILITY                      Credits 3.00  Fall 99
See description of Stat 331.
Prereq- Math 102.
Also offered as Stat 331.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM DH*1064  Scott, David                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

ELEC   422 VLSI DESIGN I                            Credits 4.00  Fall 99
A study of VLSI technology and design.  MOS devices, characteristics and
fabrication.  Logic design and implementation.  VLSI design methodology,
circuit simulation and verification.  Course includes group design
projects.  Enrollment is limited due to equipment limitations.  Students
are required to enroll in Elec 423 VLSI Design II in the following
Spring Semester.
Prereq- Elec 326.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM AL*A126  Cavallaro, Joseph              *CURRENT ENR: 32

ELEC   425 COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE            Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Design of advanced uniprocessor system architecture and basics of
parallel architectures.  Advanced pipelining, including dynamic
scheduling and precise interrupt handling.  Advanced techniques for
exploiting instruction level parallelism, including superscalar and VLIW
architectures.  Case studies of several recent high-performance
microprocessors.  Vector processors.  Memory system design--techniques
to improve cache performance, virtual memory systems, main memory
enhancements.  I/O systems--disk arrays and graphical interfaces.  An
overview of parallel computers.
Prereq- Elec 326, Elec/Comp 320.
Also offered as Comp 425.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM AL*A126  Jump, J.                       *CURRENT ENR: 35

ELEC   426 DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN                    Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Design elements of modern computer and microprocessor systems.  Emphasis
upon state machine based design and microcontrollers.  Use of VHDL and
graphical simulation software to model complex digital systems.
Laboratory  implementation of a system involving high-speed arithmetic
techniques.
Prereq- Elec 320, 326, 327.
001 TTH     08:00AM-09:15AM AL*A126  Cyprus, Joel                   *CURRENT ENR: 18

ELEC   428 COMPUTER SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE             Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Examination of analytical models of computer systems.Includes queueing
theory and Markov chains, simulation and analysis of simulation
results, and operational analysis, as well as a project
Prereq- Elec 331.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM PL*119   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

ELEC   431 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING                Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Analysis of discrete-time signals and systems; filter design and
implementation; introduction to least squares and statistical signal
processing; applications in speech and image processing.
Prereq- Elec 301.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM DH*1070  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 40

ELEC   435 ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES &  SYSTEMS     Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Introduction to the physical and engineering aspects of
electromechanical sensors and actuators, including underlying physical
phenomena, practical devices, electrical and mechanical interfacing, and
control of electromechanical systems.
Prereq- Elec 242 or 243.
Also offered as Mech 435.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM AL*A126  Wise, J.                       *CURRENT ENR: 19

ELEC   442 ADV ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS                  Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Electronic circuits used in communication and other systems, including
principles of feedback, feedforward, automatic gain control, active
filtering, tuned amplification, oscillation, modulation and detection.
Emphasis on design and a challenging laboratory project.
Prereq- Elec 342.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM DH*1046  0359779                        *CURRENT ENR: 12

ELEC   444 ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE/ COMPATABIL Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Fundamental EMI/EMC principles, development of regulations and
requirements, non-ideal and nonlinear behavior of components, radiated
and conducted emissions and susceptibility, testing techniques to
determine compliance, electrical/mechanical techniques to ensure
compliance, modeling and electrostatic discharge.  Lab is application of
principles to analog and/or digital circuits.
Prereq- Elec 305.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM AL*B209  Massey, Richard                *CURRENT ENR: 2

ELEC   462 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES                    Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor
devices.  Bipolar and MOS transistors.  IC circuit fabrication.
001 TTH     08:00AM-09:15AM HB*427   Wilson, William                *CURRENT ENR: 4

ELEC   481 COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE               Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Introduction to the nervous system is given including the
electrophysiology of nerve and muscle cells, synaptic transmission and
sense receptors.  The theory underlying Hodgkin-Huxley type models of
excitable cells is discussed and several examples of models for neurons,
muscle cells and synapses are used as case studies.  Modeled neurons are
interconnected using synaptic models to form functional representations
of small neural networks.  At all levels comparisons are made with
experimental data.  Course provides an introduction to biological
modeling and computation, as well as an introduction to the anatomy and
function of the brain and spinal cord.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
Also offered as Bioe 481.
001 MW      01:00PM-02:20PM DH*1075  Clark Jr, John                 *CURRENT ENR: 23

ELEC   490 ELEC ENGINEERING PROJECTS                Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction.
May be repeated for up  to a total of 6 credit hours.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 7

ELEC   491 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT                    Credits 3.00  Fall 99
A capstone design experience in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
This course provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge
and skills acquired in previous courses to the solution of a realistic
engineering problem.  Teams of students will specify, design, and build
a system to meet a prescribed set of requirements.  The topics covered
in this course will include design methodology, effective teamwork,
project management, documentation, and presentation skills.
Must complete Elec 492 to receive credit for Elec 491.
Prereq- senior standing.
001 M       04:00PM-05:00PM AL*B209  Wise, J.                       *CURRENT ENR: 3

ELEC   501 APPROXIMATION THEORY                     Credits 3.00  Fall 99
In this course, dynamical systems described by sets of linear,
differential or difference equations will be considered.  The goal is to
approximate the behavior of such systems by that of simpler ones, the
complexity being measured by the number of state variables needed to
describe them. For such approximations to be useful in theory and in
practice, they need to preserve certain properties of the original
system lead to a quantificiation of appropriate measures of the
approximation error, and be numerically stable. We will present the
theory of approxiation using (1) singular values, and (2) moment
matching. Examples and case studies from various engineering disciplines
(electrical, mechanical, chemical,civil) will be discussed.
001 MWF     03:00PM-03:50PM AL*A126  Antoulas, Athanassios          *CURRENT ENR: 2

ELEC   507 NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS                Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Analytical methods, including singular point and phase plane analysis,
describing functions, stability analysis via Lyapunov functions; digital
computer simulation methods; parameter estimation and sensitivity
analysis is included.  An introduction to the chaotic behavior of
nonlinear dynamic systems is included.
Also offered as Mech 507.
001 TTH     04:00PM-05:20PM AL*B209  Clark Jr, John                 *CURRENT ENR: 4

ELEC   520 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS                      Credits 4.00  Fall 99
See description of Comp 520.
Prereq- Elec 421, 425.
Also offered as Comp 520.
001 MWF     03:00PM-04:20PM DH*1075  Cox, Alan                      *CURRENT ENR: 0

ELEC   529 COMP NETWORKS: ARCH & PROTOCOL           Credits 3.00  Fall 99
See description of Comp 529.
Prereq- Caam 382, Elec 421.
Also offered as Comp 529.
001                                  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

ELEC   531 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING                Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Analysis of discrete-time signals and systems.  Design and
implementation of digital filters.  Efficient algorithms for the
discrete Fourier transform and for convolution.
Prereq- Caam 382, a senior-level course in signals and linear systems.
001 MW      10:00AM-11:20AM AL*A126  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 3

ELEC   533 INTRO RANDOM PROCESSES & APPL            Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Review of basic probability and the formulation, analysis,
representations, and applications of some standard random processes.
Includes sequence of random variables, random vectors and estimation,
basic concepts of random proscesses, random processes in linear systems,
expansion of random processes, wiener  filtering, spectral
representation of random processes, and white-noise integrals.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM DH*1042  Riedi, Rudolf                  *CURRENT ENR: 8

ELEC   534 WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS                  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
See Caam 584.
Prereq- Elec 430.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM DH*1070  Aazhang, Behnaam               *CURRENT ENR: 0

ELEC   537 DESIGN AND CONTROL OF BROADBAND NETWORKS Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Graduate level introduction to fundamental concepts for the design and
control of broadband networks.  Topics include resource reservation for
multimedia traffic, routing, traffic modeling, congestion conrol,
service disciplines, and multicasting. Concepts are applied to
state-of-the art systems and protocols such as integrated services
networks, ATM, and future Internet porocols. Prereq- Elec 533
recommended but not required.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM DH*1046  Knightly, Edward               *CURRENT ENR: 4

ELEC   568 LASER SPECTROSCOPY                       Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Introduction to the theory and practice of laser spectroscopy as applied
to atomic and molecular systems.  The course covers fundamental of
spectroscopy, lasers and spectroscopic light sources, high resolution
and time resolved laser spectroscopy, and numerous application of laser
spectroscopy in physics, chemistry, enviromental science and medicine.
001 TTH     04:00PM-05:20PM AL*A126  Tittel, Frank                  *CURRENT ENR: 3

ELEC   569 ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PHENOMENA              Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Introduction to ultrafast laser phenomena. Pulse generation and
characterization methods, time-domain nonlinear optical effects, and
measurement techniques. Special topics may include pulse shaping,
frequency, conversion, ultrfast optoelectronics, or femtosecond
processes in condensed matter.
Prereq- ELEC 361 or equivalent; ELEC 306 or equivalent.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM AL*B209  Mittleman, Daniel              *CURRENT ENR: 0

ELEC   580 ADVANCED NEURONAL MODELING AND NETWORKS  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Introduction to mathematical techniques used in modeling neurons and
neural systems.  Includes review of membrane ion channel kinetics,
the mathematical characterization of parts of the neuron (e.g., soma,
axon, and dendritic tree), vertebrate and invertebrate neuron models,
and models of axonal and volume conduction in the medium surrounding the
axon. Emphasis on neuron models exhibiting pacing and bursting activity
important in central pattern generation.  Introduction to natural and
artificial neural networks, as well as neuromorphic systems designed
using analog CMOS technology. Guest lectures in selected application
areas.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
Also offered as Bioe 580.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM HB*21    Clark Jr, John                 *CURRENT ENR: 2

ELEC   590 SPECIAL PROJECTS                         Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction.
May be repeated for up to a total of 6 credit hours.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
002                                  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

ELEC   603 PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS GRADUATE SEMINAR    Credits 3.00  Fall 99
This course is intended to serve as a recurring graduate seminar for
students with interest in the physical electronics and related areas.
Each student will present 1-2 half hour long presentations per semester
on a research topic of interest. In addition, short presentations of
breaking developments found in the literature will be presented and
discussed in short format. This course is required for all first year
physical electronic students and students from other departments are
welcome to attend and  participate. Course may be taken multiple times
for credit.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM AL*B209  Halas, Naomi                   *CURRENT ENR: 1

ELEC   693 ADV TOPICS - COMPUTER SYSTEMS            Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Permission of instructor required. May be repeated for credit.
001 W       02:00PM-04:00PM AL*B209  Bennett, John                  *CURRENT ENR: 3

ELEC   695 ADV TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONS & STATISTIC Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Seminar of communications and statistical signal processing. Content
varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
001                                  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

ELEC   696 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE SEMINAR            Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Discussion of recent research papers in computer architecture and
current computer architecture at Rice.
Permission of instructor required.  May be repeated for credit.
001 T       04:00PM-05:00PM DH*1046  Adve, Sarita                   *CURRENT ENR: 4

ELEC   697 INTRO TO FRACTAL PROCESSES               Credits 3.00  Fall 99
In this course we try to balance an introduction to the mathematical
background of fractals and multifractals with applications of
theoretical and practical importance, e.g., in Internet traffic modeling
and in image processing.  Thereby, we will keep things as simple as
possible, making the course accessible to a wide audience.
Prereq- Elec 533 or Elec 331.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM PL*117   Riedi, Rudolf                  *CURRENT ENR: 4

ELEC   760 BAYLOR/RICE MD/PHD PROGRAM               Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Departmental permission required.
001 TBA     TBA                      Clark Jr, John                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

ELEC   800 DISSERTATION RESEARCH                    Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Ph.D. dissertation research. May be repeated for up to 15 hours of
credit.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 51

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