Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2000
Electrical Engineering (ELEC)
Rice Course Schedule as of 05/15/2001.
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ELEC 201 INTRO TO ENGINEERING DESIGN Credits 4.00 Fall 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
* 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.
001 HZ 212 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Young, James F. Enr: 50 Max: NA
ELEC 241 FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I Credits 4.00 Fall 00
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 DH 1070 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Johnson, Don H. Enr: 58 Max: NA
ELEC 301 INTRODUCTION TO SIGNALS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 DH 1064 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Baraniuk, Richard G. Enr: 38 Max: NA
ELEC 305 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Study of transmission lines and pulse propagation: basic semiconductor devices;
waves; and lasers.
Prereq- Elec 241, 242.
001 DH 1070 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Wilson, William L. Enr: 53 Max: NA
ELEC 320 INTRO TO COMPUTER ORGANIZATION Credits 4.00 Fall 00
Microprocessor architecture, including the memory hierarchy, pipelining, I/O
devices, and interrupts and concurrency. Computer representation of and
operations on basic data such as instructions, integers, floating point
numbers, and pointers. Low-level programming in C and assembly language. Basic
system software. Performance issues.
Prereq- CAAM 210 or COMP 210. Also offered as COMP 320.
001 DH 1064 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Greiner, John D. Enr: 4 Max: NA
ELEC 326 DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Gates, flip-flops, combinational and sequential switching circuits, registers,
logical and arithmetic operations.
Prereq- COMP 210, or CAAM 210.
001 HZ 212 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Jump, J. Robert Enr: 47 Max: NA
ELEC 331 APPLIED PROBABILITY Credits 3.00 Fall 00
See description of STAT 331.
Prereq-Math 102.
001 DH 1070 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Olofsson, Peter Enr: 50 Max: NA
ELEC 381 FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Introduction to the electrophysiology of the cell membrane. Development of
mathematical models of different types of ionic membrane currents and fluid
compartment models, culminating in the development of functional whole-cell
models for neurons and muscle (cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle) cells.
Characterization of volume conductor boundary value problems encountered in
electrophysiology consisting of the adequate description of the bioelectric
current source and the volume conductor (surrounding tissue) medium. This
provides a basis for the interpretation of macroscopic bioelectric signals such
as the electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyogram (EMG) and electroencephalogram
(EEG). Also offered as BIOE 381.
Prereq-Consent of instructor.
001 AL B209 - TTH 02:30PM - 04:00PM Clark, John W. Enr: 11 Max: NA
ELEC 420 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Methods for designing and analyzing computer algorithms and data structures.
The focus of this course will be on the theoretical and mathematical aspects of
algorithms and data structures. Also offered as COMP 482.
Also offered as COMP 482
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
ELEC 422 VLSI DESIGN I Credits 4.00 Fall 00
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.
Prereq- Elec 326.
001 DH 1064 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Cavallaro, Joseph Enr: 42 Max: NA
ELEC 425 COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE Credits 4.00 Fall 00
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.
Also offered as COMP 425.
Prereq- Elec 326, Elec/Comp 320.
001 HZ AMP - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Varman, Peter J. Enr: 40 Max: NA
ELEC 431 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 DH 1042 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Nowak, Rob Enr: 34 Max: NA
ELEC 434 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING LABORATORY Credits 2.00 Fall 00
Design and implementation of real-time digital signal processing (DSP) systems
using a DSP microprocessor. Includes several structured laboratory exercises,
such as sampling, digital filtering, and FFT , using both fixed-point and
floating-point DSP processors. Requires and extensive DSP project of the
student's choice.
Prereq- ELEC 301 and 320.
001 AL A126 - M 03:00PM - 03:50PM Choi, Hyeokho Enr: Max: NA
ELEC 435 ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES & SYSTEMS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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. Also offered as MECH 435.
Prereq- Elec 242 or 243.
001 AL A126 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM Wise, James D. Enr: 15 Max: NA
ELEC 442 ADV ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS Credits 4.00 Fall 00
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 AL B209 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Massey, Richard P. Enr: 4 Max: NA
ELEC 444 ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE/COMPATABILI Credits 4.00 Fall 00
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. Course may be repeated for credit.
Prereq- Elec 305.
001 AL B209 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Massey, Richard P. Enr: 1 Max: NA
ELEC 462 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES Credits 4.00 Fall 00
Survey of physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor
devices. Bipolar and MOS transistors. IC circuit fabrication.
001 AL A126 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Wilson, William L. Enr: 9 Max: NA
ELEC 481 COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 AL B209 - MW 01:00PM - 02:20PM Clark, John W. Enr: 7 Max: NA
ELEC 490 ELEC ENGINEERING PROJECTS Credits Fall 00
Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction. May be
repeated for a total of 6 credit hours.
Course may be repeated for credit.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 16 Max: NA
ELEC 491 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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.
001 AL A126 - M 04:00PM - 05:00PM Wise, James D. Enr: 14 Max: NA
ELEC 501 APPROXIMATION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 they need to preserve certain properties of the
original system and lead to a quantification of the approximation error. Most
existing methods fail to satisfy these requirements. The major difficulty is
that the problem is non-convex. We will present the theory of approximation in
the so-called Hankel norm, which addresses both issues. Examples and case.
Prereq- ELEC 301, 302 or equivalents.
001 AL B209 - MWF 03:00PM - 03:50PM Antoulas, Athanasios C. Enr: 4 Max: NA
ELEC 520 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Credits 4.00 Fall 00
See description of COMP 520.
Prereq- Elec 421, 425. Also offered as COMP 520/
001 DH 1075 - MWF 03:00PM - 04:20PM Zwaenepoel, Willy Enr: 2 Max: NA
ELEC 524 MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKING Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Study of network protocols for mobile and wireless networking, particularly at
the media access control, network, and transport protocol layers. Focus is on
the unique problems and challenges presented by the properties of wireless
transmission and host or router mobility. Also offered as COMP 524.
Prereq-ELEC 429 (or COMP 429)
001 TBA - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM Johnson, David B. Enr: Max: NA
ELEC 529 COMP NETWORKS: ARCH & PROTOCOL Credits 3.00 Fall 00
See description of Comp 529.
Prereq- Caam 382, Elec 421.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: Max: NA
ELEC 531 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 AL A126 - WF 10:30AM - 11:45AM Coates, M. Enr: 4 Max: NA
ELEC 533 INTRO RANDOM PROCESSES AND APPL Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Review of basic probability; Sequence of random variables; Random vectors and
estimation; Basic concepts of random processes; Random processes in linear
systems, expansion of random processes; Wiener filtering; Spectral
representation of random processes; White-noise integrals.
Also offered as CAAM
583.
001 AL A126 - WF 09:00AM - 10:15AM Riedi, Rudolf H. Enr: 1 Max: NA
ELEC 534 WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
This is a graduate course on wireless and mobile communication systems, with an
emphasis on understanding the unique characteristics of these systems--their
analysis and design. Topics include: cellular principles, mobile radio
propagation and path loss, characterization of multipath fading channels,
modulation and equalization techniques for mobile radio systems, multiple
(media) access, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system design, and
cellular system capacity.
Prereq- ELEC 430.
001 DH 1046 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Aazhang, Behnaam Enr: 14 Max: NA
ELEC 537 DESIGN AND CONTROL OF BROADBAND NETWORKS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Graduate level introduction to fundamental concepts for the design and control
of broadband networks. Topics include routing, traffic modeling, congestion
control, resource allication, service disciplines, and multicasting. Concepts
are applied to state-of-the art systems and protocols such as integrated
services networks, ATM, and future Internet protocols.
Prereq- Elec 533 recommended but not required. Also offered as MECH 537.
001 AL B209 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Knightly, Edward William Enr: 5 Max: NA
ELEC 563 INTRO TO SOLID STATE PHYSICS I Credits 3.00 Fall 00
See description of PHYS 563.
Also offered as PHYS 563.
001 HZ 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Si, Qimiao Enr: 0 Max: NA
ELEC 565 TOPICS IN SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Lectures/discussions on advanced topics in semiconductor nanostructures. The
topics include: the quantum hall effect; excitons and polaritons; Bose-Einstein
condensation; mesoscopic phenomena; spectroscopy of wires and dots; Bloch
oscillations; ultrafast/nonlinear optics; spintronics; and quantum information
processing. Students read original research papers and review articles, and
present seminars on assigned topics.
001 AL A126 - M 11:00AM - 01:00PM Kono, J. Enr: Max: NA
ELEC 568 LASER SPECTROSCOPY Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Introduction to the theory and practice of laser spectroscopy as applied to
atomic and molecular systems. The course covers fundamentals of spectroscopy,
lasers and spectroscopic light sources, high resolution and time resolved laser
chemistry,enviromental science and medicine.
001 AL A126 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Tittel, Frank K. Enr: 2 Max: NA
ELEC 569 ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PHENOMENA Credits 3.00 Fall 00
This course covers the generation, propagation, and measurement of short laser
pulses, of duration less than one picosecond. Concepts include mode locking,
the effects of dispersion, optical pulse amplification, and time-domain
non-linear optical phenomena. Intended as an introduction to ultrafast
phenomena for graduate students or advanced undergraduates; a basic
understanding of electromagnetic waves and of quantum mechanics is assumed.
Prereq- Elec 560.
001 DH 1046 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Mittleman, Daniel M. Enr: 3 Max: NA
ELEC 590 ELECTRICAL PROJECTS Credits 1.00 Fall 00
Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction. May be
repeated for up to a total of 6 credit hours.
Course may be repeated for
credit.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: NA
ELEC 591 FOURIER OPTICS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Survey of optical diffraction and image formation using the technique of
Fourier analysis. Both monochromatic and polychromatic light will be
considered. Optical systems and system elements such as lenses, waveguides,
gratings and interferometers are analyzed. Applications to holography,
integrated optics and fiber optics are considered.
Prereq- Phys 201.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ELEC 599 FIRST YEAR GRAD STUDENT PROJ Credits 6.00 Fall 00
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ELEC 599 FIRST YEAR GRAD STUDENT PROJECTS Credits 6.00 Fall 00
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: Max: NA
ELEC 601 RESEARCH ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM SEMI Credits 2.00 Fall 00
This seminar will focus on the gray issues of ethical and professional conduct
all researchers will encounter in their careers. We will use case studies where
appropriate to discuss issues such as confidentiality of information learned in
peer review, conflict of interest, ownership of data or programs produced by
one person with support from another, and when should a collaborator be a
coauthor on a paper. We will discuss some academic professionalism issues like
the relationships between graduate students, research staff, junior faculty,
and senior faculty.
Also offered as CAAM 601 and COMP 601.
001 TBA - TBA Dennis, John E. Enr: 2 Max: NA
Jump, J. Robert
ELEC 603 PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS GRADUATE SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Graduate seminar covering the principles, recent developments, and current
applications of nanoprobe instruments and techniques, such as atomic force
microscopes and scanning tunneling microscopes. Permission of instructor
required.
001 AL A126 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Halas, Naomi J Enr: 0 Max: NA
ELEC 760 BAYLOR/RICE MD/PHD PROGRAM Credits 1.00 Fall 00
Departmental permission required.
Course may be repeated for credit.
001 TBA - TBA Clark, John W. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ELEC 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits 1.00 Fall 00
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 57 Max: NA
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