Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECEN)

ECEN800
Electronic InstrumentationCrosslisted with ECEN 400

Prerequisites: Senior standing in engineering.

Description: Applications of analog and digital devices to electronic instrumentation. Includes transducers, instrumentation amplifiers, mechanical and solid-state switches, data acquisition systems, phase-lock loops, and modulation techniques. Demonstrations with working circuits and systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN806
Power Systems AnalysisCrosslisted with ECEN 406

Prerequisites: ECEN 338 or ECEN 838

Description: Symmetrical components and fault calculations, power system stability, generator modeling (circuit view point), voltage control system, high voltage DC transmission, and system protection.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 957

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN807
Power Systems PlanningCrosslisted with ECEN 407

Prerequisites: ECEN 305

Description: Economic evaluation, load forecasting, generation planning, transmission planning, production simulation, power plant reliability characteristics, and generation system reliability.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN808
Engineering ElectromagneticsCrosslisted with ECEN 408

Prerequisites: ECEN 306.

Laboratory experiments.

Description: Applied electromagnetics: Transmission lines in digital electronics and communication. The quasistatic electric and magnetic fields: electric and magnetic circuits and electromechanical energy conversion. Guided waves: rectangular and cylindrical metallic waveguides and optical fibers. Radiation and antennas: line and aperture antennas and arrays.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN810
Multivariate Random ProcessesCrosslisted with ECEN 410

Prerequisites: ECEN 305

Description: Probability space, random vectors, multivariate distributions, moment generating functions, conditional expectations, discrete and continuous-time random processes, random process characterization and representation, linear systems with random inputs.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 911; ECEN 912; ECEN 915; ECEN 946

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN815
Digital Image Processing

Prerequisites: ECEN 424/824 (UNO ECEN 4240/8240)

Description: Topics covering the spatial and spectral analysis of digital image processing systems, the design of multi-dimensional digital filters and systems, and advanced theories and technologies in digital image processing systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN816
Materials and Devices for Computer Memory, Logic, and DisplayCrosslisted with ECEN 416

Prerequisites: PHYS 212/(UNO) PHYS 2120.

Description: Survey of fundamentals and applications of devices used for memory, logic, and display. Magnetic, superconductive, semiconductive, and dielectric materials.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN820
Plasma Processing of SemiconductorsCrosslisted with ECEN 420

Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing.

Description: Physics of plasmas and gas discharges developed. Includes basic collisional theory, the Boltzman equation and the concept of electron energy distributions. Results are related to specific gas discharge systems used in semiconductor processing, such as sputtering, etching, and deposition systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN821
Principles of Semiconductor Materials and Devices ICrosslisted with ECEN 421

Prerequisites: PHYS 213/(UNO) PHYS 2130.

Description: Introduction to semiconductor fundamentals, charge carrier concentration and carrier transport, energy bands, and recombination. PN junctions, static and dynamic, and special PN junction diode devices.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN822
Introduction to Physics and Chemistry of SolidsCrosslisted with PHYS 422, PHYS 822, ECEN 422

Prerequisites: PHYS 213 or CHEM 481/881, MATH 221/821.

Description: Introduction to structural, thermal, electrical, and magnetic properties of solids, based on concepts of atomic structure, chemical bonding in molecules, and electron states in solids. Principles underlying molecular design of materials and solid-state devices.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN824
Digital Signal ProcessingCrosslisted with ECEN 424

Prerequisites: ECEN 355

Description: The temporal and spectral analysis of digital signals and systems, the design of digital filters and systems, and advanced systems including multi-rate digital signal processing techniques.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 815; ECEN 926

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN828
Power ElectronicsCrosslisted with ECEN 428

Prerequisites: ECEN 304 and ECEN 316

Description: Basic analysis and design of solid-state power electronic devices and converter circuitry.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 932

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN830
Wind EnergyCrosslisted with ECEN 430

Prerequisites: Senior standing.

Description: Engineering principles of both the mechanical/aero dynamical and electrical components and systems, along with economic and environmental considerations for citing and public policy, to appropriately cover the relevant topics associated with all scales of wind energy implementations.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN833
Microprocessor System DesignCrosslisted with ECEN 433

Prerequisites: ECEN 310 with a grade of "C" or better; ECEN 332 with a grade of "C" or better.

Description: Discussion of different microprocessor hardware and software systems designs including; microprocessor bus interfacing, memory systems, peripheral design and interfacing, interrupts, Direct Memory Access, and other hardware related topics. Software includes system code, firmware generation, and designing device drivers. Design, build, program, and show successful operation of a microprocessor board with memory, I/O and other related peripheral systems.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 435, ECEN 835; ECEN 496

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:FALL/SPR
Course and Laboratory Fee:$25

Credit Hours:4

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ECEN835
Embedded Microcontroller DesignCrosslisted with ECEN 435

Prerequisites: ECEN 433/833 with a grade of "C" or better; ECEN 305

The prerequisite is different from the syllabus.

Description: Microcontroller architecture: design, programming, and interfacing for embedded systems. Including advanced RISC based microcontroller architecture and design, standard asynchronous and synchronous serial communications, I2C, SPI, USB, and related board design, development, and fabrication with surface mount technology. Design, build, program and show successful operation of a single microcontroller board with a specific application.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 437, ECEN 837

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:FALL/SPR
Course and Laboratory Fee:$25

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN836
Electric MachinesCrosslisted with ECEN 436

Prerequisites: PHYS 212/(UNO) PHYS 2120 and ECEN 216

Description: Provides a solid background in electric machine analysis, covering fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods for analysis and design. Discussion of transformers and presentation of some new systems and applications.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 932

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN837
Parallel and Distributed ProcessingCrosslisted with ECEN 437

Prerequisites: ECEN 435/835

Description: Parallel and distributed processing concepts, principles, techniques, and machines.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN838
Integrated Systems ProgrammingCrosslisted with ECEN 438

Prerequisites: ECEN 310 and ECEN 332

Description: Introduction to the basics of computer architectural details under the context of computer system programming. Topics include representing and manipulating information, machine level representation of programs, processor architecture and pipelining, compiling and linking, optimizing program performance from the system level, memory hierarchy, dynamic memory allocation and exceptional control flow. Linux system programming tool chain will also be introduced.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 406, ECEN 806

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN842
Basic Analytical Techniques in Electrical EngineeringCrosslisted with ECEN 442

Prerequisites: MATH 221/(UNO) MATH 2350.

Description: Applications of partial differential equations, matrices, vector analysis, complex variables, and infinite series to problems in electrical engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN844
Linear Control SystemsCrosslisted with ECEN 444

Prerequisites: ECEN 304

Description: Classical (transfer function) and modern (state variable) control techniques. Both time domain and frequency domain techniques are studied. Traditional proportional, lead, lag, and PID compensators are examined, as well as state variable feedback.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN848
Decision AnalysisCrosslisted with ECEN 448

Prerequisites: ECEN 305 or STAT 380/(UNO) STAT 3800

Description: Principles of engineering economy including time value of money, net present value and internal rate of return. Use of influence diagram and ecision tree to structure and analyze decision situations under uncertainty including use of stochastic dominance, value of information, and utility theory. Fundamentals of two-person matrix games including Nash equilibrium.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN850
BioinformaticsCrosslisted with ECEN 450

Prerequisites: Computer programming language and ECEN 305 or MECH 321 or STAT 380/(UNO) STAT 3800 or equivalent

Description: Examination of how information is organized in biological sequences such as DNA and proteins and computational techniques which make use of this structure. Various biochemical processes that involve these sequences are studied to understand how these processes affect the structure of these sequences. In the process bioinformatics algorithms, tools, and techniques which are used to explore genomic and amino acid sequences are also introduced.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN851
Introduction to VLSI System DesignCrosslisted with ECEN 451

Prerequisites: ECEN 310

Description: The concepts, principles, and methodology at all levels of digital VLSI system design and focused on gate-level VLSI implementation.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN852
Introduction to Computer-Aided Digital DesignCrosslisted with ECEN 452

Prerequisites: ECEN 310

Description: The concepts, simulation techniques and methodology in computer-aided digital design at system and logic levels.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN853
Computational and Systems BiologyCrosslisted with ECEN 453

Prerequisites: By permission.

Basic knowledge of probability and statistics (e.g. ECEN 305 or STAT 380) and basic programming skills are recommended. May also be taught as a distance course for the Omaha campus.

Description: Provides the required biology primer and covers functional genomics, transcriptomics, differential expression, clustering, classification, prediction, biomarker discovery, pathway analysis and network based approaches to high throughput biological data analysis. Includes the development of databases, algorithms, web-based and other tools regarding management and analysis of life science data. Areas of study include DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analysis, functional genomics and proteomics, 3D macromolecule structure prediction, and systems/network approach.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN854
Power Systems Operation and ControlCrosslisted with ECEN 454

Prerequisites: ECEN 338

Description: Characteristics and generating units. Control of generation, economic dispatch, transmission losses, unit commitment, generation with limited supply, hydrothermal coordination, and interchange evaluation and power pool.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN856
Real Time DSP ApplicationsCrosslisted with ECEN 456

Prerequisites: ECEN 220; ECEN 463

Description: Introduction to concepts, principles, and state-of-the-art methods in creating embedded real-time digital signal processing systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN860
Labview ProgrammingCrosslisted with ECEN 460

Prerequisites: Prior programming experience

Description: Labview as a programming language and for applications to acquire and analyze data, to access the network, control lab instruments, and for video and sound applications.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN862
Communication SystemsCrosslisted with ECEN 462

Prerequisites: ECEN 304 and ECEN 305

Description: Mathematical descriptions of signals in communication systems. Principles of analog modulation and demodulation. Performance analysis of analog communication systems in the presence of noise.

This course is a prerequisite for: CSCE 954; ECEN 911

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN863
Digital Signal ProcessingCrosslisted with ECEN 463

Prerequisites: ECEN 304

Description: Discrete system analysis using Z-transforms. Analysis and design of digital filters. Discrete Fourier transforms.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 915

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN864
Digital Communication SystemsCrosslisted with ECEN 464

Prerequisites: ECEN 462

Description: Principals of digital transmission of information in the presence of noise. Design and analysis of baseband PAM transmission systems and various carrier systems including ASK, FSK, PSK.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 911; ECEN 912; ECEN 959

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN865
Introduction to Data CompressionCrosslisted with ECEN 465

Prerequisites: ECEN 305

Description: Introduction to the concepts of Information Theory and Redundancy removal. Simulation of various data compression schemes such as Delta Modulation, Differential Pulse Code Modulation, Transform Coding and Runlength Coding.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN866
Telecommunications Engineering ICrosslisted with ECEN 466

Prerequisites: ECEN 362; ECEN 461/861 or parallel.

Description: Standard telecommunications protocols, architecture of long distance integrated data networks, local area networks, wide area networks, radio and satellite networks. Network management, internetworking, system modeling and performance analysis.

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN868
Microwave EngineeringCrosslisted with ECEN 468

Prerequisites: ECEN 306

Description: Applications of active and passive devices to microwave systems. Includes impedance matching, resonators, and microwave antennas.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 965

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN869
Analog Integrated CircuitsCrosslisted with ECEN 469

Prerequisites: ECEN 361

Description: Analysis and design of analog integrated circuits both bipolar and MOS. Basic circuit elements such as differential pairs, current sources, active loads, output drivers used in the design of more complex analog integrated circuits.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 913

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN870
Digital and Analog VLSI DesignCrosslisted with ECEN 470

Prerequisites: ECEN 316; ECEN 370 or ECEN 313

Description: Introduction to VLSI design techniques for analog and digital circuits. Fabrication technology and device modelling. Design rules for integrated circuit layout. LSI design options with emphasis on the standard cell approach of digital and analog circuits. Lab experiments, computer simulation and layout exercises.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN871
Computer Communication NetworksCrosslisted with ECEN 471

Prerequisites: ECEN 325

Description: High-speed access control protocols, routing protocols, traffic management, and network topologies. Giga-bit Ethernet, ATM, and TCP/IP. Performance modeling and simulation techniques.

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN872
Image Understanding, Perception, and Signal ProcessingCrosslisted with ECEN 472

Prerequisites: ECEN 304 or graduate standing

Description: Introduces fundamental principles and theory for computer vision, image understanding, and pattern recognition, perception, and signal processing. Specific attention given to analysis of the geometric properties and appearance of objects in images, such as region size, connectedness, topology, color, and texture.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN873
Mobile and Personal CommunicationsCrosslisted with ECEN 473

Prerequisites: ECEN 325

Description: Concepts on mobile and personal communications. Modulation techniques for mobile radio, equalization, diversity, channel coding, and speech coding.

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN874
Digital SystemsCrosslisted with ECEN 474

Prerequisites: ECEN 370

Description: Synthesis using state machines; design of digital systems; micro programming in small controller design; hardware description language for design and timing analysis.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 477, ECEN 877

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN875
Satellite CommunicationsCrosslisted with ECEN 475

Prerequisites: ECEN 325

Description: The fundamental concepts of satellite communications. Orbits, launching satellites, modulation and multiplexing, multiple access, earth stations, coding, interference and special problems in satellite communications.

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN876
Wireless CommunicationsCrosslisted with ECEN 476

Prerequisites: ECEN 325 or ECEN 462 or parallel

Description: The fundamental concepts of wireless communications. Basic communications concepts such as multiple access and spectrum. Propagation, radio standards and internet working. Current issues in wireless communications.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 926; ECEN 977

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN877
Digital Systems Organization and DesignCrosslisted with ECEN 477

Prerequisites: ECEN 474 or ECEN 874

Description: Hardware development languages, hardware organization and realization, microprogramming, interrupt, intersystem communication, and peripheral interfacing.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN878
Practical Machine LearningCrosslisted with ECEN 478

Prerequisites: CSCE/ECEN 155E, CSCE 155A, or CSCE 155N

Description: Designed to provide a solid grasp of the methods of machine learning (ML) and how to build powerful ML models for discovering statistical regularities from both structured and unstructured data. Offers an introduction to Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN879
Optical Fiber CommunicationsCrosslisted with ECEN 479

Prerequisites: ECEN 461/861

Description: Fundamentals of lightwave communication in optical fiber waveguides, physical description of fiber optic systems. Properties of the optical fiber and fiber components. Electro-optic devices: light sources and modulators, detectors and amplifiers; optical transmitter and receiver systems. Fiber optic link design and specification; fiber optic networks.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 979

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN880
Introduction to Lasers and Laser ApplicationsCrosslisted with ECEN 480, PHYS 480, PHYS 880

Prerequisites: PHYS 213/(UNO) PHYS 2130.

Description: Physics of electronic transition production stimulated emission of radiation. Threshold conditions for laser oscillation. Types of lasers and their applications in engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN882
Antennas and Radio Propagation for Wireless CommunicationsCrosslisted with ECEN 482

Prerequisites: ECEN 328

Description: Fundamental theory of antennas and radio propagation for wireless communications. Basic antenna characteristics and various antennas and antenna arrays. Basic propagation mechanisms and various channel models, such as Friis free space model, Hata model, lognormal distribution, and multipath model. Includes practical antenna design for high radio frequency (RF) with modeling software tools such as Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC) and Advanced Design System (ADS). Design projects will be assigned as the main part of course.

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN883
Random Processes in Engineering

Prerequisites: STAT 380 (UNO STAT 3800)

Description: Topics related to the concept of random variables, functions of random variables and random processes.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 926

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN884
Network SecurityCrosslisted with ECEN 484

Prerequisites: ECEN 325

Description: Network security and cryptographic protocols. Classical encryption techniques, block ciphers and stream cyphers, public-key cryptography, authentications digital signatures, key management and distributions, network vulnerabilities, transport-level security, IP security.

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN885
Spread Spectrum Communications

Prerequisites: ECEN 461/861 (UNO ECEN 4610/8616)

Description: Introduction to the theory of spread spectrum communications: direct sequence, frequency and time hopping techniques. Topics include properties of pseudo-random binary sequences, low-probability-of-intercept (LPI) and anti-jamming (AJ) methods, performance of spread spectrum systems, applications of spread spectrum techniques in radio frequency and optical code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN886
Fundamentals of PhotonicsCrosslisted with ECEN 486

Prerequisites: ECEN 306

Description: Introduction to the use of electromagnetic radiation for performing optical measurements in engineering applications. Basic electromagnetic theory and light interaction with matter are covered with corresponding laboratory experiments conducted.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 986

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN887
Data and Network SecurityCrosslisted with CSCE 463, CSCE 863, ECEN 487

Prerequisites: A grade of "P" or "C" or better in CSCE 310, CSCE 310H, CSCE 311, SOFT 260, SOFT 260H or RAIK 283H.

Description: Concepts and principles of data and network security. Focuses on practical aspects and application of crypto systems in security protocols for networks such as the Internet. Topics include: applications of cryptography and cryptosystems for digital signatures, authentication, network security protocols for wired and wireless networks, cyberattacks and countermeasures, and security in modern computing platforms.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN888
Wireless SecurityCrosslisted with ECEN 488

Prerequisites: ECEN 325

Description: A comprehensive overview on the recent advances in wireless network and system security. Covers security issues and solutions in emerging wireless access networks and systems as well as multihop wireless networks.

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:4

ACE:

ECEN891
Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering IVCrosslisted with ECEN 491

Prerequisites: Senior standing.

Description: Special topics in the emerging areas of electrical, computer, and electronics engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the electrical and computer engineering curriculum.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-4

ACE:

ECEN892
Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering IVCrosslisted with ECEN 492

Prerequisites: Senior standing

Requires an ECE departmentally approved proposal.

Description: Special topic in emerging areas of electrical and computer engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the electrical and computer engineering curriculum.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ECEN898
Research in Electrical Engineering IVCrosslisted with ECEN 498

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Research in a selected area of electrical engineering under the supervision and guidance of an Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:18
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-6

ACE:

ECEN899
Masters Thesis

Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser.

Description: Masters thesis work.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-10
Max credits per semester:10
Max credits per degree:99
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-10

ACE:

ECEN911
Communication Theory

Prerequisites: ECEN 862/(UNO) ECEN 8626, and ECEN 864/(UNO) ECEN 8646 or ECEN 810/(UNO) ECEN 8106

Description: Applications of probability and statistics to signals and noise; correlation; sampling; shot noise; spectral analysis; Gaussian processes; filtering.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN912
Error Control Coding

Prerequisites: ECEN 410/(UNO) ECEN 4100 or ECEN 810/(UNO) ECEN 8106; and ECEN 464/(UNO) ECEN 4640 or ECEN 864/(UNO) ECEN 8646; or permission.

Description: Fundamentals of error correction and detection in digital communication and storage systems. Linear and algebraic block codes; Hamming, BCH and Reed-Solomon codes; algebraic decoding techniques; structure and performance of convolutional codes, turbo codes, and trellis coded modulation; MAP, Viterbi, and sequential decoding techniques.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN913
Advanced Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits

Prerequisites: ECEN 869/(UNO) ECEN 8696 and permission

Description: Advanced current mirrors and op-amps. Comparators and sample/hold (S/H) circuits. Band-gap reference circuits. Trans-linear circuits and analog multipliers. Voltage controlled oscillators. Operational trans-conductance amplifiers (OTA's). Switched capacitor circuits. Data converters. Non-linearity, mismatch, and short-channel effects. Continuous time domain integrated filters. Current conveyors. Phase locked loops. Analog CAD.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ECEN915
Sparse Signal Processing

Prerequisites: ECEN 410/(UNO) ECEN 4100 or ECEN 810/(UNO) ECEN 8106; and ECEN 463/(UNO) ECEN 4630 or ECEN 863/(UNO) 8636; and permission

Description: Adaptive filtering algorithms, frequency and transform domain adaptive filters, and simulation and critical evaluation of adaptive signal processing for real world applications.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN926
Statistical Signal Processing for Wireless Communications

Prerequisites: ECEN 424/824/(UNO) ECEN 4240/8246; ECEN 476/876/(UNO) ECEN 4760/8760; and ECEN 883/(UNO) ECEN 8830

Description: Statistical signal processing and applications for wireless communications: the characteristics of random signals; optimum linear filters; statistical parameter estimation using maximum likelihood (ML) and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) methods; adaptive signal processing using least-mean-square (LMS) and recursive least-square (RLS) approaches; Kalman filtering; and eigenanalysis.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN932
Advanced Power Electronics and Applications

Prerequisites: ECEN 428/(UNO) ECEN 4280 or ECEN 828/(UNO) ECEN 8286; and ECEN 426/(UNO) ECEN 4260 or ECEN 836/(UNO) ECEN 8366.

Description: Analysis and design of power electronic circuits and their applications, including: snubber circuits, resonant converters and soft switching techniques, pulse-width modulation techniques, control of power electronic circuits, power electronics and control for electric machines and wind energy systems, flexible AC-transmission system (FACTS) devices, and high-voltage DC (HVDC) transmission.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN935
Computational Intelligence

Prerequisites: MATH 208/(UNO) MATH 1970, MATH 221/(UNO) MATH 2350, MATH 314/(UNO) MATH 2050, and good skills using MATLAB

Description: Computational intelligence paradigms and their applications, including: artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic systems, swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation (e.g., genetic algorithms), machine learning (e.g., supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning), neurocontrol and adaptive critic designs, and applications of computational intelligence for system identification, state estimation, time series prediction, signal processing, adaptive control, optimization, diagnostics, prognostics, etc.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN946
Optimal Filtering, Estimation and Prediction

Prerequisites: ECEN 810/(UNO) ECEN 8106

Description: Techniques for optimally extracting information about the past, present, or future status of a dynamic system from noise-corrupted measurements on that system.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN957
Advanced Computer Methods in Power System Analysis

Prerequisites: ECEN 806/(UNO) ECEN 8066

Description: Power system matrices, sparsity techniques, network equivalents, contingency analysis, power flow optimization, state estimation, and power system restructuring examined via computer methods.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN959
Wireless Communications

Prerequisites: ECEN 864/(UNO) ECEN 8646 and permission

Description: Principles of wireless communications, including: description of the wireless channel characteristics; ultimate performance limits of wireless systems; performance analysis of digital modulation techniques over wireless channels; diversity techniques; adaptive modulation; multiple-antenna communications; multi-carrier modulation; and multi-user wireless communications.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN960
Solid-State Devices

Prerequisites: ECEN 315/(UNO) ECEN 3150 or equivalent

Description: Gallium arsenide and silicon devices. Device properties based on structure and physical properties of the materials.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN965
Passive Microwave Components

Prerequisites: ECEN 867/(UNO) ECEN 8676 or ECEN 868/(UNO) ECEN 8686

Description: Application of Maxwell's Equations to the analysis of waveguides, resonant cavities, filters and other passive microwave devices.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN967
Introduction to Quantum Electronics

Description: Introduction to the quantum aspects of electron devices.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 968; ECEN 975

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN968
Electron Theory of Solids I

Prerequisites: ECEN 967/(UNO) ECEN 9670

Description: Quantitative development of the fundamentals of the quantum-mechanical theory of electrons in solids.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN971
Seminar
Course details
Credit Hours:1-12
Max credits per semester:12
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-12

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ECEN973
Introduction to Nanotechnology

The content of the course will be updated annually based on new scientific findings.

Description: Topics in nanotechnology as defined by the National nanotechnology Initiative, with emphasis on topics related to electrical engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN975
Optical Properties of Materials

Prerequisites: ECEN 967/(UNO) ECEN 9670 or equivalent

Description: Quantum mechanical description of the optical properties of solids (complex refractive index and its dispersion, effects of electric and magnetic fields, temperature, stress; additional special topics as desired).

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN977
Space-time Wireless Communications

Prerequisites: ECEN 461/861/(UNO) ECEN 4630/8636; ECEN 476/876/(UNO) ECEN 4760/8766

Description: Theory of space-time (ST) wireless communication systems. Spatial diversity, smart antenna systems, MIMO capacity of multi-antenna fading channels, space-time signaling, space-time receivers, and interference mitigation. Overview of more advanced topics such as MIMO-OFDM. Current trends in research and in the industry.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN979
Non-Linear Fiber Optic Systems

Prerequisites: ECEN 479/879 (UNO ECEN 4790/8796)

Description: Linear and non-linear propagations in optical fibers. Topics include fiber non-linearity, fundamentals of optical amplifiers, semiconductor and fiber amplifiers, soliton communications. Applications include high capacity and long distance transmissions, all-optical networks.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN986
Optoelectronics

Prerequisites: ECEN 886/(UNO) ECEN 8866

Description: Modern phenomena associated with optoelectronics. Electro-optical effect such as Pockel effect, Kerr effect, and nonlinear optical phenomena. Material and devices used in modern communications, femtosecond lasers, and optical computer systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN991
Topics in Electrical Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Selected topic under the direction and guidance of a faculty member.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-24

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ECEN992
Advanced Special Topics

Prerequisites: Permission and graduate standing.

Description: Supervised non-thesis research.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-6

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ECEN996
Independent Study

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Independent study in electrical engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ECEN998
Research Other Than Thesis

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Supervised non-thesis research.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-3

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ECEN999
Doctoral Dissertation

Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair.

Description: Dissertation research.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:99
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-24

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