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GEOL 7341 - Geophysical Data Processing Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or consent of instructor. Principles and methods in processing of geophysical data, particularly those in discrete form, with emphasis on sampling theory, Fourier analysis, model fitting, and image processing.
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GEOL 7366 - Geophysics of Plate Margins Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: GEOL 4330. A study of the use of geophysical measurements (e.g., gravity, heat flow, seismic refraction, etc.) in interpreting the evolution of past and present plate margins.
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GEOL 7399 - Master’s Thesis Cr. 3, 6 or 9 per semester.
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GEOL 7699 - Master’s Thesis Cr. 3, 6 or 9 per semester.
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GEOL 7999 - Master’s Thesis Cr. 3, 6 or 9 per semester.
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GEOL 8198 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9 per semester.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor and approval of chair.
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GEOL 8199 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 1-9 per semester.
Prerequisite: admission to candidacy as a doctoral student. Doctoral dissertation work in progress.
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GEOL 8299 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 1-9 per semester.
Prerequisite: admission to candidacy as a doctoral student. Doctoral dissertation work in progress.
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GEOL 8398 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9 per semester.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor and approval of chair.
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GEOL 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 1-9 per semester.
Prerequisite: admission to candidacy as a doctoral student. Doctoral dissertation work in progress.
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GEOL 8498 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9 per semester.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor and approval of chair.
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GEOL 8499 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 1-9 per semester.
Prerequisite: admission to candidacy as a doctoral student. Doctoral dissertation work in progress.
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GEOL 8599 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 1-9 per semester.
Prerequisite: admission to candidacy as a doctoral student. Doctoral dissertation work in progress.
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GEOL 8698 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9 per semester.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor and approval of chair.
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GEOL 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 1-9 per semester.
Prerequisite: admission to candidacy as a doctoral student. Doctoral dissertation work in progress.
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GEOL 8798 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9 per semester.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor and approval of chair.
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GEOL 8898 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9 per semester.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor and approval of chair.
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GEOL 8998 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9 per semester.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor and approval of chair.
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GEOL 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 1-9 per semester.
Prerequisite: admission to candidacy as a doctoral student. Doctoral dissertation work in progress.
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Economics |
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ECON 6198 - Research and Readings in Economics Cr. 1-3 per semester.
Prerequisite: approval of chair. Student may elect to receive either S/ U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
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ECON 6298 - Research and Readings in Economics Cr. 1-3 per semester.
Prerequisite: approval of chair. Student may elect to receive either S/ U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
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ECON 6331 - Quantitative Economic Analysis Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: MATH 1432 or MATH 1314 or consent of instructor. Statistical basis for applied economic analysis, which includes discrete and continuous distributions, point estimation, tests of hypothesis, methods of estimation and properties of estimators.
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ECON 6337 - History of Economic Thought Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 3332 or ECON 6385 and ECON 3334 or ECON 6375. Development of economic theory with special emphasis on clasical, neoclasical, and contemporary contributions.
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ECON 6342 - Microeconomic Theory I Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 3332 or ECON 6385 and graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Contemporary microeconomic theory of decision and allocation in a market economy. Topics include theories of the consumer, the firm, and competitive markets under complete and incomplete information.
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ECON 6344 - Macroeconomic Theory I Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 3334 or ECON 6375 and graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Analytic tools of contemporary macroeconomics, including static analysis of clasical and Keynesian models and the aggregate behavior of consumers, investors, and asset holders.
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ECON 6352 - Quantitative Methods & Applications Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6465, 6475, and 6485 or consent of instructor. Costbenefit analysis, debt and equity financing, asset allocation, derivatives, among other topics. Microsoft Excel experience will be emphasized. Maybe repeated for credit.
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ECON 6355 - Economic Development of Asia Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Economic and social problems of raising standards of living in Asia. Discussion issues include economic growth, growth and the environment, income disparities, the role of trade and foreign investment, and the accompanying political and social changes.
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ECON 6360 - Labor and Trade Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Economics of labor and international trade theory with applications.
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ECON 6362 - Transition Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Central planning and the economics of transition with emphasis on theoretical work and empirical evidence.
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ECON 6365 - Economics of Wages and Employment Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 3332 or ECON 6385 and ECON 3334 or ECON 6375. Determination of wages, terms, and volume of employment, and relation of trade unionism to the economy, with emphasis on theoretical explanations.
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ECON 6366 - Advanced Economic Theory Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Classical microeconomic concepts and models including topics in industrial organization.
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ECON 6367 - Central Banking Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Fundamental theories of interest rates, including tools essential for understanding the market for bonds and bills. The role of central banks and monetary policy is explored through theory and evidence.
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ECON 6368 - International Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. International trade and capital flows, with a focus on transition countries and emerging markets.
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ECON 6371 - Monetary Policy and Financial Institutions Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 and ECON 6344 . Analysis of financial markets and institutions, the supply of money, and the formulation and implementation of monetary policy.
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ECON 6373 - Development and Labor Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Issues in economic development pertaining to both developing and transition economies.
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ECON 6374 - Transportation Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Traditional microeconomic approach to transportation economics including new developments in this field.
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ECON 6380 - State and Urban Finance Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 or consent of instructor. Analysis of government tax and expenditure at the state and local level, with consideration of underlying determinants of local public sector budgets.
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ECON 6381 - Economic Development of the United States Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 3332 or ECON 6385 or consent of instructor. Applied economics in a broader context. Analysis of the economic development of the U.S. with emphasis on the interaction of markets and political institutions.
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ECON 6394 - Applications in Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Application of econometric methods for forecasting and policy analysis.
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ECON 6397 - Regional Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Economics of location decisions for firms and residents, spatial pricing, regional factor flows, and regional input-output analysis.
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ECON 6398 - Research and Readings in Economics Cr. 1-3 per semester.
Prerequisite: approval of chair. Student may elect to receive either S/ U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
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ECON 6699 - Masters Thesis Cr: 6. (0-0)
Prerequisite: consent of program director. Thesis research. Maybe repeated for credit.
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ECON 7300 - Seminar in Current Economic Research Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Current topics in economic research presented in seminar format. May be repeated with consent of instructor.
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ECON 7301 - Seminar in Microeconomic Research Cr: 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Current topics in microeconomic research presented in seminar format. Maybe repeated for credit.
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ECON 7302 - Seminar in Macroeconomic Research Cr: 3 (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Current topics in macroeconomic research presented in seminar format. Maybe repeated for credit.
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ECON 7331 - Econometrics I Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6331 and MATH 2331 or consent of instructor. Regression analysis and the general linear model. Topics covered include ordinary least squares, heteroskedasticity, autoregression, distributed lags, and generalized least squares.
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ECON 7342 - Microeconomic Theory II Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Microeconomic Theory I. Continuation of Microeconomic Theory I. Topics include market structure, centralized and decentralized decisions, alternative allocation mechanisms, contracts, capital theory, general equilibrium, unemployment, and money.
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ECON 7344 - Macroeconomic Theory II Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Macroeconomic Theory I. Continuation of Macroeconomic Theory I. Topics include dynamic analysis, long run growth, stochastic macroeconomics, and theories of expectations. Emphasis on recent literature in macroeconomic theory.
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ECON 7349 - Game Theory and Economic Behavior Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 or consent of instructor. Modeling and analysis of strategic situations. Topics include cooperative game theory, simultaneous-move games and Nash equilibrium, sequential-move games and subgame perfect equilibrium, and applications.
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ECON 7350 - Economic Growth and International Development Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 and ECON 7344 or consent of instructor. This course presents current work on economic growth and international development, focusing on empirical and quantitative approaches. It will cover a wide range of topics such as development accounting, world income distribution, financial aspects of growth and income determination in open economies, international and regional capital flows, macroeconomic policy, capital market integration, current issues in economic and monetary unions and facts of globalization.
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ECON 7351 - Development Economics: Microeconomic Issues Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 or consent of instructor. Examines the micro foundations of economic development, including education, health, the family, land, credit, risk and institutions. Teaches econometric tools that have been used by researchers to identify causal relationships, including panel data, instrumental variables, randomized experiments and natural experiments.
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ECON 7362 - Computational Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6331 and ECON 6342 or consent of instructor. This course explores economic modeling using computational methods. Topics include algorithms for solving models, the numerical analysis of results, and the robustness of the results. An interest in computers is essential; a knowledge of a programming language is useful.
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ECON 7364 - Experimental Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6331 and ECON 6342 or consent of instructor. Introduction to experimental methodology as practiced for economic research. Experimental design choices in major papers are discussed, critically appraised, and assessed for their subsequent impact on experimental practice.
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ECON 7365 - Labor Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 , ECON 6344 , ECON 7342 and ECON 7344 or consent of instructor. Topics include: labor demand, labor supply, and human capital. Modern Labor Economics by Ehrenberg and Smith.
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ECON 7375 - Topics in Industrial Organization Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 or consent of instructor. Provides an introduction to a wide range of topics in Industrial Organization. Topics covered include industry dynamics, geographic distribution of industrial activity, evolution of industry structure and size distribution of firms, and a variety of empirical techniques used to analyze micro data.
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ECON 7376 - Industrial Organization Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 or consent of instructor. This course examines how industries are organized and how that affects their economic performance. Topics include the modern business firm and its vertical relations, market structure and the marketing strategies it can encourage including innovation, with attention to network industries and their problems of compatibility and standardization.
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ECON 7377 - Public Finance Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 and ECON 6344 . Selected topics in the incidence and effects of government revenues, expenditures, and debt.
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ECON 7380 - Macroeconomic Modeling and Forecasting Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 7331 and ECON 6344 . Quantitative macroeconomic relationships and econometric forecasting models.
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ECON 7387 - Economic Analysis of Urban Areas Cr. 3. (3-0)
Markets for housing and sites, determinants of land use patterns. Topics include demand, rent and density gradients, racial discrimination, land use regulation, transportation access.
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ECON 7392 - Economic History Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 or consent of instructor. This course examines the economic history of the United States, Europe, and Asia using the New Institutional Economics to explain economic growth and institutional change in these regions, particularly focusing on the different models of growth that have emerged in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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ECON 7393 - Time Series Analysis Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6331 or consent of instructor. Focuses on the theory and application of univariate time series methods. Topics covered include both stationary and nonstationary time series, with an emphasis on inference in nonstationary processes, e.g. unit root tests.
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ECON 7396 - Topics in Economic Development Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 and ECON 6344 . The development of world economy; emphasizing preconditions of progress, changes in economic structure, the role of planning, and the problems of underdeveloped economies. May be repeated with consent of instructor.
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ECON 7398 - International Monetary Economics Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 and ECON 6344 . Exchange rates and comparative advantage, balance of payments, speculation in foreign exchange markets, devaluation, and the international monetary system.
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ECON 8198 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1-3 per semester, or more than 3 by concurrent enrollment.
Prerequisite: approval of chair.
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ECON 8298 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1-3 per semester, or more than 3 by concurrent enrollment.
Prerequisite: approval of chair.
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ECON 8300 - Advanced Seminar in Current Economic Research Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: admission to Ph.D. candidacy. Continuation of ECON 7300 . Students are required to present current research paper in seminar environment. May be repeated with consent of instructor.
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ECON 8331 - Econometrics II Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECE 7331 . Estimation methods in single-equation and simultaneous equations models. Topics include missing observations, errors in variables, and limited dependent variables.
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ECON 8342 - Microeconomic Theory III Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Microeconomic Theory II. Concentration on recent journal literature in microeconomic theory.
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ECON 8344 - Macroeconomic Theory III Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Macroeconomic Theory II. Concentration on recent journal literature in macroeconomic theory.
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ECON 8361 - Workshop in Research Methods III Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 , ECON 6344 and ECON 7331 or consent of instructor. Data sources, specification analysis, and other aspects of empirical research in economics.
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ECON 8362 - Workshop in Research Methods IV Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 , ECON 6344 and ECON 7331 or consent of instructor. Formulation, execution, and presentation of a research paper in economics.
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ECON 8363 - Workshop in Research Methods V Cr. 3 (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 7341, ECE 7342 , and ECON 7331 or consent of instructor. Formulation, execution, and presentation of a research paper in economics for advanced students.
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ECON 8365 - Labor Economics II Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 7365 , Continuation of ECON 7365 . Topics include wage differentials, persistence in inequality and social mobility, the driving forces behind inequality, and unemployment.
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ECON 8396 - International Trade Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 . Causes and consequences of international trade, theories and comparative advantage, theory and measurement of tariffs, capital movements, and multinational corporations.
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ECON 8398 - Doctoral Research Cr. 1-3 per semester, or more than 3 by concurrent enrollment.
Prerequisite: approval of chair.
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ECON 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 3 per semester.
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ECON 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 3 per semester.
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ECON 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 3 per semester.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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ECE 6111 - Graduate Seminar Cr. 1. (1-0)
May be repeated for credit.
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ECE 6127 - Power Transmission and Distribution Laboratory Cr. 1. (1-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and ECE 2100 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 6377 . Real and reactive power, power flow and voltage regulation, parallel lines and transformers, series and parallel network compensation, phase shift transformers, protection.
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ECE 6198 - Research Cr. 1-5.
Prerequisite: Approval of Chair.
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ECE 6298 - Research Cr. 1-5.
Prerequisite: Approval of Chair.
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ECE 6301 - Sensor Design and Applications Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Design, analysis and application of sensors used to measure physical quantities such as flow, level, temperature, pressure and density.
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ECE 6302 - Introduction to NeuroEngineering Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of Instructor. Single neurons, principles of perception and movement, learning and memory, functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, transcranial magnetic stimulation, chemical stimulation, functional neuroanatomy.
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ECE 6304 - Visual System: Physiology, Computation, and Methods Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of Instructor. Introduction to neurophysiology and systematic overview of visual system: eye, retinal structure and function, retino-geniculo-cortical and cortico-cortical pathways, computational models of retinal and cortical processing, techniques for measuring neuronal activity.
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ECE 6306 - Introduction to Nanotechnology Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECE 4339 or instructor permission. Introduction to the fundamentals of nanoscale engineering. The emphasis of the course is on technologies that have significant potential to transform conventional semiconductor based electronics.
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ECE 6309 - Microlithography for Micro-and Nano-system Manufacturing Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and/or consent of the instructor. Fundamental principles of microlithography: resolution limits, resist exposure and development, and modeling; electron-beam, imprint, x-ray, and ion-beam lithography.
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ECE 6310 - Robotics: Models, Controls, and Sensors Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECE 4375 or equivalent. The kinematics and dynamic modeling of robots as well as the development of algorithms for feedback control. Methods for force-torque sensing and robot vision will be presented.
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ECE 6312 - Fundamentals of Ferromagnetic Materials and Devices Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing and/or consent of instructor. Magnetic materials, magnetic anisotropy, magnetostriction, magnetic domain structures, magnetization reversal, micromagnetics. Major ferromagnetic devices and systems including magnetic data storage, magnetic random access memory, magnetic logic, magnetic sensors.
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ECE 6313 - Neural Networks Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Generalization of single-cell models to networks; network dynamics; feed-forward and recurrent additive, shunting equations; shortterm memory; long-term memory; Hebbian and non-Hebbian learning rules; associative and competitive learning; adaptive resonance theory.
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ECE 6314 - Nanoscale Design and Fabrication Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECE 6307 or instructor permission. Fundamentals of nanoscale science and engineering. Effects of nanoscale phenomena on device scaling, technological advantages and challenges. Design, fabrication, metrology, and device integration at nanoscale.
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ECE 6315 - Neural Computation Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. Feed-forward neural networks; supervised and unsupervised learning radial basis neural networks; feedback neural networks; Boltzmann machine; recurrent back propagation; self-organizing feature maps; learning vector quantization; fuzzy learning vector quantization; applications of neural networks.
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ECE 6316 - Computational and Biological Vision Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Retinal structure and function, computational models of retinal processing, retino-geniculo-cortical and cortico-cortical pathways, computational bases of information processing in the visual system.
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ECE 6320 - Knowledge-Based Systems in Electrical Engineering Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in electrical engineering. Knowledge engineering, design of expert systems, LISP, frame-based and rule-based systems; survey of applications in electrical engineering; design project in an electrical engineering area.
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ECE 6321 - Principles of Internetworking Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor. Local area networks, Internet Protocol addressing, routing protocols, Transport Control Protocol flow, congestion and error control, Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, and Network Address Translation. Selected applications.
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ECE 6322 - Introduction to Spread Spectrum Communications Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: graduate standing, ECE 6337 , Corequisite:
credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 6331 . Multi-user communication channels, spreading sequences, convolutional codes, wireless communication fading channels and diversity reception.
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ECE 6323 - Optical Fiber Communications Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Devices and systems in optical fiber communications: fiber dispersion and attenuation, fiber solitons, photodiodes, fiber amplifiers, SONET/SDH transport systems, and present and future multi-wavelength networks.
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ECE 6324 - Digital Telephony Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECE 4371 or consent of instructor. Voice communications as well as application and operational aspects of digital communication systems design. Specifics treated are voice digitization, digital transmission, digital switching, network synchronization, network control, network analysis, and communications networks design.
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ECE 6325 - State-Space Control Systems Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: ECE 4375 or consent of instructor. State-space modeling, matrix algebra, system response, coordinate transformation, stability, controllability, observability, realization, state-feedback design, observer, nonlinear system, Lyapunov functions, optimal control.
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ECE 6328 - CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits Cr. 3. (3-0)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of Instructor. The analysis and design of CMOS analog integrated circuits at the transistor level, single-stage and multistage amplifiers, differential pairs, current source biasing circuits, current mirrors, and operational amplifier circuits design.
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