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Course Requirements
18-100 Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering

Corequisites: 21-120

18-200 Emerging Trends in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prerequisites: 18-100 and sophomore standing required.

18-202 Mathematical Foundations of Electrical Engineering

Prerequisites: 21-122 OR 21-118 OR 21-123

18-220 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

Prerequisite: 18-100

18-240 Fundamentals of Computer Engineering

Prerequisite: 18-100

18-243 Introduction to Computer Systems

Prerequisites: 15-123 (Grade of C or higher is required in the prerequisite)

18-300 Fundamentals of Electromagnetics

Prerequisite: 18-220 or equivalent

18-310 Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices

Prerequisite: 18-220 (Note: the prerequisite is typically waived for MSE students who intend to pursue the Electronic Materials Minor)

18-321 Analysis and Design of Analog Circuits

Prerequisite: 18-220

18-322 Analysis and Design of Digital Circuits

Prerequisites: 18-220 and 18-240

18-340 Digital Computation

Prerequisite: 18-240

18-341 Logic Design Using Simulation, Synthesis, and Verification Techniques

Prerequisite: 18-240

18-342 Fundamentals of Embedded Systems

Prerequisite: 18-240

18-342G Fundamentals of Embedded Systems

Prerequisite: 18-240

18-342PP Fundamentals of Embedded Systems

Prerequisite: 18-240

18-345 Introduction to Telecommunication Networks

Prerequisites: (15-113 or 15-123) and 18-240 and 36-217.

18-348 Embedded System Engineering

Prerequisites: 18-240 and 15-213

18-349 Embedded Real-Time Systems

Prerequisites: 18-240 and 15-213

18-396 Signals and Systems

Prerequisite: 18-202 and 18-220

18-401 Electromechanics

Prerequisite: 18-300

18-402 Applied Electrodynamics

Prerequisite: 18-300 or equivalent.

18-410 Physical Sensors, Transducers and Instrumentation

Prerequisite: 18-303 or 18-310 or 18-321 or 27-432

18-411 Computational Techniques in Engineering

Prerequisites: Math sequence 21-120, 21-122, 21-259, 21-260 or equivalent; 15-100 or equivalent

18-412 Field Effect Devices and Technology

Prerequisite: 33-107 and (18-310 or 18-311)

18-415 From Design to the Market for Deep Submicron ICs

Prerequisite: 18-322

18-416 Data Storage Systems

Prerequisite: 18-300 or 18-310

18-417 Introduction to Optical Communications Systems

Prerequisite: 18-310

18-418 Electric Energy Processing: Fundamentals and Applications

Prerequisite: 18-220

18-432 Senior Projects

Prerequisite: Senior standing in Electrical and Computer Engineering

18-447 Introduction to Computer Architecture

Prerequisites: 18-240 and 15-213

18-450 Digital Wireless Communications

Prerequisites: 18-396 or equivalent, and 36-217 or equivalent, and some exposure to MATLAB

18-470 Fundamentals of Control

Prerequisite: 18-396

18-474 Embedded Control Systems

Prerequisite: 18-396

18-482 Telecommunications, Technology Policy & Management

Prerequisites: 73-100 and junior or senior standing

18-487 Introduction to Computer and Network Security and Applied Cryptography

Prerequisite: 15-213

18-491 Digital Signal Processing

Prerequisite: 18-396

18-492 Special Topics in Speech Processing

Prerequisites: 15-211

18-493 Electroacoustics

Prerequisite: 18-220

18-496 Introduction to Biomedical Imaging and Image Analysis

Prerequisites: 18-290 OR 18-396

18-510 Sensor Systems Design

Prerequisites: At least ONE of the following Depth courses: 18-401, 18-402, 18-410, 18-412, 18-416, 18-417, or 18-419; OR at least TWO of the follow Breadth courses: 18-321, 18-310, 18-300, or 18-396.

18-513 Antenna Design for Wireless Communications

Prerequisite: 18-402 or equivalent course in electrodynamics and waves

18-517 Data Storage Systems Design Project

Prerequisites: 18-416 or (18-316 and 18-396) or (18-300 and 18-396) or (18-310 and 18-396) or graduate standing

18-525 Integrated Circuit Design Project

Prerequisites: 18-322 AND (18-340 or 18-341 or 18-321 or 18-310 or 18-450 or 18-491 or 18-415)

18-540 Rapid Prototyping of Computer Systems

Prerequisites: 18-348 or 18-349 or (18-322 and 18-396) or (18-322 and 18-340) or (18-322 and 18-341) or (18-396 and 18-340) or (18-396 and 18-341). Senior standing is required.

18-544 Network Design and Evaluation

Prerequisites: (18-345 and 15-213) or 15-441

18-545 Advanced Digital Design Project

Prerequisites: 18-447 or (18-340 and 15213) or (18-341 and 15213). You can substitute 18-360 for 18-341.

18-549 Embedded Systems Design

Prerequisites: 18-348 or 18-349

18-551 Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design

Prerequisites: 18-396 and (15-211 or 18-450 or 18-491 or 18-791 or 18-793 or 18-796 or 18-798)

18-578 Mechatronic Design

Prerequisites: 18-348 or 18-349 or 18-370 or 18-470 or 18-474 or 18-349 or (18-321 and 18-396).

18-615 Micro and Nano Systems Fabrication

Prerequisites: 18-310, senior standing with instructor's permission, or graduate standing

18-617 Memory Devices and Systems

Prerequisites: 18-322

18-623 Analog Integrated Circuit Design

Prerequisites: 18-321 and 18-322 (or equivalent experience with Cadence tools) and senior or graduate standing.

18-630 Introduction to Security and Policy

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

18-630G Introduction to Computer Security

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

18-631 Introduction to Information Security

Prerequisites: The course assumes a basic working knowledge of computers, networks, C and UNIX programming, as well as an elementary mathematics background, but does not assume any prior exposure to topics in computer or communications security. Students lacking technical background (e.g., students without any prior exposure to programming) are expected to catch up through self-study.

18-649 Distributed Embedded Systems

Prerequisites: 18-348 or 18-349 and senior or graduate standing.

18-700 Technology Entrepreneurship

Prerequisite: Graduate standing (Preference will be given to PhD level students)

18-703 Special Topics in ECE: Obtaining Value from R&D in an Industrial Setting

Prerequisites: Graduate Student Status. IMB students may only take this course in their final year at Carnegie Mellon.

18-712 Elements of Photonics for Communication Systems

Prerequisites: 18-300 and 18-310 and (18-402 or 33-439) and senior or graduate standing.

18-713 Optical Networks

Prerequisites: Background in undergraduate probability and telecommunication networks and senior or graduate standing.

18-715 Magnetic Materials and Devices

Prerequisites: 18-300 or equivalent background in electromagnetic fields; Senior level solid state physics, electronic materials, or the equivalent, and senior or graduate standing.

18-715 Physics of Applied Magnetism

Prerequisite: 18-300 or equivalent background in electromagnetic fields; Senior level solid state physics and materials, or the equivalent, and a senior or graduate student standing.

18-716 Advanced Applied Magnetism

Prerequisite: 18-715 or equivalent upon instructor's approval and senior or graduate standing.

18-721 Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits Design

Prerequisites: 18-623 (was 18-523 before Fall 2005) and senior or graduate standing.

18-722 Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits Design

Prerequisites: 18-322 and senior or graduate standing.

18-723 RF IC Design and Implementation

Prerequisites: 18-623 (was 18-523 before Fall 2005) and senior or graduate standing.

18-724 Microelectromechanical System Design

Prerequisites: 18-614 or equivalent by petition of instructor and senior or graduate standing.

18-729C Special Topics in Circuits: Power Electronics

Prerequisite: Senior or graduate standing

18-730 Introduction to Computer Security

Prerequisites: 15-211 and senior or graduate standing.

18-730G Introduction to Computer Security

Prerequisites: 15-211 and senior or graduate standing.

18-730PP Introduction to Computer Security

Prerequisites: 15-211 and senior or graduate standing.

18-731 Network Security

Prerequisites: 18-630 or 18-730 and senior or graduate standing.

18-731PP Network Security

Prerequisites: 18-630 or 18-730 and senior or graduate standing.

18-732 Secure Software Systems

Prerequisites: 18-730; Skills in operating systems and programming languages (C and Java), and senior or graduate standing.

18-732PP Secure Software Systems

Prerequisites: 18-730; Skills in operating systems and programming languages (C and Java), and senior or graduate standing.

18-733 Applied Cryptography

Prerequisites: 18-730 and senior or graduate standing.

18-733J Applied Cryptography

Prerequisites: 18-730 and senior or graduate standing.

18-741 Advanced Computer Architecture

Prerequisites: 18-347 or 18-447 and senior or graduate standing.

18-742 Multiprocessor Computer Architecture

Prerequisites: 18-741 (previously 18-547) and senior or graduate standing.

18-743 Energy Aware Computing

Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing

18-744 Hardware Systems Engineering

Prerequisites: 18-741 (previously 18-547) and senior or graduate standing.

18-745 Rapid Prototyping of Computer Systems

Prerequisites: 18-348 or 18-349 or (18-322 and 18-396) or (18-322 and 18-340) or (18-322 and 18-341) or (18-396 and 18-340) or (18-396 and 18-341). Graduate standing is required under the graduate course number.

18-746 Advanced Storage Systems

Prerequisites: 15-410 or 15-412 and senior or graduate standing.

18-747 Advanced Techniques in Microprocessors

Prerequisites: 18-741 (previously 18-547) and senior or graduate standing.

18-748 Wireless Sensor Networks

Prerequisites: 15-213 and ((18-348 or 18-349) or 15-410), and senior or graduate standing.

18-749 Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

Prerequisites: Experience in programming and senior or graduate standing.

18-749PP Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

Prerequisites: Experience in programming and senior or graduate standing.

18-751 Applied Stochastic Processes

Prerequisites: 36-217 and 18-396 and senior or graduate standing.

18-752 Estimation, Detection and Identification

Prerequisites: 18-751 and senior or graduate standing.

18-753 Information Theory and Coding

Prerequisites: 36-217 and senior or graduate standing.

18-756 Packet Switching and Computer Networks

Prerequisites: 18-345 and senior or graduate standing.

18-756G Packet Switching and Computer Networks

Prerequisites: 18-345 and senior or graduate standing.

18-756PP Packet Switching and Computer Networks

Prerequisites: 18-345 and senior or graduate standing.

18-757 Network Management and Control

Prerequisites: A course in probability; 18-756 and senior or graduate standing.

18-758 Wireless Communications

Prerequisites: 18-450 and senior or graduate standing.

18-759 Wireless Networks

Prerequisites: 36-217 (Probability and Random Processes), 18-345 (Telecommunication Networks), 18-396 (Undergraduate Signals and Systems) and senior or graduate standing.

18-759PP Wireless Networks

Prerequisites: 36-217 (Probability and Random Processes), 18-345 (Telecommunication Networks), 18-396 (Undergraduate Signals and Systems) and senior or graduate standing.

18-760 VLSI CAD: Logic to Layout

Prerequisites: 18-240, 15-211 and 18-322 and senior or graduate standing.

18-762 Circuit Simulation: Theory and Practice

Prerequisites: 18-321 and 21-241, and senior or graduate standing.

18-764 In Between Design and Manufacturing of Deep-Submicron Integrated Circuits

Prerequisites: 18-322 or 18-525, and senior or graduate standing.

18-765 Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design

Prerequisites: 18-240 and 15-211 and (18-340 or 18-341). Senior or graduate standing required.

18-766 The Art and Science of System Level Design

Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing.

18-767 VLSI CAD: Software to Logic

Prerequisites: 18-348 or 18-349, and senior or graduate standing.

18-771 Linear Systems

Prerequisite: 18-470 or 18-474, and graduate standing in CIT or MCS

18-771PP Linear Systems

Prerequisite: 18-470 or 18-474, and graduate standing in CIT or MCS

18-777 Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems

Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing

18-792 Advanced Digital Signal Processing

Prerequisites: 18-491 or 18-791 and 36-217, and senior or graduate standing.

18-793 Optical Image and Radar Processing

Prerequisite: 18-396 and senior or graduate standing.

18-794 Pattern Recognition Theory

Prerequisites: 36-217, or equivalent introductory probability theory and random variables course and an introductory linear algebra course and senior or graduate standing.

18-795 Advanced Bioimage Informatics

Prerequisites: 18-491 or 18-791, and senior or graduate standing.

18-798 Image and Video Processing

Prerequisite: 18-396 or equivalent, or permission of instructor

18-798 Image, Video, and Multimedia

Prerequisite: 18-491 and senior or graduate standing.

18-799A Special Topics in Signal Processing: Registration in Bioimaging

Prerequisites: 18-396 Signals and Systems or permission of the instructor, working knowledge of Matlab, and some image processing experience.

18-799C Special Topics in Signal Processing: Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

Prerequisite: Senior or graduate standing.

18-799E Special Topics in Signal Processing: Biometric Recognition

Prerequisites: 36-217 and Introductory Digital Signal Processing (18-491 (new) or 18-791 (old)) and senior or graduate standing.

18-799F Special Topics in Signal Processing: Algebraic Signal Processing Theory

Prerequisites: Graduate standing, 18-396, one graduate level signal processing course, and Matrix Algebra or by instructor's consent.

18-799PP Special Topics in Signal Processing Nonlinear Optimization

Prerequisites: Undergraduate linear algebra and multivariable calculus

18-817 Applied Physics: Fundamentals of Semiconductors and Nanostructures

Prerequisites: 09-511, 09-701, 09-702, 18-303, 18-310, 18-402, 27-770, 33-225, 33-234 or familiarity with the material or basic concepts covered in these courses and senior or graduate standing.

18-819C Special Topics in Applied Physics: Micro and Nano Systems Fabrication

Prerequisites: 18-310, senior standing with instructor's permission, or graduate standing

18-819D Special Topics in Applied Physics: Nanoscale Electronic Devices: Science, Materials, and Potential Applications

Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing.

18-819L Special Topics in Applied Physics: Antennas for Wireless Communications

Prerequisites: 18-303 or equivalent undergraduate course in electrodynamics and senior or graduate standing.

18-842 Distributed Systems

Prerequisites: Graduate standing, (15-410 or 15-412 or 14-342 or 18-342 or 18-348 or 18-349) and (18-345 or 18-756 or 14-845)

18-842PP Distributed Sysyems

Prerequisites: Graduate standing, (15-410 or 15-412 or 14-342 or 18-342 or 18-348 or 18-349) and (18-345 or 18-756 or 14-845)

18-843 Mobile and Pervasive Computing

Prerequisites: 15-410 and senior or graduate standing.

18-845 Internet Services

Prerequisites: 15-410 or 15-412 or 15-441, and senior or graduate standing.

18-847A Special Topics in Computer Systems: Mobile Hardware for Software Engineers

Prerequisites: Some understanding of basic electronic terminology and Java programming required; C programing desired.

18-848 Special Topics in Embedded Systems: Wireless Sensor Networks

Prerequisites: 15-213, (18-349 or 15-410), one course on computer networks and senior or graduate standing.

18-849 Dependable Embedded Systems

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and one of: 18-649 or 18-749 or entrance examination.

18-859C Special Topics in Communications: Network Management and Control

Prerequisites: 18-756 (or graduate level networking course) and senior or graduate standing.

18-859D Special Topics in Communications: Error Control Coding

Prerequisites: 36-217 (or equivalent), Linear Algebra and senior or graduate standing.

18-875 Engineering and Economics of Electric Energy Systems

Prerequisites: Basic electric circuits and/or basic economics and at least graduate standing.

18-879N Special Topics in Systems and Control: Multi-Agent Systems

Prerequisites: Graduate standing, or senior standing in CIT or Computer Science, or permission of the instructors.

18-879P Special Topics in Systems and Control: Engineering and Economics of Electric Power Systems

Prerequisites: Basic electric circuits and/or basic economics and senior or graduate standing.

18-879Q Special Topics in Systems and Control: Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, and Control: How Systems Really Work

Prerequisites: 18-470 or equivalent and familiarity with Matlab programming.

18-879R Special Topics in Systems and Control: Electric Power Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Control

Prerequisite: Senior or graduate standing

18-995 Practicum in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prerequisite: Approval of Department Head





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