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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Undergraduate Students

Academic Guide

Depth Requirements

ECE students must take at least one course (12 units) that has one of the courses used to satisfy the breadth requirement as a prerequisite. In other words, the ECE student must go "two-deep" in at least one of the five principal subject areas. Courses that satisfy this requirement are listed below:

Course Units

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Simultaneously satisfies the depth and Capstone Design requirements.

Applied Physics
18401 Electromechanics 12
18402 Applied Electrodynamics 12
18410 Physical Sensors, Transducers and Instrumentation 12
18412 Field Effect Devices and Technology 12
18416 Data Storage Systems 12
18417 Introduction to Optical Communications Systems 12
18419 Electron Device Physics 12
18517 1 Data Storage Systems Design Project 12
18614 Microelectromechanical Systems 12
18615 Micro and Nano Systems Fabrication 12
18712 Elements of Photonics for Communication Systems 12
18715 Magnetic Materials and Devices 12
18819C Special Topics in Applied Physics: Micro and Nano Systems Fabrication 12
Circuits
18410 Physical Sensors, Transducers and Instrumentation 12
18415 From Design to the Market for Deep Submicron ICs 12
18525 2 Integrated Circuit Design Project 12
18622 Advanced Digital Integrated Circuit Design 12
18623 Analog Integrated Circuit Design 12
18721 Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits Design 12
18722 Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits Design 12
18723 RF IC Design and Implementation 12
18724 Microelectromechanical System Design 12
Computer Hardware
18348 Embedded System Engineering 12
18349 Embedded Real-Time Systems 12
18447 Introduction to Computer Architecture 12
18540 3 Rapid Prototyping of Computer Systems 12
18544 4 Network Design and Evaluation 12
18545 5 Advanced Digital Design Project 12
18549 Embedded Systems Design 12
18741 Advanced Computer Architecture 12
18742 Multiprocessor Computer Architecture 12
18744 Hardware Systems Engineering 12
18745 Rapid Prototyping of Computer Systems 12
18746 Advanced Storage Systems 12
18747 Advanced Techniques in Microprocessors 12
18760 VLSI CAD: Logic to Layout 12
18765 Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design 12
Computer Software
18487 Introduction to Computer and Network Security and Applied Cryptography 12
18730 Introduction to Computer Security 12
Signals and Systems
18450 Digital Wireless Communications 12
18470 Fundamentals of Control 12
18474 Embedded Control Systems 12
18491 Digital Signal Processing 12
18496 Introduction to Biomedical Imaging and Image Analysis 12
18551 6 Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design 12
18578 7 Mechatronic Design 12
18758 Wireless Communications 12
18777 Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems 12
18793 Optical Image and Radar Processing 12
18798 Image, Video, and Multimedia 12
18799E Special Topics in Signal Processing: Biometric Recognition 12
18879P Special Topics in Systems and Control: Engineering and Economics of Electric Power Systems 12


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