Reviews the basic technologies and materials systems which are technologically important. ELEG302 and ELEG340 or equivalents and ELEG423. ELEG 624 Fundamental Device Principles 3 Introduces fundamental principles of semiconductor devices and derive the operating characteristics of several important device examples. ELEG 625 Optical Fiber Communications 3 Introduces the fundamental aspect of optical fiber communications as well as some advanced topics, such as all optical communications and networks. Topics to be covered include optical fiber structure, charasteristics, and fabrications, wave propagation in dispersive medium, optical sources and coupling, optical detectors, communication systems and advanced system techniques.
Undergraduate students require permission of instructor.
ELEG 633 Image Processing 3 Review of concepts of linear systems and spectral analysis, human visual response, scanning and display of images, Fourier optics, image enhancement and feature extraction, design of digital filters for image processing, 2D fast Fourier transform algorithms and computed tomography. May be cross-listed with MAST633. Requires permission of instructor. ELEG 634 Signals and systems 3 Reviews basic concepts of discrete and continuous time signals, control systems, and linear algebra. Transforms, sampling, aliasing, linear algebra and systems of equations, matrix factorizations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, least squares, and the Cayley-Hamilton theorem are studied.