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EEGR 557 - Smart Grid and Building Energy Efficiency
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive approach towards smart grid that encompasses sensors, communications technologies, computational ability, control, and feedback mechanisms that effectively combined to create the smart grid system.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 560 - Computer Networks
Three hours.
3 Credits
ISO open systems reference model, protocol layers, TCP/IP, channel coding, data communication concepts, local area network (LAN) topologies and transmission media, queuing theory applied to LAN performance modeling, LAN access techniques, network interconnection, network reliability, and network security.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 562 - Computer Architecture, Networks, and Operating Systems
Three hours.
3 Credits
Quantitative basis of modem computer architecture, processor designs memory hierarchy, and in-put/output methods. Layered operating system structures, process and storage management Layered network organization, network protocols, switching, local and wide area networks. Examples from Unix and the Internet.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 565 - Machine Learning Applications
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. The course explores current applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 570 - Advanced Digital System Design
Three hours.
3 Credits
Introduces alternative means by which a logic system. Reviews logical factors of digital systems and the architecture of FPGAs along with the options and trade-offs for diverse approaches. Small and modest sized design implementations on different FPGA architectures are covered.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 571 - Embedded Hardware Security
Three hours.
3 Credits
Design and implementation of secure embedded hardware, covering cryptographic hardware primitives, cryptographic modules, and trusted platforms. Reverse engineering of embedded hardware using passive and active attack techniques. Countermeasures against reverse engineering.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 575 - Software Engineering: Systems Implementation
Three hours.
3 Credits
Implementation aspects of software engineering; Programming languages; architectural designs; program design; structured programming; peripheral storage devices; I/O programming, debugging and evaluation.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 580 - Advanced Cyber Security
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will provide an advanced study to cyber-security including threats, vulnerabilities, attacks, operating system security, databases, secure software and system development, business, policy and procedures, security management, and legal issues.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 581 - Advanced Network Security
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will provide the advanced study of the security aspects associated with today’s modern computer networks including local area networks and the internet. It includes the fundamentals of network architecture, vulnerabilities, and security mechanisms including firewalls, guards, intrusion detection, access control, malware scanners and biometrics.
Prerequisite(s) EEGR 317
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 582 - Advanced Cryptography
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will provide practical knowledge on a wide range of cryptography mechanisms and will explore their relationship with today’s modern communications and networks. It includes the fundamentals of cryptography, classic and modern encryption, decryption, public and private key structures, digital signature and secure hash functions.
Prerequisite(s) EEGR 482
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 583 - Advanced Security Management
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will provide a background in the many aspects of security management associated with today’s modern communications and networks. It includes the fundamentals of Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Security Policy, Security Operations, Legal issues, Business issues and Secure Systems Development.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 605 - Digital Communications
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides a brief review of signals, probability, stochastic processes and information theory followed by the development of source encoding, modulation systems, optimum receiver design, demodulation systems, and error correction coding.
Prerequisite(s) Probability and Statistics
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 607 - Information Theory
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course presents measures of information, information sources, coding for discrete sources, the noiseless coding theorems, Huffman coding, channel capacity, the noisy-channel coding theorems and applications to gambling and investing.
Prerequisite(s) Probability and Statistics
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 608 - Error Control Coding
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course includes a review of information theory with the theory and design of error detection and correction schemes. Includes block and convolutional codes, interleaving, ARQ schemes, error detection schemes, and a variety of applications on wired and wireless networks.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 610 - Wireless Communications
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course presents current techniques on wireless digital communications, such as wireless channel modeling, channel distortion due to multipath and Doppler, digital modulation and demodulation (MODEM) techniques, and cellular multiple access methods including TDMA, FDMA and CDMA systems.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 612 - Multi User Communications
Three hours.
3 Credits
Review of network architectures using OSI layering strategies. Includes Queueing theory application to various queues; and reservation, polling, and token passing systems. Protocol designs for radio multi-channel networks with various contention strategies. Local area network protocols, performance and strategies.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 614 - Queueing Networks
Three hours.
3 Credits
Addresses the fundamentals of stochastic processes and queuing theory. Includes Poisson processes, Markov chains, renewal processes, tandem queues, networks of queues, priority and bulk queues, computational methods, and simulation. Application and performance with a variety of computer and communications applications.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 615 - High Speed Networks
Three hours.
3 Credits
Introduction to high data rate design and integrated services protocols multi-media low latency applications such as video, voice, and data internet traffic. The QoS techniques for TCP/IP, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Introduction to Routing and Queuing Theory is included.
Prerequisite(s) EEGR 510
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 620 - Digital Image Processing
Three hours.
3 Credits
This is an introduction course on the fundamentals of digital image processing with an emphasis on signal processing. Topics included: image formation, images transforms, image enhancement image restoration, image reconstruction, image compression, image segmentation and image representation.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 622 - Adaptive Signal Processing
Three hours.
3 Credits
Emphasizes the theory and design of finite-impulse response adaptive filters including stochastic processes, Weiner filter, steepest descent, adaptive filters using gradient-methods, analysis of the LMS algorithm, least–squares methods, recursive least squares, and least squares Iattice adaptive filters.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 623 - Pattern Recognition
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course addresses the general pattern classification problem. It includes: statistical decision theory, multivariate probability functions, discriminants, parametric and nonparametric techniques, Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimation, feature selection, dimensionality reduction, transformations, and clustering.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 624 - Detection and Estimation Theory
Three hours.
3 Credits
This is a course on statistical decision theory, modeling of signals and noise, detection of various signals, and statistical estimation theory. Includes decision criteria, hypothesis testing, receiver operating characteristics, detection of signals with unknown parameters, performance measures, and optimum demodulation.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 625 - Optical Communication
Three hours.
3 Credits
Includes the characteristics of light as used in communications systems including propagation of rays in waveguides, scalar diffraction theory, optical information processing systems, quantum statistical communication theory, heterodyning and receivers.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 626 - Optimization/Numerical Methods
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course investigates classical deterministic optimization techniques and stochastic optimization techniques. The classical techniques will include linear and non-linear programming, steepest descent, and Newton-Raphson methods. Stochastic methods will include Robbins-Monro gradient-based stochastic approximation and the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation algorithms.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 633 - Automated Measurements, Devices & Systems
Three hours.
3 Credits
Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of high-frequency measurements and techniques for accuracy-enhanced microwave measurements. Automated network analyzers and high-speed wafer probes are used in conjunction with state-of-the-art calibration techniques. Non-linear modeling of active devices will be introduced.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 634 - Computational Electromagnetics
Three hours.
3 Credits
The finite-element method (FEM), the finite-difference (FD), the finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD), and the method of moments (MoM) are covered. This course will focus on several electromagnetic field equations, such as Laplace’s, Poisson’s, and Helmholtz’s equations, and the related numerical techniques.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 635 - Advanced Electromagnetic Theory
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is an introductory course in electromagnetic theory and applications. Topics include Stokes parameters, Poincare sphere, gyrotropic media, uniaxial media, phase matching, layered media, dielectric waveguides, metallic waveguides and resonators, Cerenkov radiation, Hertzian dipole, equivalence principle, and reciprocity.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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EEGR 636 - Quantum Mechanics
Three hours.
3 Credits
This is a survey course on quantum mechanics that covers Lagrangian and Hamiltonian equations, Schrodinger equation, wave packets, particle in a box, tunneling of particles, Dirac’s description of quantum mechanical states and matrix formulation of quantum mechanics, and perturbation theory.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 637 - Advanced Antenna Theory
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course develops fundamental concepts used to analyze basic antenna systems. Topics include antenna patterns, optimum designs for rectangular and circular apertures, arbitrary side lobe topography, discrete arrays, mutual coupling, and feeding networks.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 640 - Advanced Solid State Electronics
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will focus on the fundamentals of solid-state physics as it applies to electronic materials and devices. Heterostructures, superlattices and quantum wells will be covered. Additionally, various material growth and device fabrication techniques will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 642 - Semiconductor Fabrication Technology
Three hours.
3 Credits
Overview of the fundamental principles of semiconductor fabrication technology is presented. Topics include basic material review; methods of oxidation; methods of deposition/diffusion and ion implantation, principles of epitaxial deposition/ growth, photolithographic technology, chemical vapor deposition/nitride, silicon dioxide, and metallization technology.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 643 - Advanced Semiconductor Characterization
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is an advanced approach to the measurement of physical principles underlying semiconductor device operation. Topics include measurement techniques of physical parameters in semiconductor material and device structures: impurity profiling, carrier transport, and deep and shallow level trap characterization.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 645 - Optical Engineering
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course presents the engineering concepts to understand and evaluate optical systems using practical examples of optical instruments and electro-optical systems. Other topics include polarization, interference, diffraction, and optical properties of crystals, thin-films, optical resonators, guided waves, modulators and detectors.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 646 - Optical Communication
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of communication systems, light and electromagnetic waves, optical fibers, lasers, LED, photodetectors, receivers, optical fiber communication systems.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 650 - Physical Layer Hardware Design
Three hours.
3 Credits
Course focuses on the development of embedded systems for wireless communications. The course requires the students to design DSP cores for wireless protocols. The student will learn how to use tools, frameworks, and hardware platforms for PHY waveform design.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 660 - Computer Architecture and Design
Three hours.
3 Credits
Principles and advanced concepts and state-of-the-art developments in computer architecture: memory systems, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, storage systems, multiprocessors, relationships between computer design and application requirements, cost/performance tradeoffs, and architectures for DSP applications.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 662 - Parallel Processing Architecture
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course addresses fundamental issues in the design and use of large-scale multiprocessors. Both software and hardware issues are addressed. Topics include parallel applications, parallel programming languages, design of multiprocessors, parallelism, memory system design, and interconnection networks.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 664 - Introduction to Parallel Computation
Three hours.
3 Credits
Motivation for parallel processing, technological constraints, complexity, performance-characterization, communications, interconnection networks, memory systems, on-line visualization, coarse and fine-grain processor design, finite-difference and finite-elements, parallel optimization and transformation algorithms, selected signal and image processing applications, and selected architecture.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 666 - Parallel Algorithms
Three hours.
3 Credits
The design and analysis of efficient algorithms for parallel computers. Fundamental problem areas, such as sorting, matrix multiplication, and graph theory, are considered for a variety of parallel architectures.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 668 - Topics in Networking and Network Applications
Three hours.
3 Credits
Discussion on how existing and emerging data communication technologies: LAN and WAN Technologies, Bridging, Switching, Routing, Networking Protocols, Management, Design and Security as well as Multicast, Videoconferencing, Multimedia Collaboration Technologies and Audio/Video compression and coding.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 670 - DSP VLSI Design
Three hours.
3 Credits
DSP VLSI architecture and algorithms; design strategies; design methodologies; system-level design; area/delay/power trade-offs; high performance systems; multi-chip modules; low-power design; hardware/software co-design; design for testability, design for manufacturability; algorithm, architecture, and component design for adaptive computing systems.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 672 - Computer Graphics
Three hours.
3 Credits
Overview of computer graphics with emphasis on high performance hardware and software techniques to model, render and display computer imagery. Topics include: geometric and raster algorithms, curves and surfaces, object hierarchy, display technologies, video controllers and processors, and input devices.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 675 - Computer Vision
Three hours.
3 Credits
Image formation and visual perception. Images, line structure, and line drawings. Preprocessing, boundary detection, texture, and region growing. Image representation in terms of boundaries, regions, and shape. Three-dimensional structures and their projections. Analysis, manipulation, and classification of image data.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 677 - Object Oriented Analysis and Design Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Embedded Software
Three hours.
3 Credits
Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Embedded Software. Current techniques in software engineering with topics selected from economics, reusability, reliable software, program analysis, reverse engineering, CASE tools, automatic code generation, and project management techniques.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 678 - Network Security
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will provide a background in aspects of security associated with the protection of computer networks It includes Network attacks and advanced topics in vulnerabilities, networks security management, firewalls, guards, intrusion detection, access control, malware scanners and biometrics.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 679 - Security in Network and Link Applications
Three hours.
3 Credits
Development of advanced cryptographic elements for internet applications. Advanced number theory, cryptography, Public and Private keys, Elliptic Curves, IPSEC and TLS applications, Quantum cryptography, quantum computing, Bitcoin.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 680 - Switching Theory High Speed Networks
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course reviews the development and performance of state-of-the-art switching architectures of broadband networks. Of particular interest will be networks based on the ATM standard for flexibility in providing integrated transmission of sound, image and data signals.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL SPRING
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EEGR 682 - Design Patterns of Object Oriented Software Systems
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to the principles of design patterns applied to the design of complex systems. It covers foundational patterns, creational pattern types, structural pattern types, behavioral pattern types, and applications of design patterns.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 684 - Machine Learning Algorithms
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to the principles of machine learning to solve complex computational engineering problems. Topics to be covered include neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and swarm intelligence.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 695 - Discrete-Time Control Engineering
Three hours.
3 Credits
Design of controllers for discrete-time systems, with emphasis on linear sampled-data control. Single-loop digital controllers. Discrete-time state space design. discrete-time optimal control; dynamic programming, H-2 and H infinity optimal linear sampled-data control, realization of microcomputer real-time control systems.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 710 - Wireless Communications II
Three hours.
3 Credits
This is an advanced topic in wireless including: wireless networks, spread spectrum, wireless protocols, LTE/5G cellular, OFDM, and MIMO techniques . Applications include cellular, wireless LAN, ad hoc networks, and wireless internet.
Prerequisite(s) EEGR 610
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 715 - Advanced Topics in Communications
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 720 - Advanced Topics in Signal Processing
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 722 - Advanced Topics in Image Processing
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 725 - Advanced Topics in Control Theory
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 730 - Special Topics in Microwave Engineering
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 732 - Special Topics in Electromagnetics
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 740 - Special Topics in Solid State and Optical Electronics
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 742 - Special Topics in Microelectronics
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 760 - Special Topics in Computer Engineering
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will address selected advanced topics on this subject that are of interest to the students and instructor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 780 - MSU/JHU Engineering Education Study
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will facilitate educational exchange between students at Morgan State University and Johns Hopkins University.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 788 - Seminar I
One hours.
1 Credits
First part of an advanced seminar course taken during the first two semesters of the Master of Engineering program in which students from different engineering disciplines (Civil, Electrical, and Industrial Engineering) work together to identify and solve problems.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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EEGR 789 - Seminar II
One hours.
1 Credits
Second part of an advanced seminar course taken during the first two semesters of the Master of Engineering program in which students from different engineering disciplines (Civil, Electrical, and Industrial Engineering) work together to identify and solve problems.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered SPRING
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EEGR 790 - Independent Study
Two hours.
2 to 6 Credits
The course of Independent Study is a program of research consisting of directed reading and/or laboratory work under the direction of a graduate faculty member. This course can be taken for 2 to 6 credits consistent with the proposed effort, and this course is repeatable up to a maximum of 6 credits.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 793 - Master’s Pre-Candidacy/Project Guidance
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a master’s graduate student engaged in study prior to the achievement of master’s candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or for a thesis proposal defense enroll in this course. Additionally, students needing additional time to complete a Master’s Project enroll in this course after initial enrollment in the appropriate Master’s Project course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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EEGR 794 - Scholarly Project
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides the student with an opportunity to independently engage in analysis and design for an electrical engineering problem under the guidance of a faculty advisor. This course should be taken in the final semester.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 795 - Project Report
Three hours.
3 Credits
Project Report allows students to learn how to prepare and conduct a real project. This course emphasizes the continued analysis and the design of a specific electrical engineering problem under the guidance of a faculty advisor. The student will work on the approved project under the supervision of a faculty advisor and learn how to conduct and solve a real world problem. This course emphasizes the continued analysis and the design of a specific electrical engineering problem under the guidance of a faculty advisor, and culminates in a final report.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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EEGR 797 - Thesis Guidance
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a master’s student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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EEGR 799 - Thesis Defense
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course allows master’s students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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EEGR 993 - Pre-doctoral Candidacy
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a doctoral student as a full-time student engaged in study prior to the achievement of doctoral candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or preparing for a proposal defense enroll in this course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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EEGR 997 - Dissertation Guidance
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a doctoral student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the dissertation. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) EEGR 998
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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EEGR 998 - Dissertation Defense
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course allows doctoral students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the dissertation has been completed. After gaining approval of the dissertation chairperson and committee, the dissertation is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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ELED 521 - Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle School
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to give teachers and administrators an overview of social studies innovations, trends, and programs at the K-8 grades. The focus will be on the meanings and implications of the content of social studies materials.
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ENGL 501 - Materials and Methods of Research in Literature and Writing
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course of lectures on and exercises in bibliographical research is intended to help the student to develop effective techniques of literary study and satisfactory skills in the organizing and writing of scholarly literary papers.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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ENGL 509 - Romanticism
Three hours.
3 Credits
This seminar consists of intensive study of selected Romantic writers such as Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 510 - Poetry Writing I
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course explores poetry writing in a workshop setting. Traditional forms as well as free verse and contemporary experimental rhythms are used. Elements of metaphor, rhythm, tone, voice, and structure are considered.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 511 - Advanced Poetry Writing II
Three hours.
3 Credits
Students write and revise poems in a workshop setting. Knowledge of traditional forms and the poetry writing process is assumed. More complex issues of voice, metaphor, and symbol are pursued, as well as distinctions between mimetic and narrative modes of poetry.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 512 - Short Fiction Writing I
Three hours.
3 Credits
Students write and revise short stories in a workshop setting. Elements of plot, character, dialogue, conflict and closure are learned, largely from the perspectives of the Western short story. Emphasis is given to character, action, and integration of story elements.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 513 - Collaborative Television Screenwriting
Three hours.
3 Credits
Simulating the table work of staff writers, editors, and producers, this course requires students to work as a collaborative unit: pitching and outlining episodes of half-hour and 1-hour episodic television, including animated series. Students will also have the opportunity to create pilots for half-hour and 1hour episodic series.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 514 - Advanced Fiction Writing II
Three hours.
3 Credits
In this advanced course, students write and revise short stories in a workshop setting. In addition to the basic elements of plot, character, conflict, and closure, emphasis is placed on setting, theme, style, and the subtle question of the writer’s voice. Students are encouraged to use experimental forms and to write longer stories.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 515 - African American Poetic Forms
Three hours.
3 Credits
Students write fiction and poetry using forms rooted in African American literature, music (especially the blues and jazz), and spoken word. Emphasis is given to the call-and-response form within African American expression, and students are encouraged to experiment with musical values in their writing.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 516 - Advanced Creative Writing Projects
Three hours.
3 Credits
Special themes, topics, or forms are pursued in a workshop designed for advanced writing students who are committed to careers as professional creative writers. Projects may include a series of interrelated short stories, a novella, or a novel. An effort is made to help each student complete a work suitable for publication.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 517 - The Young Creative Writer
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is a seminar for creative writing teachers which explores issues of the creative imagination as these issues apply in particular to the developing artistic talent of adolescents, especially the question of how to nurture the use of such creative writing devices as metaphorical language and kinesthetic rhythms.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 518 - The Literary Magazine
Three hours.
3 Credits
This computer lab course on desktop publishing is designed for editors and teachers of writing. It covers the entire process of producing a literary magazine, from writing early drafts of prose and poetry, to layout, graphic design, editing, publishing, promoting, and distribution of the literary magazine.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 519 - American Transcendentalism
Three hours.
3 Credits
This seminar is primarily an examination of the achievements and influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and other Transcendentalists, as assessed through their major books, poems, and essays; biographies; and/or selected critical studies.
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 521 - Modern Drama
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course explores in-depth the representative works of major contemporary American and continental playwrights. Each student is required to pursue a corollary research project.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 523 - Story Analysis and Script Coverage
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course introduces the academic study of film as an art form different from literature with an emphasis on cinematic literacy and film aesthetics through analysis from a number of critical perspectives. Research also includes collaborative multimedia projects.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 530 - American Modernism and Post-Modernism
Three hours.
3 Credits
The study of American literature from 1914 to the 1980s with emphasis on American Modernist and PostModernist writers such as Cather, Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Morrison, Pynchon, Reed, and Toomer.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 531 - 20th Century American Fiction
Three hours.
3 Credits
This seminar treats in detail selected works by Dreiser, Ellison, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, James, Morrison, Wharton, and Wright, or by authors of comparable significance.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 532 - 20th Century British Fiction
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course consists of selected works by British writers such as Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Waugh, and Woolf, or by authors of comparable significance.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 533 - The Screenplay
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course emphasizes the structural analysis of feature films and development of the professional screenwriter’s vocabulary for constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing their own work. An original feature-length screenplay will be developed and written as a first draft. The course also examines the business of screenwriting.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 534 - Chaucer
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides in-depth examination of the works of Chaucer other than The Canterbury Tales. It will concentrate on Troilus and Criseyde and other works in the Romance tradition.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 541 - Shakespeare
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course focus on Shakespeare’s literary output, will devote time to the viewpoints and insights of recent scholarship, and will afford each member of the class an opportunity to examine in detail a specific problem in Shakespeare studies.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 543 - Factual and Fictional Adaptation
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to demonstrate the process of developing a dramatic story line from a factual or fictional source. Students are required to develop and adapt their own original work, or work with no copyright restrictions from literature or other artistic forms, to a short or long form screenplay.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 551 - Modern Literary Criticism
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course deals with the major schools of modern criticism, with some attention to the application of critical principles to selected literary works.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered SPRING
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ENGL 553 - Comedy Writing
Three hours.
3 Credits
An intense and accelerated course in planning, writing, and rewriting comic scripts, this seminar expands the study of verbal and visual techniques through research, screenings, and analysis of contemporary comedy, including animation. Students are required to develop and pitch original show concepts or episodes of established half-hour “live action” and animated series for review and feedback by class members, the instructor, and invited guests.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 555 - Writing and Producing the Documentary
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the techniques, objectives, and procedures of researching, writing and producing corporate film, video, and electronic media for business, education, and non-profits, including commercials, social marketing, public service announcements (PSAs), and interactive media. Collaborative problem solving is required in the completion class projects.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 556 - Film and Electronic Media for Business and Non-Profits
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the techniques, objectives, and procedures of researching, writing, and producing video and electronic media for business, education, and non-profits.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 561 - Introduction to Linguistics
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides students with a general orientation to the structural features of language (e.g., phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse analysis). In addition, students are introduced to such topics as language acquisition, language processing, and brain and language behavior.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered SPRING
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ENGL 563 - Advanced Dramatic Writing
Three hours.
3 Credits
Focusing on the hour drama for television, this course examines dramatic choices and possibilities in successful scripts. Students complete a first draft and one script revision; major scenes are analyzed in class – emphasizing character, four-act structure, dialogue, and narrative development.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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