Electronics/Optics Concentration | Communications, Signals, Systems Concentration
Electrical Engineering Concentrations and Electives
In addition to completing the courses required for both concentrations, electrical engineering majors must complete four elective courses chosen from the lists below. Students pursuing the Electronics/Optics concentration must choose at least three courses from the Electronics/Optics courses listed below. Students pursuing the Communications, Signals and Systems concentration must choose at least three courses from the Communication and Signals courses listed below.
Certain graduate-level courses as well as those courses taught in conjunction with graduate courses may also be used to fulfill an elective requirement as listed below. No course may be counted twice.
ECE 183 can be taken as an elective course with the approval of the undergraduate director.
Design Elective: One of the four concentration courses chosen must include at least one of the following design electives ECE 118, ECE 157 & ECE 157L, ECE 121, and ECE 173. This course must be taken before the first capstone course ECE 129A.
Electronics/Optics Concentration Courses
- ECE 104 Bioelectronics
- ECE 115 Introduction to Solid Mechanics
- ECE 118 Introduction to Mechatronics
- ECE 121 Microcontroller System Design
- ECE 130/L Introduction to Optoelectronics and Photonics
- ECE 136 Engineering Electromagnetics
- ECE 141 Feedback Control Systems
- ECE 145 Estimation and Introduction to Control of Stochastic Processes
- ECE 157/L RF Hardware Design
- ECE 163 Introduction to Small-Scale UAV Theory and Practice
- ECE 167 Sensing and Sensor Technologies
- ECE 172 Advanced Analog Circuits
- ECE 173 High-Speed Digital Design
- ECE 175/L Energy Generation and Control
- ECE 176/L Energy Conservation and Control
- ECE 177/L Power Electronics
- ECE 178 Device Electronics
- ECE 180J Advanced Renewable Energy Sources, Storage, and Smart Grids
- ECE 183 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering
- ECE 185 Introduction to the US Electricity Industry
- ECE 193 Field Study
- ECE 198 Individual Study or Research
- ECE 201 Introduction to Nanotechnology
- ECE 203 Nanocharacterization of Materials
- ECE 215 Models of Robotic Manipulation
- ECE 221 Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits
- ECE 230 Optical Fiber Communication
- ECE 231 Optical Electronics
- ECE 241 Introduction to Feedback Control Systems
- ECE 242 Applied Feedback Control
- ECE 245 Estimation and Introduction to Control of Stochastic Processes
- ECE 275 Energy Market, Policy, and Modeling
Lecture/lab combinations count as one course. Each of the ECE 183, ECE 193, and ECE 198 courses can be taken only once as an elective course.
(ECE 130 and ECE 230), (ECE 141 and ECE 241), and (ECE 172 and ECE 221) are undergraduate and graduate courses, and from each pair of classes only one can be taken for this program.
Communications, Signals, and Systems Concentration Courses
- ECE 118 Introduction to Mechatronics
- ECE 130/L Introduction to Optoelectronics and Photonics
- ECE 136 Engineering Electromagnetics
- ECE 141 Feedback Control Systems
- ECE 145 Estimation and Introduction to Control of Stochastic Processes
- ECE 152 Introduction to Wireless Communications
- ECE 153 Digital Signal Processing
- ECE 163 Introduction to Small-Scale UAV Theory and Practice
- ECE 183 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering
- ECE 193 Field Study
- ECE 198 Individual Study or Research
- ECE 230 Optical Fiber Communication
- ECE 215 Models of Robotic Manipulation
- ECE 237 Image Processing and Reconstruction
- ECE 241 Introduction to Feedback Control Systems
- ECE 242 Applied Feedback Control
- ECE 243 System Identification
- ECE 244 Digital Control
- ECE 245 Estimation and Introduction to Control of Stochastic Processes
- ECE 250 Digital Signal Processing
- ECE 251 Principles of Digital Communications
- ECE 252 Wireless Communications
- ECE 253/CSE 208 Introduction to Information Theory
- ECE 255 Error Control Coding
- ECE 256 Statistical Signal Processing
- CSE 150 Introduction to Computer Networks
Lecture/lab combinations count as one course. Each of the ECE 183, ECE 193 and ECE 198 courses can be taken only once as an elective course.