Undergraduate Courses

Engineering

Antennas (ECE 4114) -- Antenna fundamentals, analyses and design principles, and a survey of antenna types including arrays, wire antennas, broadband antennas, and aperture antennas.

Radio Wave Propagation (ECE 4124) -- Behavior of unguided electromagnetic waves in atmosphere space, urban and indoor environments; path, frequency, and antenna selection for practical communication systems.

Radio Engineering I and II (ECE 4605-4606) -- Amplitude, frequency, and pulse-modulated communication systems, including the effects of noise. Design of radio transmitter and receiver circuits using Y- and S- parameter methods. Circuits include oscillators, radio frequency amplifiers and matching networks, modulators, mixers, and detectors.

Introduction to Signal Processing (ECE 4624) -- An introduction to the analysis, design, and realization of digital filters. Discrete-time signals, linear shift-invariant systems, sampling, discrete Fourier transform z-transform, digital filter design, quantization, finite word length.

Analog and Digital Communication (ECE 4634) -- Theory and practice of analog and digital communications. Design and analysis of amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, and digital communication systems. Signal to noise ratios and bit error rates in noisy channels.

Satellite Communications (ECE 4644) -- Theory and practice of satellite communications. Orbits and launchers, spacecraft, link budgets, modulation, coding and multiple access techniques, propagation effects, and earth terminals.

Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory (ECE 4664) -- Laboratory experiments that deal with the design and measurement of analog and digital communication systems. Concepts include SNR, Modulation Index, PCM, and spread spectrum. Class is designed to run concurrently with ECPE 4634.

Radio Engineering Lab I and II (ECE 4675-4676) -- Laboratory techniques for radio frequencies including the design of amplifiers, oscillators, and a single-side-band receiver. Associated measurements will be used.

Digital Signal Processing Laboratory I (ECE (4684) -- Experiments for design and hardware implementation of digital filters, signal generators, and Fast Fourier Transform signal analysis algorithms. This laboratory also demonstrates aliasing, roundoff and finite wordlength effects, and how to control these. FIR and IIR digital filters, FFT, anti-aliasing filters, quantization and finite wordlength effcts, filter scaling.

Telecommunication Networks (ECE 4984) -- Introduction to telecommunication networks, including digital voice telephony, data networks, and integrated services networks.

Communications

Internet and Contemporary Society (COMM 2984) -- In recent years, the Internet has emerged as a mass communication and commercial medium. This course will examine the Internet along these two dimensions, focusing on its potential impact on society. Topics will include basic technical concepts of the Internet, various ways to connect to the Internet, the Internet Service Provider industry, formation of online communities, and domain name disputes. Students will learn basic Internet skills such as accessing newsgroups, using a chat room, subscribing to a listserv, creating a web site, and file transfer protocol.

New Communication Technology and Society (COMM 4374) -- This course will acquaint students with the new communications environment created by the rapid convergence of computers, telephone, and television. It will include an overview of the contexts within which the convergence occurs, including the digital revolution, the advent of information society, the globalization of communication media, and government deregulation of the communication industry. The course will also examine key technologies and systems that form the backbone of the information society.