Graduate Program - Distance Education
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah is pleased to continue our Graduate Distance Education (GDE) Program for the Fall 2008 academic semester. One course will be offered for the Fall 2008 semester (see details on accompanying page). Course offerings are contingent on meeting minimum enrollment requirements (3 students per course). Features of the GDE program include:
- Students will have on-line access to videotaped lectures
- Assignments will be distributed, submitted, and returned electronically
- Students will have the opportunity to correspond with the Instructor and Teaching Assistants via e-mail
- Students may be required to come on campus several times per semester to complete laboratory work (lab requirements vary by class)
- Students may be required to come on campus to take the midterm and final exams (exam requirements vary by class and location)
How to register: Contact your company’s educational liaison or Prof. Cameron Charles
(ccharles@ece.utah.edu) to obtain a registration form, and submit this along with your
payment information (by check or credit card) to:
Arline Sant
Office of Continuing Education
University of Utah
1901 E. South Campus Dr. #1185 (1185 Annex)
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9359
Note: If you are not already enrolled in the ECE MS/ME program, the courses will be taken under non-matriculated status and will be retroactively applied towards your MS/ME degree after you have been admitted to the program. If you have concerns about whether or not you will be accepted to the MS/ME program (e.g., if your undergraduate degree was from another department), please contact Prof. Ajay Nahata
(nahata@ece.utah.edu).
Graduate Distance Education Program: Spring 2009 Courses
ECE 5520: Digital Communications (3 credit hours)
Course Description: Modern communications; probabilistic viewpoint; vector representation of signal; signal spaces; vector channels; additive white Gaussian noise; optimum receivers; maximum-likelihood detection; error probabilities; memoryless modulation methods: PAM, BPSK, M-PSK, FSK, QAM; message sequences; intersymbol interference (ISI); Nyquist signaling; complex baseband models; noncoherent detection.
GDE Requirements: Students will need access to Matlab and Simulink to complete the homework assignments and projects. Exams will be held at the remote location.
Prerequisites: ECE 5510: Random Processes or equivalent
Cost: $1,800
Additional Information: http://span.ece.utah.edu/pmwiki/uploads/Main/syllabus-ece5520-sp08.pdf
ECE 6324: Antenna Theory and Design (3 credit hours)
Course Description: General theory of conduction current antennas; linear antennas including dipoles and monopoles; antenna equivalent impedance; design of AM, FM, TV and shortwave broadcast antennas of one or more elements including ground and mutual impedance effects; matching techniques including lumped, shunt, and series elements, transmission lines and conjugate matching; receiving antennas; antennas used for mobile communication systems and their radiation characteristics; antenna arrays and their design; wave propagation including propagation via ionosphere or troposphere; loop antennas and Yagi-Uda arrays; antenna synthesis for specified radiation patterns. UHF and microwave antennas including corner reflector antennas, helical antennas, theory of aperture antennas including rectangular and circular apertures; broadband log-periodic antennas; microstrip antennas and phased arrays including applications for wireless communication systems; slot antennas, turnstile, horn and parabolic radiators; considerations for radar antennas and communication links. Antenna ranges and measurement techniques.
GDE Requirements: Students will be required to either fabricate a microstrip antenna or visit a local antenna installation. Exams will be held at the remote location.
Prerequisites: ECE 3300: Fundamentals of Electromagnetics or equivalent.
Cost: $1,800
Additional Information: http://www.ece.utah.edu/~oeso/ece5324.html
ECE 6550: Adaptive Filters (3 credit hours)
Course Description: Basics of minimum mean-square and least-squares estimation. Lattice orthogonalization. Stochastic gradient adaptive filters: derivations, performance analyses and variations. Recursive least-squares adaptive filters: fast algorithms, least-squares lattice filters, numerical issues, and performance comparisons with stochastic gradient adaptive filters. Adaptive IIR filters. Fundamentals of adaptive nonlinear filtering. Selected applications.
GDE Requirements: Exams will be held at the remote location.
Prerequisites: ECE 5510: Random Processes and ECE 5530: Digital Signal Processing or equivalents.
Cost: $1,800
Additional Information: Contact Dr. Mathews (mathews@ece.utah.edu) to obtain a copy of the syllabus.