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  • ECE 532: Radar Engineering

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 435, ECE 436, or permission of instructor Fundamentals of microwave radar engineering and radar system analysis. The course covers the radar equation, radar detection theory, noise analysis, radar cross-section, continuous wave and pulsed systems, moving target indicators, pulse compression, radar transmitters and receivers. Also covered are radar systems such as pulsed Doppler radar, synthetic aperture radar(SAR), inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), polarimetric radar and interferometric radar. Applications include target detection, radar remote sensing, satellite oceanography, and terrain mapping.
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  • ECE 533: VLSI Design

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 311; or permission of instructor Design of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI), taught at the transistor level. Computer tools are used to create and simulate integrated circuit layouts. Levels of design automation covered include Full Custom layout, Schematic Driven layout, Standard Cells and fully automated synthesis of HDL code. Required readings from the current literature lead to a formal written report on recent developments in VLSI. Students are required to complete and present at least one project. Some designs may be fabricated.
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  • ECE 535: Analog Integrated Circuit Design

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 413 or ECE 533 or permission of instructor Introduction to the design of CMOS analog integrated circuits (IC’s), with occasional references to bipolar IC’s to make comparisons. Required readings from the current literature lead to a formal written report on recent developments in analog IC’s. Students are required to complete the design of a complex IC and make a class presentation of its design methodology and simulation results.
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  • ECE 536: Applied Computational Electromagnetics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 336 or permission of instructor Numerical techniques for practical applications in electromagnetic scattering, propagation, and radiation. The course reviews fundamentals of electromagnetic field and wave theory and covers all basic classes of computational techniques used in modern applied electromagnetics. Numerical techniques include the method of moments, finite difference method, finite element method, and physical optics. Applications cover static and quasi-static problems, transmission lines, scattering, and antennas.
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  • ECE 537: Antenna Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 336 or permission of instructor Antenna fundamentals, antenna arrays, and basic types of antennas for wireless communication. Mathematical solution of Maxwell’s equations for radiation problems is introduced. Basic antenna parameters are defined and discussed. Electrically small antennas are analyzed. Theory of receiving antennas is presented. Topics in antenna arrays include the array factor, pattern multiplication, multidimensional arrays, and phased arrays. Several types of antennas are studied, including wire and microstrip antennas. This course is dual-listed with ECE 437.
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  • ECE 538: Advanced Antenna Engineering

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 537 or permission of instructor Advanced antenna engineering concepts, with in-depth studies of analysis and synthesis techniques, broadband and aperture antennas, and antenna measurements. The synthesis of arrays and design of broadband antennas are presented. Topics in aperture antennas include Huygens’ equivalence principle, horn antennas, slot antennas, and large reflector antennas. The use of antennas as devices in wireless and radar systems is covered, along with antenna measurements. Integral equations for antenna current distributions are studied.
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  • ECE 539: Electromagnetics of Signal Integrity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 336 or permission of instructor Electromagnetic fundamentals of signal integrity in high-speed, high-density interconnects. Theory of multi-conductor transmission lines (MTLs) is presented. Per- unit-length capacitance, inductance, conductance, and resistance matrices of MTLs embedded in a multi-layer substrate are introduced and evaluated numerically using the method of moments. Time-domain response of MTLs terminated in arbitrary networks is studied. Circuit-analysis models for MTLs in the Laplace-transform domain are introduced. The effects of signal delay, distortion, cross-talk, ringing, multiple reflections, and losses are discussed.
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  • ECE 540: Electromagnetics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 336 or permission of instructor Advanced electromagnetics concepts with in-depth studies of electromagnetic waves, radiation, and scattering. Time-varying electromagnetic fields, electrical properties of matter and electromagnetic theorems are presented. Wave equations are discussed, along with wave propagation, polarization, reflection, and transmission. Multi conductor transmission lines, waveguides, cavity resonators, and radiation and antenna principles are studied. Geometrical optics, diffraction theory, and physical optics are introduced. Topics in scattering include scattering by planar surfaces, cylinders, wedges, and spheres.
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  • ECE 541: Database Systems I

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: Graduate standing and at least a C grade in programming Introduction to database systems from an architectural and functional perspective. The course provides an overview of database systems architecture, computer representation of information, computer data storage, properties of persistent data, database structuring models (relational, network, object, object-relational and entity-relationship), transaction processing models, concurrency control techniques, database and transaction recovery, and security. These concepts will then be explored by examining and comparing the architecture and operations of database systems such as conventional, real-time, temporal, fault tolerant, distributed, heterogeneous, secure and others.
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  • ECE 544: Fault-Tolerant Computing and Reliability Engineering

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    3 hours lecture Prerequisites: ECE 260; MTH 212; MTH 331 or ECE 384; or permission of instructor Techniques for designing and analyzing dependable and fault-tolerant computer-based systems. Topics addressed include fault, error, and failure cause- and-effect relationships; fault avoidance techniques; fault tolerance techniques, including hardware, software, information, and time redundancy; fault coverage; time-to-failure models and distributions; reliability modeling and evaluation techniques, including fault trees, cut-sets, reliability block diagrams, binary decision diagrams, and Markov models. In addition, availability modeling, safety modeling, and trade-off analysis are presented. The course will also include a research paper and investigation of current topics.
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