Courses (reflecting programs/options beginning September 2013)

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
EECE 210 Principles of Software Design	Design, implementation, reasoning about software systems: Abstraction and specification of software, testing, verification, abstract data types,...	4	Karthik Pattabiraman	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 230 Selected Topics in Biomedical Engineering	Effective communication in a multidisciplinary environment, introduction to emerging areas of biomedical engineering and biotechnology, ethics, and...	1	Robert Rohling	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 251 Circuit Analysis I	The fundamentals of analysis of lumped linear time-invariant circuits; network theorems; operational amplifiers; first order circuits; DC analysis of...	4	Luis Linares Shahriar Mirabbasi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 253 Circuit Analysis II	Phasor analysis and AC three phase power; transfer functions; Bode plots; filters and resonance; Laplace transforms; transformers; two-port networks...	4	Joseph Yan Luis Linares Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 259 Introduction to Microcomputers	Boolean algebra; combinational and sequential circuits; organization and operation of microcomputers, memory addressing modes, representation of...	5	Paul Davies	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 261 Engineering Electromagnetics	Electrostatics, electric currents, dielectrics, capacitance, electrostatic potential, magnetostatics. [2-0-1] MATH 264 will be taught with EECE 261...	2	Carol Jaeger Matthew Yedlin	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 263 Basic Circuit Analysis	Ideal passive elements and sources; Kirchhoff's Laws; DC circuits; natural, and complete response of first order circuits; operational...	3	Carol Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 269 Signals and Systems	Complex numbers, LTI systems, convolution sum, discrete-time Fourier series and transforms, z-transform, sampling, introduction to filtering...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 280 Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratory I	Introduction to oscilloscopes, signal generators and electrical measuring instruments. Experiments in analog and digital logic circuits. Course...	4	Jesús Calviño-Fraga Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 281 Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Studio	Experiments involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, signals and systems, and microcomputers. Final group project requiring oral...	6	Jesús Calviño-Fraga Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 282 Biomedical Engineering Design Studio	Experiments involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, signals and systems, microcomputers, with applications in biomedical...	6	Jesús Calviño-Fraga Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 284 Electronics Laboratory	Design project involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, and microcomputers.	1	Jesús Calviño-Fraga Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
EECE 300 Molecules to Mechanisms	Forces, scaling, thermal, fluidic, and mechanical properties relevant to the design of emerging devices and systems whose basic structures are at...	4	Karen Cheung Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 301 Topics in Nanotechnology and Microsystems	Guest lectures and preparatory theory will highlight emerging devices and systems. Restricted to students admitted to the Nanotechnology and...	2	Karen Cheung Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 310 Software Engineering	Engineering practices for the development of non-trivial software-intensive systems including specification, software design, implementation,...	4	Ali Mesbah	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 314 System Software Engineering	Operating systems principles, real-time systems, principles of concurrent and multi-threaded programming, information structures, introduction to...	3	Roozbeh Mehrabadi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 315 Operating Systems	Introduction to operating systems, their design and their implementation. Process concurrency, synchronization, communication and scheduling. Device...	4	Farshid Agharebparast Luis Linares Roozbeh Mehrabadi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 320 Discrete Structures and Algorithms	Discrete structures, such as trees and graphs, and their properties; introduction to algorithms and algorithmic complexity. Proof of...	4	Sathish Gopalakrishnan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 331 Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation	Theory and experiments involving instruments for general, orthopedic, cardiac and minimally invasive surgery as well as sensors for respiratory,...	3	Carol Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 352 Electronic Materials and Devices	Fundamental aspects of electronic materials such as: semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, magnetic materials, and their applications...	4	Peyman Servati	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 353 Digital Systems Design	Advanced combinational and sequential electronic system design. Hardware specification, modeling, and simulation using hardware description languages...	4	Guy Lemieux Roozbeh Mehrabadi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 355 Digital Systems and Microcomputers	Data representation in digital computers; boolean algebra; the design and optimization and implementation of combinatorial and sequential circuits;...	3	Guy Lemieux Paul Davies	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 356 Electronic Circuits II	Analysis and design of electronic circuits; biasing of and small-signal models for transistors; frequency response of amplifiers; feedback and...	4	Edmond Cretu Nicolas Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 358 Computer Communications	Analysis, design and implementation of computer networks and their protocols. Queuing analysis, data link control, network design, routing, flow and...	4	Vincent Wong	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 359 Signals and Communications	Review of Fourier analysis of signals; convolution and correlation; filtering, sampling, and multiplexing and modulation of signals; introduction to...	4	Cyril Leung Lutz Lampe Vijay Bhargava	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 360 Systems and Control	Continuous time system analysis by Laplace transforms; system modeling by transfer function and state space methods; feedback, stability and...	4	Jane Z. Wang Tim Salcudean	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 361 Signals and Systems Laboratory	Communications and control systems laboratory; analysis and design software; spectral analysis and modulation; servo and regulator control system...	2	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 362 Communications Systems and Networks	Transceiver architectures; link budget analysis; elements of analog and digital communications methods; packet switched networks; multiple access;...	3	Farshid Agharebparast	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 363 Electronic Circuits for Electromechanical Design	Semiconductor fundamentals; modelling of electronis devices including diodes and transistors; design of power supplies, waveform generators and logic...	3	Kenichi Takahata	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 364 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves	Waves and propagation; Maxwell's equations; applications including transmission lines; impedance matching and Smith charts; reflection and...	4	Matthew Yedlin	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 365 Applied Electronics and Electromechanics	Characteristics of semiconductor devices; analog circuits; force and torque production; motor principles and torque-speed characteristics; principles...	3	Nathan Ozog	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 373 Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion and Transmission	Three phase power; transformers and harmonics; magnetic materials and circuits, electromechanical energy conversion; DC machines; rotating magnetic...	4	Juri Jatskevich William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 374 Electronics and Electromechanics	BJT and MOSFET amplifiers; cascode and differential amplifiers; nonideal OP amps; feedback; active filters; permanent magnet. DC motors; variable...	4	Martin Ordonez Roozbeh Mehrabadi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 375 Computer-Based Instrumentation Design Laboratory	Theory and practice of electronic instrumentation for software engineers. Computer-based data acquisition and control techniques. Design project....	6	Paul Lusina Purang Abolmaesumi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 376 Electromechanics	Electromechanical energy conversion; linear actuators; torque/speed of rotating devices; reluctance, stepper, permanent-magnet, induction, brushless-...	3	Juri Jatskevich	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 380 Electrical Engineering Design Studio	Introduction to project management. Problem definition. Design principles and practices. Implementation techniques. Testing and evaluation....	6	David Michelson	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 381 Computer Systems Design Studio	Design and implementation of a hardware platform and software design and implementation at the operating system and application layers. Project...	6	Steve Wilton	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 392 Distributed Energy Systems	Energy systems, high voltage transmission technology, low voltage domestic distribution, advanced energy storage systems, alternative and sustainable...	4	William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
EECE 400 Nanotechnology and Microsystems Project (summer) / This will become the 10 credit Nano/Micro Capstone Design Project in Sept.	EECE 400 (6 credits; last offering May 2013) Project involving design, experimental and/or computer simulation work in an area related to...	6	Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 401 Nanotechnology in Electronics	Topics of special importance to understanding and designing electronic devices in which quantum effects and the discrete nature of matter become...	3	Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 402 Sensors and Actuators in Microsystems	The mechanisms, design, fabrication, and testing of microsensors, actuators, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Course Objectives On the...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 403 Micro/Nanofabrication and Instrumentation Laboratory	Microfabrication methods and nanofabrication techniques. Imaging and characterization of micro and nanostructures. Restricted to students admitted to...	3	Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 404 Nanotechnology and Nature	Examples of nature's fabrication methods, sensors, actuators, energy harvesting, signaling and information processing, and comparisons with...	3	Karen Cheung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 409 Computer Engineering Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world computer engineering problem, provided by industry, research...	10		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 411 Design of Distributed Software Applications	Communications, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency and replication, fault tolerance, object-based middleware, and security technologies...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 412 Introduction to Computer Security	Security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities from technical perspectives; confidentiality, integrity, and hybrid policies; cryptography, access...	4	Konstantin Beznosov	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 415 Requirements Engineering for Software-Intensive Systems	Elicitation, analysis, validation, description, management and traceability of functional and non-functional requirements. Specialized techniques....	3	Ali Mesbah	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 416 Software Testing and Analysis	Different levels of testing including unit, integration, system, performance and regression levels. Requirements flowdown. Problem tracking. Coverage...	4		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 417 Software Architecture	High-level design of software systems, starting from requirements gathering to implementation, architectural styles and idioms, connectors, modeling...	4	Karthik Pattabiraman	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 418 Human Computer Interfaces in Engineering Design	Practical issues for interfaces for modern software. Task analysis, user modeling, usability engineering, representations, metaphors, prototyping...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 419 Software Engineering Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world software engineering problem. Projects are provided by industry,...	10	Paul Davies	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 429 Electrical Engineering Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world electrical engineering problem, provided by industry, research...	10		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 432 Biological Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems	Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology and nanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying and drug...	3	Karen Cheung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 433 Medical Imaging	Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, and X-ray projection imaging. Applications in...	3	Robert Rohling	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 434 Biosignals and Systems	Data acquisition, time and frequency domain analysis, analog and discrete filter design, sampling theory, time-dependent processing, linear...	3	Mehdi Moradi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 435 Biophotonics	Lens theory, light sources and detectors, image resolution and contrast, tissue absorption and scattering, fluorescence, microscopy, spectroscopy,...	3	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 439 Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world biomedical engineering problem, provided by industry, research...	10		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 443 Software Project Management	Advanced project planning, cost estimation and scheduling. Project management tools. Factors influencing productivity and success. Productivity...	4	Philippe Kruchten	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 450 Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects	Time-money relationships; economic analysis of alternatives including the effects of interest rates, inflation, depreciation, taxation and...	3	Ron MacKinnon	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 452 Introduction to Optical Networks	Wavelength division multiplexing, framing techniques, traffic grooming, virtual topology design, routing and wavelength assignment, protection and...	3	Victor Leung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 453 Communication Systems	Review of probability theory, signals and noise, spectral analysis; detection and estimation of signals in the presence of noise; performance...	3	Vikram Krishnamurthy	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 454 Digital Communications	Formulation of the digital communication problem; definition of information, source and channel coding; digital modulation techniques, signal space,...	3		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 455 Error Control Coding for Communications and Computers	Design techniques, including Hamming, BCH, Reed-Solomon, LDPC and convolutional codes, ARQ techniques, and LFSR implementation of encoding-decoding...	3	Vijay Bhargava	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 458 Power System Analysis	Transmission and distribution; phasors, complex power; balanced/unbalanced three-phase operation; symmetrical components, sequence networks; voltage...	4	José Martí	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 459 Power Systems Analysis II	Power system monitoring/control; large networks; automatic generation control; optimum power flow calculations; traveling wave transmission lines;...	4	José Martí	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 460 Control Systems	Relationships between system parameters and system responses for linear control systems. Design specifications for dynamic and steady-state...	3	Guy Dumont	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 465 Microcomputer Systems Design	Microprocessor and system buses; advanced I/O methods; priority interrupts; event/exception handling; serial I/O; computer networking; memory system...	4	Paul Davies	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 466 Digital Signal and Image Processing	DSP fundamentals; image processing; signal representation; digital filtering; statistical estimation; DSP applications.This course is not eligible...	3	Rafeef Abugharbieh	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 469 Electrical Energy Systems Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world electrical energy systems problem, provided by industry, research...	10		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 474 Instrumentation and Design Laboratory	Theory and practice of electrical measurements and electronic instrumentation. Course Outline This is a course on the design of complex engineering...	6	Paul Lusina Purang Abolmaesumi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 476 Computer Architecture	Quantitative principles, instruction set design, methods for performance improvements, pipelining, multiple instruction issue, dynamic scheduling,...	4	Guy Lemieux	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 478 Computer Graphics	Physical and virtual graphics I/O devices. The GKS standard Interactive graphics. Transformations, modelling, rendering algorithms for 2-D and 3-D...	3	Gregor Miller	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 479 Introduction to VLSI Systems	The chip design process using VLSI design styles in CMOS technology. Data path, control and register file design and layout. Clocking schemes, flip-...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 480 Semiconductor Devices: Physics, Design and Analysis	Physics of operation, and design and analysis of semiconductor devices of topical interest, e.g., solar cells, LEDs, high-speed MOSFETs, high-...	3	John Madden	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 481 Digital Integrated Circuit Design	Overview of deep submicron custom ic design. Advanced MOS models. IC fabrication. Timing and power calculations. Interconnect modeling and analysis...	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 482 Optical Waveguides and Photonics	Planar dielectric waveguides; single mode optical fibers; integrated optics waveguides and devices; semiconductor lasers; optical detectors; optical...	3	Nicolas Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 483 Antennas and Propagation	Basic antenna concepts; antennas for low, medium and high frequencies; terrestrial and satellite propagation links; environmental effects on...	3	David Michelson	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 484 Semiconductor Lasers	An introduction to lasers and applications. Theory, modeling, fabrication and performance of semiconductor lasers. Optical communications links....	3	Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 485 Digital Instrumentation for Mechanical Systems	Design of microcomputer-based controllers and instrumentation; basics of digital and analog computer interface hardware; processor structure and...	3	Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 487 Introduction to Robotics	Common manipulator configurations, actuator and sensor technology. Efficient representations and computational methods for real-time microprocessor-...	3	Tim Salcudean	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 488 Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit Design	Design and analysis of analog integrated circuits, with emphasis on CMOS design techniques. Gain stages, opamp design, frequency compensation,...	3	Shahriar Mirabbasi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 489 Microsystems Design	Structured modeling and design practices; multiphysics at microscales; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics; behavioural modeling...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 490T Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering I - INTR BIOPHOTONIC	The course aims at building a solid understanding of optical principles, optical imaging and spectroscopy systems, and their applications to life...	3	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 493 Power Electronics	Power diodes, thyristors, transistors and FETs; analysis of idealized circuits with generalized loads; AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC, AC-AC converters,...	4	Nathan Ozog	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 494 Real-time System Design	Multi-tasking; interrupt-driven systems; task scheduling; schedulability analysis; inter-process communication and synchronization; resource...	4	Sathish Gopalakrishnan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 495 Industrial Drives	Typical mechanical loads; dynamic and static characteristics and analysis of DC and AC drives; microprocessor-based controllers; commercial choices...	3	William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 496 Engineering Project	Project in electrical engineering or computer engineering involving design, experimental and/or computer simulation work as selected from topics...	5	Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 497 Power Systems Protection	Analysis of disturbances, security of power systems, cascading and blackouts; role and impact of protection; transducers and measuring elements;...	3	Charles Henville Mukesh Nagpal	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 498 Optimization of Power System Operation	Application of linear and nonlinear optimization methods in power systems; constrained optimization; optimal power flow; economic dispatch;...	3	Ebrahim Vaahedi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 499 Decision Support Methods in Power Systems Operation	Principles; acceptable regions of operation; energy management systems; load flow methods; static and dynamic security; contingency analysis;...	3	Ebrahim Vaahedi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
EECE 508 Multivariable Feedback Control	Well-posedness and internal stability of feedback systems, performance limitations, uncertainty, LFT representations, robust stability and robust...	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 509 Advanced Microsystems Design	Project-based modeling techniques applied to microsystems; multi-physics at microscale; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics;...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 510 Strategy and Leadership	Strategic frameworks. Organizational change. Team dynamics, effectiveness and decision-making. Personal leadership style and development.	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 511B Software Testing and Maintenance	Course Objective By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Understand software evolution and the need for...	3	Ali Mesbah	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 512 Topics in Computer Security		3	Konstantin Beznosov	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 513 Fault Tolerant Digital Systems	Design and analysis of high-availability and life-critical embedded and commercial systems. Course Outline This course focuses on the design of fault...	3	Karthik Pattabiraman	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 527 Advanced Computer Architecture	Modern processor design with an emphasis on superscalar microarchitecture. Topics include: Quantitative principles, pipelining, memory hierarchy,...	3	Tor Aamodt	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 528 Parallel and Reconfigurable Computing	Matching software parallelism to parallel hardware systems. Flynn's classification; Amdahl's Law; levels of parallelism; extra parallel work;...		Guy Lemieux	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 532 Biomedical Microdevices	Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology andnanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying, and drug...	3	Karen Cheung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 534 Green Nanoelectronic Devices	This course presents fundamentals for materials, operation and design of green energy devices and related technologies. Examples of devices that are...	3	Peyman Servati	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 535 Advanced Biophotonics	Physical principles and design of optical microscopy, optical spectroscopy, and optical imaging devices and systems, and their applications in...	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 542 Computer-Integrated Surgery	Computer-integrated surgery systems such as point-based and intensity-based registration, targeting error estimation, surgical interface design,...	3	Purang Abolmaesumi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 543 Software Project Management	Advanced software project planning. Estimation of cost and value. Risk management. Release planning. Productivity and quality metrics. Management of...		Philippe Kruchten
EECE 544 Medical Imaging	Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography and X-ray projection imaging. Methods of feature detection, segmentation,...	3	Robert Rohling	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 549 Dynamic Modeling of Electric Machines and Controls	Numerical aspects of time-domain simulation are reviewed. Dynamic modeling and analysis of power systems components including transformers, induction...	3	Juri Jatskevich	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 553 Advanced Power Systems Analysis	Computer-oriented analysis of electric power systems with regard to multiphase line constants, steady-state analysis of single and parallel circuits...	3	Ebrahim Vaahedi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 554 Advanced Power System Control and Dynamics	Course Outline: The following topics will probably be covered, based on the interests of the students: ...	3	Hermann Dommel	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 559 Energy Storage Systems - Super Capacitors	Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage. Pumped Storage. Other possible technologies. System modeling and control.	3	William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 560 Network Analysis and Simulation	Solution of lumped and distributed networks. Time-domain solutions, discretization and integration rules. Frequency-domain solutions, FFT and...	3	José Martí	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 562 Statistical Signal Processing with Applications in Wireless Communications and Defence	Stochastic dynamical models, Least Squares, Recursive Least Squares. Kalman, Hidden Markov, particle filters. Maximum likelihood estimation. Sensor...	3	Vikram Krishnamurthy	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 563 Wireless Communication Systems	Characterization of fading channels such as land-mobile, mobile-satellite, cellular and indoor; modem design and performance on fading channels,...	3	Lutz Lampe	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 564 Detection and Estimation of Signals in Noise	Formulation of the detection problem, optimum receiver principles, signal space, maximum likelihood decisions, error performance calculations....	3	Vijay Bhargava	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 565 Communication Networks	Analysis and design of communications networks; network architectures; Internet protocols; routing; scheduling algorithms; medium access control;...	3	Vincent Wong	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 566 Communication and Information Theory	Coding for noisy channels, linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolutional codes, maximum likelihood decoding, trellis coded modulation, measure of...	3	Cyril Leung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 569 Mobile Communications Networks	Network architectures: cellular networks, ad hoc networks; access protocols; radio and network resource management; quality of service; mobility and...	3	Victor Leung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 570 Fundamentals of Visual Computing	Course Structure: The course material will be presented through a combination of formal lectures, group readings and discussions, homework-based...	3	Rafeef Abugharbieh	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 571A Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - ANT PROPGTN II	This course is restricted to students in one of these faculties: GRAD	3	David Michelson	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 571P Topics in Program Analysis and Optimization	Learning Objectives By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Understand the conceptual underpinnings of...		Karthik Pattabiraman	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 571Q Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - Active Silicon Photonics Design	Course Structure/Operation Students propose, model, design, and layout a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) using active silicon photonics technology...		Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 571T Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - BIOPHOTONICS		3	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 573 Micro and Nano Fabrication Technologies	Review of principles and practices of rnicro/nano fabrication technologies. Material and process selection; IC fabrication; silicon micromachining;...	3	Kenichi Takahata	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 574 Self-Tuning Control	Adaptive control; system identification; self-tuning control; design and implementation considerations; algorithm convergence and stability;...	3	Guy Dumont	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 576 Semiconductor Theory for Device Applications	A quantum mechanical treatment of the structure and electronic properties of semiconducting materials and electronic devices; including bandstructure...	3	Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 580 Emerging Electronic Materials and Devices	The physics, fabrication and characterization of organic and carbon nanotube based capacitors, transistors, batteries, electrochromic windows, active...	3	John Madden	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 584 Nanophotonics Fabrication	Design, fabricate, and test a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Modelling and design of optical...	6	Lukas Chrostowski Nicolas Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 585 Electromagnetic Compatibility	History of electromagnetic compatibility; standards and regulations; component models; radiated emissions; conducted emissions; transmission lines...	3	David Michelson	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 586 Wavelets, Principles and Applications in Signal Processing	Concepts, methodologies and tools of signal processing using wavelets, including multi-resolution analysis, wavelet packets, wavelet dictionaries,...	3	Jane Z. Wang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 588 Analog Integrated Circuit Design	Analysis and design emphasizing CMOS implementations. Gain stages, biasing circuits, comparators, sample-and-hold circuits, switched-capacitor...	3	Shahriar Mirabbasi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 592 Architecture for Learning Systems	Symbolic methods used in conventional AI; knowledge representation, search strategies, inference mechanisms in expert system shells. Neural-network...	3	Sarbjit Sarkaria	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 597 Engineering Report	Project report on assigned topic of specialization. For students registered in the M.Eng. program in Electrical or Computer Engineering.	6		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 599 Thesis	For M.A.Sc.	12		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 699 Doctoral Dissertation	For Ph.D.	0		UBC Calendar Info Course Page

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
EECE 210 Principles of Software Design	Design, implementation, reasoning about software systems: Abstraction and specification of software, testing, verification, abstract data types,...	4	Karthik Pattabiraman	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 230 Selected Topics in Biomedical Engineering	Effective communication in a multidisciplinary environment, introduction to emerging areas of biomedical engineering and biotechnology, ethics, and...	1	Robert Rohling	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 251 Circuit Analysis I	The fundamentals of analysis of lumped linear time-invariant circuits; network theorems; operational amplifiers; first order circuits; DC analysis of...	4	Luis Linares Shahriar Mirabbasi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 253 Circuit Analysis II	Phasor analysis and AC three phase power; transfer functions; Bode plots; filters and resonance; Laplace transforms; transformers; two-port networks...	4	Joseph Yan Luis Linares Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 259 Introduction to Microcomputers	Boolean algebra; combinational and sequential circuits; organization and operation of microcomputers, memory addressing modes, representation of...	5	Paul Davies	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 261 Engineering Electromagnetics	Electrostatics, electric currents, dielectrics, capacitance, electrostatic potential, magnetostatics. [2-0-1] MATH 264 will be taught with EECE 261...	2	Carol Jaeger Matthew Yedlin	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 263 Basic Circuit Analysis	Ideal passive elements and sources; Kirchhoff's Laws; DC circuits; natural, and complete response of first order circuits; operational...	3	Carol Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 269 Signals and Systems	Complex numbers, LTI systems, convolution sum, discrete-time Fourier series and transforms, z-transform, sampling, introduction to filtering...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 280 Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratory I	Introduction to oscilloscopes, signal generators and electrical measuring instruments. Experiments in analog and digital logic circuits. Course...	4	Jesús Calviño-Fraga Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 281 Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Studio	Experiments involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, signals and systems, and microcomputers. Final group project requiring oral...	6	Jesús Calviño-Fraga Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 282 Biomedical Engineering Design Studio	Experiments involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, signals and systems, microcomputers, with applications in biomedical...	6	Jesús Calviño-Fraga Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 284 Electronics Laboratory	Design project involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, and microcomputers.	1	Jesús Calviño-Fraga Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 300 Molecules to Mechanisms	Forces, scaling, thermal, fluidic, and mechanical properties relevant to the design of emerging devices and systems whose basic structures are at...	4	Karen Cheung Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 301 Topics in Nanotechnology and Microsystems	Guest lectures and preparatory theory will highlight emerging devices and systems. Restricted to students admitted to the Nanotechnology and...	2	Karen Cheung Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 310 Software Engineering	Engineering practices for the development of non-trivial software-intensive systems including specification, software design, implementation,...	4	Ali Mesbah	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 314 System Software Engineering	Operating systems principles, real-time systems, principles of concurrent and multi-threaded programming, information structures, introduction to...	3	Roozbeh Mehrabadi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 315 Operating Systems	Introduction to operating systems, their design and their implementation. Process concurrency, synchronization, communication and scheduling. Device...	4	Farshid Agharebparast Luis Linares Roozbeh Mehrabadi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 320 Discrete Structures and Algorithms	Discrete structures, such as trees and graphs, and their properties; introduction to algorithms and algorithmic complexity. Proof of...	4	Sathish Gopalakrishnan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 331 Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation	Theory and experiments involving instruments for general, orthopedic, cardiac and minimally invasive surgery as well as sensors for respiratory,...	3	Carol Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 352 Electronic Materials and Devices	Fundamental aspects of electronic materials such as: semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, magnetic materials, and their applications...	4	Peyman Servati	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 353 Digital Systems Design	Advanced combinational and sequential electronic system design. Hardware specification, modeling, and simulation using hardware description languages...	4	Guy Lemieux Roozbeh Mehrabadi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 355 Digital Systems and Microcomputers	Data representation in digital computers; boolean algebra; the design and optimization and implementation of combinatorial and sequential circuits;...	3	Guy Lemieux Paul Davies	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 356 Electronic Circuits II	Analysis and design of electronic circuits; biasing of and small-signal models for transistors; frequency response of amplifiers; feedback and...	4	Edmond Cretu Nicolas Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 358 Computer Communications	Analysis, design and implementation of computer networks and their protocols. Queuing analysis, data link control, network design, routing, flow and...	4	Vincent Wong	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 359 Signals and Communications	Review of Fourier analysis of signals; convolution and correlation; filtering, sampling, and multiplexing and modulation of signals; introduction to...	4	Cyril Leung Lutz Lampe Vijay Bhargava	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 360 Systems and Control	Continuous time system analysis by Laplace transforms; system modeling by transfer function and state space methods; feedback, stability and...	4	Jane Z. Wang Tim Salcudean	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 361 Signals and Systems Laboratory	Communications and control systems laboratory; analysis and design software; spectral analysis and modulation; servo and regulator control system...	2	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 362 Communications Systems and Networks	Transceiver architectures; link budget analysis; elements of analog and digital communications methods; packet switched networks; multiple access;...	3	Farshid Agharebparast	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 363 Electronic Circuits for Electromechanical Design	Semiconductor fundamentals; modelling of electronis devices including diodes and transistors; design of power supplies, waveform generators and logic...	3	Kenichi Takahata	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 364 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves	Waves and propagation; Maxwell's equations; applications including transmission lines; impedance matching and Smith charts; reflection and...	4	Matthew Yedlin	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 365 Applied Electronics and Electromechanics	Characteristics of semiconductor devices; analog circuits; force and torque production; motor principles and torque-speed characteristics; principles...	3	Nathan Ozog	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 373 Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion and Transmission	Three phase power; transformers and harmonics; magnetic materials and circuits, electromechanical energy conversion; DC machines; rotating magnetic...	4	Juri Jatskevich William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 374 Electronics and Electromechanics	BJT and MOSFET amplifiers; cascode and differential amplifiers; nonideal OP amps; feedback; active filters; permanent magnet. DC motors; variable...	4	Martin Ordonez Roozbeh Mehrabadi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 375 Computer-Based Instrumentation Design Laboratory	Theory and practice of electronic instrumentation for software engineers. Computer-based data acquisition and control techniques. Design project....	6	Paul Lusina Purang Abolmaesumi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 376 Electromechanics	Electromechanical energy conversion; linear actuators; torque/speed of rotating devices; reluctance, stepper, permanent-magnet, induction, brushless-...	3	Juri Jatskevich	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 380 Electrical Engineering Design Studio	Introduction to project management. Problem definition. Design principles and practices. Implementation techniques. Testing and evaluation....	6	David Michelson	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 381 Computer Systems Design Studio	Design and implementation of a hardware platform and software design and implementation at the operating system and application layers. Project...	6	Steve Wilton	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 392 Distributed Energy Systems	Energy systems, high voltage transmission technology, low voltage domestic distribution, advanced energy storage systems, alternative and sustainable...	4	William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 400 Nanotechnology and Microsystems Project (summer) / This will become the 10 credit Nano/Micro Capstone Design Project in Sept.	EECE 400 (6 credits; last offering May 2013) Project involving design, experimental and/or computer simulation work in an area related to...	6	Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 401 Nanotechnology in Electronics	Topics of special importance to understanding and designing electronic devices in which quantum effects and the discrete nature of matter become...	3	Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 402 Sensors and Actuators in Microsystems	The mechanisms, design, fabrication, and testing of microsensors, actuators, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Course Objectives On the...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 403 Micro/Nanofabrication and Instrumentation Laboratory	Microfabrication methods and nanofabrication techniques. Imaging and characterization of micro and nanostructures. Restricted to students admitted to...	3	Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 404 Nanotechnology and Nature	Examples of nature's fabrication methods, sensors, actuators, energy harvesting, signaling and information processing, and comparisons with...	3	Karen Cheung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 409 Computer Engineering Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world computer engineering problem, provided by industry, research...	10		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 411 Design of Distributed Software Applications	Communications, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency and replication, fault tolerance, object-based middleware, and security technologies...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 412 Introduction to Computer Security	Security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities from technical perspectives; confidentiality, integrity, and hybrid policies; cryptography, access...	4	Konstantin Beznosov	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 415 Requirements Engineering for Software-Intensive Systems	Elicitation, analysis, validation, description, management and traceability of functional and non-functional requirements. Specialized techniques....	3	Ali Mesbah	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 416 Software Testing and Analysis	Different levels of testing including unit, integration, system, performance and regression levels. Requirements flowdown. Problem tracking. Coverage...	4		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 417 Software Architecture	High-level design of software systems, starting from requirements gathering to implementation, architectural styles and idioms, connectors, modeling...	4	Karthik Pattabiraman	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 418 Human Computer Interfaces in Engineering Design	Practical issues for interfaces for modern software. Task analysis, user modeling, usability engineering, representations, metaphors, prototyping...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 419 Software Engineering Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world software engineering problem. Projects are provided by industry,...	10	Paul Davies	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 429 Electrical Engineering Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world electrical engineering problem, provided by industry, research...	10		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 432 Biological Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems	Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology and nanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying and drug...	3	Karen Cheung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 433 Medical Imaging	Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, and X-ray projection imaging. Applications in...	3	Robert Rohling	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 434 Biosignals and Systems	Data acquisition, time and frequency domain analysis, analog and discrete filter design, sampling theory, time-dependent processing, linear...	3	Mehdi Moradi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 435 Biophotonics	Lens theory, light sources and detectors, image resolution and contrast, tissue absorption and scattering, fluorescence, microscopy, spectroscopy,...	3	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 439 Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world biomedical engineering problem, provided by industry, research...	10		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 443 Software Project Management	Advanced project planning, cost estimation and scheduling. Project management tools. Factors influencing productivity and success. Productivity...	4	Philippe Kruchten	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 450 Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects	Time-money relationships; economic analysis of alternatives including the effects of interest rates, inflation, depreciation, taxation and...	3	Ron MacKinnon	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 452 Introduction to Optical Networks	Wavelength division multiplexing, framing techniques, traffic grooming, virtual topology design, routing and wavelength assignment, protection and...	3	Victor Leung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 453 Communication Systems	Review of probability theory, signals and noise, spectral analysis; detection and estimation of signals in the presence of noise; performance...	3	Vikram Krishnamurthy	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 454 Digital Communications	Formulation of the digital communication problem; definition of information, source and channel coding; digital modulation techniques, signal space,...	3		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 455 Error Control Coding for Communications and Computers	Design techniques, including Hamming, BCH, Reed-Solomon, LDPC and convolutional codes, ARQ techniques, and LFSR implementation of encoding-decoding...	3	Vijay Bhargava	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 458 Power System Analysis	Transmission and distribution; phasors, complex power; balanced/unbalanced three-phase operation; symmetrical components, sequence networks; voltage...	4	José Martí	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 459 Power Systems Analysis II	Power system monitoring/control; large networks; automatic generation control; optimum power flow calculations; traveling wave transmission lines;...	4	José Martí	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 460 Control Systems	Relationships between system parameters and system responses for linear control systems. Design specifications for dynamic and steady-state...	3	Guy Dumont	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 465 Microcomputer Systems Design	Microprocessor and system buses; advanced I/O methods; priority interrupts; event/exception handling; serial I/O; computer networking; memory system...	4	Paul Davies	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 466 Digital Signal and Image Processing	DSP fundamentals; image processing; signal representation; digital filtering; statistical estimation; DSP applications.This course is not eligible...	3	Rafeef Abugharbieh	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 469 Electrical Energy Systems Capstone Design Project	Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world electrical energy systems problem, provided by industry, research...	10		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 474 Instrumentation and Design Laboratory	Theory and practice of electrical measurements and electronic instrumentation. Course Outline This is a course on the design of complex engineering...	6	Paul Lusina Purang Abolmaesumi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 476 Computer Architecture	Quantitative principles, instruction set design, methods for performance improvements, pipelining, multiple instruction issue, dynamic scheduling,...	4	Guy Lemieux	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 478 Computer Graphics	Physical and virtual graphics I/O devices. The GKS standard Interactive graphics. Transformations, modelling, rendering algorithms for 2-D and 3-D...	3	Gregor Miller	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 479 Introduction to VLSI Systems	The chip design process using VLSI design styles in CMOS technology. Data path, control and register file design and layout. Clocking schemes, flip-...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 480 Semiconductor Devices: Physics, Design and Analysis	Physics of operation, and design and analysis of semiconductor devices of topical interest, e.g., solar cells, LEDs, high-speed MOSFETs, high-...	3	John Madden	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 481 Digital Integrated Circuit Design	Overview of deep submicron custom ic design. Advanced MOS models. IC fabrication. Timing and power calculations. Interconnect modeling and analysis...	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 482 Optical Waveguides and Photonics	Planar dielectric waveguides; single mode optical fibers; integrated optics waveguides and devices; semiconductor lasers; optical detectors; optical...	3	Nicolas Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 483 Antennas and Propagation	Basic antenna concepts; antennas for low, medium and high frequencies; terrestrial and satellite propagation links; environmental effects on...	3	David Michelson	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 484 Semiconductor Lasers	An introduction to lasers and applications. Theory, modeling, fabrication and performance of semiconductor lasers. Optical communications links....	3	Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 485 Digital Instrumentation for Mechanical Systems	Design of microcomputer-based controllers and instrumentation; basics of digital and analog computer interface hardware; processor structure and...	3	Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 487 Introduction to Robotics	Common manipulator configurations, actuator and sensor technology. Efficient representations and computational methods for real-time microprocessor-...	3	Tim Salcudean	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 488 Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit Design	Design and analysis of analog integrated circuits, with emphasis on CMOS design techniques. Gain stages, opamp design, frequency compensation,...	3	Shahriar Mirabbasi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 489 Microsystems Design	Structured modeling and design practices; multiphysics at microscales; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics; behavioural modeling...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 490T Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering I - INTR BIOPHOTONIC	The course aims at building a solid understanding of optical principles, optical imaging and spectroscopy systems, and their applications to life...	3	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 493 Power Electronics	Power diodes, thyristors, transistors and FETs; analysis of idealized circuits with generalized loads; AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC, AC-AC converters,...	4	Nathan Ozog	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 494 Real-time System Design	Multi-tasking; interrupt-driven systems; task scheduling; schedulability analysis; inter-process communication and synchronization; resource...	4	Sathish Gopalakrishnan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 495 Industrial Drives	Typical mechanical loads; dynamic and static characteristics and analysis of DC and AC drives; microprocessor-based controllers; commercial choices...	3	William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 496 Engineering Project	Project in electrical engineering or computer engineering involving design, experimental and/or computer simulation work as selected from topics...	5	Joseph Yan	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 497 Power Systems Protection	Analysis of disturbances, security of power systems, cascading and blackouts; role and impact of protection; transducers and measuring elements;...	3	Charles Henville Mukesh Nagpal	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 498 Optimization of Power System Operation	Application of linear and nonlinear optimization methods in power systems; constrained optimization; optimal power flow; economic dispatch;...	3	Ebrahim Vaahedi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 499 Decision Support Methods in Power Systems Operation	Principles; acceptable regions of operation; energy management systems; load flow methods; static and dynamic security; contingency analysis;...	3	Ebrahim Vaahedi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 508 Multivariable Feedback Control	Well-posedness and internal stability of feedback systems, performance limitations, uncertainty, LFT representations, robust stability and robust...	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 509 Advanced Microsystems Design	Project-based modeling techniques applied to microsystems; multi-physics at microscale; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics;...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 510 Strategy and Leadership	Strategic frameworks. Organizational change. Team dynamics, effectiveness and decision-making. Personal leadership style and development.	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 511B Software Testing and Maintenance	Course Objective By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Understand software evolution and the need for...	3	Ali Mesbah	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 512 Topics in Computer Security		3	Konstantin Beznosov	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 513 Fault Tolerant Digital Systems	Design and analysis of high-availability and life-critical embedded and commercial systems. Course Outline This course focuses on the design of fault...	3	Karthik Pattabiraman	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 527 Advanced Computer Architecture	Modern processor design with an emphasis on superscalar microarchitecture. Topics include: Quantitative principles, pipelining, memory hierarchy,...	3	Tor Aamodt	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 528 Parallel and Reconfigurable Computing	Matching software parallelism to parallel hardware systems. Flynn's classification; Amdahl's Law; levels of parallelism; extra parallel work;...		Guy Lemieux	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 532 Biomedical Microdevices	Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology andnanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying, and drug...	3	Karen Cheung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 534 Green Nanoelectronic Devices	This course presents fundamentals for materials, operation and design of green energy devices and related technologies. Examples of devices that are...	3	Peyman Servati	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 535 Advanced Biophotonics	Physical principles and design of optical microscopy, optical spectroscopy, and optical imaging devices and systems, and their applications in...	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 542 Computer-Integrated Surgery	Computer-integrated surgery systems such as point-based and intensity-based registration, targeting error estimation, surgical interface design,...	3	Purang Abolmaesumi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 543 Software Project Management	Advanced software project planning. Estimation of cost and value. Risk management. Release planning. Productivity and quality metrics. Management of...		Philippe Kruchten
EECE 544 Medical Imaging	Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography and X-ray projection imaging. Methods of feature detection, segmentation,...	3	Robert Rohling	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 549 Dynamic Modeling of Electric Machines and Controls	Numerical aspects of time-domain simulation are reviewed. Dynamic modeling and analysis of power systems components including transformers, induction...	3	Juri Jatskevich	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 553 Advanced Power Systems Analysis	Computer-oriented analysis of electric power systems with regard to multiphase line constants, steady-state analysis of single and parallel circuits...	3	Ebrahim Vaahedi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 554 Advanced Power System Control and Dynamics	Course Outline: The following topics will probably be covered, based on the interests of the students: ...	3	Hermann Dommel	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 559 Energy Storage Systems - Super Capacitors	Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage. Pumped Storage. Other possible technologies. System modeling and control.	3	William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 560 Network Analysis and Simulation	Solution of lumped and distributed networks. Time-domain solutions, discretization and integration rules. Frequency-domain solutions, FFT and...	3	José Martí	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 562 Statistical Signal Processing with Applications in Wireless Communications and Defence	Stochastic dynamical models, Least Squares, Recursive Least Squares. Kalman, Hidden Markov, particle filters. Maximum likelihood estimation. Sensor...	3	Vikram Krishnamurthy	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 563 Wireless Communication Systems	Characterization of fading channels such as land-mobile, mobile-satellite, cellular and indoor; modem design and performance on fading channels,...	3	Lutz Lampe	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 564 Detection and Estimation of Signals in Noise	Formulation of the detection problem, optimum receiver principles, signal space, maximum likelihood decisions, error performance calculations....	3	Vijay Bhargava	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 565 Communication Networks	Analysis and design of communications networks; network architectures; Internet protocols; routing; scheduling algorithms; medium access control;...	3	Vincent Wong	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 566 Communication and Information Theory	Coding for noisy channels, linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolutional codes, maximum likelihood decoding, trellis coded modulation, measure of...	3	Cyril Leung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 569 Mobile Communications Networks	Network architectures: cellular networks, ad hoc networks; access protocols; radio and network resource management; quality of service; mobility and...	3	Victor Leung	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 570 Fundamentals of Visual Computing	Course Structure: The course material will be presented through a combination of formal lectures, group readings and discussions, homework-based...	3	Rafeef Abugharbieh	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 571A Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - ANT PROPGTN II	This course is restricted to students in one of these faculties: GRAD	3	David Michelson	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 571P Topics in Program Analysis and Optimization	Learning Objectives By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Understand the conceptual underpinnings of...		Karthik Pattabiraman	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 571Q Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - Active Silicon Photonics Design	Course Structure/Operation Students propose, model, design, and layout a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) using active silicon photonics technology...		Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 571T Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - BIOPHOTONICS		3	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 573 Micro and Nano Fabrication Technologies	Review of principles and practices of rnicro/nano fabrication technologies. Material and process selection; IC fabrication; silicon micromachining;...	3	Kenichi Takahata	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 574 Self-Tuning Control	Adaptive control; system identification; self-tuning control; design and implementation considerations; algorithm convergence and stability;...	3	Guy Dumont	UBC Calendar Info
EECE 576 Semiconductor Theory for Device Applications	A quantum mechanical treatment of the structure and electronic properties of semiconducting materials and electronic devices; including bandstructure...	3	Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 580 Emerging Electronic Materials and Devices	The physics, fabrication and characterization of organic and carbon nanotube based capacitors, transistors, batteries, electrochromic windows, active...	3	John Madden	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 584 Nanophotonics Fabrication	Design, fabricate, and test a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Modelling and design of optical...	6	Lukas Chrostowski Nicolas Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 585 Electromagnetic Compatibility	History of electromagnetic compatibility; standards and regulations; component models; radiated emissions; conducted emissions; transmission lines...	3	David Michelson	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 586 Wavelets, Principles and Applications in Signal Processing	Concepts, methodologies and tools of signal processing using wavelets, including multi-resolution analysis, wavelet packets, wavelet dictionaries,...	3	Jane Z. Wang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 588 Analog Integrated Circuit Design	Analysis and design emphasizing CMOS implementations. Gain stages, biasing circuits, comparators, sample-and-hold circuits, switched-capacitor...	3	Shahriar Mirabbasi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 592 Architecture for Learning Systems	Symbolic methods used in conventional AI; knowledge representation, search strategies, inference mechanisms in expert system shells. Neural-network...	3	Sarbjit Sarkaria	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 597 Engineering Report	Project report on assigned topic of specialization. For students registered in the M.Eng. program in Electrical or Computer Engineering.	6		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 599 Thesis	For M.A.Sc.	12		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 699 Doctoral Dissertation	For Ph.D.	0		UBC Calendar Info Course Page

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