ECE 598

Spring 2013 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 14-May 1

Special Topics in ECE

Credit: 0 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in electrical and computer engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

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ECE 598 class schedule data for spring 2013
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
50848	Lecture	ADG	8:00AM -9:20AM	TR	241 Everitt Laboratory	Dominguez-Garcia, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Dynamic System Reliability Section Info: Topic: Dynamic System Reliability. Prerequisites. ECE 313 and ECE 515 or permission of instructor. There is a wide range of applications in which it is important to to include a model of the system dynamics when assessing overall system behavior in the presence of component faults, and therefore reliability. In this regard, this course gives a system theory view of reliability analysis and design techniques for large-scale and complex systems, building on uncertainty modeling techniques for dynamic systems. Design methods for reliability are discussed, including architecture design; and filter-based fault detection and isolation. Techniques for design optimization are discussed, including analytical methods for optimal redundancy allocation, and sensitivity analysis methods for iterative system design. A wide range of application examples are discussed, including mechatronic systems used in aircraft and automotive; power electronics systems, and electric power systems. Prerequisites. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
59214	Discussion/ Recitation Laboratory Lecture	EO EO EO	3:30PM -5:00PM ARRANGED 3:30PM -5:00PM	R F T	106B6 Engineering Hall Location Pending 106B6 Engineering Hall	Rosenbaum, E Denos, S Rosenbaum, E Denos, S Rosenbaum, E Denos, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Community Outreach for Engineering Researchers. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in the College of Engineering or another science, mathematics, or engineering department on campus. This is a course on outreach that focuses specifically on developing and leading engineering design projects for secondary school students. The course provides an overview of best practices in engineering education and outreach; outreach activities developed by the instructors are provided as specific examples. Additional topics include grant writing, the nature of science and engineering, the educational psychology of middle school students, and diversity and inclusion in public schools. The course includes weekly lectures, discussion sections and a teaching practicum on Fridays in Champaign Unit 4 middle school classrooms. Note that this course will not count toward the minimum 12-hour ECE 500-level coursework requirement for ECE MS students. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
59451	Laboratory Lecture	HK HK	ARRANGED 11:00AM -12:20PM	n.a. TR	Location Pending 106B3 Engineering Hall	Hwu, W Hwu, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Parallel Algorithm Techniques Section Info: Prerequisites: ECE 408/CS 483 or CS 420/ECE 492 or equivalent. Algorithm techniques for enhancing the scalability of parallel software: scatter-to-gather, problem decomposition, binning, privatization, tiling, regularization, compaction, double-buffering, and data layout. These techniques address the most challenging problems in building scalable parallel software: limited parallelism, data contention, insufficient memory bandwidth, load balance, and communication latency. Programming assignments will be given to reinforce the understanding of the techniques. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
56542	Discussion/ Recitation Laboratory	IG IG	5:00PM -5:50PM ARRANGED	M n.a.	241 Everitt Laboratory Location Pending	Jones, D Jones, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Neuroengineering Interdisciplinary Research Project. Prerequisites: ECE 401: Principles of Signal Analysis or Psych 508: Introduction to Systems Neuroscience or equivalents; at least one additional course offering graduate credit from both an engineering and a neuroscience discipline. Student teams consisting of at least one neuroscientist and one engineer will identify, formulate, plan, propose, conduct, evaluate, and document an interdisciplinary research project in the general area of neuroengineering related to audition, imaging, or brain-machine interfaces. (Other areas within neuroengineering may be allowed subject to prior approval by the instructors.) Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
59017	Lecture	JM	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	204 Transportation Building	Makela, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Fundamental electrodynamic processes in near-space environments. Prerequisities: ECE 350; Graduate standing. Lectures and discussions related to fundamental processes important in space sciences including space plasma physics and space weather. Topics include fundamental plasma physics, physics of the sun-earth connection, fundamental processes in the earth?s ionosphere, and advanced ionospheric processes in the earth?s ionosphere including irregularity processes. Prerequisite: ECE 350; graduate standing. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
59635	Laboratory Lecture	SV SV	ARRANGED 11:00AM -12:20PM	n.a. MW	Location Pending 1302 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Vasudevan, S Vasudevan, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Hardware Verification Section Info: Prerequisites: CS 473 or ECE 462 or equivalent (Basic knowledge of discrete structures, algorithms and hardware design). Verification is the biggest bottleneck in hardware and embedded system development utilizing about 70% of time and resources in the system design cycle. This course introduces the most scalable and efficient verification algorithms researched in the past 30 years and used widely in contemporary industry. The course will teach model checking, SAT-based verification, symbolic simulation, compositional verification, BDD-based verification, equivalence checking and abstraction based verification. In the course project, the students will use state-of-the-art tools to specify and verify a real-life system. This course is intended for (1) graduate students looking to pursue research in verification (2) graduate students who want to apply verification to their research (3) graduate students to learn scalable algorithms that can solve complex search problems.????? Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.