ECE 598

Spring 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3

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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.

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ECE 598 class schedule data for spring 2023
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
39363	Lecture	AS	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	1015 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Stillwell, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Advanced Power Electronics Section Info: Power electronics are a key enabling technology in renewable distributed energy resources in the electricity grid, vehicle electrification, mobile devices, low-power Internet of Things devices, and data centers. This course covers advanced topics in power electronics, including converter topologies, soft-switching and resonant converters, inductor and transformer design, and hybrid switched capacitor topologies. Application examples from solar, electric machine drives, and power-supply on a chip will be provided to motivate each topic. Prerequisites: ECE 464 or equivalent. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
48568	Lecture	OM	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	3013 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Milenkovic, O	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Molecular Storage/Computing Section Info: The course will introduce a number of DNA- and polymer-based data storage platforms and the relevant mathematical and biological concepts needed to understand their implementation. In the first part of the course we will describe modern synthesis and sequencing platforms and the problem of reconstructing sequences based on evidence sets of the form of substrings, subsequences or substring/subsequence weight. Topics of relevance on the biological side include reviews of Sanger and shotgun sequencing and nanopore sequencing. Topics on the mathematical side include sequence alignment, deBruijn graphs, deep learning methods for base calling, clustering methods for efficient synthesis, k-decks and trace reconstruction. In the second part of the course we will discuss random access and error correction problems, with a special emphasis on PCR-based random access techniques and primer design, coding for shotgun sequencing, coded trace reconstruction and Catalan sequence based encoding methods. In the third part of the course we will discuss DNA editing mechanisms and topological storage, along with molecular computing methods based on strand displacement. Special emphasis will be placed on emerging in-memory computational paradigms such as SIM\|\|DNA. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
44041	Lecture	PS	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	3017 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Song, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Adv. Biomedical Ultrasound Img Section Info: Advanced Topics in Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging. This course will introduce students to the advanced and state-of-the-art topics and methods in the field of biomedical ultrasound imaging. At the beginning of the course, we will provide brief reviews of the fundamentals of biomedical ultrasound. We will then move on to advanced topics including advanced beamforming, quantitative ultrasound, elastography, advanced blood flow imaging techniques, advanced 3D ultrasound imaging, and other advanced topics such as super-resolution imaging, molecular imaging and photoacoustic imaging. We will also introduce ultrasound simulation software including Field II and k-wave, which will be use throughout the semester for homework assignments and final project. Prerequisites: ECE 472 or consent of instructor. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
69496	Lecture	SB1	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	3020 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Bose, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Electricity Markets Section Info: Mathematical Foundations of Electricity Markets. Power system operation is inextricably linked to the operation of electricity markets. In this course, we study the modeling and analysis of competitive electricity markets that facilitate the balance of demand and supply of electricity across a power network. We leverage tools from optimization theory, microeconomics, and game theory to investigate the rationale behind current market designs, how they operate, and analyze the outcomes, given the strategic behavior of the market participants. The course illustrates the complex interaction of mechanism design with the physics of the underlying grid, a feature that distinguishes electricity markets from traditional marketplaces. While bulk of the course focuses on wholesale electricity markets in the US, we conclude with current debates on the creation of retail markets to harness the flexibility of demand side resources. Prerequisites: ECE 490 (Introduction to Optimization). ECE 530 (Analysis Techniques for Large-Scale Electrical Systems) or ECE 573 (Power Systems Operations and Control) is preferred.
48773	Lecture	ZP	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	3017 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Peng, Z	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Wave Physics in Wireless Comm Section Info: Wave Physics in Wireless Communication. Prerequisite: ECE 520 or consent of instructor Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.