ECE 498

Fall 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

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Credit: 1 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.

0 to 4 undergraduate hours. 0 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

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ECE 498 class schedule data for fall 2025
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
79794	Lecture	AL3	5:00PM -7:50PM	M	2015 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Nicol, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Trust Critical Infrastructure Section Info: This course will focus on the trustworthiness of computer and communications technology used to control critical infrastructures such as the power grid, water systems, and manufacturing. It introduces the operational technology (OT) used in these systems and in the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks that use it. It introduces hardware, software, and communication protocols found in these systems, and gives students experience with programming and monitoring them using open-source state-of-the-art simulators of OT systems. The course includes material on operational and regulatory requirements placed on these systems, with respect to processes used to establish and validate safety and cyber-security. It also includes material on “consequence-driven cyber-informed engineering”, which lays out principles for designing critical infrastructures from the beginning of the lifecycle to be trustworthy against failures and cyber-attacks. Restriction(s): Not intended for Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
79772	Lecture	EM3	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	1015 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Stillwell, A Wolhaupter, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Electric Mobility Systems Section Info: : Transportation electrification is foundational to global decarbonization. This course covers electric mobility from foundational physics to system-of-systems energy interactions. We introduce the common system-level components of electric vehicles -- electric propulsion, energy storage, power conversion, drive cycles -- and how they operate together to meet mobility needs. The course focuses on energy linkages, and on modeling and design of system components. Application examples from electric aircraft, passenger cars, trucks, and drones will motivate each topic. Prerequisites: ECE 205 or 210 or equivalent.
47789	Lecture	EM4	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	1015 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Stillwell, A Wolhaupter, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Electric Mobility Systems Section Info: : Transportation electrification is foundational to global decarbonization. This course covers electric mobility from foundational physics to system-of-systems energy interactions. We introduce the common system-level components of electric vehicles -- electric propulsion, energy storage, power conversion, drive cycles -- and how they operate together to meet mobility needs. The course focuses on energy linkages, and on modeling and design of system components. Application examples from electric aircraft, passenger cars, trucks, and drones will motivate each topic. Prerequisites: ECE 205 or 210 or equivalent. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
80080	Online Lecture	EMS	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	n.a.	Stillwell, A Wolhaupter, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Electric Mobility Systems Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
79992	Lecture	MA	4:00PM -5:20PM	MW	3013 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Radhakrishnan, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: CMOS IC Design Section Info: The aim of this course is to provide MEng students with the in-depth analysis and required background to pursue advanced circuits classes. The course is a vital link from undergraduate curriculum to graduate work in analog, digital, and mixed-signal IC design. In addition to mathematical rigor, we will also look at MOSFET based circuits topics from a design intuition point of view. This course is only for MEng students who have not taken ECE 342. Restriction(s): Restricted to MENG:Elec & Computer Eng-UIUC.
80771	Lecture	RCU	4:00PM -5:20PM	MW	4025 Campus Instructional Facility	Roy Choudhury, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Deep Generative Models Section Info: This course develops the foundations of generative models, covering the four main pillars: variational inference (VAE), diffusion models (Diffusion), generative adversarial networks (GAN), and normalizing flows (Flow). Although mostly mathematical, the treatment of topics will be from first principles, often revisiting core undergraduate material (in linear algebra, probability, optimization), and visualizing them in the context of neural networks. Each topic will close with recent research papers and their corresponding applications. Please visit the course website here: https://rrc-uiuc.notion.site/gen-models-fa25
80120	Lecture	RK	8:00AM -9:20AM	TR	1002 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Huang, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Concepts in Computer Org & Des Restriction(s): Restricted to MENG:Elec & Computer Eng-UIUC.