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ECN 6330 - Applied Econometrics
3 credits
Provides graduate-level introduction to applied regression tools, including: simple and multivariate regression analysis; linear, nonlinear, and qualitative dependent variable models; distributed lags; seemingly unrelated regression; and model specification and validation tests.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Background in statistics and calculus
Cross-listed as: APEC 6330 .
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ECN 6970 - Thesis Research
1-9 credits
This course involves Master’s-level research.
Repeatable for credit.
Pass/Fail only.
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ECN 6990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement
1-9 credits
This course involves Master’s-level advisement.
Repeatable for credit.
Pass/Fail only.
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ECN 7130 - Microeconomic Theory I
3 credits
Provides a rigorous introduction to graduate-level microeconomic theory. While the specific focus is on the theoretical construct of graduate-level microeconomic models, the broad objective of the class is to lay the foundation for empirical applications in microeconomics. To meet this broad objective, the course covers theory of the firm, consumer theory, market structure, theory of public goods and externalities, and welfare economics. A.
Cross-listed as: APEC 7130 .
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ECN 7230 - Macroeconomic Theory I
3 credits
Lays a foundation of advanced macroeconomic analysis, integrating theory, data, and computational methods. Special attention given to real-world issues, with an emphasis on how economists use macro models and data to improve business and public policy decisions. Topics covered include neoclassical and endogenous growth theories, real business cycle and new Keynesian theories of economic fluctuations, monetary theory, macroeconomic policy, and open-economy macroeconomics.
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ECN 7240 - Macroeconomic Theory II
3 credits
Extends the foundations of ECN 7230 with a more in-depth look at the theory and computational aspects of various models of economic growth and business cycles.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECN 7230 and ECN 7360 /APEC 7360
Cross-listed as: APEC 7240
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ECN 7310 - Econometrics I
3 credits
Begins with a review of probability and statistics. Remainder of course is spent discussing the Classical linear regression model, least squares and maximum likelihood estimation, finite and asymptotic sample properties, inference, prediction, and nonlinear optimization.
Cross-listed as: APEC 7310
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ECN 7320 - Econometrics II
3 credits
Extension of ECN 7310 , covering topics such as nonspherical disturbances, panel data, simultaneous equations, time series and distributed lag models, and limited and qualitative dependent variable models.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECN 7310 /APEC 7310
Cross-listed as: APEC 7320 .
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ECN 7350 - Mathematical Economics I
3 credits
Includes linear equations, matrix algebra, multivariate calculus, static optimization, comparative static analysis, constrained optimization, and Kuhn-Tucker conditions.
Cross-listed as: APEC 7350 .
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ECN 7360 - Mathematical Economics II
3 credits
This course extends the presentation of ECN 7350 by covering applications of constrained optimization, the envelope theorem and applications, differential equations, dynamic economics, and optimal control.
Cross-listed as: APEC 7360
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EDUC 0100 - Strategies for Reading
1-3 credits
This is a practical course with major emphasis on improvement of reading, writing, and comprehension skills that are essential for academic success. It is a remedial class not carrying USU or transfer credit. A remedial fee is required.
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EDUC 1000 - Teacher Assistant Experience
1-3 credits
For education students. Designed to familiarize them with the teaching role and to assist cooperating teachers. Classroom experiences in early childhood, elementary, or secondary education available while assisting a certified teacher in a variety of settings.
Prerequisite/Restriction: or
Campus: USU Eastern only
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EDUC 1005 - Teacher Assistant Experience
1-3 credits
For education students. Designed to familiarize them with the teaching role and to assist cooperating teachers. Classroom experiences in early childhood, elementary, or secondary education available while assisting a certified teacher in a variety of settings.
Prerequisite/Restriction: or
Campus: USU Eastern only
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EDUC 1020 - Career Exploration I
2 credits
This Aggies Elevated course helps students explore career options through videos, printed materials, and personal contact with professionals and vocational experts. Activities focus on equipping students with skills and information used in job-hunting, interviewing, resume preparation, and job applications.
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EDUC 1030 - Orientation to Adult Learning & Independent Living
3 credits
This Aggies Elevated course provides supplemental instruction and support to students as they develop independent living skills and navigate life as a USU student. Topics include problem-solving, conflict resolutions, conversations, doing household chores, meeting new people, navigating campus, etc.
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EDUC 1040 - Career Exploration II
3 credits
This course provides students with practical skills necessary for writing resumes, filling out job applications, searching for jobs, and interviewing. Students have hours of personal contact with professionals and vocational experts guiding the students in choosing a career path.
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EDUC 1050 - Self-Determination and Self-Management Skills
2 credits
This Aggies Elevated course provides basic self-management and self-determination skills, contributing to personal effectiveness in the workplace, school, and independent living. This course addresses understanding differences among people, requesting accommodations, expressing preferences, making informed choices, goal-setting, disability disclosure, and self-advocacy.
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EDUC 1800 - Native American Education
3 credits
Examines Native American education in both traditional and historical context. Forms will be given to strategies designed to help Native Americans succeed in education.
Campus: USU Eastern only
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EDUC 2100 - Career Related Social Skills
2 credits
This Aggies Elevated course provides students with social skills necessary for keeping a job. These skills include following instructions, asking questions, responding to criticism, communicating assertively, interviewing, asking for accommodations, and having appropriate conversations in the workplace.
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EDUC 2110 - Work Internship
3 credits
Students combine on-the-job learning experiences with related course work, allowing them to document and accumulate work experience in an area of interest to be used in pursuit of future careers. Some students may be offered full-time employment upon graduation.
Pass/Fail only.
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EDUC 2120 - Navigating Adulthood
2 credits
Students apply problem-solving and decision-making skills as they look for housing, discuss potential employment, set a budget, and make future goals. Students discuss sensitive topics, including building healthy relationships, safe sex, and other vulnerabilities students with disabilities may face.
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EDUC 2977 - Cooperative Education
1-3 credits
Provides supervised on-the-job training in education. Students meet with the instructor/coordinator periodically during the course to determine and evaluate learning objectives, hours to be worked, and credit.
Prerequisite/Restriction: or ; and instructor permission
Repeatable for credit
Campus: USU Eastern only
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EDUC 2988 - Special Problems
1-3 credits
Individual, departmental work experiences designed and approved by the instructor.
Repeatable for credit
Campus: USU Eastern only
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EDUC 5000 - Senior Honors Seminar
2 credits
For students in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services to explore an honors interdisciplinary theme selected by the Honors Committee as a culmination of an honors experience.
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EDUC 5560 - Special Topics
0.5-4 credits
Field-based program focusing upon characteristics of effective teaching methodologies, teaching performance, curriculum decision making, value guidelines, and the characteristics of the learner.
Cross-listed as: EDUC 6560 and TEAL 5560 /TEAL 6560 .
Repeatable for credit.
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EDUC 6010 - Introduction to Program Evaluation: Evaluation Models and Practical Guidelines
3 credits
Alternative approaches and practical guidelines for conducting evaluation studies. Through case studies and simulations, addresses impact of social, political, and ethical issues on evaluation.
Cross-listed as: PSY 6010 .
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EDUC 6040 - Applied Research Methods
3 credits
Applied introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and designs used in educational, social and health sciences. Coverage of research ethics, literature searches and critiques, components of research studies, reliability and validity, APA format, and communication of research results.
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EDUC 6050 - Applied Statistical Analysis
3 credits
This is an applied introduction to statistical methods commonly used in educational, social, and health sciences. The course covers data types, database creation, and data exploration and visualization. It also includes the use of statistical software to compute descriptive and inferential statistics including correlation, regression, group comparisons (t-tests, ANOVA), and categorical methods.
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EDUC 6540 - Data-Based Decision Making for School Leaders
3 credits
Prepares prospective school leaders to conduct research, as well as to collect and analyze data for decision making and program evaluation in schools.
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EDUC 6560 - Special Topics
0.5-4 credits
Field-based program focusing upon characteristics of effective teaching methodologies, teaching performance, curriculum decision making, value guidelines, and the characteristics of the learner.
Cross-listed as: EDUC 5560 and TEAL 6560 /TEAL 5560 .
Repeatable for credit.
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EDUC 6570 - Introduction to Educational and Psychological Research
3 credits
This course provides an introduction to research methods, including identification of a research problem, review and evaluation of research literature, and design and implementation of a research project.
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EDUC 6770 - Qualitative Research Methods
3 credits
This is an introduction to qualitative research including foundations, research designs and strategies of inquiry (case studies, ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, biographical, historical, participative inquiry), sampling, fieldwork and data collection, and analysis.
Prerequisite/Restriction: EDUC 6570 /PSY 6560
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EDUC 6800 - Mixed Methods Research
3 credits
Students learn design and analysis of mixed methods research studies in education and human services. Emphasis is on examining epistemological and philosophical issues, sampling, data collection, alternative designs, multiple mixed methods research models, analytic techniques, and relationships among research design, theory, and epistemology.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
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EDUC 7610 - Regression Analysis
3 credits
This course is an advanced treatment of research design and statistical concepts and issues in educational, human-services, and psychological research.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
One of the following:
Cross-listed as: PSY 7610
This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Fall 2021.
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EDUC 7650 - Longitudinal Research Design and Analysis
3 credits
Applied longitudinal study design and analysis for research in behavioral and educational sciences. Explores case-control, cohort, cross-over, complex sample, and randomized controlled trial designs. Examines analytical methods for observed outcomes of various distributions (e.g., Gaussian, Binomial, Poisson).
Prerequisite/Restriction: EDUC 7610 or PSY 7610
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EDUC 7670 - Literature Reviews in Education and Psychology
2 credits
Advanced concepts in designing, writing, and critiquing literature reviews.
Prerequisite/Restriction: EDUC 6600 /PSY 6600 or instructor permission
Cross-listed as: PSY 7670 .
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EDUC 7700 - Grant Writing
3 credits
Students learn to identify funding sources, select strategies for seeking resources, and write proposals for research, development, training, and service activities in education, psychology, and related fields.
Prerequisite/Restriction: EDUC 6570 /PSY 6560
Cross-listed as: SPED 7700
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ECE 1400 - Computer Programming for Electrical and Computer Engineers I
4 credits
This is an introduction to computer programming from an engineering perspective. Topics covered include basics of program design, coding, execution, debugging, and correctness. Students learn to develop concise, well-documented, well-designed, maintainable code in the C programming language.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
One of the following:
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ECE 1410 - Computer Programming for Electrical and Computer Engineers II
3 credits
This is a continued introduction to computer programming from an engineering perspective. Concepts of Object Oriented programming and basic data structures are covered. Students learn to develop concise, well-documented, well-designed, maintainable code in the C++ programming language.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 1400
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ECE 2250 - Electrical Circuits 1
3 credits
Introduction to electrical circuits and basic circuit elements. Circuit theory, analysis techniques, and introduction to design. DC analysis. First-order inductive and capacitive circuits. Operational amplifiers. Mutual inductance. Introduction to computer-aided design and analysis. Lab work required.
Prerequisite/Restriction: and (prerequisite or corequisite)
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ECE 2420 - Algorithms and Data Structures
3 credits
This course focuses on strategies for the design and evaluation of algorithms and their associated data structures. Topics include recursion, sorting algorithms, graphs, binary trees, hash tables, priority queues, splay trees, disjoint set classes, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 1410 with a C- or better
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ECE 2700 - Digital Circuits
4 credits
This course introduces boolean logic, finite state machines, basic datapath components, register-transfer level (RTL) design, simulations, and timing analysis. It covers design of combinational and sequential logic circuits and digital systems using programmable logic devices. It includes lectures and labs.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 1400 with a minimum grade of C-
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ECE 3640 - Discrete-Time Systems and Signals
3 credits
This course covers sampling of continuous-time signals, time and z-transform domain analysis of discrete-time systems, frequency domain analysis using the discrete-time Fourier transform, the DFT and FFT, frequency response, and digital filter design. Some lab and computational work is required.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
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ECE 3810 - Engineering Professionalism
1 credit
Introduces students to life as an engineer, including: the design process, working in teams, understanding professional and ethical responsibility, the impact of engineering on society, and the need for continued professional development. Also includes discussion of how engineering meets the contemporary needs of society.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ENGR 3080 (may be taken concurrently) Student must be in the Professional Engineering Program
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ECE 4250 - Internship/Co-op
1-3 credits
This is a planned, career-related work experience in the industry. Students must register with USU Co-op Office and have their program approved by the ECE co-op advisor. A written report is required.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
- Admission to the Professional Engineering Program
Repeatable for credit.
Pass/Fail only.
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ECE 4820 - Engineering Design I
1 credit
Students work on individual or team engineering project proposal development. Interdisciplinary projects are strongly encouraged. A written project proposal is required.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Corequisite: ECE 4830
This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Summer 2021.
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ECE 4830 - Engineering Communications I
1 credit
Students learn professional engineering project proposal writing methods, including budget development and project scheduling (Gantt) charts. Students also learn how to write project progress reports.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Corequisite: ECE 4820 or senior-level capstone course
This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Summer 2021.
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ECE 4840 - Engineering Design II (CI)
CI Communications Intensive
2 credits
Design, development, and testing of the engineering project proposed in ECE 4820 . Interdisciplinary projects strongly encouraged. Design and test plans required.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 4820 or capstone course and student must be in the Professional Engineering Program
Corequisite: ECE 4850
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ECE 4850 - Engineering Communications II (CI)
CI Communications Intensive
1 credit
Includes professional engineering project reports, oral design reviews, presentation graphics, and project presentation.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 4830 and student must be in the Professional Engineering Program
Corequisite: ECE 4840
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ECE 5110 - Fundamentals of Electric Power Systems
3 credits
Students learn the structure of electric power systems, including power system components, three-phase circuits and power flow analysis, analysis of magnetic circuits, single- and three- phase transformers, transmission line modeling, principles of energy and power conversion, and modeling and analysis of dc and ac synchronous motors and generators.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 2250 or graduate standing
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ECE 5120 - Introduction to Power Electronics
3 credits
Students study power electronics including steady-state modeling, conduction and switching losses, semiconductor power switches, converter transfer functions, topologies and dynamics, negative feedback, closed-loop transfer functions, controller stability and phase margin, regulator design, and basic magnetics theory and inductor design procedures.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
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Cross-listed as: ECE 6120
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ECE 5140 - Electrical Energy Engineering
3 credits
Introduction to electrical energy and power sources, distribution and consumption; economics, device, instrumentation, and systems analysis/design.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Student must be in the Professional Engineering Program or have Graduate Standing.
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ECE 5160 - Electric Vehicle Design Laboratory
4 credits
Students receive practical, hands-on experience working with a 500W electric bike powertrain. Labs cover modeling, characterization, design, and fabrication, and culminate in e-bike system integration and demonstration. Additional work is required for those enrolled in the graduate-level course.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Cross-listed as: ECE 6160
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ECE 5220 - Electro-optical Engineering
3 credits
Explores optical principles; image formation; electro-optical materials and components; electro-optical detectors, radiometry, and photometry; electro-optical devices and instruments; and electro-optical systems analysis and design. Designed for senior-level undergraduates and first-year graduate students.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 3870 or PHYS 3600 and student must be in the Professional Engineering Program or have Graduate Standing
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ECE 5310 - Control Systems
3 credits
This course covers control system design methods, s-domain and z-domain transfer function models, state space, dynamics of linear systems, and frequency domain analysis and design techniques. It introduces controllability, observability, and full-state pole placement controller design. Laboratory work is required.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
- Admission to a USU major or graduate standing
- ECE 3620
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ECE 5320 - Mechatronics
4 credits
This course covers principles of motion sensors and actuators. It also includes modeling, analysis, and identification of discrete-time dynamic systems. Digital controller design methods are taught. The course includes nonlinear effects and their compensation. Laboratory work is required.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Cross-listed as: MAE 5320
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ECE 5340 - Introduction to Planning and Control for Mobile Robots
3 credits
This course presents a controls perspective to the fundamentals of mobile robotic motion control. Topics include basic kinematic motion models and primitives, graph-based obstacle-modeling and optimal graph-based planning, optimal sample-based planning, and vector field approaches.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Cross-listed as: MAE 5340
This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Fall 2021.
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ECE 5420 - Microelectronics II
3 credits
Design of electronic circuits for applications in instrumentation, communication, control, and power systems.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 3410 and student must be in the Professional Engineering Program or have Graduate Standing
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ECE 5460 - VLSI Design Automation
3 credits
This course includes an introduction to basic algorithms and methodologies for automating the design of modern VLSI circuits. The course emphasizes physical design problems and CAD design problems using simulated annealing, dynamic programming, and mathematical programming.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Cross-listed as: ECE 6460
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ECE 5470 - VLSI Design
3 credits
Introduces the standard cell library-based design flow in VLSI, including design methodology and IP design, CMOS circuit design styles, and design technology for low power and thermal aware designs.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 5460 /ECE 6460 or equivalent Student must be in the Professional Engineering Program or have Graduate Standing
Cross-listed as: ECE 6470
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ECE 5480 - VLSI Testing and Verification
3 credits
Theory and practice of testing and verification of VLSI systems. Topics include fault modeling, fault simulation, test generation, scan design and design for testability (DFT). Students develop experience with commercial testing and DFT tools.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 2700 and professional program or graduate standing
Cross-listed as: ECE 6480
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ECE 5630 - Digital Signal and Image Processing
3 credits
This course covers the theory and applications of digital signal and image processing, including filter design, multi-rate processing, the FFT, and 2D systems, signals, and transforms. Some lab and computational work is required.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
- Admission to a USU major or graduate standing
- ECE 3640
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ECE 5640 - Real-Time Processors
4 credits
Students learn real-time processor architectures and methods used for digital signal processing, including C and assembly language programming, modern DSP and GPU architectures, and finite word-length effects. The laboratory includes implementation of hardware-based real-time systems.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
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ECE 5660 - Communication Systems I
3 credits
Students explore fundamentals of analog and digital communication systems. The course focuses on modulation, demodulation, detection, and synchronization.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
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ECE 5700 - Introduction to Microfabrication
3 credits
This course covers materials, wet chemical cleaning and etch, photolithography, metal deposition, doping, carrier density and conductivity, microfluidics, and micro-electronic-mechanical-systems.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Cross-listed as: BENG 5700 , MAE 5700 and PHYS 5700
This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Fall 2021.
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ECE 5710 - Advanced Microfabrication
3 credits
Students are trained to use all necessary tools at the Nanoscale Device Laboratory to perform fabrication of micro/nanostructures for their research needs, including undergraduate and graduate research projects.
Prerequisite/Restriction: BENG 5700 , ECE 5700 , MAE 5700 , or PHYS 5700
Cross-listed as: BENG 5710 , PHYS 5710
Repeatable for credit.
This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Fall 2021.
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ECE 5720 - Computer Systems Programming and Architecture
3 credits
Students learn advanced assembly language and systems programming concerned with performance. The course covers the study of modern computer architecture issues, such as caching, pipelining, concurrent instruction execution, and virtual memory.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
- Admission to a USU major or graduate standing
- ECE 2700
- ECE 3710 (can be taken concurrently)
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ECE 5750 - Computer Architecture
3 credits
Modern architecture fundamentals, instruction set analysis and design, pipelined and superscalar architectures, software-hardware interaction, memory hierarchy, virtual memory stresses, and evaluation of multi-level systems.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 5720 or equivalent Student must be in the Professional Engineering Program or have Graduate Standing
Cross-listed as: ECE 6750
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ECE 5780 - Embedded Real-Time Systems
4 credits
Students learn real-time system design and implementation of basic concepts, including modeling, scheduling, resource access control, synchronization, and communication. Emphasis is placed on both theory and practice. The course includes exploration of open topics and current challenges in designing real-time systems and hands-on implementation.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
- ECE 3710
- Acceptance to the Professional Engineering Program or graduate standing
Cross-listed as: ECE 6780
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ECE 5790 - Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems
3 credits
This course introduces the principled approach in cyber-physical system (CPS) design and includes its integration of computation and physical processes to network-embedded computing components. Topics include model-based design, distributed algorithms, formal specification and verification, and timed and hybrid systems.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Or all of the following:
Cross-listed as: ECE 6790
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ECE 5800 - Electromagnetics II
3 credits
General plane wave solution of Maxwell’s equations, potential functions, radiation, 2-D solution to Laplace’s equation, and fundamental electromagnetic theory.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 3870 Student must be in the Professional Engineering Program or have Graduate Standing
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ECE 5810 - Microwave Circuits I
3 credits
Students learn microwave circuit topics such as impedance matching, microwave network analysis, waveguides, analysis and design of power dividers, and filters. Laboratory work is required.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
- ECE 3870
- Admission to the Professional Engineering Program or graduate standing
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ECE 5850 - Antennas I
3 credits
Theory and application of electromagnetic radiation and radiating structures. Emphasis on antenna designs for modern wireless communications and radar systems. P.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 3870 Student must be in the Professional Engineering Program or have Graduate Standing
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ECE 5930 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
1-4 credits
Independent or group study of engineering problems not covered in regular course offerings.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Student must be in the Professional Engineering Program or have Graduate Standing.
Repeatable for credit.
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ECE 6010 - Stochastic Processes in Electronic Systems
3 credits
Introduction to stochastic processes in communications, signal processing, digital and computer systems, and control. Topics include continuous and discrete random processes, correlation and power spectral density, optimal filtering, Markov chains, and queuing theory.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status
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ECE 6030 - Mathematical Methods for Signals and Systems
3 credits
Signal representation using vector spaces. Linear algebraic techniques for signal modeling and estimation. Optimal detection and estimation algorithms, with applications.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status
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ECE 6040 - Convex Optimization
3 credits
The theory of convex optimization and applications, as applied to engineering. Numerical methods for solving convex optimization problems are presented. Computational work required.
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ECE 6120 - Introduction to Power Electronics
3 credits
Students study power electronics including steady-state modeling, conduction and switching losses, semiconductor power switches, converter transfer functions, topologies and dynamics, negative feedback, closed-loop transfer functions, controller stability and phase margin, regulator design, and basic magnetics theory and inductor design procedures.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Cross-listed as: ECE 5120
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ECE 6140 - Advanced Electrical Energy Engineering
3 credits
Computer-aided design of electromechanical, solar, chemical, hydroelectric, hydrocarbon, wind, nuclear, geothermal, oceanic, transmission, and distribution systems. Priority assessment is given to efficiency, reliability, cost effectiveness, and reduced environmental impact (renewable and nonrenewable energy).
Prerequisite/Restriction:
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ECE 6160 - Electric Vehicle Design Laboratory
4 credits
Students receive practical, hands-on experience working with a 500W electric bike powertrain. Labs cover modeling, characterization, design, and fabrication, and culminate in e-bike system integration and demonstration. Additional work is required for those enrolled in the graduate-level course.
Prerequisite/Restriction:
Cross-listed as: ECE 5160
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ECE 6240 - Space Environment and Engineering
3 credits
Study of space environment and models used for engineering analysis. Topics include considerations for engineering in the space environment, such as plasma interactions, debris, chemical reactions, radiation effects, and thermal issues.
Prerequisite/Restriction: MATH 2270 , MATH 2280
Corequisite: ECE 5230 .
Cross-listed as: PHYS 6240 .
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ECE 6250 - Graduate Internship/Coop
1-3 credits
Students will submit a plan for work experience in the industry. The detailed program must have prior approval and a written report is required.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor permission
Repeatable for credit.
Pass/Fail only.
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ECE 6320 - Linear Multivariable Control
3 credits
Modeling, analysis, and design of multi-input, multi-output control systems, including both state space and transfer matrix approaches, with an emphasis on stability.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 5310 or MAE 5310
Cross-listed as: MAE 6320 .
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ECE 6340 - Spacecraft Attitude Control
3 credits
This course covers spacecraft attitude dynamics and controls, including spin stabilized, three axis, dual spin modes, and attitude determination techniques.
Prerequisite/Restriction: ECE 5310 or MAE 5310
Cross-listed as: MAE 6340
This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Summer 2021.
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