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and Gallium Nitride. The electronic
structure of crystalline solids is
described, as well as their phonon
spectra. Carrier dynamics is discussed
in detail by emphasizing the
importance of the Boltzmann transport
equation for both electrons and
phonons. Spin transport in semiconductors
will be introduced as well.
Credit will be given for either ECE
415 or PHYS 415, but not for both.
Prerequisite: ECE 307 or PHYS 348
or consent of instuctor. (3-0-3) (P)
ECE 416
Industrial Electronics Design and Automation
This course provides hands-on experience.
It covers the principles of
industrial electronics and automation
systems, automation components and
devices, implementation of fundamental
industrial electronics algorithms
using digital processors, electronic
design methodologies, rapid
prototyping, and sensors/transducers.
The simulation miniprojects and
lab experiments in the course will
emphasize industrial electronics systems
analysis, design, and automation.
Prerequisite: ECE 311.
Corequisite: ECE 411. (3-3-4) (P)
ECE 417
Automation and Control
This course provides hands-on experience.
It covers principles of industrial
controls and automation, fundamentals
of programmable logic controllers
(PLC), PLC design and
automation, PLC hardware and programming
tools, automated manufacturing
processes, and PLC networking.
The simulation miniprojects and
laboratory experiments will emphasize
automation and control systems
analysis, design, and applications.
Prerequisite: ECE 311. (3-3-4) (P)
ECE 419
Power Systems Analysis
Transmission systems analysis and
design. Large scale network analysis
using Newton-Raphson load flow.
Unsymmetrical short-circuit studies.
Detailed consideration of the swing
equation and the equal-area criterion
for power system stability studies.
Power system controls: voltage regulators
and speed governors.
Prerequisite: ECE 319. (3-3-4) (P)
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ECE 420
Analytical Methods in Power Systems
Fundamentals of power systems operation
and planning. Economic operation
of power systems with consideration
of transmission losses. Design
of reliable power systems, power systems
security analysis, optimal scheduling
of power generation, estimation
of power system state. Prerequisite:
ECE 319. (3-0-3) (P)
ECE 421
Microwave Circuits and Systems
Maxwell’s equations, waves in free
space, metallic and dielectric waveguides,
microstrips, microwave cavity
resonators and components, ultrahigh
frequency generation and
amplification. Analysis and design of
microwave circuits and systems.
Credit will be given for either ECE
421 or ECE 423, but not for both.
Prerequisite: ECE 307. (3-0-3) (P)
ECE 423
Microwave Circuits and Systems with Laboratory
Maxwell’s equations, waves in free
space, metallic and dielectric waveguides,
microstrips, microwave cavity
resonators and components, ultra-high
frequency generation and amplification.
Analysis and design of microwave
circuits and systems. Credit will be
given for either ECE 421 or ECE 423,
but not for both. Prerequisite: ECE
307. (3-3-4) (P) (C)
ECE 425
Analysis and Design of Integrated Circuits
Contemporary analog and digital
integrated circuit analysis and
design techniques. Bipolar, CMOS
and BICMOS IC fabrication technologies,
IC Devices and Modeling,
Analog ICs including multiple-transistor
amplifiers, biasing circuits,
active loads, reference circuits, output
buffers; their frequency response,
stability and feedback consideration.
Digital ICs covering inverters, combinational
logic gates, high-performance
logic gates, sequential logics,
memory and array structures. Team
design projects. Prerequisites: ECE
312, senior standing. (3-0-3) (P)
IIT Undergraduate Bulletin 2006–2008
ECE 429
Introduction to VLSI Design
Processing, fabrication, and design of
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI)
circuits. MOS transistor theory, VLSI
processing, circuit layout, layout
design rules, layout analysis, and
performance estimation. The use of
computer-aided design (CAD) tools
for layout design, system design in
VLSI, and application-specific integrated
circuits (ASICs). In the laboratory,
students create, analyze, and
simulate a number of circuit layouts
as design projects, culminating in a
term design project. Prerequisites:
ECE 218, ECE 311 and senior standing.
(3-3-4) (P) (C)
ECE 434
Control Systems with Laboratory
Signal flow graphs and block diagrams.
Types of feedback control.
Steady state tracking error. Stability
and Routh-Hurwitz criterion.
Transient response and time domain
design via root locus methods.
Frequency domain analysis and
design using Bode and Nyquist
methods. Introduction to state-variable
descriptions. The laboratory consists
of the complete design of a control
system, with major tasks being
modeling, controller design, and performance
testing. Credit will be
given for either ECE 434 or ECE 438,
but not for both. Prerequisite: ECE
308. (3-3-4) (P) (C)
ECE 436
Digital Signal Processing I with Laboratory
Discrete-time system analysis, discrete
convolution and correlation, Ztransforms.
Realization and frequency
response of discrete-time systems,
properties of analog filters, IIR filter
design, FIR filter design. Discrete
Fourier Transforms. Applications of
digital signal processing. Credit will
be given for either ECE 436 or ECE
437, but not for both. Prerequisite:
ECE 308. (3-3-4) (P) (C)