300 Level Courses

Electrical Engineering: Elementary continuous and discrete-time signals, impulse functions, basic properties of discrete and continuous linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, Fourier representation of continuous-time periodic and aperiodic signals, the Laplace transform, time and frequency analysis of continuous-time LTI systems, application of transform techniques to electric circuit analysis.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 210, MATH 247 or MATH 270 or MATH 271.
• Corequisite: MATH 249 or MATH 381
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Aditya Mahajan
  • Benoit Boulet

Electrical Engineering: Application of transforms to the analysis of LTI single-loop feedback systems, the discrete-time Fourier series, the discrete-time Fourier transform, the Z transform, time and frequency analysis of discrete-time LTI systems, sampling systems, application of continuous and discrete-time signal theory to communications LTI systems.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 303
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Richard C Rose
  • Ioannis Psaromiligkos

Electrical Engineering: The basic probability model, the heuristics of model-building and the additivity of probability; classical models; conditional probability and Bayes rule; random variables and vectors, distribution and density functions, expectation; statistical independence, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem; introduction to random processes and random signal analysis.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 303 or ECSE 306.
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Harry Leib
  • Peter Edwin Caines

Electrical Engineering: Review of complex functions. Discrete-and continuous-time signals, basic system properties. Linear time-invariant systems, convolution. Fourier series and Fourier transforms, frequency domain analysis, filtering, sampling. Laplace transforms and inversion, transfer functions, poles and zeros, solutions of linear constant-coefficient differential equations, transient and steady state response. Z-transforms.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 210 and MATH 270 or MATH 271.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Benoit Champagne
  • Lawrence R Chen

Electrical Engineering: Design, development and testing of software systems. Software life cycle: requirements analysis, software architecture and design, implementation, integration, test planning, and maintenance. The course involves a group project.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: COMP 202 or COMP 208
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Aditya Mahajan
  • Haibo Zeng

Electrical Engineering: Data structures (arrays, lists, stacks, queues, dequeues and trees) and their machine representation and simple algorithms. Peripheral devices: printers, keyboards, magnetic type drives, magnetic disc drives. Peripheral interfacing and busses. Introduction to operating systems. System integration. Computer systems and networks.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 200 or MECH 383, and ECSE 221
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Tal Arbel
  • David Alister Lowther

Electrical Engineering: Minimization and synthesis of combinational logic and finite state machines. Synthesis of synchronous and asynchronous sequential circuits. Principles of control design. Basic concepts in design for testability. The laboratory experiments involve the design and testing of digital systems using small and medium scale integrated circuits. CAD software is used in the design process.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-6-6)
• Prerequisites: CCOM 206 or EDEC 206, ECSE 211, ECSE 221, ECSE 291
• Tutorials and lab hours assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • James J Clark, Warren J Gross
  • James J Clark, Frank P Ferrie

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to electronic circuits using operational amplifiers, PN junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), and MOS field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), including: terminal characteristics, large- and small-signal models; configuration and frequency response of single-stage amplifiers with discrete biasing. Introduction to SPICE. Simulation experiments.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 210
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Gordon W Roberts
  • David V Plant

Electrical Engineering: Single-stage integrated-circuit amplifiers; differential and multistage amplifiers, integrated-circuit biasing techniques; non-ideal characteristics, frequency response; feedback amplifiers, output stages; digital CMOS logic circuits.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 291, ECSE 303 or ECSE 306, ECSE 330.
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Mourad N El-Gamal
  • Mourad N El-Gamal

Electrical Engineering: Maxwell's equations, electrostatics, magnetostatics and induction for power-frequency electrical engineering problems.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 200, MATH 264.
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • Milica Popovich
  • Milica Popovich

Electrical Engineering: Transient and steady state wave propagation in transmission lines. Telephone and radio frequency lines. Smith's chart and impedance matching. Maxwell's equations, Helmholtz's equations, Poynting's theorem. Plane waves, polarization, Snell's law, critical and Brewster's angle. Rectangular waveguides, optical fibres, dispersion. Radiation and antennas. S-parameters.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 351
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • Martin Rochette

Electrical Engineering: Maxwell's equations. Waves in free space and on transmission lines. Electric and magnetic force and energy. Magnetic materials. Faraday's law. Applications to engineering problems. S-parameters.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 210, MATH 264.
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
• Instructors
  • Jonathan P Webb

Electrical Engineering: Characteristics and components of power systems. Generation, transmission and utilization of electric power. 3-phase ac and dc systems. Fundamentals of electromechanical energy conversion. Ampere and Faraday's law. Magnetic circuits. Systems of coupled coils. Torque and force. Rotating magnetic fields. Basic rotating machines.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 210, ECSE 351
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2013
  • Winter 2014
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard