600 Level Courses

Electrical Engineering: An overview of state-of-the-art algorithms used in machine learning, including theoretical properties and practical applications of these algorithms.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-9)
• Prerequisites: COMP 424, COMP 526 or ECSE 514, COMP 360, MATH 323 or ECSE 305.
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken COMP 652.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Electrical Engineering: Design of custom computer architectures for high-performance computing. Reconfigurable computing elements and systems. Mapping algorithms to hardware. High-level synthesis and CAD algorithms. Applications to computing problems in physics, chemistry, and biology.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-9)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 425 or ECSE 525, and ECSE 487 or ECSE 431.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Electrical Engineering: An introduction to the theory and technology of wireless networks, with the emphasis on networking. Topics include channel modelling, cellularity and frequency reuse, the multiple access problem, services integration, flow control, diversity, smart antennas and aspects of wireless network management. First and second generation systems are described in detail.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-9)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 511

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Electrical Engineering: Theory and practice in multi-user communications. Multi-user information theory: multiple access channel, broadcast channel, relay channel, cognitive channel, interference channel, network capacity scaling law. Multi-user resource allocation techniques. Cooperative and cognitive communications, use of side information. Trends in multi-user network communications and contemporary research issues.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite: ECSE 509

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Electrical Engineering: Filter banks, multi-rate signal processing, multi-resolution analysis and wavelets, transform coding. Second-order stochastic processes: Wold decomposition, spectral analysis, power spectral estimation and polyspectra, optimum filtering and linear prediction, adaptive filtering, LMS filters, recursive least-square and transform domain techniques.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-9)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 509 and ECSE 512

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to the mathematical principles of array signal processing and their applications. Conventional beamformer design, optimum array processing structures; detection and direction of arrival estimation, modern subspace methods; adaptive array algorithms; implementation issues (matrix processing, subspace tracking, array calibration); selected applications from wireless communications, audio processing, underwater acoustics.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-9)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 412 or ECSE 512, ECSE 509

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Electrical Engineering: Study of touch as relevant to technological systems. Applications. Elements of anatomy, neuroanatomy, physiology, and behaviour. Technology of tactile transducers. Computational synthesis of tactile signals: Elements of contact mechanics, deformation theory and inelasticity, and computational methods to simulate those for realtime synthesis.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-9)
• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

Electrical Engineering: Point-to-point communications: source and channel models, lossless source coding (prefix codes, Ziv-Lempel algorithm), performance limits for channel codes, source coding subject to a fidelity criterion, end-to-end performance limits. Approaching the limits: convolutional codes, linear codes. The multi-access problem: achievable rate regions, TDMA, CDMA. Secure communications.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-9)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 411 or ECSE 511, and ECSE 510

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.