2019-2020 Electrical Eng. Technical Complementaries

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. Lab work on designing, building, and debugging electronic hardware using discrete transistors and circuit building blocks

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s) ECSE 331
• Restrion(s): Not open to students who have taken ECSE 334
• (3-4-5)

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Gordon W Roberts

Electrical Engineering: Stability of linear and non-linear systems, controllability, state space models, canonical forms, state space design of controllers, pole placement, LQR, observability, Luenberger observer, separation principle and certainty equivalence, loop transfer recovery, correspondence between system theoretic results for continuous- and discrete-time systems. Lab work involving applications of PID, lead-lag, full state feedback and LQR controllers to robotic devices.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 307
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ECSE 404 or ECSE 493.
• (3-4-5)

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard
  • Peter Edwin Caines

Electrical Engineering: Communication system models; AM and FM modulation, performance of AM and FM systems in noise; sampling, FDM and TDM multiplexing systems; baseband and pass-band digital transmission over noisy band-limited channels, digital modulation and detection techniques and their quantitative performance; concepts of entropy and channel capacity, selected data compression and error-control coding techniques. Illustrative examples taken from subscriber loop telephone systems, evolution of internet modems and wireless cellular phone standards. Lab work involving measurement of the performance of AM and FM systems with noise, digital modulation techniques and spectra, experiments with basic error control coding systems.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 205 and ECSE 308
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ECSE 411.
• (3-4-5)

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Ioannis Psaromiligkos

Electrical Engineering: Architecture and protocols of contemporary networks; wired and wireless access systems; flow and congestion control; network optimization; randomized multiple access protocols; queueing disciplines; low-power wireless networks. Examples: Ethernet, TCP/IP, 802.11, 802.15.4. Lab experiments addressing routing protocols, TCP, queuing disciplines and quality-of-service, and network security.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s): (ECSE 250 or COMP 250), ECSE 205, and (ECSE 308 or ECSE 316)
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ECSE 414 or ECSE 489.
• (3-4-5)

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Mark J Coates

Electrical Engineering: Quantitative analysis of diodes and transistors. Semiconductor fundamentals, equilibrium and non-equilibrium carrier transport, and Fermi levels. PN junction diodes, the ideal diode, and diode switching. Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), physics of the ideal BJT, the Ebers-Moll model. Field effect transistors, metal-oxide semiconductor structures, static and dynamic behaviour, small-signal models. Laboratory experiments.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 251, ECSE 331, and MIME 262
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ECSE 432.
• (3-4-5)

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Electrical Engineering: Design techniques for developing modern microprocessor-based systems, multiple state-of-art instructions set architectures (ISAs) and associated assembly languages, use of tools for compiling, linking, memory overlay; debug techniques for start-stop and real-time debugging, together with debug infrastructure and interfaces: flash patching, variable watching and instruction stream tracing. Use of coprocessors and computer peripherals, such as SPI, I2C, I2S, SAI, USB, wireless standards, timers, DMA units and FLASH accelerators. Interfacing and processing sensor data including multi-sensor integration. Design techniques that promote structured approaches for separation of concerns in computing and communication. Real-time systems and software engineering for tightly integrated hardware.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 324
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ECSE 426.
• (3-4-5)

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Brett Meyer
  • Zeljko Zilic

Electrical Engineering: Lumped parameter concepts of electromechanics. Reference frame theory and derivation of current and torque equations. Examples of AC electric machines: synchronous and induction types. Steady-state, transient and stability analysis. Power electronic voltage and frequency converters. Variable speed drives and generation systems. Laboratory work involving electric machine parameters, operation and power electronic control.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 362
• (3-4-5)

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Geza Joos

Electrical Engineering: An introduction to thermodynamics from the perspective of computer engineering. The first and second laws of thermodynamics; elementary information theory (bits, entropy); energy storage and dissipation in electrical circuits; effects of noise in switching circuits; the fluctuation-dissipation theorem; Landauer’s principle; reversible and irreversible computation; energy costs of communication; thermal resistance, heat sinking, and cooling technologies for computing circuits.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 200, ECSE 205, and ECSE 222
• (3-2-4)

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Andrew G Kirk
  • Andrew G Kirk

Electrical Engineering: Design of digital systems. Implementation technologies; arithmetic modules; synthesis and advanced modelling techniques; verification; timing analysis; design for testability; asynchronous circuits; hardware/software co-design.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 324
• (3-2-4)

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • James J Clark

Electrical Engineering: Fundamentals of antenna theory: sources, radiation pattern and gain. Classification of antennas. Main antenna types and their characteristics. Antenna temperature, remote sensing and radar cross-section. Self and mutual impedances. Special topics include adaptive antennas, very large array (VLA) used in radio astronomy and biomedical applications.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 303 or ECSE 206 and ECSE 352 or ECSE 354
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECSE 593.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Electrical Engineering: Discrete-time signals and systems; Fourier and Z-transform analysis techniques, the discrete Fourier transform; elements of FIR and IIR filter design, filter structures; FFT techniques for high speed convolution; quantization effects.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 206 or ECSE 304 or ECSE 306.
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Benoit Champagne

Electrical Engineering: An introduction to the automated processing, analysis, and understanding of image data. Topics include image formation and acquisition, design of image features, image segmentation, stereo and motion correspondence matching techniques, feature clustering, regression and classification for object recognition, industrial and consumer applications, and computer vision software tools.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• Prerequisite(s):(ECSE 304 or ECSE 306 or ECSE 206 or ECSE 316) and ECSE 205.
• (3-1-5)

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • James J Clark
  • James J Clark

Electrical Engineering: Modern parallel computing architectures for shared memory, message passing and data parallel programming models. The design of cache coherent shared memory multiprocessors. Programming techniques for multithreaded, message passing and distributed systems. Use of modern programming languages and parallel programming libraries.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 427

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Zeljko Zilic
  • Dennis D Giannacopoulos

Electrical Engineering: Definition, structure and properties of embedded systems. Real-time programming: interrupts, latency, context, re-entrancy, thread and process models. Microcontroller and DSP architectures, I/O systems, timing and event management. Real-time kernels and services. Techniques for development, debugging and verification. Techniques for limited resource environments. Networking for distributed systems.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 324

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Jeremy Cooperstock

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to fault-tolerant systems. Fault-tolerance techniques through hardware, software, information and time redundancy. Failure classification, failure semantics, failure masking. Exception handling: detection, recovery, masking and propagation, termination vs. resumption. Reliable storage, reliable communication. Process groups, synchronous and asynchronous group membership and broadcast services. Automatic redundancy management. Case studies.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 324 and (ECSE 250 or COMP 250)

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to the fundamentals of modern optical and photonic engineering. Topics covered include the propagation of light through space, refraction, diffraction, polarization, lens systems, ray-tracing, aberrations, computer-aided design and optimization techniques, Gaussian beam analysis, micro-optics and computer generated diffractive optical elements. Experiments on physical and geometric optics.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 352 or ECSE 354

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Andrew G Kirk

Electrical Engineering: The course highlights human-computer interaction strategies from an engineering perspective. Topics include user interfaces, novel paradigms in human-computer interaction, affordances, ecological interface design, ubiquitous computing and computer-supported cooperative work. Attention will be paid to issues of safety, usability, and performance.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-4-2)
• Prerequisites: (ECSE 324 and ECSE 250) or (ECSE 324 and COMP 250) or (COMP 251 and COMP 273)

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Jeremy Cooperstock

Electrical Engineering: Trends in technology. CISC vs. RISC architectures. Pipelining. Instruction level parallelism. Data and Control Hazards. Static prediction. Exceptions. Dependencies. Loop level paralleism. Dynamic scheduling, branch prediction. Branch target buffers. Superscalar and N-issue machines. VLIW. ILP techniques. Cache analysis and design. Interleaved and virtual memory. TLB translations and caches.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 324
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Amin Emad

Electrical Engineering: Operating system services, file system organization, disk and cpu scheduling, virtual memory management, concurrent processing and distributed systems, protection and security. Aspects of the DOS and UNIX operating systems and the C programming language. Programs that communicate between workstations across a network.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 324 or COMP 273
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to photonic devices and applications. Semiconductor lasers, optical amplifiers, optical modulators, photodetectors and optical receivers, optical fibers and waveguides, fiber and waveguide devices. Photonic systems (communications, sensing, biomedical). Experiments on characterizing photonic devices and systems. Optical test-and-measurement instrumentation.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: (ECSE 352 or ECSE 354) and MIME 262.
• Tutorials assigned by instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Electrical Engineering: Purpose and economics of mixed-signal test, DC measurements. Accuracy and repeatability. DSP-based theory and its applications to parametric testing of analog filters, DACs, and ADC. Timing and PLL measurements. Design for Testability.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 206 or ECSE 304 and ECSE 334 or ECSE 335
• Note: This course may be counted as a technical complementary or as a lab complementary.

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Gordon W Roberts

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to mathematical models of light transport and the numerical techniques used to generate realistic images in computer graphics. Offline (i.e., raytracing) and interactive (i.e., shader-based) techniques.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: (ECSE 205 and ECSE 250) or (ECSE 202, ECSE 205, and COMP 250)
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECSE 546.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Electrical Engineering: Microwave transmission through waveguides: impedance matching, microwave devices, filters and resonators; microwave transmission though free space; near and far field behaviour of electromagnetic radiators, simple antennas, antenna arrays, practical antenna parameters; the physics of the radio communication channel: reflection, diffraction and scattering and their macroscopic impact (multipath, fading).

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 352 or ECSE 354

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Electrical Engineering: Éléments d'un réseau de transport. Lignes: modélisation et paramètres. Transformateurs: circuits équivalents, pertes, enclenchement, protection. Disjoncteurs: fonctionnement et dimensionnement. Équipements de compensation: condensateurs, branchement série et shunt, inductances. Coordination d'isolement.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 464.
• Taught in French.
• This course is offered by the Power Engineering Institute.

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard

Electrical Engineering: Primary energy resources, conventional and renewable. Electric power generation principles. Rotating and static power conversion, frequency and voltage control. Synchronous and induction generators, design and operation, grid integration requirements of central and distributed generation. Static power converter interfaces, principles and operation. Wind generation principles, control and wind farms. Electrochemical and pumped storage.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 361 or ECSE 362 or ECSE 461

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard

Electrical Engineering: Basic principles of planning and operating interconnected power systems with emphasis on Canadian conditions. Mathematical models for system. Steady-state analysis of power systems, load flow formulation and solution algorithms. Operating strategies, economic dispatch, voltage reactive power regulation, frequency and tie-line power control.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 361 or ECSE 362
• This course is offered by the Power Engineering Institute.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard

Electrical Engineering: Introduction to power electronics: definition, applications and classification of converters. Review of analytical techniques. Overview of power semiconductor switches. Line communicated rectifiers and inverters. Switch mode power converters and modulation techniques. Choppers, inverters and rectifiers. Resonant mode converters. Application to power systems and energy conversion.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: ECSE 331 or ECSE 330 and ECSE 361 or ECSE 362
• This course is offered by the Power Engineering Institute.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard

Electrical Engineering: Les réseaux de distribution d'électricité. Concepts de base. Lignes et câbles de distribution, caractéristiques physiques. Réseau de neutre. Techniques de protection des réseaux de distribution. Coordination de la protection, défaillance des équipements. Continuité de service, normes, étendue et durée des pannes. Architectures de réseau. Production distribuée, études d'intégration au réseau protection. Qualité de l'onde, exigences de raccordement, harmoniques, creux de tension papillotement. Logiciels d'analyse des réseaux de distribution, écoulement de puissance déséquilibré, régime perturbé.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite(s): ECSE 361 or ECSE 362

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard

Electrical Engineering: Introduction: classification des phénomènes, structure d'un réseau électrique. Modélisation des composants: lignes, transformateurs, machines électriques, charges. Systèmes d'excitation des machines. Régime permanent. Stabilité de transitoire, de tension, des petits signaux. Méthodes de compensation: stabilisateurs, compensation série et shunt. Oscillations sous synchrones. Phénomènes électromagnétiques transitoires. Méthodes et outils de simulation numérique.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 464.
• Note: Taught in French. This course is offered by the Power Engineering Institute.

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard

Electrical Engineering: Structure des réseaux électriques industriels. Niveau de tension. Installations électriques, codes et normes. Court-circuits, protection et coordination. Mise à la terre. Qualité de l'onde. Facteur de puissance, tarification et gestion de l'énergie électrique.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 361 or ECSE 362
• This course is offered by the Power Engineering Institute.
• Taught in French.

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard

Electrical Engineering: Généralités sur les systèmes de protection. Calculs de défauts symétriques et asymétriques. Transformateurs de mesure. Système de mise à la terre. Types de relais de protection. Protection de transformateur, de barres, de ligne de transport : philosophie et application. Conception des systèmes de protection. Homologation et essais de relais.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite: ECSE 464.
• Note: Taught in French. This course is offered by the Power Engineering Institute.

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • François Bouffard

Electrical Engineering: Principles of circuit simulation. Formulation of network equations. Frequency domain analysis. Nonlinear networks. Transient analysis. Sensitivity analysis. Harmonic balance. Shooting method. Model order reduction. Macromodelling.

Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr

• (3-0-6).
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who are taking or have taken ECSE 597.
• Prerequisites: ECSE 206 and ECSE 331

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Marwan Kanaan

Physics: Fundamental concepts of optics, including applications and modern developments. Light propagation in media; geometric optics and optical instruments; polarization and coherence properties of light; interference and interferometry; diffraction theory and applications in spectrometry and imaging; Gaussian beams, Fourier optics and photonic band structure. A laboratory component provides hands-on experience in optical setup design, construction and testing of concepts introduced in lectures.

Offered by: Physics

• Fall
• 2 hours lecture, 3 hours lab
• Corequisite: PHYS 342 or PHYS 352, or permission of the instructor

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Kai Wang