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| ELEC 201 Circuit Analysis I | The fundamentals of analysis of lumped linear time-invariant circuits; network theorems; operational amplifiers; first order circuits; DC analysis of... | 4 |
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| ELEC 202 Circuit Analysis II | Phasor analysis and AC three phase power; transfer functions; Bode plots; filters and resonance; Laplace transforms; transformers; two-port networks... | 4 |
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| ELEC 203 Basic Circuit Analysis | Ideal passive elements and sources; Kirchhoff's Laws; DC circuits; natural, and complete response of first order circuits; operational... | 3 | Saloome Motavas | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 204 Linear Circuits | Basic concepts and analysis techniques in the context of electric and electronic circuits including Bode plots and the Laplace transform. Treatment... | 4 | Shahriar Mirabbasi | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 205 Electronics Laboratory | Design project involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, and microcomputers. Corequisite ELEC 204 - Linear Circuits | 1 | Saloome Motavas | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 211 Introduction to Microcomputers | Boolean algebra; combinational and sequential circuits; organization and operation of microcomputers, memory addressing modes, representation of... | 5 | Tor Aamodt |
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| ELEC 211 Engineering Electromagnetics | Electrostatics, electric currents, dielectrics, capacitance, electrostatic potential, magnetostatics. [2-0-1] MATH 264 will be taught with EECE 261... | 2 | Carol Jaeger |
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| CPEN 221 Principles of Software Construction | Design, implementation, reasoning about software systems: Abstraction and specification of software, testing, verification, abstract data types,... | 4 | Sathish Gopalakrishnan | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 221 Signals and Systems | Complex numbers, LTI systems, convolution sum, discrete-time Fourier series and transforms, z-transform, sampling, introduction to filtering... | 4 |
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| ELEC 271 Selected Topics in Biomedical Engineering | Effective communication in a multidisciplinary environment, introduction to emerging areas of biomedical engineering and biotechnology, ethics, and... | 1 | Purang Abolmaesumi |
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| CPEN/ELEC 281 Technical Communication | Written and oral communication in engineering. Technical description, report preparation, business correspondence, and oral presentation of technical... | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 291 Computer Engineering Design Studio I | Design projects involving hardware (electronic devices and circuits, microcomputers) and software. Prerequisite CPEN 211 -... | 6 | Farshid Agharebparast | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 291 Electrical Engineering Design Studio I | Design projects involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, signals and systems, and microcomputers. [2-6-0] Prerequisites... | 6 | Jesús Calviño-Fraga |
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| ELEC 292 Biomedical Engineering Design Studio | Experiments involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, signals and systems, microcomputers, with applications in biomedical... | 6 | Jesús Calviño-Fraga |
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| ELEC 301 Electronic Circuits II | Analysis and design of electronic circuits; biasing of and small-signal models for transistors; frequency response of amplifiers; feedback and... | 4 | Nicolas Jaeger |
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| ELEC 302 Electronic Circuits for Electromechanical Design | Semiconductor fundamentals; modelling of electronis devices including diodes and transistors; design of power supplies, waveform generators and logic... | 3 | Kenichi Takahata |
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| CPEN 311 Digital Systems Design | Advanced combinational and sequential electronic system design. Hardware specification, modeling, and simulation using hardware description languages... | 4 | Yair Linn |
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| ELEC 311 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves | Waves and propagation; Maxwell's equations; applications including transmission lines; impedance matching and Smith charts; reflection and... | 4 |
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| CPEN 312 Digital Systems and Microcomputers | Data representation in digital computers; boolean algebra; the design and optimization and implementation of combinatorial and sequential circuits;... | 3 | Jesús Calviño-Fraga |
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| ELEC 315 Electronic Materials and Devices | Fundamental aspects of electronic materials such as: semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, magnetic materials, and their applications... | 4 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 321 Software Engineering | Engineering practices for the development of non-trivial software-intensive systems including specification, software design, implementation,... | 4 | Julia Rubin | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 321 Stochastic Signals and Systems | Stochastic behaviour of signals and systems (eg., communication systems); discrete and continuous probability; random processes; modeling and... | Lutz Lampe | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 331 Operating Systems | Introduction to operating systems, their design and their implementation. Process concurrency, synchronization, communication and scheduling. Device... | 4 | Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova |
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| ELEC 331 Computer Communications | Analysis, design and implementation of computer networks and their protocols. Application layer protocols, transmission control protocol (TCP),... | 4 |
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| CPEN 333 System Software Engineering | Operating systems principles, real-time systems, principles of concurrent and multi-threaded programming, information structures, introduction to... | 3 |
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| ELEC 341 Systems and Control | Continuous time system analysis by Laplace transforms; system modeling by transfer function and state space methods; feedback, stability and... | 4 |
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| ELEC 342 Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion and Transmission | Three phase power; transformers and harmonics; magnetic materials and circuits, electromechanical energy conversion; DC machines; rotating magnetic... | 4 |
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| ELEC 343 Electromechanics | Electromechanical energy conversion; linear actuators; torque/speed of rotating devices; reluctance, stepper, permanent-magnet, induction, brushless-... | 3 | Juri Jatskevich |
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| ELEC 344 Applied Electronics and Electromechanics | Characteristics of semiconductor devices; analog circuits; force and torque production; motor principles and torque-speed characteristics; principles... | 3 | Ignacio Galiano Zurbriggen | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 352 Electric Energy Systems | Balanced and unbalanced three phase energy systems. Modeling of generators, transmission lines, transformers and loads. High voltage... | 4 | Sina Chiniforoosh | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 371 Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation | Theory and experiments involving instruments for general, orthopedic, cardiac and minimally invasive surgery as well as sensors for respiratory,... | 3 | Leo Stocco |
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| CPEN 391 Computer Systems Design Studio II | Design and implementation of a hardware platform and software design and implementation at the operating system and application layers. Project... | 6 | Guy Lemieux | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 391 Electrical Engineering Design Studio II | Introduction to project management. Problem definition. Design principles and practices. Implementation techniques. Testing and evaluation.... | 6 | Leo Stocco |
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| ELEC 400 Topics in Electrical Engineering | Lectures or projects on subjects of current interest. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. | UBC Calendar Info | ||
| CPEN 400A Topics in Computer Engineering - BLDG MDRN WEBAPP | Lectures or projects on subjects of current interest. | 4 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 400V Topics in Computer Engineering - RESRCH EXPRIENCE | Lectures or projects on subjects of current interest. | 1 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| ELEC 401 Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit Design | Design and analysis of analog integrated circuits, with emphasis on CMOS design techniques. Gain stages, opamp design, frequency compensation,... | 3 | Shahriar Mirabbasi |
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| ELEC 402 Introduction to VLSI Systems | The chip design process using VLSI design styles in CMOS technology. Data path, control and register file design and layout. Clocking schemes, flip-... | 4 | Reza Molavi | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 403 Digital Integrated Circuit Design | Overview of deep submicron custom ic design. Advanced MOS models. IC fabrication. Timing and power calculations. Interconnect modeling and analysis... | 3 | Sudip Shekhar | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 404 RF Integrated Circuits | Introduction to radio-frequency (RF) communication systems; Matching Networks, Transceiver architectures, Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixers, Oscillators,... | 3 | Sudip Shekhar |
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| CPEN 411 Computer Architecture | Quantitative principles, instruction set design, methods for performance improvements, pipelining, multiple instruction issue, dynamic scheduling,... | 4 | Mieszko Lis |
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| ELEC 411 Antennas and Propagation | Basic antenna concepts; antennas for low, medium and high frequencies; terrestrial and satellite propagation links; environmental effects on... | 3 | David Michelson |
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| ELEC 412 Optical Waveguides and Photonics | Planar dielectric waveguides; single mode optical fibers; integrated optics waveguides and devices; semiconductor lasers; optical detectors; optical... | 3 | Nicolas Jaeger |
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| ELEC 413 Semiconductor Lasers | An introduction to lasers and applications. Theory, modeling, fabrication and performance of semiconductor lasers. Optical communications links.... | 3 | Lukas Chrostowski |
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| ELEC 415 Semiconductor Devices: Physics, Design and Analysis | Physics of operation, and design and analysis of semiconductor devices of topical interest, e.g., solar cells, LEDs, high-speed MOSFETs, high-... | 3 | Joseph Salfi |
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| CPEN 421 Software Project Management | OVERVIEW AND MOTIVATION The idea of a ‘project’, i.e. an organized set of activities with a defined set of outcomes achieved with... | 4 | Patrick Conroy |
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| ELEC 421 Digital Signal and Image Processing | DSP fundamentals; image processing; signal representation; digital filtering; statistical estimation; DSP applications.This course is not eligible... | 3 | Rafeef Garbi (née Abugharbieh) |
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| ELEC 422 Biosignals and Systems | Data acquisition, time and frequency domain analysis, analog and discrete filter design, sampling theory, time-dependent processing, linear... | 3 | Rafeef Garbi (née Abugharbieh) |
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| CPEN 431 Design of Distributed Software Applications | Communications, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency and replication, fault tolerance, object-based middleware, and security technologies... | 4 | Matei Ripeanu |
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| ELEC 431 Communication Systems | Review of probability theory, signals and noise, spectral analysis; detection and estimation of signals in the presence of noise; performance... | 3 | Paul Lusina |
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| CPEN 432 Real-Time System Design | Course Description In this course we will be studying the theoretical underpinnings of real-time compute systems, as well as practical aspects... | 4 | Bader Naim Alahmad |
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| ELEC 432 Digital Communications | Formulation of the digital communication problem; definition of information, source and channel coding; digital modulation techniques, signal space,... | 3 | Yair Linn |
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| ELEC 433 Error Control Coding for Communications and Computers | Design techniques, including Hamming, BCH, Reed-Solomon, LDPC and convolutional codes, ARQ techniques, and LFSR implementation of encoding-decoding... | 3 | Vijay Bhargava | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 434 Introduction to Optical Networks | Wavelength division multiplexing, framing techniques, traffic grooming, virtual topology design, routing and wavelength assignment, protection and... | 3 | Victor Leung |
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| CPEN 441 Human Computer Interfaces in Engineering Design | Practical issues for interfaces for modern software. Task analysis, user modeling, usability engineering, representations, metaphors, prototyping... | 4 | Sid Fels |
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| ELEC 441 Control Systems | Relationships between system parameters and system responses for linear control systems. Design specifications for dynamic and steady-state... | 3 | Guy Dumont | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 442 Introduction to Computer Security | Security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities from technical perspectives; confidentiality, integrity, and hybrid policies; cryptography, access... | 4 | Bob Gill | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 442 Introduction to Robotics | Common manipulator configurations, actuator and sensor technology. Efficient representations and computational methods for real-time microprocessor-... | 3 | Joseph Yan | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 451 Power Electronics | Power diodes, thyristors, transistors and FETs; analysis of idealized circuits with generalized loads; AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC, AC-AC converters,... | 4 | Martin Ordonez | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 453 Power System Analysis | Transmission and distribution; phasors, complex power; balanced/unbalanced three-phase operation; symmetrical components, sequence networks; voltage... | 4 | Y. Christine Chen |
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| ELEC 454 Power Systems Analysis II | Power system monitoring/control; large networks; automatic generation control; optimum power flow calculations; traveling wave transmission lines;... | 4 | José Martí | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 455 Power Systems Protection | Analysis of disturbances, security of power systems, cascading and blackouts; role and impact of protection; transducers and measuring elements;... | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| ELEC 456 Decision Support Methods in Power Systems Operation | Principles; acceptable regions of operation; energy management systems; load flow methods; static and dynamic security; contingency analysis;... | 3 | Ebrahim Vaahedi | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 457 Optimization of Power System Operation | Application of linear and nonlinear optimization methods in power systems; constrained optimization; optimal power flow; economic dispatch;... | 3 | Ebrahim Vaahedi | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 461 Nanotechnology in Electronics | Topics of special importance to understanding and designing electronic devices in which quantum effects and the discrete nature of matter become... | 3 | Konrad Walus | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 462 Sensors and Actuators in Microsystems | The mechanisms, design, fabrication, and testing of microsensors, actuators, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Course Objectives On the... | 3 | Boris Stoeber |
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| ELEC 463 Micro/Nanofabrication and Instrumentation Laboratory | Microfabrication methods and nanofabrication techniques. Imaging and characterization of micro and nanostructures. [2-4-0] Course Objective... | 3 | Lukas Chrostowski |
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| ELEC 465 Microsystems Design | Structured modeling and design practices; multiphysics at microscales; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics; behavioural modeling... | 3 | Edmond Cretu |
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| ELEC 471 Medical Imaging | Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, and X-ray projection imaging. Applications in... | 3 | Siamak Najarian |
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| ELEC 473 Biological Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems | Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology and nanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying and drug... | 3 | Karen Cheung |
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| ELEC 474 Biophotonics | Lens theory, light sources and detectors, image resolution and contrast, tissue absorption and scattering, fluorescence, microscopy, spectroscopy,... | 3 | Shuo Tang | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN/ELEC 481 Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects | Time-money relationships; economic analysis of alternatives including the effects of interest rates, inflation, depreciation, taxation and... | 3 | Kelleen Wiseman | UBC Calendar Info |
| APSC 486 New Venture Design | Teams comprising students in APSC 486 and COMM 466 create a business plan and a prototype or engineering solution of a novel product, process, or... | 6 | Philippe Kruchten |
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| CPEN 491 Computer Engineering Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world computer engineering problem, provided by industry, research... | 10 |
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| ELEC 491 Electrical Engineering Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world electrical engineering problem, provided by industry, research... | 10 |
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| CPEN 492 Software Engineering Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world software engineering problem. Projects are provided by industry,... | 10 |
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| ELEC 492 Electrical Energy Systems Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world electrical energy systems problem, provided by industry, research... | 10 |
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| ELEC 493 Nanotechnology and Microsystems Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world nanotechnology and microsystems engineering problem. Projects are... | 10 |
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| ELEC 494 Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world biomedical engineering problem, provided by industry, research... | 10 |
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| APSC 496 Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Project | Projects involving students from several departments. | 1 | Philippe Kruchten |
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| CPEN/ELEC 499 Undergraduate Thesis | Guideline This course is intended as a vehicle to provide undergraduate students with research experience. Students can take on a research effort for... | 3 |
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| CPEN 502 Architecture for Learning Systems | Introduction to learning in neural networks, error backpropagation, simulated annealing, content addressable memories. Data representation... | 3 | Sarbjit Sarkaria |
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| ELEC 502 Advanced Topics in VLSI Design | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | ||
| ELEC 507 Mixed-Signal and RF Integrated Circuits and Systems Test | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | ||
| EECE 508 Multivariable Feedback Control | Well-posedness and internal stability of feedback systems, performance limitations, uncertainty, LFT representations, robust stability and robust... | 3 | ||
| EECE 510 Strategy and Leadership | Strategic frameworks. Organizational change. Team dynamics, effectiveness and decision-making. Personal leadership style and development. | 3 | ||
| CPEN 511 Advanced Computer Architecture | Modern processor design with an emphasis on superscalar microarchitecture. Topics include: Quantitative principles, pipelining, memory hierarchy,... | 3 | Mieszko Lis | UBC Calendar Info |
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| EECE 511B Software Testing and Maintenance | Course Objective By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Understand software evolution and the need for... | 3 | Ali Mesbah | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 512 Parallel and Reconfigurable Computing | Matching software parallelism to parallel hardware systems. Flynn's classification; Amdahl's Law; levels of parallelism; extra parallel work;... | 3 | Guy Lemieux | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 513 CAD Algorithms for Integrated Circuits | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | ||
| EECE 513 Error Resilient Computing Systems | Design and analysis of high-availability and life-critical embedded and commercial systems. Course Outline This course focuses on the design of fault... | 3 | Karthik Pattabiraman | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 521 Biomedical Microdevices | Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology andnanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying, and drug... | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 522 Software Verification and Testing | 3 | Ali Mesbah | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 523 Software Project Management | Advanced software project planning. Estimation of cost and value. Risk management. Release planning. Productivity and quality metrics. Management of... | Philippe Kruchten | UBC Calendar Info | |
| ELEC 523 Medical Imaging | Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography and X-ray projection imaging. Methods of feature detection, segmentation,... | 3 | Siamak Najarian |
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| ELEC 524 Advanced Biophotonics | Physical principles and design of optical microscopy, optical spectroscopy, and optical imaging devices and systems, and their applications in... | 3 | Shuo Tang |
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| EECE 531 Nanoscale Modeling and Simulations | The many-body problem, molecular dynamics, tight-binding, first-principles (ab-initio) methods, the Hartree-Fock approach, the density functional... | 3 | Alireza Nojeh | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 541 Human Interface Technologies | Human sensation, perception, kinetics; input technologies, gesture, vision, speech, audio; metaphors, information appliances, ubiquitous computing,... | 3 | Sid Fels | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 541 Multimedia Systems | A course on theoretical and practical issues in designing multimedia systems. Topics will include digital video coding, transcoding for universal... | 3 | Mahsa Pourazad | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 542 Topics in Computer Security | 3 | Konstantin Beznosov | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 542 Computer-Integrated Surgery | Computer-integrated surgery systems such as point-based and intensity-based registration, targeting error estimation, surgical interface design,... | 3 | Course Page | |
| ELEC 543 Green Nanoelectronic Devices | This course presents fundamentals for materials, operation and design of green energy devices and related technologies. Examples of devices that are... | 3 |
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| ELEC 544 Advanced Microsystems Design | Project-based modeling techniques applied to microsystems; multi-physics at microscale; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics;... | 3 | Edmond Cretu |
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| ELEC 546 Micro and Nano Fabrication Technologies | Review of principles and practices of rnicro/nano fabrication technologies. Material and process selection; IC fabrication; silicon micromachining;... | 3 | Kenichi Takahata | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 549 Dynamic Modeling of Electric Machines and Controls | Numerical aspects of time-domain simulation are reviewed. Dynamic modeling and analysis of power systems components including transformers, induction... | 3 |
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| EECE 550 Topics in Power Electronic Design | New devices and applications in power electronics. | 3 | Martin Ordonez | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 553 Advanced Power Systems Analysis | Computer-oriented analysis of electric power systems with regard to multiphase line constants, steady-state analysis of single and parallel circuits... | 3 | Ebrahim Vaahedi | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 554 Advanced Power System Control and Dynamics | Course Outline: The following topics will probably be covered, based on the interests of the students: ... | 3 | Hermann Dommel | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 555 Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems | 3 | Sina Chiniforoosh | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 559 Energy Storage Systems | Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage. Pumped Storage. Other possible technologies. System modeling and control. | 3 | ||
| EECE 560 Network Analysis and Simulation | Solution of lumped and distributed networks. Time-domain solutions, discretization and integration rules. Frequency-domain solutions, FFT and... | 3 | José Martí |
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| EECE 562 Statistical Signal Processing with Applications in Wireless Communications and Defence | Stochastic dynamical models, Least Squares, Recursive Least Squares. Kalman, Hidden Markov, particle filters. Maximum likelihood estimation. Sensor... | 3 |
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| EECE 563 Wireless Communication Systems | 3 | Lutz Lampe |
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| EECE 564 Detection and Estimation of Signals in Noise | Formulation of the detection problem, optimum receiver principles, signal space, maximum likelihood decisions, error performance calculations.... | 3 | Paul Lusina |
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| EECE 565 Communication Networks | Analysis and design of communications networks; network architectures; Internet protocols; routing; scheduling algorithms; medium access control;... | 3 | Vincent Wong |
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| EECE 566 Communication and Information Theory | Coding for noisy channels, linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolutional codes, maximum likelihood decoding, trellis coded modulation, measure of... | 3 | Cyril Leung |
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| EECE 567 Power System Dynamics and Stability | 3 | Y. Christine Chen | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 569 Mobile Communications Networks | Network architectures: cellular networks, ad hoc networks; access protocols; radio and network resource management; quality of service; mobility and... | 3 | Victor Leung |
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| EECE 570 Fundamentals of Visual Computing | Course Structure: The course material will be presented through a combination of formal lectures, group readings and discussions, homework-based... | 3 | Rafeef Garbi (née Abugharbieh) |
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| EECE 571A Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - ANT PROPGTN II | This course is restricted to students in one of these faculties: GRAD | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571B Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - BIG DATA SYSTEMS | According to the ex-CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, “every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until... | 3 | Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova |
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| EECE 571C Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems | Course Structure/Operation Context. This course is an elective course within the Urban Systems Pillar in the new Applied Science... | Y. Christine Chen | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571D EECE 571D - Power System Dynamics and Stability | This course provides students with an overview of the mathematical modelling required to simulate and predict power system dynamic behaviour during... | 3 | Y. Christine Chen | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571E Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - PARA COMP PLTFRM | 3 | Matei Ripeanu | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571F Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - RF INTGRTD CIRCT | Introduction to radio-frequency (RF) communication systems; Matching Networks, Transceiver architectures, Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixers, Oscillators,... | 3 | Sudip Shekhar |
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| EECE 571H Integrated Circuits | 3 | Sudip Shekhar | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571J Principles of Mobile Application Development and Analysis | Overview For several years now, mobile devices bypass desktops in sales: just walk into a restaurant, bar or a shopping mall and see how many... | Julia Rubin |
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| EECE 571L Power Loss Analysis in Power Converters | Learning Objectives The students will learn about power loss characterization in power converters, in particular of switching power devices. Power... | 3 | Martin Ordonez | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571M Multiphase Operation, Synchronous Rectification, and Interleaving of Resonant Converters | Learning Objectives The students will study advanced DC-DC converters for battery chargers application. The course will focus on the use of... | Martin Ordonez | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571P PROPAGATION AND CHANNEL MODELLING FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | Wireless propagation and channel models capture our knowledge and intuition concerning the manner in which wireless signals are attenuated and... | 3 | David Michelson | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571Q Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - Active Silicon Photonics Design | Course Structure/Operation Students propose, model, design, and layout a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) using active silicon photonics technology... | Lukas Chrostowski | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571R Security and Reliability in the Internet of Things (IoT) | Learning Objectives By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Understand the sources of reliability issues and... | 3 | Karthik Pattabiraman | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571S Advanced Memory Systems Architecture | Course Description Memory systems are critical to store and supply data to processing cores. As we move into advanced processor designs, it has... | 3 | Prashant Nair | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571T Compute Accelerator Architectures | Summary With the approaching end of Moore's Law computer systems developers are being confronted with the challenge of increasing computing... | Tor Aamodt | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571Z CMOS Design for Optoelectronics Applications | Course Structure/Operation This is a one semester course involving lectures, projects and exams. In the previous years, this used to be only a... | 3 | Sudip Shekhar | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 574 Self-Tuning Control | Adaptive control; system identification; self-tuning control; design and implementation considerations; algorithm convergence and stability;... | 3 | Guy Dumont | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 576 Semiconductor Theory for Device Applications | A quantum mechanical treatment of the structure and electronic properties of semiconducting materials and electronic devices; including bandstructure... | 3 | Konrad Walus | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 580 Emerging Electronic Materials and Devices | The physics, fabrication and characterization of organic and carbon nanotube based capacitors, transistors, batteries, electrochromic windows, active... | 3 | John Madden | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 584 Nanophotonics Fabrication | Design, fabricate, and test a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Modelling and design of optical... | 6 |
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| EECE 585 Electromagnetic Compatibility | History of electromagnetic compatibility; standards and regulations; component models; radiated emissions; conducted emissions; transmission lines... | 3 | Course Page | |
| EECE 586 Wavelets, Principles and Applications in Signal Processing | Concepts, methodologies and tools of signal processing using wavelets, including multi-resolution analysis, wavelet packets, wavelet dictionaries,... | 3 | Jane Z. Wang |
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| EECE 588 Analog Integrated Circuit Design | Analysis and design emphasizing CMOS implementations. Gain stages, biasing circuits, comparators, sample-and-hold circuits, switched-capacitor... | 3 | Shahriar Mirabbasi |
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| EECE 597 Engineering Report | This is a project course specifically for MEng students. After completing one term, M.Eng. students can conduct an engineering project and write a... | 6 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 599 Thesis | For M.A.Sc. | 12 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 699 Doctoral Dissertation | For Ph.D. | 0 | UBC Calendar Info |
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| ELEC 201 Circuit Analysis I | The fundamentals of analysis of lumped linear time-invariant circuits; network theorems; operational amplifiers; first order circuits; DC analysis of... | 4 |
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| ELEC 202 Circuit Analysis II | Phasor analysis and AC three phase power; transfer functions; Bode plots; filters and resonance; Laplace transforms; transformers; two-port networks... | 4 |
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| ELEC 203 Basic Circuit Analysis | Ideal passive elements and sources; Kirchhoff's Laws; DC circuits; natural, and complete response of first order circuits; operational... | 3 | Saloome Motavas | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 204 Linear Circuits | Basic concepts and analysis techniques in the context of electric and electronic circuits including Bode plots and the Laplace transform. Treatment... | 4 | Shahriar Mirabbasi | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 205 Electronics Laboratory | Design project involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, and microcomputers. Corequisite ELEC 204 - Linear Circuits | 1 | Saloome Motavas | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 211 Introduction to Microcomputers | Boolean algebra; combinational and sequential circuits; organization and operation of microcomputers, memory addressing modes, representation of... | 5 | Tor Aamodt |
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| ELEC 211 Engineering Electromagnetics | Electrostatics, electric currents, dielectrics, capacitance, electrostatic potential, magnetostatics. [2-0-1] MATH 264 will be taught with EECE 261... | 2 | Carol Jaeger |
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| CPEN 221 Principles of Software Construction | Design, implementation, reasoning about software systems: Abstraction and specification of software, testing, verification, abstract data types,... | 4 | Sathish Gopalakrishnan | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 221 Signals and Systems | Complex numbers, LTI systems, convolution sum, discrete-time Fourier series and transforms, z-transform, sampling, introduction to filtering... | 4 |
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| ELEC 271 Selected Topics in Biomedical Engineering | Effective communication in a multidisciplinary environment, introduction to emerging areas of biomedical engineering and biotechnology, ethics, and... | 1 | Purang Abolmaesumi |
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| CPEN/ELEC 281 Technical Communication | Written and oral communication in engineering. Technical description, report preparation, business correspondence, and oral presentation of technical... | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 291 Computer Engineering Design Studio I | Design projects involving hardware (electronic devices and circuits, microcomputers) and software. Prerequisite CPEN 211 -... | 6 | Farshid Agharebparast | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 291 Electrical Engineering Design Studio I | Design projects involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, signals and systems, and microcomputers. [2-6-0] Prerequisites... | 6 | Jesús Calviño-Fraga |
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| ELEC 292 Biomedical Engineering Design Studio | Experiments involving electronic devices and circuits, electromagnetics, signals and systems, microcomputers, with applications in biomedical... | 6 | Jesús Calviño-Fraga |
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| ELEC 301 Electronic Circuits II | Analysis and design of electronic circuits; biasing of and small-signal models for transistors; frequency response of amplifiers; feedback and... | 4 | Nicolas Jaeger |
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| ELEC 302 Electronic Circuits for Electromechanical Design | Semiconductor fundamentals; modelling of electronis devices including diodes and transistors; design of power supplies, waveform generators and logic... | 3 | Kenichi Takahata |
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| CPEN 311 Digital Systems Design | Advanced combinational and sequential electronic system design. Hardware specification, modeling, and simulation using hardware description languages... | 4 | Yair Linn |
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| ELEC 311 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves | Waves and propagation; Maxwell's equations; applications including transmission lines; impedance matching and Smith charts; reflection and... | 4 |
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| CPEN 312 Digital Systems and Microcomputers | Data representation in digital computers; boolean algebra; the design and optimization and implementation of combinatorial and sequential circuits;... | 3 | Jesús Calviño-Fraga |
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| ELEC 315 Electronic Materials and Devices | Fundamental aspects of electronic materials such as: semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, magnetic materials, and their applications... | 4 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 321 Software Engineering | Engineering practices for the development of non-trivial software-intensive systems including specification, software design, implementation,... | 4 | Julia Rubin | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 321 Stochastic Signals and Systems | Stochastic behaviour of signals and systems (eg., communication systems); discrete and continuous probability; random processes; modeling and... | Lutz Lampe | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 331 Operating Systems | Introduction to operating systems, their design and their implementation. Process concurrency, synchronization, communication and scheduling. Device... | 4 | Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova |
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| ELEC 331 Computer Communications | Analysis, design and implementation of computer networks and their protocols. Application layer protocols, transmission control protocol (TCP),... | 4 |
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| CPEN 333 System Software Engineering | Operating systems principles, real-time systems, principles of concurrent and multi-threaded programming, information structures, introduction to... | 3 |
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| ELEC 341 Systems and Control | Continuous time system analysis by Laplace transforms; system modeling by transfer function and state space methods; feedback, stability and... | 4 |
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| ELEC 342 Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion and Transmission | Three phase power; transformers and harmonics; magnetic materials and circuits, electromechanical energy conversion; DC machines; rotating magnetic... | 4 |
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| ELEC 343 Electromechanics | Electromechanical energy conversion; linear actuators; torque/speed of rotating devices; reluctance, stepper, permanent-magnet, induction, brushless-... | 3 | Juri Jatskevich |
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| ELEC 344 Applied Electronics and Electromechanics | Characteristics of semiconductor devices; analog circuits; force and torque production; motor principles and torque-speed characteristics; principles... | 3 | Ignacio Galiano Zurbriggen | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 352 Electric Energy Systems | Balanced and unbalanced three phase energy systems. Modeling of generators, transmission lines, transformers and loads. High voltage... | 4 | Sina Chiniforoosh | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 371 Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation | Theory and experiments involving instruments for general, orthopedic, cardiac and minimally invasive surgery as well as sensors for respiratory,... | 3 | Leo Stocco |
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| CPEN 391 Computer Systems Design Studio II | Design and implementation of a hardware platform and software design and implementation at the operating system and application layers. Project... | 6 | Guy Lemieux | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 391 Electrical Engineering Design Studio II | Introduction to project management. Problem definition. Design principles and practices. Implementation techniques. Testing and evaluation.... | 6 | Leo Stocco |
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| ELEC 400 Topics in Electrical Engineering | Lectures or projects on subjects of current interest. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. | UBC Calendar Info | ||
| CPEN 400A Topics in Computer Engineering - BLDG MDRN WEBAPP | Lectures or projects on subjects of current interest. | 4 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 400V Topics in Computer Engineering - RESRCH EXPRIENCE | Lectures or projects on subjects of current interest. | 1 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| ELEC 401 Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit Design | Design and analysis of analog integrated circuits, with emphasis on CMOS design techniques. Gain stages, opamp design, frequency compensation,... | 3 | Shahriar Mirabbasi |
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| ELEC 402 Introduction to VLSI Systems | The chip design process using VLSI design styles in CMOS technology. Data path, control and register file design and layout. Clocking schemes, flip-... | 4 | Reza Molavi | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 403 Digital Integrated Circuit Design | Overview of deep submicron custom ic design. Advanced MOS models. IC fabrication. Timing and power calculations. Interconnect modeling and analysis... | 3 | Sudip Shekhar | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 404 RF Integrated Circuits | Introduction to radio-frequency (RF) communication systems; Matching Networks, Transceiver architectures, Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixers, Oscillators,... | 3 | Sudip Shekhar |
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| CPEN 411 Computer Architecture | Quantitative principles, instruction set design, methods for performance improvements, pipelining, multiple instruction issue, dynamic scheduling,... | 4 | Mieszko Lis |
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| ELEC 411 Antennas and Propagation | Basic antenna concepts; antennas for low, medium and high frequencies; terrestrial and satellite propagation links; environmental effects on... | 3 | David Michelson |
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| ELEC 412 Optical Waveguides and Photonics | Planar dielectric waveguides; single mode optical fibers; integrated optics waveguides and devices; semiconductor lasers; optical detectors; optical... | 3 | Nicolas Jaeger |
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| ELEC 413 Semiconductor Lasers | An introduction to lasers and applications. Theory, modeling, fabrication and performance of semiconductor lasers. Optical communications links.... | 3 | Lukas Chrostowski |
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| ELEC 415 Semiconductor Devices: Physics, Design and Analysis | Physics of operation, and design and analysis of semiconductor devices of topical interest, e.g., solar cells, LEDs, high-speed MOSFETs, high-... | 3 | Joseph Salfi |
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| CPEN 421 Software Project Management | OVERVIEW AND MOTIVATION The idea of a ‘project’, i.e. an organized set of activities with a defined set of outcomes achieved with... | 4 | Patrick Conroy |
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| ELEC 421 Digital Signal and Image Processing | DSP fundamentals; image processing; signal representation; digital filtering; statistical estimation; DSP applications.This course is not eligible... | 3 | Rafeef Garbi (née Abugharbieh) |
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| ELEC 422 Biosignals and Systems | Data acquisition, time and frequency domain analysis, analog and discrete filter design, sampling theory, time-dependent processing, linear... | 3 | Rafeef Garbi (née Abugharbieh) |
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| CPEN 431 Design of Distributed Software Applications | Communications, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency and replication, fault tolerance, object-based middleware, and security technologies... | 4 | Matei Ripeanu |
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| ELEC 431 Communication Systems | Review of probability theory, signals and noise, spectral analysis; detection and estimation of signals in the presence of noise; performance... | 3 | Paul Lusina |
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| CPEN 432 Real-Time System Design | Course Description In this course we will be studying the theoretical underpinnings of real-time compute systems, as well as practical aspects... | 4 | Bader Naim Alahmad |
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| ELEC 432 Digital Communications | Formulation of the digital communication problem; definition of information, source and channel coding; digital modulation techniques, signal space,... | 3 | Yair Linn |
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| ELEC 433 Error Control Coding for Communications and Computers | Design techniques, including Hamming, BCH, Reed-Solomon, LDPC and convolutional codes, ARQ techniques, and LFSR implementation of encoding-decoding... | 3 | Vijay Bhargava | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 434 Introduction to Optical Networks | Wavelength division multiplexing, framing techniques, traffic grooming, virtual topology design, routing and wavelength assignment, protection and... | 3 | Victor Leung |
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| CPEN 441 Human Computer Interfaces in Engineering Design | Practical issues for interfaces for modern software. Task analysis, user modeling, usability engineering, representations, metaphors, prototyping... | 4 | Sid Fels |
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| ELEC 441 Control Systems | Relationships between system parameters and system responses for linear control systems. Design specifications for dynamic and steady-state... | 3 | Guy Dumont | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 442 Introduction to Computer Security | Security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities from technical perspectives; confidentiality, integrity, and hybrid policies; cryptography, access... | 4 | Bob Gill | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 442 Introduction to Robotics | Common manipulator configurations, actuator and sensor technology. Efficient representations and computational methods for real-time microprocessor-... | 3 | Joseph Yan | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 451 Power Electronics | Power diodes, thyristors, transistors and FETs; analysis of idealized circuits with generalized loads; AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC, AC-AC converters,... | 4 | Martin Ordonez | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 453 Power System Analysis | Transmission and distribution; phasors, complex power; balanced/unbalanced three-phase operation; symmetrical components, sequence networks; voltage... | 4 | Y. Christine Chen |
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| ELEC 454 Power Systems Analysis II | Power system monitoring/control; large networks; automatic generation control; optimum power flow calculations; traveling wave transmission lines;... | 4 | José Martí | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 455 Power Systems Protection | Analysis of disturbances, security of power systems, cascading and blackouts; role and impact of protection; transducers and measuring elements;... | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| ELEC 456 Decision Support Methods in Power Systems Operation | Principles; acceptable regions of operation; energy management systems; load flow methods; static and dynamic security; contingency analysis;... | 3 | Ebrahim Vaahedi | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 457 Optimization of Power System Operation | Application of linear and nonlinear optimization methods in power systems; constrained optimization; optimal power flow; economic dispatch;... | 3 | Ebrahim Vaahedi | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 461 Nanotechnology in Electronics | Topics of special importance to understanding and designing electronic devices in which quantum effects and the discrete nature of matter become... | 3 | Konrad Walus | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 462 Sensors and Actuators in Microsystems | The mechanisms, design, fabrication, and testing of microsensors, actuators, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Course Objectives On the... | 3 | Boris Stoeber |
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| ELEC 463 Micro/Nanofabrication and Instrumentation Laboratory | Microfabrication methods and nanofabrication techniques. Imaging and characterization of micro and nanostructures. [2-4-0] Course Objective... | 3 | Lukas Chrostowski |
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| ELEC 465 Microsystems Design | Structured modeling and design practices; multiphysics at microscales; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics; behavioural modeling... | 3 | Edmond Cretu |
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| ELEC 471 Medical Imaging | Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, and X-ray projection imaging. Applications in... | 3 | Siamak Najarian |
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| ELEC 473 Biological Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems | Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology and nanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying and drug... | 3 | Karen Cheung |
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| ELEC 474 Biophotonics | Lens theory, light sources and detectors, image resolution and contrast, tissue absorption and scattering, fluorescence, microscopy, spectroscopy,... | 3 | Shuo Tang | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN/ELEC 481 Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects | Time-money relationships; economic analysis of alternatives including the effects of interest rates, inflation, depreciation, taxation and... | 3 | Kelleen Wiseman | UBC Calendar Info |
| APSC 486 New Venture Design | Teams comprising students in APSC 486 and COMM 466 create a business plan and a prototype or engineering solution of a novel product, process, or... | 6 | Philippe Kruchten |
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| CPEN 491 Computer Engineering Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world computer engineering problem, provided by industry, research... | 10 |
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| ELEC 491 Electrical Engineering Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world electrical engineering problem, provided by industry, research... | 10 |
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| CPEN 492 Software Engineering Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world software engineering problem. Projects are provided by industry,... | 10 |
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| ELEC 492 Electrical Energy Systems Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world electrical energy systems problem, provided by industry, research... | 10 |
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| ELEC 493 Nanotechnology and Microsystems Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world nanotechnology and microsystems engineering problem. Projects are... | 10 |
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| ELEC 494 Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Project | Design, analysis, and implementation of solutions in response to a real world biomedical engineering problem, provided by industry, research... | 10 |
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| APSC 496 Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Project | Projects involving students from several departments. | 1 | Philippe Kruchten |
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| CPEN/ELEC 499 Undergraduate Thesis | Guideline This course is intended as a vehicle to provide undergraduate students with research experience. Students can take on a research effort for... | 3 |
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| CPEN 502 Architecture for Learning Systems | Introduction to learning in neural networks, error backpropagation, simulated annealing, content addressable memories. Data representation... | 3 | Sarbjit Sarkaria |
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| ELEC 502 Advanced Topics in VLSI Design | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | ||
| ELEC 507 Mixed-Signal and RF Integrated Circuits and Systems Test | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | ||
| EECE 508 Multivariable Feedback Control | Well-posedness and internal stability of feedback systems, performance limitations, uncertainty, LFT representations, robust stability and robust... | 3 | ||
| EECE 510 Strategy and Leadership | Strategic frameworks. Organizational change. Team dynamics, effectiveness and decision-making. Personal leadership style and development. | 3 | ||
| CPEN 511 Advanced Computer Architecture | Modern processor design with an emphasis on superscalar microarchitecture. Topics include: Quantitative principles, pipelining, memory hierarchy,... | 3 | Mieszko Lis | UBC Calendar Info |
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| EECE 511B Software Testing and Maintenance | Course Objective By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Understand software evolution and the need for... | 3 | Ali Mesbah | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 512 Parallel and Reconfigurable Computing | Matching software parallelism to parallel hardware systems. Flynn's classification; Amdahl's Law; levels of parallelism; extra parallel work;... | 3 | Guy Lemieux | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 513 CAD Algorithms for Integrated Circuits | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | ||
| EECE 513 Error Resilient Computing Systems | Design and analysis of high-availability and life-critical embedded and commercial systems. Course Outline This course focuses on the design of fault... | 3 | Karthik Pattabiraman | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 521 Biomedical Microdevices | Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology andnanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying, and drug... | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 522 Software Verification and Testing | 3 | Ali Mesbah | UBC Calendar Info | |
| CPEN 523 Software Project Management | Advanced software project planning. Estimation of cost and value. Risk management. Release planning. Productivity and quality metrics. Management of... | Philippe Kruchten | UBC Calendar Info | |
| ELEC 523 Medical Imaging | Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography and X-ray projection imaging. Methods of feature detection, segmentation,... | 3 | Siamak Najarian |
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| ELEC 524 Advanced Biophotonics | Physical principles and design of optical microscopy, optical spectroscopy, and optical imaging devices and systems, and their applications in... | 3 | Shuo Tang |
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| EECE 531 Nanoscale Modeling and Simulations | The many-body problem, molecular dynamics, tight-binding, first-principles (ab-initio) methods, the Hartree-Fock approach, the density functional... | 3 | Alireza Nojeh | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 541 Human Interface Technologies | Human sensation, perception, kinetics; input technologies, gesture, vision, speech, audio; metaphors, information appliances, ubiquitous computing,... | 3 | Sid Fels | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 541 Multimedia Systems | A course on theoretical and practical issues in designing multimedia systems. Topics will include digital video coding, transcoding for universal... | 3 | Mahsa Pourazad | UBC Calendar Info |
| CPEN 542 Topics in Computer Security | 3 | Konstantin Beznosov | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 542 Computer-Integrated Surgery | Computer-integrated surgery systems such as point-based and intensity-based registration, targeting error estimation, surgical interface design,... | 3 | Course Page | |
| ELEC 543 Green Nanoelectronic Devices | This course presents fundamentals for materials, operation and design of green energy devices and related technologies. Examples of devices that are... | 3 |
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| ELEC 544 Advanced Microsystems Design | Project-based modeling techniques applied to microsystems; multi-physics at microscale; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics;... | 3 | Edmond Cretu |
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| ELEC 546 Micro and Nano Fabrication Technologies | Review of principles and practices of rnicro/nano fabrication technologies. Material and process selection; IC fabrication; silicon micromachining;... | 3 | Kenichi Takahata | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 549 Dynamic Modeling of Electric Machines and Controls | Numerical aspects of time-domain simulation are reviewed. Dynamic modeling and analysis of power systems components including transformers, induction... | 3 |
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| EECE 550 Topics in Power Electronic Design | New devices and applications in power electronics. | 3 | Martin Ordonez | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 553 Advanced Power Systems Analysis | Computer-oriented analysis of electric power systems with regard to multiphase line constants, steady-state analysis of single and parallel circuits... | 3 | Ebrahim Vaahedi | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 554 Advanced Power System Control and Dynamics | Course Outline: The following topics will probably be covered, based on the interests of the students: ... | 3 | Hermann Dommel | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 555 Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems | 3 | Sina Chiniforoosh | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 559 Energy Storage Systems | Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage. Pumped Storage. Other possible technologies. System modeling and control. | 3 | ||
| EECE 560 Network Analysis and Simulation | Solution of lumped and distributed networks. Time-domain solutions, discretization and integration rules. Frequency-domain solutions, FFT and... | 3 | José Martí |
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| EECE 562 Statistical Signal Processing with Applications in Wireless Communications and Defence | Stochastic dynamical models, Least Squares, Recursive Least Squares. Kalman, Hidden Markov, particle filters. Maximum likelihood estimation. Sensor... | 3 |
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| EECE 563 Wireless Communication Systems | 3 | Lutz Lampe |
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| EECE 564 Detection and Estimation of Signals in Noise | Formulation of the detection problem, optimum receiver principles, signal space, maximum likelihood decisions, error performance calculations.... | 3 | Paul Lusina |
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| EECE 565 Communication Networks | Analysis and design of communications networks; network architectures; Internet protocols; routing; scheduling algorithms; medium access control;... | 3 | Vincent Wong |
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| EECE 566 Communication and Information Theory | Coding for noisy channels, linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolutional codes, maximum likelihood decoding, trellis coded modulation, measure of... | 3 | Cyril Leung |
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| EECE 567 Power System Dynamics and Stability | 3 | Y. Christine Chen | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 569 Mobile Communications Networks | Network architectures: cellular networks, ad hoc networks; access protocols; radio and network resource management; quality of service; mobility and... | 3 | Victor Leung |
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| EECE 570 Fundamentals of Visual Computing | Course Structure: The course material will be presented through a combination of formal lectures, group readings and discussions, homework-based... | 3 | Rafeef Garbi (née Abugharbieh) |
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| EECE 571A Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - ANT PROPGTN II | This course is restricted to students in one of these faculties: GRAD | 3 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571B Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - BIG DATA SYSTEMS | According to the ex-CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, “every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until... | 3 | Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova |
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| EECE 571C Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems | Course Structure/Operation Context. This course is an elective course within the Urban Systems Pillar in the new Applied Science... | Y. Christine Chen | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571D EECE 571D - Power System Dynamics and Stability | This course provides students with an overview of the mathematical modelling required to simulate and predict power system dynamic behaviour during... | 3 | Y. Christine Chen | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571E Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - PARA COMP PLTFRM | 3 | Matei Ripeanu | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571F Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - RF INTGRTD CIRCT | Introduction to radio-frequency (RF) communication systems; Matching Networks, Transceiver architectures, Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixers, Oscillators,... | 3 | Sudip Shekhar |
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| EECE 571H Integrated Circuits | 3 | Sudip Shekhar | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571J Principles of Mobile Application Development and Analysis | Overview For several years now, mobile devices bypass desktops in sales: just walk into a restaurant, bar or a shopping mall and see how many... | Julia Rubin |
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| EECE 571L Power Loss Analysis in Power Converters | Learning Objectives The students will learn about power loss characterization in power converters, in particular of switching power devices. Power... | 3 | Martin Ordonez | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571M Multiphase Operation, Synchronous Rectification, and Interleaving of Resonant Converters | Learning Objectives The students will study advanced DC-DC converters for battery chargers application. The course will focus on the use of... | Martin Ordonez | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571P PROPAGATION AND CHANNEL MODELLING FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | Wireless propagation and channel models capture our knowledge and intuition concerning the manner in which wireless signals are attenuated and... | 3 | David Michelson | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571Q Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - Active Silicon Photonics Design | Course Structure/Operation Students propose, model, design, and layout a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) using active silicon photonics technology... | Lukas Chrostowski | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571R Security and Reliability in the Internet of Things (IoT) | Learning Objectives By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Understand the sources of reliability issues and... | 3 | Karthik Pattabiraman | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571S Advanced Memory Systems Architecture | Course Description Memory systems are critical to store and supply data to processing cores. As we move into advanced processor designs, it has... | 3 | Prashant Nair | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 571T Compute Accelerator Architectures | Summary With the approaching end of Moore's Law computer systems developers are being confronted with the challenge of increasing computing... | Tor Aamodt | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 571Z CMOS Design for Optoelectronics Applications | Course Structure/Operation This is a one semester course involving lectures, projects and exams. In the previous years, this used to be only a... | 3 | Sudip Shekhar | UBC Calendar Info |
| ELEC 574 Self-Tuning Control | Adaptive control; system identification; self-tuning control; design and implementation considerations; algorithm convergence and stability;... | 3 | Guy Dumont | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 576 Semiconductor Theory for Device Applications | A quantum mechanical treatment of the structure and electronic properties of semiconducting materials and electronic devices; including bandstructure... | 3 | Konrad Walus | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 580 Emerging Electronic Materials and Devices | The physics, fabrication and characterization of organic and carbon nanotube based capacitors, transistors, batteries, electrochromic windows, active... | 3 | John Madden | UBC Calendar Info |
| EECE 584 Nanophotonics Fabrication | Design, fabricate, and test a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Modelling and design of optical... | 6 |
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| EECE 585 Electromagnetic Compatibility | History of electromagnetic compatibility; standards and regulations; component models; radiated emissions; conducted emissions; transmission lines... | 3 | Course Page | |
| EECE 586 Wavelets, Principles and Applications in Signal Processing | Concepts, methodologies and tools of signal processing using wavelets, including multi-resolution analysis, wavelet packets, wavelet dictionaries,... | 3 | Jane Z. Wang |
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| EECE 588 Analog Integrated Circuit Design | Analysis and design emphasizing CMOS implementations. Gain stages, biasing circuits, comparators, sample-and-hold circuits, switched-capacitor... | 3 | Shahriar Mirabbasi |
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| EECE 597 Engineering Report | This is a project course specifically for MEng students. After completing one term, M.Eng. students can conduct an engineering project and write a... | 6 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 599 Thesis | For M.A.Sc. | 12 | UBC Calendar Info | |
| EECE 699 Doctoral Dissertation | For Ph.D. | 0 | UBC Calendar Info |