Courses (reflecting programs/option beginning September 2017)

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
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	Alireza Nojeh Jesús Calviño-Fraga L.R. Linares	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	L.R. Linares Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Reza Molavi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 211 Introduction to Microcomputers	Boolean algebra; combinational and sequential circuits; organization and operation of microcomputers, memory addressing modes, representation of...	5	Tor Aamodt	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Joseph Yan Paul Lusina	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 311 Digital Systems Design	Advanced combinational and sequential electronic system design. Hardware specification, modeling, and simulation using hardware description languages...	4	Yair Linn	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 311 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves	Waves and propagation; Maxwell's equations; applications including transmission lines; impedance matching and Smith charts; reflection and...	4	David Michelson Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 315 Electronic Materials and Devices	Fundamental aspects of electronic materials such as: semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, magnetic materials, and their applications...	4	John Madden Peyman Servati	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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 331 Computer Communications	Analysis, design and implementation of computer networks and their protocols. Application layer protocols, transmission control protocol (TCP),...	4	Farshid Agharebparast Vincent Wong	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 333 System Software Engineering	Operating systems principles, real-time systems, principles of concurrent and multi-threaded programming, information structures, introduction to...	3		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Edmond Cretu Leo Stocco	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	L.R. Linares William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 343 Electromechanics	Electromechanical energy conversion; linear actuators; torque/speed of rotating devices; reluctance, stepper, permanent-magnet, induction, brushless-...	3	Juri Jatskevich	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 344 Applied Electronics and Electromechanics	Characteristics of semiconductor devices; analog circuits; force and torque production; motor principles and torque-speed characteristics; principles...	3	William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Sudip Shekhar	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Reza Molavi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 404 RF Integrated Circuits	Introduction to radio-frequency (RF) communication systems; Matching Networks, Transceiver architectures, Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixers, Oscillators,...	3	Sudip Shekhar	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 411 Computer Architecture	Quantitative principles, instruction set design, methods for performance improvements, pipelining, multiple instruction issue, dynamic scheduling,...	4	Mieszko Lis	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 413 Semiconductor Lasers	An introduction to lasers and applications. Theory, modeling, fabrication and performance of semiconductor lasers. Optical communications links....	3	Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	John Madden	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 421 Software Project Management	Advanced project planning, cost estimation and scheduling. Project management tools. Factors influencing productivity and success. Productivity...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Panos Nasiopoulos	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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 Abugharbieh	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 432 Real-Time System Design	Multi-tasking; interrupt-driven systems; task scheduling; schedulability analysis; inter-process communication and synchronization; resource...	4		UBC Calendar Info
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Charles Henville Mukesh Nagpal	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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 463 Micro/Nanofabrication and Instrumentation Laboratory	Microfabrication methods and nanofabrication techniques. Imaging and characterization of micro and nanostructures. Restricted to students admitted to...	3	Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 465 Microsystems Design	Structured modeling and design practices; multiphysics at microscales; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics; behavioural modeling...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 471 Medical Imaging	Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, and X-ray projection imaging. Applications in...	3	Siamak Najarian	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu John Madden Michael Wrinch Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Sid Fels Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
APSC 496 Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Project	Projects involving students from several departments.	1	Philippe Kruchten	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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		UBC Calendar Info Course Page

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
EECE 508 Multivariable Feedback Control	Well-posedness and internal stability of feedback systems, performance limitations, uncertainty, LFT representations, robust stability and robust...	3
EECE 509 Advanced Microsystems Design	Project-based modeling techniques applied to microsystems; multi-physics at microscale; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics;...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 510 Strategy and Leadership	Strategic frameworks. Organizational change. Team dynamics, effectiveness and decision-making. Personal leadership style and development.	3
EECE 511 Topics in Software Engineering				UBC Calendar Info
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
EECE 512 Topics in Computer Security		3	Konstantin Beznosov	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
EECE 514 Software Verification and Testing		3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 518 Human Interface Technologies	Human sensation, perception, kinetics; input technologies, gesture, vision, speech, audio; metaphors, information appliances, ubiquitous computing,...	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 527 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 Course Page
EECE 528 Parallel and Reconfigurable Computing	Matching software parallelism to parallel hardware systems. Flynn's classification; Amdahl's Law; levels of parallelism; extra parallel work;...		Guy Lemieux	UBC Calendar Info
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
EECE 532 Biomedical Microdevices	Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology andnanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying, and drug...	3
EECE 534 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		Course Page
EECE 535 Advanced Biophotonics	Physical principles and design of optical microscopy, optical spectroscopy, and optical imaging devices and systems, and their applications in...	3	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Panos Nasiopoulos	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
EECE 543 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
EECE 544 Medical Imaging	Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography and X-ray projection imaging. Methods of feature detection, segmentation,...	3	Robert Rohling	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Y. Christine Chen	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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 563 Wireless Communication Systems		3	Lutz Lampe	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Vijay Bhargava	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 565 Communication Networks	Analysis and design of communications networks; network architectures; Internet protocols; routing; scheduling algorithms; medium access control;...	3	Vincent Wong	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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 Abugharbieh	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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 Topics in Software Engineering	1. Learning Objectives By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Gain advanced theoretical knowledge and...	3	Ali Mesbah	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
EECE 573 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 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 579 Advanced Topics in VLSI Design		3		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 583 CAD Algorithms for Integrated Circuits		3		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	Lukas Chrostowski Nicolas Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 592 Architecture for Learning Systems	Introduction to learning in neural networks, error backpropagation, simulated annealing, content addressable memories. Data representation...	3	Sarbjit Sarkaria	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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

Title	Description	Credits	Instructor
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	Alireza Nojeh Jesús Calviño-Fraga L.R. Linares	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	L.R. Linares Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Reza Molavi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 211 Introduction to Microcomputers	Boolean algebra; combinational and sequential circuits; organization and operation of microcomputers, memory addressing modes, representation of...	5	Tor Aamodt	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Joseph Yan Paul Lusina	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 311 Digital Systems Design	Advanced combinational and sequential electronic system design. Hardware specification, modeling, and simulation using hardware description languages...	4	Yair Linn	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 311 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves	Waves and propagation; Maxwell's equations; applications including transmission lines; impedance matching and Smith charts; reflection and...	4	David Michelson Konrad Walus	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 315 Electronic Materials and Devices	Fundamental aspects of electronic materials such as: semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, magnetic materials, and their applications...	4	John Madden Peyman Servati	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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 331 Computer Communications	Analysis, design and implementation of computer networks and their protocols. Application layer protocols, transmission control protocol (TCP),...	4	Farshid Agharebparast Vincent Wong	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 333 System Software Engineering	Operating systems principles, real-time systems, principles of concurrent and multi-threaded programming, information structures, introduction to...	3		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Edmond Cretu Leo Stocco	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	L.R. Linares William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 343 Electromechanics	Electromechanical energy conversion; linear actuators; torque/speed of rotating devices; reluctance, stepper, permanent-magnet, induction, brushless-...	3	Juri Jatskevich	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 344 Applied Electronics and Electromechanics	Characteristics of semiconductor devices; analog circuits; force and torque production; motor principles and torque-speed characteristics; principles...	3	William Dunford	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Sudip Shekhar	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Reza Molavi	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 404 RF Integrated Circuits	Introduction to radio-frequency (RF) communication systems; Matching Networks, Transceiver architectures, Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixers, Oscillators,...	3	Sudip Shekhar	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 411 Computer Architecture	Quantitative principles, instruction set design, methods for performance improvements, pipelining, multiple instruction issue, dynamic scheduling,...	4	Mieszko Lis	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 413 Semiconductor Lasers	An introduction to lasers and applications. Theory, modeling, fabrication and performance of semiconductor lasers. Optical communications links....	3	Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	John Madden	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 421 Software Project Management	Advanced project planning, cost estimation and scheduling. Project management tools. Factors influencing productivity and success. Productivity...	4		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Panos Nasiopoulos	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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 Abugharbieh	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
CPEN 432 Real-Time System Design	Multi-tasking; interrupt-driven systems; task scheduling; schedulability analysis; inter-process communication and synchronization; resource...	4		UBC Calendar Info
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Charles Henville Mukesh Nagpal	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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 463 Micro/Nanofabrication and Instrumentation Laboratory	Microfabrication methods and nanofabrication techniques. Imaging and characterization of micro and nanostructures. Restricted to students admitted to...	3	Lukas Chrostowski	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 465 Microsystems Design	Structured modeling and design practices; multiphysics at microscales; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics; behavioural modeling...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
ELEC 471 Medical Imaging	Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, and X-ray projection imaging. Applications in...	3	Siamak Najarian	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu John Madden Michael Wrinch Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Sid Fels Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Cristian Sorin Grecu Joseph Yan Paul Lusina Philippe Kruchten Pieter Botman Purang Abolmaesumi Terry Lee	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
APSC 496 Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Project	Projects involving students from several departments.	1	Philippe Kruchten	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 508 Multivariable Feedback Control	Well-posedness and internal stability of feedback systems, performance limitations, uncertainty, LFT representations, robust stability and robust...	3
EECE 509 Advanced Microsystems Design	Project-based modeling techniques applied to microsystems; multi-physics at microscale; physical limitations in MEMS; interface with electronics;...	3	Edmond Cretu	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 510 Strategy and Leadership	Strategic frameworks. Organizational change. Team dynamics, effectiveness and decision-making. Personal leadership style and development.	3
EECE 511 Topics in Software Engineering				UBC Calendar Info
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
EECE 512 Topics in Computer Security		3	Konstantin Beznosov	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
EECE 514 Software Verification and Testing		3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 518 Human Interface Technologies	Human sensation, perception, kinetics; input technologies, gesture, vision, speech, audio; metaphors, information appliances, ubiquitous computing,...	3		UBC Calendar Info
EECE 527 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 Course Page
EECE 528 Parallel and Reconfigurable Computing	Matching software parallelism to parallel hardware systems. Flynn's classification; Amdahl's Law; levels of parallelism; extra parallel work;...		Guy Lemieux	UBC Calendar Info
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
EECE 532 Biomedical Microdevices	Principles of sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biotechnology andnanotechnology, with applications in probing, detection, assaying, and drug...	3
EECE 534 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		Course Page
EECE 535 Advanced Biophotonics	Physical principles and design of optical microscopy, optical spectroscopy, and optical imaging devices and systems, and their applications in...	3	Shuo Tang	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Panos Nasiopoulos	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
EECE 543 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
EECE 544 Medical Imaging	Physical principles of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography and X-ray projection imaging. Methods of feature detection, segmentation,...	3	Robert Rohling	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Y. Christine Chen	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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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		UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 563 Wireless Communication Systems		3	Lutz Lampe	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	Vijay Bhargava	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 565 Communication Networks	Analysis and design of communications networks; network architectures; Internet protocols; routing; scheduling algorithms; medium access control;...	3	Vincent Wong	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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 Abugharbieh	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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 Topics in Software Engineering	1. Learning Objectives By the end of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to: Gain advanced theoretical knowledge and...	3	Ali Mesbah	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
EECE 573 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 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 579 Advanced Topics in VLSI Design		3		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 583 CAD Algorithms for Integrated Circuits		3		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	Lukas Chrostowski Nicolas Jaeger	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
EECE 592 Architecture for Learning Systems	Introduction to learning in neural networks, error backpropagation, simulated annealing, content addressable memories. Data representation...	3	Sarbjit Sarkaria	UBC Calendar Info Course Page
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

The University of British Columbia

Prospective Students

Current Undergraduates

Current Graduates

Faculty & Staff