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In this newsletter I would like to report on the development of two new undergraduate curricula in electrical engineering and computer engineering that were approved by the two undergraduate curriculum committees in the ECE department, and the whole faculty of the ECE department on March 17, 1999. The result is that our undergraduate students in ECE will have access to an exciting, state-of-the-art curriculum in the future.
While the present curricula for both EE and CE requires students to take 8 specific courses, the new curricula will require only 5 courses. Some new courses have also been developed.
We have developed two new courses that will be suitable for freshmen and sophomores; these will be required of both EE and CE majors and will provide a one-quarter overview of the fields of computer engineering and electrical engineering along with exciting labs involving the design of a robot and a CD player.
ECE B01: Introduction to Computer Engineering
ECE B02: Introduction to Electrical Engineering
We have also developed 5 new fundamentals courses:
ECE B41: Fundamentals of Circuits
ECE B43: Fundamentals of Signals and Systems
ECE B52: Fundamentals of Solid-State Engineering
ECE C01: Fundamentals of Electromagnetics and Photonics
ECE C06: Fundamentals of Electronics
These 5 courses will be required of all EE students and will provide fundamental knowledge in each field of electrical engineering. Subsequently, students will be able to take the rest of the technical electives from a wide range of choices in each field.
Computer engineering students will be required to take the following 5 courses which are fundamental to their field:
ECE C03: Advanced Logic Design
ECE C61: Computer Architecture
ECE B05: Fundamentals of Computer Systems Software
CS C11: Data Structures
CS C43: Operating Systems
Subsequently, students will be able to take the rest of the technical electives from a wide range of choices in each field.
Several other modifications are being made in some upper level courses to respond to changes in these lower level courses. More details will be made available on the department's web site soon.
I would like to thank members of the Undergraduate EE Curriculum committee chaired by Prof. Mike Honig, and the Undergraduate CE Curriculum committee chaired by Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh for accomplishing these significant changes in the curriculum within a year. Both committees met almost every week during this past year to develop these curricula.
The new curricula is being forwarded to the McCormick Curriculum Committee to be approved by the full McCormick faculty on June 7, 1999. The new curricula will be effective for students entering in Fall 2000, but will be available in a pilot form for students entering in Fall 1999.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
DATABASE SEMINAR
Date: Tuesday, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Time: April 6
Location: L324
Speaker: Mehmet Sayal
Title: "Hybrid Miner: Combining the Strengths of Content
and Log Based Clustering Techniques"
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, April 7
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: L324
TITLE: MATLAB FUNCTIONS ON THE WILDFIRE FPGA SYSTEM
SPEAKER: Suresh Periyacheri, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof.
Banerjee)
There are no examinations scheduled this week.
Prof. Prith Banerjee is traveling to Houston, TX, on April 6 to attend a DARPA PI Meeting.
Prof. Nate Newman is traveling to San Francisco, CA, April 5 - 10, to attend the Spring meeting of the Material Research Society.
Prof. Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Madrid, Spain, April 1- 14, to present a talk entitled, "Optimization Techniques in Weather Forecasting," at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics of the Universidad Carlos III, Spain.
Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh is traveling to Houston, TX, April 6 & 7, to attend a DARPA PI meeting.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .