Program for a concentration in Integrated Circuit (IC) Design for Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering:

IC Design Faculty Coordinator: Dr. George L. Engel

All graduate students who are advised by Dr. Engel should complete their plan of study.

If you wish to read about Dr. Engel’s research, click here.

ECE Core Courses:

ECE552 Stochastic Processes II

One course each from two of the three categories below:

Computers: ECE577, 581, 582 or 584

Communications: ECE570, 572, 574 or 575

Signals and Systems: ECE532, 538, 539 or 563

IC Design Core courses:

ECE483: Advanced Digital Systems Engineering

ECE484: Digital VLSI Design

ECE584: Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit Design

ECE585: Mixed-signal VLSI Design (NEW!!! Coming Summer 2007!!)

Take four or five of following (maximum of two out of department courses):

ECE426: Radio Frequency Design

ECE428: Analog Filter Design

ECE436: Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

ECE437: DSP Design Projects

ECE477: Network Engineering

ECE482: Microprocessor Systems

ECE532: Applications of DSP

ECE577: Advanced Network Engineering

ECE581: High Performance Architectures I

ECE582 High Performance Architectures II

ECE591 Independent Study

ECE595: Electrical Engineering Master's Project

Other courses of interest:

ECE 438 Image Analysis & Computer Vision

ECE 439 Digital Image Processing

ECE538 Image Analysis & Computer Vision II

ECE 539 Digital Image Processing II

MA462: Engineering Mathematics II

MA465: Numerical Analysis

CS404 : Scientific Computation

ECE492: Mobile Robotics

Students choosing the Thesis option need to take 6 hours of ECE599!

For the non-thesis option, it is highly recommended that students take ECE595.