This course studies the economics of low- and middle-income countries. The media tout the great success stories, like China's rapid economic growth, as well as the tragedies of poverty, such as ethnic or religious conflict.

Reliable communication of one bit of information over three types of channels: additive Gaussian noise, wireline, and wireless. Emphasis on the impact of bandwidth and power on the data rate and reliability, using discrete-time models. Technological examples used as case studies. 3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. Prerequisite: ECE 210 and ECE 313.

Hands-on experience in the configuration and performance evaluation of digital communication systems employing both radio and optical signals. 2 undergraduate hours. 2 graduate hours. Prerequisite: ECE 361 or ECE 459.

<p>Design, planning, operation, management, and maintenance of transportation systems; integrated multi-modal transportation systems (highways, air, rail, etc.); layout of highways, airports, and railroads with traffic flow models, capacity analysis, and safety. Design of facilities and systems with life cycle costing procedures and criteria for optimization. Prerequisite: TAM 251; credit or concurrent registration in CEE 202.</p>

<p>Companion laboratory for ECE 310. Prerequisite: Credit or concurrent registration in ECE 310.</p>

<p>Design, build, and test digital systems using transistor-transistor logic (TTL), SystemVerilog, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Topics include combinational and sequential logic, storage elements, input/output and display, timing analysis, design tradeoffs, synchronous and asynchronous design methods, datapath and controller, microprocessor design, software/hardware co-design, and system-on-a-chip. Prerequisite: ECE 110 and ECE 220. Students must register for one lab and one lecture section.</p>

Discrete mathematical structures frequently encountered in the study of Computer Science. Sets, propositions, Boolean algebra, induction, recursion, relations, functions, and graphs. Credit is not given for both CS 173 and MATH 213. Prerequisite: One of CS 125, ECE 220; one of MATH 220, MATH 221. Students must register for a lecture and discussion section.

The course aims to develop an understanding of the requirements for electronic payment systems and how these requirements are realized using distributed ledger technologies. The technical ideas to be understood include the key cryptographic constructs, economic incentive mechanisms, and distributed algorithms underpinning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The concept of smart contracts will be introduced, and the course aims to develop a basic facility with smart programming contracts on one cryptocurrency platform.

Protocols, specification techniques, global states and their determination, reliable broadcast, transactions and commitment, security, and real-time systems.

<p>Protocols, specification techniques, global states and their determination, reliable broadcast, transactions and commitment, security, and real-time systems. Same as ECE 428. 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: CS 241 or ECE 391.</p>