Electrical Engineering (EL ENG)

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2017
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics may vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Terms offered: Fall 2011
A Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences degree opens the door to many opportunities, but what exactly are they? Graduation is only a few years away and it's not too early to find out. In this seminar students will hear from practicing engineers who recently graduated. What are they working on? Are they working in a team? What do they wish they had learned better? How did they find their jobs?
What Electrical Engineers Do--Feedback from Recent Graduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
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Terms offered: Fall 2013, Summer 2013 8 Week Session, Spring 2013
Introduction to the principles of electrical engineering, starting from the basic concepts of voltage and current and circuit elements of resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws with Thevenin and Norton equivalents. Operational amplifiers with feedback. Semiconductor devices including diodes and MOSFETS and their IV characteristics. Applications of diodes for rectification, and design of MOSFETs in common source amplifiers. Digital logic gates and design using CMOS as well as simple flip-flops. Speed and scaling issues for CMOS. The course includes as motivating examples designs of high level applications including logic circuits, amplifiers, power supplies, and communication links.

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Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Electronics has become pervasive in our lives as a powerful technology with applications in a wide range of fields including healthcare, environmental monitoring, robotics, or entertainment. This course teaches how to build electronic circuits that interact with the environment through sensors and actuators and how to communicate wirelessly with the internet to cooperate with other devices and with humans. In the laboratory students design and build representative samples such as solar harvesters, robots, that exchange information with or are controlled from the cloud.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Spring 2022
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
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Terms offered: Summer 2024 3 Week Session, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
Students take part in organized individual field sponsored programs with off-campus companies or tutoring/mentoring relevant to specific aspects and applications of computer science on or off campus. Note Summer CPT or OPT students: written report required. Course does not count toward major requirements, but will be counted in the cumulative units toward graduation.
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Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2016
Group study of selected topics in electrical engineering, usually relating to new developments.
Directed Group Study for Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Supervised independent study and research for students with fewer than 60 units completed.
Individual Study and Research for Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course covers the fundamental circuit and device concepts needed to understand analog integrated circuits. After an overview of the basic properties of semiconductors, the p-n junction and MOS capacitors are described and the MOSFET is modeled as a large-signal device. Two port small-signal amplifiers and their realization using single stage and multistage CMOS building blocks are discussed. Sinusoidal steady-state signals are introduced and the techniques of phasor analysis are developed, including impedance and the magnitude and phase response of linear circuits. The frequency responses of single and multi-stage amplifiers are analyzed. Differential amplifiers are introduced.
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Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
An introduction to the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators, robotic vision, and sensing. The course covers forward and inverse kinematics of serial chain manipulators, the manipulator Jacobian, force relations, dynamics, and control. It presents elementary principles on proximity, tactile, and force sensing, vision sensors, camera calibration, stereo construction, and motion detection. The course concludes with current applications of robotics in active perception, medical robotics, and other areas.
Introduction to Robotics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016
This course is a sequel to Electrical Engineering C106A/Bioengineering C125, which covers kinematics, dynamics and control of a single robot. This course will cover dynamics and control of groups of robotic manipulators coordinating with each other and interacting with the environment. Concepts will include an introduction to grasping and the constrained manipulation, contacts and force control for interaction with the environment. We will also cover active perception guided manipulation, as well as the manipulation of non-rigid objects. Throughout, we will emphasize design and human-robot interactions, and applications to applications in manufacturing, service robotics, tele-surgery, and locomotion.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
This course is designed to provide an introduction to electric power conversion, distribution, and generation with renewable energy sources. The course will introduce fundamental concepts in the area of electric power, such as complex and reactive power, phasors, impedance, magnetic circuits and transformers, power factor, power
quality, three-phase power, ac-dc conversion, and a conceptual overview of renewable energy and the integration of sustainable energy sources on the electric grid.Real world applications, ranging from ground-fault circuit interrupters to residential power distribution and solar photovoltaic dc-ac inverters will be explored in
live lecture demonstration.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Power conversion circuits and techniques. Characterization and design of magnetic devices including transformers, reactors, and electromagnetic machinery. Characteristics of bipolar and MOS power semiconductor devices. Applications to motor control, switching power supplies, lighting, power systems, and other areas as appropriate.
Power Electronics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
This course is the second in a two-semester series to equip students with the skills needed to analyze, design, and prototype power electronic converters. While EE 113/213A provides an overview of power electronics fundamentals and applications, EE 113B/213B
focuses on the practical design and hardware implementation of power converters. The primary focus of
EE 113B/213B is time in the laboratory, with sequential modules on topics such as power electronic components,
PCB layout, closed-loop control, and experimental validation. At the end of the course, students will have
designed, prototyped, and validated a power converter from scratch, demonstrating a skill set that is critical for
power electronics engineers in research and industry.
Power Electronics Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Review of static electric and magnetic fields and applications; Maxwell's equations; transmission lines; propagation and reflection of plane waves; introduction to guided waves, microwave networks, and radiation and antennas. Minilabs on statics, transmission lines, and waves. Explanation of cellphone antennas, WiFi communication, and other wireless technologies.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Fundamental principles of optical systems. Geometrical optics and aberration theory. Stops and apertures, prisms, and mirrors. Diffraction and interference. Optical materials and coatings. Radiometry and photometry. Basic optical devices and the human eye. The design of optical systems. Lasers, fiber optics, and holography.
Introduction to Optical Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Continuous and discrete-time transform analysis techniques with illustrative applications. Linear and time-invariant systems, transfer functions. Fourier series, Fourier transform, Laplace and Z-transforms. Sampling and reconstruction. Solution of differential and difference equations using transforms. Frequency response, Bode plots, stability analysis. Illustrated by analysis of communication systems and feedback control systems.
Signals and Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
Introduction to the basic principles of the design and analysis of modern digital communication systems. Topics include source coding, channel coding, baseband and passband modulation techniques, receiver design, and channel equalization. Applications to design of digital telephone modems, compact disks, and digital wireless communication systems. Concepts illustrated by a sequence of MATLAB exercises.
Introduction to Digital Communication Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course focuses on the fundamentals of the wired and wireless communication networks. The course covers both the architectural principles for making these networks scalable and robust, as well as the key techniques essential for analyzing and designing them. The topics include graph theory, Markov chains, queuing, optimization techniques, the physical and link layers, switching, transport, cellular networks and Wi-Fi.
Introduction to Communication Networks: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Discrete time signals and systems: Fourier and Z transforms, DFT, 2-dimensional versions. Digital signal processing topics: flow graphs, realizations, FFT, chirp-Z algorithms, Hilbert transform relations, quantization effects, linear prediction. Digital filter design methods: windowing, frequency sampling, S-to-Z methods, frequency-transformation methods, optimization methods, 2-dimensional filter design.
Digital Signal Processing: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
This course covers the fundamentals of probability and random processes useful in fields such as networks, communication, signal processing, and control. Sample space, events, probability law. Conditional probability. Independence. Random variables. Distribution, density functions. Random vectors. Law of large numbers. Central limit theorem. Estimation and detection. Markov chains.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Analysis and synthesis of linear feedback control systems in transform and time domains. Control system design by root locus, frequency response, and state space methods. Applications to electro-mechanical and mechatronics systems.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Overview of electronic properties of semiconductor. Metal-semiconductor contacts, pn junctions, bipolar transistors, and MOS field-effect transistors. Properties that are significant to device operation for integrated circuits. Silicon device fabrication technology.
Integrated-Circuit Devices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course is designed to give an introduction to, and overview of, the fundamentals of photovoltaic devices. Students will learn how solar cells work, understand the concepts and models of solar cell device physics, and formulate and solve relevant physical problems related to photovoltaic devices. Monocrystalline, thin film and third generation solar cells will be discussed and analyzed. Light management and economic considerations in a solar cell system will also be covered.
Fundamentals of Photovoltaic Devices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Overview of conventional electric power conversion and delivery, emphasizing a systemic understanding of the electric grid with primary focus at the transmission level, aimed toward recognizing needs and opportunities for technological innovation. Topics include aspects of a.c. system design, electric generators, components of transmission and distribution systems, power flow analysis, system planning and operation, performance measures, and limitations of legacy technologies.
Introduction to Electric Power Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Overview of recent and potential future evolution of electric power systems with focus on new and emerging technologies for power conversion and delivery, primarily at the distribution level. Topics include power electronics applications, solar and wind generation, distribution system design and operation, electric energy storage, information management and communications, demand response, and microgrids.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Single and multiple stage transistor amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers, 2-port formulation, source, load, and feedback network loading. Frequency response of cascaded amplifiers, gain-bandwidth exchange, compensation, dominant pole techniques, root locus. Supply and temperature independent biasing and references. Selected applications of analog circuits such as analog-to-digital converters, switched capacitor filters, and comparators. Hardware laboratory and design project.
Linear Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Analysis and design of electronic circuits for communication systems, with an emphasis on integrated circuits for wireless communication systems. Analysis of noise and distortion in amplifiers with application to radio receiver design. Power amplifier design with application to wireless radio transmitters. Radio-frequency mixers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, modulators, and demodulators.
Integrated Circuits for Communications: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Integrated circuit device fabrication and surface micromachining technology. Thermal oxidation, ion implantation, impurity diffusion, film deposition, expitaxy, lithography, etching, contacts and interconnections, and process integration issues. Device design and mask layout, relation between physical structure and electrical/mechanical performance. MOS transistors and poly-Si surface microstructures will be fabricated in the laboratory and evaluated.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
The modeling, analysis, and optimization of complex systems requires a range of algorithms and design software. This course reviews the fundamental techniques underlying the design methodology for complex systems, using integrated circuit design as example. Topics include design flows, discrete and continuous models and algorithms, and strategies for implementing algorithms efficiently and correctly in software. Laboratory assignments and a class project will expose students to state-of-the-art tools.
Fundamental Algorithms for Systems Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Biomedical imaging is a clinically important application of engineering, applied mathematics, physics, and medicine. In this course, we apply linear systems theory and basic physics to analyze X-ray imaging, computerized tomography, nuclear medicine, and MRI. We cover the basic physics and instrumentation that characterizes medical image as an ideal perfect-resolution image blurred by an impulse response. This material could prepare the student for a career in designing new medical imaging systems that reliably detect small tumors or infarcts.
Medical Imaging Signals and Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012
Laboratory exercises exploring a variety of electronic transducers for measuring physical quantities such as temperature, force, displacement, sound, light, ionic potential; the use of circuits for low-level differential amplification and analog signal processing; and the use of microcomputers for digital sampling and display. Lectures cover principles explored in the laboratory exercises; construction, response and signal to noise of electronic transducers and actuators; and design of circuits for sensing and controlling physical quantities.
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Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011
Laboratory exercises constructing basic interfacing circuits and writing 20-100 line C programs for data acquisition, storage, analysis, display, and control. Use of the IBM PC with microprogrammable digital counter/timer, parallel I/O port. Circuit components include anti-aliasing filters, the S/H amplifier, A/D and D/A converters. Exercises include effects of aliasing in periodic sampling, fast Fourier transforms of basic waveforms, the use of the Hanning filter for leakage reduction, Fourier analysis of the human voice, digital filters, and control using Fourier deconvolution. Lectures cover principles explored in the lab exercises and design of microcomputer-based systems for data acquisitions, analysis and control.
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Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
Introduction to laboratory and field study of the biomechanics of animals and plants using fundamental biomechanical techniques and equipment. Course has a series of rotations involving students in experiments demonstrating how solid and fluid mechanics can be used to discover the way in which diverse organisms move and interact with their physical environment. The laboratories emphasize sampling methodology, experimental design, and statistical interpretation of results. Latter third of course devoted to independent research projects. Written reports and class presentation of project results are required.
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Terms offered: Spring 2015
This is a lab course that covers the design of modern Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The labs lay the foundation of modern digital design by first setting-up the scripting and hardware description language base for specification of digital systems and interactions with tool flows. Software testing of digital designs is covered leading into a set of labs that cover the design flow. Digital synthesis, floorplanning, placement and routing are covered, as well as tools to evaluate design timing and power. Chip-level assembly is covered, instantiation of custom IP blocks: I/O pads, memories, PLLs, etc. The labs culminate with a project design – implementation of a 3-stage RISC-V processor with register file and caches.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course will teach fundamentals of micromachining and microfabrication techniques, including planar thin-film process technologies, photolithographic techniques, deposition and etching techniques, and the other technologies that are central to MEMS fabrication. It will pay special attention to teaching of fundamentals necessary for the design and analysis of devices and systems in mechanical, electrical, fluidic, and thermal energy/signal domains, and will teach basic techniques for multi-domain analysis. Fundamentals of sensing and transduction mechanisms including capacitive and piezoresistive techniques, and design and analysis of micmicromachined miniature sensors and actuators using these techniques will be covered.
Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Design project course, focusing on application of theoretical principles in electrical engineering to control of a small-scale system, such as a mobile robot. Small teams of students will design and construct a mechatronic system incorporating sensors, actuators, and intelligence.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Topics will vary semester to semester. See the Electrical Engineering announcements.
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Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Thesis work under the supervision of a faculty member. A minimum of four units must be taken; the units may be distributed between one and two semesters in any way. To obtain credit a satisfactory thesis must be submitted at the end of the two semesters to the Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science Department archive. Students who complete four units and a thesis in one semester receive a letter grade at the end of H196A. Students who do not, receive an IP in H196A and must enroll in H196B.
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Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Thesis work under the supervision of a faculty member. A minimum of four units must be taken; the units may be distributed between one and two semesters in any way. To obtain credit a satisfactory thesis must be submitted at the end of the two semesters to the Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science Department archive. Students who complete four units and a thesis in one semester receive a letter grade at the end of H196A. Students who do not, receive an IP in H196A and must enroll in H196B.
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Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Students take part in organized individual field sponsored programs with off-campus companies or tutoring/mentoring relevant to specific aspects and applications of computer science on or off campus. Note Summer CPT or OPT students: written report required. Course does not count toward major requirements, but will be counted in the cumulative units toward graduation.
Field Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Group study of selected topics in electrical engineering, usually relating to new developments.
Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 10 Week Session, Spring 2023, Fall 2018
Supervised independent study. Enrollment restrictions apply.
Supervised Independent Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
An introduction to the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators, robotic vision, and sensing. The course will cover forward and inverse kinematics of serial chain manipulators, the manipulator Jacobian, force relations, dynamics and control-position, and force control. Proximity, tactile, and force sensing. Network modeling, stability, and fidelity in teleoperation and medical applications of robotics.
Introduction to Robotics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This course is a sequel to EECS 125/225, which covers kinematics,
dynamics and control of a single robot. This course will cover dynamics and control of groups of robotic
manipulators coordinating with each other and interacting with the environment. Concepts will include
an introduction to grasping and the constrained manipulation, contacts and force control for interaction
with the environment. We will also cover active perception guided manipulation, as well as the
manipulation of non-rigid objects. Throughout, we will emphasize design and human-robot
interactions, and applications to applications in manufacturing, service robotics, tele-surgery, and
locomotion.
Robotic Manipulation and Interaction: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2006
Advanced treatment of classical electromagnetic theory with engineering applications. Boundary value problems in electrostatics. Applications of Maxwell's Equations to the study of waveguides, resonant cavities, optical fiber guides, Gaussian optics, diffraction, scattering, and antennas.
Applied Electromagnetic Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Power conversion circuits and techniques. Characterization and design of magnetic devices including transformers, inductors, and electromagnetic actuators. Characteristics of power semiconductor devices, including power diodes, SCRs, MOSFETs, IGBTs, and emerging wide bandgap devices. Applications to renewable energy systems, high-efficiency lighting, power management in mobile electronics, and electric machine drives. Simulation based laboratory and design project.
Power Electronics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
This course is the second in a two-semester series to equip students with the skills needed to analyze, design, and prototype power electronic converters. While EE 113/213A provides an overview of power electronics fundamentals and applications, EE 113B/213B focuses on the practical design and hardware implementation of power converters. The primary focus of EE 113B/213B is time in the laboratory, with sequential modules on topics such as power electronic components, PCB layout, closed-loop control, and experimental validation. At the end of the course, students will have designed, prototyped, and validated a power converter from scratch, demonstrating a skill set that is critical for power electronics engineers in research and industry.
Power Electronics Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019
This course explores modern developments in the physics and applications of x-rays and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. It begins with a review of electromagnetic radiation at short wavelengths including dipole radiation, scattering and refractive index, using a semi-classical atomic model. Subject matter includes the generation of x-rays with synchrotron radiation, high harmonic generation, x-ray free electron lasers, laser-plasma sources. Spatial and temporal coherence concepts are explained. Optics appropriate for this spectral region are described. Applications include nanoscale and astrophysical imaging, femtosecond and attosecond probing of electron dynamics in molecules and solids, EUV lithography, and materials characteristics.
X-rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Fundamental principles of optical systems. Geometrical optics and aberration theory. Stops and apertures, prisms, and mirrors. Diffraction and interference. Optical materials and coatings. Radiometry and photometry. Basic optical devices and the human eye. The design of optical systems. Lasers, fiber optics, and holography.
Introduction to Optical Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2011
The course covers the fundamental techniques for the design and analysis of digital circuits. The goal is to provide a detailed understanding of basic logic synthesis and analysis algorithms, and to enable students to apply this knowledge in the design of digital systems and EDA tools. The course will present combinational circuit optimization (two-level and multi-level synthesis), sequential circuit optimization (state encoding, retiming), timing analysis, testing, and logic verification.
Logic Synthesis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Input-output and state space representation of linear continuous and discrete time dynamic systems. Controllability, observability, and stability. Modeling and identification. Design and analysis of single and multi-variable feedback control systems in transform and time domain. State observer. Feedforward/preview control. Application to engineering systems.
Advanced Control Systems I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Experience-based learning in the design of SISO and MIMO feedback controllers for linear systems. The student will master skills needed to apply linear control design and analysis tools to classical and modern control problems. In particular, the participant will be exposed to and develop expertise in two key control design technologies: frequency-domain control synthesis and time-domain optimization-based approach.
Experiential Advanced Control Design I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Experience-based learning in design, analysis, & verification of automatic control for uncertain systems. The course emphasizes use of practical algorithms, including thorough computer implementation for representative problems. The student will master skills needed to apply advanced model-based control analysis, design, and estimation to a variety of industrial applications. First-principles analysis is provided to explain and support the algorithms & methods. The course emphasizes model-based state estimation, including the Kalman filter, and particle filter. Optimal feedback control of uncertain systems is also discussed (the linear quadratic Gaussian problem) as well as considerations of transforming continuous-time to discrete time.
Experiential Advanced Control Design II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Introduction to input/output concepts from control theory, systems as operators in signal spaces, passivity and
small-gain theorems, dissipativity theory, integral quadratic constraints. Compositional stabilility and
performance certification for interconnected systems from subsystems input/output properties. Case studies in
multi-agent systems, biological networks, Internet congestion control, and adaptive control.
Input/Output Methods for Compositional System Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Basic system concepts; state-space and I/O representation. Properties of linear systems. Controllability, observability, minimality, state and output-feedback. Stability. Observers. Characteristic polynomial. Nyquist test.
Linear System Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Basic graduate course in non-linear systems. Second Order systems. Numerical solution methods, the describing function method, linearization. Stability - direct and indirect methods of Lyapunov. Applications to the Lure problem - Popov, circle criterion. Input-Output stability. Additional topics include: bifurcations of dynamical systems, introduction to the "geometric" theory of control for nonlinear systems, passivity concepts and dissipative dynamical systems.
Nonlinear Systems--Analysis, Stability and Control: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Basic graduate course in nonlinear systems. Nonlinear phenomena, planar systems, bifurcations, center manifolds, existence and uniqueness theorems. Lyapunov’s direct and indirect methods, Lyapunov-based feedback stabilization. Input-to-state and input-output stability, and dissipativity theory. Computation techniques for nonlinear system analysis and design. Feedback linearization and sliding mode control methods.
Nonlinear Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
Parameter and state estimation. System identification. Nonlinear filtering. Stochastic control. Adaptive control.
Stochastic Systems: Estimation and Control: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
Introduction to the basic principles of the design and analysis of modern digital communication systems. Topics include source coding; channel coding; baseband and passband modulation techniques; receiver design; channel equalization; information theoretic techniques; block, convolutional, and trellis coding techniques; multiuser communications and spread spectrum; multi-carrier techniques and FDM; carrier and symbol synchronization. Applications to design of digital telephone modems, compact disks, and digital wireless communication systems are illustrated. The concepts are illustrated by a sequence of MATLAB exercises.
Digital Communications: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2010
Introduction of the fundamentals of wireless communication. Modeling of the wireless multipath fading channel and its basic physical parameters. Coherent and noncoherent reception. Diversity techniques over time, frequency, and space. Spread spectrum communication. Multiple access and interference management in wireless networks. Frequency re-use, sectorization. Multiple access techniques: TDMA, CDMA, OFDM. Capacity of wireless channels. Opportunistic communication. Multiple antenna systems: spatial multiplexing, space-time codes. Examples from existing wireless standards.
Fundamentals of Wireless Communication: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2021
Fundamentals of MRI including signal-to-noise ratio, resolution, and contrast as dictated by physics, pulse sequences, and instrumentation. Image reconstruction via 2D FFT methods. Fast imaging reconstruction via convolution-back projection and gridding methods and FFTs. Hardware for modern MRI scanners including main field, gradient fields, RF coils, and shim supplies. Software for MRI including imaging methods such as 2D FT, RARE, SSFP, spiral and echo planar imaging methods.
Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Introduction to relevant signal processing and basics of pattern recognition. Introduction to coding, synthesis, and recognition. Models of speech and music production and perception. Signal processing for speech analysis. Pitch perception and auditory spectral analysis with applications to speech and music. Vocoders and music synthesizers. Statistical speech recognition, including introduction to Hidden Markov Model and Neural Network approaches.
Audio Signal Processing in Humans and Machines: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Probability, random variables and their convergence, random processes. Filtering of wide sense stationary processes, spectral density, Wiener and Kalman filters. Markov processes and Markov chains. Gaussian, birth and death, poisson and shot noise processes. Elementary queueing analysis. Detection of signals in Gaussian and shot noise, elementary parameter estimation.
Random Processes in Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2013, Spring 1997
Advanced topics such as: Martingale theory, stochastic calculus, random fields, queueing networks, stochastic control.
Applications of Stochastic Process Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Convex optimization is a class of nonlinear optimization problems where the objective to be minimized, and the constraints, are both convex. The course covers some convex optimization theory and algorithms, and describes various applications arising in engineering design, machine learning and statistics, finance, and operations research. The course includes laboratory assignments, which consist of hands-on experiments with the optimization software CVX, and a discussion section.
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Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Convex optimization as a systematic approximation tool for hard decision problems. Approximations of combinatorial optimization problems, of stochastic programming problems, of robust optimization problems (i.e., with optimization problems with unknown but bounded data), of optimal control problems. Quality estimates of the resulting approximation. Applications in robust engineering design, statistics, control, finance, data mining, operations research.
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Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The course covers some convex optimization theory and algorithms, and describes various applications arising in engineering design, machine learning and statistics, finance, and operations research. The course includes laboratory assignments, which consist of hands-on experience.
Introduction to Convex Optimization: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2011
Descriptions, models, and approaches to the design and management of networks. Optical transmission and switching technologies are described and analyzed using deterministic, stochastic, and simulation models. FDDI, DQDB, SMDS, Frame Relay, ATM, networks, and SONET. Applications demanding high-speed communication.
High Speed Communications Networks: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Fundamental bounds of Shannon theory and their application. Source and channel coding theorems. Galois field theory, algebraic error-correction codes. Private and public-key cryptographic systems.
Information Theory and Coding: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2016, Fall 2013
Error control codes are an integral part of most communication and recording systems where they are primarily used to provide resiliency to noise. In this course, we will cover the basics of error control coding for reliable digital transmission and storage. We will discuss the major classes of codes that are important in practice, including Reed Muller codes, cyclic codes, Reed Solomon codes, convolutional codes, concatenated codes, turbo codes, and low density parity check codes. The relevant background material from finite field and polynomial algebra will be developed as part of the course. Overview of topics: binary linear block codes; Reed Muller codes; Galois fields; linear block codes over a finite field; cyclic codes; BCH and Reed Solomon codes; convolutional codes and trellis based decoding, message passing decoding algorithms; trellis based soft decision decoding of block codes; turbo codes; low density parity check codes.
Error Control Coding: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Overview of electronic properties of semiconductors. Metal-semiconductor contacts, pn junctions, bipolar transistors, and MOS field-effect transistors. Properties that are significant to device operation for integrated circuits. Silicon device fabrication technology.
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Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor devices. Emphasis is on MOS field-effect transistors and their behaviors dictated by present and probable future technologies. Metal-oxide-semiconductor systems, short-channel and high field effects, device modeling, and impact on analog, digital circuits.
Solid State Devices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2018
Crystal structure and symmetries. Energy-band theory. Cyclotron resonance. Tensor effective mass. Statistics of electronic state population. Recombination theory. Carrier transport theory. Interface properties. Optical processes and properties.
Solid State Electronics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Overview of electronic properties of semiconductors. Metal-semiconductor contacts, pn junctions, bipolar transistors, and MOS field-effect transistors. Properties that are significant to device operation for integrated circuits. Silicon device fabrication technology.
Integrated-Circuit Devices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015
Physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor devices. Emphasis is on MOS field-effect transistors and their behaviors dictated by present and probable future technologies. Metal-oxide-semiconductor systems, short-channel and high field effects, device modeling, and impact on analog, digital circuits.
Solid State Devices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course is designed to give an introduction and overview of the fundamentals of optoelectronic devices. Topics such as optical gain and absorption spectra, quantization effects, strained quantum wells, optical waveguiding and coupling, and hetero p-n junction will be covered. This course will focus on basic physics and design principles of semiconductor diode lasers, light emitting diodes, photodetectors and integrated optics. Practical applications of the devices will be also discussed.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025
This course is designed to give an introduction, and overview of, the fundamentals of photovoltaic devices. Students will learn how solar cells work, understand the concepts and models of
solar cell device physics, and formulate and solve relevant physical problems related to photovoltaic devices. Monocrystalline, thin film and third generation solar cells will be discussed and analyzed. Light management and economic considerations in a solar cell system will also be covered.
Fundamentals of Photovoltaic Devices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013
This course discusses various top-down and bottom-up approaches to synthesizing and processing nanostructured materials. The topics include fundamentals of self assembly, nano-imprint lithography, electron beam lithography, nanowire and nanotube synthesis, quantum dot synthesis (strain patterned and colloidal), postsynthesis modification (oxidation, doping, diffusion, surface interactions, and etching techniques). In addition, techniques to bridging length scales such as heterogeneous integration will be discussed. We will discuss new electronic, optical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties brought forth by the very small sizes.
Nanoscale Fabrication: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
Interaction of radiation with atomic and semiconductor systems, density matrix treatment, semiclassical laser theory (Lamb's), laser resonators, specific laser systems, laser dynamics, Q-switching and mode-locking, noise in lasers and optical amplifiers. Nonlinear optics, phase-conjugation, electrooptics, acoustooptics and magnetooptics, coherent optics, stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering.
Quantum and Optical Electronics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2007
Introduction to partially ionized, chemically reactive plasmas, including collisional processes, diffusion, sources, sheaths, boundaries, and diagnostics. DC, RF, and microwave discharges. Applications to plasma-assisted materials processing and to plasma wall interactions.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Single and multiple stage transistor amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers, 2-port formulation, source, load, and feedback network loading. Frequency response of cascaded amplifiers, gain-bandwidth exchange, compensation, dominant pole techniques, root locus. Supply and temperature independent biasing and references. Selected applications of analog circuits such as analog-to-digital converters, switched capacitor filters, and comparators. Hardware laboratory and design project.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Analysis and optimized design of monolithic operational amplifiers and wide-band amplifiers; methods of achieving wide-band amplification, gain-bandwidth considerations; analysis of noise in integrated circuits and low noise design. Precision passive elements, analog switches, amplifiers and comparators, voltage reference in NMOS and CMOS circuits, Serial, successive-approximation, and parallel analog-to-digital converters. Switched-capacitor and CCD filters. Applications to codecs, modems.
Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2019
Architectural and circuit level design and analysis of integrated analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog interfaces in CMOS and BiCMOS VLSI technology. Analog-digital converters, digital-analog converters, sample/hold amplifiers, continuous and switched-capacitor filters. RF integrated electronics including synthesizers, LNA's, and baseband processing. Low power mixed signal design. Data communications functions including clock recovery. CAD tools for analog design including simulation and synthesis.
Analysis and Design of VLSI Analog-Digital Interface Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Single and multiple stage transistor amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers, 2-port formulation, source, load, and feedback network loading. Frequency response of cascaded amplifiers, gain-bandwidth exchange, compensation, dominant pole techniques, root locus. Supply and temperature independent biasing and references. Selected applications of analog circuits such as analog-to-digital converters, switched capacitor filters, and comparators.
Analog Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2015
Analysis and optimized design of monolithic operational amplifiers and wide-band amplifiers; methods of achieving wide-band amplification, gain-bandwidth considerations; analysis of noise in integrated circuits and low noise design. Precision passive elements, analog switches, amplifiers and comparators, voltage reference in NMOS and CMOS circuits, Serial, successive-approximation, and parallel analog-to-digital converts. Switched-capacitor and CCD filters. Applications to codecs, modems.
Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Architectural and circuit level design and analysis of integrated analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog interfaces in modern CMOS and BiCMOS VLSI technology. Analog-digital converters, digital-analog converters, sample/hold amplifiers, continuous and switched-capacitor filters. Low power mixed signal design techniques. Data communications systems including interface circuity. CAD tools for analog design for simulation and synthesis.
Analysis and Design of VLSI Analog-Digital Interface Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Analysis and design of MOS and bipolar large-scale integrated circuits at the circuit level. Fabrication processes, device characteristics, parasitic effects static and dynamic digital circuits for logic and memory functions. Calculation of speed and power consumption from layout and fabrication parameters. ROM, RAM, EEPROM circuit design. Use of SPICE and other computer aids.
Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014
CMOS devices and deep sub-micron manufacturing technology. CMOS inverters and complex gates. Modeling of interconnect wires. Optimization of designs with respect to a number of metrics: cost, reliability, performance, and power dissipation. Sequential circuits, timing considerations, and clocking approaches. Design of large system blocks, including arithmetic, interconnect, memories, and programmable logic arrays. Introduction to design methodologies, including laboratory experience.
Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Analysis and design of MOS and bipolar large-scale integrated circuits at the circuit level. Fabrication processes, device characteristics, parasitic effects static and dynamic digital circuits for logic and memory functions. Calculation of speed and power consumption from layout and fabrication parameters. ROM, RAM, EEPROM circuit design. Use of SPICE and other computer aids.
Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
Analysis and design of electronic circuits for communication systems, with an emphasis on integrated circuits for wireless communication systems. Analysis of noise and distortion in amplifiers with application to radio receiver design. Power amplifier design with application to wireless radio transmitters. Radio-frequency mixers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, modulators, and demodulators.
Integrated Circuits for Communications: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2020, Fall 2014
Analysis, evaluation and design of present-day integrated circuits for communications application, particularly those for which nonlinear response must be included. MOS, bipolar and BICMOS circuits, audio and video power amplifiers, optimum performance of near-sinusoidal oscillators and frequency-translation circuits. Phase-locked loop ICs, analog multipliers and voltage-controlled oscillators; advanced components for telecommunication circuits. Use of new CAD tools and systems.
Advanced Integrated Circuits for Communications: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Analysis and design of electronic circuits for communication systems, with an emphasis on integrated circuits for wireless communication systems. Analysis of noise and distortion in amplifiers with application to radio receiver design. Power amplifier design with application to wireless radio transmitters. Radio-frequency mixers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, modulators, and demodulators.
Integrated Circuits for Communications: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Analysis, evaluation, and design of present-day integrated circuits for communications application, particularly those for which nonlinear response must be included. MOS, bipolar and BICMOS circuits, audio and video power amplifiers, optimum performance of near-sinusoidal oscillators and frequency-translation circuits. Phase-locked loop ICs, analog multipliers and voltage-controlled oscillators; advanced components for telecommunication circuits. Use of new CAD tools and systems.
Advanced Integrated Circuits for Communications: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2011
The key processes for the fabrication of integrated circuits. Optical, X-ray, and e-beam lithography, ion implantation, oxidation and diffusion. Thin film deposition. Wet and dry etching and ion milling. Effect of phase and defect equilibria on process control.
Advanced IC Processing and Layout: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
The modeling, analysis, and optimization of complex systems requires a range of algorithms and design software. This course reviews the fundamental techniques underlying the design methodology for complex systems, using integrated circuit design as example. Topics include design flows, discrete and continuous models and algorithms, and strategies for implementing algorithms efficiently and correctly in software. Laboratory assignments and a class project will expose students to state-of-the-art.
Fundamental Algorithms for Systems Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015
The modeling, analysis, and optimization of complex systems require a range of algorithms and design tools. This course reviews the fundamental techniques underlying the design methodology for complex systems, using integrated circuit design as an example. Topics include design flows, discrete and continuous models and algorithms, and strategies for implementing algorithms efficiently and correctly in software.
Fundamental Algorithms for System Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011
Parametric design and optimal design of MEMS. Emphasis on design, not fabrication. Analytic solution of MEMS design problems to determine the dimensions of MEMS structures for specified function. Trade-off of various performance requirements despite conflicting design requirements. Structures include flexure systems, accelerometers, and rate sensors.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course will teach fundamentals of micromachining and microfabrication techniques, including planar thin-film process technologies, photolithographic techniques, deposition and etching techniques, and the other technologies that are central to MEMS fabrication. It will pay special attention to teaching of fundamentals necessary for the design and analysis of devices and systems in mechanical, electrical, fluidic, and thermal energy/signal domains, and will teach basic techniques for multi-domain analysis. Fundamentals of sensing and transduction mechanisms including capacitive and piezoresistive techniques, and design and analysis of micmicromachined miniature sensors and actuators using these techniques will be covered.
Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Physics, fabrication, and design of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Micro and nanofabrication processes, including silicon surface and bulk micromachining and non-silicon micromachining. Integration strategies and assembly processes. Microsensor and microactuator devices: electrostatic, piezoresistive, piezoelectric, thermal, magnetic transduction. Electronic position-sensing circuits and electrical and mechanical noise. CAD for MEMS. Design project is required.
Introduction to MEMS Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Physics, fabrication and design of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). Micro and nano-fabrication processes, including silicon surface and bulk micromachining and non-silicon micromachining. Integration strategies and assembly processes. Microsensor and microactuator devices: electrostatic, piezoresistive, piezoelectric, thermal, and magnetic transduction. Electronic position-sensing circuits and electrical and mechanical noise. CAD for MEMS. Design project is required.
Introduction to MEMS Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Numerical modelling and analysis techniques are widely used in scientific and
engineering practice; they are also an excellent vehicle for understanding and
concretizing theory.
This course covers topics important for a proper understanding of nonlinearity
and noise: periodic steady state and envelope ("RF") analyses; oscillatory
systems; nonstationary and phase noise; and homotopy/continuation techniques
for solving "difficult" equation systems. An underlying theme of the course is
relevance to different physical domains, from electronics (e.g.,
analog/RF/mixed-signal circuits, high-speed digital circuits, interconnect,
etc.) to optics, nanotechnology, chemistry, biology and mechanics. Hands-on
coding using the MATLAB-based Berkeley Model
Numerical Modeling and Analysis: Nonlinear Systems and Noise: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course introduces students to the basics of models, analysis tools, and control for embedded systems operating in real time. Students learn how to combine physical processes with computation. Topics include models of computation, control, analysis and verification, interfacing with the physical world, mapping to platforms, and distributed embedded systems. The course has a strong laboratory component, with emphasis on a semester-long sequence of projects.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Biomedical imaging is a clinically important application of engineering, applied mathematics, physics, and medicine. In this course, we apply linear systems theory and basic physics to analyze X-ray imaging, computerized tomography, nuclear medicine, and MRI. We cover the basic physics and instrumentation that characterizes medical image as an ideal perfect-resolution image blurred by an impulse response. This material could prepare the student for a career in designing new medical imaging systems that reliably detect small tumors or infarcts.
Medical Imaging Signals and Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Computer-Aided Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Solid State Devices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Circuit Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Semiconductor Technology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Photonics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2002
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Mems, Microsensors, and Microactuators: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in System Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Control: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Bioelectronics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Communication Networks: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2009
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Communications and Information Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Signal Processing: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Seminar-style course presenting an in-depth perspective on one specific domain of integrated circuit design. Most often, this will address an application space that has become particularly relevant in recent times. Examples are serial links, ultra low-power design, wireless transceiver design, etc.
Advanced Topics in Circuit Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2009
Organic materials are seeing increasing application in electronics applications. This course will provide an overview of the properties of the major classes of organic materials with relevance to electronics. Students will study the technology, physics, and chemistry of their use in the three most rapidly growing major applications--energy conversion/generation devices (fuel cells and photovoltaics), organic light-emitting diodes, and organic transistors.
Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Organic Materials in Electronics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Distributed systems and PDE models of physical phenomena (propagation of waves, network traffic, water distribution, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism, blood vessels, beams, road pavement, structures, etc.). Fundamental solution methods for PDEs: separation of variables, self-similar solutions, characteristics, numerical methods, spectral methods. Stability analysis. Adjoint-based optimization. Lyapunov stabilization. Differential flatness. Viability control. Hamilton-Jacobi-based control.
Control and Optimization of Distributed Parameters Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018
Analysis of hybrid systems formed by the interaction of continuous time dynamics and discrete-event controllers. Discrete-event systems models and language descriptions. Finite-state machines and automata. Model verification and control of hybrid systems. Signal-to-symbol conversion and logic controllers. Adaptive, neural, and fuzzy-control systems. Applications to robotics and Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems (IVHS).
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Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Fall 2023, Summer 2023 8 Week Session
Supervised experience in off-campus companies relevant to specific aspects and applications of electrical engineering. Written report required at the end of the semester.
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Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Advanced study in various subjects through special seminars on topics to be selected each year, informal group studies of special problems, group participation in comprehensive design problems, or group research on complete problems for analysis and experimentation.
Group Studies, Seminars, or Group Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 10 Week Session, Summer 2023 10 Week Session
Investigation of problems in electrical engineering.
Individual Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Discussion of effective teaching techniques. Use of educational objectives, alternative forms of instruction, and proven techniques to enhance student learning. This course is intended to orient new student instructors to more effectively teach courses offered by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.
Teaching Techniques for Electrical Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. (and other doctoral degrees).
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