The Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering can be obtained entirely via CD-ROM if the student chooses. CD-ROM delivery offers superior portability, flexible scheduling, and reusability. The NTU Winter Quarter/Spring Semester 2003 courses listed below are available in the CD-ROM format and can be applied toward the NTU Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Note that a number of NTU courses are also available online and on DVD. Online format allows for independent, self-paced learning at the desktop, plus added interactivity. NTU Winter Quarter/Spring Semester 2003 courses available online and on DVD.

Digital Communications
CC 715-R
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To provide a graduate-level introduction to the design and analysis of modern digital communication systems.

Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling
CC 764-J
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: Introductory course in statistical digital signal processing and modeling which includes the following topics: signal modeling, the design of optimum filters (Wiener and Kalman), and power spectrum estimation. Whenever ... more

Computer Communications
CC 782-R
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To provide an overview of the field of computer communications, with particular emphasis on the physical, data-link and network layers, using popular local area network standards as examples.

Integrated Telecommunications Networks
CC 786-E
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To present and research state of the art topics in integrated telecommunications networks.

Digital Control Systems
CT 570-E
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To learn how to model and analyze systems and design controllers for systems using discrete-time techniques.

Introduction to Fourier Optics
EM 711-E
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To introduce the use of Fourier techniques in optics. Effectively, this is an applied math course, taught with a systems flavor, for students interested in optics.

Optical Detectors and Detector Systems
EM 715-E
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This course covers optical detectors and electro-optical systems from an engineer's point of view. It is an engineering course more than a physics course. The interaction of light and matter is reviewed, but from a more ... more

Integrated Optics
EM 722-DE
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To explain how the various optoelectronic devices of an integrated optic system operate and how they are assembled into a system. 2) To explain how these devices are fabricated. 3) to illustrate the current state-of-the-art ... more

Antennas
EM 550-Q
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: In this course, you will learn about phenomenological description of antenna links, electromagnetic antenna principles, antenna arrays, and practical antennas.

Electronic Packaging Principles
IC 701-E
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To provide an introduction to the basic principles and important problems at various levels of packaging, and to develop sufficient analytical tools to enable the engineer to derive first-order solutions to such problems.

Design of Electronic Packaging and Interconnect
IC 702-P
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To equip students with the required knowledge and techniques so that they will be able to: (1) select amongst packaging and functional multi-chip partitioning alternatives so as to best meet the aim of the system. (2) ... more

Microelectronic Packaging Materials
IC 503-E
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This course is intended to introduce students to the broad range of materials and processes which are used in the various kinds and levels of microelectronic packaging. The materials which are used, the properties which ... more

Optical Properties of Semiconductors
IC 716-P
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To develop an understanding of the interaction of light with semiconductor materials and devices.

Electronic Materials Processing
IC 530-DE
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This course is designed to give senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students an overall understanding of the technologies that are used to fabricate devices and integrated circuits in silicon and III-V semiconductor ... more

VLSI Design Principles (formerly IC 740-A)
IC 742-A
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This course is an introduction to VLSI System Design which presents both design methods and real examples of the impact of VLSI on modern digital systems.

MOS Analog Integrated Circuit Design
IC 772-R
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: Presentation of the fundamentals and practices of MOS analog IC design with emphasis on low-voltage, low-power approaches.

Neural Networks
IS 790-OE
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This course will be an introduction to the basic neural network architectures and learning rules. Emphasis will be placed on the mathematical analysis of networks and learning rules, and on the application of neural networks ... more

Power Electronic Circuits
PS 541-X
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: At the completion of this course, students should be able to: Develop and quantify common performance objectives for power electronic circuits, such as efficiency, power factor, etc. Develop simple power electronic converter ... more