The Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering can be obtained entirely online if the student chooses. Online delivery allows for independent, self-paced learning at the desktop, plus added interactivity. The NTU Winter Quarter/Spring Semester 2003 courses listed below are available in an online format and can be applied toward the NTU Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Note that a number of NTU courses are also available on CD-ROM & DVD. These delivery formats offer superior portability, flexible scheduling, and reusability. NTU Winter Quarter/Spring Semester 2003 courses available on CD-ROM and on DVD.

Random Variables and Signals
CC 714-M
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This course is one of the required core courses and, as such is intended to provide breadth in a students program and also to serve as a prerequisite for more advanced courses in communications and control. The emphasis ... more

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.

Wireless Communications (formerly CC 710-CL)
CC 718-CL
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: Wireless communication systems. System design fundamentals. Trunking theory. Mobile radio propagation. Reflection of radio waves. Fading and multipath. Modulation techniques; signal space; probability of error; spread spectrum. ... more

Telemetering Systems
CC 526-E
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: Telemetering is the process that measures a physical quantity and transfers the value from a remote location to be recorded, displayed, analyzed, or to initiate a control action. Most telemetering systems also provide a ... more

VLSI in Signal Processing and Communications
CC 764-Q
Credit Hours: 4
Course Objectives: This course will introduce concepts in the design and implementation of digital signal processing (DSP) and communications systems via integrated circuits. Algorithm and architecture design techniques will be introduced ... more

Adaptive Signal Processing
CC 766-SC
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: ... more

Introduction to Digital Media Engineering
CC 572-SC
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: The purpose of this course is to present basic techniques for processing, storage and delivery of media such as audio, images and video. This requires an understanding of digital signal processing for one dimensional signals, ... 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.

Satellite Communications
CC 785-SC
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This is a one semester course devoted to the analysis and design of a general satellite communication link. Students will understand hardware and performance capabilities and limitations of modern satellite communications.

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

Broadband Network Architectures
CC 786-SC
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: A review of the State of the Art in Networking (LANs, CANs, MANs, and WANs). Topics covered include: ATM and BISDN; Switch Designs; High Speed LANs and MANs; Lightwave Networks; Traffic Control and Performance Management; ... more

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

Coherent Optics
EM 718-W
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To understand the behavior of coherent light with a view toward applying this behavior to the design and operation of modern optical systems.

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

Microwave Devices and Circuits
EM 732-DE
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To acquaint the student with the devices that are used in microwave systems and the circuits that are used to interconnect them. The design and functioning of these devices and circuits are explained.

RF and Microwave Technology
EM 735-DE
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To provide an understanding of basic concepts and technologies required to design RF and microwave devices and circuits, as well as applications to wireless and lightwave systems.

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

Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization
IC 714-W
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To become familiar with characterization techniques utilized in the semiconductor industry.

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.

Advanced MOS Devices
IC 726-W
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: The objective of this course is an advanced understanding of MOS devices. It builds on earlier semiconductor device physics courses, which introduced the student to the basic device concepts. After covering MOS capacitors ... more

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

Advanced Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
IC 771-Q
Credit Hours: 4
Course Objectives: This course covers the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The emphasis is on practical design problems and builds upon the theory developed in the prerequisite courses. Design concepts of high speed, ... more

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.