Electrical and Computer Engineering 1 prepares a student to succeed and advance rapidly in today’s competitive ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER technical marketplace. ENGINEERING The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree program prepares students for a research career in academia or industry. The PhD degree program consists of formal courses and original research conducted under the Contact Information guidance of a faculty advisor, leading to a thesis. Students in the PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering program complete a Master of Science (MS) degree as part of their https://www.ece.rice.edu/ program; the Electrical and Computer Engineering department does not A204 Abercrombie Lab admit students for a terminal MS degree. 713-348-4020 Ashutosh Sabharwal Bachelor's Programs Chair • Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree with a Major in Electrical Engineering [email protected] (https://ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/ engineering/electrical-computer-engineering/electrical-engineering- ba/) • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) Degree (https:// The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department provides high- ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/engineering/ quality degree programs that emphasize fundamental principles, respond electrical-computer-engineering/electrical-engineering-bsee/) to the changing demands and opportunities of new technology, challenge the exceptional abilities of Rice students, and prepare students for roles of leadership in their chosen careers. Master's Programs • Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering (MECE) Degree The department's research areas include: Computer Engineering; Data (https://ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/ Science; Neuroengineering; Photonics, Electronics, and Nano-devices; engineering/electrical-computer-engineering/electrical-computer- and Systems. engineering-mece/) • Computer Engineering topics include: computer architecture, • Master of Science (MS) Degree in the field of Electrical and Computer high performance application specific systems, mobile and Engineering* embedded systems, integrated circuits and antennas for medical imaging and bio-sensing, and parallel I/O for large-scale Doctoral Program network storage systems. • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degree in the field of Electrical and • Data Science topics include: data acquisition, data analytics, Computer Engineering (https://ga.rice.edu/programs-study/ data storage, and computing infrastructure. departments-programs/engineering/electrical-computer-engineering/ • Neuroengineering topics include: neural signal processing, electrical-computer-engineering-phd/) brain-computer interfaces at the device, circuit, and systems * Although students are not normally admitted to a Master of Science levels. (MS) degree program, graduate students may earn the MS as they work • Photonics, Electronics, and Nano-devices topics include: towards the PhD. nanophotonics/nanospectroscopy, molecular electronics, biophotonics, ultrafast optics and optoelectronics, materials for energy, semiconductor optics and devices, multispectral Chair imaging and terahertz imaging, and condensed matter physics/ Ashutosh Sabharwal materials science. • Systems topics include: communications systems, dynamical Professors systems and computation, networks, signal and image Behnaam Aazhang processing, wireless networking, pattern recognition, scalable Athanasios C. Antoulas personal healthcare, and computational neuroscience and Richard G. Baraniuk neuroengineering Joseph R. Cavallaro Naomi J. Halas The Electrical and Computer Engineering department offers two Edward W. Knightly undergraduate degree programs. The Bachelor of Science in Electrical Junichiro Kono Engineering (BSEE) degree program is comprehensive and covers Michael T. Orchard fundamental and emerging hardware and software topics. Courses, Peter J. Varman research, and design projects grouped in four areas of specialization Ashok Veeraraghavan prepare students for technical leadership in engineering, computing, and science careers. The ECE department also offers a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Electrical Engineering degree program. Associate Professors Genevera I. Allen The Electrical and Computer Engineering department offers two graduate Kevin Kelly degree programs. The Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering Caleb Kemere (MECE) degree is a course-based program designed to increase a Jacob Robinson student’s mastery of advanced subjects; no thesis is required. The MECE John Seymour 2021-2022 General Announcements PDF Generated 09/23/21 2 Electrical and Computer Engineering Chong Xie Joo-won Kim Yuji Zhao Vaishnav Krishnan Matthew McGinley Assistant Professors Tarik Muharemovic Bijan Najafi Alessandro Alabastri Theodora Dorina Papageorgiou Guha Balakrishnan Xaq Pitkow Songtao Chen Arvind Rao Taiyun Chi David Ress Yingyan Lin Stephan M. Schwanauer Lan Luan Steve Sheafor Gururaj Naik Sameer Sheth Ankit Patel Francois St-Pierre Akane Sano Christoph Studer Santiago Segarra James Suliburk César Uribe Nitin Tandon Kaiyuan Yang Andreas S. Tolias Hadley Wickham Professors Emeriti Lin Zhong Don Herrick Johnson Frank K. Tittel For Rice University degree-granting programs: James Young To view the list of official course offerings, please see Rice’s Course Catalog (https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat? Assistant Teaching Professor p_action=cata) To view the most recent semester’s course schedule, please see Rice's Joseph Young Course Schedule (https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat) Assistant Research Professor Electrical & Comp. Engineering (ELEC) Rahman Doost-Mohammady ELEC 101 - ELEMENTS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Short Title: ELEMENTS OF ELECT ENGINEERING Professors in the Practice Department: Electrical & Computer Eng. Gene Frantz Grade Mode: Standard Letter Saad Saleh Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Ray Simar, Jr. Credit Hours: 3 Thanh Tran Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Freshman Gary L. Woods or Sophomore. Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Lecturers Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Description: Introduction to fundamentals of electrical engineering Fabrizio A. Gabbiani through the hands-on design of a micro-controlled model electric car. Joseph Mait Topics from fields of circuits, signals, computing, and sensing are Osama R. Mawlawi covered as needed to support the student in designing systems to power, Harel Shouval monitor, and control the vehicle's speed, and to guide its trajectory, in Clayton Shepard order to pass a series of vehicle tests. Instructor Permission Required. Adjunct Faculty Ravindra Athale Aydin Babakhani Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming Gavin Britz Michael Brogioli Anand Dabak Clifford C. Dacso Christopher H. Dick Valentin Dragoi Henry O. Everitt Amir H. Faraji Wayne Goodman Omer Gurewitz Reinhard Heckel Markku Juntti 2021-2022 General Announcements PDF Generated 09/23/21 Electrical and Computer Engineering 3 ELEC 220 - FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING ELEC 241 - FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I Short Title: FUND COMPUTER ENGINEERING Short Title: FUND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I Department: Electrical & Computer Eng. Department: Electrical & Computer Eng. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Course Type: Lecture Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Computer Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Science, Engineering Division, Electrical & Computer Eng. or Electrical Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Engineering. Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Prerequisite(s): (MATH 101 or MATH 105) and (MATH 102 or MATH 106) Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Corequisite: ELEC 240 Description: An overview of computer engineering, starting with Description: The creation, manipulation, transmission, and extraction fundamental building blocks including transistors, bits, data of information by electronic and computational means. Elementary representation, logic and state machines, progressing to computer signal theory; time and frequency-domain analysis; sampling theorem. organization, instruction sets, interrupts, input/output, assembly Introduction to data science. Information theory; digital communication language programming, and linkage conventions, and ending with an systems; error-correcting codes. introduction to architectural performance enhancements and computing ELEC 242 - SIGNALS, SYSTEMS, AND TRANSFORMS services. Short Title: SIGNALS, SYSTEMS, & TRANSFORMS Course URL: www.owlnet.rice.edu/~elec220 (http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/ Department: Electrical & Computer Eng. ~elec220/) Grade Mode: Standard Letter ELEC 238 - SPECIAL TOPICS Course Type: Lecture Short Title: SPECIAL TOPICS Credit Hours: 3 Department: Electrical & Computer Eng. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Grade Mode: Standard Letter Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Seminar, Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Independent Study Prerequisite(s): ELEC 241 Credit Hours: 1-4 Corequisite: ELEC 244 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Description: Transforms between the time and frequency domains. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level