ECE 569 Electronics Processes (3 0 3)
Electronic Components, Thin and Thick Film Technologies,
Photolithography and Screen Printing Techniques, Semiconductor
Device and Integrated Circuit Manufacturing, Interconnection
Techniques, Circuit Boards, Assembly, Electronic Testing,
Reliability, Profitability, Feasibility, Time Value of Money
ECE 570 Electronics Manufacturing (3 0 3)
Introduction and History, Company and Organization, Operation
Planning and Control, Marketing and Distrubution, Management
(Quality, Project, Financial, Trends), Human Resources, Ethics
in Industry, Electronic Manufacturing Company Structure,
Electronic Components, PCB Manufacturing and Assembly, Surface
Mount Technology, Electronic Design Aspects, Overview of
Electronics Industry in Turkey
ECE 572 Introduction to Optical Fiber
Communications (3 0 3)
Optical propagation in fibers, attenuation, scattering,
dispersion, polarization and non-linear phenomena in
transmission. Optical sources and optical detectors. Coupling of
sources and detectors to optical fibers, splicing and optical
connectors. Non-coherent receivers and their performance,
non-coherent optical fiber communication systems. Coherent
optical fiber communication systems with heterodyne and homodyne
demodulation. Optical fiber amplifiers, frequency division
multiplexing and time division multiplexing.
ECE 573 Communication Electronics (3 0 3)
Small and large signal HF amplifier design. HF oscillators.
Noise considerations in RF amplifiers. RF amplifiers. Microstrip
and stripline techniques. Transistor and amplifier measurement
techniques. Computer aided design of amplifiers.
ECE 574 Nonlinear Signal Processing (3 0 3)
Wave equations, wave fields, spectral representation,
propagation in open and bounded media. Sensor array systems:
linear equispaced, circular, planar, and random arrays.
Direction of arrival estimation: beam forming, subspace methods
(MUSIC,ESPRIT), spatial smoothing. Source localization in a
bounded medium, matched field processing.Wavelet transform,
multiresolution analysis, DWT. Application of DWT to denoising
and transient detection.
Stochastic resonance and its application to signal detection and
parameter estimation.
ECE 575 Coding Theory (3 0 3)
Arithmetic of Galois fields, linear block codes with particular
emphasis on cyclic codes, such as BCH and RS codes,
convolutional codes, efficient decoding algorithms for block and
convolutional codes, concatenation and interleaving of codes
ECE 576 Adaptive Signal Processing (3 0 3)
Adaptive linear combiner, mean square error, Wiener least square
solution, auto-correlation matrices, gradient search &
performance surfaces, LMS & RLS algorithm, block time &
frequency domain, LMS, FIR & IIR adaptive filters, Kalman
filters.
ECE 577 Advanced Telecommunication Techniques
(3 0 3)
Basic Elements of Digital Communication System, Probability
Theory, Coding and Their Use in CDMA, Linear Codes, Convolution
Codes, PN Codes, Orthogonality of Codes, Trellis-Coded
Modulation,Crosscorrelation and Autocorrelation Properties of
the Codes, Modulation: Simple and M-ary ASK, FSK, PSK, CDMA
Channel Modelling, Filters, Reception Techniques, Pulse Shaping,
ISI, Noise Analysis, BER, CDMA Systems, DS-SS, Physical and
Logical Channels in CDMA IS-95, WCDMA, Channel Capacity (Above
topics will be assisted by MATLAB lab work and homeworks).
ECE 580 Administrative Perspective of
Telecommunication Networks (3 0 3)
Numbering in telecom networks, interconnection arrangements,
tariffs, and evolution of networks, future generation concepts.
ECE 581 Regulation in Telecommunications (3 0
3)
History of telecom operators and ATT, history of laws and
regulations, EU regulations, current and past regulations in
Turkey. Market issues.
ECE 582 Advanced Antenna Theory (3 0 3)
Vector potentials and Hertz vectors, integral solution of
Helmholtz equation, local plane waves, solution of Hemholtz
equation, solution of Helmholtz equation by Fourier transform,
equivalent source theorem, surface current distribution method,
microwave antennas.
ECE 583 Advanced Engineering Mathematics (3 0
3)
Complex variable functions theory, Green functions, conform
transform, analytic continuity, Wiener-Hopf problem, Hilbert
problem, numeric methods in electromagnetics.
ECE 584 Numerical Methods for
Electromagnetics (3 0 3)
Numerical solution of matrix equations and matrix eigenvalue
problems. Method of moments. Finite difference and finite
element methods. Variational methods. Spectral domain approach.
The use of above methods in the solution of various antenna and
scattering problems, and in the analysis of passive microwave
components.
ECE 585 Remote Sensing (3 0 3)
Description and application fields of remote sensing,
characteristics of digital image data, spectral ranges used,
satellite sensors, radars, spatial data source types and
formats, image processing and analysis, correction of Image Data
Error, Interpretation of Digital Image Data, Classification,
Pattern Recognition, Enhancement Techniques, Multispectral
transformations of image data, Fourier transformation of image
data, spatial frequency, image filtering, feature reduction,
examples of remote sensing applications
ECE 586 Telecommunication Networks (3 0 3)
Course Description: Changes in Telecommunications, New Public
Network, Transmission Lines, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Analog
and Digital Transmission, Multiplexing, Twisted-Pair Copper
Cable, Coaxial Cable, Microwave, Satellite, Fiber Optics,
Switching and Networking Modes, PSTN, PDH, SDH/SONET, SS7,
Intelligent Network, Data Communications, WAN, Circuit Switched
Networks, Packet Switched Networks, X.25, Frame Relay, ATM,
Next-Generation Networks, QoS, Broadband Evolution, Broadband
Access, xDSL, Fiber Access, Wireless Broadband Access, Optical
Networking, Wireless
ECE 587 Digital Communication Systems (3 0 3)
Baseband pulse transmission. Modulation of digital signals: ASK,
FSK, PSK, OAM, OPSK, MSK systems. Equalizers. Carrier and bit
synchronization.
ECE 588 Communication Theory (3 0 3)
Detection theory: binary Mary hypothesis testing. Estimation
theory. Representation of stochastic processes: Karhunen-Loeve
expansion. Detection and estimation of signal parameters in
white and colored noise. Estimation of continuous waveforms.
Optimum linear realizable processor: Wiener-Hopf equation and
its solution.
ECE 589 Information Theory (3 0 3)
Mathematical analysis of discrete and continuous information
sources and communication channels. Concepts of mutual
information and entropy as mathematical measures for sources and
channels. Introduction to rate distortion theory. Channel
capacity, source and channel coding theorems.
ECE 590 Graduate Seminar (Non-credit)
Presentation and discussion of current issues and works by
graduate students in their relevant fields.
ECE 591 Special Studies (0 4 0)
This course is required for students who are enrolled in
“Thesis” course.
ECE 592 High Frequency Filter Design (3 0 3)
Synthesis of lumped element filters. Lumped element filter
design using prototypes. Circuit transformation for realization
of lumped element filters. Synthesis of distributed element
filters. Distributed element filter design using prototypes.
Circuit transformation for realization of distributed element
filters.
ECE 593 Digital Filters (3 0 3)
Review of discrete-time signals and systems. Infinite impulse
response and finite impulse response digital filter design
techniques. Wave digital filters. Finite word length effects.
ECE 594 Asymptotic Expansion Theory (3 0 3)
Stationary phase method. Steepest descent method. Edge point
method, Bessel functions. Airy functions. Applications for
radiation integrals, Applications for scattering integrals.
ECE 595 Advanced Electromagnetic Scattering
(3 0 3)
Boundary conditions. Scattering from a perfectly conducting
cylinder, edge diffraction problem, Wiener-Hopf problem and
applications, Hilbert problem and applications,
Whispering-Gallery modes.
ECE 596 Quasi-Optic Electromagnetic
Scattering (3 0 3)
Geometrical optics, quasi-optics solution of Helmholtz Equation.
Eikonal and transport equations, reflection from a perfectly
conducting surface, geometrical theory of diffraction, edge
diffraction, surface diffraction, and physical theory of
diffraction.
ECE 597 Boundary Value Problems (3 0 3)
Orthogonal sets of functions. Sturm-Liouville problems.
Cartesian coordinates and exponential functions, cylindrical
coordinates and Bessel Functions, Spherical coordinates and
Legendre functions. Boundary value problems in anisotropic
medium.
ECE 599 Thesis (Non-Credit)
Directed independent research on a specific topic approved by
the student’s adviser.
CENG 501 Operating Systems (3 0 3)
Fundamentals of concurrent programming; multitasking operating
systems with special emphasis on UNIX; mutual exclusion problem
and critical sections; semaphores; ADA rendezvous; transporters;
UNIX structure.
CENG 502 Computer Networks and Communication
(3 0 3)
Basics of data communication, computer networks, ISO /OSI basic
reference model, routing, flow control, congestion control,
TCP/IP suite of protocols, data links, internetworking, higher
level protocols.