TECHNICAL COMPLEMENTARY COURSES - COMPUTER ENGINEERING PROGRAM Technical Complementaries (3 courses) 9 credits Students following the Computer Engineering program should take 3 courses (9 credits) from the following list. It is possible that not all the courses listed will be offered in any given year. Please refer to the up-to-date course assignments before selecting any course. Permission will not be granted to take Technical Complementary courses that are not on this list.
Computer Engineering Technical Complementaries:
ECSE 404
Control Systems
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Modelling and simulation of control systems; basic concepts of linear systems; open and closed loop control; classical design of controllers - specifications in the step response and the frequency domain; state space design of controllers - pole placement and LQR; sampled data systems.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ECSE 411
Course not available
ECSE 412
Discrete TimeSignal Processing
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Discrete-time signals and systems; Fourier and Z-transform analysis techniques, the discrete Fourier transform; elements of FIR and IIR filter design, filter structures; FFT techniques for high speed convolution; quantization effects.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
ECSE 414
Course not available
OR
COMP 535
Computer Networks
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Computer Science (Sci): Fundamental design principles, elements, and protocols of computer networks, focusing on the current Internet. Topics include: layered architecture, direct link networks, switching and forwarding, bridge routing, congestion control, end-to-end protocols application of DNS, HTTP, P2P, fair queuing, performance modeling and analysis.
Offered by: Computer Science
ECSE 420
Parallel Computing
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Modern parallel computing architectures for shared memory, message passing and data parallel programming models. The design of cache coherent shared memory multiprocessors. Programming techniques for multithreaded, message passing and distributed systems. Use of modern programming languages and parallel programming libraries.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- Terms
- Instructors
- Dennis D Giannacopoulos
- Zeljko Zilic
ECSE 421
Embedded Systems
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Definition, structure and properties of embedded systems. Real-time programming: interrupts, latency, context, re-entrancy, thread and process models. Microcontroller and DSP architectures, I/O systems, timing and event management. Real-time kernels and services. Techniques for development, debugging and verification. Techniques for limited resource environments. Networking for distributed systems.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
ECSE 422
Fault Tolerant Computing
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Introduction to fault-tolerant systems. Fault-tolerance techniques through hardware, software, information and time redundancy. Failure classification, failure semantics, failure masking. Exception handling: detection, recovery, masking and propagation, termination vs. resumption. Reliable storage, reliable communication. Process groups, synchronous and asynchronous group membership and broadcast services. Automatic redundancy management. Case studies.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ECSE 424
Human-Computer Interaction
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: The course highlights human-computer interaction strategies from an engineering perspective. Topics include user interfaces, novel paradigms in human-computer interaction, affordances, ecological interface design, ubiquitous computing and computer-supported cooperative work. Attention will be paid to issues of safety, usability, and performance.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
ECSE 428
Software Engineering Practice
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Software engineering practice in industry, related to the design and commissioning of large software systems. Ethical, social, economic, safety and legal issues. Metrics, project management, costing, marketing, control, standards, CASE tools and bugs. The course involves a large team project.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- (3-1-5)
- Students meet with the instructor and/or teaching assistant for one hour each week to discuss their project.
- Prerequisite: ECSE 321
- Terms
- Instructors
- Robert Sabourin
- Robert Sabourin
ECSE 429
Software Validation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Correct and complete implementation of software requirements. Verification and validation lifecycle. Requirements analysis, model based analysis, and design analysis. Unit and system testing, performance, risk management, software reuse. Ubiquitous computing.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- Terms
- Instructors
- Robert Sabourin
- Robert Sabourin
ECSE 431
Course not available
ECSE 436
Course not available
ECSE 450
Course not available
ECSE 526
Artificial Intelligence
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Design principles of autonomous agents, agent architectures, machine learning, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and multi-agent collaboration. The course includes a term project that consists of designing and implementing software agents that collaborate and compete in a simulated environment.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: ECSE 324
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 424.
ECSE 530
Course not available
ECSE 531
Course not available
ECSE 532
Computer Graphics
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Fundamental mathematical, algorithmic and representational issues in computer graphics: overview of graphics pipeline, homogeneous coordinates, projective transformations, line-drawing and rasterization, hidden surface removal, surface modelling (quadrics, bicubics, meshes), rendering (lighting, reflectance models,
ray tracing, texture mapping), compositing colour perception, and other selected topics.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
ECSE 548
Course not available
COMP 420
Course not available
COMP 431
Course not available
COMP 575
Course not available
Laboratory Complementary Courses - Computer Engineering Program:
ECSE 431
Course not available
ECSE 435
Mixed-Signal Test Techniques
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Electrical Engineering: Purpose and economics of mixed-signal test, DC measurements. Accuracy and repeatability. DSP-based theory and its applications to parametric testing of analog filters, DACs, and ADC. Timing and PLL measurements. Design for Testability.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
ECSE 436
Course not available
ECSE 487
Course not available
ECSE 489
Course not available
ECSE 490
Course not available
ECSE 491
Course not available
ECSE 493
Course not available
Revised December 2005