Academic schedule

Technical electives are normally offered in the terms specified below. Prerequisites are shown in parenthesis. Not all electives are offered every year. Click on a course to find out when it is actually offered for the past and current year.

Spring term
Summer term
Fall term

January-April term

Course	Prerequisite(s)
ECE 363 Communication Networks	ECE 255 or
ECE 405 Error Control Coding and Sequences	4^th year standing or permission
ECE 412 Electronic Devices II	ECE 320
ECE 420 Nanotechnology	ECE 320
ECE 426 Robotics	ECE 360, ENGR 141 or MECH 245, or 122
ECE 449 Computer Systems and Architecture	ECE 355 or
ECE 453 Antennas and Propagation	ECE 340
ECE 454 Engineering Components for Wireless Systems	ECE 404
ECE 455 Real Time Computer Systems Design Project	ECE 355 or
ECE 457 Parallel and Cluster Computing	4^th year standing or permission
ECE 459 Applications of Digital Signal Processing Techniques	ECE 310
ECE 460 Control Theory and Systems II	ECE 360 or MECH 435
ECE 471 Computer Vision	ECE 310
ECE 481 Analog VLSI Systems	ECE 320, 380
ECE 482 Electrical Drive Systems	ECE 365 or 370
ECE 483 Digital Video Processing	ECE 310
ECE 485 Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition	or
ECE 488 Electrical Power Systems	ECE 365 or 370
	or or ;
	or ; ECE 216 or
SENG 460 Practice of Information Security and Privacy	4^th year standing
SENG 468 Software System Scalability	( and ) or (ECE 356 and ECE 363)

May-August term

Course	Prerequisite(s)
ECE 403 Engineering Design by Optimization
ECE 404 Microwaves and Fiber Optics	ECE 300 and 340
ECE 407 Digital Signal Processing II	ECE 310
ECE 410 Power Electronics	ECE 370 and 380
ECE 434 Biophotonics	ECE 340
ECE 435 Medical Image Processing	ECE 310
ECE 440 Human Factors in Engineering	or
ECE 441 Design of Digital and VLSI Systems	ECE 241 or 290
ECE 450 Communications Theory and Systems II	ECE 350
ECE 452 Optical Communication Technology	ECE 320, ECE 340
ECE 456 Wireless & Mobile Communications	ECE 350
ECE 466 System-on-Chip Engineering for Signal Processing	ECE 355 or MECH 405 or or ; ECE 310 or MECH 435 and
ECE 470 Artificial Intelligence	4^th year standing
ECE 486 Multiresolution Signal and Geometry Processing with Software Applications	ECE 310
	or ; ; or ; or
	, and one of or
SENG 422 Software Architecture	or or
SENG 426 Software Quality Engineering	or or SENG 275
SENG 440 Embedded Systems	ECE 355 or
SENG 461 Network Security	ECE 458 or
	One of , , or

September-December term

Course	Prerequisite(s)
ECE 461 Dynamics and Control of Switched Mode Power Supplies	ECE 330 and 360
ECE 462 Motor Drive Dynamics	ECE 330, 360 and 370
ECE 463 Design and Analysis of Computer Networks	or
ECE 484 Audio Signal Processing	ECE 310
	or or ;
	or ; ECE 216 or