Electrical Engineering
Professional Master’s Program
2013 New Student Orientation
Les Atlas
Professor and Professional Programs Faculty Coordinator
Erin Olnon
Professional Programs Manager
https://www.ee.washington.edu/academics/pmp/index.html
What is a Professional Master’s Program?
Quoting from our College of Engineering Web site:
• Engineering professional programs offer graduate‐level and specialty education.
• Students benefit from the expertise of UW Engineering faculty who are leaders in their research fields.
• Students benefit from the diverse backgrounds of classmates.
• Professional master's programs (PMP) feature weekly evening classes that fit most work schedules. • Part‐time or full‐time curriculum.
Autumn 2013 EE PMP 505 ‐ Probability and Random Processes (Gordon Farquharson)
• This class will review and build on the mathematics you’ve seen in undergraduate classes that is necessary in electrical engineering
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– Linear algebra, linear systems theory, vector calculus, and probability theory (main focus of the class)
– Weekly assignments, two exams
Class syllabus: https://www.ee.washington.edu/academics/pmp/documents/ee505_aut13_syllabus.pdf
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Probability theory allows one to move to a description of the world in which signals are no longer deterministic.
EE 518 Course Description (Les Atlas)
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The representation, analysis, and design of discrete time (DT) signals and systems.
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DT processing of continuous‐time signals
decimation, interpolation, sampling rate conversion, and multirate techniques
time‐and frequency‐domain design techniques for non‐recursive (FIR) filters
discrete Fourier transforms, fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms;
various applications
(if there’s time) linear prediction (used in all cell phones, modern video codecs, like Skype, and fundamental to many other areas from oil prospecting to digital TV)
Some Applications of EE 518 and 505
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Military
Health
Industrial
Scientific
• Mobile applications
for sensing and control.
– Offered Spring 2014 – EE 590
Applications (cont)
• Health
– speech enhancement for hearing aids
– medical ultrasound
– CT scan, Atlas brain Fall 2005
• Industrial
– monitoring manufacturing processes via acoustic emissions
Applications (cont)
• Mobile and The Cloud
– MPEG, MP3, music, sound and video compression – Will have a chance to build what
you learn within a mobile application and/or embedded system.
– speech recognition (Windows Vista vs Dragon Naturally Speaking, by Nuance (Siri))
– communications (cell phone, WiMax, GPRS/EDGE, OFDM)
• Some speech coding (via linear prediction) covered in EE 518, yet later communications classes will cover the massive brakthrough which make modern digital data communications so fast.
Now, on to Your 1st Quiz!
Question 1: Discrete‐Time Signal Representation
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Question 2
1. How many of you are comfortable using MATLAB™?
2. Do you have access to MATLAB™ at work or home? (No problem if you don’t. We have it at UW and/or the student versionshould suffice).
PMP Policies and Procedures: The Nuts and Bolts
Erin Olnon
Professional Programs Manager
Email & Computing
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All PMP students are added to the PMP listserv: pmp_students@ee.washington.edu
*Important* ‐ ONLY your UW email account will be used for the PMP listserv and official communications to you
Imperative that you regularly check your UW email account, or have your email forwarded to an email that you regularly check
Email & Computing
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Web form available to create new EE & UW accounts
https://user.ee.washington.edu/
[username@ee.washington.edu]
– For help with computing accounts, contact the EE IT staff, located in EEB 307E,F,G or at help@ee.washington.edu
– Same username/password logs you into all EE computing resources (e.g. servers, computing lab – unix/windows)
– Must be registered before EE computing accounts can be created
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Separate UW NetID account
https://uwnetid.washington.edu/newid/
[username@u.washington.edu] or [username@uw.edu]
Email & Computing
General Computing Labs (open to all EE students)
• EEB 361: 24 computers, scanner
• EEB 365: 26 computers, scanner
• EEB 371: 30 computers, scanner
• Sieg 231: 12 computers
Virtual EE Computing Lab: http://remote.ee.washington.edu
• Telecommute & complete your assignments remotely
• All expensive licenses and software available
• To access, visit: https://www.ee.washington.edu/computing/faq/labs/remote_windows.html
Email & Computing
MS Office 2010 & Windows 7
Available for home and office use for students
http://www.ee.washington.edu/computing/faq/windows/ms_software_faq.html
Office Professional Plus 2010
Word
Access
Excel
Outlook
Powerpoint
Publisher
SharePoint
OneNote
Communicator
InfoPath
Windows 7 Upgrade
Need to have a previous Windows version
Facilities
Building hours Autumn through Spring: 7:00am – 9:00pm, M‐F
Summer: 7:30am – 5:00pm, M‐F
Break periods: 7:30am – 5:00pm, M‐F
Closed on weekends and holidays
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Your Husky card is your official UW ID card and must be obtained in person, on the ground floor of Odegaard Undergraduate Library
All *registered* EE students are given Husky card access to the EE building and/or labs, where appropriate
Building access after normal building hours and/or on weekends or holidays requires using the card key reader with your Husky card
facilities@ee.washington.edu
https://www.ee.washington.edu/operations/facilities/index.html
Parking
Short‐term Night Permits
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Allows you to park from 4PM‐8AM the following day
You specify the nights of the week you will need the permit
Cost is $2.35/day
Individual Commuter Tickets
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Allows you to park from the time parked until 6AM the next morning
Can purchase 26 at a time; cannot purchase again until your next purchase date, as determined by Commuter Services
Intended to be used 2 times/week on average
Cost is $5/permit
More options at: http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/faculty‐staff‐
student. Student Demographics
2013 PMP Admission Statistics
Applied: 103
Admitted: 79
Coming: 58
UW Students: 24 Average GPA (Admitted): 3.45
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Majority of PMP students are working while attending school
Academic backgrounds other than EE include ACMS, Math, Physics, Mechanical Engineering
– Student Employers include: Boeing, Electroimpact, Fluke, IBM, Impinj, Intel, Microsoft, Nike, Philips Ultrasound, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Seattle City Light, Triumph Aerospace Systems, among others…
PMP Curriculum
45 credits Total
EE 505 only required course in PMP curriculum
Part‐time students generally complete 4‐6 credits per quarter
Full‐time students generally complete 10‐12 credits per quarter
Students required to take at least 5 colloquium credits – will discuss Colloquium requirements next
• Yearly course offerings and course syllabi/websites can be found on the EE website at: https://www.ee.washington.edu/academics/pmp/CourseSyllabi.html
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Courses offered in the evening
• Generally begin at 6:00pm
• Finished by 10:00pm
• Generally 5 classes offered per quarter (excluding Summer)
PMP Colloquium
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EE 500 (1‐credit)/ EE 400 (2‐credits) is a *peer‐reviewed* seminar required of all PMP students. •
Does not meet in person; rather, students complete seminar requirements over the course of the quarter by choosing either a recorded Colloquium session (made available online weekly) or an IEEE Xplore article, and preparing a review of one or the other. •
Effective Fall 2012, students required to take a minimum of FIVE (5) credits of the colloquium (EE 400 or EE 500). •
Students may choose to take five quarters of EE 500 (1 credit) or a combination of EE 400 (2 credits) and EE 500 (1 credit).
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Only difference between EE 400 and EE 500 is # of required papers, peer reviews and final credits (1 vs. 2)
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PLEASE READ COLLOQUIUM SYLLABUS PRIOR TO START OF QUARTER
2013‐14 Course Offerings
Autumn 2013
Winter 2014
EE 505 ‐ Probability and Random Processes (Farquharson)
EE 503 ‐ Modeling of MEMS (Mamishev)
EE 546 ‐ Advanced Topics in Control System Theory: Introduction to Control EE 547 ‐ Linear Systems Theory (Bushnell)
Theory (Nagel)
Spring 2014
Summer 2014
EE 590 ‐ Advanced Topics in Digital EE 502 ‐ Introduction Computers: Mobile Applications for to MEMS (Bohringer)
Sensing & Control (Saba)
EE 543 ‐ Models of Robot Manipulation (Hannaford)
EE 595 ‐ Advanced Topics in Communication Theory: Social and Economic Networks (Jandhyala)
EE 571 ‐ High Frequency Circuits and Antennas: Computation of Fields and Waves (Sathanur)
EE 506 ‐ Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (Ritcey)
EE 596 ‐ Advanced Topics in Signal & Image Processing: Machine Vision (Shapiro)
EE 518 ‐ Digital Signal Processing (Atlas)
EE 596 ‐ Advanced Topics in Signal & Image Processing: Digital Image & Video Processing (Sun)
EE 540 ‐ VLSI Testing (Soma)
OFFERED THROUGH DAYTIME PROGRAM
EE 559 ‐ Special Topics in Electrical Energy Systems: Analyzing the Power Grid (Ortega‐Vasquez)
EE 559 ‐ Special Topics in Electrical Energy Systems: Wind Energy Production & Integration (El‐
Sharkawi)
500 ‐ Colloquium (1 credit)
400 ‐ Colloquium (2 credits)
500 ‐ Colloquium (1 credit)
400 ‐ Colloquium (2 credits)
500 ‐ Colloquium (1 credit)
400 ‐ Colloquium (2 credits)
Course offerings online at: http://www.ee.washington.edu/academics/pmp/CourseSyllabi.html
Satisfactory Academic Progress/On‐Leave
Satisfactory Academic Progress
• Minimum of 2.7 in each class required, as well as a minimum 3.0 GPA
• Students whose cumulative or quarterly GPA falls below a 3.0 will be notified with a “Warn,” “Probation,” “Final Probation,” or “Drop” letter
• The PMP Satisfactory Progress Policy can be found at: https://www.ee.washington.edu/academics/pmp/satisfactory.html
On‐Leave
• Students have the option of going “On‐Leave” up to 4 quarters in row
• Must apply quarterly and pay $25 fee
Registration & Tuition
Registration
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Registration is handled by UW Educational Outreach (UWEO) and is *not* done through MyUW
You will receive a registration form and payment voucher each quarter that you will be required to fill out and turn in to UWEO
Must provide proof of immunization before registering
Tuition is charged per credit and is $849/credit for the 2013‐14 academic year
Tuition is subject to change from year to year
Questions? Erin Olnon
Professional Programs Manager ‐ Electrical Engineering
Paul Allen Center, CSE 224
erin@ee.washington.edu | www.ee.washington.edu
206.616.4909 (Voice) | 206.543.3842 (Fax)
Alex Llapitan
Graduate Advising Coordinator
allapitan@ee.washington.edu