2022-2023 ECE Curriculum Committee

Agenda:

New Temporary Offering Proposals for Fall 2023

ECE 198 JS "James Scholars Honors Course" submitted by Christopher Schmitz - Honors open-ended project design as a companion (1 credit hour) to ECE 110 or ECE 120. First time offering in Fall 2023.
Syllabus/Request Responses to Questions

Request for cross-listing

Cross-listing a new ECE 4XX course to CS 444 "Deep Learning for Computer Vision" submitted by Saurabh Gupta, who plans to teach the course in Fall 2023. Currently, the instructor is Svetlana Lazebnik from CS department.
Syllabus CS444 New Course form

New Course proposals + Temporary Offering for Fall 2023

New course proposal for ECE 305 "Quantum Systems I" submitted by Kejie Fang, with request for third time temporary offering as ECE 398 in Fall 2023
ECE 398 Request ECE 305 motivation
New course proposal for ECE 426 "Advanced VLSI System Design" submitted by Rakesh Kumar, with request for third time temporary offering as ECE 498 HK in Fall 2023
ECE 426 N ew Course ECE 498 Request

Courses proposed for addition to the non-ECE Technical Electives list:

GGIS 407 / GEOG 407 "Foundations of CyberGIS & Geospatial Data Science" - Intended to introduce students to CyberGIS – Geospatial Information Science and Systems (GIS) based on advanced cyberinfrastructure as well as the state of the art in high-performance computing, big data, and cloud computing in the context of geospatial data science. This course is also part of various completely online graduate/certificate programs of the Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science https://ggis.illinois.edu. At the last meeting in Fall 2022, the committee discussed preliminarly possible inclusion in the non-ECE tech elective list. More detaled information and one example of work executed in one of the lab assignments was received in the meantime from the course instructor.
Syllabus Example: Lab 6