Computer and Electronics Engineering
Courses for CEEN (CEEN)
CEEN
424/824/4240
Digital Signal Processing LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 355 or (UNO) CEEN 3550.
The temporal and spectral analysis of digital signals and systems, the design of digital filters and systems, and advanced systems including multi-rate digital signal processing techniques.
CEEN
433/833/4330/8336
Microprocessor System Design LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3, Lab 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Microprocessor based systems: architecture; design; and interfacing. Hardware topics: memory design; input/output ports; serial communications; and interrupts. Software topics: generating assembly ROM code; assembly/C firmware generation; and designing device drivers.
CEEN
436/836/4360/8366
Embedded Microcontroller Design LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lab 3, Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Microcontroller architecture: design, programming, and interfacing for embedded systems. Timing issues, memory interfaces, serial and parallel interfacing, and functions for common microcontrollers.
CEEN
437/837/4370
Parallel and Distributed Processing LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Parallel and distributed processing concepts, principles, techniques, and machines.
CEEN
451/851/4510
Introduction to VLSI System Design LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 310 or (UNO) CEEN 3100.
The concepts, principles, and methodology at all levels of digital VLSI system design and focused on gate-level VLSI implementation.
CEEN
452/852/4520
Introduction to Computer-Aided Digital Design LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 310 or (UNO) CEEN 3100.
The concepts, simulation techniques and methodology in computer-aided digital design at system and logic levels.
CEEN
466/866/4660
Telecommunications Engineering I LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3, Lab 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Standard telecommunications protocols, architecture of long distance integrated data networks, local area networks, wide area networks, radio and satellite networks. Network management, internetworking, system modeling and performance analysis.
CEEN
471/871/4710
Computer Communication Networks LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3, Lab 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 325 or (UNO) CEEN 3250.
High-speed access control protocols, routing protocols, traffic management, and network topologies. Giga-bit Ethernet, ATM, and TCP/IP. Performance modeling and simulation techniques.
CEEN
473/873/4730
Mobile and Personal Communications LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3, Lab 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 325 or (UNO) CEEN 3250.
Concepts on mobile and personal communications. Modulation techniques for mobile radio, equalization, diversity, channel coding, and speech coding.
CEEN
475/875/4750
Satellite Communications LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3, Lab 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 325 OR (UNO) CEEN 3250.
The fundamental concepts of satellite communications. Orbits, launching satellites, modulation and multiplexing, multiple access, earth stations, coding, interference and special problems in satellite communications.
CEEN
476/876/4760
Wireless Communications LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Permission.
The fundamental concepts of wireless communications. Basic communications concepts such as multiple access and spectrum. Propagation, radio standards and internetworking. Current issues in wireless communications.
CEEN
479/879/4790
Optical Fiber Communications LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3, Lab 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Fundamentals of lightwave communication in optical fiber waveguides, physical description of fiber optic systems. Properties of the optical fiber and fiber components. Electro-optic devices: light sources and modulators, detectors and amplifiers; optical transmitter and receiver systems. Fiber optic link design and specification; fiber optic networks.
CEEN
482/882
Antennas and Radio Propagation for Wireless Communications LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lab 3, Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 328 or (UNO) 3280.
Fundamental theory of antennas and radio propagation for wireless communications. Basic antenna characteristics and various antennas and antenna arrays. Basic propagation mechanisms and various channel models, such as Friis free space model, Hata model, lognormal distribution, and multipath model. Includes practical antenna design for high radio frequency (RF) with modeling software tools such as Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC) and Advanced Design System (ADS). Design projects will be assigned as the main part of course.
CEEN
484/884
Network Security LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 325 or (UNO) 3250.
Network security and cryptographic protocols. Classical encryption techniques, block ciphers and stream cyphers, public-key cryptography, authentications digital signatures, key management and distributions, network vulnerabilities, transport-level security, IP security.
CEEN
488/888
Wireless Security LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 325 or (UNO) 3250.
A comprehensive overview on the recent advances in wireless network and system security. Security issues and solutions in emerging wireless access networks and systems as well as multihop wireless networks.
CEEN
491/891/4910/8916
Special Topics in Computer and Electronics Engineering IV LINK| Credit Hours: | 1-4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lecture |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Senior standing.
Special topics in the emerging areas of computer and electronics engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the computer and electronics engineering curriculum.
CEEN
492/892/4920
Individual Study in Computer and Electronics Engineering IV LINK| Credit Hours: | 1-3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Independent Study |
| Campus: | UNO |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Senior standing.
CEEN 492 (UNO - CEEN 4920) requires a CEEN departmentally approved proposal.
Individual study in selected computer and electronics engineering area under the supervision and guidance of a computer and electronics engineering faculty member.
CEEN
863
Digital Communications Media LINK| Credit Hours: | 4 |
| Course Format: | Lab 3, Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
CEEN 3610
Offered on Omaha Campus. Transport of bit streams from one geographical location to another over various physical media such as wire pairs, coaxial cable, optical fiber, and radio waves. Transmission characteristics, media interfacing, delay, distortion, noise, and error detection and correction techniques.
CEEN
926
Statistical Signal Processing for Wireless Communications LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Statistical signal processing and applications for wireless communications: the characteristics of random signals; optimum linear filters; statistical parameter estimation using maximum likelihood (ML) and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) methods; adaptive signal processing using least-mean-square (LMS) and recursive least-square (RLS) approaches; Kalman filtering; and eigenanalysis.
CEEN
977
Space-time Wireless Communications LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Theory of space-time (ST) wireless communication systems. Spatial diversity, smart antenna systems, MIMO capacity of multi-antenna fading channels, space-time signaling, space-time receivers, and interference mitigation. Overview of more advanced topics such as MIMO-OFDM. Current trends in research and in the industry.
CEEN
998
Advanced Special Topics LINK| Credit Hours: | 1-3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Permission
Advanced topics in computer and electronics engineering.
Description
For a brief description of the program, application requirements and contact information, view the graduate program summary.
Department Chair: Bing Chen, Ph.D.
The Computer and Electronics Engineering Department (CEEN) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers graduate programs in Telecommunications and Computer Engineering leading to master's and doctoral degrees. The graduate program prepares students for professional and research careers in industry and academia through providing strong breadth of knowledge and depth of expertise in telecommunications engineering and computer engineering.
Graduate students have the opportunity to experience and contribute to innovative engineering research in areas of wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, multimedia processing, network security, optical communications, biomedical communications engineering, and other related research areas. Students are able to participate in interdisciplinary studies with other departments and programs at the University of Nebraska including the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
The CEEN Department has extensive state-of-the-art research and computing facilities for all areas of active research including access to the Holland Computing Center which has over 5,600 processors and is capable of a sustainable computation rate of more than 20 trillion floating point operations per second (20 TFlops).
The CEEN Department is a University of Nebraska-Lincoln program located in the Peter Kiewit Institute in Omaha. The Peter Kiewit Institute was established to support high quality research by faculty and students coupled with business and economic development initiatives to generate unity-of-effort among academic, industry and local, state and federal government organizations in solving local, regional and national problems.