Academics

Course Offerings

The tables below list the courses that we expect to offer and their offering frequency, as of Fall 2022. Note that faculty availability may sometimes require a change from this schedule.

Current course listings can be found at WU Course Listings. For an overview of ESE courses visit the Undergraduate Bulletin and Graduate Bulletin.

Core Undergraduate Courses

105 Introduction to Electrical and Systems Engineering	Fall
205 Introduction to Engineering Design	Spring
230 Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Circuits	Fall (FL23+)
232 Introduction to Electrical Circuits	Spring
260 Introduction to Digital Logic and Computer Design	CSE Home, Fall and Spring
326 Probability and Statistics for Engineering	Fall and Spring
330 Engineering Electromagnetics Principles	Fall
351 Signals and Systems	Spring (SP23+)
4031 Optimization for Engineered Planning, Decisions and Operations	Fall
415 Optimization	Fall and Spring
441 Control Systems	Fall (FL23+)
498 Electrical Engineering Capstone Design Projects	Fall and Spring
499 Systems Science and Engineering Capstone Project	Fall and Spring

Labs

3301 Electromagnetics Laboratory: Spectrum from Radio to Photonics	Fall
331 Electronics Laboratory	Spring
4480 Control Systems Design Labratory	Fall & Spring
4481 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Control Labratory	Fall & Spring
465 Digital Systems Laboratory	Fall
488 Signals and Communication Laboratory	Spring

Regularly Offered Elective Courses*

417 Machine Learning and Pattern Classification	Fall & Spring
427 Financial Mathematics	Fall
4301 Quantum Mechanics for Engineers	Fall
436 Semiconductor Devices	Fall
446 Robotics: Dynamics and Control	Spring
461 Design Automation for Integrated Circuit Systems	Fall
469 Fundamentals of Machine Learning Hardware
471 Communication Systems	Spring
482 Digital Signal Processing	Fall

* Check individual degree requirements for suitability of elective courses

Other Elective Courses* (as available)

332 Power, Energy and Polyphase Circuits	Spring
359 Signals, Data and Equity	Fall
404 Applied Operations Research	Spring
405 Reliability and Quality Control	Fall
4261 Statistical Methods for Data Analysis with Applications to Financial Engineering	Spring
431 Introduction to Quantum Electronics	Every other Spring
434 Solid State Power Circuits and Applications	Fall
438 Applied Optics	As needed
439 Quantum Communication	Every other Spring
444 Sensors and Actuators	Fall

* Check individual degree requirements for suitability of elective courses

Graduate Courses

513 Large-scale Optimization for Data Science	Fall
520 Probability and Stochastic Processes	Fall & Spring
524 Detection and Estimation Theory	Spring
527 Practicum in Data Analytics and Statistics	Fall & Spring
543 Control Systems Design by State Space Methods	Fall
547 Robust and Adaptive Control	Spring
551 Linear Dynamic Systems I	Fall
553 Nonlinear Dynamic Systems	Spring
562 Analog Integrated Circuits	Fall
589 Biological Imaging Technology	Spring
5931 Mathematics of Imaging Science (cross-listed from BME home)	Fall
5932 Computational Methods for Imaging Science	Spring
5933 Theoretical Imaging Science	Fall
5934 Practicum in Imaging Science	Spring
501 Mathematics of Modern Engineering I	Fall
502 Mathematics of Modern Engineering II	Spring

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