High-Speed Digital Engineering Courses

Core Courses

Courses are 3 credit hours each. Students must take all 5, for a total of 15 credit hours.

  • ECEN 5224 High Speed Digital Design (Spring)
  • ECEN 5514 Principles of EM for HSDE (Fall)
  • ECEN 5524 Principles of Computational Electromagnetics for Signal and Power Integrity (Spring)
  • ECEN 5534 Practical Signal Integrity Measurements (Fall)
  • ECEN 5730 Practical PCB Design and Manufacture (Fall, Spring)

Elective Courses

Courses are 3 credit hours each. Students must take one of the following, for a total of 3 credit hours.   

  • ECEN 5013 Special Topic: Advanced PCB design for high-speed serial links (Fall 2024)
  • ECEN 5414 Essential Principles of Signal Integrity (Fall, online asynchronous)
  • ECEN 5424 High Speed Channel Design for Signal Integrity (Fall, online asynchronous) 
  • ECEN 5434 S-Parameters for Signal Integrity in HSDE (Spring, online asynchronous) 
  • ECEN 5444 Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) for HSDE (Spring)
  • ECEN 5544 EM Signal Modeling for HSDE using Ansys HFSS and Q3D (Fall)
  • ECEN 5554 Designing PCB Memory Systems using Keysight ADS (Spring)

The final four courses (12 credit hours) may be four more from the above list of HSDE courses, and / or from other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) courses.