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This tutorial is designed to introduce engineers who work in the military to ethical considerations and the IEEE codes of Ethics. Dr. Starrett discusses the special ethical challenges engineers in this sector may encounter and suggests sources and methods military engineers may find useful in deciding how to handle ethical dilemmas. He also reviews a case study of an Army engineer confronting a professional ethical dilemma. View full Abstract »

The aim of this tutorial is to give some insight into the technical details of the different technologies that exists for 3G wireless communication.

The tutorial begins with a short overview of the different technologies that exist for 3G wireless communication. This also includes an overview of the related specification and standardization activities technologies.

In the second, main part, of the tutorial, a more detailed description of the different 3G wireless technologies, Wide... View full Abstract »

This course- the first in a series of three - provides a foundation for understanding the field of cluster analysis in unlabeled data. The target audience for this course comprises undergraduate and graduate students majoring in engineering and science, as well as practicing engineers and scientists interested in either research about or applications of clustering to real world problems such as data mining, image analysis and bioinformatics. The subject matter is widely available in a number of ... View full Abstract »

As the embedded market is expected to increase in the near future, a standardized software design methodology for these systems is desirable, but currently does not exist. The design of a real-time embedded system involves selecting a hardware platform and either 1) selecting a commercially available realtime operating system (RTOS) or 2) utilizing a ?round-robin? loop customized for the application. Presuming that the software requirements have been established within a Software Requirements Do... View full Abstract »

This course expands on the concepts introduced in the first course, "A Software Design Methodology for Real-Time Embedded Systems," with emphasis on useful Design and Coding Guidelines. Upon completing this second course, you will have learned everything needed to implement the Design Method and Architecture in your current embedded system project. View full Abstract »

This tutorial will provide an overview of advanced interconnect technologies, including dielectric materials, patterning, metallization, CMP, and packaging. New processes will be discussed, such as ultra-low K dielectrics, air-gap structures, low-damage patterning methods, thin barrier and seed layers, refractory metal capping layers, and novel CMP techniques. The effect of these processes on performance and reliability will be briefly described. View full Abstract »

This is a 2-part course. The Advanced Protocols for Wireless Ad-hoc Networks will illustrate that in Ad-Hoc networks where there is no underlying fixed infrastructure, tasks such as network self-organization, mobility management, adaptive route detection for unicast and multicast applications, and provisioning of Gateway functionality to interconnect the ad-hoc network to the rest of the Internet space must be handled according to rules that are unique to the ad-hoc nature of the system. Topics ... View full Abstract »

Cost control, production efficiency, cycle time and yield are critical quality benchmarks for nano-electronics production. Their sensitivity to the statistical variations of the IC manufacturing process is increasing more and more in comparison to the process complexity. Therefore, the following two joint tasks become essential: To characterize statistically IC manufacturing fluctuations, and To predict reliably circuit performance spreads at the design stage.

In this tutorial we will int... View full Abstract »

This advanced course will be a valuable resource for software developers who are implementing UPnP technology in their products. It provides detailed information about building UPnP Audio/Video products (such as those compatible with media players like Sony.s Playstation 3), and hands-on demonstrations of development tools helpful for anyone building UPnP-based products. The Advanced course also provides an introduction to UPnP Security. View full Abstract »

In the last few years, a series of breakthrough innovations have been made to transform analog-intensive RF circuitry into digitally-intensive implementations. In Texas Instruments, this disruptive technology falls under the umbrella of a Digital RF Processor (DRP^TM) platform and enables to integrate almost all of cellular phone modem electronics into a single IC chip fabricated using nanoscale digital CMOS process. The first such single-chip mobile phone was sampled in December 2004 and is now... View full Abstract »

Early in the requirements engineering life cycle it is essential to properly manage customer expectations, and to deal with tradeoffs between functionality, time, and cost. To address these issues it is necessary to have some way of estimating costs for system features. The activities related to managing expectations and estimating and managing costs are called value engineering. In this tutorial we examine value engineering activities for requirements engineers. Value engineering includes conce... View full Abstract »

Green manufacturing systems are lean. "Lean manufacturing" describes the process of getting rid of waste that results in overproduction, delays, inventory, over-processing and error, and leads to a more continuous production flow based almost entirely on customer pull (an accurate forecast of future demand). A key component of a lean manufacturing system is an aggregate planning system. This module provides a hands-on, user oriented explanation of how to develop an aggregate planning system that... View full Abstract »

The Radar Systems Engineering Series consists of seventeen lectures; each lecture is offered as an individual tutorial. The goal of this series is to provide an advanced introduction to radar systems subsystem issues for first year graduate students, advanced senior undergraduates or professionals new to the field. The material will be most accessible to university graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science / Engineering, or Mech... View full Abstract »

Leadership can be defined as the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members. Leadership is not dependant on title or formal authority. All too often we think of leadership as something we will develop and apply later rather than earlier in our career. This applies to both leadership within our chosen technical discipline and leadership of our profession. In the early stages o... View full Abstract »

In terms of green engineering design and manufacturing sustainability we consider the following:

1. An eco-friendly state, or process that can be maintained over time, for a very long time.
2. The ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological advanced design and manufacturing processes and functions, biological diversity, and productivity over time.
3. Green sustainability encompasses the concept of meeting present design and manufacturing needs without compromising the ability of ... View full Abstract »

The purpose of this tutorial is to explain the importance of the subject area of sustainable green engineering. We present an overview of some of the challenges, and some of the solutions we have for sustainable lean and green engineering in product, process, and service systems in various industries. We will provide examples of products, processes, and service systems in manufacturing, design, electronic, automotive, and construction. We will discuss the fundamentals of alternative energy sourc... View full Abstract »

The entire world is seeking more energy, including energy generated by wind power. In this tutorial the basic components of a wind turbine are illustrated and explained. The authors discuss the challenges of wind energy economics and conventional versus alternative energy sources. They illustrate how wind power physics and related mathematics guide the design and the manufacturing processes of wind turbines and review how to calculate the maximum efficiency of wind energy conversion. View full Abstract »

This tutorial will cover the principles and architectures of analog digital converter design. The tutorial begins with a review of domain conversion including sampling, aliasing, and usable bandwidth. Next, quantization will be discussed with a focus on effective dynamic range and linearity. The tutorial will conclude with a review of architectural survey including single slope/dual slope ADCs, flash ADCs, successive approximation, algorithmic ADCs, pipeline ADCs, sigma delta modulators and cont... View full Abstract »

This tutorial will cover the ADC building blocks and design trade-offs of analog digital converter design. The tutorial begins by discussing handling signals including voltage, current and charge. Next, signal management (?floors and ceilings?) will be covered. This will lead into a discussion of the key building blocks: Comparator, Amplifiers, SHA, and DAC. View full Abstract »

The Radar Systems Engineering Series consists of seventeen lectures; each lecture is offered as an individual tutorial. The goal of this series is to provide an advanced introduction to radar systems subsystem issues for first year graduate students, advanced senior undergraduates or professionals new to the field. The material will be most accessible to university graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science / Engineering, or Mech... View full Abstract »

The Radar Systems Engineering Series consists of seventeen lectures; each lecture is offered as an individual tutorial. The goal of this series is to provide an advanced introduction to radar systems subsystem issues for first year graduate students, advanced senior undergraduates or professionals new to the field. The material will be most accessible to university graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science / Engineering, or Mech... View full Abstract »

Neural Networks are information processing systems inspired by the ability of human brain to learn from observations and to generalize by abstraction. It has been used in diverse fields such as pattern recognition, speech processing, control, medical applications and more. In recent years, it has emerged as an attractive vehicle in the RF/microwave CAD community to address the challenges in high-frequency electronic modeling and design. Neural networks can learn and generalize from data allowing... View full Abstract »

The Radar Systems Engineering Series consists of seventeen lectures; each lecture is offered as an individual tutorial. The goal of this series is to provide an advanced introduction to radar systems subsystem issues for first year graduate students, advanced senior undergraduates or professionals new to the field. The material will be most accessible to university graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science / Engineering, or Mech... View full Abstract »

This course will provide an introduction covering the superheterodyne receiver, the ideal brick wall filter, and insertion loss and return loss concepts. Additionally, approximation theory and equal ripple functions as well as amplitude and group delay responses will be discussed. Lowpass prototypes will be covered in this course including Chebyshev and elliptic prototypes. The course will review the process of finding prototype element values, frequency and impedance scaling, and transformation... View full Abstract »

RF power amplifiers have received a great deal of attention and development effort over the last decade, mainly due to the challenging requirements of the wireless communications industry. This effort has not only led to some impressive progress in PA performance, it has also led to some revisions and rethinking in traditional PA theory. this course will highlight how these developments will undoubtedly have an impact on PA design in all application areas, including but not restricted to wireles... View full Abstract »