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Fault modeling, redundancy techniques and reliability evaluation, error detecting and correcting codes, self-checking circuits, fault diagnosis, software fault tolerance, error mitigation methods, partial concurrent error detection, online test, reconfiguration and voting, software reliability and redundancy, hardware fault tolerance, fault detection in cryptographic systems.

The course will cover basic theory and techniques of digital VLSI design in CMOS technology. We use full-custom techniques to design basic cells and regular structures such as data-path and memory. There is an emphasis on modern design issues in interconnect and clocking. Students will design small test circuits using various CAD tools. Circuits will be verified and analyzed for performance with various simulators.

Introduction and fundementals. Medium Access Control Protocols. Cellular Networks. Wireless Internet. 4-G Systems and Pervasive Networking. Security in Mobile Networks.

The students will review the fundamental design and analysis issues in computer networks, especially at the physical layer to the transport layer, including networking overview, multi-protocol network, intelligent network, ad-hoc and sensor network, mobile networking and current trends in the high-speed networks.

Information theoretic security. Fundamentals of secure networks and cryptography. Number theory for cryptography. One-way hash functions. Message authentication codes. Encryption and privacy: public key and symmetric key. Digital signatures schemes. Authentication and integrity methods and protocols. Elliptic curves cryptography. Firewalls. Virtual private networks. Transport layer security.

An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in engineering mostly not covered in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate Program Committee.

An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in engineering mostly not covered in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate Program Committee.

Project course for non-thesis students.

Engineering approach to design process: conceptual, preliminary, intermediate, and final, Design methodology in problem identification, design requirements and constraints, design alternatives, final design and design documentation. Importance of environmental factors, team-work effort and ethics in engineering design projects. Use of computers and software in analysis, execution, and documentation of design. Practical examples and case studies in different civil engineering disciplines.

This course provides students with fundamental knowledge of ecology and earth systems and how they are interrelated. The course covers the biotic characteristics of the environment, biogeochemical cycles, physical-chemical characteristics of waters, atmosphere, soils and the subsurface, physical, chemical and microbial contaminants, process affecting contaminant transport and fate

This is an intensive field work course, the main objective of this course is the understanding of basic surveying for construction, different methods of measurements are provided along with the use of different instrumentation and computing techniques.

Manufacturing process of cements, types and properties of cements, use of chemical and mineral admixtures, properties and gradation of aggregates, site operations, factors affecting workability and strength of concrete, mix design of concrete, tests on plastic and hardened properties of concrete, test for assessment of concrete in existing structures, durability of concrete, hot-weather concreting, properties and tests of bituminous binders and mixtures, uses of bituminous mixtures, manufacturing process, composition and heat treatment of steel, and alloy steels, sustainability of building materials.

Determination of dead, live and wind loads on structures according to building code. Introduction to various types of structural systems and load tracing in building structural system. Analysis and deformation of determinate trusses, beams and frames using geometric and energy methods. Analysis of statically indeterminate structures by the consistent deformation method. Influence lines for statically determinate structures and criteria for maximum effects.

Fluid statics, conservation laws, Bernoulli\'s equation, dimensional analysis, pipe flow, pipe networks, flow measurement.

Basic principles of open channel hydraulics, energy and momentum concepts, uniform, gradually varied, and rapidly varied flows, surface hydrology, analysis of precipitation, infiltration, evapotranspiration, rainfall-runoff relations, hydrographs, hydrologic flood routing, basic principles of flow in porous media, groundwater occurrence and distribution, hydraulics of wells, estimates of recharge and surcharge, various laboratory experiments are performed to illustrate the basic principles of hydraulics and water resources.