2025-26 NEW COURSES, look for them below.

Resources: ECE Official Course Descriptions (UCSD Catalog)

For 2024-2025 Academic Year: Courses, 2024-25

For 2023-2024 Academic Year: Courses, 2023-24

For 2022-2023 Academic Year: Courses, 2022-23

For 2021-2022 Academic Year: Courses, 2021-22

For 2020-2021 Academic Year: Courses, 2020-21

For 2019-2020 Academic Year: Courses, 2019-20

For 2018-2019 Academic Year: Courses, 2018-19

For 2017-2018 Academic Year: Courses, 2017-18

For 2016-2017 Academic Year: Courses, 2016-17

 

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ACADEMIC YEAR: 2025-2026

Class listings and faculty are proposed and subject to change. Click on the instructor's name for the class website.

Please note if you see a professor's name in a box below, it means the course is being offered the quarter listed. If there is a blank box, then the course is not being offered that quarter.

COURSE	FALL 25	WINTER 26	SPRING 26	SU26 (TBD)
ECE 5 Experience ECE: Making, Breaking, Hacking Stuff	MORRIS		MORRIS
ECE 15 Engineering Computation	SCHURGERS	SAHAY	SAHAY
ECE 16 Rapid Hardware and Software Design		KHOSHABEH
ECE 17 Object-Oriented Programming: Design and Development with C++	SAHAY
ECE 18 Python Programming	SAHAY		SAHAY
ECE 25 Introduction to Digital Design	LIU	MAKRIS	DEY
ECE 30 Introduction to Computer Engineering	MIRARAB		MIRARAB
ECE 35 Introduction to Analog Design	SCHURGERS	SCHURGERS	NDAO
ECE 45 Circuits & Systems	ZEGER	HEATH	ANTIPA
ECE 65 Components & Circuits Laboratory	BAGHDADCHI	BAGHDADCHI	BAGHDADCHI
ECE 100 Linear Electronic Systems	BAGHDADCHI		BAGHDADCHI
ECE 101 Linear Systems Fundamentals	ZHENG	SIEGEL	FRANCESCHETTI
ECE 102 Introduction to Active Circuit Design	HSUEH	LE
ECE 103 Fundamentals of Devices & Materials	NG	LO	KUZUM
ECE 107 Electromagnetism	FULLERTON		LOMAKIN
ECE 108 Digital Circuits	TURAKHIA		KANG
ECE 109 Engineering Probability & Statistics	POVEDA	ZEGER	XIE
ECE111 Advanced Digital Design Project	KOUSHANFAR	ELDON	TURAKHIA
ECE 115 Fast Prototyping		YIP	YIP
ECE 116 Advanced Hardware and Software Design
ECE 120 Solar System Physics
ECE 121A Power Systems Analysis and Fundamentals	ESMAILI
ECE 121B Energy Conversion		ESMAILI
ECE 123 Antenna Systems Engineering			SIEVENPIPER
ECE 124 Motor Drives
ECE 125A Power Electronics I		LE
ECE 125B Power Electronics II			ESMAILI
ECE 128A Real World Power Grid Operation	ESMAILI
ECE 128B Power Grid Modernization		ESMAILI
ECE 128C Power Grid Resiliency
ECE 129 Renewable and Energy Storage Resources
ECE 134 Electronic Materials Science of Integrated Circuits			NG
ECE 135A Semiconductor Physics	KUZUM
ECE 135B Electronic Devices		DAYEH
ECE 136L Microelectronics Laboratory			DAYEH
ECE 139 Semiconductor Device Design & Modeling			NOMURA
ECE 140A The Art of Product Engineering I		KHOSHABEH/GESSNER
ECE 140B The Art of Product Engineering II			KHOSHABEH/GESSNER
ECE 141A Software Foundations I		GESSENER
ECE 141B Software Foundations II			GESSNER
ECE 143 Programming for Data Analysis	UNPINGCO	UNPINGCO
ECE 144 LabVIEW Programming
ECE 148 Introduction to Autonomous Vehicles	SILBERMAN	SILBERMAN	SILBERMAN
ECE 150 Entreprenuership for Engineers
ECE 153 Probability & Random Processes for Engineers			NAGHIZADEH
ECE 155 Digital Communications Theory	PRELCIC
ECE 157A Communications Systems Laboratory I			BHARADIA
ECE 157B Communications Systems Laboratory II
ECE 158A Data Networks I	JAVIDI
ECE 158B Data Networks II		ZHANG
ECE 159 Introduction to Data Processing and Information Theory
ECE 161A Introduction to Digital Signal Processing	MEYER
ECE 161B Digital Signal Processing I		NGUYEN
ECE 161C Applications of Digital Signal Processing			PARHI
ECE 163 Electronic Circuits & Systems			HSUEH
ECE 164 Analog Integrated Circuit Design	HALL
ECE 165 Digital Integrated Circuit Design			MERCIER
ECE 166 Microwave Systems & Circuits	REBEIZ
ECE 171A Linear Control System Theory			ATANASOV
ECE 171B Linear Control System Theory	SHI
ECE 172A Introduction to Intelligent Systems
ECE 174 Introduction to Linear & Nonlinear Optimization with Applications	WANG, J.
ECE 175A Elements of Machine Intelligence: Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning		VASCONCELOS, M.
ECE 175B Elements of Machine Intelligence: Probabilistic Reasoning & Graphical Models			XIE
ECE 176 Introduction to Deep Learning and Applications		WANG, X.
ECE 180 Topics in Electrical & Computer Engineering
ECE 181 Physical Optics & Fourier Optics		BAGHDADCHI
ECE 182 Electromagnetic Optics, Guided-Wave, & Fiber Optics	FAINMAN
ECE 183 Optical Electronics			MOOKHERJEA
ECE 184 Optical Information Processing & Holography	FAINMAN
ECE 185 Lasers & Modulators
ECE 187 Introduction to Biomedical Imaging & Sensing		LIU
ECE 188 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering with Lab
ECE 189 Technical Public Speaking
ECE 190 Engineering Design
ECE 191 Engineering Group Design Project		NDAO
ECE 196 Engineering Hands-On Group Project			MORRIS
ECE 201 Introduction to Biophysics	LO
ECE 202 Medical Devices and Interfaces		KUZUM
ECE 203 Biomedical Integrated Circuits and Systems	MERCIER
ECE 204 Statistical Learning in Bioinformatics
ECE 207A Principles of Medical Imaging	LIU & MCVEIGH (BENG)
ECE 208 Computational Evolutionary Biology			MIRARAB
ECE 209 Statistical Learning for Biosignal Processing
ECE 212AN Principles of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	NOMURA
ECE 212BN Nanoelectronics		NG
ECE 212CN Nanophotonics			LIU
ECE 213 Parallel Computing in Bioinformatics		TURAKHIA
ECE 221 Magnetic Materials: Principles and Applications
ECE 222A Antennas & Their System Applications	REBEIZ
ECE 222B Applied Electromagnetic Theory- Electromagnetics		SIEVENPIPER
ECE 222C Applied Electromagnetic Theory- Computational Methods for Electromagnetics			LOMAKIN
ECE 222D Advanced Antenna Design
ECE 225A  Probability and Statistics for Data Science	ORLITSKY
ECE 225B Universal Probability and Applications in Data Science
ECE 226 Optimization and Acceleration of Deep Learning on Various Hardware Platforms		KOUSHANFAR
ECE 227 Big Network Data		FRANCESCHETTI
ECE 228 Machine Learning for Physical Applications			SHI
ECE 229 Computational Data Analysis and Product Development
ECE 230A Solid State Electronics I	NOMURA
ECE 230B Solid State Electronics II			LO
ECE 230C Solid State Electronics III			YU
ECE 235 Nanometer-Scale VLSI Devices
ECE 236A III-V Compound Semiconductor Materials
ECE 236B Optical Processes in Semiconductors
ECE 236C Heterojunction Field Effect Transistors
ECE 236D Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
ECE 238A Thermodynamics of Solids	LUO (MAE)
ECE 238B Solid State Diffusion & Reaction Kinetics
ECE 240A Lasers & Optics	NDAO
ECE 240B Optical Information Processing		RUBIN
ECE 240C Optical Modulation & Detection			MOOKHERJEA
ECE 241A Nonlinear Optics
ECE 241B Integrated Photonics
ECE 241C Holographic Optical Elements
ECE 243B Optical Fiber Communication
ECE 244A Statistical Optics			RUBIN
ECE 247A Advanced BioPhotonics	SHI (BENG)
ECE 247B BioElectronics	ARAN (BENG)	WANG, J. (NANO)
ECE 247C BioNanotechnology			STEINMETZ (NANO)
ECE 250 Random Processes	NAGHIZADEH	JAVIDI
ECE 251A Digital Signal Processing I			PAL
ECE 251B Digital Signal Processing II			VASCONCELOS, M.
ECE 251C Filter Banks & Wavelets	PARHI
ECE 251D Array Processing
ECE 252A Speech Compression
ECE 252B Speech Recognition
ECE 253 Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing	NGUYEN
ECE 254 Detection Theory
ECE 255A Information Theory	ORLITSKY
ECE 255B Source Coding I
ECE 255C Network Information Theory
ECE 257A Modern Communication Networks	ZHANG
ECE 257B Principles of Wireless Networks		BHARADIA
ECE 257C Stochastic Wireless Networks Models
ECE 258A Digital Communication	HEATH
ECE 258B Digital Communication		PRELCIC
ECE 259A Algebraic Coding
ECE 259B Probabilistic Coding
ECE 259C Advanced Topics in Coding			SIEGEL
ECE 260A VLSI Digital System Algorithms & Architectures	ELDON
ECE 260B VLSI Integrated Circuits & Systems Design Note: EASy request isn't needed if you haven't taken ECE 260A		KANG
ECE 260C VLSI Advanced Topics			KAHNG
ECE 264A CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits & Systems I		GALTON
ECE 264B CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits & Systems II			GALTON
ECE 264C CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits & Systems II I	GALTON
ECE 264D CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits & Systems IV
ECE 265A Communication Circuit Design I		GUDEM
ECE 265B Communication Circuit Design II			GUDEM
ECE 265C Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications	PRESTI
ECE 265D Communication Circuits III		GUDEM
ECE 266A CMOS Circuits Lab I			HALL
ECE 266B CMOS Circuits Lab II (formerly ECE 283: Integrated Circuit Lab)	HALL
ECE 267 Network/Graph Algorithms and Analysis
ECE 268 Security of Hardware Embedded Systems			KOUSHANFAR
ECE 269 Linear Algebra		PAL
ECE 271A Statistical Learning I	VASCONCELOS, N.
ECE 271B Statistical Learning II		VASCONCELOS, M.
ECE 271C Deep Learning and Applications
ECE 272A Stochastic Processes in Dynamic Systems I			POVEDA
ECE 272B Stochastic Processes in Dynamic Systems II
ECE 273 Convex Optimization & Applications			WANG, J.
ECE 275A Parameter Estimation I
ECE 275B Parameter Estimation II
ECE 276A Sensing & Estimation Robotics		ATANASOV
ECE 276B Planning & Learning in Robotics			ATANASOV
ECE 276C Robot Manipulation and Control	YIP
ECE 279 Technical Communications
ECE 280 Special Topics in Electronic Devices & Materials/Applied Physics
ECE 281 Special Topics in Nanoscience/Nanotechnology
ECE 282 Special Topics in Photonics/Applied Optics
ECE 283 Special Topics in Electronic Circuits & Systems	LE (Power Management Integrated Circuits) *ECE 263	HSUEH (High-Speed Wireline Communication Circuits & Systems)
ECE 284 Special Topics in Computer Engineering	KANG   (Low-power VLSI Implementation for Machine Learning)		MAKRIS (Advanced Computer Architecture)
ECE 285 Special Topics in Signal & Image Processing/Robotics & Control Systems	NAGHIZADEH (Ethics and Economics of AI)	SHI (Agentic AI and LLM for Smart Grids) XIE (Deep Generative Models) POVEDA (Stochastic Hybrid Systems for Control, Learning, and Optimization)
ECE 286 State-of-the-Art Topics in Computational Statistics & Machine Learning
ECE 287 Special Topics in Communication Theory & Systems		JAVIDI (Network Info Theory)	HEATH (IT MIMO)
ECE 289 Special Topics in Electrical & Computer Engineering
ECE 290 Graduate Seminar on Current ECE Research
ECE 291 Industry Sponsored Engineering Design Project
ECE 292 Graduate Seminar in Electronic Circuits and Systems
ECE 293 Graduate Seminar in Communication Theory and Systems
ECE 294 Graduate Seminar in Electronic Devices & Materials/Applied Physics
ECE 295 Graduate Seminar in Signal & Image Processing/Robotics & Control Systems
ECE 296 Graduate Seminar in Photonics/Applied Optics
ECE 297 Graduate Seminar in Nanoscience/ Nanotechnology

 

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