| | Standard Course Syllabus | Course Supervisor | Date of Approval |
| | Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Ozguner, U | 2/03 |
| | 759 | Numerical Optimization for Electrical Engineers |
| | 2. | CATALOG DESCRIPTION |
| | Numerical optimization techniques as applied to selected electrical engineering application areas. |
| | Quarters of Offering | Credits | | Level | Class Meeting |
| | Au Qtr. | 3 | U G | 3 cl. |
| | Course Prerequisites |
| | Prereq: 352. Not open to students with credit for 694U. |
| | 3. | PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC |
| | Vectors, matrices, and related calculations; introductory signals and systems; a high-level language preferably MATLAB |
| | programming. |
| | Courses that require this as a direct prerequisite |
| | none |
| | 4. | Text(s) and Other Course Materials | Author(s) | Publisher |
| | Nonlinear Programming, 2nd Ed. | Dimitri P. Bertsekas | Athena Scientifica |
| | ISBN: 1-886529-00-0 |
| | References (supplemental reading) |
| | 5. | COURSE OBJECTIVES |
| | 1. This course provides the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student with computational techniques to pose |
| | and solve electrical optimization problems numerically. The student is exposed to standard techniques, their mathematical |
| | background and associated software. (Criteria 3 (a),(b),(c ), (k),(e)) |
| | 6. | TOPICS AND (# OF LECTURES) |
| | Mathematical Review - Concepts from geometry and calculus (3) |
| | Basic Unconstrained Optimization - One Dimensional Search - EE examples (3) |
| | Gradient Methods, Conjugate Direction Methods (5) |
| | Newton's Method and Quasi-Newton Methods (3) |
| | Circuit design problems, estimation problems (2) |
| | Problems with Equality Constraints-Lagrange Conditions (3) |
| | Control, communication, and/or electromagnetic problems (2) |
| | Problems with Inequality Constraints (3) |
| | Algorithms for Constrained Optimization (3) |
| | Review, additional examples (3) |
| | 7. | CLASS MEETING PATTERN | (For example, "3cl." means 3 48-min classes per week.) |
| | 3 cl. |
| | Thursday, August 14, 2008 09:21 AM |
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