Teaching

Upcoming Teaching schedule

• Fall 2024 –
  • ECE 6320: Applied Magnetism
  • ENGRG 1050: Engineering Seminar
• Fall 2025 –
  • ECE 4950/ECE 5960: Sensor Design
  • ECE 6990: Succeeding in the Graduate Environment
• Spring 2025 – ECE 3150: Introduction to Microelectronics

Past courses taught

• ENGRG 1050: Engineering Seminar (Fall 2020)
• ECE 2100: Introduction to Circuits for ECEs (Spring 2021)
• ECE 3150: Introduction to Microelectronics (Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
• ECE 4950/ECE 5960: Sensor Design (Fall 2023)
• ECE 5970/ECE 6320: Applied Magnetism (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022)
• ECE 6990/7930: Succeeding in the Graduate Environment (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

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Course Descriptions:

ECE 2100: Introduction to Circuits for ECEs (COVID-edition)

Professor El-Ghazaly taught the laboratory sessions of the introductory circuits class during the hybrid-teaching semester of Fall 2020 amidst the COVID pandemic. For the purposes of remote access to lab exercises, Professor El-Ghazaly reconfigured aspects of the labs and created remote kits. Details of the remote kits and lab exercises can be found on this page.

ECE 3150: Introduction to Microelectronics

Professor El-Ghazaly taught the mid-level undergraduate microelectronics course and revamped the laboratory assignments and exercises to make the course more engaging. In these updated labs, students get to apply their knowledge to construct hands-on prototypes of useful systems that are based on the topics discussed in class, including current mirroring and amplification, transistor-level logic gates, and differential amplification with high common-mode rejection, among others. The lab exercises and prototypes are summarized here.

ECE 4950/ECE 5960: Sensor Design

Professor El-Ghazaly created a new upper-level undergraduate/M.Eng. course on the design of sensor systems. The course focuses on the design of the transducers (i.e., sensors) and peripheral circuitry required to build a working sensor system that meets the needs of a given application. The course considers common specifications and tradeoffs, including sensitivity, specificity, dynamic range, resolution, power consumption, size, bandwidth, and cost.

Students who have taken ECE 3030 (Electromagnetics) and ECE 3150 (Microelectronics) are encouraged to join! The many fun labs include some that are listed below and highlighted on this page.

• Black Box Sensors
• Stealth
• Speedometers
• Cooking and Baking
• Flow
• Mine Safety/Gases
• Autonomous Vehicles

ECE 6320: Applied Magnetism

Professor El-Ghazaly teaches a graduate-level course on the fundamentals of magnetism and spintronics. The course covers both theory and applications of magnetic materials. Over the course of the semester, students design and build projects to demonstrate magnetic principles and applications at the macro-scale. Highlights of some past student projects can be found here.

Some topics covered in the course include:

• Sources of Magnetism
• Magnetic Anisotropy Energies
• Types of Magnets:
  • Ferro-, Ferri-, and Antiferromagnets
  • Permanent Magnets
• Spin Torque
• Magnetic Resonance
• Spin Caloritronics

ECE 7930: Succeeding in the Graduate Environment

Professor El-Ghazaly created a seminar course for incoming first-year Ph.D. students across Engineering, Computer Science, and the Sciences. The course, called Succeeding in the Graduate Environment, aims to guide students through their transition to graduate school, by equipping them with the crucial skills needed to "survive" academia. A special focus of the course will be on navigating issues particularly facing underrepresented minorities. Some of the topics include:

• Managing the Advisor-Advisee Relationship
• Campus Resources for Graduate Students
• Reading and Writing Academic Papers
• Giving Captivating Research Presentations
• Applying for Graduate Funding
• Getting Past the Occasional Slow Dip in Research
• Pursuing a Career with the Ph.D.