Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel

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New Financial Engineering Courses

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department is pleased to announce a new year-long Special Topics series of courses in Financial Engineering.  This series of courses is designed to: prepare students to be competitive applicants for jobs in the financial sector; help students apply math and programming skills to a new, quickly growing area; and give students the skills to make more informed decisions in their personal management of money and investments.  The first course in the series will be offered this Fall Quarter and will cover time-value of money, portfolio management and the Capital Asset Pricing Model.

In the Winter and Spring terms, we will cover derivative securities, option pricing, betting strategies, auctions, financial time-series analysis, heavy-tailed distributions and parameter estimation.

The first course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:50 during the coming Fall Quarter.  The prerequisites for the course are ENGR 361: Probability and Statistics for Engineers and ECE 203: Programming for Engineers.  If you did not take these courses but believe that you have studied the same material in other courses, please ask for permission to enroll of the instructor, Dr. Steven Weber, at sweber@ece.drexel.edu.

All courses in this sequence can be counted towards fulfillment of core or technical elective requirements.

Register for the Fall term course, ECES 490, under the CRN 15151.

Direct questions to the course instructor, Dr. Steven Weber, at sweber@ece.drexel.edu.
(Photo: Jaap Steinvoorte )

How is electrical engineering related to music and sound?

As part of his NSF CAREER Award, Dr. Youngmoo Kim initiated the Summer Music Technology (SMT) Program, held most recently in July 2007 and August 2008. This innovative, one-week learning experience provides high school first- and second- year students with a unique opportunity to learn about digital audio and music production technology. The program was developed and taught by Dr. Kim and his students in the ECE Department’s Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab), and program participants were given access to the lab's equipment and facilities.

New Facilities: Anechoic Chamber

An Anechoic Chamber, a new facility for antenna testing, was installed on the first floor of Bossone Research Enterprise Center this past year. An anechoic chamber is isolated from interference by electro-magnetic signals, such as those emitted by radio and television broadcasts, cell phones, power lines, and other electronic devices. This “quiet” chamber will allow the Department to accurately design, test and characterize antennas operating in the frequency ranges of 1 to 18 GHz, and represents a major new resource to the Drexel research community as well as local industry and government facilities that require a “quiet” electromagnetic environment for measurements and calibration.