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Courses by year level
Specialization Courses
211 Basic Electrical Engineering Laboratory
Basic concepts and laws for DC circuits. Network theorems. Concept of impedance. Measurement of phase difference for electrical circuits composed of resistors, capacitors and inductors (RLC circuits). Power analysis and power factor. Transformers. Magnetic circuits. Diodes characterization and applications.
Requirements: Physics 112, either in parallel or after the
course ENEE231(Introduction to Electrical Engineering).
212 Circuits Laboratory
Faults in electrical circuits. Application of electrical network theorems. Pulse response for first and second order electrical circuits. Bridges and their applications. Filter circuits. Two-port circuits. Resonance circuits. Three-phase circuits. Electrical transformers.
Requirements: PHYS 112, course ENEE232 (Network Analysis I) OR ENCS235 (Circuit Analysis).
231 Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Basic Definitions:voltage source, current source, resistor, capacitor, inductor, charge, current, voltage, power, energy.
DC Circuit Analysis: KCL, KVL, equivalent circuits, D -Y transformation. Circuit Theorems: superposition, Thevenin theorem, Norton theorem, maximum power transfer. Dependent sources. General circuit analysis, nodal and mesh analysis. DC measurements.
Energy-Storage Elements: Capacitors, energy storage in capacitors, series and parallel capacitors, inductors, energy storage in inductors, series and parallel inductors.
Simple RC and RL circuits: Source-free RC circuits, time constants, source-free RL circuits, response to a constant forcing function.
Sinusoidal steady state response: Complex numbers and complex arithmetics. Average and effective values of periodic sources, sinusoidal sources. Phasor and phasor circuit analysis, circuit theorems in phasor domain. Average power, reactive power, complex power, power factor correction, maximum power transfer.
Semiconductor material and p-n junction: Semiconductors, doped semiconductors, forward and reversed bias p-n junction, V-I characteristic, diode DC model, large signal model, diode large signal applications, clipper, clamper.
Diode Circuit applications: half and full wave rectifier, filter capacitor consideration. Ripple factor, voltage multiplier, zener diode, zener diode voltage regulation.
Requirements: PHYS 132.
232 Network Analysis I
First and Second-order circuits: Transient analysis: zero input response, step response, sinusoidal response, pulse response, impulse response, complete response.
Frequency Response: Steady state sinusoidal response of first and second order circuits, parallel resonance, quality factor and bandwidth, series resonance, scaling.
Laplace transform analysis and circuit applications: Transformed circuits, impedance and admittance, basic circuit analysis in s-domain, circuit theorems in s-domain, node voltage and mesh current analysis.
Three phase circuits: Three phase sources, balanced and unbalanced three phase circuits, three phase power measurement and calculations.
Magnetically coupled circuits and transformers: Ideal transformer, mutual inductance, coefficient of coupling, autotransformer.
Computer-aided circuit analysis using SPICE.
Requirements: MATH 331, course ENEE231 (Introduction to Electrical Engineering).
233 Electronics I
Bipolar junction transistor: BJT structure, operations, configuration, V-I curves. Transistor as a switch. DC biasing of BJT's: fixed bias, collector to base feedback, voltage divider biasing circuit, effect of temperature on Q-point. Small-signal BJT amplifier, transistor modeling, small signal analysis of CE, CC, and CB.
Field Effect Transistor: Structure, operation, equation of JFET, depletion type of MOSFET, enhancement type of MOSFET.
FET biasing and small-signal analysis: Fixed, self bias, voltage divider bias, FET small-signal model, small-signal FET amplifiers.
PnPn and other devices: SCR, SCS, GTO, Light Activated SCR, Diac, Triac, UJT, Opto Coupler.
Multistage systems and frequency considerations: Darlington, Cascade, Direct-coupled, Transformer-coupled amplifier, low-frequency FET and BJT response, high-frequency FET and BJT response, tuned amplifier.
Introduction to SPICE and applications.
Requirements: ENEE231 (Introduction to Electrical Engineering).
311 Electronics Laboratory
Transistor characrteristics and biasing. Amplifier circuits. Multi-stage amplifier design. Frequency response of amplifiers. Differential amplifiers. Operationnal amplifiers. Power amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers. Oscillators. Voltage amplifiers. Thyristors.
Requirements: PHYS 112, either in parallel or after ENEE338 (Electronics II) OR after ENCS245 (Electronics).
312 Digital Electronics and Computer Organization Laboratory
Selected experiments on Logic gates. Bi-stables. Registers. Counters. Adders. Design of combinational and sequential systems. Design and implementation of ALUs including floating-point adders and multipliers. Memory devices. Processing units.
Requirements: ENCS336 (Computer Organization).
313 Electric Machines Laboratory
Selected experiments in the field of DC electrical machines (all types of motors and generators). Single-phase and three-phase transformers. AC machines: three-phase induction machines and three-phase synchronous machines. Single-phase induction machines and single-phase synchronous machines. Special types of electrical machines.
Requirements: ENEE 212 (Circuits Laboratory), ENEE 346 (Electrical Machines).
322 Network Analysis II
Two-port networks: Admittance and impedance parameters, hybrid, inverse hybrid, transmission parameters, applications of two-port parameters, conversion between parameters. Network Functions: Properties of network functions, poles and zeros, transfer function design, transfer function and step response descriptors.
Filter Design: Frequency domain signal processing, cascade design with first order circuits, cascade design with second order circuits, low pass filter design, high pass, band pass, and band stop filter design (passive and active Butterworth and Chebychev filters).
Circuit Topology and General Circuit Analysis: Graph, subgraph, mesh, loop, tree, matrix formulation of Kirchhoff's laws using incidence matrix and mesh matrix, the fundamental cutset matrix (Q) and the fundamental loop (b) matrix associated with a tree, relationship between Q and b, Kirchhoff's equations based on Q and b, state equations.
SPICE applications.
Requirements: ENEE232 (Network Analysis I).
330 Lighting and Acoustic Engineering (for Architecture Engineering Students)
Lighting sources (natural and industrial). Lighting calculations inside and outside buildings. Lighting fixtures. Luminare calculation and design. Electrical drawings.
Accoustics principles. Controlling of sound. Suitable material for walls and ceilings that affect sound. Design and measure of accoustic systems.
Requirements: Either in parallel or after ENAE321.
331 Probability and Engineering Statistics
Set operations. Axioms of probability. Bayes' theorem. Independent events. The random variable. Probability density function. Examples of discrete probability distributions (Binomial, Poisson, geometric, hypergeometric, multinomial). Examples of continuous probability distributions (Normal, uniform, Log-normal, Gamma, Beta, Weibell). Multivariate probability density functions. Normal approximation to the Binomial distribution. Population and sampling, Unbiasedestimators. Sampling distribution of the mean with known and unknown variance. Point and interval estimation. Elements of hypothesis testing. Linear correlation. Linear regression. Least squares. The random process. Stationarity and Ergodicity. Gaussian random processes.
Requirements: MATH 132.
334 Signals & Systems
The concept of system, input and output signals, continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems, manipulation of signals, classification of systems as linear, time-invariant, causal, memoryless, etc. The impulse response and the convolution representation of Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems. Techniques for evaluation of convolution integrals and sums. Use of the impulse response in determining system properties. Periodic signals and their representation as Fourier series. Determination of the response of LTI systems to periodic inputs using Fourier series. The Fourier transform as a generalization of the Fourier series. The frequency response. Use of the Fourier transform in LTI system analysis. Examples of application to communication systems, including AM and the Sampling Theorem. The Laplace and z-transforms and their application to solution of systems governed by differential and difference equations. State-space representation of systems.
Requirements: MATH 231, either in parallel or after the courses ENEE232 (Network Analysis I) OR ENCS235 (Circuit Analysis).
337 Digital Systems
Number Systems: Decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal, arithmetic operations, complement arithmetic, number systems conversion, binary codes BCD,BCDIC, ASCII. Boolean Algebra : axiomatic definitions, Boolean expressions, basic theorems and operations, switching algebra, representation of Boolean functions, implementation of Boolean functions by logic gates, positive and negative logic. Design of Combinational Logic Circuit (truth tables, Karnaugh maps, Quine-McClusky method, prime implicant chart). Combinational Logic: multi-level gate network. Combinational logic with MSI and LSI (multi-output networks): Binary adders and subtractors, decimal adders, magnitude comparators, decoders and encoders, multiplexers, ROM, PAL, PLA. Sequential Systems: flip-flops, gate delay and timing diagrams, state diagram and excitation tables for the types RS, T, JK, D flip-flop, clocked FF. Synchronous sequential systems: specifications by signal tracing, counters and register design, derivation of state tables and state diagrams. Digital Integrated circuits: bipolar transistor characteristic, RTL and DTL circuits, TTL, ECL, Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS), Complementary MOS (CMOS), CMOS transmission circuits.
Requirements: ENEE233 (Electronics I).??
338 Electronics II
Audio-frequency linear power amplifiers: Power calculations, class A power amplifier, class B push pull power amplifier, class AB push pull power amplifier using complementary symmetry, heat sink.
Integrated differential and operational amplifier: Differential amplifier, CMRR, difference amplifier using FET, the operational amplifier.
Applications of operational amplifiers: Summation, subtraction, averaging, integration, differentiation, current-to-voltage and voltage-to-current converter, instrumentation amplifier, voltage comparator.
Negative feedback concepts and applications: Negative feedback effects on gain, bandwidth, input impedance, output impedance, shunt-shunt, series-series, shunt-series, series-shunt negative feedback.
Discrete and integrated oscillators: Stability criterion, phase-shift oscillator, Wein-bridge oscillator, general LC oscillator, Colpits, Clapp, Hartley oscillator, crystal oscillator.
Voltage Regulators: Simple transistor voltage regulation. Use of OP-Amp error amplifiers. Three terminal voltage regulators, adjustable three terminal regulators, introduction to switching regulators.
SPICE applications.
Requirements: ENEE 233 (Electronics I).
345 Electromagnetics I
Introduction to vector analysis and coordinate systems. The static electric field: eletric field intensity vector, the curl and divergence, Gauss's law in differential and integral forms. The potential integral. Gradient of the potential function. Maxwell's equations in integral and differential form. Conductor properties. Boundary conditions. Solution of Poisson and Laplace equations. The theory of images. Steady electric current: conservation of charge and the continuity equation. Force and torque on current-carrying circuits. Boundary conditions. Poynting theorem. Retarded potentials. Wave equation. Uniform plane wave propagation: The uniform damped and undamped plane waves. The skin effect. Reflection of plane waves (Conductors and dielectrics): The normal incidence case. Transmission Lines: Telegraph equations, TEM waves along the transmission line, vand current relations.
Requirements: PHYS 132, MATH 231.
346 Electrical Machines
DC and AC magnetic circuits and their solution by application of electromagnetic field theory. Electromechanical energy conversion. Transformers and their use in voltage regulation. DC generators and motors. Three-phase induction machines. Synchronous generators, synchronous motors and their parallel operation, single-phase and special types of electrical machines.
Requirements: ENEE232 (Network Analysis I), ENEE345 (Electromagnetics I).
401 Practical Training
Practical Training during summer in a specialized institute for a period above 6 weeks.
Requirements: Third or fourth year with department approval.
Electrical Machines and Power Electronics Lab (ENME STUDENTS)
NONE
Requirements: NONE.
411 Communications Laboratory
Experiments on AM and FM modulation demodulation. Experiments on sampling and multiplexing, Pulse Code Modulation (PCM), Delta Modulation (DM) and Sigma Modulation. Experiments on noise in modulation techniques (digital and analog), digital carrier modulation. Selected experiments on microwave. Demonstration on transmission lines.
Requirements: ENCS335 (Communication Systems) OR ENEE 433 (Analog Communication Systems).
412 Control & Power Electronics Laboratory
Selected experiments in the field of control systems. Power electronics. Speed control for electrical machines using power electronics. Different methods for the design of electrical circuits for speed control (voltage method, frequency method, ...). AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC power conversion.
Requirements: ENEE 436 (Control Systems I), either in parallel or after ENEE 438 (Power Electronics).
430 General Electrical Machines (for Mechanical Engineering Students)
Theory of electromagnetic conversion from electrical to mechanical and inversely. Theory of DC electrical machines: Operation and their applications. Theory of AC electrical machines: operation and their applications.
Requirements: ENEE 231 (Introduction to Electrical Engineering).
431 General Electronics (for Mechanical Engineering Students)
Analog electronics: Transistor biasing. Transistors as amplifiers. Differential amplifiers. Operational amplifiers and applications.
Digital electronics: Binary systems. Logic gates and applications. Simplification of logic equations. Digital ICs and applications. Sequential digital circuits, counters, registers.
Requirements: ENEE231 (Introduction to Electrical Engineering).
432 Instrumentation & Measurement
Analog Instrumentation: PMMC (movement), DC current, DC voltage and resistance measurements, bridges for DC and AC measurements, oscilloscope, signal conditioning, electronic measurements. Sensors/Transducers: basic characteristics of transducers, selected examples of transducers (temperature, pressure, ...,). Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC) and Sampling Basics: digital vs analog processing, Digital-to-Analog Conversion (DAC) techniques and problems. Elements of sampling theory, selected ADC techniques, speed vs hardware cost tradeoffs. Digital instruments. Computer (Control) Basics: basic computer instructions for ADC and DAC control, basic relevant computer programming. Data Acquisition Systems: Analog-to-Digital components needed, comparison and selection of DAS, IEEE-488 based instrumentation. Case Studies: a discussion of selected data acquisition cards for a detailed study.
Requirements: ENEE338 (Electronics II), ENCS336 (Computer Organization ) .
433 Analog Communication Systems
Review of Fourier analysis. Bandwidth definitions. Time-bandwidth relations and risetime, Amplitude Modulation Systems: Normal AM, DSBSC, SSBSC, Vestigial sideband modulation systems. Frequency and phase modulation systems. Modulation and demodulation of narrow band and wide band FM signals. FM bandwidth. Preview of superheterodyne receiver. The sampling theorem. Pulse amplitude, pulse width, and pulse position modulation. Random processes: stationarity and ergodicity, transmission of a random process through a linear filter, power spectral density, Gaussian processes. Noise and narrow band noise representation. Noise in AM receivers. Noise in FM receivers. Preemphasis and deemphasis. Comparison between AM and FM systems in terms of performance in a noisy channel.
Requirements: ENEE 331 (Probability & Engineering Statistics), ENEE 334 (Signals & Systems).
434 Digital Communication Systems
Review of sampling theorem, pulse code modulation: Quantization and encoding. Delta modulation. Differential pulse code modulation. Base band data transmission: the matched filter receiver. Probability of error due to noise. Intersymbol interference (ISI). Nyquist?s criterion for distortionless baseband data transmission. Baseband M-ary PAM transmission. Equalization. Digital passband transmission: Coherent detection of signals in noise. Coherent binary PSK and FSK. Coherent quadriphase shift keying. Noncoherent birary FSK, differential PSK, signal-space concept. M-ary modulation techniques. M-ary PSK, M-ary QAM, M-ary FSK. Computing the probability of error of some bandpass systems.
Requirements: ENEE433 (Analog Communication Systems).
436 Control Systems I
System modeling with emphasis on controlled electrical systems, differential equation and transfer function models of linear time-invariant systems, response of first- and second-order linear systems, stability, the Routh test for stability of linear systems, tracking properties for unity feedback and nonunity feedback systems, the concept of robustness of system properties such as stability and tracking, the root locus method for analysis, frequency response and Bode plots for analysis, the Nyquist stability criterion, compensation of control systems by root locus and frequency response methods. Control of unstable systems.
Requirements: ENEE322 (Network Analysis II), MATH 331.
438 Power Electronics
Principles of power electronic devices, including thyristors and their operation, power diodes, triacs and transistors. Principles of power electronic circuits (converters) that convert between different types of voltage: AC-AC converters including frequency changing converters (cycloconverters), AC-DC converters, DC-AC converters (inverters), and DC-DC converters (choppers). Some applications to control of either power systems or AC and DC machines.
Requirements: ENEE 338 (Electronics II).
EE447 Power Systems
The structure of electric power networks: generation, transmission and distribution subsystems. Application of basic electromagnetics to transmission line power transfer calculations. Relation between current, voltage and power in short, medium and long transmission lines. Modeling of electric power networks as single-line systems. The per-unit system for power system quantities. Steady-state modeling using circuit analogies. The power flow (or load flow) equations and their analysis and numerical solution. Optimal economic dispatch of electric power networks. Symmetrical components. Symmetric and nonsymmetric fault calculations. Dynamic modeling and the swing equations. Stability analysis of power networks. Control systems for stability enhancement.
Requirements: ENEE 346 (Electrical Machines).
520 Project Introduction
Introduction to the final graduation project. The main aim is to gather the necessary information and materials about the final project. Students present at the end of the semester the ongoing steps to be applied during the following semester.
Requirements: Fifth year. Completion of course ENCS 401 (Practical Training). Registered for the semester preceding the student's graduation..
530 Project
Final graduation project. Students should either design and implement a system related to the computer system engineering field or do research on a particular subject under supervision of a faculty staff members.
Requirements: ENCS 520
Communications Specialization Courses
531 Electromagnetics II
Maxwell's Equations, solution of Maxwell's equations in space, propagation of electromagnetic waves, reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves. Metallic waveguide, transmission in waveguides, TE waves, TM waves, cavity resonators. Optical fiber waveguide. Elements of antennas, the electric and magnetic dipole, the halfwave antenna, elements of antenna array theory.
Requirements: ENEE 345 (Electromagnetics I).
532 Information and Coding Theory
Information measure, information sources, entropy, source coding, unique optimal codes, the first Shannon's theorem, discrete channels, mutual information, conditional entropy, channel capacity, Shannon?s second theorem. Error detection and correction codes, transmission strategies, linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolutional codes, Trellis.
Requirements: ENEE 434 (Digital Communication Systems).
533 Microwave and Optical Fiber
Microwave components, microwave tubes, microwave solid-state devices, oscillators and amplifiers, microwave systems. Applications.
Optical fibers: step index and graded index (GRIN), single-mode and multimode fibers, modal and material dispersion, pulse broadening due to dispersion, attenuation in fibers. Optical communication link, bandwidth and bandwidth-distance product, maximum allowable data rate.
Sources for optical fiber communication and transmitter circuits. Detectors and receiver circuits.
Coherence, capacity of the fiber-optical channel, signal-to-noise ratio, equalizers and repeaters, optimal detection of optical signals.
Requirements: ENEE531 (Electromagnetic Waves).
511 Computer Laboratory
Selected experiments in a field related to computers.
Requirements: ENEE 435 (Microprocessor Systems & Applications).
5311 Selected Topics in Communications
Study of a particular subject related to Communications. The choice of the subject depends on both students and instructors needs.
Requirements: Forth year level and department approval..
Computer Specialization Courses
534 Operating Systems
The role of an Operating System in computer operations. Memory management and virtual memory. Process management, multiprogramming and multiprocessor systems. Interrupt processing. Input/output management and spooling. Information management and security. Introduction to distributed and networked operating systems. A comparative study of selected operating systems.
Requirements: ENEE338 (Electronics II), ENEE 536 (Computer Organization), basic programming.
535 Computer Networks
Data communication networks and open system standards. Layered network architecture. Local area networks (LANs). High-speed and Bridge LANs. Wide Area networks (WANs). Internetworking. Transport protocols. Error detection and correction. ARQ strategies. Framing. Identification and addressing. M/M/1 queuing system. Multiple access communication. Routing and flow control.
Requirements: ENEE338 (Electronics II), ENEE434 (Digital Communication Systems).
536 Computer Architecture
Traditional Computer Architectures. Architecture of Microprogrammed computer. Pipeline systems. Array systems. Multi-processor systems. Multi-computer systems. Technology impact on computer system architecture. Modular computers. Adaptable architectures. Parallel network processors. Associative processors. Dedicated architectures. Mixed architectures. Mixed architectures. Distributed processing. Client-Server systems. Case studies.
Requirements: ENEE 338 (Electronics II), ENEE 434 (Digital Communication Systems).
511 Computer Laboratory
Selected experiments in a field related to computers.
Requirements: ENEE 435 (Microprocessor Systems & Applications).
5312 Selected Topics in Computer
Study of a particular subject related to Computers. The choice of the subject depends on both students and instructors needs.
Requirements: Forth year level and department approval..
Control and Power Specialization Courses
537 Electric Machine Drives and Special Machines
DC and AC motors control, conventional and advanced control (microcomputer control), single-phase fractional horsepower motors and their application in light industry. Types of motors used in computer controlled processes and their control. Study of various types of motors, including servomotors, universal motors, stepper motors, tachometers and single-phase induction motors. Selecting the right motor to do a certain job.
Requirements: ENEE 346 (Electrical Machines).
538 Protection and Automation in Electric Power Systems
The protection system and its elements (relays, current transformers, voltage transformers). Fault analysis (short circuit current calculation, selection of protection components). Protection principles (maximum current, cut-off current, differential protection). Protection of current and power direction, protection of transformers and generators, protection of substations.
Telecommunication and automation systems for electric power systems. Systems for the automatic regulation of voltage, reactive power and frequency (AVR, ASR and AFR). Anti-fault management system and automation of the search process for faults in transmission lines.
Requirements: ENEE447 (Power Systems).
539 Control Systems II
The concept of state, nonlinear models and their linearization, linear state-spacemodels and their solution in the time and frequency domain. Stability of linear state space models in terms of system poles. Controllability and observaof linear systems. Derivation and application of tests for controllability and observability. The Pole Placement theorem and its use in stabilizing control design for single-input and multi-input systems. Observers for linear systems, including full-order and reduced-order observers. Controller/observer compensators and the Separation theorem. Linear optimal control with a quadratic cost. Liapunov's direct method for stability analysis of nonlinear systems. Tracking for linear state-space models and its relation to tracking conditions for transfer function models - the Internal Model Principle. Digital control, z-transform, modified z-transform, signals sampling and data reconstruction, open-loop and closed-loop discrete-time systems, systems time-response characteristics. Stability analysis techniques.
Requirements: ENEE436 (Control Systems I).
512 Power Laboratory
Selected experiments of training on power systems and power network calculations. Analysis, solution of low power factor, reactive power and drop of voltage. Study of the stability of the system. Controlling of power networks using different approaches.
Requirements: ENEE 447 (Power Systems).
5313 Selected Topics in Power Systems
Study of a particular subject related to Power Systems. The choice of the subject depends on both students and instructors needs.
