The students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and
concepts learned in EEE 475. Students will also design simple systems using the principles learned in EEE 475.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: EEE 476
Course Name:
Control System II Laboratory
Credit Hours:
1.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: EEE 477
Course Name:
Renewable Energy Systems
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Renewable energy sources: Solar, wind, mini-hydro, geothermal, biomass,
wave and tides. Solar photovoltaic: Characteristics of photovoltaic (PV) systems, PV models and
equivalent circuits, sun tracking systems. Maximum power point tracking: chopper, inverter.
Sizing the PV panel and battery pack in stand-alone PV applications. Solar energy applications
In residential, electric vehicle, naval, and space. Solar power plants connected to grid. Solar
thermal: principles of concentration, solar tower, parabolic dish, receiver, storage, steam turbine and generator. Wind turbines: Turbine types, power limitation, Betz’s law; Control mechanism: Pitch, yaw, speed. Couplings between turbine and electric generator. Wind turbine generator – DC, synchronous, self-excited induction generator and doubly fed induction generator. Grid interconnection: Active and reactive power control. Biomass and biogas electricity generation.
Course Code: EEE 481
Course Name:
Microprocessor System Design
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Review of 80×86 family of microprocessors. Instruction and data access
methods in a 32-bit microprocessor; Representation of operands and operators; Instruction
formats; Designing Arithmetic Logic Unit; Processor design: single bus, multi-bus architecture; Control Unit Design: hardwired, micro-programmed and pipe line; VLSI implementation of a
microprocessor or part of a microprocessor design.
Course Code: EEE 482
Course Name:
Microprocessor System Design Laboratory
Credit Hours:
1.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and
concepts learned in EEE 481. Students will also design simple systems using the principles learned in EEE 481.
Course Code: EEE 483
Course Name:
Computer Networks
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Switching and multiplexing; ISO, TCP-IP and ATM reference models.
Different Data Communication Services: Physical Layer- wired and wireless transmission media, Cellular Radio: Communication satellites; Data Link Layer: Elementary protocols, sliding window protocols, Error detection and correction, HDLC, DLL of internet, DLL of ATM; Multiple Access protocols, IEEE.802 Protocols for LANs and MANs, Switches, Hubs and Bridges; High speed LAN; Network layer: Routing, Congestion control, Internetworking, Network layer in internet: IP protocol, IP addresses, ARP; NI in ATM transport layer: transmission control protocol. UDP, ATM adaptation layer; Application layer: Network security; Email, Domain Name System; Simple Network Management Protocol; HTTP and World Wide Web.
Course Code: EEE 484
Course Name:
Computer Networks Laboratory
Credit Hours:
1.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and
concepts learned in EEE 483. Students will also design simple systems using the principles learned in EEE 483.
Course Code: EEE 485
Course Name:
Numerical Methods
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Introduction: Motivation & errors in numerical techniques. Taylor series.
Finite difference calculus: Forward, backward, divided & central difference and difference of a polynomial. Interpolation: Newton’s formula, Lagrange, Spline, Chebyshev and inverse. Extrapolation. Non-linear equation: iteration, bisection, false position,
Raphson, Secant & Mullar’s method. Simultaneous linear algebraic equations: Cramer’s rule, inversion of matrices, Guass elimination, Guass-Jordan method, factorization & Guass-Seidal iteration method, Curve-fitting: linear & polynomial regression, fitting power, exponential & trigonometric functions. Ordinary differential equation: Initial value problem, Taylor’s series method, Picard’s method of successive approximation, Euler’s method and Ranga-Kutta method. Boundary value problems. Numerical integration: general Quadrature formula, trapezoidal rule & Simpson’s rule. Numerical Differentiation.
Course Code: EEE 487
Course Name:
Computer Architecture
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Instruction and data access methods; Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) design:
arithmetic and logical operations, floating point operations; Processor design: data paths- single cycle and multi cycle implementations; Control Unit design: hardware and microprogrammed
Pipeline- pipelined data path and control, hazards and exceptions. Memory organization: cache, virtual memory; Buses; Multiprocessors, type of multiprocessor performance, single bus multiprocessors, clusters.
Course Code: EEE 489
Course Name:
Real Time Computer System
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Introduction to real time system; Classification of real time process; Real time
scheduling; Real time programming; Implementation; Operating systems; Real time I/O. Real
Time design methodologies. Modeling for real time systems. Reliable and Safe design for critical
applications. Review of Microprocessor fundamentals and programmable input/ output devices
and systems for PC. Application examples: digital controls, robotics, on line systems,
communication with real world signals and automatic control using feedback, feed-forward and
adaptive control, control algorithm implementation.
Course Code: EEE 491
Course Name:
Multimedia Communication
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Types of media. Multimedia signal characteristic: sampling, digital
representation, signal formats. Signal coding and compression: entropy coding, transform coding, vector quantization. Coding standards: H.26x, LPEG, MPEG. Multimedia communication networks: network topologies and layers, LAN, MAN, WAN, PSTN, ISDN, ATM, internetworking devices, the internet and access technologies, enterprise
networks, wireless LANs and wireless multimedia. Entertainment networks: cable, satellite and terrestrial TV networks, ADSL and VDSL, high speed modems. Transport protocols: TCP, UDP, IP, Ipv4, Ipv6, FTP, RTP and RTCP, use of MPLS and WDMA. Multimedia synchronization, security, QoS and resource management. Multimedia applications: The WWW, internet telephony, teleconferencing, HDTV, email and ecommerce.