DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
B.SC. IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
FOURTH YEAR COURSES
EE 461 ELECTRICAL MACHINES IV (3 0 3)
Commutator Machines: Commutator Action. Armature reaction.
Compensating Windings, Communication Process, Interpole, Cross field Machine: Operating
Principle, Compensated Cross-field Machine, steady state characteristics. Generalized Machine
Theory: Circuit Model of Machines. Convention. Primitive Machine: Circuit Equations, Torque
Equations. Transformation. Invariance of Power, Active Transformation, Passive
Transformation. Transformation of Synchronous, D.C., Cross-field And Induction Machines To
Primitive Machines. Transient Analysis of D.C. And Induction Machines.
EE 462 ELECTRIC DRIVES (3 0 3)
Drive Systems Mechanics, Equation of Motion. Transient.
Electrical Braking of D.C. and A.C. Motors. Speed Control, Variable Speed D.C. And A.C.
Drives. Analysis of Heating And Cooling of Electrical Machines. Application Aspects, Motor
Selection.
EE 463 SPECIAL ELECTRICAL MACHINES (3 0 3)
Single-phase Induction Motors. Single-phase series Motor. Hysteresis, Motor, Single-phase
Reluctance Motor. Synchros. Two-phase servomotors. D.C. Servo Motors (Conventional And
Brushless). A.C. And D.C. Tachogenerators. Stepper Motors. Resolves.
EE 466 POWER SYSTEMS PLANNING & OPTIMIZATION (3 0 3)
Brief review of optimization theory including constrained and unconstrained minimization,
linear programming and dynamic programming. Application. Application to the power dispatch
problem, generation planning and, transmission planning. Load forecasting techniques. Use of
capacity outage tables.
Generation, Transmission and Distribution system expansion; maintenance planning and
scheduling.
Industrial power system planning and layout to include power panel arrangements and
specifications. Energy conservation in buildings.
EE 467 POWER SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL (3 0 3)
The controllability of electric power systems. The influence of controllability and the possible
solution of the control problem. Control of equilibrium points. Static optimization. Frequency
and load control. Voltage and reactive power control. Hierarchical control in power systems. The
effect of voltage regulators on rotor angle damping. The role of the human operator. Optimal
control of power systems.
B.SC. IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING-COURSE
DESCRIPTION 2009/10
EE 468 POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION (3 0 3)
Switchgear: Arc phenomena, arc control, D.C. and A.C. interruption, recovery, voltage,
transients, types of circuit-breakers, applications and limitations, rating and
testing.Protection:Current and voltage transformers, principles of relaying. Electromagnetic
relays and solid state electronic equipments. Pilot circuits. Applications to over current,
differential and distance (impedance) relaying. Characteristics of fuses, selection and application
of fuses. Brief description of reclosers and their applications. Brief treatment of protection
devices coordination using time-current characteristics. Principles of surge protection: lighting
arrestors. Arching rings; arrangement of protection devices, selection of arresters, rating and
coordination with apparatus insulation.L.V. protection equipment and systems including methods
of motor overload and short circuit protection. Special protection measures in the design of
power electronic interface equipment. Protection of building electrical services. Use of MCBS
and fuses, extended to protection of appliances. Advances towards computer based monitoring
and protection of industrial and utility protection systems.
EE 469 ELECTRICAL HEATING AND COOLING (3 0 3)
Types of electric heating equipment. Heating element design and estimation of heat data and
thermal efficiency. Resistance ovens and methods of temperature control. Special types of
resistance furnaces. Dielectric heating; choice of frequency and applications of dielectric heating.
Are furnaces, power supply and control. Electric welding; types of welding and welding
equipment. Operation of common types of welding plant. Refrigeration and air-conditioning,
principles of operation and power requirements. Domestic, commercial and industrial types.
Sizing of air conditioners for rooms. Equipment and device cooling methods.
EE 472 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (DSP) (3 0 3)
Introduction:
Basic concepts and terminology in DSP, comparison between analog and digital signal
processing.Tools and techniques for DSP:
Description of discrete signals and systems in time domain, Description of discrete signals and
systems in frequency domain, Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and inverse transform
properties, Circuit convolution and its relation to DFT, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT): Properties
Filters:
Filter Realization; Methods for the realization of a transfer function. Filters with finite impulse
response and linear phase. Filter Design of Infinite Impulse response (IIR) digital filters from
analog filters, Computer-Aided design of IIR digital filters. Properties of FIR filters, Design of
FIR filters using windows, computer-Aided design of FIR filters. Comparison if 11R and FIR
digital filters.Statistics Methods for Filtering Principles; Randon sequences, auto correlation
function, power spectrum.Quadratic Optimization:
Introduction to Kalman filter, Wiener filter adaptive algorithms. Signal detection in noisy
environment. Mini computers, Microprocessors, Programmable Signal procsessors, Matrix
processors, special Ics, Spectrum Analyzers, AD/DA converters.
Areas of Application of DSP.
Image and voice processing, Telecommunications, Industrial Control, Radar and Sonar,
Biomedical Analysis.
B.SC. IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING-COURSE
DESCRIPTION 2009/10
EE 482 SYSTEM PROGRAMMING (3 0 3)
Programming and organization of a computer, its model: representation of members, letters and
instructions: translation from the problem into the machine language. Assembler language:
Instructions and pseudo-instructions, structure of program, symbols, loops and subroutines.
Recursion and re-entrant. Assembler structure: One and two-pass assemblers. Loader: relocation,
linkage, internal and external symbols. Macros: Their definition and use. Introduction to
operation system: CPU status, interrupt systems, I/O programs, multiprogramming and
multiprocessing.
EE 487 PRINCIPLES OF LINEAR SYSTEMS (3 0 3)
Phase plane analysis, Describing functions, stability of nonlinear systems. Lyapunov stability
theorem, the inverted pendulum, bang-bang control systems, La-salle asymptotic stability
theorem, variable structure controllers, model reference controllers, adaptive systems.
Stochastic processes, prediction of ARMX systems, spectral factorisation, wiener-Hops theorem,
dynamics programming Eulere-lagrange equations, Bellman’s equations, Riccatti equation, LQG
control, I alman filters and optimal estimation.
EE 497 PROJECT I (0 6 3)
Supervised research project by individual student in partial fulfillment of the requirement for
graduation.
EE 498 PROJECT II (0 10 5)
Supervised research project by individual student in partial fulfilment of the requirement for
graduation.
ME 491 INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (3,0,3)
Introduction to management (Definition and introduction to the main functions of management);
Engineering economy; accounting and cost accounting; Project management.
ME 492 ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT (2 0 2)
Entrepreneurship and free enterprise.Business planning. Product and service concepts for new
ventures. Marketing and new venture development. Organising and financing new ventures.
Current trend (Internet commerce, e-commerce). Business Law/Law of contract. Mini-project in
business plan development for self employment.
TE 481 WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (3 0 3)
Fundamentals of wireless communications. Radio-based systems: Toposcatter systems,
microwave radio, Analog and Digital Radio Relays satellite communications. Light-based
sytems: Dynamics of laser transmission, licencing requirements, bandwidth capacities,
applications, fiber optic systems. Cellular communications: Dynamics of cellular transmission,
cellular components, coverage and channels, routing cellular cells. Security concerns with
wireless communications. VSATs. Wireless LAN systems.
TE 472
MOBILE & SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (2 0 2)
B.SC. IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING-COURSE
DESCRIPTION 2009/10
Introduction to wireless communication systems. Cellular concept. System design fundamentals.
Mobile radio propagation. Small and large scale modulation techniques for mobile radio. Basic
satellite system. Satellite orbits. Frequency and propagation considerations. Communication link
design. Multiple Access Techniques. Communication satellites. Earth stations. Digital Terrestrial
Transmission. Future trends.
COE 475 COMPUTER NETWORKING (3 2 4)
General structure of data network architectures emergency theorem, Topological design,
Protocols, Routing, congestions control; communication satelite, local area networks, random
access techniques; error detection and correction codes.
COE 486 INTRODUCTION TO VLSI (3 2 3)
Technology of MOS integrated circuits. Layout and design rules for MOS circuits. Principles of
VLSI design. Two phase clocking. Layout of random logic. Structured layout, PLA, computer
aided design for VLSI, simulation, automatic layout. MOS memories, Technology of bipolar
integrated circuit, A to D and D to A converters. Trends in VLSI engineering, custom VLSI, gate
arrays.
B.SC. IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING-COURSE
DESCRIPTION 2009/10