Communication Engineering Courses

EE303                Optical Communications, (2,2,0)

 Prereq.  None

Fundementals of communicating with light. Guided electro-magnetic waves: the slab waveguide, modes, dispersion. Fiber optics cables, advantage and disadvantage of fiber optic cables. Modes and attenuation in fibers. Properties of LEDs and LASERs as communication sources. Photodiodes and receiver circuits, sensitivity noise and bandwidth. Modulation techniques, coherent communication. Time division and wavelength division multiplexing. Optical amplifiers, non-linear effects. System architectures and applications. Free space systems, signal processing, routing and timing.

Excess carrier in semiconductors, Optical properties of semiconductors, generation and recombination of electron and holes, compound semiconductors: GaAs, GaP, etc., Theory of pn junction, Light detection, photodectors, Light emission, Lasers, Light emitting diodes, Optical transmission and fiber optics.

EE313                Data Communications, (2,2,0)

   Prereq.  None

The ISO 7 layer model for Open Systems Interconnection as a framework for looking at the problems associated with transferring digital data from one point to another. Topics covered at the physical layer are line coding for bandwidth efficiency, channel coding for error protection, analogue modulation schemes for digital data, modem standards. The effects of noise on the signals and the techniques needed to counteract these effects are considered in details. Error-detection and Error-correction codes are described. Data compression methods are introduced. At the data link layer the emphasis is on HDLC and similar protocols.

Switching fundamentals; space and time division switching; design of economical switching networks, analog and digital terminations; signaling methods and control systems. Software design; network control and synchronization; traffic analysis; circuit and packet switching; integrated voice and data networking.

EE323                Antennas &Waves Propagation, (2,2,0)

   Prereq.  EE093

Basic definition of antennas, types of antennas: Aperture antennas, Microstrip antennas, Array antennas, Reflector antennas. Fundamental parameters of antennas: Radiation Pattern (RP), Isotropic Directional & Omnidi Rectional, Field Regions (FR), Radiation Power Density (RPD), Radiation Intensity (RI), Directivity (D), Gain (G) and efficiency of antennas. Half power Bean width-bean efficiency, Bandwidth, application of antennas in satellite communications. 

Transmission line analysis. Phasor diagram. Smith chart. General eigen-wave analysis. Guided wave. Plane wave including optical wave. oblique reflection and transmission. Non-reciprocal wave systems. Antenna systems.

          EE333            Video Engineering & Image Processing, (2,2,0)

 Prereq.  None         

Video display principles. Analogue and digital sources, scanning, synchronization,

composite video signals. Monochrome CCTV systems. Colour specification by RGB primaries or hue and saturation (HIS, YUV coding). Luminance and colour-difference signals. Broadcast television: channel characteristics, V.S.B. modulation. Colour systems. Chrominance encoding, quadrature modulation of subcarrier, differential phase distortion, hue correction in PAL system. Satellite systems. Digital systems. Text and graphics displays. Teletext; Encoding, page acquisition and display. Viewdata.

Video signal digitization; sampling, quantisation, aliasing, resolution, data compression. Real-time image capture and frame store hardware; input and output LUT’s, memory architecture, system software, sources and displays. Standard process classification and examples: pixel point processing (histogram manipulation), pixel group processing (spatial convolution), frame processing (geometric transformation).

Windows, masks and operators. Statistical concepts: definitions of mean, median andMode, frequency distribution, mean and median filters. Image mathematics:

mathematical series, Fourier coefficients and Fourier transform (FT), signal transforms, convolution and correlation, spatial convolution. Image enhancement techniques:

spatial-domain operations, frequency domain operations.

 EE343                Computer Networks, (2,2,0)

   Prereq EE313. 

Networking: Local Area Networks (LAN) and specifically the various medium access methods (CSMA/CD, Token Passing) are covered. The function of the upper five layers of OSI model are introduced. Emerging data communications mechanisms such as the Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), Frame Relay, SMDS, and ATM are introduced. New networking technologies and a discussion of likely future development. Example and standard protocols are cited for point-to-point, satellite, packet radio and Local Area Network.

EE353                Special Topics in Telecommunication, (2,2,0)

   Prereq.  None

Lectures on topics of special interest to students in various areas of Electronic Systems Engineering. Design to test new and experimental courses in Electronic Systems Engineering.

 Could be one of the following subjects,

 Transmission systems,

Design of transmission systems for television, and data using satellites, microwave repeaters, mobile radio, and broad cast transmitters. Performance of FM, AM, SSB common digital schemes and spread. Spectrum modulation, time frequency, and code multiplexing Emphasis on link performance, capacity, total system design, and cost optimization.

 Information Theory

Information theory and statistics. The extreme points of communication theory: data compression to the entropy limit, and communication at the channel capacity limit. Kolmogorov complexity, Shannon entropy. Rate distortion theory. Huffman coding and random coding. Unified treatment based on asymptotic equiportition theorem.

Laser Electronics

Introduction to laser and how they work , including Quentin transitions in atoms , stimulated emission and amplification , rate equations , saturation , feedback , coherent optical oscillation , laser resonators ,and optical beams . Limited primarily to steady-state behavior, uses Classic models for atomic transitions with litter quantum mechanics background required.

Biomedical Instrumentation

Diagnostic and therapeutic modalities related to engineering. Cardiovascular, neural, sensory and respiratory instrumentation.

 Electromagnetic and Optical Measurements

Fundamental measurement techniques in electromagnetic wave systems and optical systems. Accurate measurements of microwave properties of materials, laser transmission reception, modulation, and holographs.

 EE363                Radio Systems Design, (2,2,0)

   Prereq.  EE323

Electromagnetic propagation in ionosphere and troposphere. Radio link design. RF link design. Microwave links. VHF and UHF systems. Antenna systems: Fundamental parameters.

Review of Electromagnetic theory. Scattering Matrix Theory. Passive microwave circuits, active microwave circuits, microwave systems: Radar Systems, Satellite systems, troposcatter systems,  microwave radio relay systems, etc.

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