Master Of Engineering: Major, Electronics, Devices and Systems

Master of Engineering

Electronics, Devices and Systems

Requirements

All relevant requirements and regulations of the University and the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture for the Masters degree shall apply to the program.

In order to be eligible for admission to the program, a student must have a degree of Bachelor of Engineering: major, Computer and Communications Engineering or Electrical Engineering, from AUB. Computer, Communication and Electrical Engineering graduates of other universities, or in other majors, may be admitted to the program subject to making up deficiencies in their undergraduate studies.

Structure
In order to fulfil graduation requirements a student must complete 30 credit hours, distributed as follows:

A mandatory core of three courses (9 credit hours), as specified in the course description below.

Five elective courses (15 credit hours) provided that they are not limited to only one of the four areas: Control System, Optical Systems, Biomedical Systems, Semiconductor Devices and Systems, listed under electives.

Seminar Course: EE 700 Seminar (no credit).

A thesis based on independent research: EE 799 Thesis (6 credit hours).

Course Descriptions

Core Courses

EE 710S Semiconductor Devices.

3 cr.; alternate years. Schrodinger's equation. Energy bands, electrons and holes. Scattering. Generation and recombination. Heterojunction diodes. Tunneling and lasing. Bipolar transistors, MOSFETs, GaAs devices. Faculty Member.

EE 720S Circuit Synthesis and Design.

3 cr.; annually. Realization of one-port and two-port circuits. Operational amplifiers and control of poles and zeros. Applications to wave shaping, active filters, capacitive switching, design of analog to digital, digital to analog, and sample and hold circuits. A. Kaysi.

EE 730S System Analysis and Design.

3 cr.; annually. State-space models of discrete and continuous, linear and nonlinear systems. Controllability. Observability. Minimality. Eigenvector and transforms analysis of linear time invariant systems. Pole shifting. Computer control. Design of controllers and observers. F. Mrad.

Elective Courses

Control Systems

EE 731S Digital Control.

3 cr. Prerequisites: EE 730S, EE 791C. Sampled data systems. Design of digital control systems using transform techniques. Design of digital control systems using state-space methods. Practice and applications of digital control. F. Mrad.

EE 732S Optimal Control.

3 cr. Optimization theory and performance measures. Calculus of variations. The maximum principle. Dynamic programming. Numerical techniques. LQR control systems. Faculty Member.

EE 733S Process Control.

3 cr. Integrated study of process control and modern control theory, including process characteristics, control elements, control selection and evaluation, multi-loop systems, direct digital control, parameter sensitivity, and optimization. Faculty Member.

EE 734S Stochastic Control.

3 cr. Prerequisite: EE 730S. Analysis and optimization of controlled stochastic systems. Models: linear and nonlinear stochastic control systems, controlled Markov chains. Optimization of Markov processes; dynamic programming. System identification: off-line, recursive. Stochastic adaptive control: Markov chains, self-tuning regulators, bandit problems. Faculty Member.

EE 735S System Identification.

3 cr. Prerequisite: EE 730S, EE 731S. Introduction to time series. Auto regressive moving average models and their characteristics. Modeling. Forecasting. Stochastic trends and seasonality. Multiple series and optimal control. Applications. Faculty Member.

EE 736S Adaptive Control.

3 cr.; alternate years. Prerequisite: EE 730S. Control of partially known systems. Analysis and design of adaptive control systems. Self-tuning Regulators, model Reference Adaptive Control of uncertain dynamic systems. Typical applications. F. Mrad.

EE 737S Robotics.

3 cr.; annually. Prerequisite: EE 730S. Robot manipulators: kinematics, control, programming, task planning, effect of load. Design of robot controllers: path tracking, force feedback control, real-time computation issues. Design project. F. Mrad.

EE 738S Non-Linear Control.

3 cr. Prerequisite: EE 730S. Methods of analysis and design of nonlinear control systems. Topics include: stabilizing controllers, absolute stability theory, describing function methods, input-output stability of feedback systems. Control techniques for nonlinear systems. Faculty Member.

Optical Systems

EE 741S Optical Sources, Detectors and Systems.

3 cr. Prerequisite: EE 710S. Polar and thermal radiation. Photons. Plank's law. Spontaneous and simultaneous emissions. Laser action. Semiconductor photodiodes. Amplifier noise in FETs. Signal-to-noise ratio and its effects on optical systems performance. Measurement precision. Detection probabilities. Bit error rates. Faculty Member.

EE 742S Modern Optics.

3 cr. Electromagnetic theory. Polarization, reflection, refraction, coherence and interference. Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction. Imaging and transforming properties of lenses. Spatial filtering. Holography. Electro-optic and acousto-optic materials and devices. Guided optical waves. Faculty Member.

EE 743S Optical Fiber Communication.

3cr. Light and circular mode theory. Step and graded index. Fiber characteristics. Losses. LED and Laser sources. Photodetectors and optical receivers. Digital communications. Faculty Member.

EE 745S Light-wave Systems.

3 cr. Prerequisites: EE 710S, EE 742S. LED and laser optical transmitters. PIN and APD receivers. Frequency and phase modulation of semiconductor lasers. Coherent optical communication. Sensitivity and frequency selectivity. FDM systems. Fiber non-linearity effect. High-power laser array. Wavelength division multiplexing. Faculty Member.

EE 747S Fiber-Optic Networks.

3 cr. Prerequisites: EE 710S, EE 742S. Fibers, couplers and taps. Tunable filters. Laser diodes. Lightwave amplifiers. Modulation, detection and demodulation of optical signals. Subcarrier systems. Topological organization of systems. Layered architectures and network control. Multiaccess, switching and performance. Realization of optical networks. Faculty Member.

Biomedical Systems

EE 701S Biomedical Engineering I

. 3 cr.; alternate years. Prerequisite: Biology 210, or consent of instructor. Introduction: general instrumentation configuration, living cells, performance of instrumentation systems. Types and characteristics of transducers. Sources and characteristics of bioelectric signals and electrodes. Cardiovascular system, measurements and diagnostic equipment. Patient care and monitoring. N. Sabah.

EE 702S Biomedical Engineering II.

3 cr.; alternate years. Prerequisite: EE 701S. Respiratory system. Non-invasive diagnostic instrumentation. Nervous system. Biotelemetry. Clinical laboratory. X-ray and radioisotopes. Magnetic resonance.. Electrosurgery. Computers in medicine. N. Sabah.

EE 705S Neuroengineering I

. 3 cr.; alternate years. Prerequisite: Biology 210, or consent of instructor. The importance of biological systems from engineering viewpoint, living cells and mechanisms. Introduction to the nervous system. The resting membrane potential. Generation and propagation of the action potential. Motor systems. Synaptic transmission. Control of movement. N. Sabah.

EE 706S Neuroengineering II.

3 cr.; alternate years. Prerequisite: EE 705S. Motor systems: overall organization, locomotion, balance, manipulation, and vocalization. Auditory system and perception. Visual system and perception, machine vision. Higher functions: language and communication, learning and memory, consciousness. Machine intelligence and learning. N. Sabah.

Semiconductor Devices and Systems

EE 781S Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Devices.

3 cr. Prerequisite: EE 710S. Computer simulation techniques for IC processing and device modeling. Use of SUPREME for process modeling and SEDAN for device analysis to characterize effects such as bipolar current gain, MOS threshold voltage, and model parameter extraction for SPICE. Faculty Member.

EE 782S RC Active Filters.

3 cr. The approximation problem, the second-order functions and active building blocks. Sallen-key filters, state variable filters. Design of high-order active filters using generalized immittance converter and multiloop techniques. Practical limitations. A. Al-Alaoui.

EE 783S Analog MOS ICs.

3 cr. Fundamentals of analog MOS IC design. Small-signal device and circuit models. Design of amplifiers, analog switches, sample and hold circuits, comparators and voltage references. A/D and D/A converters and switch capacitor filters. Faculty Member.

EE 784S Introduction to Digital VLSI Systems

. 3 cr.; alternate years. MOS transistors, static and dynamic MOS gates, stick diagrams, mask layout. Design rules, resistance and capacitance extraction, power and delay estimate and scaling. MOS combinational and sequential design. Applications: shift registers, ROM, RAM, PLA, and microprocessors. A. Kaysi.

EE 785S Introduction to Analog VLSI Systems.

3 cr. Prerequisite: EE 784S. Basic IC building blocks. Current mirrors, voltage and current references, and amplifiers. Digital to analog converters, analog to digital converters, continuous-time filters, switch capacitor filters. Modulators and multiplexers, oscillators, and phase-locked loops. Faculty Member.

EE 786S IC Fabrication and Characterization.

3 cr. BJT, MOS, CMOS, BICMOS processes: silicon wafer preparation, photolithography, chemical etching, plasma etching, oxidation, diffusion, ion implantation, chemical vapor deposition and physical sputtering. Bonding and packaging. Faculty Member.

EE 787S Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of VLSI Circuits and Systems.

3 cr. Prerequisite: EE 784S. Circuit and logic simulation. Timing analysis and verification. Testing and fault simulation. Logic and high-level synthesis. Physical design automation. Faculty Member.

Special Courses and Thesis

EE 797 Special Topics

EE 798 Special Project.

Assigned project, of not more than 3 credit hours, supervised by a Faculty member.

EE 799 Thesis.

Every semester. Faculty Member.

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