Power System Dynamics & Control (ELEC 552)
Credit Hours: 3
Dynamic performance of power systems with emphasis on stability. Modeling of system components including FACTS devices and control equipment. Analysis of the dynamic behavior of the power system in response to small and large disturbances.
Advanced Digital Signal Processing (ELEC 561)
Credit Hours: 3
Discrete signals and systems; Discrete-time Fourier Transform; Z transform; Digital filter design. Discrete Fourier transforms. Fast FourierTransform; linear and circular convolution; overlap-add method; FIR Digital filters; IIR Digital filters; Digital Spectral Analysis; Time-Frequency analysis and the spectrogram; Blind source separation; array processing; signal enhancement; applications to voice, EEG and ECG analysis; introduction to 2D signals and t-f images.
Adv. Topics in Power Electronics (ELEC 653)
Credit Hours: 3
Advanced Topics may include “but are not limited to” the followings: Protection of semiconductor devices and drive circuits; Modeling and control of power electronics systems, PWM converters and applications; Resonant converters and control, Switching power supplies design; applications of power electronics to renewable energy, power system and drives. Power quality and FACTS applications. Energy Conservation and Management. Simulation and implementation of power electronics converters.
Advanced Topics in Machines and Drives (ELEC 654)
Credit Hours: 3
Advanced Topics may include “but are not limited to” the followings: Principles for electric machine analysis. Electromechanical energy conversion concept. Winding inductances and voltage equations. Reference-frame theory. Generalized theory of Induction and synchronousmachines. Linearized equations of induction and synchronous machines. Reduced-order equations of induction and synchronous machines. Unbalanced Operation of induction and synchronous machines. Asynchronous operation of synchronous machine. Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Two-Phase Induction Machines. Introduction to modern electrical drives. DC, induction and synchronous motor drives. Switched reluctance drive systems. Brushless DC Motor Drives. Simulations of induction and synchronous machines.
Advanced Topics in Control System Theory (ELEC 655)
Credit Hours: 3
Advanced Topics may include “but are not limited to” the followings: Optimal Control, Nonlinear Control, Intelligent Control, Multi-Variable Control and Robust Control
Advanced Digital Communication (ELEC 656)
Credit Hours: 3
An overview of the designs of digital communication systems; The mathematical foundation of decomposing the systems into separately designed source codes and channel codes as well as overview of joint design; The principles and some commonly used algorithms in each component; The basics of information theory; Single-carrier digital transmission systems; Digital communication through fading multipath channel; Diversity techniques, Outage probability and outage capacity;
Statistical signal processing principles with applications in adaptive equalization and channel estimation; Modern communication system case studies.
Biomedical Signal Processing & Diagnostics (ELEC 657)
Credit Hours: 3
Engineering and human senses; brain studies and EEG; electrical activity and disorders; heart, ECG and prevention of heart attacks; eye, perception and image processing; human body as a communication system (auditory system, speaker and speech analysis); DSP and Filtering; Time- Frequency modelling; Biomedical processes and systems modelling; Artifacts filtering; Event change detection; Pattern classification; automatic medical diagnostics.
Medical Imaging (ELEC 658)
Credit Hours: 3
The aim of the Medical Imaging Course is to provide broadly based and multidisciplinary training in medical imaging. The major themes will include background and introduction to the principles underlying the main types of imaging including technology, engineering and theirapplication in clinical and research environments. The course will cover different aspects of medical imaging, including acquisition systems, pre-processing methods, Reconstructions 2D-3D, image analysis using segmentation and registration, image compression and real-time medical imaging systems. Emphasis will be also given to interesting new areas of biomedical imaging relevant to current biomedical research.
Communication and Information Theory (ELEC 659)
Credit Hours: 3
Mathematical models for channels and sources, the basic concepts of entropy, relative entropy, and mutual information are defined, and their connections to channel capacity, coding, and data compression are presented; Limits for error-free communication, channel capacity; Limits for data compression and source coding; Shannon's theorems and rate distortion theory; Basics of coding for noisy channels, linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolutional codes, maximum likelihood decoding.
Communication Network (ELEC 660)
Credit Hours: 3
A course on the basics of data communication network protocols, basics of queuing theory, basics of multiple access techniques, methods of performance analysis and simulations.
Advanced Special Topic I (ELEC 751)
Credit Hours: 3
A selection of the state‐of‐the‐art advance topics in Electrical Engineering.
Advanced Special Topic II (ELEC 752)
Credit Hours: 3
A selection of the state‐of‐the‐art advance topics in Electrical Engineering.
Time-Frequency Signal Process. (ELEC 753)
Credit Hours: 3
Signal time-frequency characteristics; time-frequency signal design; analytic signal; instantaneous frequency; time-varying spectral analysis; Wigner-Ville Distribution; quadratic time-frequency distributions; optimal design; efficient implementations; IF estimation; detection and classification methodologies; performance measures; noise filtering and signal enhancement; real life applications in communications, geophysics, engineering diagnosis and biomedicine.