EEE 500: Thesis (18 credits)
A student must undertake a research work on M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering topic under the guidance of a supervisor. The student is required to prepare and submit the thesis within the time specified. The thesis will be graded and a student must get at least a C grade, which is the passing grade for this course.
EEE 501: Project (6 Credits)
A student must undertake a research project work on M.Engg. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering topic under the guidance of a supervisor. The student is required to prepare and submit the report within the time specified. The report will be graded and a student must get at least a C grade, which is the passing grade for this course.
EEE 502: Internship (non-credit)
This is an optional non-credit course. The internship aims at providing on-the-job exposure to the students and an opportunity for translating theoretical concepts to real life situations. Students are placed in business enterprises, NGOs and research institutions for internship. The duration of internship will be a maximum of 8 weeks. The student is required to prepare and submit the report within the time specified. The report will be graded.
EEE 510: Signals, Systems and Stochastic Process (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Generic Description of Transmission Systems; Classifications of Signals; Fourier Analysis: Fourier Series, Power Theorem, Fourier Transform, Properties of Fourier Transform, Fourier Transform of Periodic Signals, Reconstruction of a Bandlimited Signal from Its Samples, Correlation Functions; Signal Transmission Through LTI Systems; Random Variables, Stochastic Processes, and Noise: pdf and cdf, Transformations of Random Variables, Statistical Averages, Real and Complex Random Vectors, Probability Models, Random Processes, Stationary and Ergodic Processes, Gaussian Processes, Spectral Characteristics of Random Signals, Random Signals and LTI Systems, Estimation of Power Spectrum, Noise Processes, Noise-Equivalent Bandwidth, Baseband Communication Model with Additive Noise: Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Noise Figure and Noise Temperature, Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel; Digital Communication Basics: Matched Filters, Signal Characterization, Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel. Coherent Detection of Binary Signals in AWGN Channel, Error Probabilities for Binary Signalling, Optimum Digital Receivers; Markov Processes: Chapman-Kolmogorov Equations, Classification of States, Limiting Probabilities, Discrete time, Discrete State Markov Processes.
EEE 511: Cellular Mobile Communication (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Propagation in mobile radio channels: channel models, fading - large scale and small scale fading, flat fading and frequency selective fading channel, fast fading and slow fading channel; delay spread, Doppler spread and angle spread; channel autocorrelation functions, scattering function, correlated and uncorrelated scattering (US), WSS and WSSUS model. Multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA and Spread Spectrum Communications; DS-CDMA and FH-CDMA: modulator and demodulator structure, probability of error, jamming margin, decoding, performance in the presence of interference, PN sequence, CDMA. Multi-user detection: multiple access interference, detector performance measures - BER, asymptotic efficiency, near-far resistance; detectors - matched filter detector, de-correlator detector, MMSE detector, SIC, PIC, MAP and MLSE detectors. Diversity and combining techniques: Multiple antenna systems - SISO, SIMO, MISO and MIMO systems, STBC, OSTBC, QOSTBC, spatial multiplexing (SM) schemes. Interference and management and mobility management in wireless communications, security in wireless communication systems. Multi-carrier communications: OFDM - oscillator based and FFT implementation; special issues of OFDM - cyclic prefix, timing offset, frequency offset, synchronization, peak power problem; OFDMA, MC-CDMA, WiMAX. Selected transactions and industry standards.
EEE 512: Telecommunication Transmission Technologies (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction to telecommunication transmission technologies; Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) principles, systems and transport technology; Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) principles, systems & transport technology; Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) principles, systems & transport technology; SONET principles, systems & transport technology, ATM principles, systems & transport technology. Switching Systems, Architecture & System overview of Digital Switching, Overview of packet and circuit switching, Packet transmission on LAN & WAN, Packet switching in broadband networks, ATM switching, IP switching, Overview of SS-7 signaling systems, Signaling networks. Introduction to access network transport technologies; PONS, DSL, HFC last mile solutions. Introduction to Satellite transmission networks, Space environment, Link analysis, Satellite Access, Earth stations, Satellite services
EEE 513: Communication Services Networks (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
SONET Transport Networks: Rationale for High Speed Networking - Evolution of Optical Networks - SONET Technology - SONET Transport Network Architectures - Survivability in SONET Systems- Automatic Protection Switching (APS) - Restoration Techniques - Self Healing Rings - IP-over -SONET. ATM Transport Networks: ATM Technology - Protocol Reference Model - Network Traffic Management - Protection and Restoration Techniques - IP-over- ATM-over-SONET. WDM Networks and Wavelength Routing: Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) Technology - Wavelength Cross-Connects -Wavelength Routing Networks- Routing and Wavelength Assignment - Distributed Control Protocols - Wavelength Rerouting. WDM Ring and Wavelength-Convertible Networks: WDM Ring Networks - Wavelength Convertible Networks - Routing Algorithms - Converter Placement . WDM Optical Layer Design: Terabit Transport Networks - Layered Architecture - Design of Optical Layer - Virtual Topology -Problem Formulation-Design Heuristics- Multi-Fiber Networks. WDM Network Survivability and Optical Packet Switching: Network Survivability - Protection and Restoration Techniques - Optical Layer with Fault-tolerance Capability - Optical Packet Switching - IP-over-WDM. Advances in WDM technologies: Introduction to DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technology and its features, Next generation optical networks.
EEE 514: Optical Communication System (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction to optical communications: Motivation for using optical methods in data transmission. Brief history of optical communications, Generic optical communication system. Key components and their functions; Propagation of light in fibres: Principles of optical waveguiding. Fibre modes and their properties. Single mode, multimode fibres. Recently developed fibre types; Signal attenuation: Optical losses: intrinsic loss mechanisms; extrinsic loss (bending, splicing, coupling). Dispersion: modal dispersion, waveguide dispersion, dispersion shifting; Optical Systems: Optical transmission formats: return-to-zero, non-return-to-zero encoding, Binary transmission: statistics, noise and errors, Propagation of optical pulses in dispersive media. Loss limited systems and dispersion limited system. Optoelectronic components: Optical Detectors.: Detectors of optical signals: principle of operation; responsivity; bandwidth; noise. Photodiodes, materials and structures: heterostructures; p-n detectors; avalanche detectors; common types of photodiodes. Optical Sources: Laser: emission and amplification of light; optical gain; principle of laser; laser modes; rate equations. Laser diodes: photons in semiconductors; generic structure of laser diode; double heterostructure; performance characteristics of laser diodes; rate equations; common types of laser diodes; Optical amplifiers amplified systems: Design and principles of optical fibre amplifiers. Main characteristics: power, gain, noise. Saturation effects. Noise accumulation in long-span systems. Implications for long distance (trans-oceanic) data transmission; Nonlinear effects: Effective length of nonlinear interaction. Main effects: Self-phase modulation; Raman scattering; Brillouin scattering; four-wave mixing. Optical solitons; Advanced optical systems: Wavelength multiplexing and time-division multiplexing of optical signals. Ultrahigh-capacity optical data transmission; review of terabit-per-second systems. Detrimental effects of nonlinearities and dispersion on system performance. Useful effects: dispersion management; optical solitons. Current performance limits.
EEE 520: Advanced Digital Communications (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Representation of bandpass signals and systems, modulation and demodulation for the additive white Gaussian noise channel, optimal demodulation for signals with random phase, noncoherent detection for binary and M-ary orthogonal signals, hard and soft decoding for linear codes, concatenated codes, performance of coded modulation systems, characterization of fading multi-path channels, diversity techniques, performance of coded systems on fading channels, direct performance of coded systems on fading channels, direct sequence and frequency hopped spread spectrum systems.
EEE 521: Digital Wireless Communications and Networks (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Analog and digital communications, Wireless spectrum, Multiplexing and access methods, Propagation; Unidirectional Broadcast Systems; Broadcast technologies for audio, video and data, Capabilities and limitations; Medium Access Control & Telecommunication Systems; Multiple radio access methods, Home and Mobile telephony systems, Capabilities and limitations; Wireless LAN, Aloha, IEEE 802.11 family, Bluetooth and others. Capabilities and limitations; Mobile Network Layer, Mobile ad hoc networks, routing protocols, quality of service and others, Capabilities and limitations; Transport Layers and Mobility Support; Transmission control protocols (TCP) for mobile systems. File store for mobile systems. Web, WAP and other mark up. Connection control systems.
EEE 522: Telecommunications Business Environment (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Commercial dimensions of networks: financial impact; Network economics, commercial pressures; Corporate finance: company accounts including P&L Balance sheet, depreciation, cash flow, stock market etc; Market forces: marketing principles, market sectors, market and products/services forecasting; Competition: competitor analysis and models, telecommunications competition; competitive responses; Product and services management: product lifecycles, translation from requirements to product definition and launch; Customer satisfaction: QoS, service surround, customer service, service centres; Pricing and product profitability: cost-based pricing, interconnect pricing, regulatory implications; Management accounting: accounting; budgetary control; financial control; Operating cost drivers: analysis of R&D costs; dynamic and interactive nature of costs; Telco cost model; whole life costs; productivity; process analysis, QoS and failure costs; Capital cost drivers: network capital requirements; impact of network planning; effect of depreciation; capital budgeting; funding; effect of procurement; control of capital projects; Regulation: acts and licences; organisation, role and powers of regulators; price regulation; influence of European Union and WTO regulation; Investment Appraisal: justification of capital projects and methods of investment; sensitivity and risk analysis; cost/benefit; financial authorisation; Global awareness: the global market; the Triad; characteristics of multinational customers; the European Union; global competitive analysis; Information industry: value chain, competition, impact on Telcos.
EEE 523: Network and Services Management (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction to role of network management, Configuration management, event management, testing, access and security, network planning, work management; network management standards, network management model, OSI and Internet management approaches, TMN; element management, and network control layer; service management, service management layer functions, service templates, generation of service definitions; future prospects for automation, role of AI, KBS, HCI, co-operating agents, Network Security: Introduction to Computer and Network Security; Criptography; Firewalls; IPSEC; IP attacks.
EEE 524: Mobile Communication System Planning (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Purposes and procedures of network planning, Site survey and selection; Propagation analysis and coverage planning; Capacity planning; Radio frequency planning; Advanced planning aspects. Cell Planning: Traffic and coverage analysis, Nominal cell plan, surveys, System design, System implementation and tuning, System Growth, Re-use of frequencies in a cell, Hierarchical Cell Structure (HCS), Multi-band Cells. Telecommunication Subscriber Services, Mobile Intelligent Network, CVPN, CAMEL, Charging and Billing, Operations & Maintenance Systems, System architecture & Industrial implementations. (Pre req. EEE 511)
EEE 525: Communications Systems Modeling (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Time and Frequency Domain Modeling of signals, Transforming between the time and frequency domain, Techniques for Physical Layer Simulation, Performance Measurement in simulation, Physical Layer Simulation examples (Optical Communications, Radio Communications, Electrical Communications), The Theory of Network Simulation, Network Simulation Examples.
EEE 530: Broadband Networks (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Types of networks - circuit-switched, packet-switched, connection-oriented, connectionless, single-rate, multi-rate, Framing, time slots, headers; Evolution of networks - the telephone network, the Internet, local area networks, the move to broadband networks; Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). The ATM protocols: physical layer, ATM layer, adaptation layer; Source models, statistical multiplexing, multiplexing gain; Admission control, Access control, Leaky Bucket algorithm, Available Bit Rate, Weighted Fair queuing; ATM switches, Banyan networks, Banyan network throughput, Deflection routing, Sort-banyan switches, Head-of-line blocking, Output-buffered switches, Large-scale switches; Discrete-time queuing theory, Kendall's notation, Probability generating functions - definition and properties, PGFs of some distributions; Arrival processes, Batch arrivals, The Geo[x]/D/1 queue, Numerical calculation of moments and probabilities, Little's Law; Queuing model of output-buffered switch, Queuing model of input-buffered switch, Throughput of input-buffered switches, Numerical calculation of loss probabilities. Signaling protocols, User-network interface, Network-network interface, Routing protocols, ATM local area networks.
EEE 531: Data Network Protocols (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction and OSI Layering System Transmission - media, signals, asynchronous and synchronous, compression, huffmann; Physical Layer Data link Layer - go back n and selective repeat; LANs - ethernet, token ring, polling Network Layer - routing and flow control; Transport and Higher Layers - TCP/IP Circuit Switching - Telephone network; Erlangs Equations - queueing theory; Integrated Services Digital Network, ISDN B-ISDN and ATM, standards, traffic Future Trends and Conclusions.
EEE 532: Network Security (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Overview of security, threats and mechanisms; Conventional encryption algorithms (DES, IDEA); Public Key cryptography, RSA, Key management, confidentiality authentication and digital signatures; Network-based threats: Intruders, Viruses and Worms; Hardware architectures required to implement algorithms; Firewalls.
EEE 533: Wavelets and Applications (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction and Background: Why wavelets, subband coding and multiresolution analysis? Mathematical background, Hilbert spaces, Unitary operators, Review of Fourier theory, Continuous and discrete time signal processing; Time-frequency analysis, Multirate signal processing, Projections and approximations; Discrete-Time Bases and Filter Banks, Elementary filter banks, Analysis and design of filter banks, Spectral Factorization, Daubechies filters; Orthogonal and biorthogonal filter banks, Tree structured filter banks, Discrete wavelet transform, Multidimensional filter banks; Continuous-Time Bases and Wavelets; Iterated filter banks, The Haar and Sinc cases, The limit of iterated filter banks; Wavelets from Filters, Construction of compactly supported wavelet bases, Regularity, Approximation properties, Localization; The idea of multiresolution, Multiresolution analysis, Haar as a basis for L2(R), The continuous wavelet and short-time Fourier transform; Applications, Fundamentals of compression, Analysis and design of transform coding systems, Image Compression, the new compression standard (JPEG200) and the old standard, Why is the wavelet transform better than the discrete cosine transform? Video compression and the 3-D wavelet transform. Advanced topics: Beyond JPEG2000, non-linear approximation and compression.
EEE 534: Advanced Data Communication (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
The course covers Communications protocol Stacks, OSI and TCP/IP. 802.X based wired and wireless LANs. Access protocols, Slip, PPP and ADSL. Management protocols ICMP, BOOTP, DHCP, SNMP & Management Tools, as well as management of Cisco routers. Routing protocols and clients, the DNS and BIND, RIP-2, OSPF (IGP & BGP). Socket Programming. Traffic Capture & Analysis Labs.
EEE 535: Information Theory, Coding, and Detection (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Review of probability, random variables, probability density functions/cumulative distribution functions, expected values, central limit theorem, random processes, stationarity, ergodicity, Autocorrelation, Power spectral density. Multiple random variables, Transmission through linear systems. Optimum Signal Detection: Geometrical representation of signals. Gaussian random noise, Optimum receiver, Non-white channel noise. Information Theory: Measure of information, Source encoding, Error-free communication over a noisy channel, Channel capacity of a discrete memoriless system, Channel capacity of a continuous channel. Error-Control Coding: Linear block codes. Cyclic codes, Burst-error detecting and correcting codes, Convolutional codes, Comparison of coded and uncoded systems.
EEE 540: Advanced Semiconductor Devices (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Review of basic semiconductor physics and III-V materials. GaAs metal-semiconductor field effect transistor (GaAs MESFET): introduction, structure, equivalent circuits, current saturation, effect of source and drain resistances, gate resistance and application of GaAs MESFET. High electron mobility transistor (HEMT): practical HEMT structure, energy band line-up, equivalent circuit, HEMT noise, pseudomorphic HEMT and applications. Fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Quantum devices: resonant tunneling diodes, quantum dots and wires. Nanotechnology: nanowires, carbon nanotubes, bio-inspired nanostructures, nano motors etc., future directions in nanotechnology.
EEE 541: Advanced VLSI Design (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Overview of important issues in high performance digital VLSI design: Interconnect as key limiting factor, wire modeling, clock distribution of high speed system, power distribution, crosstalk and power distribution noise. Low power design issues. CMOS design methodology: Structured design strategies, automated synthesis, placement and routing, circuit extraction, simulation, design rule check and testing. Combinational and sequential system design, state machine design, subsystem design, architectural design. Practical chip design examples.
EEE 542: Advanced Digital Signal Processing (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Signal Modeling: Pade & Prony Matching, Solution of Autocorrelation Normal Equations, Burg's Algorithm, Linear Prediction, Wiener and Kalman Filtering. Spectral Estimation: non-parametric (periodogram, Welsh and Blackman-Tukey modifications), parametric (AR, MA and ARMA). Two Dimensional Signal Processing: 2D z-transform, 2-D DFT and DCT, 2-D filters, image processing. Multirate Signal Processing: decimation & interpolation, polyphase filters, QMF filter banks Signal Coding: waveform coding, predictive coding, transform coding, MPEG1/2/4 audio and speech coding.
EEE 543: Power Semiconductor Circuits and Drives (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Static switching devices, characteristics of SCR, BJT, MOSFET, IGBT, SIT, GTO, MCT. Classifications of static power converters and their application. Control circuits for static power converters. Pulse width modulation; PWM control of static power converters. Switch mode DC to DC converters, resonant converters, Fourier analysis of static converter waveforms, HD, THD, pf, ZVS and ZCS of static converters. Hysteresis current of AC drives. Input/output filter design of static power converters. Design of protection circuits for static power converters. Design of microcomputer controllers for static power converter switching.
EEE 546: Nano-photonics and Plasmonics (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction, Light scattering, Materials for plasmonics, Localized plasmon resonances, Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission, Propagating plasmons, Modelling plasmonic nanostructures, Modes in plasmonics, SERS and fluorescence, Microscopy, Spectroscopy, Biosensing, Coupled-oscillators models, Nanofabrication for plasmonics, Nonlinear plasmonics, Plasmonics for energy conversion, data storage and biomed applications, Silicon, Diamond, and Graphene photonics, Single-Molecule Detection, Other emerging topics in nanophotonics and plasmonics, Numerical experiments, Case Study.
Reference Books: Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications, Springer, S. A. Maier; Fundamentals of Photonics Paperback, Willey, 2nd edition, B.E.A. Saleh; Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles, Wiley, C. F. Bohren and D. R. Huffman; Plasmonics: From Basics to Advanced Topics, Stefan Enoch and Nicolas Bonod; Introduction to Nano Basics to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Chandan Kumar (Eds.), Sengupta, Amretashis, Sarkar; Principles of Nano‐Optics, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, L. Novotny and B. Hecht.
EEE 550: Advanced CMOS Technology (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
CMOS Technology Overview: Evolution and recent advances in silicon electronics, Moore's Law and the ITRS, State-of- the-Art CMOS technology. Overview on CMOS Fabrication Processes: Overview of basic silicon processing steps, photolithography, isolation technique, threshold voltage adjustment, design rules and layout, technology for nanoscale fabrication. Nanoscale MOSFETs. MOSFET figures of merit: on- and off current, CVI metric, gate delay, power-delay product. Nanometer bulk MOSFETs: doping profiles, high-k dielectrics, gate stack design. Non-classical MOSFET structures: transport enhanced MOSFETs (strained Si and SiGe, Ge), SOI MOSFETs, multiple gate MOSFETs (lateral double-gate MOSFET, FinFET, Tri-gate MOSFET). Problems and challenges of nanoscale MOSFETs: shallow source/drain junctions, doping fluctuations (in the channel, in the source/drain regions), decreasing current drive capability, the limits of scaling (physical and process constraints). RF CMOS Devices and Circuits. Figures of merit of RF transistors, small-signal and low-noise RF MOSFETs, power RF MOSFETs. Challenges of Giga-Scale Integration. Reliability and yield, interconnects and delay, power dissipation and thermal issues, economics issues, active devices beyond CMOS, Si optoelectronic components.
EEE 552: Laser Theory (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Geometrical optics and Ray-transfer matrix: Reflection, refraction, imaging, and lenses. Definition of ray-transfer matrix and applications. Electromagnetic theory of light: Optical wave functions, wave equations, Maxwell's equations in various media, energy flow and absorption. Interference: Principle of superposition and interference, two-beam interference and interferometry, multi-wave intereference, Fabry-Perot interferometer, group/phase velocity and dispersion. Diffraction: Fraunhofer diffraction, Fresnel diffraction, diffraction at aperture and straight edge, diffraction gratings. Polarization: Jones vectors and Jones matrices, Fresnel equations, polarization devices. Photon, laser, and Gaussian-beam optics: Photon optics, laser basics, optical resonators, Gaussian beam, transmission of Gaussian beams through optical components. Semiconductor optics: Basic semiconductor physics, interaction of photons with semiconductors, absorption and emission. Semiconductor photonic devices: p-n junctions, light-emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, photodetectors.
EEE 554: Application Specific Integrated Circuit Design (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Types of ASICs- Standard cell, gate array, programmable logic devices. ASIC library design, library cell, gate array and standard cell design. Programmable ASIC logic cell and programmable I/O cell design. Programmable ASIC interconnects. Logic synthesis and simulation of ASIC using Hardware Description Language. Floor-planning, placement and routing of ASIC. ASIC testing : Boundary scan test, faults, fault simulation, automatic test pattern generation, built-in self test.
EEE 555: Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics Technology (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction to Physics of the Solid State: Crystal structure and lattice vibrations; energy bands, reciprocal space, effective masses, Fermi surfaces, localised particles e.g. donors, traps, excitons. Methods of Measuring Properties: Crystallography - particle size determination and surface structure; microscopy; spectroscopy. Properties of Individual Nanoparticles: Metal nanoclusters, semiconducting nanoparticles, rare gas and molecular clusters, synthesis methods. Carbon Nanostructures: Carbon molecules, carbon clusters - C60 and fulllerenes; carbon nanotubes; applications of carbon nanotubes. Bulk Nanostructured Materials: Solid disordered nanostructures - synthesis and properties; nanostructured crystals - zeolites, photonic crystals. Nanostructured Ferromagnetism: Ferromagnetism; dynamics of nanomagnets, giant and colossal magnetoresistance; ferrofluids. Optical and Vibrational Spectroscopy: Excitons; infrared surface spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy; Brillouin spectroscopy; Luminescence - photoluminescence, surface states, thermoluminescence. Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Preparation; size and dimensionality effects; excitons; single-electron tunnelling; applications - IR detectors, quantum dot lasers; superconductivity. Self-Assembly and Catalysis: process of self-assembly; catalysis. Organic Compounds and Polymers: Forming and characterizing polymers; nanocrystals; conductive polymers; supramolecular structures - dendritic molecules, micelles. Biological Materials: Biological building blocks - polypeptide nanowires and protein nanoparticles; nucleic acids - DNA, genetic code and protein synthesis. Nano Machines and Devices: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS); molecular and supramolecular switches.
EEE 557: Advanced Optoelectronics (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Wave nature of light: Maxwell’s Wave Equations, Optical Reflection and Transmission, Boundary Conditions, Guided waves, Waveguide theory, Planar Dielectric waveguide, Transverse Electric-Magnetic (TE-TM) modes, V-number, Mode field Diameter (MFD), Waveguide Intermode and Intramode dispersion, Group and phase velocity, Optical fiber transmission, Chromatic and material Dispersion, Numerical aperture, Light absorption and scattering, Graded Index fiber. Semiconductor devices: Direct and Indirect Energy band gap Semiconductors, pn junction LEDs, Heterojunction high intensity LEDs, Solid State Lasers, Steady State Semiconductor Rate Equations, Blackbody Radiation, Boltzmann’s Statistics, Einstein’s Coefficients, Phase Coherence of Stimulated Emissions, Atomic line shapes, Absorption of Stimulated Transitions, Population Inversion, Three-level System, Four Level System, Metastable level, Quantum Wells, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers, Optical Laser Amplifiers (EDFA), Quantum Efficiency and Responsivity of photodetectors, pin photodiodes, avalanche photodiodes, heterojunction separate absorption and multiplication (SAM) APDs, Superlattice APDs, Noise in photodetectors, Optical Signal to noise ratio (OSNR) of a receiver, Optical fibre dispersion, Bit rate error, Transmission Bandwidth. Principles of Photovoltaic Devices: Solar Cells, Operating Current and voltage, Fill Factor, Equivalent Circuit, Solar Cell Structures and Efficiencies. Optoelectronic Modulators: Optical Anisotropy, Uniaxial Crystals and Fresnels’ Optical Indicatrix, Dichroism, Birefringent Optical devices, Pockels Electro-optic effect, Kerr Nonlinearity, Phase and Polarisation Modulation, Mach-Zehnder Modulator, Coupled waveguide modulators, Acoustic-optic modulators, Second and third order harmonic generation, nonlinear optical effects.
Reference Books: Optoelectronics and Photonics, Principles and Practices, Pearson Education Inc. First Edition, S.O. Kasap; Semiconductor Physics and devices, Tata McGraw Hill, Third Edition, Donald A. Neamen; Optoelectronics, An Introduction, Prentice-Hall, Second Edition, J. Wilson, JFB Hawkes; Optics, Pearson, 5th Edition, Eugene Hecht.
EEE 560: Optimization of Power System Operation (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
General principles of optimization, its application to power system planning, design and operation. Probability analysis of bulk power security and outage data. Economic operation of power system-economic operation of thermal plants, combined thermal and hydro-electric plants. Theory of economic operation of interconnected areas. Development and application of transmission loss formulae for economic operation of power systems. Method of optimum scheduling and dispath of generators.
EEE 561: Advanced Protective Relays (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Review of characteristics of over current, directional, differential, distance and pilot relays. Principles of relay design. Effects of transients on relay operation. Harmonic relaying. Static and digital relays. Applications of static and digital relaying in various protection schemes.
EEE 562: Power System Stability (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Principles of angular and voltage stability. Methods of multi machine transient stability: direct methods and time domain simulation. Equal area criterion. Extended equal area criterion, transient energy function (TEF) methods. Nonlinear system stability- Lyapunov's method. State space concepts and dynamic system representation. Eigen vectors in dynamic system analysis. Detailed modeling, simplifications, salient synchronous machines and induction machines modeling.
Turbine governor, generator excitation systems and their representation in stability models. Power system stabilizers. On line identification and improvement of stability through on line control.
EEE 563: Power System Planning (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Basic objectives of power system planning. Generation expansion planning process. Electrical demand forecasting; current demand forecasting approaches. Generation planning; economic analysis, expected energy generation, expected fuel cost. Both-Baleriux, cummulant and segmentation methods. Probabilistic simulation of hydro and energy limited units. Expected energy production cost of interconnected systems. Economic aspects of interconnection. Different aspects of load management; effects of load Management on reliability and on production cost. Joint ownership of generation.
EEE 564: Advanced Machine Design (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
General treatment of Electrical Machine Design. Review of standard procedures in design of DC machines. AC machines, transformers and special machines. Optimization and synthesis of design procedures. Applications of material balance and critical path principles in electrical design. Design economics and safety factors. Applications of computers in modern designs including the operation of the machine in the nonlinear ranges: Magnetic flux-plots and heat transfer process etc. Mechanical design of electrical machinery and relation between machanical and electrical machine design.
EEE 570: Transients in Power System (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Transients in simple electric and magnetically linked circuits, fundamentals: impacts of switching on rotating machinery. Parallel operation of interconnected networks; distribution of power impacts. Interaction of Governor's in power systems. Overvoltage during power system faults. Systems voltage recovery characteristics. Effect of arc restriking on recovery voltage. Switching surges and overvoltage caused by sudden loss of load and by open conductor.
EEE 571: Reliability of Power System (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Review of basic probability theory. Basic reliability concepts. Markovian model of generation unit. Development of load models. Probabilistic simulation of generating systems. Reliability indices. Recursive, segmentation and cummulant method to obtain loss of load probability (LOLP). Modeling of forecast uncertainty. Reliability evaluation of energy limited systems. Different techniques of evaluating reliability, reliability indices of interconnected systems. Composite transmission and generating system reliability.
EEE 572: Modern Power System Modeling (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Overview of power electronic applications at utility and demand sides; sources of harmonics; utility devices and consumer loads. Various models for nonlinear and dynamic loads. High voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system modeling. AC-DC load flow studies. Modeling of flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS): conventional thyristor controlled reactors and phase shifters, voltage source inverter (VSI) based static condenser (STATCON) and unified power flow controller (UPFC). Transient stability and sub-synchronous resonance (SSR) studies incorporating super conducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) model. Modeling of utility interfaced photovoltaic and wind energy sources. Power quality, cyclic and noncyclic voltage flicker, total harmonic distortion (THD) analysis, remedial measures and harmonic load flow studies.
EEE 573: Generalized Machine Theory (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction to generalized machine theory. Kron's primitive machine: moving to fixed-axis transformation; Park's transformation: three-phase to d-q transformation: variable co-efficient transformation: other transformations. Matrix and tensor analysis of machines. Three phase synchronous and induction machines: two-phase servo motor: single phase induction motor. Smooth-air gap two-phase synchronous machine. Two-phase induction machine. The n-m winding symmetrical machine. Diagonalization by charge of variable. Symmetrical three-phase machine and special limiting cases.
EEE 574: Modern Control Theory (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
State space description of dynamic systems: relationship between state equations and transfer function: continuous and discrete time linear system analysis and design using state transition method. Controllability and observability. State feedback and output feedback. Pole assignment using state feedback and output feedback. H control. Optimal control-dynamic programming. Pontryagin's minimum principle. Separation theorem. Stochastic control. Adaptive control.
EEE 580: Computer and Machine Vision (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Sensors, Optics and Lighting; Image Representation, Point Operations; Neighbourhood Operations, Feature Extraction; Image Analysis, Image Classification, Image Transforms, Morphology, Texture Analysis, Colour Analysis, 3D Imaging Techniques, Intelligent Vision, Imaging Techniques;
EEE 581: Speech Recognition (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
Introduction, Speech signal: production, perception and characterization, Signal processing and analysis; Pattern comparison techniques: distortion measures, spectral-distortion measures, time alignment and normalization; Recognition system design and implementation: source-coding, template training, performance analysis; Connected word models, two level DP, level building algorithm, one-pass algorithm; Continuos speech recognition: subword units, statistical modeling, context-depending units; Task oriented models.
EEE 582: Image and Video Compression (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
The challenge of digital audiovisual compression: data volume, error visibility, streaming, real-time, compatibility. An overview of existing audiovisual compression standards (e.g. JPEG, H.261, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4). Visual coding theory and approaches: transform-based coding; hybrid coding; basic codec structure, intra/inter frames, macroblock structure, configuration of coding tools; advanced and unrestricted motion estimation, context-based arithmetic coding, overlapped-block motion estimation. JPEG: DCT coding, coefficient quantisation and Huffman coding. MPEG-1: I-,B- and P-pictures, user defined quantisation matrix. MPEG-2: Compatibility, scalability, interlaced tools, profiles and levels. MPEG-4: VOs and VOPS, layered codec structure, VOP bounding, alpha plane encoding (shape coding), half-pixel resolution motion estimation, advanced and unrestricted mode, padding/shape-adaptive DCT, scalability, error robustness, profiles. Future developments in audiovisual compression and related issues: (e.g. MPEG-7, visual object segmentation, video analysis). Non-normative coding techniques (e.g. fractal coding, region-based, wavelets).
EEE 590: Special Topics (3 credits, 3 hours/week)
This course will explore an area of current interest in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The emphasis will be on thorough study of a contemporary field within EEE, and the course will be made accessible to students with an EEE background. The syllabus should be approved by the department chair prior to commencement of the term, and a detailed description will be provided before the registration period.
EEE 591: Independent Study (3 credits)
For students interested in any of the following ways of studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering: independently exploring an advanced topic under a faculty instructor; conducting significant research under a faculty supervisor; or doing an internship in industry under the supervision of industry and faculty advisors. In each case, the student must first identify a faculty member within the CSE department to oversee his/her work, and then write a proposal to the department chair outlining the means and objectives of the project. The proposal must be approved by the intended faculty supervisor and department chair prior to commencement of the term. At the end of the term, the student must submit a detailed report and/or give a presentation of the results, before the final course grade may be awarded.