Postgraduate Courses

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Recognize general architectures of social systems and networks.
• 2.
  Define data visualization, and process data for visualizations using some common tools.
• 3.
  Define fundamental graph theories for social network analysis, and process social media data for various applications.
• 4.
  Describe and explain the resistance and capacitance of transistors in a CMOS integrated circuit, and their relationship to output transition speed and power consumption.
• 5.
  Describe the dynamic switching behavior of CMOS integrated circuits.
• 6.
  Evaluate the speed, power consumption, reliability, and cost of a digital integrated circuit, and the tradeoffs among these four important design metrics.
• 7.
  Identify the principles of CMOS technology, basic fabrication process of integrated circuits, and CMOS technology scaling challenges.
• 8.
  Describe and explain wire resistance and capacitance and wire design optimization for achieving high-performance digital integrated circuits.
• 9.
  Define the operation principles of sequential integrated circuits.
• 10.
  Solve integrated circuit design problems by using computer-aided design tools and with team work.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Recognize and explain the flow of designing complex digital system such as System-on-a-chip (SOC).
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  Identify the use of high-level hardware descriptive language in design digital system.
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  Recognize the design of the VLSI architecture for basic digital arithmetic building blocks.
• 4.
  Define the circuit and architecture design of different types of memory blocks.
• 5.
  Describe the techniques of designing low-power and high-performance digital circuits and systems.
• 6.
  Analyze, design, and debug simple digital systems.
• 7.
  Work in a team environment, and demonstrate effective project and time management through course design project.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Recognize and define the basic software and hardware components of an embedded system.
• 2.
  Recognize the anatomy of a mobile embedded system, and identify the key hardware of a smart phone and software components of a mobile operating system.
• 3.
  Analyze, design, and debug simple software and hardware components used in an embedded system.
• 4.
  Explain the interaction between the hardware and software components of a mobile embedded system, and the importance of integration of hardware and software components in optimizing the performance of the embedded system.
• 5.
  Work in a team environment, and demonstrate effective project and time management in lab sessions.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Define the basic building blocks of analog integrated circuits, including current and voltage sources, single-gain-stage amplifier, multi-stage amplifiers and operational amplifiers.
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  Analyze and compute mathematically the behaviors of an operational amplifier, including voltage gain, response time, unity-gain bandwidth and power consumption.
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  Diagnose the stability of an amplifier and explain how to compensate the amplifier to achieve stability.
• 4.
  Design a multi-stage amplifier to meet certain constraints, such as supply voltage, power consumption and response time.
• 5.
  Use software tools, such as HSpice, to simulate the behaviors of a multi-stage amplifier.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify, formulate, analyze, and design Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems (amplifiers, filters, ADCs, DACs, etc.) for various applications.
• 2.
  Design and simulate Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems to meet target specifications subject to practical constraints.
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  Use appropriate simulation tools (including HSPICE, Cadence, Matlab, Switcap, etc.) to help design and simulate Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems with clear identification of their limitations and optimization.
• 4.
  Communicate effectively design choices and considerations via oral presentations and written reports.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Communicate with the language of semiconductor (diode, BJT, MOSFET, doping, Fermi-level, drift-diffusion, etc.).
• 2.
  Describe the basic principles of some common circuit active elements plus photo active devices (solar cell, LED, CCD).
• 3.
  Describe the effects of changing the key physical parameters of diode, BJT and MOSFET on the trend (increase or decrease) of the output characteristics.
• 4.
  Define the operation of a cleanroom.
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  Match a given model to measurement data by selecting relevant parameters.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify, formulate, analyze and design power management integrated circuits and systems.
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  Use simulation tools to help design power management integrated circuits and systems.
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  Communicate effectively design choices and considerations via written reports.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify, formulate, analyze, and design High-Frequency Integrated Circuits and Transceiver Systems for wireless applications.
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  Design and simulate High-Frequency Integrated Circuits and Transceiver Systems to meet target specifications subject to practical constraints.
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  Use appropriate simulation tools (including Cadence, SpectreRF, Verilog-A, Asitic, Momentum, etc.) to help design and simulate High-Frequency Integrated Circuits and Transceiver Systems with clear identification of their limitations and optimization.
• 4.
  Communicate effectively design choices and considerations via oral presentations and written reports.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Recognize the key technological developments in networking technology.
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  Identify the fundamental principles for constructing a computer network.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Recognize the key technological developments of digital communications.
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  Identify the fundamental principles related to digital communication technology.
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  Perform basic performance evaluation and system design for digital communications.
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  Comprehend technical specifications and explain how and why practical digital communications systems are designed.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the design principles of wireless communication systems.
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  Illustrate the practical protocols of circuit-switched and packet-switched wireless cellular radio access networks.
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  Recognize the core network design and end-to-end protocol stack in cellular networks.
• 4.
  Describe and explain the protocol of WiFi IEEE 802.11.
• 5.
  Identify the future trends of wireless communications and broadband networking.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the key components of the modern telecom network and describe their major underpinning technologies and working principles.
• 2.
  Effectively interpret scientific, engineering, and standard literatures related to the telecom industry.
• 3.
  Identify some of the major business sectors of the telecom industry and describe their operating characteristics.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Calculate path loss and receive power based on large-scale radio propagation models.
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  Describe the cellular structure and determine the frequency reuse factor.
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  Describe different small-scale channel variation models, and determine their key parameters.
• 4.
  Describe different techniques to combat frequency flat fading.
• 5.
  Characterize key parameters for antennas for wireless communications.
• 6.
  Describe spread spectrum techniques and their applications in 3G systems, and calculate user capacity for CDMA systems.
• 7.
  Describe the basic principles of OFDM and its application in WLAN.
• 8.
  Describe basic MIMO techniques, including spatial multiplexing and spatial diversity.
• 9.
  Analyze technical papers on an advanced topic on wireless communications and write a report.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify image and video characteristics.
• 2.
  Analyze and evaluate multimedia signal compression problems.
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  Integrate theoretical principles and practical implementations to solve multimedia signal compression problems.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the fundamental concepts of photonics.
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  Strengthen problem-solving and communications skills.
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  Strengthen project management skills.
• 4.
  Identify current developments in photonics.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Define the basic optics and quality criteria of display devices.
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  Compare Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) with other Flat Panel Displays (FPDs), Plasma Display Panels (PDPs), Organic Light Emitted Diodes (OLEDs), etc.
• 3.
  Describe the physical properties of liquid crystals and preparation of liquid crystal cells for the most important applications.
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  Summarize basic electrooptical phenomena as a basis for liquid crystals devices.
• 5.
  Demonstrate how to control the liquid crystal behaviors in electric fields by varying its macroscopic physical parameters, cell geometry and addressing schemes.
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  Compare recent liquid crystal display applications in TV, desktop, PC, mobile, car, aviation, E-paper, etc.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the key methods and technologies utilized in digital communication networks and systems.
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  Identify problems and trade-offs typically encountered in digital communication networks and systems.
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  Interpret technical specifications in practical digital communication networks and systems.
• 4.
  Calculate and assess the performance of digital communication networks and systems.
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  Formulate and devise digital communication networks and systems that can meet prescribed specifications.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Explain the design principles of various modern communication networks.
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  Describe the detailed protocol of IP and wireless cellular networks.
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  Explain why communication systems are designed in the way they are in the industry.
• 4.
  Summarize the basic architecture of routers and switches.
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  Identify the future trends of the communication and computer networking.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the components required to build modern pattern recognition systems and their function.
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  Compare and contrast different pattern recognition techniques.
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  Calculate explicitly the decision boundaries resulting from a number of pattern recognition techniques on simple 1D and 2D data sets.
• 4.
  Formulate a pattern classification problem, and use software packages and datasets to build pattern classifiers.
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  Empirically compare and explain the effects of changing the hyper parameters of a classifier on real data.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Model simple dynamical systems using differential equations.
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  Manipulate models of LTI systems in different forms, such as differential equations, transfer functions, and block diagrams, analytically and through the use of MATLAB.
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  Assess the impact of stability in a physical system and the use of feedback control to achieve stability.
• 4.
  Complete a real feedback control task from modeling, controller design, and simulation using MATLAB.
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  Identify robustness and performance issues in a control system and methods of addressing these issues.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the scientific method of doing research.
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  Evaluate the quality of research outcomes.
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  Use some online literature and referencing tools.
• 4.
  Write a proper research proposal.
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  Write a research paper review.
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  Present and defend the research work.
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  Apply research methodology to increase working efficiency.
• 8.
  Identify the process of technology transfer and entrepreneurship.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Present a holistic view of different emerging topics related to telecommunications.
• 2.
  Recognize and identify the components of different emerging topics related to telecommunications.
• 3.
  Identify and explain the basic concepts and fundamental principles of emerging technologies such as SG networks, cloud computing, bit-coin security, and content-centric networking.
• 4.
  Identify the tradeoff between different designs of these emerging technologies.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Analyze and evaluate the selected topics of current interest which may not be covered by existing courses.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Analyze and evaluate the performance trade-off in voice over IP multiplexing systems.
• 2.
  Identify the technical issues related to voice traffic over the Internet.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Examine a specific subject in electronic engineering.
• 2.
  Formulate one or multiple problems in the specific subject.
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  Integrate theoretical principles and practical skills to solve the defined problems.
• 4.
  Communicate the problems and solutions through scientific writings.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Consolidate knowledge from different courses through a project.
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  Recognize how a practical communication system is designed. 
• 3.
  Explain why communications and networking systems in practice are designed in a certain way using theories learnt in various courses. 
• 4.
  Present clearly and concisely how a technology is applied in practical systems.