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| Old Course Code | Subject Area | Catalogue Number | Long Title | Units | Description |
| 3E201 | ELEC | 2000 | Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I | 2 | Systems approach to analyse & design solutions to electrical engineering problems. Theoretical investigations, reinforced with substantial case studies & laboratory experiments. Topics: issues in linking electrical & electronics systems, DC & AC circuit t |
| 3E202 | ELEC | 2001 | Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering II | 2 | Systems approach to analyse & design solutions to electrical engineering problems. Theoretical investigations, reinforced with substantial case studies & laboratory experiments. Topics: amplifiers, power supplies, semiconductor circuit elements. |
| 3E211 | COMP | 2300 | Fundamentals of Computer Engineering | 2 | Basic issues in design of digital systems. Fundamentals, levels of abstraction that allow designers to cope with complex systems & connections to practical hardware implementation problems. Microcontroller, including programming & interfacing. |
| 3E223 | ELEC | 2002 | Electronics & Microprocessors | 2 | Analysis of electronic circuits under dc, ac & transient conditions. Fundamentals of microprocessors including programming through high-level language & interfacing. Computer controlled instrumentation via IEEE488 bus. |
| 3E281 | ELEC | 3700 | Robotics | 2 | Practical aspects of robot design, construction & programming. Sensors & actuators. Relationship between actuation & motion. Programming for intelligent embedded systems. Robot vision systems. |
| 3E291 | ELEC | 2800 | Team Project I | 2 | Team project comprising: Technical — small electronic (or software) product designed, tested, documented & presented for potential client. Organisational — project team must follow standard project procedures: milestones, reporting, project meetings, inte |
| 3E301 | ELEC | 3100 | Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields & Waves | 2 | Fundamentals of electromagnetics including transmission lines, magnetostatics & electrostatics, time varying fields, plane waves, radiation. Applications in area of satellite communications & radar sensors. |
| 3E302 | ELEC | 3200 | Principles of Semiconductor Devices | 2 | Properties of semiconductor materials, physics of p–n junctions & insulator-semiconductor interfaces, d.c. & a.c. characteristics of diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors & power devices, semiconductor device characterisation meth |
| 3E312 | ELEC | 3500 | Introduction to Control Engineering | 2 | Measurement devices. Sensors, transducers, signal processing. Display, recording & use of information. Need for feedback control. Modelling, specifications, analysis & synthesis of controllers. Classical & modern methods. Pole placement, root locus, Bode |
| 3E313 | ELEC | 3600 | Signal & Image Processing I | 2 | Signal & system models, digital signals & systems. Z-transforms. Random processes. Correlation. Spectral density. Digital spectral analysis, simple digital filtering. Representation & encoding of digital images. Colour models in image processing. Digital |
| 3E321 | COMS | 3100 | Introduction to Communications | 2 | Signals & noise. Baseband & narrowband signals. Optimal signal reception. Modulation/demodulation. Analog & digital communication. Electromagnetic environment. Major RF subsystems: receivers, transmitters, frequency synthesisers. Communication systems: sa |
| 3E331 | ELEC | 3400 | Electronic Circuits | 2 | Detailed examination of electrical & electronic circuit analysis & synthesis tools & techniques such as the Laplace transform, nodal analysis & two port network theory. Examples of use in analysis & design of amplifiers, filters, oscillators & other circu |
| 3E332 | ELEC | 3300 | Electrical Energy Conversion & Utilisation | 2 | Generation of electricity. Three phase balanced circuits; magnetic circuits. Transformers. Harmonics. Steady state analysis of dc. Synchronous & induction machines. Special motors. Modern motor control systems. Demand side management. Renewable energy sou |
| 3E341 | COMP | 3100 | Digital System Design I | 2 | Principles of analysis & synthesis of digital circuits. Structured design of combinatorial & sequential digital circuits. Digital system building blocks & their interfaces. Principles of digital system simulation & synthesis. Electrical & timing issues in |
| 3E342 | COMP | 3200 | Computer Architecture I | 2 | Performance measures for computers, instruction set design, computer arithmetic, datapath design, controller design, memory hierarchy, cache, virtual memory, interfacing processors & peripherals, parallel processors. |
| 3E381 | COMP | 3700 | Machine Learning | 2 | Learning capacities of linear systems: threshold logic, linear separability, associative memory. Hopfield neural networks, higher order neural networks, multi-layer networks, backpropagation, self-organising maps, radial basis functions, adaptive resonance |
| 3E391 | COMP | 3800 | Team Project II | 2 | Small teams of students undertake design, implementation, testing, evaluation & presentation of specific project of substantial size & complexity. Written & oral presentations are assessed. |
| 3E402 | ELEC | 4200 | Advanced VLSI Device Physics & Technology | 2 | Physics of sub-micron MOSFETs & modern bipolar junction transistors & numerical simulations of devices. Modern semiconductor fabrication processes, MOS & BJT technologies. Semiconductor measurement techniques. |
| 3E403 | COMS | 4103 | Photonic Devices & Applications | 2 | Principles of operation of modern optoelectronic devices for optical signal processing, sensing, computers & optical networks (fibre-optic & wireless). Measurement & modelling techniques for typical optoelectronic devices. System design using optoelectron |
| 3E404 | COMS | 4104 | Passive & Active Microwave Subsystems | 2 | Scattering matrix approach to analyses of microwave circuits & devices. Microwave semiconductor devices. Modelling of microwave & millimetre wave devices & systems using specialised commercial software. Design of microwave amplifiers, oscillators, filters |
| 3E412 | ELEC | 4500 | Advanced Control | 2 | Modern control techniques for use in practical control applications. Coverage of latest control methodologies. Practical design using modern industrial control equipment & systems. |
| 3E413 | ELEC | 4600 | Signal & Image Processing II | 2 | Advanced digital filtering: polyphase, multirate, all-pass, & IIR filters. Signal conditioning, analog filter types, sigma delta converters. Fast algorithms; Cooley-Tukey FFT, mixed radix formulations, Good-Thomas algorithm. Computer vision, morphological |
| 3E414 | ELEC | 4601 | Biomedical Imaging | 2 | Modern medical imaging technology. Techniques & hardware for non-ionising methods (ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) & biomagnetics) & ionising radiation methods (X-rays, CT scans, Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT), Positron Emission To |
| 3E415 | ELEC | 4602 | Magnetic Resonance Technology | 2 | Engineering of magnetic resonance instruments: clinical & non-clinical applications. Design concepts for superconducting NMR/MRI magnets. RF resonator design & advanced gradient coil design methods. Spectrometer architectures. Fast imaging requirements, s |
| 3E421 | COMS | 4100 | Advanced Digital Communications | 2 | Statistical theory of digital communication. Analog signals & images coding. Mary signalling. Data stream multiplexing/demultiplexing. Modulation & demodulation. Spread spectrum techniques. Code-division multiple access. Adaptive technology in digital com |
| 3E423 | COMS | 4101 | Wireless Communication Systems | 2 | Terrestrial mobile communications: cellular concept, mobile radios, signals generation, modulation & processing. Modern international standards for cellular radio, personal communications systems & cordless telephony. Global fixed & mobile communication s |
| 3E424 | COMS | 4102 | Optical Communication Systems | 2 | Optical fibres-operation principles & characterisation methods. Design techniques for networks based on optical fibres. Optical transmitters & receivers. Light modulation techniques; WDM & TDM methods for lightwave signal communications. Optical solutions |
| 3E431 | ELEC | 4400 | Advanced Electronic & Power Electronics Design | 2 | Power electronic semiconductors, switch mode power converters, motor drives & their control. Digital signal interfacing, including optoelectronic & transceivers. Precision analog signal conditioning. High speed & low power techniques. Practical circuit co |
| 3E432 | ELEC | 4300 | Power Systems & Reliability | 2 | Overview of power system modelling, load flow analysis, symmetrical & unsymmetrical fault calculation, economic operation, power system stability, basic methods of power system reliability. Loss of load & energy indices. |
| 3E433 | ELEC | 4301 | Power Quality & Equipment Protection | 2 | Power quality problems, sources & characteristics, transient overvoltages, voltage sag & long duration variations, harmonics, laboratory simulation, protective devices, over-voltage protection. Protection of electronic, communication & computer equipment, |
| 3E434 | ELEC | 4401 | Biomedical Instrumentation | 2 | Measurement of biological signals from transducers, signal conditioning, display & analysis. Practical work based on design, construction & validation of simple clinical measurement devices. Field trips to clinical measurement laboratories. |
| 3E441 | COMP | 4100 | Digital System Design II | 2 | Design with simulation & synthesis in VHDL environment. Design for testability. Issues in mixed analog-digital design & high speed digital design. Technology issues in implementation of digital systems in VLSI, Application Specific Integrated Circuits & F |
| 3E442 | COMP | 4200 | Computer Architecture II | 2 | High speed computer arithmetic, pipelining, multiprocessors, elements of supercomputers, storage systems, memory hierarchy, interfacing processors & peripherals, digital signal processors, networked computers. |
| 3E451 | COMP | 4300 | Embedded System Design | 2 | Design & interaction between hardware & software elements of an embedded computer system: business issues, microprocessor selection, watchdogs, design for debugging & test, memory management. Substantial design project. |
| 3E491 | COMP | 4801 | Thesis Project | 4 | Thesis on subject selected or approved by Head of Department. Detailed statements on requirements supplied. Students commencing thesis in Semester 1 enrol in COMP4801; students commencing in Semester 2 enrol in COMP4802. |
| 3E491 | COMP | 4802 | Thesis Project | 4 | Thesis on subject selected or approved by Head of Department. Detailed statements on requirements supplied. Students commencing thesis in Semester 1 enrol in COMP4801; students commencing in Semester 2 enrol in COMP4802. |
| 3E493 | ELEC | 4800 | Engineering Project Management | 2 | Project management in high-tech electrical & information technology engineering laboratories, where dealing with risk & fast changing technologies are special factors. Good working knowledge of project management for the early career engineer. Development |
| 3E494 | COMP | 4101 | Digital System Design Projects | 2 | Hardware & software design of interfaces for special-purpose application such as graphics, speech & optical devices, measurement & control devices, memory & multimedia. |
| 3E800 | ELEC | 7000 | Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering | 2 | Topics in general areas of electrical engineering such as power systems, power electronics & system management, given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by Head of Department. |
| 3E801 | COdMP | 7002 | Advanced Topics in Computer Systems Engineering | 2 | Topics in general area of computer systems engineering to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E802 | ELEC | 7100 | Advanced Topics in Electromagnetics | 2 | Topics in general areas of electromagnetics, photonics & semiconductors to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E803 | ELEC | 7200 | Advanced Topics in Photonics & Semiconductors | 2 | Topics in general areas of electromagnetics, photonics & semiconductors to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E804 | ELEC | 7300 | AdvancedTopics in Power | 2 | Topics in general areas of circuits & power to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E805 | ELEC | 7400 | Advanced Topics in Circuits | 2 | Topics in general areas of circuits & power to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E806 | ELEC | 7500 | Advanced Topics in Systems | 2 | Topics in general areas of signals & systems to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E807 | ELEC | 7600 | AdvancedTopics in Signal & Image Processing | 2 | Topics in general areas of signals & systems to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E808 | COMS | 7000 | Advanced Topics in Communications I | 2 | Topics in general areas of communications to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E809 | COMS | 7001 | Advanced Topics in Communications II | 2 | Topics in general areas of communications to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E810 | COMP | 7003 | Advanced Topics in Computer Hardware I | 2 | Topics in general areas of computer hardware to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E811 | COMP | 7004 | Advanced Topics in Computer Hardware II | 2 | Topics in general areas of computer hardware to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E812 | COMP | 7005 | Advanced Topics in Computer Software I | 2 | Topics in general areas of computer software to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |
| 3E813 | COMP | 7006 | Advanced Topics in Computer Software II | 2 | Topics in general areas of computer software to be given by visiting lecturers or staff members nominated by the Head of Department. |