3 Credit Hours, 3 Contact Hours per Week 

Fundamentals of microprocessor and computer design, processor data path, architecture, microarchitecture, complexity, metrics, and benchmark; Instruction Set Architecture, introduction to CISC and RISC, Instruction-Level Parallelism, pipelining, pipelining hazards and data dependency, branch prediction, exceptions and limits, super-pipelined vs superscalar processing; Memory hierarchy and management, Direct Memory Access, Translation Lookaside Buffer; cache, cache policies, multi-level cache, cache performance; Multicore computing, message passing, shared memory, cache-coherence protocol, memory consistency, paging, Vector Processor, Graphics Processing Unit, IP Blocks, Single Instruction Multiple Data and SoC with microprocessors. Simple Arm/RISC-V-based processor design with Verilog HDL 

Introduction to embedded systems design, software concurrency and Realtime Operating Systems, Arm Cortex M / RISC-V microcontroller architecture, registers, and I/O, memory map and instruction sets, endianness and image, Assembly language programming of Arm Cortex M / RISC-V based embedded microprocessors (jump, call-return, stack, push and pop, shift, rotate, logic instructions, port operations, serial communication, and interfacing), system clock, exceptions and interrupt handling, timing analysis of interrupts, general purpose digital interfacing, analog interfacing, timers: PWM, real-time clock, serial communication, SPI, I2C, UART protocols, Embedded Systems for Internet of Things (IoT) 

1.5 Credit Hours, 3 Contact Hours per Week 

This course consists of two parts. In the first part, students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and concepts learned in EEE 415. In the second part, students will design simple systems using the principles learned in EEE 415. 

3 Credit Hours, 3 Contact Hours per Week 

Baseband digital transmission, Limitations, Pulse shaping, Repeaters, Pulse equalization techniques, AWGN channel model, bit error rate of a baseband transmission system, channel capacity theorem. 

Digital modulation techniques, detection and demodulation techniques, digital receivers, matched filter and correlator receiver, bit error rate calculation of a digital link, digital link design. 

Error correction coding: block codes, cyclic codes, systematic and nonsystematic cyclic codes, decoding techniques. 

Wireless digital communication system, wireless channel model, non-cellular and cellular communication, cellular concept, frequency reuse techniques. 

Multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and SDMA. Introduction to 2G and 3G mobile communication systems. 

Introduction to optical fiber communication and Satellite communication. 

Local area network, OSI model, random access techniques, Aloha, slotted Aloha .

3 Credit Hours, 3 Contact Hours per Week 

Electric arcs, arc extinction mechanism, transient recovery voltage. Circuit Breakers: operating mechanisms, construction and operation of Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB), Molded Case Circuit Breaker (MCCB), Air Circuit Breaker (ACB), Air Blast Circuit Breaker (ABCB), Vacuum Circuit Breaker (VCB), Oil Circuit Breaker (OCB), Minimum Oil Circuit Breaker (MOCB) and Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) circuit breaker. High Rupturing Capacity (HRC) Fuse, Drop Out Fuse (DOF), Load Break Switches, Contactors. Bus bar layout, isolators, earthing switch; lightning arresters, CT, PT: wound type and CCVT (Capacitor Coupled Voltage Transformer), MOCT (Magneto Optical Current Transducer). 

Fundamental of protective relaying. Classical relays (electromagnetic attraction type, induction type); numerical relays. Inverse Definite Minimum Time (IDMT) relays, directional relays, differential and percentage differential relays, distance relays, pilot relays (wire pilot, carrier). 

Protection of generators, motors, transformers, transmission lines, HVDC system and feeders. 

1.5 Credit Hours, 3 Contact Hours per Week 

This course consists of two parts. In the first part, students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and concepts learned in EEE 477. In the second part, students will design simple systems using the principles learned in EEE 477. 

3 Credit Hours, 3 Contact Hours per Week 

Overview: vertically integrated vs. deregulated power system. Real-time operation: SCADA; EMS (energy management system); various data acquisition devices - RTU, IED, PMU, DFDR, WAMPAC (wide area monitoring, protection and control). 

Application functions: state estimation; short term load forecasting; unit commitment (UC); economic dispatch (ED); optimal power flow (OPF). Frequency control: generation and turbine governors, droop, frequency sensitivity of loads, ACE (area control error), AGC (Automatic Generation Control) and coordination with UC and ED; frequency collapse and emergency load shed. 

Power system security: static and dynamic; security constrained OPF. 

Electricity market operation: GenCos, ISO, DisCos, bidding, spot market, social welfare, market clearing price (MCP), locational marginal price (LMP), bilateral contracts and forward market, hedging. 

Demand side control: DMS (distribution management system), DSM (demand side management), smart grid concept. 

3 Credit Hours, 3 Contact Hours per Week 

Transmission line parameters: Inductance - inductance due to internal flux, flux linkages between points external to an isolated conductor, flux linkages of one conductor in a group, single-phase two-wire line, composite-conductor lines, three-phase lines with equilateral/ unsymmetrical spacing, double circuits, bundled conductors; 

Capacitance - electric field of a long straight conductor, potential difference between points due to a charge, capacitance of a two-wire line, capacitance of three-phase line with equilateral/ unsymmetrical spacing, effect of Earth on transmission line capacitance, bundled conductor, parallel-circuit three-phase lines. 

Sag of overhead lines, Types of insulators and electrical stress analysis. 

Underground cables: Types and construction; oil filled, gas insulated and XLPE cables; electrical characteristics - electrical stress, capacitance, charging current, insulation resistance, dielectric power factor and dielectric loss, skin effect, proximity effect; identification of fault location. 

HVDC transmission: Comparison of AC and DC transmission, HVDC transmission system components, monopolar and bipolar HVDC transmission, power converters: CSC (Current source converter) and VSC (Voltage source converter), operation and control of HVDC transmission link. 

Substations: Substation equipment, bus bar arrangements, substation earthing, neutral grounding, substation automation, GIS substation. 

Distribution systems: Primary and secondary distribution - radial, ring main, and interconnected system, distribution losses and feeder reconfiguration.