CURRICULUM

OF

ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
B.Sc. / B.E. & M.Sc. / M.E.

Revised 2008

HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION

ISLAMABAD
 CURRICULUM DIVISION, HEC

Dr. Syed Sohail H. Naqvi Executive Director

Prof. Dr. Riaz ul Haq Tariq Member (Acad)

Miss Ghayyur Fatima Deputy Director (Curri)

Mr. M. Tahir Ali Shah Assistant Director

Mr. Shafiullah Khan Assistant Director

Composed by Mr. Zulfiqar Ali, HEC Islamabad

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 Table of Contents

Introduction 6
Minutes of the Meeting Held in June 2007 7
Minutes of the Meeting Held in August 2006 9
Sub-Committees of NCRC on Electronic Engineering 12
Electronic Engineering 13
Learning objectives 13
Expected Outcomes 13
Curriculum Review Basis – Undergraduate Degrees 14
Curriculum Review Basis – Graduate Degrees 14
Undergraduate Degree Programs 15
Scheme of Studies for Undergraduate Degrees 15
Abbreviations Used 16
Course Code Methodology 17
Scheme of Studies in Relation to
Engineering Curriculum Framework 18
Undergraduate Elective Courses 20
Details of Undergraduate Core Courses 21
Details of Undergraduate Elective Courses 42
Annexures A, B, C and D 60
Recommendations 83

Graduate Degree Programs

Scheme of Studies for Graduate Degrees 84
Graduate Elective Courses 85
Details of Graduate Core Courses 86
Details of Graduate Elective Courses 89

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 PREFACE
Curriculum development is a highly organized and systematic process and
involves a number of procedures. Many of these procedures include incorporating
the results from international research studies and reforms made in other
countries. These studies and reforms are then related to the particular subject
and the position in Pakistan so that the proposed curriculum may have its roots in
the socio-economic setup in which it is to be introduced. Hence, unlike a
machine, it is not possible to accept any curriculum in its entirety. It has to be
studied thoroughly and all aspects are to be critically examined before any
component is recommended for adoption.

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Federal

Supervision of Curricula Textbooks and Maintenance of Standards of Education
Act 1976, the Federal Government vide notification No. D773/76-JEA (cur.), dated
December 4th 1976, appointed the University Grants Commission as the
P P

competent authority to look after the curriculum revision work beyond class XII at
the bachelor level and onwards to all degrees, certificates and diplomas awarded
by degree colleges, universities and other institutions of higher education.

In pursuance of the above decisions and directives, the Higher Education

Commission (HEC) is continually performing curriculum revision in collaboration
with universities. According to the decision of the special meeting of Vice-
Chancellor’s Committee, the curriculum of a subject must be reviewed after every
3 years.

A committee of experts comprising of conveners from the National Curriculum

Revision of HEC in Basic and Applied Social Sciences and Engineering
disciplines met in April 2007 and developed a unified template to standardize
degree programs in the country to bring the national curriculum at par with
international standards and to fulfill the needs of the local industries. It also aimed
to give a basic and broad-based knowledge to the students to ensure the quality
of education. The new BS degree shall be of 4-year duration and will require the
completion of 130-136 credit hours. The engineering degree will devote 65-70% of
the curriculum towards engineering courses and 35-30% to non-Engineering
courses.

For the purpose of curriculum revision, various committees are constituted at the
national level comprising of senior teachers nominated by universities, degree
awarding institutions, R&D organizations and respective accreditation councils.
The National Curriculum Revision Committee on Electronic Engineering, in a
special meeting held on February 2008 at Islamabad in continuation of its earlier
meetings held on June 19-20, 2007 at the HEC Regional Center, Karachi, revised
the curriculum in the light of the unified template. The final draft prepared by the
National Curriculum Revision Special Committee, duly approved by the competent
authority, is being circulated for implementation in the concerned institutions.

DR.RIAZ-UL-HAQ TARIQ
Member Academics
April 2008

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 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

STAGE-I STAGE-II STAGE-III STAGE-IV

CURRICULUM CURRICULUM IN FINAL STAGE FOLLOW UP

UNDER DRAFT STAGE
CONSIDERATION

COLLECTION OF
EXP
NOMINATION APPRAISAL OF 1STP P
PREPARATION QUESTIONNAIRE
UNI, R&D, DRAFT BY EXP OF FINAL
INDUSTRY & CURRICULUM
COUNCILS

CONS. OF NCRC. FINALIZATION OF COMMENTS

DRAFT BY NCRC
PRINTING OF
CURRICULUM

PREPARARTION OF REVIEW
DRAFT BY NCRC
IMPLEMENTATION
OF CURRICULUM

Abbreviations Used: ORIENTATION BACK TO

COURSES BY STAGE-I
NCRC. National Curriculum Revision Committee LI, HEC
VCC. Vice-Chancellor’s Committee
EXP. Experts
COL. Colleges
UNI. Universities
PREP. Preparation
REC. Recommendations
LI Learning Innovation
R&D Research & Development Organization
HEC Higher Education Commission

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 Introduction
The role of science and engineering in the economic development of
a nation and the prosperity of its people is very important and it is
imperative for a nation to train its workforce in contemporary science and
engineering. At the same time, knowledge is expanding rapidly and new
courses and disciplines are emerging at a fast pace. In the light of this
situation, it is essential to periodically review and update the science and
engineering curricula to stay at par with the international standards. The
Higher Education Commission (HEC) ensures that the curricula are
reviewed and updated periodically through National Curriculum Revision
Committees.

The National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) on Electronic

Engineering held two meetings in 2006 to revise the electronic engineering
curriculum that was prepared in 2003. In April 2007, the Higher Education
Commission approved the new engineering curriculum framework. The
National Curriculum Revision Committee held a meeting in June 2007 to
bring the electronic engineering curriculum in line with the new framework.
The committee held its final meeting in February 2008 at the Higher
Education Commission in Islamabad for a final review and approval of the
curriculum. The committee, after a thorough review, approved the
curriculum in the meeting. The final meeting was chaired by Prof. Dr. Sohail
H. Naqvi, Executive Director HEC.

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 Minutes of the Meeting Held in June 2007
A meeting of the National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) on
Electronic Engineering took place on June 19 and 20, 2007, at the Regional
Centre of the Higher Education Commission in Karachi. The objective of the
meeting was to revise the electronic engineering curriculum to bring it in line
with the new engineering curriculum framework approved by HEC in April
2007.

The following members of the committee were present in the

meeting:

1. Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan Convener

HEC Foreign Faculty Member
NWFP University of Engineering and Technology
Peshawar

2. Prof. Dr. Nasir-ud-Din Gohar Secretary

Head of Department, Information Systems
Engineering NUST Institute of Information
Technology
166-A, St. 9, Chaklala Scheme III
Rawalpindi

3. Prof. Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry Member

Chairman, Department of Electronic Engineering
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology
Jamshoro

4. Prof. Dr. Abdul Qadir Member

Department of Electronic Engineering
NED University of Engineering and Technology
Karachi

5. Prof. Dr. Najeeb Siddiqui Member

Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
Main University Road
Karachi

6. Prof. Engr. Hyder Ali Khan Member

Consultant, Faculty of Engineering
International Islamic University
Islamabad

7. Prof. Mueenuddin Memon Member

Department of Electronic Engineering
Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering Science
and Technology
Nawabshah

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8. Dr. Muhammad Inayatullah Babar Member
Department of Electrical Engineering
NWFP University of Engineering and Technology
Peshawar
9. Engr. Muhammad Aamir Member
Assistant Professor
Department of Electronic Engineering
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
Karachi

The meeting started with the recitation from the Holy Quran. Ms.
Ghayyur Fatima, Deputy Director (Curriculum), HEC, Islamabad, welcomed
the participants on behalf of the Chairman HEC and briefed the participants
on the policies of HEC and PEC (Pakistan Engineering Council) about the
revision of the engineering curricula in the light of the new framework. The
Convener, Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan, who is also a member of the HEC
Committee on Engineering Curriculum Development, briefed the curriculum
revision committee on the need to have a new framework for the
engineering curricula. He said that the objective of the new framework was
to bring the engineering programs at par with the international standards
and meet the needs of the industry. He further said that the key
considerations in the engineering education should be to give the students
a strong engineering foundation, improve their communication skills,
develop and promote problem-solving and self-learning skills, and expose
the students to the social sciences. The committee, after in-depth
discussions, revised the electronic engineering curriculum and brought it in
line with the new framework.

At the end of the meeting, Ms. Ghayyur Fatima thanked all members
of the committee for their efforts in the revision of the electronic engineering
curriculum. The Convener, Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan, closed the meeting
with thanks on behalf of all committee members to HEC for its efforts on the
advancement of higher education. He thanked all members of the
committee for their dedication and hard work in the revision of the
curriculum. He requested the members of the committee to convey his
thanks to their respective institutions for support of this task of national
importance. Finally, he thanked Ms. Ghayyur Fatima and the staff of the
HEC Regional Centre Karachi for their dedicated support of the committee
in conducting its business.

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 Minutes of the Meeting Held in August 2006
A meeting of the National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) on
Electronic Engineering took place from August 21 to 23, 2006, at the
Regional Centre of the Higher Education Commission in Lahore. The
objective of the meeting was to finalize the curriculum prepared in the first
meeting of the committee that was held in June 2006.

The following members of the committee were present in the

meeting:

1. Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan Convener

HEC Foreign Faculty Member
NWFP University of Engineering and Technology
Peshawar
2. Prof. Dr. Nasir-ud-Din Gohar Secretary
Head of Department, Information Systems
Engineering NUST Institute of Information
Technology
166-A, St. 9, Chaklala Scheme III
Rawalpindi
3. Prof. Dr. Talat Altaf Member
Department of Electrical Engineering
NED University of Engineering and Technology
Karachi
4. Prof. Dr. Tahir Izhar Member
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology
Lahore
5. Prof. Dr. Aftab Memon Member
Department of Electronic Engineering
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology
Jamshoro
6. Prof. Dr. M. Ijaz Sandhu Member
Dean, University of South Asia
47-Tufail Road
Lahore
7. Prof. Dr. Najeeb Siddiqui Member
Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
Main University Road
Karachi
8. Prof. Engr. Hyder Ali Khan Member
Principal, Dawood College of Engineering and
Technology
Karachi
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9. Prof. Mueenuddin Memon Member
Department of Electronic Engineering
Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering Science
and Technology
Nawabshah
10 Dr. M. Tahir Khaleeq Member
. Deputy Chief Scientist
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
P.O. Box 2191, Islamabad
11 Dr. Muhammad Inayatullah Babar Member
. Department of Electrical Engineering
NWFP University of Engineering and Technology
Peshawar
12 Dr. Nisar Ahmed Member
. Department of Electronics
GIK Institute of Engineering Science and
Technology
Topi, District Swabi
13 Engr. Muhammad Aamir Member
. Assistant Professor
Department of Electronic Engineering
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
Karachi
14 Engr. Rifat Mahmood Member
. Assistant Professor
Electronic and Computer Engineering Department
NFC Institute of Engineering and Technological
Training
Khanewal Road
Multan

The meeting started with the recitation from the Holy Quran. Mr.
Bashir Ahmed, Deputy Director, HEC Regional Centre, Lahore, welcomed
the participants of the meeting on behalf of the Chairman HEC. Before
taking up the regular agenda, the committee members sympathized with
Prof. Hyder Ali Khan on the sad event of his mother’s death and prayed for
his mother. Mr. Muhammad Tahir Ali Shah, Assistant Director (Curriculum),
HEC, Islamabad, briefed the participants on the policies of HEC and PEC
(Pakistan Engineering Council) in relation to the review, revision, and
development of curricula. He thanked the members of the committee for
their efforts in the preparation of the curriculum. He also thanked the
Convener, Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan, for taking personal interest in the
development of the curriculum and for excellent coordination of the efforts
of the committee.

At the beginning of the regular agenda, the Convener, Prof. Dr.

Iftikhar A. Khan, discussed the curriculum that the committee members had
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prepared in the first meeting and thanked the members for providing
additional information for the curriculum after the first meeting. He said that
one of the tasks of the committee members in the second meeting was to
include the course outlines and book recommendations for the elective
courses in the graduate curriculum; in the first meeting, the committee
members had included only the titles of the graduate elective courses. Prof.
Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan said that the presence of the top electronic engineering
experts of the country in the meeting provided a unique opportunity to add
the course outlines and book recommendations for the graduate elective
courses and that this additional information would significantly enhance the
usefulness of the curriculum.
The members of the committee who were unable to attend the first
meeting were given time to share their thoughts on the draft curriculum
prepared in the first meeting; copies of the draft curriculum had been
distributed to all members of the committee before the second meeting.
This activity was followed by discussion from all members of the committee
on the course and lab outlines and book recommendations. The committee
members approved the curriculum after in-depth discussions and extensive
work on all aspects of the curriculum. The highlights of the curriculum
approved by the committee members include the following:
1. Course outlines have been thoroughly reviewed and revised.
2. Course outlines and book recommendations have been added for the
graduate elective courses.
3. Lab outlines have been added.
4. Complete information on the recommended books, including the
authors, book titles, editions, publication years, publishers, and
ISBNs, has been provided.
5. The latest books have been recommended for the courses; books
from the 1980s and 1990s that are particularly good have also been
recommended for some courses.
6. More core courses of electronic engineering have been added and
the number of elective courses has been reduced in the
undergraduate curriculum.
At the end of the meeting, Mr. Tahir Ali Shah once again thanked the
members of the committee and told them that the committee would remain
in effect until a new committee was formed to revise the curriculum.

The Convener, Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan, closed the meeting with thanks
on behalf of all committee members to HEC for its efforts on the
advancement of higher education and for providing a platform at the
national level to bring together the experts from various institutions to
develop the electronic engineering curriculum. He thanked all members of
the committee for their dedication, hard work, and excellent teamwork in the
preparation of the revised curriculum. He requested the members of the
committee to convey his thanks to their respective institutions for support of
this task of national importance. Finally, he thanked Mr. Tahir Ali Shah and
the staff of the HEC Regional Centre, Lahore, for their dedicated support of
the committee in conducting its business.

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 Sub-Committees of NCRC on Electronic Engineering
The National Curriculum Revision Committee on Electronic
Engineering formed the following sub-committees in its first meeting that
took place in July 2006 to prepare the draft of the revised curriculum:

Undergraduate Curriculum Sub-Committees

1. Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan
Prof. Dr. Tahir Izhar
Prof. Dr. Najeeb Siddiqui
Applied Physics, Basic Electrical Engineering, Electrical Machines,
Integrated Electronics, Power Electronics, Industrial Electronics
2. Prof. Dr. Aftab A. Memon
Engr. Muhammad Aamir
Basic Electronic Engineering, Electronic Circuit Design, Circuit
Analysis, Microelectronic Technology, Opto Electronics, VLSI Design,
Navigational Aids

3. Dr. M. Tahir Khaleeq

Engr. Rifat Mahmood

Computer-Aided Engineering Design, Instrumentation and

Measurements, Control Systems, Digital Instrumentation Systems,
Introduction to Robotics, Digital Control Systems, Introduction to
Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Simulation, Artificial Intelligence,
Biomedical Instrumentation, Mechatronics Applications
4. Prof. Dr. Talat Altaf
Prof. Dr. Nasir-ud-Din Gohar
Dr. Muhammad Inayatullah Babar
Introduction to Computers, Data Structures and Programming, Digital
Logic Design, Electromagnetic Field Theory, Microprocessors and
Microcontrollers, Signals and Systems, Analog and Digital
Communications, Digital Signal Processing, FPGA-Based System
Design, Laser and Fiber Optics, Optical Communication Systems,
Filter Design, Digital Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and
Matching, Digital System Design, Operating System Concepts,
Computer Communication Networks, Advanced Object-Oriented
Programming, Embedded System Design

Graduate Curriculum Sub-Committee

Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Khan
Prof. Dr. Tahir Izhar
Prof. Dr. Aftab A. Memon
Prof. Dr. Nasir-ud-Din Gohar
Dr. M. Tahir Khaleeq
Dr. Muhammad Inayatullah Babar
Dr. Nisar Ahmed

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 Electronic Engineering
Electronic Engineering is an increasingly important engineering
discipline that significantly affects the other disciplines of engineering. It is
in great demand in both developed and developing nations. Continual
advances in electronic engineering in the areas of materials, processes,
devices, and circuits have been leading to rapid advances in the existing
applications of engineering as well as in the emergence of new
applications. To harness the full potential of electronic engineering
developments and further advance the state of electronic technology, it is
important to have strong programs to educate and train individuals in this
key discipline of engineering.

Learning Objectives
The electronic engineering curriculum has been developed with the
following objectives in mind:
1. Teach students fundamental and advanced concepts of electronic
engineering with particular emphasis on the use of these concepts
to further advance the state of electronic technology and meet the
needs of industry.
2. Place particular emphasis on communication, problem-solving,
and self-study skills.
3. Place particular emphasis on hands-on experience.
4. Train students in effective leadership and decision-making skills.
5. Teach students principles that make them good and responsible
engineers and citizens through courses in professional and social
ethics, engineering management, and engineering economics.

Expected Outcomes
The proposed curriculum has been designed to produce engineers
with the following outcomes:

• The students will be able to analyze and design electronic circuits

and systems to meet the current needs of the industry and to
commensurate with the future requirements of the country.
• The students will be prepared to be integrated with the policies and
planning of the relevant sectors of the government.
• The students will have acquired the knowledge for proper application
of electronic devices and systems.
• The students will have acquired the necessary skills to solve
problems related to electronic engineering.
• The students will have acquired the knowledge to pursue higher
education.

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 • The students will become familiar with the current trends and
advanced techniques currently practiced by the electronic engineers.
• The students will have developed well-balanced personalities with
strong leadership and entrepreneurial skills and awareness to socio-
economic issues.
• The students will have acquired effective communication skills.

Curriculum Review Basis – Undergraduate Degrees

The curriculum for the undergraduate engineering degree program is
based on the following considerations:

Duration
U

Total duration: Four (4) calendar years

Total number of semesters: Eight (8)
Duration of a semester: > Sixteen (16) weeks of instruction
> One (1) to two (2) weeks for
examinations

Credit Hours
U

Total number of credit hours: 130 to 136

Contact hours: > One (1) contact hour per week for
each credit hour of instruction
> Three (3) contact hours per week for
each credit hour of laboratory work
Course Division
U

Ratio of Engineering to Non-Engineering courses: (65–70) : (30–35)

Curriculum Review Basis – Graduate Degrees

The curriculum for the graduate engineering degree program is
based on the following considerations:

Duration
U

Total duration: Two (2) calendar years

Total number of semesters: Four (4)
Duration of a semester: > Sixteen (16) weeks of instruction
> One (1) to two (2) weeks for
examinations

Credit Hours
U

Total number of credit hours: > 30 (24 Credit hours of coursework

and 6 credit hours of thesis)
Contact hours: > One (1) contact hour per week for
each credit hour of instruction

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 Scheme of Studies for Undergraduate Degrees
B.Sc. / B.E.
Code Course Title Lec1 P P Lab1 P P CR1 P P

FIRST YEAR
BH-100 Functional English 3 0 3
BH-110 Calculus and Analytical Geometry 3 0 3
BH-120 Applied Physics 3 1 4
CS-100 Introduction to Computers 2 1 3
EE-100 Basic Electronic Engineering 3 1 4
Total 14 3 17

Code Course Title Lec Lab CR

BH-101 Communication Skills 3 0 3
BH-130 Pakistan Studies 2 0 2
BH-111 Linear Algebra 3 0 3
BH-140 Natural Sciences Elective-I2
P P 3 0 3
CS-101 Computer Programming 2 1 3
EE-110 Circuit Analysis-I 3 1 4
Total 16 2 18
First Year Credit Hours 30 5 35

Code Course Title Lec Lab CR

SECOND YEAR
BH-212 Differential Equations 3 0 3
CS-220 Computer-Aided Engineering Design 0 1 1
EE-201 Electronic Circuit Design 3 1 4
EE-211 Circuit Analysis-II 3 1 4
EE-230 Digital Logic Design 3 1 4
Total 12 4 16

BH-213 Complex Variables and Transforms 3 0 3

EE-240 Probability and Random Variables 3 0 3
EE-250 Electrical Machines 3 1 4
EE-260 Electromagnetic Field Theory 3 0 3
Microprocessors and
EE-231 3 1 4
Microcontrollers
Total 15 2 17
Second Year Credit Hours 27 6 33

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 Code Course Title Lec Lab CR
THIRD YEAR
Technical Report Writing and
BH-302 3 0 3
Presentation Skills
BH-350 Social Sciences-I3 P P 3 0 3
EE-302 Integrated Electronics 3 1 4
EE-341 Signal Processing 3 1 4
EE-370 Instrumentation and Measurements 3 1 4
Total 15 3 18

BH-331 Islamic Studies 2 0 2

BH-351 Social Sciences-II3 P P 3 0 3
BH-341 Natural Sciences Elective-II4 P P 3 0 3
EE-380 Analog and Digital Communications (IDEE-I) 3 1 4
EE-390 Control Systems 3 1 4
Total 14 2 16
Third Year Credit Hours 29 5 34

Code Course Title Lec Lab CR

FOURTH YEAR
MS-400 Engineering Management 3 0 3
EE/CS-4xx Elective I (Depth I) 3 0 3
EE/CS-4xx Elective II (Depth II) 3 0/1 3/4
XX-4xx IDEE-II5
P P 3 0/1 ¾
EE-499A Electronic Engineering Project 0 3 3
Total 12 3/5 15/17

MS-401 Professional and Social Ethics 3 0 3

EE/CS-4xx Elective III (Depth III) 3 1 4
EE/CS-4xx Elective IV (Depth IV) 3 0 3
EE-499B Electronic Engineering Project 0 3 3
See Note6 P P

Total 9 4 13
Final Year Credit Hours 21 7/9 28/30
Total Program Credit Hours 107 23/25 130/1326 P P

1. Lec: Lecture credit hours, Lab: Lab credit hours, CR: Total credit hours
2. Numerical Analysis/Physics II / Chemistry / Biology
3. Courses such as, but not limited to, Sociology, Psychology, Society and
Culture, Introduction Anthropology, and Fine Arts
4. Engineering Economics / Biomedical
5. IDEE: Inter-Disciplinary Engineering Elective
6. All universities are encouraged to add a 3 to 4 credit-hour engineering
course.

Abbreviations Used:
BH: Basic Sciences and Humanities
CS: Computer Science
EE: Electronic Engineering
MS: Management Sciences
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Course Code Methodology:
An educational institution may use the course code methodology
used in this document or use its own course code methodology. The course
code methodology used in this document is as follows:

• The first two alphabets in a course code indicate the discipline, for
example, CS for Computer Science and EE for Electronic
Engineering.
• The first digit in the course code indicates the academic year during
which the course is offered, for example, 2 in “EE-201” indicates that
this course is offered during the second academic year.
• The second digit in the course code indicates the area in a given
discipline, for example, the number 0 in “EE-201 Electronic Circuit
Design” refers to the first area in electronic engineering. Numbers
from 0 to 9 are used to allow up to ten areas in each discipline.
• The third digit of the course code indicates the number of the course
in a given area of a discipline, for example, the number 1 in “EE-201
Electronic Circuit Design” indicates that Electronic Circuit Design is
the second course in electronic engineering; the first course in this
area is Basic Electronic Engineering (EE-100). Again, numbers from
0 to 9 are used to allow up to ten courses in each area of a discipline.
• The course codes for the Electronic Engineering Project are EE-499A
and EE-499B.

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Scheme of Studies for Undergraduate Degrees in Relation to
Curriculum Framework
B.Sc. / B.E.
Code Course Title Lec Lab CR
FIRST YEAR
Functional English
BH-100 3 0 3
(English-I)
BH-110 Calculus and Analytical Geometry (Math-I) 3 0 3
BH-120 Applied Physics 3 1 4
Introduction to Computers
CS-100 2 1 3
(Computing/Fundamentals)
Basic Electronic Engineering (Engineering
EE-100 3 1 4
Fundamentals)
Total 14 3 17

Code Course Title Lec Lab CR

BH-101 Communication Skills (English-II) 3 0 3
BH-130 Pakistan Studies 2 0 2
BH-111 Linear Algebra (Math-II) 3 0 3
BH-140 Natural Sciences Elective-I 3 0 3
Computer Programming
CS-101 2 1 3
(Computing/Programming)
Circuit Analysis-I
EE-110 3 1 4
(Engineering Foundation-I)
Total 16 2 18
First Year Credit Hours 30 5 35

Code Course Title Lec Lab CR

SECOND YEAR
Differential Equations
BH-212 3 0 3
(Math-III)
Computer-Aided Engineering Design
CS-220 0 1 1
(Computing/Design)
Electronic Circuit Design (Engineering
EE-201 3 1 4
Foundation-II)
EE-211 Circuit Analysis-II (Engineering Foundation-III) 3 1 4
EE-230 Digital Logic Design (Engineering Foundation-IV) 3 1 4
Total 12 4 16

BH-213 Complex Variables and Transforms (Math-IV) 3 0 3

EE-240 Probability and Random Variables 3 0 3
Electrical Machines
EE-250 3 1 4
(Breadth-I)
Electromagnetic Field Theory (Engineering
EE-260 3 0 3
Foundation-V)
Microprocessors and
EE-231 3 1 4
Microcontrollers (Breadth-II)
Total 15 2 17
Second Year Credit Hours 27 6 33

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 Code Course Title Lec Lab CR
THIRD YEAR
Technical Report Writing and
BH-302 3 0 3
Presentation Skills
BH-350 Social Sciences-I 3 0 3
EE-302 Integrated Electronics (Breadth-III) 3 1 4
Signal Processing
EE-341 3 1 4
(Breadth-IV)
EE-370 Instrumentation and Measurements (Breadth-V) 3 1 4
Total 15 3 18

BH-331 Islamic Studies 2 0 2

BH-351 Social Sciences-II 3 P P 3 0 3
BH-341 Natural Sciences Elective-II 3 0 3
Analog and Digital Communications
EE-380 3 1 4
(IDEE-I)
Control Systems
EE-390 3 1 4
(Breadth-VI)
Total 14 2 16
Third Year Credit Hours 29 5 34

Code Course Title Lec Lab CR

FOURTH YEAR
MS-400 Engineering Management 3 0 3
EE/CS-4xx Elective I (Depth I) 3 0 3
EE/CS-4xx Elective II (Depth II) 3 0/1 3/4
XX-4xx IDEE-II 3 0/1 3/4
EE-499A Electronic Engineering Project 0 3 3
Total 12 3/5 15/17

MS-401 Professional and Social Ethics 3 0 3

EE/CS-4xx Elective III (Depth III) 3 1 4
EE/CS-4xx Elective IV (Depth IV) 3 0 3
EE-499B Electronic Engineering Project 0 3 3
See Note 1
P P

Total 9 4 13
Final Year Credit Hours 21 7/9 28/30
Total Program Credit Hours 107 23/25 130 /132 1 P P

1. All universities are encouraged to add a 3 to 4 credit-hour engineering course.

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 Undergraduate Elective Courses
*
• BH-XXX Numerical Methods (3+0) P P

• MS-XXX Engineering Economics (3+0)

• EE-4XX Microelectronic Technology (3+1)
• EE-4XX Power Electronics (3+1)
• EE-4XX Opto Electronics (3+1)
• EE-4XX Digital Instrumentation Systems (3+1)
• EE-4XX Industrial Electronics (3+1)
• CS-4XX Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (3+1)
• EE-4XX VLSI Design (3+1)
• EE-4XX FPGA-Based System Design (3+1)
• EE-4XX Laser and Fiber Optics (3+0)
• EE-4XX Mobile Communications (3+0)
• EE-4XX Satellite Communications (3+0)
• EE-4XX Microwave Engineering (3+1)
• EE-4XX Advanced Communication Systems (3+0)
• EE-4XX Optical Communication Systems (3+0)
• EE-4XX Wave Propagation and Antennas (3+1)
• EE-4XX Navigational Aids (3+1)
• EE-4XX Filter Design (3+1)
• EE/CS-4XX Digital Image Processing (3+0)
• EE/CS-4XX Pattern Recognition and Matching (3+0)
• EE-4XX Introduction to Robotics (3+1)
• EE-4XX Digital Control Systems (3+1)
• EE/CS-4XX Introduction to Neural Networks (3+0)
• EE/CS-4XX Fuzzy Logic and Simulation (3+0)
• EE-4XX Digital System Design (3+1)
• EE-4XX Operating System Concepts (3+0)
• EE/CS-4XX Computer Communication Networks (3+1)
• EE/CS-4XX Artificial Intelligence (3+1)
• EE-4XX Embedded System Design (3+0)
• EE-4XX Biomedical Instrumentation (3+1)
• EE-4XX Mechatronics Applications (3+0)
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P P – (3 Credit-hour theory + 0 credit-hour lab)

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 Details of Undergraduate Core Courses
Semester I
BH-100 Functional English 3+0
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Humanities / English
Course Outline:
Annex “A”

BH-110 Calculus and Analytical Geometry 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Math
Objective: Teach the concepts of calculus and analytic geometry and the
applications of these concepts to the solution of engineering problems.
Course Outline:
Introduction to functions, introduction to limit, derivatives and their
applications, integral calculus with applications, vector algebra, vector
calculus, introduction to analytical geometry, straight line in R3, planes,
cylindrical and spherical coordinates, surfaces, cylinders and cones,
spheres, spherical trigonometry.
Recommended Books:
• George B. Thomas and Ross L. Finney, “Calculus and Analytic
Geometry,” Ninth Edition, 1995, Addison-Wesley, ISBN:
0201531747.
• George F. Simmons, “Calculus with Analytic Geometry,” Second
T

Edition, 1996, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070576424.

T

• Gerald B. Folland, “Advanced Calculus,” First Edition, First Edition,

2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130652652.
• Monty J. Strauss, Gerald L. Bradley and Karl J. Smith, “Calculus,”
2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130918717.

BH-120 Applied Physics 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Physics
Objective: Teach the fundamentals of classical physics including the
electrostatics, electrodynamics, solid-state physics, optics, and
thermodynamics in relation to the cooling of electronics.
Course Outline:
Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, electric field and potential, capacitance,
dielectrics. Electrodynamics: Magnetic field and force, sources of
magnetic field, electromagnetic induction, inductance. Solid-state
physics: Crystal lattices, unit cells, energy bands, allowed and
forbidden states, conductors, semiconductors, insulators.
Semiconductors: Composition, purity, n- and p-type materials, carrier
properties and distribution. Carrier action: Diffusion, drift, generation,
recombination. Conductivity, mobility, p-n junction diode, diode curve,
forward-biased diode, reverse-biased diode, bipolar junction transistor
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 and its biasing, MOSFET and its biasing, Hall effect. Optics: Optical
absorption, photo-luminescence, photoconductivity, photoelectric
effect, lasers, superconductivity. Heat and Thermodynamics in relation
to cooling of electronics.
Lab Outline:
Electric fields, Gauss' law, electric potential, capacitance and
T

dielectrics, current and resistance, magnetic fields, sources of

magnetic field, Faraday's law, inductance, direct current circuits,
alternating current circuits, diode characteristics, transistor
T T T

characteristics nature of light, geometric optics, laws of geometric

T

optics, interference of light waves, diffraction, polarization. T

Recommended Books:
• David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and Jearl Walker, “Fundamentals
T

of Physics,” Seventh Edition, 2005, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:

T

0471465097.
• Arthur Beiser, “Schaum's Outline of Applied Physics,” Fourth
T T

Edition, 2004, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0071426116.

T T

CS-100 Introduction to Computers 2+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Computing / Fundamentals
Objective: Teach the structure, operation, programming, and
applications of computers.
Course Outline:
History, classification, basic components, CPU, memory, peripheral
devices, storage media and devices, physical and logical storage,
data organization, file storage, programs and software, system
software, application software, operating systems, programming
languages, compilation and interpretation, problem specification,
algorithms, flow chart, pseudo code, basic programming techniques,
data types and declaration, header file and linkage, variables and
constants, arrays, input/output, termination, remark, control structures,
branching, conditional structures, repetition and loops, basic library
functions, social impact of computer age, computers in office, industry
and education.
Lab Outline:
Computation of number system, implementation of Boolean functions,
basic machines organization including motherboard, memory, I/O
cards, networking devices, use of flow charts, introduction to office
tools, overview of different browsers including open-source browsers,
introduction to various operating systems, coding, executing and
debugging simple programs, implementation of simple control
structures, implementation of simple functions, implementation of
different function styles.
Recommended Books:
• Brian Williams and Stacey Sawyer, T “Using
T Information
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 Technology,” Seventh Edition, 2007, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:
T T T T

0072260718.
• William Stallings, “Computer Organization and Architecture:
Designing for Performance,” Seventh Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0131856448.

EE-100 Basic Electronic Engineering 3+1

Prerequisite: BH-120 Applied Physics
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Engineering Foundation / Engineering
Fundamentals
Objective: Introduce the basic concepts of electronics and electronic
devices including diodes, transistors, transistor biasing, rectifiers, and
amplifiers.
Course Outline:
Introduction to electronics; diodes: pn junction diode, forward and
T

reverse characteristics of a diode, ideal diode, practical diode,

equivalent circuit of a diode, current equation of a diode, diode as a
switch. Types of diodes: Schottky diode, zener diode, tunnel diode,
varactor diode, LED, laser diode. Applications of diodes: Half- and full-
wave rectifiers, clipper and clamper circuits, voltage multipliers.
Bipolar junction transistor: Operation, npn and pnp transistors,
T

unbiased transistor, DC biasing of a transistor, static characteristics,

DC circuit analysis, load line, operating point and bias stabilization.
T T

Transistor as an amplifier. Transistor biasing configurations: Common

emitter, common base, common collector. Field-effect transistor. FET
T

biasing techniques: Common drain, common source and common

gate, fixed bias and self bias configurations, voltage divider biasing.
T

Universal JFET bias curve. Darlington pair.

Lab Outline:
The emphasis is first on understanding the characteristics of basic
circuits that use resistors, capacitors, diodes, bipolar junction
transistors and field-effect transistors. The students then use this
understanding to design and construct more complex circuits such as
rectifiers, amplifiers and power supplies.
Recommended Books:
• Robert Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky, “Electronic Devices and
Circuit Theory,” Ninth Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0131189050.
• Robert Paynter, “Introductory Electronic Devices and Circuits:
Electron Flow Version,” Seventh Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0131716395.

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 Semester II
BH-101 Communication Skills 3+0
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Humanities / English
Course Outline:
Annex “A”

BH-130 Pakistan Studies 2+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Humanities / Culture
Course Outline:
Annex “B”

BH-111 Linear Algebra 3+0

Prerequisite: BH-110 Calculus and Analytical Geometry
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Math
Objective: Introduce the matrix theory and the use of matrices in the
solution of engineering problems.
Course Outline:
Algebra of matrices; inverse of a matrix; Gauss-Jordan method for the
solution of a system of linear algebraic equations; vectors in the plane
and in three dimensions; vector spaces; subspaces; span and linear
independence; basis and dimension; homogeneous systems;
coordinates and isomorphism; rank of a matrix; determinant; inverse of a
matrix; applications of determinants; determinants from a computational
point of view; properties of determinants; eigenvalues and eigenvectors;
systems of linear differential equations; diagonalization; Hermitian
matrices; singular value decomposition; quadratic forms; positive definite
matrices; non-negative matrices; floating-point numbers; Gaussian
elimination; pivoting strategies; matrix norms and condition numbers;
orthogonal transformations; eigenvalue problem; least square problems.
Recommended Books:
• Bernard Kolman and David Hill, “Elementary Linear Algebra,” Eighth
Edition, 2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130457876.
• Kenneth Hardy, “Linear Algebra for Engineers and Scientists Using
Matlab,” First Edition, 2005, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0139067280.
• Stephen Goode, “Differential Equations and Linear Algebra,”
Second Edition, 2000, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 013263757X.

BH-140 Natural Sciences Elective-I 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Electives

Numerical Analysis / Physics-II / Chemistry / Biology / any other

universities may recommend any course according to their facility.

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 CS-101 Computer Programming 2+1
Prerequisite: CS-100 Introduction to Computers
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Computing / Programming
Objective: Teach the basic concepts of data structure and its use in
computer programs.
Course Outline:
Fundamental data structures, data types, abstract data types, user
defined data types, algorithms and their complexity, time-space trade
off, arrays, records and pointers, matrices, linked lists, circular lists,
two way lists, sequential (array) and linked implementation of stacks
and queues, polish notation, recursion, towers of Hanoi, recursive
implementation of stacks and queues, priority queues, tree, binary
tree, binary search tree, traversals, threaded trees, heap, general
trees, graphs, depth-first/breadth first traversal, adjacency matrix,
shortest distance algorithms, sorting (insertion sort, selection sort,
merge sort, radix sort), hashing, searching (linear search, binary
search, depth first/breadth first search).
Lab Outline:
Implementation using simple programs for basic arrays, single-
dimensional arrays, two-dimensional arrays, algorithm
implementations, implementation of simple data structures like array,
implementation of stacks, queues and priority queues, linked list,
doubly linked list, circular linked list, tree searching algorithms, hash
algorithms implementation, simple sorting techniques including bubble
sorting and selection sorting, advanced searching schemes including
binary searching and quick searching.
Recommended Books:
• Robert Lafore, “Data Structures and Algorithms in Java,” Second
Edition, 2003, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0672324539.
• Robert Lafore, “Object-Oriented Programming in C++,” Fourth
Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0672323087.

EE-110 Circuit Analysis-I 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Engineering Foundation / Engineering
Foundation-I
Objective: Teach the methods used in the analysis of electrical
circuits.
Course Outline:
Physical foundation of electric circuits; electric current; electromotive
T T

force; resistance; conventional current; Ohm’s law; work, energy, and

power; conductance; efficiency; real and ideal sources; resistiveT

networks; Kirchoff’s voltage and current laws; voltage divider rule;

T

current divider rule; series- and parallel-connected sources; voltage

and current source conversions; mesh analysis; nodal analysis;
network theorems (Superposition, Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and
T

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 Maximum Power Transfer) with independent and dependent sources; T

capacitance and capacitors; inductance and inductors;

electromagnetic induction; alternating current fundamentals; phasor
T

representation of alternating current; AC voltage and current

relationships for pure resistance; inductive and capacitive circuits;
wye-delta transformations.
T T T

Lab Outline:
Study of DC series circuits, parallel circuits, Kirchoff’s current and
voltage laws, current divider theorem, voltage divider theorem,
network theorems, simple RLC circuits, transformer operation, and
simulation of basic electrical circuits using PSPICE.
Recommended Book:
• William H. Hayt, Jack Kemmerly and Steven M. Durbin,
T T T T T T

“Engineering Circuit Analysis,” Seventh Edition, 2006, McGraw-

T T T

Hill, ISBN: 0073263184.

• J. David Irwin and Robert M. Nelms, “Basic Engineering Circuit
Analysis,” Eighth Edition, 2006, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:
0470083093.
• Robert L. Boylestad, “Introductory Circuit Analysis,” Eleventh
Edition, 2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131730444.

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BH-212 Differential Equations 3+0
Prerequisite: BH-110 Calculus and Analytical Geometry
BH-111 Linear Algebra
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Math
Objective: Introduce differential equations and teach methods to solve
these equations.
Course Outline:
Formulation, order, degree, and linearity of a differential equation;
complementary and particular solutions; initial- and boundary-value
problems; solution of ordinary linear differential equations of first
T

order; Bernoulli’s differential equation; solution of ordinary differential

T T

equations of second order; origin and formulation of partial differential

T

equations; solutions of first-, second-, and higher-order partial

differential equations; homogeneous partial differential equations of
order one; Lagrange’s method of solution.
Linear equations of second order, such as wave equation and heat
equation, used in engineering and physical sciences; solution of such
equations using Fourier series; review of power series; series
solutions near ordinary points; Legendre equation; types of singular
points – Euler’s Equation; series solutions near regular singular
points; series solutions near regular singular points – the general
case. Bessel’s Equation and Bessel Functions.
Recommended Books:
• Erwin Kreyszig, “Advanced Engineering Mathematics,” Ninth
T T

Edition, 2005, International Edition, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:

0471728977.
• John Polking, Al Boggess, and David Arnold “Differential
Equations,” Second Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0131437380.
• Stephen Goode, “Differential Equations and Linear Algebra,”
Second Edition, 2000, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 013263757X.

EE-220 Computer-Aided Engineering Design 0+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Computing / Design
Objective: Introduce the use of computers in engineering applications.
The students will learn the use of a commercial CAD package.
Lab Outline:
Introduction to computer-aided design tools such as AutoCAD,
OrCAD and PCAD; computer-aided drafting principles and practices;
engineering drawing fundamentals using AutoCAD; drawing of
electrical machinery and layouts of electronic assemblies; design and
layout of circuit boards using software (PCAD or OrCAD).
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Recommended Books:
• Shawna Lockhart, “Tutorial Guide to AutoCAD,” First Edition,
2006, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 9780131713833.
• Muhammad H. Rashid, “Introduction to PSpice Using OrCAD for
Circuits and Electronics,” Third Edition, 2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0131019880.

EE-201 Electronic Circuit Design 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-100 Basic Electronic Engineering
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Engineering Foundation / Engineering
Foundation-II
Objective: Teach the operation, analysis, and design of electronic
amplifiers and oscillators.
Course Outline:
Amplifier analysis: Transistor as an amplifier, hybrid model of a
transistor, small-signal analysis, large-signal analysis, gain calculation
of single-stage amplifier, cascading, multistage gain calculations.
Classification of amplifiers on the basis of biasing: Class A amplifier,
class B amplifier, class AB amplifier, class C amplifier, push-pull
amplifier, complementary symmetry amplifier. Classification of
amplifiers on the basis of coupling: RC-coupled amplifier, transformer-
coupled amplifier, direct-coupled amplifier. Classification of amplifiers
on the basis of frequency: Audio-frequency amplifier, radio-frequency
amplifier, tuned amplifiers. Feedback: Feedback concept, feedback
amplifiers, voltage feedback amplifier, current feedback amplifier.
Effect of feedback on frequency response. Practical amplifier
considerations: Input and output impedance, amplifier loading,
impedance matching. Oscillators: Basic theory, tank circuit, damped
and undamped oscillations, phase-shift oscillator, Colpitt oscillator,
Hartley oscillator, Wein Bridge oscillator, Clapp oscillator.
Lab Outline:
Transistor curve tracer, introduction to PSPICE and AC voltage
dividers, characterization and design of emitter and source followers,
characterization and design of AC variable-gain amplifier, design of
test circuits for BJTs and FETs, design of FET ring oscillators, design
and characterization of emitter-coupled transistor pairs, tuned
amplifier and oscillator, design of oscillators.
Recommended Books:
• Thomas Floyd, “Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices, and
Applications,” Sixth Edition, 2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0131111388.
• Thomas Floyd and David Buchla, “Basic Operational Amplifiers
and Linear Integrated Circuits,” Second Edition, 1999, Prentice
Hall, ISBN: 0130829870.

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 EE-211 Circuit Analysis-II 3+1
Prerequisites: EE-110 Circuit Analysis-I
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Engineering Foundation / Engineering
Foundation-III
Objective: Teach the methods used in the analysis of electrical
circuits.
Course Outline:
Integro-differential equations of circuits; transient analysis; source-free
T

series and parallel RLC circuits; complete response of RLC circuit;

resonance; lossless LC circuit; complex forcing functions; phase
relationships for R, L and C; impedance and admittance; sinusoidal
steady-state response; quality factor; power factor and power factor
improvement; complex frequency; three-phase balanced and
unbalanced circuits; three-phase source-load connections; power
relationships; magnetically-coupled circuits (mutual inductance,
energy considerations, ideal transformers); variable frequency
network performance; variable frequency response analysis;
sinusoidal frequency analysis; resonant circuits and filter circuits;
general two-port networks; impedance and admittance parameters;
transmission parameters; hybrid parameters; and interconnection of
two port networks. T

Lab Outline:
Basic RL and RC circuits, RLC circuit, sinusoidal steady-state
analysis, AC power circuit analysis, polyphase circuits, frequency-
domain analysis and Bode plots, network analysis in the s-domain,
mutual inductance and transformers, two-port networks, circuit
analysis techniques using software packages such as PSPICE,
Electronic Workbench, Multi-Sim, and Lab View .
Recommended Book:
• William H. Hayt, Jack Kemmerly and Steven M. Durbin,
T T T T T T

“Engineering Circuit Analysis,” Seventh Edition, 2006, McGraw-

T T

Hill, ISBN: 0073263184.

• Muhammad H. Rashid, “Introduction to PSpice Using OrCAD for
Circuits and Electronics,” Third Edition, 2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0131019880.

EE-230 Digital Logic Design 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Engineering Foundation / Engineering
Foundation-IV
Objective: Introduce the concepts and tools for the design of digital
electronic circuits.
Course Outline:
Basic concepts and tools to design digital hardware consisting of both
combinational and sequential logic circuits, number systems, Boolean
algebra, logic gates, combinational logic design, sequential circuits
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 and logic design, memory and simple programmable logic devices
(SPLDs), introduction to field programmable logic devices
(FPLDs)/field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), introduction to
Verilog HDL (VHDL), gate-level and dataflow modeling, use of
simulation software such as Veriwell Verilog Simulator.
Lab Outline:
Basic logic gates; Verilog simulation and hardware implementation of
combinational circuits such as MUX/DEMUX, encoder/decoder,
arithmetic logic unit (ALU); Verilog simulation and hardware
implementation of sequential circuits such as flip-flops, registers, shift
registers, counters; implementation of logic circuits using SPLDs;
project solving a real-life problem.
Recommended Books:
• Morris Mano and Charles R. Kime, “Logic and Computer Design
T

Fundamentals,” Third Edition, 2003, Prentice Hall, ISBN:

T

013140539X. T

• M. Morris Mano, “Digital Design & XILINX 6.3 XSE PKG,” First
Edition, 2005, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131678485.
• Roger L Tokheim,
T T“Digital
H Electronics: Principles and
Applications,” Student Text with MultiSIM CD-ROM, Sixth Edition, H

2002, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0078309816.

• Samir Palnitkar, “Verilog HDL,” Second Edition, 2003, Prentice
Hall, ISBN: 0130449113.

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BH-213 Complex Variables and Transforms 3+0
Prerequisite: BH-111 Linear Algebra
BH-212 Differential Equations
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Math
Objective: Introduce the concepts of complex variables, Laplace
transform, and Fourier transform, and the use of transforms in the
solution of engineering problems.
Course Outline:
Introduction to complex number systems, Argand’s diagram, modulus
and argument of a complex number, polar form of a complex number,
De Moivre’s theorem and its applications, complex functions,
analytical functions, harmonic and conjugate, harmonic functions,
Cauchy-Riemann equations, line integrals, Green’s theorem,
Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula, singularities, poles,
residues, contour integration and applications; Laplace transform
definition, Laplace transforms of elementary functions, properties of
Laplace transform, periodic functions and their Laplace transforms,
inverse Laplace transform and its properties, convolution theorem,
inverse Laplace transform by integral and partial fraction methods,
Heaviside expansion formula, solutions of ordinary differential
equations by Laplace transform, applications of Laplace transforms;
series solution of differential equations, validity of series solution,
ordinary point, singular point, Forbenius method, indicial equation,
Bessel’s differential equation, its solution of first kind and recurrence
formulae, Legendre differential equation and its solution, Rodrigues
formula; Fourier transform definition, Fourier transforms of simple
functions, magnitude and phase spectra, Fourier transform theorems,
inverse Fourier transform, solutions of differential equations using
Fourier transform.
Recommended Books:
• Erwin Kreyszig, “Advanced Engineering Mathematics,” Ninth
T T

Edition, 2005, International Edition, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:

0471728977.

EE-240 Probability and Random Variables 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Engineering Foundation / -
Objective: Introduce the basic concepts and engineering applications
of probability and random variables.
Course Outline:
Set theory, basic concepts of probability, conditional probability,
independent events, Baye's formula, discrete and continuous random
variables, distributions and density functions, probability distributions
(binomial, Poisson, hyper geometric, normal, uniform and
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 exponential), mean, variance, standard deviations, moments and
moment generating functions, linear regression and curve fitting, limits
theorems, stochastic processes, first and second order
characteristics, applications.
Recommended Books:
• Susan Milton and Jesse C Arnold, “Introduction to Probability and
Statistics: Principles and Applications for Engineering and the
Computing Sciences,” Fourth Edition, 2003, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:
T

007246836.
T

• William Mendenhall and Terry Sincich, “Statistics for Engineers

and the Sciences,” Fifth Edition, 2007, Prentice Hall, ISBN10:
0131877062.

EE-250 Electrical Machines 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-211 Circuit Analysis-II
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Breadth) /
Breadth-I
Objective: Teach the concepts, construction, principles of operation,
and characteristics of electrical machines.
Course Outline:
Magnetic circuits and calculations: Single-phase and polyphase
circuits. Transformers: Principle of operation, construction, types, EMF
equation and transformation ratio, equivalent values and equivalent
power circuit diagram, impedance matching, operation and phasor
diagram with and without load, measurement of losses and efficiency,
parallel operation, cooling, three-phase connections, instrumentation
transformers; DC machines: Construction, types, armature reaction,
no load and on voltage characteristics of series, shunt generators,
division of loads in parallel operation, torque speed characteristics,
measurement of losses and efficiency. AC machines: AC machine
armature winding, three-phase windings, MMF of distributed windings,
speed and direction of rotating magnetic field. Induction motor: Types,
construction, principle of operation, induced EMF, relation between
stator and rotor quantities, phasor diagram, equivalent circuit diagram,
torque slip power relations. Synchronous generator. Brushless DC
motor. Switched-reluctance motor. Stepper motor.
Lab Outline:
Characteristics of DC series and shunt motors, DC series and shunt
generators, AC induction motor, synchronous generator, induction
generator, universal motor, brushless DC motor and switched
reluctance motor; transformer theory and testing.
Recommended Books:
• A. E. Fitzgerald, Charles Kingsley, Jr. and Stephen D. Umans,
T T

“Electric Machinery,” Sixth Edition, 2003, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:

0073660094.
• Stephen J. Chapman, “Electric Machinery Fundamentals,” Fourth
T T T

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T

• Theodore Wildi, “Electrical Machines, Drives and Power

Systems,” Sixth Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131776916.

EE-260 Electromagnetic Field Theory 3+0

Prerequisite: BH-213 Complex Variables and Transform
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Engineering Foundation / Engineering
Foundation-V
Objective: Introduce the concepts and mathematical methods to
understand and analyze electromagnetic fields and waves.
Course Outline:
Vector analysis, Coulombs law and electric field intensity, Gauss’s
law, flux density and divergence, energy and potential, conductor
dielectric and capacitance, Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations,
steady-state magnetic field, magnetic forces, materials and
inductance, time-varying fields and Maxwell’s equations, uniform
plane waves.
Recommended Books:
• William Hayt and John A. Buck, “Engineering Electromagnetics,”
Seventh Edition, 2006, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0073104639.
• Sadiku, Matthew N, “Elements of Electromagnetics,” Second
Edition, 1994, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195103688.

EE-231 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-230 Digital Logic Design
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Breadth) /
Breadth-II
Objective: Teach the architecture, programming, interfacing, and
applications of microprocessors and microcontrollers.
Course Outline:
Introduction to Intel family microprocessors, instruction set
architecture (ISA), assembly language programming, hardware model,
read/write cycles, exception/interrupt processing, memory systems,
I/O devices, DMA, interfacing to memory and I/O devices, analog-to-
digital and digital-to-analog converters, introduction to PIC/Atmel 8051
microcontrollers.
Lab Outline:
Study of 80386 Intel microprocessor ISA using its training boards,
implementation of interfacing techniques (using gates, decoders, and
SPLDs) to memory system and different I/O devices, learning and
implementation of interrupt-driven I/O, learning and implementation of
simple microcontroller based circuits, and a mini project.
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Recommended Books:
• Barry B. Brey, “The
T Intel Microprocessors: 8086/8088,
T

80186/80188, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro

Processor, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4,” Seventh Edition,
T

2006, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131195069.

T T

• Douglas V. Hall, “Microprocessor and Interfacing”, Revised

Second Edition, 2005, Tata McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070601674.
• Han-Way Huang, “PIC Microcontroller: An Introduction to
Software & Hardware Interfacing,” First Edition, 2004, Thomson
Delmar Learning, ISBN: 1401839673.
• Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Janice Mazidi and Rolin McKinlay, “8051
Microcontroller and Embedded Systems,” Second Edition, 2005,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 013119402X.
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Technical Report Writing and Presentation

BH-302 3+0
Skills
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Humanities / English
Course Outline:
Annex “A”

BH-350 Social Sciences -I 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Humanities / Social Sciences
Course Outline:
Courses such as, but not limited to, Sociology, Psychology, Society and
Culture, Introduction to Anthropology, Fine Arts, and Inter-Regional
Languages or any other course. Details in Annex “C”

EE-302 Integrated Electronics 3+1

Prerequisites: EE-201 Electronic Circuit Design
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Breadth) /
Breadth-III
Objective: Teach the analysis and design of digital electronic circuits
and operational amplifier, and introduce the fabrication of electronic
devices.
Course Outline:
Detailed design of pulse and switching circuits; switch; monostable,
astable and bistable circuits; emitter-coupled flip-flop; noise margin;
fan-out; propagation delay; Schmitt trigger; saturating and non-
saturating logic families (DTL, TTL, ECL, I2L, CMOS); detailed study
of timer ICs and their applications; analogue and digital circuit
interface with applications; introduction to the fabrication of digital
microelectronic pMOS, nMOS, CMOS, and BiCMOS circuits; epitaxy,
ion implantation and oxidation; differential amplifiers: DC and AC
analysis of differential amplifier; design of simple differential amplifier;
level translator; current sources (simple current mirror, Widler and Wil-
son current source): output stage design; use of op-amp as a circuit
element, offset and offset compensation, op-amp with negative
feedback, frequency response of an op-amp, DC and AC analysis of
op-amp ICs; amplifier; linear and non-linear applications.
Lab Outline:
Comparator analysis, inverting and non-inverting amplifiers, analog-to-
digital and digital-to-analog converters, dual regulator, switched-
capacitor voltage converter, op-amp DC characteristic measurement,
op-amp speed, single-supply op-amp, function generator, phase
locked-loop, frequency synthesizer.
Recommended Books:
• Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, “Microelectronic Circuits,”
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T T

• Thomas L. Floyd and David M. Buchla, “Basic Operational

Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits,” Second Edition, 1999,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130829870.

EE-341 Signal Processing 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-211 Circuit Analysis-II
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Breadth) /
Breadth-IV
Objective: Introduce signal processing with an emphasis on digital
signal processing and teach the time-domain and frequency-domain
analyses of continuous-time and discrete-time systems.
Course Outline:
Types of signals; signal representation and models; system
characterization; time domain analysis; frequency domain
representation and analysis; continuous-time filters; sampled
continuous-time signals; Discrete Fourier transform and its properties;
Fast Fourier transform algorithms; inverse transform techniques;
implementation of discrete-time systems; DSP chip classifications;
DSP block diagram; hardware interfacing techniques of DSP; FIR and
IIR filter design using DSP; image processing and other practical
applications of DSP.
Lab Outline:
Study of various types of signals; analysis of signals; filter design;
analog-to-digital converters; signal sampling using different
parameters; MATLAB-based simulation tool box for signal processing;
simulation and development of basic signal processing algorithms;
study of general signal processing concepts such as sampling,
aliasing, quantization, and internal arithmetic operations; signal
generation; spectrum estimation and fast transforms; sampling rate
conversion and multi-rate processing. Implementation of digital
circuits/systems on DSP kits.
Recommended Books:
• Simon Haykin, “Signals and Systems,” Second Edition, 2003,
John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471378518.
• John G. Proakis and Dimitris K. Manolakis, “Digital Signal
Processing,” Fourth Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0131873741.
• Sen M. Kuo and Woon-Seng S. Gan, “Digital Signal Processors:
Architecture, Implementation and Applications,” First Edition,
2005, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130352144.
• Gordon. E. Carlson, “Signals and Linear System Analysis,”
Second Edition, 1998, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471124656.

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 EE-370 Instrumentation and Measurements 3+1
Prerequisite: EE-211 Circuit Analysis-II
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Breadth) /
Breadth-V
Objective: Introduce the concepts and the methods and instruments
for the measurement of electrical and non-electrical quantities.
Course Outline:
Precision measurements terminologies including resolution,
sensitivity, accuracy, and uncertainty; engineering units and
standards; principles of different measurement techniques;
instruments for measurement of electrical properties, pressure,
temperature, position, velocity, flow rates (mass and volume) and
concentration; systems for signal processing and signal transmission;
modern instrumentation techniques; static and dynamic responses of
instrumentation and signal conditioning; basic data manipulation skills
using personal computers and graphs; data acquisition systems;
principles of operation, construction and working of different analog
and digital meters, oscilloscope, recording instruments, signal
generators, transducers, and other electrical and non-electrical
instruments; types of bridges for measurement of resistance,
inductance, and capacitance; power and energy meters; high-voltage
measurements.
Lab Outline:
Design, construction, and analysis of measurement circuits, data
acquisition circuits, instrumentation devices, and automatic testing;
measurement of electrical parameters using different lab instruments;
calibration of measurement instruments; use of data acquisition
systems for presentation and interpretation of data; use of
microcomputers to acquire and process data; use of simulation and
instrumentation languages (LabVIEW).
Recommended Books:
• Klaas B. Klaassen and Steve Gee, “Electronic Measurement and
Instrumentation,” 1996, Cambridge University Press, ISBN:
0521477298. T

• Kevin James, “PC Interfacing and Data Acquisition: Techniques

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for Measurement, Instrumentation and Control,” 2000, Newnes,

ISBN: 0750646241.

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 Semester VI
BH-331 Islamic Studies 2+0
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Humanities / Culture
Course Outline:
Annex “D”

BH-351 Social Sciences -II 2+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Humanities / Social Sciences
Course Outline:
Courses such as, but not limited to, Sociology, Psychology, Society
and Culture, Introduction to Anthropology, Fine Arts, and Inter-
Regional Languages or any other course. Details at Annex “B”

BH-341 Natural Sciences Elective-II 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Electives
Course Outline:
Engineering Economics / Biomedical.

EE-380 Analog and Digital Communications 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-201 Electronic Circuit Design
EE-341 Signal Processing
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Inter-Disciplinary Engineering Breadth
(Electives) / -
Objective: Develop a fundamental understanding of communication
systems with emphasis on signal modulation techniques. Teach both
analog techniques (amplitude modulation, frequency modulation) and
digital techniques (pulse code modulation, phase shift keying,
frequency shift keying).
Course Outline:
Basic definitions; modulation and de-modulation techniques:
amplitude, angle, pulse modulation, digital modulation techniques;
information theory; error detection and correction; multiplexing
techniques; noise and its effects on signal transmission; BER
performance of various modulation techniques under noisy
environment.
Lab Outline:
Study of different modulation techniques including amplitude
modulation, frequency and pulse modulation; study of demodulation
techniques; experimental modules for FDM, TDM and PCM;
MATLAB/SIMULINK modeling and simulation of a simple transceiver;
a mini project is recommended.

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Recommended Books:
• B. P. Lathi, “Modern Digital and Analog Communication
Systems,” Third Edition, 1998, Oxford University Press, ISBN:
0195110099.
• Leon W. Couch, “Digital and Analog Communication Systems,”
Seventh Edition, 2007, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131424920.
• John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, “Communication Systems
Engineering,” Second Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0130617938.

EE-390 Control Systems 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-211 Circuit Analysis-II
EE-341 Signal Processing
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Breadth) /
Breadth-VI
Objective: Introduce the concepts of open-loop and closed-loop
systems and their transfer functions. Teach the methods for the
analysis and design of closed-loop feedback systems.
Course Outline:
Introduction to control systems; open-loop and closed-loop systems,
transfer functions, block diagrams, signal flow graphs; introduction to
modeling; formation of differential equations of electrical, mechanical
and other systems, transfer functions; stability, Routh’s stability
criterion, types and analysis of feedback control systems; root locus,
Bode plots, polar plots, Nyquist stability criterion, gain and phase
margins, Nichol’s chart; steady-state and transient response of first-
order, second-order and higher-order systems; introduction to state-
space concepts and design techniques, formation and solution of
state equations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, transfer function
matrices; PID controllers and compensators.
Lab Outline:
Familiarization with MATLAB Control System tool box and MATLAB-
SIMULINK tool box; simulation of step response and impulse
response with unity feedback using MATLAB; determination of root
locus, Bode plot, and Nyquist plot using MATLAB; determination of PI,
PD and PID controller action of first-order simulated process.
Recommended Books:
• Katsuhiko Ogata, “Modern Control Engineering,” Fourth Edition,
2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130609072.
• Benjamin C. Kuo, “Automatic Control Systems,” Eighth Edition,
2003, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471381489.

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 Semester VII
MS-400 Engineering Management 3+0
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Management Sciences / -
Objective: Teach the principles of management including the
management of human resources as well as projects.
Course Outline:
Principles of management; decision making; stress management;
conflict management; crisis management; leadership; motivation;
delegation of powers; role of projects in organization’s competitive
strategy, standard methodologies for managing projects, project life
cycle, design implementation interface, estimating, contractual risk
allocation, scheduling: PBS and WBS, integration of scope, time,
resource and cost dimensions of a project; evaluation of labor,
material, equipment, and subcontract resources; scheduling
techniques such as CPM/PERT and GERT, critical chain, solving real-
world project schedules, cost budgeting, cost baseline, cash flow
analysis, earned value analysis, cost control, proposal presentation,
application of software for project management.
Recommended Books:
• Avraham Shtub, Jonathan F. Bard and Shlomo Globerson,
“Project Management: Processes, Methodologies, and
Economics” Second Edition, 2005, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0130413313.

EE/CS-4XX Elective I 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Depth) / Depth-I

EE/CS-4XX Elective II 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Depth) / Depth-II

XX-4XX Inter-Disciplinary Engineering Elective 3 + 0/3

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Inter-Disciplinary Engineering Breadth
(Electives)/ -

EE-499A Electronic Engineering Project 0+3

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Senior Design Project / -
Course Outline:
This course enables the students to enhance their technical capabilities
by implementing their theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of
research and development. Students should complete background study
and simulation/design of the project.

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 Semester VIII
MS-401 Professional and Social Ethics 3+0
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Management Sciences / -
Objective: Teach the ethical issues of interest to the professional
community to produce engineers who are not only good and
responsible engineers, but also good and responsible citizens.
Course Outline:
This course introduces contemporary and controversial ethical issues
facing the professional community. Topics include moral reasoning,
moral dilemmas, law and morality, equity, justice and fairness, ethical
standards, and moral development. Upon completion, students should
be able to demonstrate an understanding of their moral
responsibilities and obligations as members of the workforce and
society.
Recommended Books:
• C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich and Linda Ferrell, “Business Ethics:
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Ethical Decision Making and Cases,” Sixth Edition, 2005,

T T

Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN: 0618395733.

T

• Mike W. Martin and Roland Schinzinger, “Ethics in Engineering,”

Fourth Edition, 2005, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072831154.

EE/CS-4XX Elective III 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Depth) / Depth-III

EE/CS-4XX Elective IV 3 + 0/3

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Course (Depth) / Depth-IV

EE-499B Electronic Engineering Project 0+3

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Senior Design Project / -
Prerequisite: EE-499A Electronic Engineering Project
Outline:
Hardware and software implementation of project design completed in
the previous semester, testing and debugging, project report submission
and presentation.

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 Details of Undergraduate Elective Courses
BH-XXX Numerical Methods 3+0
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Electives
Objective: Teach the use of computers for the numerical solution of
engineering problems.
Course Outline:
Floating point number system, error analysis, solutions of equations,
interpolation, splines, numerical differentiation and integration,
numerical methods in linear algebra, systems of linear equations,
method of least squares, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, solution of
ordinary and partial differential equations. This subject is to be
supplemented with extensive computer exercises.
Recommended Books:
• Steven C. Chapra and Raymond P. Canale, “Numerical Methods
for Engineers,” Fifth Edition, 2006, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:
0073101567.
• Curtis F. Gerald, “Applied Numerical Analysis,” Seventh Edition,
2003, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0321133048.

MS-XXX Engineering Economics 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Natural Sciences / Electives
Objective: Introduce the concepts of economics that engineers need to
know to carry out engineering tasks and projects.
Course Outline:
Basic concepts, engineering economics definition, measures of
financial effectiveness, no monetary values. Economic environment:
Consumer and producer goods, measures of economic worth, price,
supply, demand relationship. Selection between alternatives: Present
economy, selection among materials, techniques designs, basic
investment philosophy, alternatives having identical lives, alternatives
having different lives. Value analysis: Important cost concepts, cost-
benefit analysis, feasibility studies, value analysis in designing and
purchasing. Linear programming: Mathematical statement of linear
programming problems, graphic solution, simplex procedure, duality
problem. Depreciation and valuation: Types of depreciation, economic
life, profit and interest, returns to capital, discrete and continuous
compounding, discounting sinking fund problems. Capital financing
and budgeting: Types of ownership, types of stock, partnership and
joint stock companies, banking and specialized credit institution.
Theory of production: Factors of production, laws of returns, break-
even charts and relationships. Industrial relationship: Labor problems,
labor organizations prevention and settlement of disputes.

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Recommended Books:
• Leland T. Blank and Anthony J. Tarquin, “Engineering Economy,”
Sixth Edition, 2004, McGraw Hill, ISBN: 0073205346.

EE-4XX Microelectronic Technology 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-302 Integrated Electronics
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Introduce the techniques and processes used in the
fabrication of electronic devices.
Course Outline:
Overview of fabrication of solid-state devices and integrated circuits,
introduction to basic electronic components and devices, layouts, unit
processes common to all IC technologies such as substrate
preparation, oxidation, diffusion and ion implantation, basic silicon
processing, process modeling.
Lab Outline:
The students will be taught process modeling using a simulation tool
such as SUPREM. The fundamental silicon-based processing such as
oxide growth, annealing, diffusion mechanisms, ion implantation and
rapid thermal processing, physical vapor deposition and other
processes will be modeled using SUPREM. The students will model
the device structures, for example, pMOS, and predict their electrical
characteristics. In case device processing facilities are available, then
the students will conduct the processes to fabricate and test the
desired structures.
Recommended Book:
• Charles A. Harper,
T “Electronic Materials and Processes
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Handbook,” Third Edition, 2004, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0071402144.

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• Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, “Microelectronic Circuits,”

Fifth Edition, 2003, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195142519. T T

EE-4XX Power Electronics 3+1

Prerequisites: EE-201 Electronic Circuit Design
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the semiconductor devices and circuits for the
conversion of electrical power of a given form into a desired form.
Introduce the applications of power electronics including rectifiers,
inverters, UPS, and motor drives.
Course Outline:
Introduction to power electronics; solid-state devices used in power
electronics: power diode, power BJT, power MOSFET, SCR, GTO,
IGBT, TRIAC, DIAC; semi-controlled, fully-controlled and uncontrolled
rectifiers: single-phase and three-phase, six-pulse, twelve-pulse and
twenty-four pulse rectifiers; single-phase and three-phase inverters;
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 pulse-width-modulated (PWM) inverters; UPS; types of converters;
switched mode power supplies, AC and DC motor drives.
Lab Outline:
Design of converters; single-phase and three-phase uncontrolled,
half-controlled and fully-controlled rectifiers; buck, boost and polarity
inverting converters; flyback converter.
Recommended Books:
• Cyril W. Lander, “Power Electronics,” Third Edition, 1993,
McGraw-Hill UK, ISBN: 0077077148.
• Muhammad H. Rashid, “Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices and
Applications,” Third Edition, 2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0131011405.
• Ned Mohan, William P. Robbins and Tore M. Undeland, “Power
Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design,” Media
Enhanced, Third Edition, 2003, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:
0471429082.

EE-4XX Opto Electronics 3+1

Prerequisite: BH-120 Applied Physics
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the electronic devices and techniques used in optical
communication.
Course Outline:
Nature of light, basic laws of light, optical fiber, types of optical fiber,
fiber material, fabrication and components, laser, threshold condition,
laser losses, population inversion and threshold conditions, laser
modes, classes of lasers, semiconductor light sources, light emitting
diodes, semiconductor laser diodes (SLDs), optical transmitter, optical
receivers, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), FDM versus
WDM, WDM multiplexer, benefits of WDM, dense wavelength division
multiplexing, optical networks.
Lab Outline:
Optical sources, optical detectors, optical amplifiers, optical
transmitters, optical receivers, optical transreceivers, optical fibers,
propagation of light through an optical fiber, losses in fiber optic
elements, optical modulation, multiplexing, optical systems.
Recommended Book:
• Harold Kolimbiris, “Fiber Optics Communications,” First Edition,
2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130158836.

EE-4XX Digital Instrumentation Systems 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the instrumentation and interfacing techniques for
microprocessor-based measurement of quantities.
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Course Outline:
Advanced instrumentation techniques; microprocessor-based
instrumentation; analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters; PC-
based instrumentation systems: interfacing techniques, data
acquisition software, and virtual Instruments; intelligent
instrumentation systems.
Lab Outline:
Laboratory activities include the design, construction, and analysis of
microprocessor-based measurement circuits, data acquisition circuits,
instrumentation devices, and automatic testing. Use of data
acquisition systems for presentation and interpretation of data. Use of
microcomputers to acquire and process data. Use of simulation and
instrumentation languages (LabVIEW).
Recommended Books:
• Ronald Tocci, Neal Widmer and Greg Moss, “Digital Systems:
Principles and Applications,” Tenth Edition, 2007, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0131725793.
• William J. Dally and John W. Poulton, “Digital Systems
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Engineering,” 1998, Cambridge University Press, ISBN:

0521592925.

EE-4XX Industrial Electronics 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-4XX Power Electronics
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach various industrial applications of electronics including
heating, welding, speed control of electrical machines, photo-electric
devices, x-ray, PLCs, and data acquisition.
Course Outline:
Electric heating: Principles and applications; induction and dielectric
heating; high-frequency welding. Spot welding control. Industrial
control: Speed control of DC, AC, and servo motors. Process control.
Measurement of non-electrical quantities: Temperature, displacement,
pressure, time, frequency; digital industrial measuring systems. Ultra-
sonic generation and applications. X-ray applications in industry.
Photo-electric devices. Industrial control using PLCs. Data acquisition.
Distributed control system in process industries.
Lab Outline:
Experiments related to the principles of welding and PLCs; speed
control of DC, AC, and servo motors;
Recommended Books:
• Frank D. Petruzella, “Programmable Logic Controllers,” Third T

Edition, 2005, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0078298520.

T

• Frank D. Petruzella, “Industrial Electronics,” First Edition, 1995,

T

McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0028019962.

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 CS-4XX Advanced Object-Oriented Programming 3+1
Prerequisite: CS-101 Computer Programming
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Discuss issues around the design and implementation of
object oriented languages and explore alternatives.
Course Outline:
Procedural versus object-oriented programming languages, object-
oriented design strategy and problem solving, objects and classes,
member functions, public and private members, dynamic memory
management, constructors and destructors, templates, object
encapsulation, derived classes, class hierarchies, inheritance and
polymorphism, operator overloading, stream class, practical design
through object-oriented programming.
Lab Outline:
Advanced object-oriented programming environment; implementation
of object-oriented programs: classes, methods, objects, abstract
classes and inheritance; overloading and overriding; class
aggregation; implementation of polymorphism; use of constructors;
testing and debugging.
Recommended Books:
• Goran Svenk, “Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ for
Engineering and Technology,” First Edition, 2003, Thomson
Delmar Learning, ISBN: 0766838943.

EE-4XX VLSI Design 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-302 Integrated Electronics
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach VLSI system design including system specification,
verification, and fabrication.
Course Outline:
Introduction to integrated circuits, IC fabrication, monolithic integrated
circuits, introduction to MOS technology, basic electrical properties of
MOS and BiCMOS circuits, basic digital building blocks using MOS
transistor basic circuit concepts, ultra-fast VLSI circuits and systems
and their design.
Lab Outline:
Implementation of VLSI design techniques using VHDL and /or
Verilog HDL.
Recommended Book:
• Zainalabedin Navabi, “Verilog Computer-Based Training Course,”
First Edition, 2002, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0071374736.

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 EE-4XX FPGA-Based System Design 3+1
Prerequisite: EE-230 Digital Logic Design
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the design of digital electronic circuits with field-
programmable gate arrays.
Course Outline:
Introduction, digital design and FPGA, FPGA-based system design,
manufacturing process, transistor characteristics, CMOS logic gates,
wires, registers and RAM, packages and pads, FPGA architectures,
SRAM-based FPGAs, permanently-programmed FPGAs, circuit
design of FPGA fabrics, architecture of FPGA fabrics, logic design
process, combinational network delay, power and energy
optimization, arithmetic logic elements, logic implementation using
FPGAs, physical design (PnR) for FPGAs, synthesis process,
sequential design using FPGAs, sequential machine design process,
sequential design style, FSM design, ASM design.
Lab Outline:
Introduction to Verilog HDL, gate-level modeling, data flow modeling,
behavioral modeling, design, simulation, synthesis and fitting of
combinational circuits, design and implementation of an FSM and
memory.
Recommended Books:
• Wayne Wolf, “FPGA-Based System Design,” with CD-ROM,
2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131424610.
• Samir Palnitkar, “Verilog HDL,” Second Edition, 2003, Prentice
Hall, ISBN: 0130449113.
• Michael D. Ciletti, “Advanced Digital Design with the Verilog
HDL,” First Edition, 2003, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130891614.
• Michael John Sebastian Smith, “Application-Specific Integrated
Circuits,” First Edition, 1997, Addison Wesley, ISBN:
0201500221.

EE-4XX Laser and Fiber Optics 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the principles of lasers and the use of lasers and
other components in optical fiber communication.
Course Outline:
Optical beams and resonators including ray tracing, optical fiber wave
guides, transmission characteristics, optical fiber cables and
connection, optical fiber measurement, semiconductor and non-
semiconductor lasers, receiver characteristics, Gaussian beam
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 propagation, stable and unstable resonators; classical theory of
spontaneous and stimulated emission including a discussion of
homogeneous and inhomogeneous line broadening; laser pumping
and population inversion in three level and four level systems;
fundamentals of laser oscillation, dynamics and threshold; laser cavity
equations; laser spiking and mode competition; Q-switching; active
and passive mode locking; injection locking; single frequency
operation; introduction to fiber lasers and active optical fiber devices;
design considerations of fiber optic communication systems: analog
and digital modulator, noise in detection process, BIT error rate
(BER); system design; maximum transmission distance due to
attenuation and dispersion.
Recommended Books:
• Harold Kolimbiris, “Fiber Optics Communications,” First Edition,
2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130158836.
• Gerd Keiser, “Optical Fiber Communications,” Third Edition, 2000,
T T

McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072360763.

EE-4XX Mobile Communications 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Course Outline:
Refer to the HEC Approved Telecommunication Curriculum, Revised
2004, page 26.

EE-4XX Satellite Communications 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Course Outline:
Refer to the HEC Approved Telecommunication Curriculum, Revised
2004, page 28.

EE-4XX Microwave Engineering 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Course Outline:
Refer to the HEC Approved Telecommunication Curriculum, Revised
2004, page 35.

EE-4XX Advanced Communication Systems 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach advanced concepts in communications systems
including digital radio, various types of modulation, time-division
multiplexing, satellite systems, cellular communication, GSM and 3G
mobiles.

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Course Outline:
Introduction to digital communication, Shannon limit for information
capacity, digital radio, FSK, PSK, BPSK, QPSK, quadrature amplitude
modulation, clock recovery, delta modulation pulse code modulation,
adaptive delta modulation PCM, differential PCM, pulse transmission,
time division multiplexing, T1 digital carrier system, codecs, frame
synchronization, bit interleaving versus word interleaving, history of
satellites, orbital satellites, geostationary satellites, orbital patterns,
look angles, satellite system link models and parameters, satellite link
budget, satellite link equations, satellite multiple access
arrangements, FDM/FM satellite systems, multiple accessing,
TDM/FM frequency hopping, channel capacity; cellular
communication, operation of cellular system, elements of cellular
system design specifications, concept of mobility, cell coverage for
signal and traffic, cell sites and mobile antennas, trunking theory,
blocking probabilities, co-channel interference reduction, handoff
strategies, power control, GSM architecture, GSM cell structure, call
processing in GSM, 3G mobiles.
Recommended Books:
• Leon W. Couch, “Digital & Analog Communication Systems,”
Seventh Edition, 2007, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131424920.
• Theodore S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications: Principles
and Practice,” Second Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0130422320.
• Jochen Schiller, “Mobile Communications,” Second Edition, 2003,
Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0321123816.
• Timothy Pratt, Charles W. Bostian and Jeremy E. Allnutt, T

“Satellite Communications,” Second Edition, 2003, John Wiley &

T

Sons, ISBN: 0471429120.

EE-4XX Optical Communication Systems 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the concepts of optical transmission and networking,
optical devices, and optical component technologies.
Course Outline:
Optical transmission system concepts, introduction to optical
networking, light propagation in multimode fiber, propagation modes,
mode partition noise, reflection and return loss variations, optical
devices, optical component technologies, types of optical amplifiers,
plastic fiber amplifier, second harmonic generators, splitters and
couplers, isolators, polarization control.
Recommended Books:
• Govind P. Agrawal, “Fiber-Optic Communication Systems,” Third
Edition, 2002, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471215716.
• Joseph Palais, “Fiber Optic Communications,” Fifth Edition, 2005,

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 Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130085103.

EE-4XX Wave Propagation and Antennas 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Course Outline:
Refer to the HEC Approved Telecommunication Curriculum, Revised
2004, page 22.

EE4XX Navigational Aids 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Introduce the concepts of electronic navigation and teach
the operation of electronic navigational systems.
Course Outline:
History of navigation, electronic navigation system terminology used in
navigation systems, direction finding, two-way distance ranging,
differential distance ranging, principle of working of GPS receiver,
basic modules comprising typical radar, basic radar range equation
and the impact of various parameters on minimum and maximum
ranges, principle of working of a pulse Doppler radar, principle of
working of a secondary radar (that is, IFF, Identification of Friend and
Foe), instrument landing system (ILS), microwave landing system
(MLS), very-high frequency ranging system standardizing agencies,
Decca, Loran, Omega, Consol, talking beacons.
Lab Outline:
Analysis of radio wave characteristics, direction finding methods,
analysis of radar range performance parameters, experiments using
microwave/radar training kits, GPS receiver, interfacing of GPS
receiver with computer.
Recommended Books:
• Merrill I. Skolnik, “Introduction to Radar Systems,” Third Edition,
T T

2001, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072881380.

• Jay A. Farrell, “The Global Positioning System & Inertial
T T

Navigation,” First Edition, 1999, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 007022045X.

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EE-4XX Filter Design 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-341 Signal Processing
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the analysis and design of various types of filters.
Course Outline:
Introduction to filters, active devices used in active filter design, circuit
design approach, design of first-order filter sections in cascade,
biquad circuit, sensitivity analysis, circuit design with simulated
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Lab Outline:
Design of inverting and non-inverting integration; design of first-order
filter sections; design of higher-order filters using first-order sections;
second-order filter section design; higher-order filter design using
second-order section such as low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, band
elimination (Notch Filter) and all-pass filters; design of basic filter
response using switch capacitors; filter design using high-frequency
models of op-amp, that is, active R and active C filters.
Recommended Books:
• Andreas Antoniou, “Digital Filters,” Second Edition, 2000,
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McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072432810. T

• B. A. Shenoi, “Introduction to Digital Signal Processing and Filter

Design,” First Edition, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471464821.
• M. E. Van Valkenberg, “Analog Filter Design”, First Edition, 1982,
Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195107349.
H H

EE/CS-4XX Digital Image Processing 3+0

Prerequisite: EE-341 Signal Processing
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the concepts and techniques of digital image
processing including image formation, acquisition, storage,
compression, and restoration.
Course Outline:
Image formation process, types of images (infrared, thermal and video
range), image segmentation, Hough transform, shape from stereo,
motion and shading. Image acquisition techniques, digitization,
acquisition flaws, image storage, compression techniques, image
transformation (translation, scaling, rotation, stereo, 3D modeling,
discrete time description of signals, fast Fourier transform, image
enhancement, image histogram, contrast enhancement, histogram
manipulation, thresholding, binarization, Grey scale and color images,
smoothing, sharpening, edge detection, morphological operators
(erosion, dilation, opening, closing) medical axis transform,
skeletonization, thinning.
Recommended Books:
• Rafael Gonzalez and Richard Woods, “Digital Image Processing”,
Second Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0201180758.

EE/CS-4XX Pattern Recognition and Matching 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Enable the students to get hands-on experience in the
design, implementation, and evaluation of pattern recognition
algorithms.
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Introduction, Bayes decision theory, discriminant functions and
decision surfaces, Bayesian classification for normal distributions,
estimation of unknown probability density functions, linear
discriminant functions and decision hyperplanes, perceptron
algorithm, least squares methods, feature selection, preprocessing,
feature selection based on statistical hypothesis testing, class
separability measures, feature subset selection, optimal feature
generation, template matching, similarity measures based on optimal
path searching techniques, similarity measures based on correlation.
Recommended Books:
• Sergios Theodoridis and Konstantinos Koutroumbas, “Pattern
H H H H

Recognition”, Third Edition, 2006, Academic Press, ISBN:

0123695317.
• Luc Devroye, Laszlo Gyorfi and Gabor Lugosi, “A Probabilistic
Theory of Pattern Recognition,” 1996, Springer, ISBN
0387946187.

EE-4XX Introduction to Robotics 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the fundamentals and applications of robots
including the robot hardware and design of control laws.
Course Outline:
Introduction to robots, robot fundamentals and applications,
classification of robots, robot hardware, robot sensors, robot/system
integration; provides a comprehensive treatment of the mathematical
modeling of robot mechanisms and the analysis methods used to
design control laws for these mechanisms.
Lab Outline:
Experiments to introduce the students to basic robotics and
programming of programmable devices used in the robotics field.
Recommended Books:
• J. L. Fuller, “Robotics: Introduction, Programming, and Projects”,
H H

Second Edition, 1998, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130955434.

• David Cook, “Robot Building for Beginners,” 2002, Apress, ISBN:
H H

1893115445.
• John J. Craig, “Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control,”
H H

Third Edition, 2003, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0201543613.

EE-4XX Digital Control Systems 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-390 Control Systems
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the theory and methods for the analysis and design
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transfer functions, z transform analysis, and stability.
Course Outline:
Basics of digital control, theory of sampling, sampled data systems,
discrete signals and sampling, difference equation, discrete transfer
functions, z transform analysis, frequency response methods, state
equations, time-discrete representation of time-continuous systems,
discrete control algorithms, design methods of digital controllers,
stability of digital control systems, discrete equivalents for continuous
controllers, pulse transfer functions of feedback systems, digital-to-
analog conversion, digital filtering of systems.
Lab Outline:
Control system identification; controller design, experimentation,
computer simulation, and analysis of control systems. All experiments
are conducted with real-time process interface cards of PC for
experimental data display and storage. Stored files are analyzed
further using MATLAB. Lab assignments include computer-based
control system simulation and design using MATLAB.
Recommended Books:
• Charles L. Phillips and H. Troy Nagle, “Digital Control System
Analysis and Design,” Third Edition, 1995, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
013309832X.
• Benjamin C. Kuo, “Digital Control Systems,” Second Edition,
H H

1995, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195120647.

• Mohammed S. Santina, Allen R. Stubberud and Gene H.
H H H H H

Hostetter, “Digital Control System Design,” Second Edition, 1995,

H

Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0030760127.

• Katsuhiko Ogata, “Discrete-Time Control Systems,” Second
Edition, 1995, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130342815.

EE/CS-4XX Introduction to Neural Networks 3+0

Prerequisite: EE-231 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers
EE/CS-4XX Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the basics of neural network technology and the
application of this technology to the solution of engineering problems.
Course Outline:
Introduction and benefits of neural networks technology; biological
neural morphology: biological neurons, biological neural system;
model of single artificial neuron; artificial neural network architecture;
learning paradigms: supervised learning, unsupervised learning,
reinforcement learning, Hebbian learning, Boltzmann learning;
perceptron; multilayer perceptron networks; radial basis function
networks; recurrent networks; Hoppfield’s network; Adeline networks;
simulated annealing; introduction to modular neural networks; neural
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systems; applications of connectionist systems for solving typical
problems; familiarization with MATLAB-Neural Networks tool box for
problem solving.
Recommended Books:
• Kevin Gurney, “An Introduction to Neural Networks,” 1997, CRC
Press, ISBN: 1857285034.
• Simon Haykin, “Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation,”
Second Edition, 1999, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0132733501.
T T

• Martin T. Hagan, Howard B. Demuth and Mark H. Beale, “Neural

Network Design,” 2002, Martin Hagan, ISBN: 0971732108.

EE/CS-4XX Fuzzy Logic and Simulation 3+0

Prerequisite: EE-231 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers
EE/CS-4XX Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the concepts and techniques of fuzzy logic and the
application of fuzzy logic to the solution of engineering problems.
Course Outline:
Introduction and benefits of fuzzy technology, fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic,
membership functions, fuzzification, defuzzification, fuzzy logic
control, explanation of fuzzy techniques with examples, fuzzy expert
systems, familiarization with MATLAB-Fuzzy Logic tool box for
problem solving.
Recommended Books:
• Timothy J. Ross, “Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications,”
H H

Second Edition, 2004, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0470860758. T T

• Hua Harry Li and Madan M. Gupta, “Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent

H H H H

Systems,” 1995, Springer, ISBN: 0792395751.

T T

• Kazuo Tanaka and T. Niimura, “An Introduction to Fuzzy Logic for

H H H H

Practical Applications,” 1996, Springer, ISBN: 0387948074.

EE-4XX Digital System Design 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the design of digital electronic devices and systems
including the use of CAD tools.
Course Outline:
Detailed description and analysis of core digital design block; inverter;
implementation of inverter in CMOS; design of more complex
combinational gates such as NAND, NOR and EXOR for optimum
speed, area, or power; application of learned techniques to more
evolved designs such as adders and multipliers; impact of
interconnect parasitics on circuit performance and approaches to
cope with them; study of sequential circuits; clocking approaches;
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layout, extraction, and simulation for assignments, labs and projects.
Lab Outline:
Use of SPICE, IRSIM, and Magic SW packages to design, simulate
and layout design of inverter, NAND and NOR gates; circuit
extraction; switch-level simulation; interconnect-buffer design; mini
design project.
Recommended Books:
• Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikolic,
“Digital Integrated Circuits,” Second Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0130909963.
• Neil H.E. Weste and David Harris, “CMOS VLSI Design: A
Circuits and Systems Perspective,” Third Edition, 2004, Addison
Wesley, ISBN: 0321149017.

EE-4XX Operating Systems Concepts 3+0

Prerequisite: CS-100 Introduction to Computers
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the basics and administration of various operating
systems including DOS, Windows, and Unix/Linux.
Course Outline:
Overview and history, operating system concepts, DOS, Windows,
Unix/Linux, processes and threads, process scheduling, device and
file management, memory management, concurrency and deadlocks,
Windows systems administration, Unix system administration and
shell programming, virtual memory, multiprocessors and real time
scheduling, file sharing, servers, distributed processing, process
migration.
Recommended Books:
• Andrew Tanenbaum and Albert Woodhull, “Operating Systems
Design and Implementation,” Third Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0131429388.
• Andrew Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating Systems,” Second
Edition, 2001, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130313580.

EE/CS-4XX Computer Communication Networks 3+1

Prerequisite: EE-380 Analog and Digital Communications
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the concepts, techniques, and devices of computer-
based communication networks including modulation techniques,
multiplexing, digital carrier systems, GSM, TCP/IP, LAN systems,
network security, and VoIP.

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Course Outline:
Communication concept and terminology, transmission impairments,
transmission media (guided and unguided), synchronization code,
modulation techniques, error detection, HDLC protocol, multiplexing
(FDM and simple TDM), digital carrier systems (ISDN and
SONET/SDH), asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), circuit
switching, packet switching, routing algorithms, X-25, ATM and frame
relay, cellular digital packet data and Global System for Mobile
Communication (GSM), network types, network topologies, ISO-OSI
model, TCP/IP introduction, LAN Systems (Ethernet, token ring,
FDDI), LAN devices (repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches), principles of
internetworking, wireless internetworking, IP multicasting, routing
protocols, connection oriented protocol, network security
requirements, public encryption and digital signatures, network
management protocol, e-mail protocols, hyper text transfer protocol,
DNS (domain name system) introduction to VoIP.
Lab Outline:
Demonstration of various multiplexing techniques, demonstration of
circuit switching and packet switching, TCP/IP modules, small scale
network design.

Recommended Books:
• William Stallings, “Data and Computer Communications,” Seventh
Edition, 2004, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131006819, ISBN:
9780131006812.
• Andrew Tanenbaum, “Computer Networks,” Fourth Edition, 2003,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130661023.
• Behrouz A Forouzan, “Data Communications Networking,” Fourth T

Edition, 2007, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0073250325.

T

EE/CS-4XX Artificial Intelligence 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the concepts, applications, and methods of artificial
intelligence.
Course Outline:
Introduction to artificial intelligence (AI); basic elements of AI; history,
applications and classification of techniques used; production systems
and search: definition and examples of production systems; state
space search: graph theory, strategies (data driven, goal driven),
techniques (depth first, breadth first); heuristic search: definitions,
techniques; knowledge representation: knowledge representation
issues; procedural knowledge representation vs. declarative
knowledge; reasoning; facts; representing knowledge using rules;
logic programming; common sense and statistical reasoning:
nonmonotonic reasoning and modal logic for nonmonotonic
reasoning; dealing with agents and their beliefs; use of certainty
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in first-order logic; Bayesian networks; expert systems: components of
expert systems, development methodology (selection of problems,
knowledge engineering), types (rule based, model based, case
based), knowledge representation (rules, semantic networks, frames),
inference, forward chaining, backward chaining, production systems
and rule based expert systems; goal-driven problem reasoning; data-
driven reasoning.
Lab Outline:
Programming in Prolog or Lisp. Exercises of AI in Prolog or Lisp.
Development of expert system.
Recommended Books:
• Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig, “Artificial Intelligence: A
H H H H

Modern Approach,” Second Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN:

0137903952.
• Elaine Rich and Kevin Knight, “Artificial Intelligence,” Second
H H H H

Edition, 1990, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070522634.

• R. J. Schalkoff, “Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Approach,”
1990, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070550840.
• Peter Jackson “Introduction to Expert Systems,” Third Edition,
H H

1998, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0201876868.

• Ivan Bratko, “Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence,” Third
H H

Edition, 2000, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0201403757.

EE-4XX Embedded System Design 3+0

Prerequisite: CS-100 Introduction to Computers
EE-230 Digital Logic Design
Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Introduce the trends and challenges in the design of
embedded systems and teach chip technologies and design tools
needed for these systems.
Course Outline:
Trends and challenges in embedded system design, introduction to
the design and use of single-purpose processors (hardware) and
general-purpose processors (software), memories and buses,
hardware/software tradeoffs, advanced computation models, control
systems, chip technologies, modern design tools, embedded
processor selection, hardware/firmware partitioning, glue logic, circuit
design, circuit layout, circuit debugging, development tools, firmware
architecture, firmware design, and firmware debugging; study of Intel
8051; microcontroller architecture and instruction set.
Each student will be required to build and debug a micro-controller
board. The course will culminate with a significant final project which
would extend the base microcontroller board completed earlier in the
course. Learning may be supplemented with periodic guest lectures
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Recommended Books:
• Frank Vahid and Tony D. Givargis, “Embedded System Design: A
T

Unified Hardware/Software Introduction,” 2001, John Wiley &

T

Sons ISBN: 0471386782.

EE-4XX Biomedical Instrumentation 3+1

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Introduce the concepts of medical and clinical
instrumentation and teach the tests and test equipment used in
medical care and research.
Course Outline:
Basic concepts of medical and clinical instrumentation; basic concepts
of medical diagnosis and statistical analysis; introduction to
techniques for the design of biomedical instrumentation including
sensors and associated electronics: biopotentials, biosensors, and
amplifiers; electrocardiography (ECG), electroencephalography
(EEG), electromyography (EMG), electroretinography (ERG); basic
concepts of diagnostic ultrasound; plain x-ray; CT, MRI, PET, and
SPECT; supporting instrumentation such as incubator, respirator,
anesthesia machine and dialysis machine; tests used in medical care
and research: cardiovascular, imaging, and blood analysis; electrical
safety in hospitals.
Lab Outline:
Design and analysis of medical instrumentation; transducers;
biopotential amplifiers; computer interfacing; basic signal processing;
low-level measurements; analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog signal
conversion; microprocessor- and microcontroller-based biomedical
instrumentation; programming.
Recommended Books:
• John G. Webster, “Bioinstrumentation,” 2003, John Wiley & Sons,
ISBN: 0471263273.
• R. S. Khandpur, “Biomedical Instrumentation: Technology and
H H

Applications,” 2005, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0071447849.

T T

• Richard Aston, “Principles of Biomedical Instrumentation and

H H

Measurement,” First Edition, 1990, Prentice Hall, ISBN:

0675209439.

EE-4XX Mechatronics Applications 3+0

Knowledge Area / Sub Area: Major Based Core (Depth) / -
Objective: Teach the applications and design of systems that involve
the integration of mechanical, electronic, and computer engineering.
Course Outline:
Development of mechatronics theory and applications to systems

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computer engineering; assembly of hardware components to create
product designs that fulfill a specified task in a mechatronics system;
development of design skills in mechanisms, electronic devices, and
software to create, test, and verify system functions.
Recommended Books:
• Godfrey
H C. Onwubolu, “Mechatronics: Principles and
H

Applications,” 2005, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN:

0750663790.
• John Billingsley, “Essentials of Mechatronics,” 2006, John Wiley &
H H

Sons, ISBN: 047172341X.

• Rolf Isermann, “Mechatronic Systems: Fundamentals,” 2005,
H H

Springer, ISBN: 1852339306.

• Devdas Shetty and Richard Kolk, “Mechatronics System Design,”
H H H H

1997, Thomson-Engineering, ISBN: 0534952852.

• W. Bolton, “Mechatronics: Electronic Control Systems in
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering,” Third Edition, 2003,
Pearson Education, ISBN: 0131216333.

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 Annex “A”
COMPULSORY COURSES IN ENGLISH FOR BE/BSc IN
ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE
Semester I
U

Functional English
U

Objectives: Enhance language skills and develop critical thinking.

Course Contents
U

Basics of Grammar
Parts of speech and use of articles
Sentence structure, active and passive voice
Practice in unified sentence
Analysis of phrase, clause and sentence structure
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Punctuation and spelling

Comprehension
Answers to questions on a given text

Discussion
General topics and every-day conversation (topics for discussion to be at
the discretion of the teacher keeping in view the level of students)
Listening
To be improved by showing documentaries/films carefully selected by
subject teachers

Translation skills
Urdu to English

Paragraph writing
Topics to be chosen at the discretion of the teacher
Presentation skills
Introduction

Note: Extensive reading is required for vocabulary building

Recommended books:
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1. Functional English
a) Grammar
1. Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet.
Exercises 1. Third edition. Oxford University Press. 1997. ISBN
0194313492
2. Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet.
Exercises 2. Third edition. Oxford University Press. 1997. ISBN
0194313506

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b) Writing
1. Writing. Intermediate by Marie-Christine Boutin, Suzanne Brinand
and Francoise Grellet. Oxford Supplementary Skills. Fourth
Impression 1993. ISBN 0 19 435405 7 Pages 20-27 and 35-41.

c) Reading/Comprehension
1. Reading. Upper Intermediate. Brain Tomlinson and Rod Ellis. Oxford
Supplementary Skills. Third Impression 1992. ISBN 0 19 453402 2.

d) Speaking

Semester II
U

Communication Skills
U

Objectives: Enable the students to meet their real life communication

needs.

Course Contents
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Paragraph writing
Practice in writing a good, unified and coherent paragraph

Essay writing
Introduction

CV and job application

Translation skills
Urdu to English

Study skills
Skimming and scanning, intensive and extensive, and speed reading,
summary and précis writing and comprehension
Academic skills
Letter/memo writing, minutes of meetings, use of library and internet

Presentation skills
Personality development (emphasis on content, style and pronunciation)
Note: documentaries to be shown for discussion and review
Recommended books:
Communication Skills
a) Grammar
1. Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet.
Exercises 2. Third edition. Oxford University Press 1986. ISBN 0 19
431350 6.

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b) Writing
1. Writing. Intermediate by Marie-Chrisitine Boutin, Suzanne Brinand
and Francoise Grellet. Oxford Supplementary Skills. Fourth
Impression 1993. ISBN 019 435405 7 Pages 45-53 (note taking).
2. Writing. Upper-Intermediate by Rob Nolasco. Oxford
Supplementary Skills. Fourth Impression 1992. ISBN 0 19 435406 5
(particularly good for writing memos, introduction to presentations,
descriptive and argumentative writing).

c) Reading
1. Reading. Advanced. Brian Tomlinson and Rod Ellis. Oxford
Supplementary Skills. Third Impression 1991. ISBN 0 19 453403 0.
2. Reading and Study Skills by John Langan
3. Study Skills by Riachard Yorky.

Semester III
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Technical Writing and Presentation Skills

U

Objectives: Enhance language skills and develop critical thinking

Course Contents
U

Presentation skills
Essay writing
Descriptive, narrative, discursive, argumentative

Academic writing
How to write a proposal for research paper/term paper
How to write a research paper/term paper (emphasis on style, content,
language, form, clarity, consistency)

Technical Report writing

Progress report writing

Note: Extensive reading is required for vocabulary building

Recommended books:
Technical Writing and Presentation Skills

a) Essay Writing and Academic Writing

1. Writing. Advanced by Ron White. Oxford Supplementary
Skills. Third Impression 1992. ISBN 0 19 435407 3
(particularly suitable for discursive, descriptive, argumentative
and report writing).

2. College Writing Skills by John Langan. Mc=Graw-Hill Higher

Education. 2004.

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and Stephen R. Mandell. St. Martin’s Press.

b) Presentation Skills
c) Reading
The Mercury Reader. A Custom Publication. Compiled by norther
Illinois University. General Editiors: Janice Neulib; Kathleen Shine
Cain; Stephen Ruffus and Maurice Scharton. (A reader which will
give students exposure to the best of twentieth century literature,
without taxing the taste of engineering students).

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 Annex “B”
Pakistan Studies (Compulsory)
(A Compulsory Subject for Degree Students)

Introduction / Objectives

Objectives

• Develop vision of historical perspective, government, politics,

contemporary Pakistan, ideological background of Pakistan.
• Study the process of governance, national development, issues
arising in the modern age and posing challenges to Pakistan.

Course Outline
U

1. Historical Perspective
a. Ideological rationale with special reference to Sir Syed Ahmed Khan,
Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
b. Factors leading to Muslim separatism
c. People and Land
i. Indus Civilization
ii. Muslim advent
iii. Location and geo-physical features.

2. Government and Politics in Pakistan

Political and constitutional phases:

a. 1947-58
b. 1958-71
c. 1971-77
d. 1977-88
e. 1988-99
f. 1999 onward

3. Contemporary Pakistan
a. Economic institutions and issues
b. Society and social structure
c. Ethnicity
d. Foreign policy of Pakistan and challenges
e. Futuristic outlook of Pakistan

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Books Recommended
1. Burki, Shahid Javed. State & Society in Pakistan, The Macmillan Press
Ltd 1980.
2. Akbar, S. Zaidi. Issue in Pakistan’s Economy. Karachi: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
3. S.M. Burke and Lawrence Ziring. Pakistan’s Foreign policy: An
Historical analysis. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1993.
4. Mehmood, Safdar. Pakistan Political Roots & Development. Lahore,
1994.
5. Wilcox, Wayne.The Emergence of Banglades., Washington: American
Enterprise, Institute of Public Policy Research, 1972.
6. Mehmood, Safdar. Pakistan Kayyun Toota, Lahore: Idara-e-Saqafat-e-
Islamia, Club Road, nd.
7. Amin, Tahir. Ethno - National Movement in Pakistan, Islamabad:
Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad.
8. Ziring, Lawrence. Enigma of Political Development. Kent England:
WmDawson & sons Ltd, 1980.
9. Zahid, Ansar. History & Culture of Sindh. Karachi: Royal Book
Company, 1980.
10. Afzal, M. Rafique. Political Parties in Pakistan, Vol. I, II & III.
Islamabad: National Institute of Historical and cultural Research, 1998.
11. Sayeed, Khalid Bin. The Political System of Pakistan. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
12. Aziz, K.K. Party, Politics in Pakistan, Islamabad: National Commission
on Historical and Cultural Research, 1976.
13. Muhammad Waseem, Pakistan Under Martial Law, Lahore: Vanguard,
1987.
14. Haq, Noor ul. Making of Pakistan: The Military Perspective. Islamabad:
National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, 1993.

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 Annex “C”
COURSES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE
U

Sociology and Development

U

Objectives: The main objective of this course is to apprise potential engineers

about social factors that contribute towards enhancing their professional
performance for the good of society and the country. This course is culture
specific and has to be taught within the context of local and national socio-
economic environment. The engineers are expected to supervise several people
in different capacities and their understanding about human behaviour is critical
for their optimum performance. Modification of human behaviour or getting work
done from sub-ordinates and seniors remain a major challenge for all the
professional engineers. This course will enhance understanding about the
determinants of human behaviour, which ultimately will result in improved
individual efficiency.

Course Contents
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1. Introduction to Sociology
1.1 What is sociology?
1.2 Nature, scope, and importance of sociology
1.3 Social interactions
1.4 Social groups
1.5 Social institutions
2. Culture and Related Concepts
2.1 Definition of culture
2.2 Types of culture
2.3 Elements of culture
2.4 Role of culture in organization
2.5 Socialization and personality
3. Interpersonal Relations
3.1 Interpersonal behaviour
3.2 Formation of personal attitudes
3.3 Language and communication
3.4 Motivations and emotions
3.5 Public opinion
4. Social Stratification
4.1 Factors of social stratification
4.2 Caste and class
4.3 Power, prestige, and authority
4.4 Social mobility
4.5 Migration
5. Human Ecology
5.1 Ecological processes
5.2 Ecosystem and energy
5.3 Ecosystem and physical environment
5.4 Solid waste disposal
5.5 Pollution

6. Population Dynamics
6.1 World population growth and distribution
6.2 Population dynamics in Pakistan
6.3 Causes and consequences of urbanization
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6.5 Population and development
7. Community Development
7.1 Meaning, scope, and subject matter of community development
7.2 Processes of community development
7.3 Community development programs in Pakistan
7.4 Community organization and related services
7.5 Cooperation and conflict in community development

8. Deviance and Crime

8.1 Crime as a social and cultural phenomenon
8.2 Crime and social organization
8.3 Organized crime
8.4 Culture based crime
8.5 Economics of crime

9. Sociology of Change and Development

9.1 What is social change and development?
9.2 Dynamics of social change
9.3 Role of NGOs in development
9.4 World system and development
9.5 Gender and development

Recommended Readings

1. Allport, G. W. (1985). The Historical Background of Modern Social

U

Psychology. New York, Random House.

U

2. Bernard, A. and T. Burgess (2004). Sociology, Cambridge University Press. U U

3. DuBrin, A. J. (2007). Human Relations: Interpersonal Job Oriented Skills.

U U

New York, Prentice Hall.

4. Gardezi, H. N., Ed. (1991). Understanding Pakistan: The Colonial Factor in
U

Societal Development. Lahore, Maktaba Fikr-o-Danish.

U

5. Hafeez, S. (1991). Changing Pakistan Society. Karachi, Royal Book

U U

Company. Gardezi, H. N., Ed. (1991).

6. Jones, G. W. (2005). "Why are Population and Development Issues not
Given Priority?" Asia-Pasific Population Journal 20(1).
U U

7. Macionis, J. J. (1999). Sociology 7th Edition, National Book Foundation,

U UP UP U

Islamabad
8. Maser, C. (1997). Sustainable Community Development: Principles and
U

Concepts. Plorida St. Lucie Press.

U

9. Nelson, N. and S. Wright (1995). Power and Participatory Development:

U

Theory and Practice. London, Intermediate Technology Publications.

U

10. Syed, S. H. (2003). The State of Migration and Multiculturalism in Pakistan:

The Need for Policy and Strategy. Islamabad, UNESCO: 1-30.
11. Utton, A. E. (1976). Human Ecology, West View Press.
U U

12. Webster, A. (1990). Introduction to Sociology of Development. London,

U U

Nacmillan Education Ltd.

13. Weiss, A. M. (2001). Power and civil society in Pakistan, Oxford University
U U

press.

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 Social Anthropology
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Objectives: The students are expected to learn anthropological skills for

application by professional engineers and other related practitioners. Societal
growth needs are to be understood within our own cultural environment. Such a
body of applied knowledge will result in improving the professional performance of
would-be engineers. As culture and society play an important role towards all
human activities, this course will help students relate technical skills to the societal
needs and requirements.

Course Contents
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I Introduction
1. Anthropology and social anthropology
2. Fields of anthropology
3. Anthropological research methods
4. Social anthropology and other social sciences
5. Significance of social anthropology

II Culture
1. Definition, properties and taxomony
2. Evolution of growth and culture
3. Evolution of man: Religious and modern perspectives
4. Evolution of culture
5. Culture and personality

III Evolution and Growth of Culture

1. Evolution of man
2. Schools of thought in cultural anthropology
3. Acculturation
4. Enculturation
5. Ethnocentrism and xenocentrism

IV Language and Culture

1. Communication
2. Structural linguistics
3. Historical linguistics
4. Relationship between language and culture
5. Ethnography

V Economic System
1. Global economic system
2. The allocation of resources
3. The conversion of resources
4. The distribution of goods and services
5. Poverty and inequality

VII Marriage and Family

1. Marriage and mate selection
2. The family: Types and functions
3. Kinship system
4. Structure and function of family
5. Gender Relations

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VIII Political Organization

1. Political sociology
2. Origin of political organization and organizational system
3. Types of political organizations
4. Power politics and factionalism in Pakistan
5. Resolution of conflict

IX Religion and Magic

1. The universality of religion
2. Comparative religions
3. Religion and society
4. Religious beliefs and practices
5. Witchcraft and sorcery

XI Culture Change
1. Forms of art
2. Expressive culture
3. Process of cultural change
4. Cultural change in the modern world
5. Cultural change in Pakistani society

Recommended Books
1. Ahmad, Akbar S. 1990. Pakistani Society, Karachi, Royal Books Co.
2. Bernard, H. Russel. 1994. Research Methods in Anthropology, Qualitative and
Quantitative Approaches. London: Sage Publications
3. Bodley, John H. 1994. Cultural Anthropology, California: Mayfield Publishing
Co.
4. Brogger, Jan. 1993. Social Anthropology and the Lonely Crowd. New Delhi:
Reliance Publishing
5. Ember, Carol R. & Ember Melvin. 2005. Anthropology, 11th ed. Englewood P P

Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Ince. Harper and Row

6. Harris Marvin. 1987. Cultural Anthropology. New York: Harper and Row
7. Harris Marvin. 1985. Culture, People, nature; An Introduction to General
Anthropology London: Harper and Row
8. Haviland, W. A. (2005). Anthropology: The Human Challenge. New York,
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Thomson Learning Inc.

9. Hertzler J. O. 1981. The Social Structure of Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
10. Keesing, Roger m. 1998. Cultural Anthropology: A contemporary perspective.
3rd ed. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
P P

11. Kottak, Conard Phillip. 2002. Anthropology: The Exploration of Human

Diversity. 9th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education.
P P

12. Kennedy, Charles H. 1992. Pakistan London: Westview Press,.

13. Marron, Stanley. 1057. Pakistani Society and Culture. New Heaven
14. Wilson, Richard A. 1996. Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological
Perspective. London: Pluto Press.

Understanding Psychology and Human Behaviour

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Course Contents
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- What is psychology?
- Nature, scope and application with special reference to Pakistan
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 - Different schools of psychology
- Methods of psychology
- Learning
- Intelligence and artificial intelligence
- Personality and its assessment
- Understanding maladjustive behaviour
- Positive emotional states and processes
- Stress management and anger management
Books Recommended
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1. Atkinson R.C., & Smith E.E. (2000), Introduction to Psychology (13th ed.),
P P

Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

2. Fernald, L.D., & Fernald, P.S. (2005), Introduction to Psychology, USA:
WMC Brown Publishers.
3. Hergenhahn, B.R. (2001). An Introduction to the History of Psychology,
New York: Wadsworth.
4. Goodwin, C.J, (2000) Research in Psychology: Methods and Design, (3rd P P

ed.), New York: John Wiley & Sons.

5. Synder, C.R., & Lopez, S.J. (2007) Positive Psychology, USA, Sage
Publications.
6. Allen, B.P. (1997), Personality Theories: Development, Growth and
Diversity, (2nd Ed.), Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
P P

7. Cohen, R.J., & Swerdlik, M.E. (2005) Psychological Testing & Assessment
(6th ed.), New York: McGraw-Hill.
P P

8. Corcini, R., (2000). Current Psychotherapies. London: Thompson & Co

Publishers.
9. Comer, R.J. (2004). Abnormal Psychology, USA: Freeman & Company.
10. Schwartz, B., Wassernman, E., & Robbins, S. (2002), Psychology of
Learning and Behaviour, 5th Ed. Norton and Company.
P P

Professional Psychology
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Course Contents
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- Introduction to professional psychology

- Psychological testing
- Educational psychology
- Industrial/organizational psychology
- Social psychology
- Health psychology
- Clinical psychology
- Positive psychology
- Legal, ethical, and professional issues.

Books Recommended
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1. Crow, L., & Crow, A. (2000) Educational Psychology, New Delhi: Eurosia
Publishing House Ltd.
2. Spiegel, P.K., & Koocher, G.P. (1998), Ethics in Psychology, New York:
Oxford University Press
3. Snyder, C.R., & Lopes, S.J. (2000), Handbook of Positive Psychology, New
York: Oxford University Press.
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 4. Compton, W.C. (2005), Introduction to Positive Psychology, USA, Thomson
Wadsworth.
5. Debra, L.N. & James Compbell Quick, (2000) Organizational Behaviour (3rdP P

ed), Cincinnat: South Western.

6. Fred Luthans, Alexander, D.S. & Edwin, A. Locke (2000) (Eds), Handbook
of Principles of Organizational Behaviour, London: Blackwell.
7. Brannon, L.& Reist, J. (2000), Health Psychology: An Introduction to
Behaviour and Health (4th ed.), USA Wadsworth.
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8. Donohue, W. & Ferguson, K. (Eds), (2003), Handbook of Professional

Ethics for Psychologists; Issues, Questions and Controversies, London:
Sage Publications.
9. Meyers, D. (2005), Social Psychology, 8th Ed. McGraw Hill Inc.
P P

10. Cooper, J. & Hogg, M. (2003) Handbook of Social Psychology, Sage

Publications
11. Halgin, R.P., Whitbourne, S.K., & Halgin, R. (2004), Abnormal Psychology:
Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders, New York: McGraw
Hill.
12. Thorndike R.L., & Hage, E.P. (1995), Measurement and Evaluation in
Psychology and Education (4th Ed), New York, MacMillan.
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Organizational Behaviour
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Course Contents
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• Introduction to organizational behaviour

o Organizational disciplines and topics
o Psychological perspective
o Social-psychological perspectives

• Structure and control in organization

o Introduction
o Bureaucracy
o Managerial work
o Contingency theory
o Organizational design

• Individual and work learning

o Learning theories
o Learning and work

• Stress
o Types of stress and work
o Occupational stress management

• Individual differences
o Personality and its factors
o Personality dimensions and social learning
o Intelligence

• Motivation and job satisfaction

o Needs at work
o Theories of motivation and job satisfaction
o Correlates of job satisfaction
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 o Correlates of job satisfaction

• Group and work

o Social interaction
o Dramaturgy and impression management
o Social skill

• Group and inter-group behaviour

o Group structure and norms
o Group processes
o How throne studies

• Leadership
o Leadership as an attribute
o Leadership style

• Patterns of work
o Work-the classical approach
o Marx, Weber, and the critique of labor
o Foucault and disciplinary power

• Conflict and consent in work

o The labor process debate
o Work place control and resistance
o Industrial conflict and industrial relations

• Organizational culture
o Organizational culture and strategic management
o Exploring organizational culture
o Evaluating concept of culture

Books Recommended:
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1. Finchan, R., & Rhodes, P. (2003), Principles of Organizational Behaviour, 3rd

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Oxford.
2. Noe, R., Hollenbeck, J. Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. (2006), Human Resource
Management, 5th ed., McGraw Hill.
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3. Newstrom John W. (2007), Organizational Behaviour, (12th Ed), McGraw Hill.

P P

4. Luthan Fred, (2005), Organizational Behaviour, McGraw Hill Inc.

5. Robins, Stephen, (2005), Organizational Behaviour, McGraw Hill Inc.

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
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Course Contents
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• The Nature of sociology

o The study of social life
o Exploring the global village
o Sociology as a science
o The sociological imagination
o The development of sociology
o Pioneers of sociology
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 o Nature, scope and subject matter of sociology
o Brief historical development of sociology
o Society and community
o Relationship with other social sciences
o Social interaction processes

• Social groups
o Definition and functions
o Types of social groups

• Social institutions
o Definition
o Structure and function of social institutions
o Inter-relationships among various social institutions

• Culture and related concepts

o Definition and aspects of culture
o Elements of culture
o Organization of culture
o Other concepts, cultural relativism, sub cultures, ethnocentrism, culture
lag

• Socialization and personality

o Role and status
o Socialization
o Culture and personality

• Deviance and social control

o Definition and types of deviance
o Juvenile delinquency
o Formal and information methods of social control

• Social stratification
o Approach to study social stratification
o Caste class and race as basics of social stratification

• Major perspectives in sociology

o Functionalist perspective
o Conflict perspective
o Interactionstic perspective

• Social control and deviance

o Agencies of social control

• Social stratification
o Determinants of social stratification
o Social mobility, types and definition
o Dynamics of social mobility

• Concept of social movement

o Theories of social movement
o Social and cultural change

• Social and cultural change

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 o Definition of social change
o Dynamics of social change
o Impact of globalization on society and culture
o Resistance to change

• Collective behaviour
o Definition
o Characteristics
o Causes
o Types
o Social movements
o Mob and crowd behaviour

Books Recommended
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1. Neulreck, Kenneth, J. 2005, Sociology: Diversity, Conflict and Change,

Boston
2. Barnard, Andy. 2004. Sociology, Cambridge University Press
3. Giddens, Anthony, 2004, Sociology 4th edition, Cambridge Polity Press
P P

4. Albrow, Martin, 2003, Sociology, London Routledge.

5. Richard, T. Schaefer, 2003, Sociology5th edition, McGraw Hill College
P P

6. Kendall, Diana, 2004. Sociology in our Times, 4th ed, Wadsworth

P P

7. Tyler Melissa, Wallace Claire & Abbott Pamela, 2005, An Introduction to

Sociology, 3rd ed. Routledge.
P P

Critical Thinking
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Course Contents
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• The Power of critical thinking

o Claims and reasons
o Reasons and arguments
o Arguments in the rough

• The Environment of critical thinking

o Perils of haunted mind
o Self and the power of the group
o Subjective and social relativism
o Skepticism

• Making sense of arguments

o Arguments basics
o Patterns
o Diagramming arguments
o Assessing long arguments

• Reasons for belief and doubt

o Conflict experts and evidence
o Personal experience
o Fooling ourselves
o Claims in the news

• Faulty reasoning
o Irrelevant premises
o Genetic fallacy, composition, division
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 o Appeal to the person, equivocation, appeal to popularity
o Appeal to tradition, appeal to ignorance, appeal to emotion
o Red herring, straw man

• Unacceptable premises
o Begging the question, false dilemma
o Slippery slope, hasty generalization
o Faulty analogy

• Deductive reasoning: Propositional logic

o Connectives and truth values
o Conjunction, disjunction, negation
o Conditional, checking for validity
o Simple arguments, tricky arguments
o Streamlined evaluation

• Deductive reasoning: Categorical logic

o Statements and classes
o Translations and standard form
o Terms, quantifiers
o Diagramming categorical statements
o Sizing up categorical syllogisms

• Inductive reasons
o Enumerative induction
o Sample size, representativeness, opinion polls
o Analogical induction
o Casual arguments, testing for causes
o Casual confusions

• Inference to the best explanation

o Explanations and inference
o Theories and consistency
o Theories and criteria
o Testability, fruitfulness, scope, simplicity
o Conservatism

• Judging scientific theories

o Science and not science
o The scientific method, testing scientific theories
o Judging scientific theories
o Copernicus versus Ptolemy, evolution versus creationism
o Science and weird theories
o Making weird mistakes
o Leaping to the weirdest theory, mixing what seems with what is
o Misunderstanding the possibilities
o Judging weird theories
o Crop circles, talking with the dead

BOOKS RECOMMENDED
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1. Vaughn Lewis, 2005, The Power of Critical Thinking, Oxford University

Press.

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 2. Paulsen David W., Cederblom Jerry:2000, Critical Reasoning,
Wadsworth
3. Restall Greg. 2005, Logic: An Introduction, Routledge

Introduction To Philosopy
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Course Contents
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• Definition and nature of philosophy

• Theory of knowledge
o Opinion and knowledge
o Plato, the republic selection
o Knowledge through reason
o Descartes meditation on first philosophy
o Knowledge through experience
o Hume an Inquiry concerning human understanding (Selection)
o Experience structured by the mind
o Kant critique of pure reason (Selection)
o Knowing and doing
o James pragmatism (Selection)
o Knowledge and emotion
o Jaggar love and knowledge (Selection)

• Philosophy of religion
o Proving the existence of God
o Anselm, Aquinas, Paley, Dawkins (Selection)
o Justifying religious beliefs
o Pascal Pensees (Selection)
o James The will to believe selection
o Freud The future of an illusion (Selection)
o Confronting the problems of evil
o Mackie Evil and omnipotence (Complete)
o Hick Philosophy of religion (Selection)

• Metaphysics
o Idealism and materialism
o Berkeley Three dialogues between Hylas and Pholonous (Selection)
o Armstrong Naturalism, materialism and first philosophy (Selection)
o The mid-body problem
o Descartes Meditations on first philosophy (Selection)
o O’Hear Introduction to the philosophy of science (Selection)
o Dennett The origins of selves (Complete)
o Pali Canon (Selection)
o Penelhum Religion and rationality (Selection)

• Freedom to Choose
o Libertarianism
o James The dilemma of determinism (Selection)
o Taylor Metaphysics (Selection)
o Determinism
o Hospers Meaning and free will (Selection)
o Skinner Walden Two (Selection)
o Compatibilism
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 o Stace Religion and the modern mind (Selection)
o Radhakrishnan Indian philosophy (Selection)

• Ethics
o Fulfilling Human Nature
o Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (selection)
o Loving God
o Augustine The Morals of the Catholic Church and the City of God
(Selection)
o Following Natural Law
o Aquinas Summa Theologiae (Selection)
o Doing One’s Duty
o Kant Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (Selection)
o Maximizing Utility
o Mill Utilitarianism (Selection)
o Turning Values of Upside Down
o Nietzsche Human, All too Human and Beyond Good and Evil
(Selection)
o Creating Ourselves
o Sartre Existentialism is a Humanism (Selection)
o Hearing the Feminine Voice
o Gilligan In a Different Voice (Selection)
o Baier What do Women Want in a Moral Theory (Selection)

• Political and Social Philosophy

o The State as Natural
o Plato the Republic (Selection)
o Aristotle Politics (Selection)
o The State as a Social Contract
o Hobbes Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
(Selection)
o Locke the Second Treatise of Government (Selection)
o Liberty of the Individual
o Mill On Liberty (Selection)
o Alienation in Capitalism
o Marx Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Selection)
o Justice and Social Trust
o Rawls A Theory of Justice (Selection)
o Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Selection)
o Held Rights and Goods (Selection)
o Women in Society
o Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Selection)
o De Behaviour The Second Sex (Selection)
o The Value of Philosophy
o Russel The Problems of Philosophy (Selection)
o Midgley Philosophical Plumbing (Selection)

BOOKS RECOMMENDED
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1. Abel Donald C., Stumpf Samuel Enoch, 2002. Elements of Philosophy:

An Introduction, 4th Ed. McGraw Hill.
P P

2. Scruton Roger, 2001. A short History of Modern Philosophy, 2nd ed.

P P

Routledge.

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 MANAGEMENT COURSES
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Entrepreneurship
U

Objective:
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Entrepreneurship is an important component in the process of economic

development. The purpose of this course is to analyse the theories of
entrepreneurship and to go for case studies of successful entrepreneurs.

Course Contents:
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Introduction: The concept of entrepreneurship, The economist view of

entrepreneurship, The sociologist view, Behavioural approach,
Entrepreneurship and Management

The Practice of Entrepreneurship: The process of entrepreneurship,

Entrepreneurial Management, The entrepreneurial business,
Entrepreneurship in service institutions, The new venture

Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The innovation concepts, Importance

of innovation for entrepreneurship, Sources of innovative opportunities, The
innovation process, Risks involved in innovation

Developing Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurial profile, Trait approach to

understanding entrepreneurship, Factors influencing entrepreneurship, The
environment, Socio cultural factors, Support systems

Entrepreneurship Organization: Team work, Networking organization,

Motivation and compensation, Value system

Entrepreneurship and SMES: Defining SMEs, Scope of SMEs,

Entrepreneurial, managers of SME, Financial and marketing problems of
SMEs

Entrepreneurial Marketing: Framework for developing entrepreneurial

marketing, Devising entrepreneurial marketing plan, Entrepreneurial
marketing strategies, Product quality and design

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Role of entrepreneur in

the economic development generation of services, Employment creation
and training, Ideas, knowledge and skill development, The Japanese
experience

Case Studies of Successful Entrepreneurs

Text Books:
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• Paul Burns and Jim Dew Hurst: Small Business and

Entrepreneurship
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 • P.N. Singh: Entrepreneurship fo0r Economic Growth
• Peter F. Drucker: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Peter F. Drucker
• John B. Miner: Entrepreneurial Success

Principles Of Management
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Objectives:
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This is a rudimentary course for the students of business administration.

The focus of attention will be given to learning fundamental principles of
management and of managing people and organization in a historical as
well as contemporary world. Students are expected to develop analytical
and conceptual framework of how people are managed in small, medium
and large public and private national and international organizations.

Course Contents:
U

• Introduction, overview and scope of discipline

• The evolution and emergence of management thought
• Management functions
• Planning concepts, objectives, strategies and policies
• Decision making
• Organizing; departmentalization, line/staff authority, commitments
and group decision making
• Staffing: principles of selection, performance, career planning
• Leading: Motivation, leadership, communication
• Controlling: the system and process and techniques of controlling
• Management and Society: future perspective

Text Books:
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• Stephen P. Robins, Mary Coulter: Management

• H. Koontz Odonnel and H. Weihrich: Management
• Mc Farland: Management: Foundation and Practice
• Robert M. Fulmer: The New Management

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 ANNEX- ‘D’

ISLAMIC STUDIES
(Compulsory)

Objectives:
This course is aimed at:
1 To provide Basic information about Islamic Studies
2 To enhance understanding of the students regarding Islamic Civilization
3 To improve Students skill to perform prayers and other worships
4 To enhance the skill of the students for understanding of issues related
to faith and religious life.

DETAIL OF COURSES
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INTRODUCTION TO QURANIC STUDIES

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1) Basic Concepts of Quran

2) History of Quran
3) Uloom-ul -Quran

STUDY OF SELLECTED TEXT OF HOLLY QURAN

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1) Verses of Surah Al-Baqra Related to Faith(Verse No-284-286)

2) Verses of Surah Al-Hujrat Related to Adab Al-Nabi
(Verse No-1-18)
3) Verses of Surah Al-Mumanoon Related to Characteristics of faithful (Verse
No-1-11)
4) Verses of Surah al-Furqan Related to Social Ethics (Verse No.63-77)
5) Verses of Surah Al-Inam Related to Ihkam(Verse No-152-154)

STUDY OF SELLECTED TEXT OF HOLLY QURAN

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1) Verses of Surah Al-Ihzab Related to Adab al-Nabi (Verse

No.6,21,40,56,57,58.)
2) Verses of Surah Al-Hashar (18,19,20) Related to thinking, Day of
Judgment
3) Verses of Surah Al-Saf Related to Tafakar,Tadabar (Verse No-1,14)

SEERAT OF HOLY PROPHET (S.A.W) I

U

1) Life of Muhammad Bin Abdullah ( Before Prophet Hood)

2) Life of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) in Makkah
3) Important Lessons Derived from the life of Holy Prophet in Makkah

SEERAT OF HOLY PROPHET (S.A.W) II

U

1) Life of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) in Madina

2) Important Events of Life Holy Prophet in Madina
3) Important Lessons Derived from the life of Holy Prophet in Madina

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INTRODUCTION TO SUNNAH
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1) Basic Concepts of Hadith

2) History of Hadith
3) Kinds of Hadith
4) Uloom –ul-Hadith
5) Sunnah & Hadith
6) Legal Position of Sunnah

SELLECTED STUDY FROM TEXT OF HADITH

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INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC LAW & JURISPRUDENCE

1) Basic Concepts of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
2) History & Importance of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
3) Sources of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
4) Nature of Differences in Islamic Law
5) Islam and Sectarianism

ISLAMIC CULTURE & CIVILIZATION

1) Basic Concepts of Islamic Culture & Civilization
2) Historical Development of Islamic Culture & Civilization
3) Characteristics of Islamic Culture & Civilization
4) Islamic Culture & Civilization and Contemporary Issues

ISLAM & SCIENCE

1) Basic Concepts of Islam & Science
2) Contributions of Muslims in the Development of Science
3) Quranic & Science

ISLAMIC ECONOMIC SYSTEM

1) Basic Concepts of Islamic Economic System
2) Means of Distribution of wealth in Islamic Economics
3) Islamic Concept of Riba
4) Islamic Ways of Trade & Commerce

POLITICAL SYSTEM OF ISLAM

1) Basic Concepts of Islamic Political System
2) Islamic Concept of Sovereignty
3) Basic Institutions of Govt. in Islam

ISLAMIC HISTORY
1) PERIOD OF KHLAFT-E-RASHIDA
2) PERIOD OF UMMAYYADS
3) PERIOD OF ABBASIDS

SOCIAL SYSTEM OF ISLAM

1) BASIC CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL SYSTEM OF ISLAM
2) ELEMENTS OF FAMILY
3) ETHICAL VALUES OF ISLAM

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1) Hameed ullah Muhammad, “Emergence of Islam” , IRI,
Islamabad
2) Hameed ullah Muhammad, “Muslim Conduct of State”
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3) Hameed ullah Muhammad, ‘Introduction to Islam
4) Mulana Muhammad Yousaf Islahi,”
5) Hussain Hamid Hassan, “An Introduction to the Study of Islamic Law”
leaf Publication Islamabad, Pakistan.
6) Ahmad Hasan, “Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence” Islamic Research
Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad (1993)
7) Mir Waliullah, “Muslim Jrisprudence and the Quranic Law of Crimes”
Islamic Book Service (1982)
8) H.S. Bhatia, “Studies in Islamic Law, Religion and Society” Deep & Deep
Publications New Delhi (1989)
9) Dr. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, “Introduction to Al Sharia Al Islamia” Allama
Iqbal Open University, Islamabad (2001)

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 RECOMMENDATIONS
Any curriculum needs its implementation in its true spirit to achieve its
objectives. The National Curriculum Revision Committee on Electronic
Engineering has the following recommendations in this regard:

• The faculty members should pay particular attention to the

development of problem-solving skills in the students from the first
semester. Special assignments and projects may be stressed to
achieve this objective. It should be emphasized that the objective of
the course and laboratory work is to develop the skills that enable the
students to solve real-life problems.
• The development of independent thinking and leadership skills is very
important. The faculty members should keep this objective in mind in
the course and laboratory work, and particularly in the projects.
• The projects should involve analysis, design, and hardware, and the
faculty members should encourage the students to select projects
from the industry.
• The students should be required to make presentations on their
projects and the people from the industry should be invited to these
presentations.
• The students should get practical experience during the course of
studies. The educational institutions and faculty members should help
the students to get meaningful internships in the government and
industry. A formal procedure should be established which engages
both faculty members and relevant people from the government and
industry to review the progress of the students. The students should
be required to write reports and give presentations at the end of their
internships.
• The core courses are recommended to be included in the curricula in
all universities of Pakistan and a set of electives may be chosen to
fulfill the complete curriculum requirements. The electives proposed
by the committee may not be considered as complete. Universities
may introduce additional electives according to the areas of expertise
of their faculty members and research facilities.
• All undergraduate subjects may not be coupled with laboratories.
Laboratories may be offered as separate courses and should cover
the scope of more than one course. However, the courses, which
cannot be properly covered independently without laboratories,
should continue according to the present arrangement.
• The faculty members should be encouraged to frequently attend
short courses, seminars and workshops which may be arranged
locally or internationally by various agencies.

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 SCHEME OF STUDIES FOR GRADUATE DEGREES
Semester I Semester II
Code Course Title CR Code Course Title CR
EE-501 Semiconductor 3 EE-503 IC Design 3
Materials and
Technology
EE-502 Electronic Systems 3 EE-504 Digital Integrated 3
Design Circuits for
Communication
EE-5XX Elective-I 3 EE-5XX Elective-II 3
Total 9 Total 9

Semester IV Semester III

Code Course Title CR Code Course Title CR
EE-
Elective-III 3 EE-5XX Elective-IV 3
5XX
EE-
Thesis * 3 EE-599B Thesis * 3
599A
Total 6 Total 6

Total Credit Hours = 30

* The duration of the thesis should be at least two semesters.

Areas of Specialization:

1. Semiconductor Materials, Devices, and Design

2. Electronic Systems Engineering
3. Power Electronics
4. Bio-Electronics

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 Graduate Elective Courses
Semiconductor Materials, Devices and Design
EE-5XX Solid-State Electronics (3) *
P P

EE-5XX Semiconductor Devices and Technology (3)

EE-5XX Compound Semiconductor Devices (3)
EE-5XX Optoelectronic Devices (3)
EE-5XX Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Devices (3)
EE-5XX Semiconductor Material Characterization (3)
EE-5XX Semiconductor Device Reliability (3)
EE-5XX Introduction to MEMS Design and Micromachining (3)
EE-5XX Nanotechnology (3)
EE-5XX Linear Integrated Circuits (3)
EE-5XX Advanced VLSI Design (3)
EE-5XX Fiber Optics and Integrated Optics (3)
EE-5XX Special Topics in Semiconductor Materials and Devices (3)

Electronic Systems Engineering

EE-5XX Advanced Digital Control (3)
EE-5XX Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems (3)
EE-5XX Microprocessor-Based System Design (3)
EE-5XX Advanced FPGA-Based Design (3)
EE-5XX Instrumentation and Systems (3)
EE-5XX Multirate Systems and Filter Banks (3)
EE-5XX Special Topics in Electronic Systems Engineering (3)

Power Electronics
EE-5XX Power Electronic Devices (3)
EE-5XX AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC Converters (3)
EE-5XX Control of DC Machine Drives (3)
EE-5XX Control of AC Machine Drive (3)
EE-5XX Switched-Mode Converter Analysis and Design (3)
EE-5XX Special Topics in Power Electronics (3)

Bio-Electronics
EE-5XX Biomedical Materials and Sensors (3)
EE-5XX Bio-Instrumentation Design (3)
EE-5XX Bio-Electric Signal Analysis and Interpretation (3)
EE-5XX Diagnostic Imaging Systems (3)
EE-5XX Special Topics in Bio-Medical Electronics (3)
*
P P – (3 Credit-hour course)

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 Details of Graduate Core Courses
EE-501 Semiconductor Materials and Technology 3
Prerequisite: BH-140 Applied Physics
EE-4XX Microelectronic Technology
Objective: Review the theory of solid-state physics and teach the
materials and processes used in fabrication of solid-state devices.
Course Outline:
Theory of solid-state physics to give basic information necessary to
understand device physics; semiconductor heterojunctions; PN
junction operation; BJT operation, forward current, base
recombination current, uniform and nonuniform doping, planar BJT
structures, limitations of simple analytical BJT models; Schottky-
barrier contacts; ohmic contacts; MOS structure, capacitance, MOS
electronics, oxide and interface charge; charge coupled devices; basic
theory of MOSFET and its parameters, MOSFET design; quantum
wires, quantum dots, resonant tunneling diodes, single-electron
transistors, computation by single spin; fabrication techniques of
semiconductor devices: fundamental principles of "front-end"
processes used in the fabrication of devices for silicon integrated
circuits including advanced physical models and practical aspects of
major processes such as oxidation, diffusion, ion implantation, and
epitaxy; issues in modern device scaling.
Recommended Books:
• Donald A. Neamen, “Semiconductor Physics and Devices,” Third
Edition, 2003, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072321075.
• James D. Plummer, Michael D. Deal and Peter B. Griffin, “Silicon
VLSI Technology: Fundamentals, Practice, and Modeling,” 2001,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130850373.
• Betty Lise Anderson and Richard L. Anderson, “Fundamentals of
Semiconductor Devices,” First Edition, 2005, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:
0072369779.
• Richard S. Muller and Theodore I. Kamins, “Device Electronics
for Integrated Circuits,” Third Edition, 2003, John Wiley & Sons,
ISBN: 0471593982.

EE-502 Electronic Systems Design 3

Objective: Teach the methods and tools for the design of analog and
digital electronic systems.
Course Outline:
System design based on quantitative performance concepts; design
of electronic systems using discrete devices; integrated circuits
including analog, digital, and hybrid circuits; linear and nonlinear
amplifiers; active filters; signal generators; signal modulators;
switched-mode power converters and analog/digital data conversion;
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microprocessor-based and microcomputer-oriented subsystems;
design of continuous and digital control systems using modern
analytic and computer design tools.
Recommended Books:
• C. D. Motchenbacher and J. A. Connelly, “Low-Noise Electronic
H H H H

System Design,” 1993, John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471577421.

• Kenneth R. Laker and Willy M. C. Sansen, “Design of Analog
H H H H

Integrated Circuits and Systems,” 1994, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:

007036060X.
• Mohamed Rafiquzzaman, “Introduction to Microprocessors and
H H

Microcomputer-Based System Design,” Second Edition, 1995,

CRC Press, ISBN: 0849344751.
• Steve Heath, “Embedded Systems Design,” Second Edition,
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2002, Newnes, ISBN: 0750655461.

• Rob A. Rutenbar, Georges G. E. Gielen and Brian A. Antao,
H H H H H H

“Computer-Aided Design of Analog Integrated Circuits and

Systems,” 2002, Wiley-IEEE Press, ISBN: 047122782X.
• Charles L. Phillips and H. Troy Nagle, “Digital Control System
Analysis and Design,” Third Edition, 1995, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
013309832X.

EE-503 IC Design 3
Objective: Teach the simulation and design of application-specific
integrated circuits.
Course Outline:
Different ASIC design styles and technologies, design flow, full-
custom/semi-custom circuit techniques, layout of full-custom CMOS
ICs, simulation (different types and levels), design-for-test, use of full-
custom IC design tools.
Recommended Books:
• Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikolic
“Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective,” Second
Edition, 2003, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130909963.
• Neil H. E. Weste and David Harris, “CMOS VLSI Design,” Third
Edition, 2005, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0321149017.
• Michael John Sebastian Smith, “Application Specific Integrated
Circuits,” 1997, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0201500221.

Digital Integrated Circuits for

EE-504 3
Communication
Prerequisite: EE-503 IC Design
Objective: Cover the static and dynamic latches and registers,
memories, drivers, and buffers. Teach the considerations, such as
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in the design and applications of digital integrated circuits.
Course Outline:
Dynamic CMOS design; dynamic logic: Basic principles, speed and
power dissipation of dynamic logic, issues in dynamic design,
cascading dynamic gates. Designing logic for reduced supply
voltages; static latches and registers; bistability principle; multiplexer-
based latches; low-voltage static latches; static SR Flip-Flops – writing
data by pure force; dynamic latches and registers; dynamic
transmission; C2MOS – clock-skew insensitive approach; true single-
phase clocked register (TSPCR); alternative register styles; pulse
registers, sense-amplifier based registers; pipelining: an approach to
optimize sequential circuits; latch- vs. register-based pipelines;
NORA-CMOS – logic style for pipelined structures; non-bistable
sequential circuits; Schmitt trigger; monostable sequential circuits;
astable circuits; memory core; read-only memories; nonvolatile read-
write memories; read-write memories (RAM); contents-addressable or
associative memory (CAM); memory peripheral circuitry; address
decoders; sense amplifiers; voltage references; drivers/buffers; timing
and control; memory reliability and yield; signal-to-noise ratio; memory
yield; power dissipation in memories.
Recommended Books:
• Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikolic,
“Digital Integrated Circuits,” Second Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0130909963.
• Mohab Anis and Mohamed Elmasry, “Multi-Threshold CMOS
Digital Circuits: Managing Leakage Power,” 2003, Springer, ISBN:
1402075294.
• John E. Ayers, “Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design,”
2003, CRC Press, ISBN: 084931951X.

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 Details of Graduate Elective Courses
Semiconductor Materials, Devices and Design

EE-5XX Solid-State Electronics 3

Objective: Teach the fundamentals of solid-state physics including
quantum mechanics, Schrodinger representation of quantum effects,
effective mass theorem, Boltzman transport theory, and
semiconductor devices.
Course Outline:
Atomic physics, lattices, quantum mechanics, phonons, scattering,
study of the electron and hole processes in solids, solutions to
Schrodinger representation of quantum effects, perturbation
techniques, simple band structure, effective mass theorem, derivation
and application of Boltzman transport theory, electrical and thermal
conductivities of metals and semiconductors, Hall effect and thermal
effects with applications to electronic devices, properties of
semiconductors and theories underlying the characteristics of
semiconductor devices.
Recommended Books:
• Charles Kittel, “Introduction to Solid State Physics,” Eighth
Edition, 2004, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471680575.
• Michael Shur, “Physics of Semiconductor Devices,” First Edition,
1990, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0136664962.
• Ben G. Streetman and Sanjay Banerjee, “Solid State Electronic
Devices,” Sixth Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 013149726X.

EE-5XX Semiconductor Devices and Technology 3

Prerequisite: EE-5XX Solid-State Electronics
Objective: Teach the physics, principles of operation, fabrication, and
packaging of semiconductor devices.
Course Outline:
Energy bands and carrier concentrations in semiconductors; motion of
charge carriers in solids; p-n junction; junction transistor; light emitting
diode; photodiode; junction lasers; MOSFETs, MESFETs, factors
limiting the performance of each type of device along with their
optimization trends and on-going search for novel device structures;
fabrication technology for microelectronic devices: crystal growth,
wafer fabrication and characterization, mask fabrication, epitaxy,
lithography, etching, diffusion, CVD, ion implantation, packaging.
Recommended Books:
• Simon M. Sze and Kwok K. Ng, “Physics of Semiconductor
Devices,” Third Edition, 2006, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:
0471143235.
• Ben G. Streetman and Sanjay Banerjee, “Solid State Electronic
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EE-5XX Compound Semiconductor Devices 3

Prerequisite: EE-5XX Solid-State Electronics
Objective: Teach the physics, electronic properties, and processing of
compound semiconductors (III-V and II-VI).
Course Outline:
Direct and indirect bandgap semiconductors; physics of compound
semiconductors (III-V and II-VI); electronic properties and their
importance to compound semiconductors; optical processes in
compound semiconductors; importance of III-V and II-VI devices in
photonics; optoelectronics devices and integrated circuits; preparation
and processing of compound semiconductors; techniques for
preparation of p- and n-type materials of compound semiconductors;
theory of heterojunctions, quantum structures and pseudomorphic
strained layers; metal-semiconductor field effect transistors
(MESFETs); heterojunction field-effect transistors (HFETs) and bipolar
transistors (HBTs); photodiodes, quantum well heterostructure lasers,
and other optoelectronic devices.
Recommended Books:
• Paul H. Holloway and Gary E. McGuire, “Handbook of Compound
Semiconductors - Growth, Processing, Characterization, and
Devices,” 1995, Noyes Publications, ISBN: 0815513747.
• Joachim Piprek, “Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices:
Introduction to Physics and Simulation,” 2003, Academic Press,
ISBN: 0125571909.

EE-5XX Optoelectronic Devices 3

Objective: Teach optoelectronic devices including lasers, optical
detectors, optical fiber couplers, optical modulators, and optical
amplifiers.
Course Outline:
Fundamentals of semiconductor devices; p-n junctions; hetrojunction
and double hetrojunction; basics of laser physics: spontaneous and
stimulated emission, Einstein relation, population inversion, optical
pumping, light amplification, resonators and modes; light sources;
light emitting diodes (LEDs); laser diodes; different types of
semiconductor laser sources; optical detectors: p-n junction diodes,
PIN diodes, avalanche photodiodes, optical switches, optical fiber
couplers; noise considerations and performance parameters; optical
modulators, for example, electro-optical and acousto-optic
modulators; optical amplifiers; GRI lenses.
Recommended Books:
• Bhattacharya “Semiconductors Optoelectronic Devices,” Second
Edition, Pearson Education India, ISBN 817758166X.
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 • Gerd Keiser, “Optical Fiber Communications,” Third Edition, 2000,
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McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072360763.

• John M. Senior, “Optical Fiber Communications: Principles and
Practice”, 2nd Edition, 1992, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0136354262.

Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor

EE-5XX 3
Devices
Prerequisite: EE-5XX Solid-State Electronics
Objective: Review semiconductor physics and basic semiconductor
equations, and teach the development of models to simulate various
semiconductor devices.
Course Outline:
Review of semiconductor physics; basic semiconductor equations;
numerical methods applied for scaling of variables and parameters:
Newton-Raphson method of solving nonlinear algebraic equations,
iterative and other methods; error estimation; Monte Carlo simulation:
Boltzmann transport equation; electron motion in the momentum
space; scattering processes; mean velocity; device modeling and
simulation of p-n junctions: potential barriers, static properties,
reverse-biased junctions, avalanche and zener breakdowns,
Shockley-Hall-Read Model, I-V characteristics, charge storage and
transients, numerical simulation of p-n junctions; device modeling and
simulation of BJT: Early effect, emitter biases, base transit time-
charge control model, simulation of BJTs; device modeling and
simulation of MOS: model of charges in gate oxides, modeling of
charges in accumulations, depletion, and inversion conditions,
capacitance, threshold voltage adjustment; device modeling and
simulation of MOSFET: basic theories and models, MOSFET
parameters, short and narrow channel effects, hot carriers, simulation
of MOSFET characteristics, adjustment of threshold voltage, model
design of MOSFET; modeling and simulation of CMOS
characteristics, CMOS design; HBT: bandgap engineering, material
parameters, modeling of HBT characteristics.
Recommended Books:
• Richard S. Muller and Theodore I. Kamins, “Device Electronics
for Integrated Circuits,” Third Edition, 2003, John Wiley & Sons,
ISBN: 0471593982.
• Christopher M. Snowden, “Introduction to Semiconductor Device
Modelling,” 1987, World Scientific Publishing Company, ISBN:
9971501422.

EE-5XX Semiconductor Material Characterization 3

Objective: Teach the techniques for structural, optical, and other
characterization of semiconductor materials.
Course Outline:

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x-ray scattering, low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), electron
microscopy, scanning electron microscope, scanning probe
microscope, techniques for optical and other characterization of
semiconductor materials, photoluminescence, x-ray photoelectron
scattering (XPS), Auger electron scattering (AES), secondary ion
mass scattering (SIHS).
Lab Outline:
Measurement and characterization based on any above-mentioned
techniques.
Recommended Book:
• Dieter K. Schroder, “Semiconductor Material and Device
Characterization,” 1998, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0071402144.

EE-5XX Semiconductor Device Reliability 3

Objective: Teach the concepts of reliability and failure physics,
degradation mechanisms and reliability of semiconductor devices,
accelerated testing, and failure analysis.
Course Outline:
Overview of semiconductor devices and technology; overview of
reliability and failure physics; defects and contaminants, and their
effect on yield; mathematics of failure and analysis; degradation
mechanisms in semiconductor devices; degradation of contacts and
package interconnections; compound semiconductor reliability for
microwave field effect transistors and heterojunction bipolar
transistors; latch-up and IC degradation; reliability of optoelectronic
components (lasers, photodetectors, optical interconnects); power
device reliability; accelerated testing; failure analysis and
characterization techniques.
Recommended Books:
• Milton Ohring, “Reliability and Failure of Electronic Materials and
Devices,” 1998, Academic Press, ISBN: 0125249853.

Introduction to MEMS Design and

EE-5XX 3
Micromachining
Objective: Teach the principles of operation, design, modeling,
micromachining, and fabrication of MEMS devices.
Course Outline:
MEMS devices: MEMS operating principle (electrostatic,
piezoresistive, thermal), applications, accelerometers/combdrive, RF
switch, micromirror. Design: Scaling issues, system-level design
(behavioral modeling) using SPICE, 2D layout design (L-Edit Layout
tool, design rule checking, design verification), 3D modeling with
process emulation, physical level simulation and analysis (Finite
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technologies: Micromachining techniques (deposit, etch,
photolithography), CMOS compatible bulk micromachining, surface
micromachining.
A surface micromachining technology PolyMUMPs will be studied with
description of technology file development in L-Edit layout tool.
Various MEMS devices will be fabricated in PolyMUMPs process.
Recommended Books:
• Chang Liu, “Foundation of MEMS,” First Edition, 2006, Prentice
Hall, ISBN: 0131472860.
• Stephen D. Senturia, “Microsystem Design,” First Edition, 2000,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: 0792372468.
• Marc J. Madou, “Fundamentals of Microfabrication: The Science
of Miniaturization,” Second Edition, 2002, CRC Press, ISBN:
0849308267.
• Tai-Ran Hsu, “MEMS and Microsystems: Design and
Manufacture,” First Edition, 2001, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:
0072393912.
• M. Elwenspoek and H. Jansen, “Silicon Micromachining,” 1998,
Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 052159054X.
• Nadim Maluf and Kirt Williams, “An introduction to
Microelectromechanical Systems Engineering,” 2004, Artech
House Publishers, ISBN: 1580535909.

EE-5XX Nanotechnology 3+0

Prerequisite: Instructor consent.
Objective: Introduce nanotechnology and teach the properties of
nanoparticles, carbon nanostructures, bulk nanostructured materials,
quantum nanostructures, self-assembly and catalysis, and
nanomachines and nanodevices.
Course Outline:
Introduction to the physics of solid state: Structure, energy bands,
localized particles. Methods of measuring properties: Structure,
microscopy, spectroscopy. Properties of individual nanoparticles:
Metal nanoclusters, semiconducting nanoparticles, rare gas and
molecular clusters. Carbon nanostructures: Carbon molecules, carbon
clusters, carbon nanotubes, applications of carbon nanotubes. Bulk
nanostructured materials: Solid disordered structures, nanostructured
crystals. Nanostructured ferromagnetism. Quantum wells, wires and
dots: Preparation of quantum nanostructures, size and dimensionality
effects, excitons, single-electron tunneling, superconductivity,
applications. Self-assembly and catalysis. Organic compounds and
polymers: Forming and characterizing polymers, nanocrystals,
polymers, supramolecular structures. Nanomachines and
nanodevices: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS),
nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), molecular and
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Recommended Books:
• Charles P. Poole Jr. and Frank J. Owens, “Introduction to
Nanotechnology,” 2003, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471079359.
• Massimiliano Di Ventra, Stephane Evoy and James R. Heflin Jr.
(Editors), “Introduction to Nanoscale Science and Technology,”
2004, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: 1402077203.
• Mark A. Reed and Takhee Lee (Editors), “Molecular
Nanoelectronics,” 2003, American Scientific Publishers, ISBN:
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1588830063.

EE-5XX Linear Integrated Circuits 3

Objective: Teach the design of linear integrated circuits including the
design of amplifiers, operational amplifiers, current mirrors, output
stages, reference circuits, and DC power supplies for linear integrated
circuits.
Course Outline:
Design of linear integrated circuits applying modern MOS and BJT
integrated circuit technologies: Single-stage amplifiers, current-mirror
DC bias and active load circuits, stability and frequency compensation
of single-stage and two-stage operational amplifiers, output stages,
current and voltage reference circuits. Introduction to linear integrated
circuit devices: IC operational amplifier, inverting and non-inverting
operational amplifier configurations. Dealing with practical operational
amplifiers: Instrumentation amplifiers, isolation amplifiers, non-
operational IC linear amplifiers. High frequency, VHF, UHF and
microwave linear IC devices, IC waveform generators and wave-
shaping circuits, DC power supplies for linear integrated circuits.
Recommended Books:
• Behzad Razavi, “Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits”,
First Edition, 2001, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072380322.
• Paul R. Gray, Paul J. Hurst, Stephen H. Lewis and Robert G.
Meyer, “Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits”,
Fourth Edition, 2001, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471321680.
• Joseph J. Carr and Joe Carr, “Linear Integrated Circuits,” 1996,
Newnes, ISBN: 0750625910.

EE-5XX Advanced VLSI Design 3

Objective: Teach VLSI synthesis and design tools, languages for VLSI
synthesis, algorithm simulation and code generation, and design tools
for application specific instruction processors.
Course Outline:
Design methodology for ASIC and FPGA implementations; high-level
VLSI synthesis and design tools including Mentor Graphics; FPGA
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including VHDL; high-level DSP algorithm simulation and code
(VHDL) generation using Xilinx StateCAD, LabVIEW FPGA, and
ModelSim; design and analysis of algorithm-specific VLSI processor
architectures; implementation of pipelined and systolic processor
structure; techniques for mapping numerical algorithms onto custom
processor arrays including application specific instruction processors
(ASIPs); design tools for ASIPs including transport triggered
architecture; high-level design frameworks for systems containing
custom and general-purpose units.
Recommended Books:
• William J. Dally and John W. Poulton, “Digital Systems
Engineering,” 1998, Cambridge University Press, ISBN:
0521592925.
• Behzad Razavi, “Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits,”
First Edition, 2001, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072380322.
• Shih-Chii Liu, Jörg Kramer, Giacomo Indiveri, Tobias Delbrück
T

and Rodney Douglas, “Analog VLSI: Circuits and Principles,”

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2002, MIT Press, ISBN: 0262122553.

• Wayne Wolf, “FPGA-Based System Design,” First Edition, 2004,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: ISBN: 0131424610.
• Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikolic,
“Digital Integrated Circuits,” Second Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0130909963.

EE-5XX Fiber Optics and Integrated Optics 3

Objective: Teach optical fiber waveguides, optical propagation, losses
in optical propagation, optical fiber parameter measurement, and fiber
optic communication systems.
Course Outline:
Optical fiber waveguide, ray theory for transmission, electromagnetic
mode theory for optical propagation, cylindrical fiber, single mode fiber
transmission characteristics of optical fibers, attenuation, material
absorption losses in silicon glass fibers, scattering losses, overall fiber
dispersion, optical fiber parameter measurement, optical time-domain
reflectometry, fiber optic communication systems, optical fiber sensor
technology, modes of optical fiber and coupled mode analysis of
passive optical fiber devices, pulse propagation in optical fibers and
its application to communication systems.
Recommended Books:
• John M. Senior, “Optical Fiber Communications: Principles and
Practice”, 2nd Edition, 1992, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0136354262.
• Gerd Keiser, “Optical Fiber Communications,” Third Edition, 2000,
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McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072360763.

• Harold Kolimbiris, “Fiber Optics Communications,” First Edition,
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• Djafar
H Mynbaev H and HLowell Scheiner,
H “Fiber-Optic
Communications Technology,” First Edition, 2001, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0139620699.

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 Electronic Systems Engineering
EE-5XX Advanced Digital Control 3
Objective: Teach z transform theory, design of digital control systems,
stability analysis, microprocessor implementation of digital filters and
controllers, computer control of feedback systems, optimal control,
fuzzy logic, and robust control.
Course Outline:
Overview of linear discrete dynamic systems and z-transform theory,
design of digital filters, z-plane analysis and design of digital control
systems using conventional techniques and state-space methods,
stability analysis techniques, parameterization of stable digital control
systems, compensator design, digital controller design, quadratic
optimal control, pole-assignment design and state estimation,
microprocessor implementation of digital filters and controllers,
sample-data systems, sampling and reconstruction, quantization
effects, computer control of feedback systems, performance of digital
control system, overview to multivariable and optimal control, system
identification, fuzzy logic, adaptive filtering, non-linear systems, robust
control.
Recommended Books:
• Charles L. Phillips and H. Troy Nagle, “Digital Control System
Analysis and Design,” Third Edition, 1995, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
013309832X.
• Dogan Ibrahim, “Microcontroller Based Applied Digital Control,”
2006, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0470863358.
• Katsuhiko Ogata, “Discrete-Time Control Systems,” Second
Edition, 1995, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130342815.
• Gene F. Franklin, Michael L. Workman and Dave Powell, “Digital
Control of Dynamic Systems,” Third Edition, 1997, Addison
Wesley, ISBN: 0201820544.
• Benjamin C. Kuo, “Digital Control Systems,” Second Edition,
1995, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195120647.

Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic

EE-5XX 3
Systems
Objective: Teach the modeling and simulation of various engineering
systems to study the dynamic characteristics of systems and enable
the students to design systems.
Course Outline:
Overview of dynamic systems: Introduction to modeling and
simulation, models for dynamic systems and system similarity.
Modeling of engineering systems: Mechanical systems, electrical
systems, fluid systems, thermal systems, mixed discipline systems.
System dynamic response analysis: Frequency response, time
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design and selection of components.
Recommended Books:
• Finn Haugen, “Dynamic Systems: Modeling, Analysis and
Simulation,” 2004, Tapir Academic Press, ISBN: 8251919266.
• Robert H. Woods and Kent L. Lawrence, “Modeling and
Simulation of Dynamic Systems,” 1997, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0133373797.

EE-5XX Microprocessor-Based System Design 3

Objective: Teach the architecture, programming, interfacing, and
applications of microprocessors.
Course Outline:
Architecture, instruction cycle, registers and stacks, external interface,
register architecture, external interface, addressing modes, branching
and conditions, stack commands, subroutines, port I/O, interrupts,
internal operation of processor, register transfer logic, instruction
formats, microcode, timing diagrams, design techniques such as
pipelining, other microprocessors, addressing modes, instruction sets,
timing , high-level languages: programming in C, design of systems,
memory, static/dynamic RAM, technology and timing, ROM, PROMs,
EPROMs, PLAs, DMC chips address decoding, EDAC I/O, parallel
and serial I/O, DMA, interrupts and interrupt control circuits,
microcomputer buses, system bus, bus interface and arbitration
circuits bus standards, peripherals, keyboards, CRT controllers,
printers, secondary memory, A/D and D/A conversions, data
acquisition systems using microprocessors.
Recommended Books:
• David J. Comer, “Microprocessor-based System Design,” 1996,
Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0030637813.
• Muhammad Ali Mazidi and Janice Gillispie-Mazidi, “80X86 IBM
PC and Compatible Computers: Assembly Language, Design,
and Interfacing Volumes I & II,” Fourth Edition, 2003, Prentice
Hall, ISBN: 013061775X.

EE-5XX Advanced FPGA-Based System Design 3

Prerequisite: EE-4XX FPGA-Based System Design
Objective: Introduce the students to logic synthesis and FPGA
implementation tools and methods.
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This course introduces logic synthesis, implementation, and SoC

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design concepts. The course is project oriented where students will

take designs from concept to Verilog HDL description to verification
using simulation and synthesis, and finally to programmable device
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During the first part of the course, students will implement a few
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projects, each more complex than the last, culminating in a complete

SoC design incorporating an 8-bit microprocessor and peripherals.
The first project, a simple FSM, serves to introduce students to logic
synthesis and FPGA implementation tools and methods, and how to
use the input/outputs devices (such as buttons and LEDs) on the
FPGA development board. The second project introduces SoC
concepts such as on-chip processor, memory and peripheral
interfacing, and hardware-software trade-offs. The third project adds a
graphics sub-system to the SoC enabling students to display their
design results on a CRT monitor. This lab sequence goes in step with
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lectures on programmable chip architectures, logic synthesis, SoC

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concepts, and the Verilog synthesizable subset, including design

examples. T

During the final part of the course, after mid-semester examination,

the students will work in teams of two to complete an advanced FPGA
design project of their choice. The final project will be more complex
than any of the three previously assigned projects. There will be no
scheduled lectures during this portion of the course, but the
instructors are required to be available to guide the students.
Recommended Books:
• Wayne Wolf, “FPGA-Based System Design,” 2004, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0131424610.
• Samir Palnitkar, “Verilog HDL: A Guide to Digital Design and
Synthesis,” Second Edition, 2003, Prentice Hall, ISBN: T T

0130449113.
• Michael D. Ciletti, “Advanced Digital Design with the Verilog
HDL,” First Edition, 2003, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130891614.

EE-5XX Instrumentation and Systems 3

Objective: Teach the methods for the measurement and control of
systems including numeric control systems, programmable controllers,
and distributed systems.
Course Outline:
Study of automatic testing of electronic devices, physical properties
and their measurement, different types of field instrumentation,
industrial electronic circuit applications, interfacing process variables,
motor control and servo systems, servo amplifiers and drives, numeric
control systems, programmable controllers and distributed control
systems.
Recommended Books:
• Chester L. Nachtigal, “Instrumentation and Control: Fundamentals
and Applications,” 1990, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471880450.
• Mike Tooley, “PC Based Instrumentation and Control,” Third

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• W. Bolton, “Programmable Logic Controllers,” Third Edition, 2003,
Newnes, ISBN: 0750659866.
• Thomas E. Kissell, “Industrial Electronics: Applications for
Programmable Controllers, Instrumentation and Process Control,
and Electrical Machines and Motor Controls,” Third Edition, 2003,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130602418.

EE-5XX Multirate Systems and Filter Banks 3

Objective: Teach multirate signal processing, multirate filter banks,
wavelet transforms, and applications of multirate filter banks.
Course Outline:
Review of discrete-time systems and digital filters, multirate signal
processing, multirate operations, interconnection of building blocks in
multirate systems, multirate filter banks and perfect reconstruction
systems, polyphase representation, structures for decimation and
interpolation filters, paraunitary filter banks, wavelet transforms and
relation to multirate filter banks, applications of multirate systems,
maximally decimated filter banks, filters of QMF type, Johnston's
filters.
Recommended Books:
• P. P. Vaidyanathan, “Multirate Systems and Filter Banks,” 1993,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0136057187.
• N. J. Fliege, “Multirate Digital Signal Processing: Multirate
Systems - Filter Banks - Wavelets,” 1999, John Wiley & Sons,
ISBN: 0471492043.

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 Power Electronics
EE-5XX Power Electronic Devices 3
Objective: Teach the structures, principles of operation,
characteristics, and cooling of semiconductor power devices.
Course Outline:
Physical construction, operation and characteristics of power diode,
power diode static and dynamic modeling, diode behavior with
resistive and inductive loads, fast recovery diodes, physical
construction, operation and characteristics of power thyristor, SCR
static and dynamic modeling, GTO construction and operation, GTO
static and dynamic characteristics, GTO modeling, physical
construction and operation of power BJT, static and dynamic
characteristics of power BJT, construction and operation of MOSFET,
static and dynamic characteristics of IGBT, IGBT modeling, thermal
calculations and heat sink designing.
Recommended Books:
• John G. Kassakian, Martin F. Schlecht and George C. Verghese,
“Principle of Power Electronics,” First Edition, 1991, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0201096897.
• B. W. Williams, “Power Electronics: Devices, Drivers,
Applications, and Passive Components,” Second Edition, 1992,
McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070704392.

EE-5XX AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC Converters 3

Objective: Teach the analysis and design of various types of rectifier
and inverter circuits.
Course Outline:
Overview of converters; single- and three-phase rectifier and inverter
circuits; voltage- and current-source inverters; series and parallel
connections of multi-step converters; effect of overlap and output
voltage; freewheeling current; three-pulse, six-pulse, twelve-pulse and
twenty-four-pulse circuits; load voltage and current harmonics;
displacement factor and power factor; controlled converters; full-cycle
and half-cycle control; PWM converters; unity power factor and
leading power factor control; drive circuits for BJTs, IGBTs,
MOSFETs, GTOs and thyristors; cycloconverters.
Recommended Books:
• Cyril W. Lander, “Power Electronics,” Third Edition, 1993,
McGraw-Hill UK, ISBN: 0077077148.
• John G. Kassakian, Martin F. Schlecht and George C. Verghese,
“Principle of Power Electronics,” First Edition, 1991, Prentice Hall,
ISBN: 0201096897.

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 EE-5XX Control of DC Machine Drives 3
Objective: Teach the construction, principles of operation,
characteristics, and methods for electronic control of different types of
DC electrical machines.
Course Outline:
DC machine fundamentals, torque and speed characteristics of DC
machine, DC motor drive, four-quadrant operation, speed control of
DC motor, field weakening, traction drive, dynamic modeling of DC
motor and drive, PID control, stability of DC motor control, phase-
locked loop control of DC motor, brushless motor fundamentals, types
of brushless DC motors, control of brushless DC motors, construction
and operation of SRM, control of switched reluctance motor.
Recommended Books:
• P. C. Sen, “Thyristor DC Drives,” 1991, Krieger Publication Co,
ISBN: 0894646087.
• Bimal K. Bose, “Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives,” 2001,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130167436.

EE-5XX Control of AC Machine Drives 3

Category:
Objective: Teach the construction, principles of operation,
characteristics, and methods for electronic control of different types of
AC electrical machines.
Course Outline:
AC machine fundamentals, torque production in induction motors,
equivalent circuit analysis, variable-voltage operation, variable-speed
operation, harmonic effect, dynamic modeling of inverter-machine, slip
power control, scalar methods, vector control methods, adaptive
control.
Recommended Books:
• Bimal K. Bose, “Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives,” 2001,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130167436.
• Peter Vas, “Vector Control of AC Machines,” 1990, Oxford
University Press, ISBN: 0198593708.

Switched-Mode Converter Analysis and

EE-5XX 3
Design
Objective: Teach the analysis and design of switched-mode
converters including the selection of topology, semiconductor devices,
capacitors, magnetic components, snubber circuits, feedback loop
design, cooling, circuit layout, and EMI.
Course Outline:

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converters, applications of converters, fundamental switching
regulators: buck, boost, push-pull, forward and flyback converter
topologies; half-bridge and full-bridge converter topologies; current-
mode and current-fed topologies; analysis and design of PWM
converters including the selection of semiconductor devices and
capacitors, magnetic and circuit designs, switching losses and
snubber design, design of control circuits, design of feedback loop,
feedback loop stabilization, thermal management, measurement of
performance, and fundamentals of circuit layout and EMI.
Recommended Books:
• Robert W. Erickson and Dragan Maksimovic, “Fundamentals of
Power Electronics,” Second Edition, 2001, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, ISBN 0792372700.
• Abraham I. Pressman, “Switching Power Supply Design”, Second
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Edition, 1998, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070522367.

• Martin Brown, “Practical Switching Power Supply,” 1990,
Academic Press, ISBN: 0121370305.

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 Bio-Electronics
EE-5XX Biomedical Materials and Sensors 3
Objective: Teach biomedical materials, selection and design of
biomedical materials for implants, and design and analysis of
biomedical sensing and transducing components.
Course Outline:
Molecular structure-property relationships in biomaterials; focus on
polymers, metals, ceramics, composites, and biodegradable
materials; selection, design and function of biomedical materials for
implants: bioelectrical and biomechanical concepts; biomedical
imaging for flow properties of blood and material-tissue interaction;
sensors and their characteristics; design of artificial biomaterials for
biosensors; principles of biologically-based sensing elements and
interfacing techniques; design and analysis methods of biosensing
and transducing components.
Recommended Books:
• Gabor Harsanyi, “Sensors in Biomedical Applications:
Fundamentals, Technology and Applications,” 2000, CRC Press,
ISBN: 1566768853.
• Roderic S. Lake and Joon B. Park, “Biomaterials: An
introduction,” Second Edition, 1992, Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers, ISBN: 0306439921.
• P. I. Haris and D. Chapman, “New Biomedical Materials,” 1998,
IOS Press, ISBN: 905199365X.
• Joon B. Park and Joseph D. Bronzino, “Biomaterials: Principles
and Applications,” 2002, CRC Press, ISBN: 0849314917.
• John G. Webster, “Bioinstrumentation,” 2003, John Wiley & Sons,
ISBN: 0471452572.

EE-5XX Bio-Instrumentation Design 3

Prerequisite: EE-4XX Biomedical Instrumentation
Objective: Teach methods for the measurement and analysis of
biological systems including cardiopulmonary support, blood pressure
and sound measurements, blood flow and volume measurements,
respiratory system measurements, biotelemetry, and microprocessor-
based biomedical instrumentation.
Course Outline:
Theory of measurement and analysis of biological systems;
characteristics of bioelectric signals; recording electrodes; biopotential
amplifiers; basic sensors; chemical, pressure, sound, and flow
transducers; electrophysiology and electromyography, and
interpretation; instrumentation; cardiopulmonary support; blood
pressure and sound measurement; blood flow and volume
measurement; respiratory system measurements; biotelemetry:
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 transmission and reception aspects of biological signals; aspects of
patient care monitoring; electronic circuit design and construction;
analog/digital signal acquisition and processing; microprocessor-
based biomedical instrumentation; basic principles of hardware and
software designs for interfacing biomedical sensors to
microprocessors; signal transduction and transfer functions;
measurement principles; biological signals: temperature, displacement
and force; flow measurements; blood volume; bio-potential: ECG,
EMG, EEG; bio-potential electrode; spectroscopic methods for
analysis of molecule in biomedicine; oxygenation and pulse oximeter;
microscopy; data reduction; surface analysis; fluorescence
measurements; single-molecule detection.
Recommended Books:
• R. S. Khandpur, “Biomedical Instrumentation: Technology and
Applications,” First Edition, 2005, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:
0071447849.
• John G. Webster, “Medical Instrumentation: Application and
Design,” Third Edition, 1997, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:
0471153680.
• L. A. Geddes and L. E. Baker, “Principles of Applied Biomedical
Instrumentation,” Third Edition, 1989, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN:
0471608998.

Bio-Electric Signal Analysis and

EE-5XX 3
Interpretation
Prerequisite: EE-311 Signal Processing
Objective: Teach bio-electric signal processing and analysis,
biomedical signal characterization in time and frequency domain,
short-time Fourier transform, chaotic models, and chaotic time series
analysis.
Course Outline:
Theoretical concepts and experimental approaches used to
characterize electric phenomena in live cells and tissues; excitable
membrane; action potential generation; cable theory; equivalent
dipoles and volume conductor fields; introduction to bio-electric signal
processing and analysis; fundamental techniques to analyze and
process signals that originate from biological sources such as ECGs,
EMGs, EEGs, blood pressure signals; physiological knowledge with
the information useful for physiologic investigation, medical diagnosis
and processing; biomedical signal characterization in time and
frequency domain; deterministic and stochastic signal analysis
methods; short-time Fourier transform; spectrogram; wavelet signal
decomposition; characterization of signal dynamics: chaotic,
stochastic, fractal (self similar); introduction to simple chaotic models;
chaotic time series analysis techniques based on delayed coordinate
embedding; concept and measures of signal complexity; statistical
analysis techniques; probability density functions; moments; concept
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identification and modeling; Volterra and Wiener series.
Recommended Books:
• Eugene N. Bruce, “Biomedical Signal Processing and Signal
Modeling,” 2001, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471345407.
• D. C. Reddy, “Biomedical Signal Processing: Principles and
Techniques,” 2005, Tata McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070583889.
• Isak Gath and Gideon F. Inbar, “Advances in Processing and
Pattern Analysis of Biological Signals,” 1996, Springer, ISBN:
0306452154.
• Metin Akay, “Detection and Estimation Methods for Biomedical
Signals,” 1996, Academic Press, ISBN: 0120471434.
• Metin Akay, “Time Frequency and Wavelets in Biomedical Signal
Processing,” 1998, IEEE Press, ISBN: 0780311477.

EE-5XX Diagnostic Imaging Systems 3

Objective: Teach medical imaging techniques and their applications,
concepts and instrumentation of modern medical imaging modalities,
and recent advances in digital diagnostic imaging systems.
Course Outline:
Introduction to physical and mathematical bases of medical imaging
techniques and their applications; underlying concepts and
instrumentation of modern medical imaging modalities; design and
operation of diagnostic imaging systems including fluoroscopy, digital
subtraction angiography, mammography, computed tomography (CT),
positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI), computed radiography, ultrasound; recent advances in digital
diagnostic imaging systems including digital subtraction angiography
(DSA) methods of producing three-dimensional images.
Recommended Books:
• Jerry L. Prince and Jonathan Links, “Medical Imaging Signals and
Systems,” First Edition, 2005, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130653535.
• Macovski, “Medical Imaging Systems,” First Edition, 1983,
Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0135726859.
• Z. H. Cho, Joie P. Jones and Manbir Singh, “Foundations of
Medical Imaging,” 1993, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471545732.
• Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, “Digital Image
Processing,” Second Edition, 2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0201180758.

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