Semester I

Module Code:                                   SOE3161

Module Title:                                      Research methodology

Level, semester                                  III,   I

Academic year:                                  2017/2018

Lecturer           :                                  James Ntaganda

Contacts           :                                  n.jemmy@yahoo.com

Office                :                                  KIST 1, 307

Class                 :                                   3^rd year ETE and EPE (Full time)

ASSESSMENT MODES

Component                                                             Weighting (%)

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In-course assessment:    

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Assignment, quiz                                                              20%

Project proposal format                                                30%

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Report submission (30%) presentation (20%):            50%

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Total                                                                                  100%

AIM:

The content of this course aims at equipping the senior undergraduate students with research skills and tools. It has been designed for third year students to assist them in their final year projects in fourth year. The course is spread into bands of several chapters as reflected from the table of contents

The module of Electrical Installation and Schematics imparts to students the theoretical and practical fundamentals necessary to design and draw electrical schematics for various design in electrical installation. It provides practical reinforcement of the theoretical material through laboratory sessions and introduces students to the conventions of technical report writing. After completion of the course students will have acquired not only skills in installation and schematics but also knowledge of international standards.

This module aims to equip the student with a basic understanding of modern power semiconductor devices. It is also intended for students who may want to work in environments where all aspects of the design, application and maintenance of power electronic converter circuits are envisaged. The course will familiarize students with the many diverse power semiconductor devices and their ancillary control circuits at both low and high power levels and prepare them with the requisite design and performance analysis skills for some of these circuits.

The aim of the is to introduce the fundamental concepts of the classical analog modulation systems, associated theory of noise and radio transmitter and receivers. It also helps the students to learn in detail the building blocks of radio transmitters and receivers and noise performance of receivers

Course Name: ETE 3164 Digital Communications

Course Information

• The course is given for the program:Undergraduate/Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
• Credit units: 10
• Contact hours: 36  
• Study term: Term 1
• Place: University of Rwanda, College of Science and Technology, Nyarugenge Campus
• Responsible lecturer:Charles Kabiri, PhD
• Syllabus: Available

 Course objective:

In the last few decades, digital communication has drastically improved our quality of life. Amenities such as fax machines, pagers, cell phones, and internet, are now considered indispensable. None of them are possible without digital communication. 

This course explores elements of the theory and practice of digital communications. The course will 1) model and study the effects of channel impairments such as noise and distortion, on the performance of communication systems; 2) introduce signal processing, modulation, and coding techniques that are used in digital communication systems. 

Course Aim

Upon completion of this course, the student would able to understand and apply  the fundamentals of Digital communications and technical concepts of mobile and wireless systems, including system design fundamentals, standards and trends in Digital Communications.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course the student will be able to:

-      Analyze signals in both the time domain and frequency domain through a clear understanding of the relationship between the domains.

-      Analyze random signals in terms of probability distributions, power spectral densities and correlation.

-      Understand the need for modulation in communications.

-      Determine power and bandwidth of analogue modulated signals.

-      Understand methods for modulating and demodulating analogue signals.

-      Understand pulse code modulation techniques for converting an analogue signal to a digital signal. 

-      Understand methods for modulating and demodulating analogue signals.

-      Characterize the performance of digital sources using information theoretic concepts. 

-      Determine the information capacity of digital communication systems

-      Calculate the noise budget of communication systems

-      Analyze the effects of noise in digital modulation systems 

-      Analyze and characterize the performance of forward error correction systems used in digital communication systems.

-      Understand optimum receiver theory and signal space concepts.

-      Perform a system level design of digital communication systems.

This module aims to study the filters and their implementation using passive and active networks, to learn the approximation of ideal filters (Butterworth, Chebyshev, elliptic function), to understand normalization and denormalization of filters and, to realize filters using active and passive filters.

The aim of this module is to be aware of power system components, understand the
stability of a power system, study the effects of load characteristics on the power systems
operations, control frequency and Voltage, conduct load management principles, and
functions of load dispatching centres.

The aim of this course is to teach students about the power and efficiency of Microelectronics and how they are used in every days modern electronics applications whereby the integrated circuits are embedded and silently achieving tremandous amount of work inside  systems in which they are hosted. In fact ,in early 1960s, a new field of microelectronics was born primarily to meet the requirements of the Military which wanted to reduce the size of its electronic equipment to approximately one-tenth of its then existing volume.  This drive for extreme reduction in the size of electronic circuits has led to the development of microelectronic circuits called integrated circuits (ICs) which are so small that their actual construction is done by technicians using high powered microscopes.

ICs are produced by the same processes as are used for manufacturing individual transistors and diodes etc.  In such circuits, different components are isolated from each other by isolation diffusion within the crystal chip and are interconnected by an aluminum layer that serves as wires.

A discrete circuit, on the other hand, is one that is built by connecting separate components.   In this case, each component is produced separately and then all are assembled together to make the electronic circuit.

To put it very briefly, an integrated circuit (IC) is  just a packaged electronic circuit.

An IC is a complete electronic circuit in which both the active and passive components are fabricated on a tiny single chip of silicon. Active components are those which have the ability to produce gain.

This module provides the students with sound knowledge in the basic concepts of linear control theory and design of control system. It covers Control System Modeling, Time Response Analysis of systems, Frequency response Analysis, and Study of Stability of Systems in time and frequency domains, Analysis of Digital Control Systems and the Study of Compensation techniques.

To provide Students with the clear understanding of the concepts of AC machines and their constructional details, principle of operation and performance analysis. Learn the characteristics of induction and synchronous machines and how they can be employed for various applications, explain how motor speed can be varied and be able to list common types of single phase motors. Acquire the skill for different types of wiring and devices connections and the capability to analyze the operation of electric machines under different loading conditions.

A microprocessor  is a multipurpose programmable logic device which reads the binary instructions from a storage device called ‘Memory’, accepts binary data 0’s and  1’s as input and process data according to the instructions stored in memory and gives the results as output.

It is the CPU of a Computer or brain of the computer. A computer that is built around a microprocessor is called a microcomputer. A microcomputer system consists of a CPU (microprocessor), memories and I/O devices, In this course, we will cover the following topics that will help students to understand the prime role of microprocessors in the digital world mainly in data processing as well as control applications i.e automation.