Electronics Engineering Technology (Optional Co-op)

Description: This series of modules will prepare students for job searching for their co-op work terms with the guidance of a Coop Advisor. Students will familiarize themselves with the co-operative education policies and procedures and will learn the expectations, rules, and regulations that apply in the workplace regarding social, organizational, ethical, and safety issues while developing an awareness of self-reflective practices. Students will reflect on their skills, attitudes, and expectations and examine available opportunities in the workplace. Successful completion of these modules is a requirement for co-op eligibility.

• Hours: 14
• Credits: 1
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course introduces students to integrated linear circuit devices and their applications in signal processing, and basic communication systems building blocks. Topics include operational amplifier characteristics and applications, amplifier Bode-plot frequency response analysis, active filters, power amplifiers, feedback amplifiers, oscillators, phototransistors and opto-isolators.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
• Pre-Requisites: EECE1045 OR EECE1047 AND EECE1585 OR EECE1587
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course introduces students to microprocessors, the main processing units of a computer system, and teaches them how to integrate them with other peripheral devices. Topics include: microprocessors architecture, instructions set, assembly language programming, memory, Input/Output, and Interrupts.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: EECE1195 AND PROG1955
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course covers the theory and operation of switching semiconductor devices (MOSFET, IGBT, GTO, SCR etc.) and introduces the essentials of analyses and design of power electronic circuits. Topics include AC-DC converters, DC-DC converters, diode and thyristor bridges, voltage-sourced converters, and typical control schemes for power converters. The course also discusses examples of industry applications of power electronics.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
• Pre-Requisites: EECE1047
• CoRequisites:

Description:

In this laboratory course, students practically apply the knowledge and the skills gained in Electronics II course and Power Electronics course. Topics include feedback amplifiers, power amplifiers, active filters, oscillators, switched mode power supplies, and inverters

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
• Pre-Requisites: EECE1047
• CoRequisites:

Description: This course is oriented towards applications of differentiation and integration to analyze and solve problems of electrical and electronics circuits and signals. Topics covered include: limits, derivatives of algebraic and transcendental functions and their applications, integration of algebraic and transcendental functions and its applications and selected methods of integration.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: MATH1120 OR MATH1190 OR MATH1195
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course introduces students to the elementary concepts in electronic communication. Topics covered include: an overview of communications systems, signal and noise, linear system analysis, amplitude and angle modulation and demodulation, and digital communications techniques and systems.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
• Pre-Requisites: EECE1585 OR EECE1587
• CoRequisites:

Description:

In this course, students learn how to design, implement, and troubleshoot a microcontroller based embedded system. Topics include: introduction to microcontrollers, in circuit programming, flash memory, assembly language, and C language programming, I/O programming, timer-counter programming, and interfacing keyboard, LCD, ADC, and DAC.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
• Pre-Requisites: EECE1585 OR EECE1587
• CoRequisites:

Description:

In this laboratory course, students practically apply the knowledge and the skills gained in Principles of Telecommunication Systems course and Transmission Lines course. Topics include modulation, demodulation, harmonics of periodical signals, reflectometry, and standing wave.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
• Pre-Requisites: EECE1587
• CoRequisites:

Description: This practically oriented course will emphasize the development of instrumentation skills and hardware/software troubleshooting techniques through the investigation of interfacing electronic circuits, sensors and actuators to an embedded system. Topics will include protocols (hardware and software, wired and wireless), Industry Standard Bus Specifications, Interconnection mechanisms and common data transmission. Other topics covered will include integrity issues in calibration, faults and security.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: EECE2045 OR EECE2047 AND EECE2325
• CoRequisites:

Description:

In this course, students learn how to design, implement, and troubleshoot a microcontroller based embedded system. Topics include: introduction to microcontrollers, in circuit programming, flash memory, assembly language, and C language programming, I/O programming, timer-counter programming, and interfacing keyboard, LCD, ADC, and DAC.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: EECE2045 OR EECE2047 AND EECE2325
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course introduces students to advanced topics in digital system design, including Hardware Description Language (HDL), Field Programable Gate Array (FPGA), simulation tools, synchronous sequential digital circuits design, finite state machine, and System on a Chip (SoC). Student will write many HDL codes for laboratory experiments and a project.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: EECE1195
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course is oriented towards main areas of knowledge and skills regarding both hardware and software required to design, set up, maintain and troubleshoot computer networks. Topics covered include: network topologies, OSI reference model, transmission media, data coding, modems, multiplexing, error control, wired and wireless LANs, Internet Protocols, internetworking devices, and circuit technologies.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: TCOM2035 OR TCOM2040
• CoRequisites:

Description:

In this course, students will learn the process of design and layout of a printed circuit board using industry standard tools. Topics include schematic capture, symbol and footprint creation, building and maintaining libraries, and PCB layout. Signal integrity practices will be observed throughout the courses.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
• Pre-Requisites: TCOM2060 OR TCOM2065
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course introduces students to the applications of differentiation and integration in electronics. Topics covered include theory and applications of Maclaurin, Taylor and Fourier series, linear differential equations, double integrals, Laplace and Fourier transforms.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: MATH2080 OR MATH2400
• CoRequisites:

Description: This co-op work term will provide students with college-approved work experience in an authentic, professionally relevant work environment. Students will be provided the opportunity to connect theory and practice by leveraging their academic training to develop a broad base of vocational skills. The practical applications of this work term will promote students’ awareness of key concepts and terminology in their field, cultivate their problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, encourage their development of professional autonomy and collaboration, and enhance their capacity to analyze and reflect on their demonstrated abilities in the workplace.

• Hours: 420
• Credits: 14
• Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020 OR CEPR1020
• CoRequisites:

Description: This co-op work term will provide students with college-approved work experience in an authentic, professionally relevant work environment. Students will be provided the opportunity to connect theory and practice by leveraging their academic training to develop a broad base of vocational skills. The practical applications of this work term will promote students’ awareness of key concepts and terminology in their field, cultivate their problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, encourage their development of professional autonomy and collaboration, and enhance their capacity to analyze and reflect on their demonstrated abilities in the workplace.

• Hours: 420
• Credits: 14
• Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020 OR CEPR1020
• CoRequisites:

Description: This co-op work term will provide students with college-approved work experience in an authentic, professionally relevant work environment. Students will be provided the opportunity to connect theory and practice by leveraging their academic training to develop a broad base of vocational skills. The practical applications of this work term will promote students’ awareness of key concepts and terminology in their field, cultivate their problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, encourage their development of professional autonomy and collaboration, and enhance their capacity to analyze and reflect on their demonstrated abilities in the workplace.

• Hours: 420
• Credits: 14
• Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020 OR CEPR1020
• CoRequisites:

Description: This co-op work term will provide students with college-approved work experience in an authentic, professionally relevant work environment. Students will be provided the opportunity to connect theory and practice by leveraging their academic training to develop a broad base of vocational skills. The practical applications of this work term will promote students’ awareness of key concepts and terminology in their field, cultivate their problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, encourage their development of professional autonomy and collaboration, and enhance their capacity to analyze and reflect on their demonstrated abilities in the workplace.

• Hours: 420
• Credits: 14
• Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020 OR CEPR1020
• CoRequisites:

Description: This course introduces students to virtual instruments and how they can be designed and implemented to accomplish a variety of test and measurement applications. Topics include: graphical programming language, data acquisition systems, sensors, actuators, test fixtures and jigs, and basic statistical process control methods.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: EECE2527 OR EECE2660
• CoRequisites:

Description: This course studies the basic building blocks of telecommunications systems and the effects that stray or distributed capacitances and inductances have on the performance of non ideal resistors, inductors and capacitors and associated electronic circuits at Radio Frequencies (RF). Topics include: electromagnetic induction and electromagnetic coupling, skin effect, theory and construction techniques of coils, impedance matching networks, transformers, passive filters, tuned circuits. RF amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, modulators, Intermediate Frequency (IF) amplifiers, demodulators, splitters and hybrids, RF measurements, digital frequency synthesis, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and the need for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Standards.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: EECE2045 OR EECE2047 AND TCOM2035 OR TCOM2040
• CoRequisites:

Description: This course focuses on the research, planning and design phases of the students’ final year technical project. Selected project topic and scope are to be at a suitable technologist’s level and students are encouraged to select projects of interest to potential employers. During this term the students continue to research and refine their project, complete a written and oral presentation of their Concept Proposal for faculty approval, prepare a project Requirements document, a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) and a Specifications document. By the end of the term the students shall demonstrate, through a written Progress Report and practical demonstration, the progress of their project.

• Hours: 84
• Credits: 6
• Pre-Requisites: EECE2527 OR EECE2660 AND MATH2150 AND MATH2410
• CoRequisites:

Description: This course provides an introduction to discrete-time signals and systems which are fundamental to digital signal processing (DSP). Topics include sampling theorem and aliasing, the theory of discrete linear time-invariant systems, digital filters, frequency response, and z-transform.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: MATH2150 AND MATH2410
• CoRequisites:

Description: This course provides an introduction to fundamentals of digital communications from a physical layer perspective. Topics covered include digital coding of analog waveforms and source coding, baseband digital signaling, baseband transmission, digital modulation techniques, and channel coding.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: TCOM2035 OR TCOM2040
• CoRequisites:

Description: This course covers topics found within the interdisciplinary engineering field of Mechatronics through the examination of both analog/digital process controllers and programmable controllers (PLCs). Students will be exposed to the design and testing of simple control systems in an embedded environment. Given a broad outline of system requirements, students will be required to complete the design, construction and documentation of a control system. The PLC portion of the course will cover the essentials of PLCs, emphasizing the programming of a specific industrial controller and will conclude with several practical programming exercises.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: CNTR3115 OR CNTR3117
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course focuses on the implementation phase of the students’ final year technical project. During this term the students refine their project design, build their project and verify and validate their design through appropriate testing procedures. The students also make a formal oral presentation on their project, complete a written Final Report and give a practical public demonstration of their project at the end of the term.

• Hours: 84
• Credits: 6
• Pre-Requisites: EECE3165
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course covers both the analysis and design of FIR and IIR digital filters. Implementations in both hardware (DSP chips) and software will be discussed. Emphasis on the use of the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) as an analysis tool will also be included. Examples will be presented to illustrate the use of digital filtering in areas such as speech processing, noise cancelling, and telecommunications. This course emphasizes the application of Digital Signal Processing based on the theoretical background provided in DSP Applications I.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EECE3245
• CoRequisites:

Description: In this course, students learn to deal with GHz frequencies. Topics include: microstrips and striplines. Waveguides, microwave tubes including Klystron, TWT, Magnetron; microwave circuits, S-parmateres, network analyzers, active devices including BJTs, FETs and diodes, software simulators, and microwave antenna.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: TCOM2060 OR TCOM2065
• CoRequisites:

Description:

This course provides an introduction to fundamentals of mobile communications and wireless networks. It presents the wireless and mobile network architectures, technologies and protocols. Topics covered include cellular and mobile IP concepts. It also introduces the various wireless 1G, 2G, and 3G platforms, architecture, and protocols. Other topics include: multiple-access methods, spread spectrum modulation, and different wireless network protocols such as WiFi, WiMAX, WiMAN, and Bluetooth.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: TCOM2080
• CoRequisites: