Senior elective course.
Prerequisite: U2.090 Asian Studies
1.
Classes: one 2hr class/wk throughout
the year and a three-week study tour of the country being studied
in the July vacation. Students unable to participate in the study
tour will have alternative classwork assigned. Attendance is
required at all lectures and classes.
Assessment: oral tests, written
assignments and one 2hr written exam in each of June and
November.
Syllabus summary: language study (60%), general culture (15%), business culture (25%) for the country chosen.
Senior elective course.
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical
Engineering 2 or U2.504 Electrical And Electronic Engineering.
Corequisite: Nil.
Classes: (2 lec and a 2hr tut/lab) per
wk in Sem 1.
Assessment: Lab reports and a 2hr exam at the end of
sem.
Syllabus summary: Physiology and anatomy of respiratory, cardiovascular, central nervous and musculo-skeletal systems. Cell biology - membrane physiology and biochemistry, glucose metabolism. Operational amplifiers, active filters, electrodes. Electrocardiogram, vector cardiogram, defibrillation, pacemakers. Electroencephalogram, electromyogram, electroneurogram. Diagnostic imaging systems - principles of CT scanning, ultrasonic, nuclear and magnetic resonance imaging. Laboratory work on: data handling and processing by computer using Matlab, ECGs, nerve conduction.
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Prerequisites: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2 and
U2.000 Mathematics 2 or U2.001 Mathematics 2EE.
Corequisite: Nil.
Classes: (2 lec and one 2hr tut)/wk in Sem 1.
Assessment: A 2hr exam at end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Matrices of mesh impedance, node
admittance, indefinite admittance, multiterminal equivalent
networks.
Complex frequency models: R, L, C controlled sources, ideal
op-amps, ideal transformers, ideal gyrators, mutual inductance,
parasitics of `practical' transformers. Stability.
Two-port parameters and characterising matrices; multiterminal
and multiport networks; network polynomials.
Problem solution techniques, normalising and scaling. Relations
among total solution, initial-value response, initiated-forced
response, transients, long-term forced response.
Steady-state frequency response, dimensionless parameters,
response from pole-zero configuration, templates of log-magnitude
and phase.
Single-sided Laplace transform, Laplace transforms of delays,
repetitions, convolutions; models for circuit elements.
Power, energy; lossless elements and networks. Foster and Cauer
realisation of 1-ports; Hurwitz polynomials; overview of lossless
multiports and active/passive filter design.
Reference books
Brief notes will be issued. No textbook will be employed.
Numerous references will be given to a wide range of books
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2; and
U2.000 Mathematics 2 or U2.001 Mathematics 2EE.
Corequisite: U3.511 Circuit Theory.
Classes: (2.5 lec and 2.5hr lab/tut)/wk in Sem 1.
Assessment: Laboratory reports, assignments and a 2.5hr
exam at end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Part A - Signals: classification,
basic signals and their properties, representation of signals
using orthogonal functions. Fourier series: definition, finding
the coefficient and basic operation, effects of symmetry. Fourier
transform: definition of Fourier integral, properties of Fourier
transform, examples. Linear systems: modelling of electrical
system, time-invariant, time-varying, causal and non-causal
systems, impulse response and frequency response of the linear
time-invariant system, convolution theorem, time convolution and
frequency convolution, properties of convolution,
cross-correlation and linear systems, power signals and linear
systems. Filters: types of filters, ideal filters and causality,
specifications of filters, phase response and group delay. Linear
modulation: type of modulation, amplitude (DSB-LC and DSB-SC),
frequency and phase modulation, frequency domain analysis of AM
modulation, power of a modulated signal. Discrete-time systems:
Z-transform - region of convergence, properties of Z-transform,
inverting Z-transform, frequency response of discrete time
system, convolution of discrete system. Discrete transforms:
discrete-time Fourier transform - its properties, finite length,
sequency and frequency resolution, discrete Fourier transform -
decimation-in-time, decimation-in-frequency, spectral estimation,
spectral leakage and windowing, digital filtering.
Part B - stochastic systems - Introduction to probability and
random variables: probabilities of random events, axioms, joint
and conditional probability, statistical independence. Cumulative
distribution function, probability density function, statistical
averages, standard distributions (uniform, binomial, Poisson,
Gaussian), transformations or random variables, joint and
conditional density functions, correlation between random
variables. Power and energy spectral sensitivities. Random
processes - stationary and ergodic processes, autocorrelation and
power spectra, cross correlation. Statistical representation of
random noise. Introduction to sampled data systems and ideal
reconstruction, spectrum of sampled signal, aliasing. Sampled
data systems - linear, time-invariant, causal, impulse response,
finite difference equations, FIR and IIR systems.
Senior elective course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Mutually exclusive with: U3.474 Electrical Machines
and Drives.
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisite: Nil.
Classes: (2 lec and one 2hr lab/tut)/wk in Sem 2.
Assessment: Laboratory reports, assignments and a 2 hr
exam at end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Applications and historical
context, principles of electronic control of power flow, power
semiconductors, phase controlled rectifiers and derivatives,
AC-AC phase control, DC-DC converters, DC-AC converters.
Electromagnetic transducers, rotating magnetic field principles,
synchronous machines, induction machines, electronically
controlled machine operation.
Senior elective course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisite: nil.
Classes: (1 lec and a 2hr lab/tut) per week in Sem 2.
Assessment: Assignments and a 1hr exam at end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Illumination concepts, photometric units, the lumen method, lighting design, ferromagnetics, ferrites, magnetic information storage, transformer design. Thermal design, heat loss mechanisms, finned structures. Protection design, the electric arc in circuit interruption, fuses, circuit breakers.
Senior elective course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisite: Nil.
Classes: (2 lec and one 1hr tut)/wk in Sem 2.
Assessment: Assignments and a 2hr exam at the end of Sem
2.
Syllabus summary: Systems consisting of electromechanical converters (electrical machines), electrochemical converters (batteries, fuel cells) and electronic converters as well as basic circuit elements. An introduction to conventional and alternative renewable/non-renewable energy sources, energy transmission, markets and distribution. Basic techniques of systems modelling and analysis including per unit systems, transformers, lines, interference, power flows, transients, balanced faults, control of real and reactive power. Applications to household, transport, industrial and high voltage systems. Use of MATLAB as a modelling and simulation tool.
Textbook
Glover and Sarma Power System Analysis and Design (PWS
Publ Co, 1994).
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Mutually exclusive with: U3.450 System Dynamics and
Control.
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisites: U3.511 Circuit Theory.
Classes: (2 lec and 2hrs of lab or tut work)/wk in Sem
2.
Assessment: one 2hr exam at end of sem, plus assessment
of lab work.
Syllabus summary: History and review of control. Modelling of physical processes, state variables and differential equations. Dynamic response, review of Laplace transform, transfer functions and block diagrams, poles and zeros, design specifications in the time domain. Basic feedback principles, closed loop systems, effect of feedback on sensitivity and disturbance rejection, steady state accuracy, stability, the Routh criterion, basic proportional, integral and derivative control. Design using the root locus, rules for sketching root locus, lead and lag compensators, analogue and digital implementation of controllers. Frequency response design methods, review of Bode diagrams, design specifications, Nyquist stability criterion, gain and phase margins, closed loop frequency response, compensator design. Study of some design applications. An introduction to state space, equations for single input single-output systems, relation to transfer functions, eigenvalues, brief description of state variable feedback.
Textbook
Franklin, Powell and Emami-Naeini Feedback Control of Dynamic
Systems 3rd edn. (Addison-Wesley, 1994)
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Mutually exclusive with: U3.476 Industrial
Electronics.
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisites: U3.511 Circuit Theory, U3.512 Signals and
Systems.
Classes: (2 lec and one 3hr lab class or tut)/wk
throughout the year.
Assessment: one 3hr exam at end of each sem plus lab
report marks.
Syllabus summary: Revision of devices, diode, BJT, FET, MOSFET circuits and op. amps, measuring instruments and techniques. Advanced device models. Differential pair, Darlington pair, cascode, multitransistor amps. Bootstrapping. IC bias. Frequency response, gain-bandwidth product. Feedback, effect on input and output impedances and gain, stability, compensation, gain and phase margins. Oscillators sinusoidal, phase-shift, Wien bridge, Colpitts, multivibrators, crystal oscillators. Power supplies/power electronics - linear, switched mode, protection. Tuned amplifiers, simple op. amp. filters. Power amplifiers, class A,B,AB,C, protection, output driver power dissipation. SPICE models. IC layout and fabrication, analogue IC design HF amplifier and oscillator design, s-parameters, striplines.
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisite: U3.511 Circuit Theory.
Classes: (2 lec and 2 hr lab/tut)/wk in Sem 1.
Assessment: Tutorials, quizzes and assignments plus a
2hr exam at the end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Transmission lines (in which circuit theory is used to derive EM wave phenomena in distributed circuits) - revision of circuit elements and static fields; distributed circuits, characteristic impedance, waves, reflections, VSWR, impedance transformation, and matching; use of the Smith chart. Fields and waves (in which Maxwell's equations are used to derive EM wave phenomena in general and the interaction of EM waves with various materials such as conductors, dielectrics, etc.) - revision of vector algebra, static fields and boundary problems; Maxwell's equations, plane EM waves in various media; reflections of waves at boundaries, electromagnetic compatability, atmospheric wave propagation; waveguides and components (RF and optical); antennas and arrays, numerical methods.
Textbook
Narayana Rao Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics (Prentice
Hall)
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisites: U3.512 Signals and Systems, U3.540
Electronics 1, U3.551 Engineering Electromagnetics.
Classes: (3 lec and 3 hr lab/tut)/wk in Sem 2.
Assessment: Lab reports, assignments and a 3hr exam at
end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Components of communication systems - basic properties of signals and communication channels; analog modulation - amplitude and frequency modulation principles and common applications; baseband transmission of binary digital signals, equalisation, transmission coding and introductory error control coding; introduction to modulated carrier data transmission; digital transmission of analog signals - pulse code modulation and delta modulation; performance of modulation schemes in noise; information theory.
Textbooks
Gibson Principles of Digital Analog Communications (Maxwell
Macmillan, 1990). Stremler Introduction to Communication
Systems (Addison Wesley, 1990).
Reference books - Lathi Modern Digital and Analog
Communication Systems (Holt-Saunders International, 1983).
Traub, Schilling and Lathi Principles of Communication
Systems (McGraw-Hill, 1986). Skier Introduction to
Digital Communications (Prentice-Hall, 1987).
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering) and senior elective course for the degree in Electrical Engineering.
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisites: U3.512 Signals and Systems.
Classes: (2 lec and 2hr lab/tut)/wk in Sem 2.
Assessment: Lab reports, assignments and a 2hr exam at
end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Introductory revision: discrete-time signals and z-transform. Fourier analysis of discrete-time signals. DFT, FFT, FIR and IIR digital filter design. Digital signal processing algorithms, and real-time implementations on DSP integrated circuits. Time, frequency and statistical properties of speech. 2-D images and video signals. Signal processing techniques for bandwidth compression, waveform coding, DCT, vector quantisation methods. Applications and implementation of DSP techniques.
Senior elective course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Prerequisite: Nil.
Corequisite: U3.512 Signals and Systems.
Classes: (2 lec and a 1hr lab/tut) per week in Sem 2.
Assessment: Assignments, project work and a 2hr exam at
end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Introduction to speech waveforms and spectra: acoustic phonetics and phonology; the linear speech production model. Speech coding: methods based on the linear production model including LPC and CELP, multi-band coding. Speech synthesis: formant synthesis models; concatenative synthesis; segmental and suprasegmental aspects of text-to-speech conversion. Speech recognition principles: the problems; feature extraction; dynamic time warping and Hidden Markov modelling. Language analysis and representation in computing systems; parsing techniques; application to speech synthesis and recognition systems. Computer based laboratory, tutorial and project work will use MATLAB signal processing and special purpose speech processing software packages.
Textbooks
Holmes Speech Synthesis and Recognition (Van Nostrand
Reinhold 1988).
Comprehensive notes will be provided for the course.
Reference
Deller, Proakis and Hansen Discrete-time Speech Signal
Processing (Macmillan 1993).
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Mutually exclusive with: U3.476 Industrial
Electronics.
Prerequisite: U2.510 Electrical Engineering 2.
Corequisite: nil.
Classes: (2 lec and 2hrs of lab or tut)/wk in Sem 1.
Assessment: lab reports and one 2hr exam at end of Sem
1.
Syllabus summary: Structure of digital systems, programmable logic; array logic & technologies; logic minimisation; combinational logic with PLDs; synchronous machines & PLA-based sequencers; state machine design; datapath functions, counters and arithmetic; testing & testability; asynchronous design; specification languages and simulation.
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering) and senior elective course for the degree in Electrical Engineering.
Mutually exclusive with: U2.043 Computer Science 2B,
U2.041 Computer Science 2EE and U2.040 Computer Science 2.
Prerequisite: U2.042 Computer Science 2A or U2.504
Electrical And Electronic Engineering.
Corequisite: U3.560 Digital Systems 1 or U3.476
Industrial Electronics.
Classes: (2 lec and one lhr tut)/wk in Sem 2.
Assessment: Assignments and a 2hr exam at the end of
sem.
Syllabus summary: Introduction, perspectives, abstractions and technology. Performance measurement and evaluation. Instruction set architectures and instruction set design. Processor implementation techniques. Enhancing performance: pipelines, superscalar CPUs. The memory hierarchy: cache, ram, disk, archive; memory protection. Interfacing, bus systems and peripherals. Introduction to parallel processing. A look at selected processors.
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering) and senior elective course for the degree in Electrical Engineering.
Prerequisites: U2.042 Computer Science 2A.
Corequisite: Nil.
Classes: (1 lec and one 2hr tut/lab)/wk in Sem 2.
Assessment: one 2hr exam at the end of the course plus
assignment(s).
Syllabus summary: Introduction to Software Engineering: software design process; software testing and maintenance; configuration management. Software techniques: software prototyping; numerical methods; table driven routines; optimisation; multitasking; parallel programming. Software/hardware interfaces: intelligent I/O devices; DMA; interrupts; device drivers.
Senior core course for the degree in Electrical Engineering and the degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems Engineering).
Prerequisite: nil.
Corequisite: nil.
Classes: (2 lec and one 1hr tut)/wk in Sem 1.
Assessment: Tutorials, class assessment and a 2hr exam
at end of sem.
Syllabus summary: Engineers and management; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; Managerial decision making; Behaviour of people in organisations; Human resource management for engineers; Strategic management; Accounting and management; Operations management; Marketing for engineers; The legal environment of business; Industrial relations; Engineering project management.