Electrical Engineering Courses

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 273; ENGR 213.

Description:

This course covers continuous-time signals and systems theory including properties of continuous-time systems, linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, impulse response and convolution and systems based on linear constant‑coefficient differential equations. The following transforms are introduced: Fourier series representation of periodic signals, the Fourier transform representation of signals and systems, the inverse Fourier transform, bilateral Laplace transform, unilateral Laplace transform and inverse Laplace transform. Other topics include zero-state and zero-input responses of linear constant‑coefficient differential equation models, transfer function and block diagram representation of LTI systems, and time and frequency domain characteristics of ideal and non‑ideal filters. Computer simulation using MATLAB is also introduced.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 2 hours per week

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for ELEC 264 may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 273 or ENGR 273. The following course must be completed previously or concurrently: ENGR 233.

Description:

Electric charge, Coulomb’s law, electrostatic forces, electric field, Gauss’ law, electric potential, stored energy. Dielectrics, properties of materials in electric fields. Electric current, conduction in a vacuum and in material media, displacement current, magnetic field of a current, force on a current‑carrying wire, magnetic induction, electromotive force, energy stored in a magnetic field. Magnetism in material media, magnetic circuits.Time‑varying fields. Capacitance, resistance, inductance, elements of electric circuits.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: PHYS 205. The following course must be completed previously or concurrently: ENGR 213.

Description:

This course presents a comprehensive, overview of electrical circuit analysis techniques. First, students learn Ohm's Law, KVL, KCL, mesh analysis and nodal analysis. Then they learn circuit theorems including superposition, Thevenin and Norton's Theorems. Ideal operational amplifier circuits are studied. Students learn how to find the transient response of circuits including resistors, inductors, and capacitors. Students learn steady-state AC analysis using phasors and impedance, AC circuit theorems, and the calculation of power in AC circuits.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 2 hours per week; Laboratory 12 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously PHYS 205. The following course must be completed previously or concurrently: ENGR 213.

Description:

Fundamentals of electric circuits: Kirchoff’s laws, voltage and current sources, Ohm’s law, series and parallel circuits. Nodal and mesh analysis of DC circuits. Superposition theorem, Thevenin and Norton Equivalents. Use of operational amplifiers. Transient analysis of simple RC, RL and RLC circuits. Steady state analysis: Phasors and impedances, power and power factor. Single and three phase circuits. Magnetic circuits and transformers. Power generation and distribution.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 2 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 273.

Description:

The course first presents diodes: students get familiar with terminal characteristics of junction diodes and analysis of diode circuits. The small signal model and its application are presented, as well as operation in the reverse-breakdown region (Zener diodes), rectifiers, limiting and clamping circuits. Students learn principles of signal amplification, including linearity, loading effects and cascaded amplifiers. MOSFETs structure, physical operation and current-voltage characteristics are then discussed. Students also learn MOSFET applications, DC analysis and biasing considerations (small signal analysis, models and parameters). The three basic configurations (common gate, common source and common drain) and amplification are explained. An overview of BJT circuits is also presented and covers the structure and physical operation of BJTs, DC analysis, biasing considerations and basic configurations for amplification. The course involves PSPICE laboratory pre-labs and extensive simulation exercises.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week; Laboratory 12 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 311; ELEC 242 or ELEC 364.

Description:

Differential and multi‑stage amplifiers: differential pair; differential gain; common‑mode gain and common‑mode rejection ratio (CMRR) current mirrors. High frequency models: s‑domain analysis, transfer functions; common gate, common source, common drain configurations; common base, common emitter, common collector configurations; wide‑band amplifiers. Feedback: general feedback structure; properties of negative feedback; the four basic feedback configurations; loop gain and stability problems. Power amplifiers: classification and output stages; class A, B, C, and AB amplifiers; biasing the class AB amplifier. Introduction to filters, tuned amplifiers, oscillators and mixers. PSPICE.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 2 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: CHEM 205; ENGR 213.

Description:

Fundamentals underlying optical and electronic devices. The structure and growth of crystals. The energy band model for elemental and compound semiconductors. Electronic and optical properties of semiconductors. Electroluminescence and photoluminescence. The semiconductor in equilibrium. Carrier transport and non‑equilibrium phenomena. Introductions to junctions and devices. The laboratory demonstrates the basic electrical and optical properties of semiconductor materials.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 251, ELEC 273.

Description:

Review of fundamentals of AC circuit analysis. Overview of power systems. Three‑phase circuits: balanced three‑phase circuits with star and delta connected loads, power measurements. Magnetic circuits. Transformers. Power conversion techniques: single phase AC/DC rectifiers, DC/DC choppers and DC/AC converters. DC machines: Operating principle, separately excited DC motor, torque speed characteristics and control methods using rectifiers and choppers. Induction machines: Theory of three‑phase induction machines, equivalent circuit parameters, efficiency, torque speed characteristics and control methods using inverters. Overview of power distribution systems. Safety codes.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 242 or ELEC 264.

Description:

Basic material includes discrete vs. continuous-time signals, discrete-time signals, elementary signals and signal operations, discrete-time systems, properties of discrete-time systems and interconnections of systems. Time‑domain analysis of discrete‑time systems is covered including finite difference equation representation of systems,linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, unit impulse response and convolution, sliding tape method for convolution, periodic convolution, properties of convolution, and properties of LTI systems. The next area is Fourier domain analysis including Discrete-Time Fourier Series (DTFS), Discrete-Time Fourier Transform (DTFT), properties of DTFS and DTFT, frequency response of LTI systems, and continuous and discrete-time Fourier transforms. Conversion of continuous-time to discrete-time signals is covered including ideal impulse train sampling, the sampling theorem, effect of sampling in the frequency and time domains graphically and algebraically, anti‑aliasing pre‑filter, reconstruction of band limited signal from its samples, discrete‑time processing of continuous‑time signals, quantization, uniform quantization, quantization noise, granular vs. overload noise, and design of uniform quantizers. The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is developed along with the relationship between the DFT and the DTFT. Also covered is the relationship between the DFT and the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The z-transform (ZT) is covered with topics including properties, poles and zeros of rational ZTs, inverse and unilateral z-transforms (UZT), Region of Convergence (ROC), and relationship between ZT and DTFT. Filtering topics include LTI systems as frequency‑selective filters, ideal filters, Finite Impulse Response (FIR) vs. Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters, linear phase FIR filters, filter specification, and designing filters with MATLAB. The course closes with FIR filter design with windowing.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week; Laboratory 12 hours total

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for ELEC 364 may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 242, ELEC 251.

Description:

This course presents the partial differential equations governing transmission lines and their solution in the time domain and in the frequency domain. The input impedance is found and transmission line circuits are solved. The Smith Chart is derived and used to design impedance matching. Maxwell’s Equations are used to find the wave equation, which is solved to discover uniform plane waves. Boundary conditions are enforced to find Snell’s Laws and the Fresnel reflection coefficients for a dielectric half space. The fields in rectangular waveguide are found as the solution to a boundary value problem, and the behaviour of waveguides is studied. Antenna are studied including directional radiation, antenna arrays, directivity and gain, effective area, and the Friis Transmission Equation.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week; Laboratory 12 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ENGR 213, ENGR 233.

Description:

Review of complex arithmetic. Analytic functions. Taylor and Laurent series. Residue theory. Fourier series. Partial differential equations. Applications to Laplace, heat, and wave equations. Bessel and Legendre functions.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for ELEC 261 or 362 may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: COEN 352; ELEC 342 or ELEC 364; ENGR 371.

Description:

The course introduces communication network functions/services and the circuit and packet-switching approaches for network design. It covers transmission systems, multiplexing, switches, signalling and traffic control in circuit‑switched networks including cellular networks. It introduces the layered network architecture for packet-switching: peer-to-peer ARQ protocols and data-link controls;TCP/IP architecture: Internet and transport protocols. It covers multiple access communications: Aloha, CSMA, reservation schemes, polling, token passing rings, wireless LANs and LAN bridges. It includes application and socket programming.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for COEN 366 or COEN 445 or ELEC 463 may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 342 or ELEC 364; ENGR 371.

Description:

The following topics are covered: analog communications and frequency multiplexing; pulse‑code‑modulation time multiplexing; additive white Gaussian noise; matched filter and correlator receiver; maximum likelihood receiver and error probability; intersymbol interference, pulse shaping filter; Signal Space Analysis; Union Bound on the probability of error; Pass‑band communication Systems; coherent and non‑coherent communication systems. Introduction to synchronization.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week; Laboratory 12 hours total

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for ELEC 462 may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 242 or ELEC 364.

Description:

Mathematical models of control systems. Characteristics, performance, and stability of linear feedback control systems. Root‑locus methods. Frequency response methods. Stability in the frequency domain. Design and compensation of feedback control systems.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 1 hour per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for AERO 371 or ENGR 372 or MECH 371 may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

Students must complete a minimum of 45 credits in the BEng (Electrical) prior to enrolling, including the following courses: COEN 352; ELEC 311; ENGR 290.

Description:

The Product Design Project reinforces skills introduced in ENGR 290, which include teamwork, project management, engineering design for a complex problem, technical writing, and technical presentation in a team environment. It also introduces students to product development. Students are assigned to teams and each team develops, defines, designs and builds a system and/or device under broad constraints set by the Department. Students present their product definition and design, and demonstrate that their system/device works at the end of the term.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Tutorial 2 hours per week; Laboratory Equivalent time, 6 hours per week

Notes:

• All written documentation must follow the Concordia Form and Style guide. Students are responsible for obtaining this document before beginning the project.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 312, ELEC 372.

Description:

Overview of wireline communication links, mechanisms of signal degradation, modulation formats, TX/RX synchronization options, IC technology limitations, transmitter front‑end circuits, receiver front‑end circuits, decision circuits, clock and data recovery systems, phase‑locked loops, jitter, continuous‑time and discrete‑time equalizers, system metrics.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 30 hours total

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for this topic under an ELEC 498 number may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 321.

Description:

Junction theory (PN junctions, Schottky and ohmic contacts, hetero‑junctions). Structures and characteristics of diodes, solar cells, bipolar transistors, and fundamentals of MOSFETs. Planar silicon junctions and transistors will be designed, fabricated and evaluated in the laboratory, including resistivity measurements, semiconductor cleaning, oxidation, diffusion, photolithography, etching, metallization, and comparison of design with experimental results.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 421.

Description:

Structures, characteristics and design of MOS capacitors and MOSFETs. FinFETs, SOI FETs, velocity‑modulation transistors, and HFETs. Role of strain in operation of modern FETs. Planar MOS devices, including capacitors and MOSFETs will be designed, fabricated, and evaluated in the laboratory.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 312.

Description:

CMOS transistor layout considerations, design rules, circuit extraction. MOSFET modelling, I‑V equations, AC equivalent circuits for high‑frequency operation, computer‑based simulation. Analysis and design of small‑scale integrated circuit building blocks including MOS switch, active resistor, current source, current mirror, voltage amplifiers, voltage‑reference circuits, multipliers. Analysis and design of medium‑scale integrated circuit building blocks including op‑amps, fully‑differential op‑amp and common mode feedback circuits, transconductance amplifiers, transimpedance amplifiers, comparators. Noise analysis. Mismatch analysis and modelling, offset removal techniques. Analog VLSI system examples.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 30 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 311, ELEC 321.

Description:

Introduction to basic VLSI technologies; crystal growth, thermal oxidation, diffusion, ion implantation, chemical vapour deposition, wet and dry etching, and lithography. Layout, yield, and VLSI process integration. The lab demonstrates a semiconductor device fabrication process.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 321, ELEC 351.

Description:

Optical properties of semiconductors. Fundamental principles for understanding and applying optical fibre technology. Fundamental behaviour of the individual optical components and their interactions with other devices. Lasers, LEDs, optical fibres, light detectors, optical switches. Concepts of WDM and DWDM. Components required for WDM and DWDM. A comprehensive treatment of the underlying physics: noise and distortion in optical communications, light polarization, modulation and attenuation.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

Components of a transmission system. Transmission line; modelling and parameters. Transformers: equivalent circuits, losses, connections and protection. Breakers: operation and design. Compensation equipment: capacitors, inductors, series and shunt connections. Insulation coordination.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• This course is usually offered in the French language.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

Inductance, capacitance, resistance of polyphase transmission lines; current and voltage relations of transmission lines; load flow studies; symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults; power system stability.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331, ELEC 372.

Description:

Basic considerations and control requirements. Control system principles and structures. Controller characteristics and operation. Static power conversion systems. Electromechanical systems and electrical machine modelling. Control system design. Applications to electric motor drives and typical power conversion systems.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• This course is usually offered in the French language.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 311, ELEC 331.

Description:

Review of basic electrical concepts. Power electronic systems. Power semiconductor switches. AC controllers. Line frequency AC‑DC converters: diodes and thyristor circuits. DC‑DC converters. DC‑AC converters. Utilityapplications: STATCOM and power electronic interfaces. Industrial and utility applications.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

Introduction: classification of phenomena, structure of power systems. Review of component models: lines, transformers, electrical machines and load. Excitation systems of machines. Steady‑state operation. Transient stability, voltage stability and small signal stability. Compensation methods: stabilizer, series and shunt compensators. Sub‑synchronous resonances. Transient electromagnetic phenomena. Methods and tools for numerical simulation.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• This course is usually offered in the French language.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

This course covers the following topics: lumped parameter concepts of electromechanics; energy, co-energy in the derivation of torques and forces; examples of electric machines: dc, synchronous and induction types; steady-state, transient and stability analysis; power electronic controllers.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• This course is usually offered in the French language.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

General aspects of protection systems. Measurement transformers. Grounding. Overcurrent and ground fault protection. Protection of transformers, shunt capacitors and buses. Protection of transmission lines. Telecommunication for protection and automation systems. Protection of inverters. Protection of distribution networks.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• This course is usually offered in the French language.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

Electrical basics and models of solar energy (photo‑voltaics), electrical power from wind energy, electrical power from water, including wave energy, tidal energy, micro‑hydro. Case studies, for example the application of solar PV to street lighting. Electrical engineering design implications. Design assignments.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for this topic under an ELEC 498 number may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

Structures of industrial power systems. Voltage levels. Electric installations, codes and standards. Short‑circuits, protection and coordination. Grounding. Power quality. Power factor, tariffs and energy management.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• This course is usually offered in the French language.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

Introduction to Electric Vehicles (EV), Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV). Vehicle design fundamentals. Traction motors for EV/HEV propulsion. On‑board energy sources and storage devices: high‑voltage traction batteries, fuel cells, ultra‑capacitors, flywheels. Power electronic converters and control. Various EV/HEV/Fuel Cell Vehicle topologies and modelling. Energy management strategies. Practical design considerations. Engineering impact of electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 331, ELEC 372.

Description:

Elements of a drive system, characteristics of common mechanical systems, drive characteristics, operation in one, two, or four quadrants. Fully controlled rectifier drives, braking of DC motors, control of DC motors using DC/DC converters. Control of polyphase induction motors, voltage‑source and current‑source inverter drives, frequency‑controlled induction motor drives, introduction to vector control of induction motor drives, field oriented control, sensor‑less operation. Control of synchronous motors, permanent magnet motors. Switched reluctance motor drives, stepper motors. Brushless DC motor drives, low‑power electronic motor drives.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for this topic under an ELEC 498 number may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 342 or ELEC 364.

Description:

Review of network analysis. Magnitude and frequency scaling. Magnitude and phase approximation in synthesis of filter functions. Second‑order active RC filters. Synthesis of all‑pole LC ladder filters. Second‑order switched‑capacitor filters. Realization of high‑order active filters. Current mode filters. Switched‑current filters. Integrated circuit filters.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 342 or ELEC 364; ENGR 371.

Description:

This course focuses on fundamental principles, methods and applications of statistical and adaptive signal processing. It begins with the introduction of random signal processing basics, including random variables and sequences, linear systems with stationary inputs, linear signal models, power spectral density estimation. It then covers optimum linear filtering and prediction, namely, Wiener filter, constrained minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation, array/space-time processing and beamforming, forward and backward linear prediction. The course also covers adaptive filtering methods including least mean square filters, least-square filter, recursive least square filter, Kalman filter. Finally, the course ends with machine learning principles for signal processing including Bayesian learning, support vector machine, and neural network basics.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 331.

Description:

This course covers the following topics: fundamentals of distribution systems; overhead lines and cables, physical characteristics; neutral network; distribution protection; protection coordination, equipment failures; service continuity, norms, fault duration and damage; network architectures; distributed generation, network integration; power quality, connection requirements, harmonics, voltage sag, flicker; distribution network analysis software, unbalanced power flow, faulted operation.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 12 hours total

Notes:

• This course is usually offered in the French language.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 342 or ELEC 364.

Description:

Principles and techniques used in the processing and analysis of medical images. Image quality metrics, denoising medical images, quantification, rigid and deformable registration. Similarity metrics such as mutual information (MI). Images from the most common medical imaging modalities (X‑ray, CT, MRI and ultrasound) will be used.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 342.

Description:

This course covers signal processing through discussion of current bioengineering activities which rely on signal processing and include assessment of neural function with simultaneous collection of electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional MRI data; the non-invasive assessment of cardiac autonomic regulation using electrocardiography; assessment of neural function using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); assessment of muscle activity using electromyography (EMG). Topics include modern spectral analysis, time-frequency analysis (short-time Fourier transforms and wavelets); signal modelling; multivariate analyses and adaptive filtering.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for this topic under an ELEC 498 number may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 431.

Description:

This course covers the following topics: primary energy resources, conventional and renewable; electric power generation principles; rotating and static power conversion, frequency and voltage control; synchronous generators, design and operation; generation control; static power converter interfaces, principles and operation; wind energy conversion principles, generator control and wind farm control; energy storage control and integration; generation protection; distributed generation interconnection requirements.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 9 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

ELEC 342

Description:

This course focuses on theoretical foundations of video processing: human vision, colour models, visual frequencies, convolution, frequency analysis, sampling, video capture and display, and video models. Motion characterizes a video and the course covers object transformations, motion models, motion and homography estimation. A video consists of images and basics of image processing are presented: filtering, multi-scale analysis, histogram and feature extraction. The course covers video applications: video enhancement including quality assessment, frame prediction, denoising; video compression including statistics of signal source, transform coding, predictive coding; video recognition including object segmentation, object tracking, 3D shapes from 2D images. The course introduces deep-learned video processing with a case study, machine-learning basics (regression, classification), deep neural networks and convolutional neural networks.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 351.

Description:

Properties of waveguides, striplines, and microstrips. Scattering parameters. Butterworth and Chebyshev impedance transformers. Microwave couplers, cavities, and Fabry‑Perot resonators. Periodic structures. Microwave filter design. Faraday rotation and non‑reciprocal devices.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 351.

Description:

Sound generation and propagation in elastic media; conversion between acoustical, electrical, and mechanical energy. Lumped‑parameter approximations, sound in rooms, underwater acoustics, microphones; loudspeakers and audio communications problems; noise and vibration control problems.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 351.

Description:

Antenna fundamentals and definitions. Radiation integrals. Dipoles and loops. Arrays. Antenna self and mutual impedance. Matching techniques. Travelling wave antennas. Broadband antennas. Equivalence principle. Aperture antennas. Antenna measurement techniques.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 453.

Description:

Introduction to wireless systems. Noise and distortion in microwave systems. Antennas and propagation. Amplifiers. Mixers. Transistor oscillators and frequency synthesizers. Modulation techniques. Receiver design. Use of RF CAD tools.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 351.

Description:

Introduction to EMC procedures, control plans, and specifications. Radiated and conducted susceptibility and emission testing. Introduction to EMC antennas, antenna concepts, electric and magnetic dipoles, biconical dipoles, conical log spiral antennas, setting up fields for susceptibility testing, measuring radiation from equipment. Coupled transmission lines, pulse propagation, closely spaced parallel transmission lines, capacitive coupling, inductive coupling, shielding against magnetic fields. Shielding and enclosures, electric and magnetic field screening mechanisms, shielding effectiveness, grounding considerations. EMC test facilities, screened rooms, TEM cells, signals and spectra, intermodulation, cross‑modulation, the spectrum analyzer. Noise and pseudo‑random noise, noise performance of measurement/receiving systems, noise equivalent bandwidth, noise figure, antenna noise temperature and S/N ratio.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 367.

Description:

Introduction to error control coding: linear block codes, syndrome‑based decoding, coding vs. modulation, convolutional codes, Viterbi decoder. Communications link analysis. Introduction to cellular systems: frequency reuse, trunking and grade of services, sectoring and cell splitting, coverage and capacity. Modulation techniques for mobile communications. Mobile radio channels. Spread‑spectrum techniques. Multiplexing and multiple access techniques. Wireless standards from first generation to fourth generation; OFDM: an architecture for the fourth generation.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: COEN 366 or COEN 445 or ELEC 366 or ELEC 463.

Description:

This course covers two important areas of communication networks: network security and network management. In network security, topics include basic cryptography, authentication, message integrity, firewalls, security protocols, virtual private networks (VPNs), and security in wireless LANs. In network management, topics include network management architectures, ASN.1, Management Information Bases (MIBs), SNMP and its evolution.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 351, ELEC 367.

Description:

Overview of optical fibres and optical fibre communications. Signal propagation in optical fibres: attenuation, chromatic dispersion, mode coupling, and nonlinearities. Optical transmitters’ characteristics and requirements for optical networks. Power launching and coupling: optical transmitter‑to‑fibre coupling, fibre‑to‑fibre joints, and optical fibre connectors. Optical receivers: basic structures, noise analysis, characteristics and requirements for optical networks. Digital/analog transmissions: link power budget, rise‑time budget, line coding, error correction, and noise effects on transmissions. WDM concepts: operation principle of WDM. Optical amplifiers: characteristics and requirements for optical networks, amplifier noise, system applications, and wavelength conversion. Optical networks: basic topologies, SONET/SDH, broadcast‑and‑select WDM networks, wavelength‑routed networks. Optical measurements: test equipments, attenuation/dispersion measurements, OTDR, eye pattern and OSA.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ELEC 363 or ELEC 367.

Description:

Topics include signal definition, human eye limitations, pixel representation schemes, interfaces serial digital interface (SDI), image formats (1080i, 720i, 4k, 8k), compression schemes: MPEG‑2, MPEG‑4, moving JPEG. Modulation techniques: QPSK, QAM, VSB. Advanced terrestrial transmission standards such as DVB‑T2, ATSC‑3. Satellite broadcasting standards such as DVB/S2. Path calculation: antennas, up and down conversion, solid state and travelling wave tube amplifiers. Transmission lines, waveguide and coaxial cable.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for this topic under an ELEC 498 number may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: COEN 366 or COEN 445 or ELEC 366 or ELEC 463.

Description:

This course covers Internet that has moved beyond the three “classical” services of email, file transfer and remote log‑in to providing real‑time multimedia communication. The course provides the basic building blocks for the students to understand the current capabilities and potential of high-speed Internet to support emerging Internet services. Review of Internet architecture is followed by quality of service (QoS) requirements and protocols such as differentiated services, integrated services, Resource reservation protocol (RSVP), and Multi protocol label switching (MPLS) to support QoS. Topics also include protocols and standards for voice over IP; H.323, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP); and their interworking.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ELEC 372; ENGR 371.

Description:

The course discusses application of autonomous wheeled robots such as autonomous cars, indoor robots, and (off‑road) unmanned ground vehicles. Topics include robot motion models, robot odometry, robot sensor models (beam models of range finders and feature‑based measurement models) and occupancy grid mapping. The course also covers state estimation for robot localization and introduction to simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Assignments include algorithm implementation on a robot.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for this topic under an ELEC 498 number may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: AERO 371 or ELEC 372 or MECH 371.

Description:

Review of matrix algebra. State‑space description of dynamic systems: linearity, causality, time‑invariance, linearization. Solution of state‑space equations. Transfer function representation. Discrete‑time models. Controllability and observability. Canonical forms and minimal‑order realizations. Stability. Stabilizability and pole placement. Linear quadratic optimal control. Observer design.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for ENGR 471 may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following course must be completed previously: ENGR 391 or EMAT 391.

Description:

Linear least squares. Properties of quadratic functions with applications to steepest descent method, Newton’s method and Quasi‑Newton methods for nonlinear optimization. One‑dimensional optimization. Introduction to constrained optimization, including the elements of Kuhn‑Tucker conditions for optimality. Least pth and mini‑max optimization. Application of optimization techniques to engineering problems.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Notes:

• Students who have received credit for ENGR 472 may not take this course for credit.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: AERO 371 or ELEC 372; ELEC 342 or ELEC 364.

Description:

Introduction to real‑time computer control systems; a review of discrete‑time signals and systems, difference equations, z‑transform; sampled‑data systems, sample and hold, discrete models; discrete equivalents of continuous‑time systems; stability analysis; design specifications; design using root locus and frequency response methods; implementation issues including bumpless transfer, integral windup, sample rate selection, pre‑filtering, quantization effects and computational delay; scheduling theory and priority assignment to control processes, timing of control loops, effects of missed deadlines; principles and characteristics of sensors and devices, embedded processors, processor/device interface.

Component(s):

Lecture 3 hours per week; Laboratory 15 hours total

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

The following courses must be completed previously: ENGR 301, ENGR 371; COEN 311; ELEC 342 or 364; ELEC 390. Students must complete a minimum of 75 credits in the BEng (Electrical), as well as the C.Edge work term or one co-op work term prior to enrolling. If prerequisites are not satisfied, permission of the Department is required.

Description:

Students are assigned to groups, and work together under faculty supervision to solve a complex interdisciplinary design problem — typically involving communications, control systems, electromagnetics, power electronics, software design, and/or hardware design. The project fosters teamwork between group members and allows students to develop their project management, technical writing, and technical presentation skills.

Component(s):

Tutorial 1 hour per week, two terms; Laboratory Equivalent time, 9 hours per week, two terms

Notes:

• All written documentation must follow the Concordia Form and Style guide. Students are responsible for obtaining this document before beginning the project.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

Permission of the Department is required.

Description:

This course may be offered in a given year upon the authorization of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The course content may vary from offering to offering and will be chosen to complement elective courses available in a given year.