Electronics & Communication Engineering - Course Descriptions

MATH101 Calculus I
Analytic geometry, continuity, derivatives and differentials of functions of one variable, with applications to graphing and optimization problems; also gives and introduction to anti differentiation and the definite integral.Textbooks: Robert A. Adams , Calculus, Addison Wesley, 4th Edition, ISBN 0-201-39607-6
COMP107 Introduction to Programming
Introduction to computer and programming terminology; data, information, I/O, processing, and use of notations. The characteristics and functions of high-level block structured languages. The basic structure of computer programming. The fundamentals and concepts of algorithms. The components of algorithms; Processing, Comparing, Testing, Validation. The fundamentals of drawing flowcharts; INPUT/OUTPUT, PROCESS, LOOPS, CONDITIONS, JUMPS, ARROWS. The functions and techniques of programming.  The concepts of structured programming; sequence, selection, and iteration including Pseudo-code. 
Textbooks: Maureen Sprankle, Problem Solving and Programming Concepts, Prentice Hall 0-02-415350-8
ENGL121 English I
The primary aim of this course is to help students to develop study skills, which will improve their overall performance and competence on their programme. The course will also focus on specific language skills, in order to increase the students knowledge of grammatical structures, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening, speaking and key features of academic English.Textbooks: P.Charles Brown, Norma D. Mullen, English For Computer Science, Oxford University Press, 1987. 2. Santiago Remacha Esteras, Infotech English For Computer Users, Cambrpdge University Press., 1997. 3.. R.R.Jordan, Academic Writing Course, Longman, 1986.
PHYS101 Physics I
Vectors, Kinematics, Particle Dynamics Work and Energy. Conversation of Energy, System of Particles, Collisions, Rotational motions, Oscillation, Acoustics.
Textbooks: Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics, Douglas Giancoli, 3rd Ed. Prentice-Hall, ISBN: 0130215171
CHEM101 Chemistry
The course is based on understanding the theories of chemistry and structure of chemical compounds. Naming based on IUPAC, drawing structure, introducing geometrical isomerism, Hybrid and atomic orbits, characteristic reactions of organic compounds, organic functional group, carbohydrates, fats and oils. It also introduces Electro Chemistry and Soil Chemistry. Ideal gasses, batteries, electro cells, current, electromotor power, type of electrodes, free energy of reactions, equilibrium constant, heat of reactions. Chemical units, concentration in liquid solutions, fertilisers and soil organic matters.
Textbooks: Organic Chemistry, Fourth Edition, Stanley H. Pine/James B. Hendrickson / Donald J. Cram, George S. Hammond Analytical Chemistry, H.A.Flaschka / A.J.Barnard, Jr./ P.E.Strurrock.
ECE101 Introduction to Telecommunication and Electronic Engineering-I
Relevance Communication Engineering curriculum to the practice of engineering in manufacturing and R&D environments. Various approaches and methods in problem solving. Introduction to communication and signal processing theory and techniques. Examples of applications. Network analysis. Some basic parts of electronic systems are treated. Electronic circuits are designed and systematically analyzed. Transfer functions of one port (L, R, C) and two port devices are treated. Analysis will be done in the time and frequency domain.
Textbooks: Telecommunication Engineering ,John Dunlop, D. Geoffrey,
MATH 110 Calculus II
Applications of the definite integral, techniques of integration, differentiation and integration of transcendental forms, indeterminate forms, improper integrals, Taylor's formula and infinite series. Vectors, double and triple integrals.
Textbooks: Robert A. Adams , Calculus, Addison Wesley, 4th Edition, 0-201-39607-6
ENGL122 English II
The primary aim of this course is to help students develop study skills including use of dictionaries and reference materials, finding relevant sources in the library. Tuition will be given in paraphrasing, summarising information, writing short essays and short research reports that are clear in terms of overall structure, organisation, and development of ideas, and which demonstrate on appropriate academic style. Students will also participate in discussions and debates, putting forward clear ideas, opinions and argument, plus give short oral presentations in class.
Textbooks: P.Charles Brown, Norma D. Mullen, English For Computer Science, Oxford University Press, 1987. 2. Santiago Remacha Esteras, Infotech English For Computer Users, Cambrpdge University Press., 1997. 3.. R.R.Jordan, Academic Writing Course, Longman, 1986
PHYS 102 Physics II
This is the second course in a two semester series of general physics designed for engineering majors. Basic concepts of the electricity and magnetism treated mathematically. The main topics are electricity, magnetism, waves, light and optics, and an introduction to modern physics.
Textbooks: Physics for Scientists & Engineers, R. A. Serway, 6th Ed. Thompson Learning, 2004.
COMP114   Programming in C-I
Problem-solving methods and algorithm development; high-level structured programming using C-languages. Development of process of design, coding, debugging, documentation; focus on good programming style and sound program construction. Includes basic aspects of string processing, recursion, search, sort and simple data structures.
Textbooks: H. M. Deitel , P. J. Deitel C, How to Program, Deitel & Deitel, 4th Edition 0-13-122543-X
ECE102 Introduction to Telecommunication and Electronic Engineering II
The aim of this course is to give an introduction into electronic communication systems. Those systems enable transport of information over large distances. Representation of signals that are used in this field. Signal can be describes in the time and frequency domain. Both representations and their relation will be explained. The signals can be analog or digital. Modulation of information signals. The signals have to be modulated before they can be transmitted efficiently over a medium. Several analog modulation techniques (amplitude modulation, frequency modulation) and digital modulation 
Textbooks: Telecommunication Engineering ,John Dunlop, D. Geoffrey,
TURK 100   Turkish
The course aims to give the historical development, linguistic features, types of oral and written communication of the Turkish language and give examples on the written errors of the language.  
Textbooks: Emine Özdemir, Sözlü yazılı  anlatım olanaklarını ve yazım sorunlarını örneklerle aktarmak dersin amacıdır.
MATH 201  Ordinary Differential Equations
The Differential Equations and their solutions, Classification of Differential equations, Solution of differential equations, initial value  and boundary value - problem, First order differential equations, Application of the first order differential equations, higher order differential equations, application of second-order differential equations.  
Textbooks: Shepley L. Ross, Introduction  to Ordinary Differential Equations, Willey 0-471-09881
ECE201     Electronic Devices
This course provides an introduction to electronic devices and circuits. It covers principles of operation, terminal characteristics and applications of fundamental electronic devices such as p-n junction diodes, metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFET) and bipolar junction transistors (BJT). Course also covers analysis and design of electronic circuits. Laboratory experiments, assignments and Multisim based simulations are designed to develop hands-on skills with electronic circuits and to understand limitations and characteristics of electronic circuits. Course also aims to develop problem-solving skills by emphasizing the application of conceptual understanding and use of analytical and experimental tools to solve problems in electronic circuits. At the end of this course students will be able to explain working of electronic devices, analyze, design and simulate electronic circuits.
Textbooks: Instrumentation Devices and Systems, C.S. Rangan,  G.R. Sarma, V.S. Mani, Tata McGraw Hill, 1990
Modern Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques, A.D.Helfrick and W.D.Cooper,  PHI 2004
ECE203    Digital Circuits I
Number systems, binary, octal and hexadecimal systems, conversions. Boolean algebra and logic gates. Postulates, Laws and Theorems, truth tables, simplifications of Boolean functions using Boolean laws, map method and tabular method. Realisation structures for product-of sums and Sums-of -products expressions. Universal gates. Multiplexers and de-multiplexers, encoders and decoders. Combinational logic design using logic gates, multiplexers, PROM array and PAL (Programmable Array Logic). Digital comparators, variable reference digital comparators. Half adder, full adder, 4-bit parallel binary adder, subtractor.  
Textbooks:Digital fundamentals, Thomas LFloyd, Prentice Hall
International. Digital Principles, Malvino and Leach,
Mc Graw Hill.Digital Principles and design, Donald G.Givone, Mc Graw Hill
ECE205 Circuit Theory
Circuit laws and basic elements. First order and second order circuits. Analysis of linear time invariant circuits, convolution. Sinusoidal steady-state analysis. Coupling elements andcoupled circuits.
Textbooks: Electric Circuits, James Nilsson & Susan Riedel, 7th (International) Ed., Prentice-Hall, 2005. ISBN: 013127760X
COMP203     Programming in C II
Fundamental nature of information and storage structures and their manipulation. Strings, arrays, sets and other basic data structures. Iterative and recursive programming techniques. Storage systems, structures and allocation. Introduction to sorting and searching techniques.  
Textbooks: H. M. Deitel , P. J. Deitel, C How to Program, Prentice Hall, 4th Edition0-13-122543-
MATH  202   Linear Algebra
Matrices, systems of linear equations and their solutions, plane and space vectors, vector spaces, Eigen values and Eigen vectors and applications.
Textbooks: 1.Stanley Grossman, Elementary Linear Algebra, Saunders Coll. Pub, 00307657652. Howard Anton, Elementary Linear Algebra, John Wiley and Sons, 0471449032
STAT 222 Statistics and Probability
This course is designed to develop an understanding of the role of probability and statistics in engineering problems. Topics include descriptive statistics; sets, events, and probability; discrete random variables and discrete probability distributions; continuous random variables and continuous probability distributions; joint probability distributions; introduction to estimation theory; correlation and regression analysis; statistics of extreme events; testing of hypothesis; and engineering applications.
Textbooks: J.S. Milton, Jesse C. Arnold, Introduction to Probability and Statistics, MC Graw Hill, Second Edition, 0-07-100812-8
ECE202 Digital Circuits II
Sequential logic circuits. NAND and NOR latches, flip flops, RS flip flop using NAND and NOR, clocked RS flip flops, JK flip flop circuits, Master Slave JK flip flop. T flip flop, D flip flop, Binary counters, 2-bit,3-bit and 4-bit counters, Modulo-N counters, UP/DOWN counters, Synchronous counters, Binary codes, BCDs, 8421,excess-3,2421,Gray,2-out-of-5 codes, Johnson code, Code converters, code exchangers. Binary and BCD arithmetic. Serial binary adder. Shift registers, parallel shift, serial shift left shift right registers. Serial in parallel out, parallel in serial out shift registers. Memory cells, RAM, PROM and EPROM memory, Organization of memory array, Memory systems. Address decoding. Introduction to ASM.
Textbooks: Digital Circuits, J.R. Nowicki, L.J .Adam, ISBN 0340561084
EE226  Electrical Machines
To clearly understand the basic concepts of the electrical machines working in the modern power system. Furthermore, modeling and analysis of various types of generators and motors is also carried out. Transformer (Types, construction, operation, equivalent circuit), DC machines (Construction, performance, motor characteristics, starting, speed control), Synchronous machines (Construction, generator performance, motor characteristics, starting), Induction machines (Construction, 3-phase motors, types, operation, equivalent circuit, starting, speed control), Small machines (Single phase motors, control motors, tacho-generators).
Textbooks: Electric Machine Theory for Power Engineers, Van E. Mablekos, ISBN 0060441496
ECE208 Analog Signal Processing
The module examines the structure of equipment used in professional audio technology, their basic maintenance, setting up equipment, and principles of analogue electronics on component level. Some of the course contents are earthing, impedance, audio-frequency signals, common passive components and diodes, operation amplifiers and electron tubes, basic concepts of low-frequency amplifiers and passive and active filters. Exercises include fairly basic maintenance and set-up exercises that are relevant to creative work and/or studio work in music technology.
Textbooks: Analog Signal Processing, Ramón Pallás-Areny-John G. Webster, ISBN 047112528
ECE212 Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields
Principles of Electrostatics and Electromagnetics; Laws of Fields; Resistance, Inductance, and Capacitance; Dielectrics; Energy Storage; Maxwell's Field Equation.  Usage of  Faraday’s law to solve problems involving time-varying magnetic fields. Analyze electrostatic and magnetostatic fields at the interface between two media.
Textbooks: Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics, David K. Cheng, Addison Wesley, 1993. ISBN: 0201600714
ENGL301 Communication Skills I
Mastering the phrasal verbs- may, should, must and will. Terms like say, tell, talk or speak, who, which or whose. Nouns, adjectives or adverbs. Asking politely, did, do, have done. Regrets with wish..
Textbooks: P.Charles Brown, Norma D. Mullen, English For Computer Science, Oxford University Press, 1987. 2. Santiago Remacha Esteras, Infotech English For Computer Users, Cambrpdge University Press., 1997. 3.. R.R.Jordan, Academic Writing Course, Longman, 1986.
ECE303 Analog Communication
Analyze and simulate transmitter and receiver functions and circuits. Antenna Building - design, build and test an antenna by teams of two or three students. Circuit Building - analyze, simulate, build, and test stages in an AM/FM receiver. Communications principles and systems. Practical engineering aspects involved in modulation-demodulation, receivers, transmitters and filters. Also included are radiation and antennas, guided waves, microwaves, and microwave systems.
Textbooks: Digital and Analog Communication Systems, By Leon W. Couch. Published 1983, ISBN 0023252405
ECE305 Guided Fields
General plane wave solution of Maxwell.s equations; reflection and transmission of plane waves; Transmission line fields and parameters, impedance matching, guided wave structures: classical, microstrip and fiberoptic lines, electromagnetic radiation and basics of antennas.
Textbooks:
HIST100   History of Turkish Reforms
A history of the construction of the Turkish Republic under the light of Kemal Ataturk’s principles, and a brief history of Cyprus covering the Ottoman Rule, British Rule, foundation of Republic of Cyprus, civil strife, the intervention of Turkey and the political developments until the establishment of TRNC.
Textbooks: Atatürk ve devrimleri bibliyografyası, Muzaffer Gökman
ECON305 Engineering Economics
Price theory. Demand. Supply. Equilibrium. Price. Elasticity. The money supply and the rate of interest. The banking system. The money multiplier. The quantity theory of money. Bonds and bills. National Income measurement. Circular flow of income. Inflation. Costs of inflation. Causes of inflation. Demand pull inflation. Coat push inflation. Monetarist theory. The balance of payments and exchange rates. Risk analysis and management. Reactive vs Proactive risk strategy. Software risks. Risk identification. Risk projection. Risk exposure. The theory of costs. Economic meaning of cost. Time scales. Total, average and marginal costs. Economies and diseconomies of scale. Relationship between short and long run costs. The goals of firms. Short run profit maximization. Long run profit maximization. Managerial theories. The firm and its industry. Number of firms in an industry. Product characteristics of the industry. Barriers to entry and exit. Relationship between firms in an industry. Knowledge. International trade. Theory of comparative advantage. Reasons for international trade. Terms of trade. Protectionism. Economic integration. The neoclassical theory of the firm. The theory of perfect competition. Theories of imperfect competition.
Textbooks: Park, C. S., Contemporary Engineering Economics, Prentice Hall, 4th Ed. 2007 C.S. Park, Fundamentals of Engineering Economics, Prentice Hall 2005
ECE302 Digital Signal Processing
Review of linear system theory. Analysis of discrete time filters. Z transform Digital filters. Realization structures for digital filter. Recursive and Non-recursive functions. Stability of digital filters. Design of low pass, high pass and band pass filters. Finite word length effects. Digital filters for random signals. Discrete Fourier transform, decimation in frequency and time. Fast Fourier Transform. 2 D filters.
Textbooks: Digital Signal Processing, A computer-based approach, Sanjit K. Mitra 2nd Ed., Mc-GrawHill, 2002. ISBN: 0071226079
ECE304 Digital Communication
The focus is on coding techniques for approaching the Shannon limit of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, their performance analysis, and design principles. After a review of 6.450 and the Shannon limit for AWGN channels, the course begins by discussing small signal constellations, performance analysis and coding gain, and hard-decision and soft-decision decoding. It continues with binary linear block codes, Reed-Muller codes, finite fields, Reed-Solomon and BCH codes, binary linear convolutional codes, and the Viterbi algorithm.
Textbooks: Digital Communications, By Ian Glover, Peter M. Grant, Published 2004, ISBN 0130893994
ECE306 Microwave Engineering
Design and analysis of passive microwave circuits. Topics include transmission lines, electromagnetic field theory, waveguides, microwave network analysis and signal flow graphs, impedance matching and tuning, resonators, power dividers and directional couplers, and microwave filters.
Textbooks: Introduction to Electromagnetic and Microwave Engineering, By Paul R. Karmel, Published 1998, ISBN 0471177814
MATH302 Numerical Methods
Preliminaries, the Solution of nonlinear equations, the Solution of linear systems, interpolation and polynomial approximation, numerical differentiation and integration. Curve fitting, numerical differentiation, numerical integration.
Textbooks: Differential-algebraic Equations: analysis and numerical solution, By Peter Kunkel, Published   2006, ISBN 3037190175
Meshfree Particle Methods, By Shaofan Li, Wing Kam Liu, Published 2004, ISBN 3540222561
EE401 Microprocessor Systems
Overview of architecture, organization and instruction set of 8086 family processors. Minimum mode and maximum mode configurations. Pin outs and functional details of pins for minimum mode and maximum mode. Buffered 8086 system. Memory management concepts. I/O port peripheral interface devices. Interrupt interface. Assembly programming examples. 
Textbooks: The Intel Microprocessors 8086,80186,80286,80386 and 80486 and Pentium,  B.Bray, Prentice Hall.The 80x86 IBM PC and compatible Computers, M.A.Mazidi and J.C.Mazidi,  Prentice Hall, 1994   ISBN 0-13-758509-8
IBM PC assembly language and programming, Peter Abel, Prentice Hall,  ©2001.
ISBN: 013030655X 0130319163.
Microprocessors and Interfacing 8086,80386,80486, D.Hall, McGraw Hill.Microprocessor and Microcomputer based design, Rafiquzzaman,  Univ Book Book Stall         
ECE401 Communication Theory
Random processes, modeling of noise: Gaussian noise, white noise, narrowband noise. Noise analysis in analog modulation: The effect of noise to the signal-to-noise ratio after demodulation in systems with amplitude modulation, threshold effect. Comparisons of signal- to-noise ratio values after demodulation of systems with carrier amplitude, double side-band, single sideband and vestigial sideband modulation. Noise analysis in exponential modulation, threshold effect in frequency modulation. Noise analysis in pulse code modulation, comparisons with amplitude and frequency modulation. Correlated digital transmission techniques, partial response coding techniques, their spectral properties.
Textbooks: Digital Signal Processing, A computer-based approach, 2nd Ed., Mc-GrawHill, 2002.ISBN: 0071226079 Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia, By Ross Kirk, Andy Hunt, Published 1999, ISBN 0240515064
ECE 403 Speech and Sound Processing
Fundamentals of sound and speech production, speech analysis: pitch and period extraction, formant estimation, voiced -unvoiced decision. Non-linear smoothing. Linear prediction. Inverse filtering. Implementation of speech/speaker recognition systems. Auditory modelling, auditory masking. Audio signal processing.  Speech    and audio compression. Compression standards. Speech enhancement
ECE 310 Summer Training
Each student should undergo training for a period of  6 weeks (30 working days) in one of the industries or research institutes so as to gain hands on experience on a particular field. 
ECE 402 Communication Systems
Review of probability and random variables. Random signals and noise. Stochastic processes. Correlation functions, stationary and ergodicity of stochastic processes. Power spectral density. Transmission of noise signals through linear systems. Thermal noise, white noise, SNR. Noise analysis and comparison of AM, FM and PM techniques. Base band digital transmission. Error probabilities. Matched filtering. Inter-symbol interference. Nyquist pulse shaping. Equalization; synchronization. ASK and QAM.
Textbooks: Communication Systems, 4th Ed., Mc-GrawHill, 2002.ISBN: 0071121757
ECE404 Satellite Communications
Fundamentals of satellite communication system structures. Satellite subsystems, detailed link analysis, antennas and linkpropagation properties, multiplexing, modulation and multiple access techniques. Earth stations. Design examples for fixed and mobile satellite communication systems.
Textbooks: Satellite Communication Systems, 3rd Ed., By Barry George Evans, Published 1999.ISBN 085296899X
ECE420 Graduation Project
This course is designed to bring together the knowledge and skills gained in the major Communication courses and the minor in electronics, computer hardware and power systems or further specialization options. The student, in consultation with the supervisor has to choose the topic for graduation project. Designing any Communication application system with full documentation, or any other agreed project of a similar standard. Projects may be of an individual or group nature, but in the latter case individual contributions must be specified.

Elective Courses

Fibre Optic Communication Systems
Importance of fiber optic communication, usage area and developing duration. Optical communication channels: Optical film and fiber optic. Propagation properties of fiber.  Fiber cables. Optical sources. Optical receivers: PIN and APD. Quantum limited receiver. Signal/noise ratio and BER. System aspects. Design principles, dispersion and attenuation
Radar Systems
Pulse radar, Detection of range, range and angular resolution, Radar equation, Radar transmitter, Receiver, Detection theory, probability of false alarm and probability of detection.  Radar cross section of targets, complex targets. Integration of radar pulses, CW radar, Doppler shift, FMCW Radar, FM altimeter, Multiple frequency CW Radar, Moving Target Indicator, delay line Canceller, Blind speeds, staggered PRF, Radar antennas, Cassegrain antennas, Radomes, Tracking radars, Mono-pulse tracking, Conical Scan Radar, Electronic scanning.
Introduction to Mobile Communication
Cellular mobile radio principles; basic features, wave, spectral effectiveness. Cellular phones, cells, coverage, frequency allocation, base stations, call routing, antenna systems for mobile communications, architecture of the cell phone..
Switching and Teletraffic Theory
Switching in telecommunications. Circuit, message and packet switching. Fundamentals of circuit switching. Telephone exchanges switching networks and control techniques, SPC. Switching software. Signaling systems. Hierarchical network structure. Intelligent networks. Terminals and access to the network. Mobile systems and GSM. Space and time division switching. Digitalization in telecommunication network. IDN and ISDN. Teletraffic engineering. Quevening systems. Lost and delayed calls. Switching network planning.
Microwave and RF Communication
Modeling of the multipath channel. Digital transmission over non frequency selective channels. Diversity techniques. Coded waves on fading channels. Spread spectrum. Frequency hopping spread spectrum. Some applications. Digital radio systems. Link analysis. Antennas and medium parameters. System gain. Interference and noise. Transmitters, receivers and repeaters. Design applications.
Textbooks: The Rf and Microwave Handbook, By John Michael Golio, Published 2001, ISBN 084938592X
Digital Switching Systems
Digital circuit switching systems, hardware and software organizations. OSI reference model and protocols. Queuing systems. Packet switching systems, X.25 protocol. ISDN and frame relay. SMDS and DQDB-MAN. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). xDSL access and SDH transport technologies. Local Area Networks (LAN.s). Interconnection of LAN.s. FDDI backbones
Remote Sensing
Properties of earth atmosphere, spectral characteristic of surface objects; space radiation collection systems; detectors; passive radiometer and spectrometers; active lidar; Synthetic aperture radar and tracking systems. Satellite sensing. Digital image processing algorithms, Image characteristics. Image processing instrumentation. Examples for remote sensing applications.
Fundamentals of  Multimedia
Media and data streams. Audio. Images and graphics. Video and Animation. Data compression. Optical Storage media. Computer technology. Multimedia operating systems. Networking systems. Multimedia communication systems. Database systems. Documents. User interfaces. Synchronization. Multimedia applications.
Image Processing Fundamentals
Image processing applications and basic problems. Cameras. Perception. Human visual system and computer vision systems. Review of two-dimensional systems. Histogram-based operations. Convolution-based operations. Smoothing operations. Derivative-based operations. Morphology-based operations. Contour representations. Basic enhancement and restoration techniques. Segmentation. Fundamentals of image coding and compression.
Textbooks: Digital Image Processing, By Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, Published 2002, ISBN 0201180758



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