Program Description
The Communication Systems Engineering program seeks to introduce the new in the science and technology of communication systems at the educational, practical, and scientific research levels through the application of quality systems and cooperation with specialized bodies locally and internationally. This program graduates’ engineers with the ability to deal with the latest development in the fields of communication, optical, and electronic systems to meet the requirements of the market at the moral and professional levels by creating the appropriate conditions for the development of different skills of students and cooperate with specialized industrial and research bodies locally and internationally.
Career Prospects
The program aims at generating a graduate who is well trained in modern telecommunication industry as well as having a background in communication systems that enables him to fit easily within a modern telecommunication work environment and be able to identify market needs in this fast-moving segment of business. The graduate is exposed to a wide variety of courses to build an open scope to telecommunication engineering which is interdisciplinary in nature. The graduate acquires his degree by taking a balanced curriculum that is pre- dominantly concerned with communication systems on different levels and does not neglect required basic sciences needed for this field.
Program Concentrations
The program qualifies graduates to work as Electronics and telecommunication engineers. The graduate can be specialized in one of the following three concentrations (fields):
- Circuits and Systems.
- Physical and Wave Electronics.
- Signals and Communication Systems.
The student has to select Eight elective courses for a total of (24) Credit Hours with at least five of these courses from one of the mentioned fields.
- Circuits and Systems: This is the concentration for the graduate engineer to work in national and international companies concern with electronic design.
- Physical and Wave Electronics: This is the concentration for the graduate engineer to work in telecommunication companies for transmission field, or in research field related to microwave and optical communications.
- Signals and Communication Systems: This is the concentration for the graduate engineer to work in telecommunication companies in core network or in research field related to signal processing.
Agreements with another University
The program is in partnership with the University of East London (UEL), United Kingdom for a Bachelor Dual Degree. Students joining this agreement will pay an additional fee, to substitute expenses for the external Quality Audits/Moderation Boards that will take place in Egypt. The Graduates should receive two B.Sc. certificates, one from the University of East London, and one from Ain Shams University. Students are allowed to study a full year or more in London with a 10% reduction in the UK tuition fees.
Program Objectives
In addition to the competences for all Engineering Programs (A-Level), the Communication Systems Engineering Program graduate must be able to (D-Level):
- * D1: Estimate and measure the performance of communication and electronic systems under specific input excitation and evaluate its suitability for a specific application.
- * D2: Identify needs, plan and manage resources, and gather information for solving a specific communication problem and efficiently document this solution.
- * D3: Have the technological abilities to design and implement elements, modules, sub-systems or systems.
- * D4: Be familiar with and utilize professional tools for communication system engineering.
- * D5: Design, model and analyse electronic, microwave, optical, and communication systems or components for a specific application and identify the tools required to optimize this design.
- * D6: Classify and evaluate the applications and market segments to create a specific product including the estimation of the required resources.
- * D7: Demonstrate additional abilities related to the field of the concentration within Communication Systems Engineering as listed below.
Concentration | Graduate attributes |
Circuits and Systems | D7a. Demonstrate additional abilities to design analog and/or digital circuits of any electronic system. |
Physical and Wave Electronics | D7b. Demonstrate additional abilities to analyse, design any microwave or optical communication system. |
Signals and Communication Systems | D7c. Demonstrate additional abilities to work on state-of-the-art research problems in signal processing, image and multimedia processing. D8c. Demonstrate additional abilities to manage and design any communication system. |
Required Courses
In order to get a Bachelor of Science Degree in this program, and to satisfy the Program Competences, the following set of courses need to be completed.
Table 33 List of Communication Systems Engineering Program Requirements courses.
Code | Course Title | Credits and SWL | Contact Hours | |||||
CH | ECTS | SWL | Lec | Tut | Lab | TT | ||
University Requirements Courses | 14 | 21 | 525 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 22 | |
Faculty Requirements Courses | 42 | 92 | 2300 | 36 | 25 | 14 | 75 | |
PHM113 | Differential and Partial Differential Equations | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
PHM114s | Numerical Analysis | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
PHM213s | Complex, Special Functions and Fourier Analysis | 3 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
PHM121 | Modern Physics and Quantum Mechanics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
PHM123s | Thermal and Statistical Physics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE111s | Electronic Materials | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
ECE213s | Solid State Electronic Devices | 3 | 7 | 175 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE214s | Electronic Circuits (1) | 4 | 7 | 175 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
ECE315s | Electronic Circuits (2) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE316s | Digital Circuit Design | 3 | 7 | 175 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE131s | Electrostatics and Magnetostatics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE331s | Electromagnetic Waves | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
ECE333s | Microwave Engineering | 4 | 6 | 150 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
ECE334s | Optical Fiber Communications | 4 | 6 | 150 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
ECE432s | Antenna Engineering and propagation | 2 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
ECE253s | Signals and Systems | 4 | 8 | 200 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
ECE254s | Analog Communications | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
ECE255s | Digital Signal Processing | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
ECE354s | Digital Communications | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
ECE355s | Communication Networks (1) | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE452s | Information Theory and Coding | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE458s | Communication Networks (2) | 3 | 7 | 175 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
CSE111s | Logic Design | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
CSE212s | Computer Organization | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
CSE131s | Computer Programming | 3 | 6 | 150 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
CSE371s | Control Engineering | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
EPM114s | Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool A (1) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (2) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool A (3) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (4) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (5) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (6) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (7) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (8) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
ECE491s | Graduation Project (1) | 3 | 7 | 175 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
ECE492s | Graduation Project (2) | 3 | 8 | 200 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
Total | 170 | 320 | 8000 | 132 | 95 | 61 | 288 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective | ||||||||
Circuits And Systems Concentration Elective | ||||||||
Pool A | ||||||||
CSE211s | Introduction to Embedded Systems | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
ECE318s | Electronic Measurements and Instrumentation | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Pool B | ||||||||
ECE317s | Modern VLSI Devices | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE411s | Integrated Circuits Technology | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE412s | Analog Integrated Circuit Design | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE413s | ASIC Design and Automation | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE414s | RF Circuit Design | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE419s | Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Physical And Wave Electronics Concentration Elective | ||||||||
Pool A | ||||||||
ECE335s | Microwave Measurements | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
ECE338s | Optical Sensing and Instrumentation | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Pool B | ||||||||
ECE336s | Integrated Optics and Optical MEMS | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE337s | Microwave Circuits | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE438s | Microwave Devices | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE439s | Optoelectronic Devices | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE440s | RF and Microwave Systems | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE441s | Selected Topics in Physical and Wave Electronics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Signals And Communication Systems Concentration Elective | ||||||||
Pool A | ||||||||
ECE357s | Statistical Signal Processing | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
ECE359s | Signal Processing for Multimedia | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Pool B | ||||||||
ECE356s | Electro-Acoustical Engineering | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE358s | Wireless Communications | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE454s | Satellite Communication Systems | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE459s | Mobile Communications | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE460s | Machine Learning for Multimedia | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
ECE461s | Selected Topics in Signals & Communication Sys. | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Total | 170 | 320 | 8000 | 132 | 95 | 61 | 288 |
Program Study Plan
Code | Course Title | Credits and SWL | Contact Hours | Prerequisites | |||||
CH | ECTS | SWL | Lec | Tut | Lab | TT | |||
Semester 1 | |||||||||
PHM012 | Mathematics (1) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
PHM021 | Vibration and Waves | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
PHM031 | Statics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
MDP011s | Engineering Drawing | 3 | 6 | 150 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
PHM041 | Engineering Chemistry | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
CSE031s | Computing in Engineering | 2 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Total | 17 | 30 | 750 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 28 | ||
Semester 2 | |||||||||
PHM013 | Mathematics (2) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ( PHM012 ) |
PHM022 | Electricity and Magnetism | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
PHM032 | Dynamics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ( PHM031 ) |
CEP011s | Projection and Engineering Graphics | 3 | 6 | 150 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
MDP081s | Production Engineering | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
ENG011s | Fundamentals of Engineering | 2 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
Total | 17 | 30 | 750 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 29 | ||
Semester 3 | |||||||||
PHM113 | Differential and Partial Differential Equations | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ( PHM013 ) |
PHM121 | Modern Physics and Quantum Mechanics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ( PHM013 ) AND ( PHM022 ) |
EPM114s | Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ( PHM022 OR PHM022s ) |
ASU111s | Human Rights | 2 | 2 | 50 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
EPM211s | Properties of Electrical Materials | 2 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ( PHM022 OR PHM022s ) |
EPM119s | Engineering Economy and Investments | 2 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
PHM111 | Probability and Statistics | 2 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( PHM013 ) |
Total | 17 | 30 | 750 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 29 | ||
Semester 4 | |||||||||
PHM114s | Numerical Analysis | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( PHM113 ) |
PHM213s | Complex, Special Functions and Fourier Analysis | 3 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( PHM113 ) |
PHM123s | Thermal and Statistical Physics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( PHM111 ) |
ECE111s | Electronic Materials | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ( PHM121 OR PHM121s ) |
ECE131s | Electrostatics and Magnetostatics | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( PHM013 OR PHM013s ) AND ( PHM022 OR PHM022s ) |
CSE131s | Computer Programming | 3 | 6 | 150 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
Total | 18 | 30 | 750 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 25 | ||
Semester 5 | |||||||||
ECE213s | Solid State Electronic Devices | 3 | 7 | 175 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( PHM123 OR PHM123s ) AND ( ECE111 ) |
ECE331s | Electromagnetic Waves | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ( PHM212 OR PHM212s OR PHM213 OR PHM213s) AND ( EPM112 ) AND ( ECE131 ) |
ECE253s | Signals and Systems | 4 | 8 | 200 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ( PHM111 OR PHM111s ) AND ( PHM213 OR PHM213s ) |
CSE111s | Logic Design | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
ASU112s | Report Writing & Communication skills | 3 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
Total | 16 | 30 | 750 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 25 | ||
Semester 6 | |||||||||
ECE214s | Electronic Circuits (1) | 4 | 7 | 175 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ( ECE213 ) AND ( EPM114 ) |
ECE333s | Microwave Engineering | 4 | 6 | 150 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ( ECE331 ) |
ECE254s | Analog Communications | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ( ECE253 ) |
ECE255s | Digital Signal Processing | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ( ECE253 ) |
CSE212s | Computer Organization | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( CSE111 ) AND ( CSE131 ) |
Total | 17 | 30 | 750 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 29 | ||
Semester 7 | |||||||||
ECE315s | Electronic Circuits (2) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( ECE214 ) |
ECE334s | Optical Fiber Communications | 4 | 6 | 150 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ( ECE254 ) AND ( ECE333 ) |
ECE432s | Antenna Engineering and propagation | 2 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ( ECE332 OR ECE333 ) AND ( ) |
ECE354s | Digital Communications | 3 | 5 | 125 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ( ECE254 ) |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool A (1) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (2) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Total | 18 | 30 | 750 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 31 | ||
Semester 8 | |||||||||
ECE316s | Digital Circuit Design | 3 | 7 | 175 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( CSE111 ) AND ( ECE214 ) |
ECE355s | Communication Networks (1) | 3 | 6 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( ECE254 ) |
CSE371s | Control Engineering | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ( ECE251 OR ECE253 ) |
ASU114s | Selected Topics in Contemporary Issues | 2 | 2 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool A (3) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (4) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Total | 17 | 30 | 750 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 26 | ||
Semester 9 | |||||||||
ECE452s | Information Theory and Coding | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( ECE351 OR ECE354 ) AND ( ) |
ECE491s | Graduation Project (1) | 3 | 7 | 175 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | |
EPM411s | Project Management for Electrical Engineering | 2 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
ASU113s | Professional Ethics and Legislations | 3 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (5) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (6) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Total | 17 | 30 | 750 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 30 | ||
Semester 10 | |||||||||
ECE458s | Communication Networks (2) | 3 | 7 | 175 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ( ECE355 ) |
ECE492s | Graduation Project (2) | 3 | 8 | 200 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | ( ECE491 ) |
Asu Elective A Course | 2 | 3 | 75 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||
Asu Elective B Course | 2 | 2 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (7) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Communication Systems Concentration Elective Course, Pool B (8) | 3 | 5 | 125 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Total | 16 | 30 | 750 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 28 |