ENGR002-INTRODUCTION TO

ENGINEERING
DR. AHMAD EL HAJJ
FALL 2019/2020

Engineering disciplines:
Electrical and Communications
Engineering
DEFINITION

 What is Electronics engineering?

Electronics engineering is an electrical engineering discipline. Electronic engineer uses
electrical components (semiconductor devices and integrated circuits)to design
electronic circuits, microprocessors and other systems. It covers analog electronics, digital
electronics, consumer electronics, embedded systems and power electronics.
 What is Communication engineering?
Communication systems engineering is an electrical engineering discipline. It deals with
the design, development and maintenance of technology for communications, ranging
from telephones to Internet systems. It primarily addresses the challenge of how to
efficiently and effectively deliver information from one place to the other. Typical
examples are high-speed networks, Internet, cellular and satellite communications, and
WiFi or wireless area networks.
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COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS AND
ENGINEERING – CEE

Communications
engineering

Control Electronics Instrumentation

engineering engineering engineering

Computer
engineering
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 HISTORY
Superheterodyne radio Invention of transistor,
receiver, Armstrong Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain

1895: Wireless telegraphy, Marconi

1837 1875 1895 1918 1926 1948 1972

First cellular
mobile
phone by
Motorolla
Line telegraphy Wireless Television invented,
invention telegraphy, Baird (UK), Jenkins
Gauss,Weber Marconi (USA) 4
PRESENT AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

 Wireless communication
 Satellite communication
IP telephony
 Cellular communication (4G,5G)
 Internet telephony
 Nanotechnology
 Wireless sensor networks
 Radars
 Surface Mount Technology
Radar

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 MAJOR FIELDS IN ECE

Wireless
Wireless and mobile communication:
and
Design, plan, establish, and optimize wireless networks
mobile
Design and validate RF link performance capacity
commun planning, GSM frequency planning and frequency
Digital
ication Telecom hopping
Signal municati
processing ons
Telecommunications:
CEE Design and regulate the installation of
telecommunications equipment and facilities, such as
electronic switching systems, copper telephone facilities
Embedded
VLSI and fiber optics.
system
Provide solutions to customer to have telephone and
high speed data services
RF and Design the telecom network infrastructure
Microwave
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 MAJOR FIELDS IN CEE

Wireless
and
mobile
commun Embedded system: in relation with computer
ication engineering program
Digital Telecom Designing and implementing software of embedded
Signal municati devices and systems
processing ons Designing, developing, coding, testing and debugging
system software
CEE RF and Microwave:
Experience with transmission systems, device design, and
Embedded placement of antennas for optimum performance
VLSI
system Requires many years of extensive experience in the area
of study
Understand electronic hardware design, circuit board
RF and
Microwave
material, antenna radiation, and the effect of interfering
frequencies
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 MAJOR FIELDS IN CEE

Wireless
and
mobile
commun VLSI (very Large Scale Integration):
Layout engineer, where you will be designing the digital
Digital
ication Telecom and analog circuits inside the chip
Signal municati Testing the designs for speed, noise
processing ons Designing Wireless modules, antennas, RF amplifiers in
integrated circuits
CEE Digital Signal processing
Write assembly code
Embedded Write C/C++ code to implement function on DSP
VLSI
system Architect a hardware block, implements it in
VHDL/Verilog
Check the RTL and the correctness at the logic level with
RF and
Microwave
black box testing
Architect the system and designs algorithms
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 TOP RECRUITERS IN CEE

CEE engineers are acquired by top recruiters like:

• Siemens
• Motorola
• Intel
• Texas Instruments
• Xilinx
• Agilent
• Apple
• Samsung
• Cisco
• Qualcomm
• Rohde&Schwarz
• Philips Electronics

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IEEE SOCIETIES IN CEE

IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEEE societies cover Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunications and Computer
engineering and allied disciplines as well as other fields as Biomedical engineering

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AREAS
 Electrical engineers usually work in :
 Power generation and transmission.
 Electronics.
 Communications systems.
 Instrumentation and measurement.
 Automatic controls.
 Computers.

 Their work contributes to almost every sector of society: electrical appliances for homes,
electronic displays for business, lasers for industry, and satellite systems for government
and businesses.

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POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
HISTORY

 Pear Street Station was the first commercial power plant in the world. Based on dc
current generator, it started generating electricity in 1882.The station was built by a
company headed by Thomas Edison.

 Power plants can be thermal (nuclear, gas, steam, etc.) or based on renewable
energy (hydro power plants, wind and photovoltaic power plants)

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POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION

 Electrical engineers in power systems guarantee to societies to have electricity with

voltage and speed regulation. This electricity is indispensable for the operation of any
electrical device.

 Electrical engineers make the design of generators (nuclear generators, wind, etc.),
transformers, motors, and all necessary electrical equipment for the proper operation of
power plants. They also guarantee the right dispatching of the power to consumers

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POWER ELECTRONICS

 Electrical engineers working in power electronics (IGBT, diodes, thyristors, etc.) design
and develop products used to control motors and generators. For example, wind
plants, photovoltaic plants, electrical vehicle and HVDC technologies require power
electronics engineers.

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AUTOMATION AND CONTROL

 Regulation of the grid voltage, speed regulators in vehicles, temperature regulation,

speed control in motors, supervision and protection of power pants by using PLCs. This is
mainly designed by electrical engineers

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INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
 The status of most electrical components (generators, motors, converter, etc.) is
supervised by instruments (temperature measurement, voltage, current, etc.) in order to
guarantee the proper operation of these components.

 Instrumentation engineers guarantees the right selection of instruments necessary to

supervise the status of electrical devises. Instrumentation engineers design and develop
new instruments based on the existing technologies (digital, fast and accurate
instruments, etc.)

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