Engineering - Communications-and-Electronics-Engineering

The educational mission of Communications & Electronics Engineering (CEE) Program is to deliver high quality undergraduate education which combines balanced theoretical and practical topics in Communications & Electronics Engineering. Graduates of the program will have a mastery of fundamental knowledge in a variety of Communications & Electronics Engineering fields, management, and entrepreneurial skills. Graduates will be qualified to pursue successful careers in their profession or graduate studies in different areas.

The educational objectives of the program are determined to support career advancement of the graduates as they pursue their career goals. The graduates will:

1. Design, optimize and maintain communication systems in tune with community needs and environmental concerns
2. Be able to develop and integrate new technologies as they emerge
3. Engage in a technical/managerial role in diverse teams
4. Pursue entrepreneurial initiatives and launch startup companies
5. Communicate effectively and use resources skillfully in projects development

1. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
2. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies

The undergraduate curriculum for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Communications and Electronics Engineering consists of 150 credit-hours of course work + IC3 + 30 credits transferred from Lebanese Baccalaureate or equivalent.

The Communications and Electronics Career Field encompasses the functions of installing, modifying, maintaining, repairing, and overhauling ground television, telephone and mobile equipment, ground weather equipment, air traffic control, aircraft control and warning, automatic tracking radar equipment, simulator and training systems, microwave, fixed and mobile radio equipment, space communications systems equipment, high-speed general and special purpose data processing equipment, automatic communications and cryptographic machine system, electromechanical equipment, and electronic equipment associated to all the previous mentioned systems. Most of these applications find place in several companies in Lebanon, the Arab world and the whole world in general, providing, hence, the possibility for the CEE program students to find jobs in the field they like most and almost everywhere in the world.

The Student’s Study Plan is given to every CEE student upon his/her enrollment. The CEE curriculum consists of the following components:

Communications and Acoustics Laboratory

The Communications and acoustics Lab supports the department’s educational mission in several areas related to communication Engineering. More than three specialized engineers teach four different courses in the lab. The courses are Propagation and antennas lab (COME 473L), Communications Lab (COME 485L), Microwave Lab (COME 573L) and Wireless communication lab (COME 592L). Moreover, several undergraduate technical electives and advanced graduate courses in the area use the laboratory to realize and conduct educational experiments. This lab is used as well to conduct research in domains relate to Radiofrequency, digital and analogue communications, signal processing for communications and Microwave Engineering. The lab has several computational resources with computers installed to be used by the students.

Microprocessors Laboratory

It supports the department in several areas related to digital systems, computer organization and architecture, microprocessors and microcontrollers, high-performance computing, reconfigurable computing, and final year projects. More than four specialized engineers teach different courses in the lab. This lab is designed to provide students with hands-on experiences in courses that include COMP 225, 226, 325,328, 326, 326L, 426, 423, 335,501, 502, and 525. The lab has been carefully designed to meet the course requirements; it is equipped with digital logic kits, microprocessors and interfacing kits, microcontroller kits, FPGA boards, tiny computer boards, high-performance computers, Raspberry Pi 4 Model B+.

Digital Signal Processing Laboratory

The Digital Signal Processing Lab supports the department’s educational mission in several areas related to Signal Processing, Digital Signals and Systems, and Digital Communications. The lab is designed such that the Electrical and Computer Engineering students get a hands on familiarity with the concepts they come across in the following courses: COME 381 (Signals and Systems), COME 384 (Digital Signal Processing), and COMP 453 (Transmission and Processing of Digital Signals). Experiments are carefully designed to meet the courses requirements in such a way that the students become well aware of the concepts they learn in theory and will be able to use the techniques and engineering tools for engineering practice. The lab has significant computational resources (LabView, sensor, digital kits), with more than 20 computers installed that can be used by the students.

Measurements and Electronics Laboratory

It supports the department’s educational mission in the areas related to Measurements and Electronic Circuits. This Lab is designed such that the CEE and EPME and BIME students get hands-on experience of the material they come across in the following courses: Electric circuits I (POWE212) , Electric Circuits II (COME214), Electronic Circuits I (COME 221) and Electronic Circuits II (COME 222). The lab has the needed resources to perform the courses related experiments. The experiments are designed to complement the concepts covered in lectures. The lab has the needed resources to perform the courses related experiments. The experiments are designed to complement the concepts covered in lectures