The American University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt
http://www.aucegypt.edu/

Air Pollution Control Engineering

Air pollutants sources, sinks, and residence time. Costs of air pollution. Control strategies and systems design. Mathematical models of air pollution. Monitoring and control instruments....
 

Water quality parameters: standards and analysis; theory and basic processes for modeling fate and transport of pollutants in surface water bodies; integrated water pollution control strategies....
 

Introduction to thermodynamics concepts and definitions; pure substance and ideal gases; the first law of thermodynamics, the concepts of the second law of thermodynamics, continuity; momentum and energy equations; introduction to laminar and turbulent flows; flow in conduits; introduction to turbomachinery; conduction heat transfer: one-dimensional and fins; forced and natural convention heat ......
 

Economic and cost concepts, the time value of money, single, multiple and series of cash flows, gradients, functional notation, nominal and effective interest rates, continuous compounding, rates of return. Computation and applications, economic feasibility of projects and worth of investments, comparison of alternatives. Replacement, deprecation and B.E. analysis. Introduction to risk analysis....
 

Concept of stress and strain in components, mechanical behavior of materials under tensile, compressive, and shear loads, hardness, impact loading, fracture and fatigue. Analysis of stresses and the corresponding deformations in components, axial loading, torsion, bending, and transverse loading. Statically indeterminate problems. Transformation of plane stresses, and Mohr’s circle.. ...
 

Fundamentals of mechanics. Equilibrium of practices, forces in space, equivalent systems, equilibrium of rigid bodies, distributed forces, center of gravity, internal actions, analysis of simple structures and machine parts. Friction. Moment of inertia....
 

History of engineering. Engineering fields of specialization and curricula. The engineering profession: team work, professionalism, ethics, licensing, communication and societal obligations. Engineering support personnel and activities. Engineering approach to problem solving. Examples of major engineering projects....
 

Microcontroller architecture (Pic, Motorola 68HC11). Interrupts, serial and parallel Input/Output, Timers, Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog conversion, Watchdog timers, I/O expansion, Interfacing to keypads and display devices, AC control, Introduction to RISC AND CISC....
 

Introduction to microwave engineering and wave equation review. Wave propagation and cutoff considerations. Transmission line power and mode limits. Planar and microstrip lines. Obstacles in transmission lines. Impedance matching and tuning. Quarter-wave transformer design. Microstrip transitions. Transmission line and cavity resonators. Sacttering-parameters and applications. Microwave transis......
 

Maxwell’s equations. Plane waves in lossless and lossy media. Skin effect, flow of electromagnetic power. Poyting’s theorem. Reflection and refraction. Guided waves. Boundary value problems, TEM waves, hollow waveguides, cavity resonators, microstrip waveguides, optical fibers. Interaction of field with matter and particles. Antennas and radiation of electromagnetic energy. Elements of radio tr......
 

The development of mobile communications systems. Structure of radio communications systems. Techniques in radio communications. Cellular telephony. Mobile radio networks. Packet-switched mobile data communications. Channel capacity in mobile communications. Propagation modeling in mobile communications. Coding and diversity for wireless communications. Wireless communication standards. Wireles......
 

Fundamentals of telecommunication systems: Telephone system fundamentals. Basics of voice over IP networks (VOIP). Cordless telephones, modems and digital subscriber lines (DSL). Satellite Communications and wireless networks. ...
 

Operating principles of optical communication systems and fiber optic communication technology. Characteristics of optical fibers, laser diodes, and laser modulation, laser and fiber amplifiers, detection and demodulation, dispersion compensation, and network topologies. System topology, star networks, bus networks, layered architectures, all-optical networks. ...
 

Power system components, Electromagnetic fundamentals and magnetic circuits theory, basic concepts and operating characteristics of transformers, AC machine fundamentals, equivalent circuit and operating characteristics of synchronous machines (generators and motors), theory of operation and basic concepts of induction motors, transmission line parameters, transmission line models and terminal ......
 

Basic properties of signals and systems, superposition integral, Fourier series and Fourier transform for discrete and continuous time signals, sampling theorem. Digital spectra analysis, difference equations, Z-transform, discrete Fourier transform, and digital filters....
 

Principles of closed-loop feedback control systems, block diagrams, signal graphs, state variable to solution of free and forced response of linear systems, general feedback theory, transfer functions of components, Eigen-Value problems, criteria for designs, systems study in the domains, Nyquist criterion, Routh criterion, root locus theory and compensation methods. Several experiments are con......
 

Design of Complex CMOS gates; combinated and sequential design techniques in Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI); issues in static transmission gate and dynamic logic design. Bipolar-based logic and ECL. Memories; SRAM, DRAM, PLA. ...
 

This course develops the theoretical tools and applied case study analysis to financial and economic project evaluation. Criteria for project feasibility, net worth of investment projects, cash flow discounting, and financial rates of return. Valuation, shadow pricing, and economic appraisal. Applications to real life projects....
 

International Trade Theory: Mercantilist Theory, comparative costs, and post- Ricardian theories including economies of scale and imperfect competition. Protection Theory; Effective Protection. Terms of trade, national income and the balance of payments. Fluctuations in trade. Foreign exchange markets, exchange rates and adjustment in the balance of payments. International resource movements....
 

This course is concerned with application of the basic concepts of economic theory to agriculture with special reference to developing countries. Resource structure and market structure in the agricultural sector are analyzed and thoroughly explained. Characteristics and performance of Egyptian agriculture are reviewed and evaluated. Agricultural reform policy of Egypt is discussed....
 

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