Master of Science in Computer and communication Engineering

Master of Science in Computer and communication Engineering - (CCE)

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University Requirements (3 cr.)

Humanities/Fine Arts (3 cr.)

ENGL 203 - Introduction to English Drama 3

This course is a study of selected and representative plays of different periods. Added to broadening the student’s understanding and appreciation of literature, The chief aim of the course is to develop the student’s critical thinking and analysis and to encourage original responses to literary expression in well-developed oral and written criticism. Co-requisite: English 210.

ENGL 213 - Creative Writing 3

This course introduces students to the process and practice of imaginative writing. Students will read works of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, and will learn techniques for writing in those genres.

ENGL 214 - Introduction to English Poetry 3

This course introduces freshman students to poets whose poetry is of intrinsic literary merit. In addition to broadening the students’ understanding and appreciation of literature, the chief aim of the course is to develop the student’s critical thinking and analysis and to encourage original responses to literary expression in well-developed oral and written criticism. Co-requisite: English 210.

ENGL 215 - Introduction to American Literature 3

This is a course which explores the works of major literary figures and authors representing different literary schools from the sixteenth century to modern times. Students will closely examine selected texts as literary achievements and set them within the historical context and framework of American culture. Co-requisite: English 210.

ENGL 220 - Introduction to Literature 3

This course is an introduction to literature through works of fiction, poetry, and drama. It introduces students to the pleasures of reading literature and to interpretative approaches to literature. It aims to provide students with competence in critical thinking and practice in close reading and analysis, knowledge of the formal characteristics of each genre, and appreciation of literary excellence. Readings include a variety of short stories, poems and plays selected from a wide range of British, American and World literature. Co-requisite: English 210.

ENGL 230 - Shakespeare’s Plays 3

In this course, students study representative comedies, histories, and tragedies by Shakespeare. The plays are read intensively and understood in the context of the theatrical conventions of the period and the culture of play going in early modern England, as well as the social, cultural, religious, and intellectual history of the period. Co-requisite: English 210.

FADR 215 - History of Art 3

This course explores the major forms of artistic expression from the ancient world to the present from a variety of cultural perspectives. Students learn how to look at and analyze works of art within their historical context, and how to articulate what they see or experience in a meaningful way. This course covers Pre- Renaissance, Renaissance, Post Renaissance and the rich layers of 19th and 20th Century Modern Art up until the manifestations of our present day.

HIST 210 - History of England 3

This broad survey course provides a narrative of British history from 1066 through the present, including political, social and cultural developments. Prerequisite: ENGL 210.

HIST 350 - History of the Arabs in the Classical Period 3

This is an elective course whose major objectives are to familiarize students with the Arab peoples’ history. The course’s emphasis will be to explain: The early Arab conquests of Bilad al-Sham, Egypt, Persia, North Africa, the internal civil strife inside the early Muslim community, the emergence and development of the Umayyad caliphate, and the emergence and development of the Abbasid Empire. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

HIST 360 - Contemporary History 3

This is an elective course whose major objectives are to familiarize students with contemporary issues in order to enhance their level from historical and cultural points of view. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

HIST 365 - History of Europe in the Middle East 3

This course examines the ties between Europe and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the reaction of Middle Eastern societies to European intervention and influence. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

HIST 370 - The Economic and Social History of the Middle East 3

This is an elective course whose main objective is to familiarize students with various events that shaped the evolution of social and economic developments of the Middle East to enhance their level from the historical and economical dimensions. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 301 - Major Trends in Philosophy 3

This is a study of some major topics in philosophy. The course emphasizes theory of knowledge, theory of mind, determinism and free will, and morality and ethical values. Along with some assigned readings, students will watch movies, the analysis of which will help them comprehend the content of the course better. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 302 - Introduction to Formal Logic 3

This course is a standard introduction to the formal techniques of argument analysis. Formal logic was invented to mirror and evaluate mathematical reasoning; however, this course will concentrate on the relationship between formal logic and everyday reasoning and consequently language usage in general. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 303 - Introduction to Ethics 3

People often wonder about what makes good ways to live and right ways to act. They also speculate about what is the best way of life, what action is right, and what sort of authority moral claims have over us. The course introduces students to the major moral theories and thinkers that address these types of questions. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 307 - Business Ethics 3

This course is an introduction to contemporary philosophical thinking on ethical issues in business. Students will be exposed to important ethical issues they might face; asked to give sound ethical judgment to problems they might face in their line of work; helped become armed with a set of codes that will prepare them to confront and resolve ethical dilemmas they might encounter at work; and enabled to apply the techniques for analyzing and resolving ethical problems when they arise Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

PHIL 310 - Philosophers of Peace 3

This course introduces students to peace building and conflict prevention through the examination of the main theories on peace and security. It examines ideas of Thucydides, Aristotle, Erasmus Grotius, Kant, Gandhi and other thinkers for whole peace was a high value. It develops students’ critical skills and understanding necessary to translate their academic learning to specific practical situations, such those posed by peace building either with the UN, governments, or NGOs. It helps to understand the complex and interconnected challenges to peace and provides knowledge to meet these challenges. Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

Program Requirements : Mandatory Requirements (48 cr.)

Mandatory requirements (24 cr.)

CCEE 544 - Antennas and Propagation 3

This course provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of antenna and propagation for communications-oriented electrical engineers. Topics include: fundamental parameters of antennas, wire antennas, linear and planar arrays, aperture antennas, microstrip antennas, radio wave propagation, free space path loss and link budget. Prerequisite: ELEC 340.

ENGR 500 - Technopreneurship 3

Venture and innovation opportunities; concept and strategy; the Technopreneur; planning; resource acquisition and organization; financing, marketing and sustainability of enterprise. Prerequisite: ENGR 300. Annually.

CCEE 534 - Signal Processing 2

This course covers time series analysis, frequency analysis, time-frequency and time-scale analysis. It also covers the design of digital filters and signal modeling. Prerequisite: CCEE 231.

CCEE 595A - Summative Learning Project 1 1

First phase of a team-oriented, project-based experience that culminates in the creation of an artifact; milestones include: project selection and proposal, creative solution, report, presentation, and demonstration of the created device. Prerequisites: ENGL 217.

CCEE 510 - Software Engineering 3

Analysis, design, construction, maintenance, and evolution of large software systems are covered. Students are introduced to the system life cycle, project management techniques, and database systems. Analysis, design and implementation of a software systems are also included. Prerequisite: CCEE 214. Equivalent to COSC 341.

CCEE 562 - Artificial Intelligence 3

This course introduces students to the basic knowledge representation and learning methods of artificial intelligence. The emphasis will be on understanding the fundamental artificial intelligence concepts, as well as being able to practically apply the corresponding approaches in solving practical problems and developing useful software applications. Covered topics include: machine learning, genetic algorithms, knowledge representation techniques and neural networks. The MATLAB programming language and WEKA library will also be introduced Prerequisite: CCEE 214.

CCEE 595B - BE Summative Learning Project 2 3

Team-oriented, project-based experience that culminates in the creation of an artifact; milestones include: project selection and proposal, creative solution, report, presentation, and demonstration of the created device. Maybe be a continuation of Summative Learning Project I under special circumstances. Prerequisite: CCEE 595A.

ENGR 600 - Engineering Research Methods 3

This course introduces students to quantitative and qualitative methods for engaging in meaningful research. The student, at the end of the course, will attain skills in research intent and design, methodology and technique, format and presentation, and data management. Throughout the course, the student’s ability to use this knowledge to become a more effective researcher will be developed. In particular, the student will be able to develop a hypothesis about a research problem and develop related questions; frame the problem with the correct research methodology; collect data that accurately addresses the research problem; measure the effectiveness of a solution methodology; analyze data to make informed decisions; provide technical documentation of all the phases of a research project; evaluate feasibility of research proposals; and present data to support decisions in front of stakeholders.

CCEE 690 - Capstone Research Project 3

A capstone course requiring group work in one of the emphasis areas offered by the Department. The project is to be carried out under the supervision of a full-time faculty member and culminated in a formal written and oral report (refer to college guidelines related to graduation projects structure and content). Prerequisite: Accepted petition to graduate.

Technical Electives (24 cr.)

CCEE 611 - Game Design and Programming 3

This courses teaches the student basics of object-oriented architectures and software design patterns used in game design. The student will learn how to design and implement several kinds of games, animation techniques, physics simulation, user controls, graphical methods, and intelligent behaviors.

CCEE 612 - Advanced Data Mining 3

In this course advanced data mining topics will be covered, namely: classification (decision trees, logistic regression, support vector machines), combining multiple learners (bagging, boosting, cascading, stacking), clustering (k-means, EM, hierarchical clustering, topic modeling), dimensionality reduction (principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis, subset selection), and graphical models (Bayesian networks, Markov networks). More advanced topics will be covered through student presentations such as: active learning, multi-label learning, graph mining, link prediction, data mining in bioinformatics, social media analytics, privacy-aware data mining, viral marketing, recommender systems, large scale data mining, temporal pattern mining, stream data mining, and outlier detection.

CCEE 621 - Reconfigurable Computing 3

This course introduces the student to the state-of-the-art in reconfigurable computing (RC) from a hardware as well as software perspectives. Numeric and signal processing applications will be used to illustrate RC platforms advantages. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) will be reviewed first focusing on their hardware limitations and their effect on the placement and routing problems. Then the architecture for existing multi-FPGA systems and the compilation techniques for mapping applications described in a hardware description language to RC are introduced. Finally, specific contemporary RC systems are examined. Students will be expected to work with recent existing RC hardware to design and implement working projects. Prerequisite: CCEE 323.

CCEE 623 - Advanced Embedded Systems 3

This course introduces the student to Real-time operating systems (RTOS). The RTOS topics of managing multiple tasks and processes, context switching, task scheduling, and inter-process communication mechanisms are introduced. The student will also learn how to ensure system reliability and fault tolerance. Student will be expected to use state of the art development tools to design and implement useful projects. Prerequisite: CCEE 323.

CCEE 631 - Multimedia Systems 3

Multimedia applications and requirements, Audio/Video fundamentals including analog and digital representations, human perception, and audio/video equipment, audio and video compression including perceptual transform coders for images/video scalable coders and perceptual audio encoders. Application and performance comparison of various coding algorithms including hardware/software trade-offs. Image and video processing applications and algorithms. Multimedia hardware and software. Prerequisite: CCEE 447.

CCEE 632 - Ad-hoc Networks 3

This course will provide students with an understanding of wireless ad-hoc networks, enable them to recognize the wide range of applicability of these networks, and provide them with an understanding of the major design issues, including topics such as protocol mechanisms and resource constraints.

CCEE 641 - Security in Wireless Networks 3

This course will present the most important mechanisms dedicated to protect data integrity and confidentiality, access control, authentication, user privacy, quality and continuity of service, in wireless networks. Topics include: Wireless Technology Overview, Risks and Threats of Wireless, Security under Resource Constraints (bandwidth, memory, computation, energy constraints), Intrusion and Anomaly Detection in Wireless Environments, Key Management in Wireless Environments, Privacy and Anonymity in Wireless Environments, Public Key Infrastructure in Wireless Environments, Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control in Wireless Environments, Standards in Wireless Security (Equivalent Privacy Standard (WEP), Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, WPA2, IEEE 802.11i), Bluetooth Security, RFID Security, Secure Mobile Commerce, Secure Wireless Multimedia Broadcast.

CCEE 642 - Satellite Communication Systems 3

Description of a Satellite Communication System, Orbit Types, Radio Regulations Applications of Communication Satellites. Multiple Access Techniques. Multi-beam Satellite Systems, Regenerative Satellite Systems, Broadcasting by Satellites, Satellite Communication Techniques, Satellite Communication Payload, Earth Station Technology. Prerequisite: CCEE 441.

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Ms. Alaa Al Lel

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Tel: +961 5 60 30 90 Ext. 501

E-mail: da_eng@rhu.edu.lb

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