The College of Engineering of De La Salle University has designed and offers a program in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) in order to produce engineers with greater depth and breadth of knowledge of electronics. Graduates of this program can therefore easily adopt themselves completely into the various fields of electronics such as telecommunications, radio and TV broadcasting and other communications engineering technologies, industrial electronics and instrumentation, semiconductor applications and manufacture, systems analysis and controls engineering, and even in the software and hardware side of computer science and engineering.
The ECE Department also offers elective courses that will initiate graduates into the more recent areas of digital signal processing; neural networks and fuzzy logic; VLSI technology and linear and nonlinear control theory; and fiber optics communications and digital communications.

Course Description

Coulomb and Gauss Laws, scalar potential, Ampere Law, Faraday Law, vector potential, electric and magnetic field, properties of dielectric materials, plane waves and Maxwell equations.

Vacuum tubes; circuit analysis and applications of diodes and transistors; analysis of half-wave and full-wave rectifiers, power supplies, voltage regulators, bipolar junction transistor, field effect transistor, amplifier design.

Material science and engineering structures, their properties and performance; physics of engineering materials; polymers and composites; conduction materials; basic semiconductor devices; semiconductor processing magnetic properties of ceramics and metals; dielectric and optical properties of ceramics and polymers; deformation and fractures.

Phasor concepts, application of network theorem to sinusoidal/AC circuits, root-mean-square values, complex frequency, power in single-phase AC circuits, resonance, three-phase circuits, polyphase circuits.

Number system and coding system, Boolean algebra and logic gates, Boolean Function, combinational logic blocks, special-property logic inputs and outputs, timing considerations, flip-flops, state diagrams and sequential blocks and sequential circuit design.

Analysis and design of amplifiers, (class A, B, AB, C and D amplifiers, JFET and BJT amplifier circuits); AC small signal analysis of transistor circuits; RF amplifier; oscillators; multistate amplifier; feedback amplifier.

Advanced mathematical principles for the study of electronics communications systems. This includes Fourier series analysis; Fourier transform, convolution and correlation, sampling continuous signals; sampling theorem, signal reconstruction and aliasing; discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT), Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and Fast Fourier transform (FFT), Z-transforms, Hilbert transforms

Algorithmic state machine (ASM), history of microprocessor and microcontrollers, microprocessor architecture, Hardware System Architecture Memory systems and organization, I/O systems, interfacing technique, PC architecture and introductions set architecture: programming model, addressing modes, assemble language programming and advances in microprocessors and microcontrollers.

Differential amplifiers; basic circuits and applications of operational amplifiers; IC application of op-amps, multivibrators, phase-locked loops, voltage-controlled oscillators.

Continuous signals and their transformations; properties of continuous systems; Linear-Time Invariant systems; system modeling; impulses response, step response; convolution; block diagram, signal flow graphs, frequency and time domain relationship, stability criteria, Nyquist diagram and root locus; introduction to state-space analysis, analysis and design of compensators.

Devices and systems used in a broad range of industrial applications to show how individual devices and circuits interrelate to form useful systems. These systems vary from the complex industrial controllers which handle multiple industrial tasks to simple decision-making systems.
Focus is on the functions of simple solid-state and mechanical devices which are used as decision-making tools like relays, SCRs, etc. Along with this, industrial transducers are also discussed to interconnect these simple devices to form an industrial system. Simple data acquisition systems and final correcting devices in a complete industrial system are also incorporated in the discussed.

Iterative networks and its characteristics and properties, transmission line theory; transmission line characteristics; reflection of signals in transmission line systems; lossless transmission lines; antenna theory and radiation and propagation of electromagnetic waves.

Concepts of Very-Large Scale Integration Technology and to a computer-aided design software which allows students to have a hands-on experience on actual VLSI design.

Software such as MATHCAD, ORCAD, and other computer-aided tools in relation to some electronics and communications concepts, theories and skills.

Application of theories in basic electronics and electronics circuits analysis to actual and practical electronic design of power supply, amplifier circuits, and similar analog circuits and some industry applications of analog circuits.

Introduction to different modes of propagation, waveguides and propagation through waveguides; passive and active microwave devices; microwave propagation techniques; applications to satellite communication systems and radar propagation and navigational aide.

Application of switching theories and concepts of logic gates and computer circuit fundamentals to actual and practical digital circuits or systems design in industry.

Architectural acoustics, acoustic equations for use in sound treatment and sound reinforcement and general acoustics calculations, sound reinforcement, operations and different types of loudspeakers and microphones. The Broadcast Engineering part covers television receiver circuits, various television standards and the composite video signal.

Fundamental canons of Engineering Ethics and existing international and local laws pertaining to the practice of the Electronics and Communications Engineering profession.

Educational field trips to different telecommunication establishments, semiconductor companies and manufacturing and assembly plants. Industry people and professionals are invited to share their experience and expertise through seminars and similar venues.

Resistors, inductors, capacitors, transformers; analysis of electric circuits and measurements; transient response; delta-two-wye, wye-to-delta conversion; dependent and independent voltage and current sources; batteries and cells; maximum power transfer.

This subject deals with the theory, technologies and techniques of data communications. Topics include network design, internet protocol, etc.

This course presents computer applications for the fields of Electronics and Communications Engineering.

This course covers the principles of balanced and unbalanced three-phase circuits, magnetic circuits, energy transforming machine and DC and AC electro-mechanical energy converting machines.

The course is designed to give the first-time user a flying start in using PIC microcontrollers and the knowledge gained can be easily used to implement a microcontroller-based system using simple home-brewed circuits.

The course introduces the student on how to compose research documents – theses, dissertations, journal articles, and related writings. The topics are in detail and each section explains what should be written and how to write it.

This course is a continuation to continuous-time signal processing, but this time it is discrete-time. Topics to be discussed include analysis and processing of discrete-time signals and systems, design and implementation of finite impulse response and infinite impulse response filters, discrete-time Fourier transform, fast Fourier Transform algorithms and applications, random signal theory with emphasis on system modeling using parametric and non-parametric methods, adaptive signal processing such as adaptive FIR filters, least mean square algorithm and application, and spectrum estimation and multi-rate signal processing.

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