Erasmus ECTS Information Package

Erasmus ECTS Information Package
Faculty of EEEA
3140 Databases
ECTS credits: 3
Weekly classes: 3lec+0sem+0labs+2ps
Form of assessment: continuous
Type of exam: written
Department involved:
Department of Telecommunications
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation
Lecturers:
Assoc. Prof. Milko Todorov Marinov, MEng, PhD, Dept. of Computing, tel.: 888 356,
E-mail: mmarinov@ecs.uni-ruse.bg
Principal Assistant Professor Irena Marinova Valova, MEng PhD, Dept. of Computing, tel.: 082 888 685,
E-mail: Irena@ecs.uni-ruse.bg
Abstract:
The course objective is to present to the students the modern methods and tools for organization, representation
and design of relational databases (DB), principles of operation and the programming language of a specific
database management system (DBMS). Additional attention is paid to the hierarchical and network data models
and specific particularities of object oriented DB.
Course content:
Data models - hierarchical, network, relational and object-relational.
DBMS – common architecture, file types, programming languages, tools.Relational algebra.Functional
dependence.Normal relation forms.Distributed DB.
Teaching and assessment:
Lectures provide the main theoretic aspects of the problems addressed by the course. Practice sessions are
conducted in a computer lab equipped with modern computers, connected to the Internet. During these sessions
students acquire skills and expertise to independently create DB and programs for their management based on an
existing DBMS. The results of each practice session are evaluated by the lecturer. The course ends with a test.
The final mark is computed as an average of the results from participation in the practice sessions and theoretic
questions during the test.
3137 Video Communication Devices and Systems
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly classes: 2lec+0sem+0labs+2ps
Form of assessment: continuous
Type of exam: written and oral
Department involved:
Department of Telecommunications
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation
Lecturers:
Assoc. Prof. Teodor Bozhidarov Iliev, MEng, PhD, Dept. of Telecommunications, tel.: 888 841,
E-mail: tiliev@ecs.uni-ruse.bg
Assistant Professor Grigor Yordanov Mihaylov, MEng, Dept. of Telecommunications, tel.: 888 836,
E-mail: gmihaylov@uni-ruse.bg
Abstract:
The Video Communication Devices and Systems course aims to acquaint the students with the characteristics and
principles of basic concepts of video communication systems, and the arrangement of different modules contained
in each system. In the second part of the course attention is paid to television broadcasting, block schemes of
television receivers with cathode ray tubes (CRT) and with liquid crystal displays (LDC), the principles of recording
on magnetic tape and on a digital video disc.
Course content:
Structure schemes of television cameras, characteristics of advanced digital television cameras. Television
broadcasting. Satellite television systems. Cable television systems. TV receivers, TV receivers with LCD displays.
Digital video recorders. Multimedia projectors, technology. Close circuit television, structure, types of CCTV.
Teaching and assessment:
Lecture topics enable the students to get acquainted with the main theoretic aspects of video communication
systems before doing the practical exercises. Students investigate the main characteristics of television signals of
different systems (such as cable television, CCTV, etc.), using the available laboratory installations and
measurement instruments. Lectures discuss mainly the principles of video communication systems, while the
practical exercises pay attention to the main characteristics of video signals. Method of assessment: a 2-hour
written and oral exam on 2 questions from the course prospectus.
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