1997 QUT Handbook

Courses: CE74, EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP102 UNIX & C FOR ENGINEERS
Introduction to Operating Systems; commonly used commands,
the file structure, the Shell, the vi Editor, Shell script;
Types, operators and expressions, control flow, functions,
pointers and arrays, structures, input and output. Applications
of C and Unix in real time signal processing and control.
Courses: CE74, EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP103 COMPUTER HARDWARE &
INTERFACING
State-of-the-art digital devices; design and implementation of
digital systems; microprocessors and microcontroller systems
and interfacing; computer architectures, subsystems and peripherals.
Courses: EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP104 REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS
Definition and introduction: review of current commercial real
time operating systems, including QNX and UNIX-like operating
systems. Structure: management; input/output management;
file management; resource allocation and scheduling;
protection; job control and multitasking. Development of programming
skills: structured programming techniques, modular
programming techniques; documentation of programs; interrupt
handling techniques. Using assembler and high-level
languages.
Courses: CE74, EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP120 NETWORKS & DISTRIBUTED
COMPUTING
The Open System Interconnection model and the more common
standards which support the model; layers 3-7 covered
in depth, layers 1 and 2 covered by reference; computers, software
packages; network topologies, software techniques, data
transfer protocols; examples of local and wide area networks;
hardware implementation of OSI layers and protocols; Modern
High Performance Networking protocols such as FDDI
and ATM, treated as extensions of the OSI model.
Courses: CE74, EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP123 PROCESS CONTROL & ROBOTICS
Introduction to robotics; introduction to CNC machine tools;
process control; controller tuning, plant characterisation and
process optimisation; computer simulation and algorithms.
Courses: EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP124 DATA COMMUNICATIONS
The OSI Model – overview; examples of channels; physical
layer interface standards; multiple access methods; modems;
data coding error detection and correction; data compression
and encryption; public networks, and other specialised topics.
Courses: CE74, EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP125 ADVANCED ENGINEERING SOFTWARE
TOOLS
Numerical techniques and computer software tools in procedural
and non-procedural languages as well as specialised
commercial applications packages for the analysis and design
of data transmission systems. Techniques and applications
of interest to students may be included in small research
projects with guidance.
Courses: EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP126 COMMUNICATIONS DIGITAL SIGNAL
PROCESSING
Source and channel coding; waveform coding; adaptive filtering
in communication; applications of speech technology
in communication; applications of DSP technology; real time
DSP devices and their applications in communications.
Courses: CE74, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP127 ADVANCED TOPIC B
An advanced topic in the field of computers and communication
engineering. This topic will change from year to year and
is announced at the beginning of the semester.
Courses: CE74, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP128 DETECTION & ESTIMATION
Introduction to the theory of random variables and probability;
signal detection; hypothesis tests, Neyman-Pearson detectors;
uniformly most powerful tests for Gaussian case. Examples
of detection of: an unknown deterministic signal in
Gaussian noise of known probability distribution; Matched-
Filter interpretation; a Gaussian signal of known distribution
in Gaussian noise of known distribution. Detection in the non-
Gaussian case. Parameter estimation: the Maximum Likelihood
Estimator.
Courses: CE74, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP129 IMAGE PROCESSING & COMPUTER
VISION
Image representation and modelling; image enhancement;
image restoration; image representation by stochastic models,
boundary detection techniques and algorithms; image segmentation;
shape description techniques; neighbourhood operators;
mathematical morphology. Other specialised topics
may be included as small research projects.
Courses: CE74, EE65, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP135 ADVANCED DIGITAL SIGNAL
PROCESSING
General properties of stationary processes; basic spectral properties
of the processes; practical aspects of digital spectral
estimation; identification of linear systems; digital higher-order
spectral estimation; identification of non-linear systems;
an update in the advances in digital signal processing.
Courses: CE74, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP137 ADVANCED TOPIC A
An advanced topic in the field of computers and communication
engineering. This topic will change from year to year and
is announced at the beginning of the semester.
Courses: CE74, EE76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP201 FUNDAMENTALS OF POWER SYSTEM
EARTHING
Electrode resistance, potential gradient areas of common types
of electrodes; multiple electrodes; stratified grounds; electric
shock, calculation of step and touch potentials; introduction
to substation earthing: ground potential rise, connection of
services, grid and mesh potentials; measurement of soil resistivity
and electrode resistance; earthing of transmission lines:
tower foot resistance, current division between ground and
aerial earth wires, division of earth currents at substations;
earth current distribution on faulted lines; distribution systems:
MEN, SWER, safety during faults; flow of lightning
currents to ground.
Courses: EE82, EE60, EE78
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ EEP202 THERMAL RATINGS & HEAT
TRANSFER
Thermal conduction in simple geometries; forced and natural
convection from plates and cylinders – common heat transfer
correlations; radiation from hot surfaces -view factors; calculation
of steady-state and time-varying temperatures in conductors;
temperature measurement methods for high voltage
equipment; thermal ratings of overhead lines – steady-state,
cyclic and short-time ratings; cable rating – temperature rise
due to step current, cyclic and emergency loads; temperature
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