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ENGINEERING (CORE COURSES)

INTRODUCTION

Engineering graduate programs require the study of some of the following general (core)

graduate engineering courses.

COURSE DESCRIPTION0600-501: ENGINEERING ANALYSIS I

CR: 3

Analytic function, residues, contour integration.

Power series solutions of ordinary differential

equations: Bessel's, Legendre's, Chebysheve's and

Laguerre's functions. Matrix algebra eigenvalues,

eigen-functions, and solutions of systems of

differential equations, linear integral equations.

Software applications.

0600-502: ENGINEERING ANALYSIS II

CR: 3 PR: 0600-501

Sturm-Liouville problem. Partial differential

equations: Characteristic curves, separation of

variables and integral transforms (Laplace and

Fourier), method of characteristics. Wave, heat and

diffusion-equations. Calculus of variation.

Software applications.

0600-503: STATISTICAL CONCEPTS IN

ENGINEERING

CR: 3

Elements of probability theory, random variables,

analytical models of random phenomena,

reliability, factor of safety, safety margin, extreme

value statistics, Monte-Carlo simulation, empirical

determination of distribution models, confidence

intervals, regression and correlation analysis,

general applications to engineering design

problems, stochastic processes.

0600-504: NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND

COMPUTATION

CR: 3

Norms, limits and condition numbers. Inverses of

perturbed matrices. Integrative techniques for

solving systems of equations. The LU, QR and

singular value decompositions. Algorithms for the

linear least squares and linear minimax problems.

Computation of the eigenvalues of a matrix. the

interpolation and polynomial approximation.

Approximate methods for initial value problems

and for boundary value problems.

0600-505: FINITE ELEMENT

METHODS

CR: 3

Origin and basis of finite-element methods in

continuum mechanics, stiffness method, assumed

displacement field, potential energy and Rayleigh-

Ritz method, types of elements, modeling, accuracy

and convergence, solution techniques and computer

application to structural and fluid mechanics.

0600-506: CONTINUUM MECHANICS

CR: 3

Cartesian tensors. Basic principles of continuum

mechanics: deformation, displacement, strain,

stress, conservation of mass, continuum

thermodynamics and constitutive equations.

Illustrative applications in elasticity, fluid

dynamics, viscoelasticity ad plasticity.

0600-507: MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION

CR: 3

Basic Concepts: The gradient vector and the

Hessian Matrix, multidimensional Taylor's

theorem, linear and quadratic approximation of a

function. Unconstrained optimization, necessary

and sufficient conditions for optimality.

Algorithms for single variable minimization, the

Fibonacci search and the Golden section search,

algorithms that use repeated polynomial

interpolation. Algorithms for multi-dimensional

minimization; The steepest descent, the Newton

method and its variations, conjugate gradient

algorithms such as the Flecter-Reeves, Polak and

Ribieve, Quasi-Newton Methods such as the DEP-

BFGS, Huang's family of algorithms. Constrained

optimization: Necessary and sufficient conditions

for constrained minima. Algorithms for


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constrained optimization: interior and exterior

penalty function methods, augmented Lagrangian

methods, Resen's gradient projection.

0600-508: RANDOM VARIABLES AND

STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

CR: 3

Introduction to probability theory and engineering

applications of probability. random variables and

expected values. distribution of functions of

random variables and applications of R.V. to

system problems. Stochastic processes, correlation

and power spectra, systems and random signals.

Engineering decisions and estimation theories.

0600-509: FUZZY SYSTEMS AND CONTROL

CR: 3

Mathematics of fuzzy sets and logic, fuzzy rule

based and fuzzy inference engines, fuzzifiers and

defuzzifiers, fuzzy systems and their properties,

design of fuzzy systems using clustering and table

look-up schemes, fuzzy control using the trial and

error approach, and fuzzy control of linear and

nonlinear systems.



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MASTER OF SCIENCE

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Electrical Engineering (College of Engineering and Petroleum) offers a

Master of Science Program in Electrical Engineering. Part-time and full-time Students are

admitted to this program. Research requirements include either thesis or non-thesis options.

The objective of the program is to demonstrate individual accomplishment of high

professional and academic standard. At present research is being carried out in the following

general areas: Power Systems, Electrical Machines, Control Systems, Microwave Integrated

Circuits, Microwave Solid State Devices, Communication, Radar and Multidimentional

Digital Signal Processing.

According to the University Council decision dated 4/2/2007, Thesis students

admitted with effect from September 2007 are exempted from the comprehensive

examination.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

The program requirements are (non-thesis option in Parenthesis):

33(33) TOTAL COURSE CREDITS

(3) COMPULSORY (credits in parenthesis)

0610-592 Seminar (non-credit) (thesis and non-thesis option)

0610-593 Project (3) (non-thesis option only).

6 CORE ELECTIVE COURSES (3 credits each)

0600-501 Engineering Analysis I

0600-502 Engineering Analysis II

0600-503 Statistical Concepts in Engineering

0600-504 Numerical Analysis and Computation

0600-507 Mathematical Optimization

0600-508 Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

12(15) ELECTIVE COURSES (3 credits each)

The student chooses from the following courses with the approval of his/her

supervisor.

0610-510 Lumped Systems Theory

0610-520 Advanced Computational Electromagnetics

0610-521 Microwave Circuits and Measurements

0610-522 Antenna Theory and Design

0610-523 Electromagnetic Guided Waves and Applications

0610-524 Advanced Topics in Networking



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0610-525 Digital Multimedia Compression

0610-526 Mobile Networking

0610-527 Data and Network Security

0610-528 Wireless Communication Networks

0610-530 Solid State Electronics

0610-531 Microwave Devices

0610-532 Integrated Electronics

0610-537 Introduction to VLSI Design

0610-538 Computer Aided Design for VLSI

0610-539 Optical Electronics

0610-541 Rotating Machine Dynamics

0610-542 Power Electronics

0610-543 Power Electronics Modeling and control

0610-551 Power Engineering Analysis

0610-552 Protective Relaying

0610-553 Optimization and Economic Operation of Power Systems

0610-554 Electrical Transients in Power Systems

0610-555 High Voltage Engineering

0610-559 Special Topics in Power Engineering

0610-571 Fault Tolerant Control

0610-573 System Identification

0610-574 Real-Time Computer Control

0610-575 Large Scale Systems

0610-576 System Optimal Control Theory

0610-577 Nonlinear Systems

0610-578 Computer Controlled Processes

0610-579 Special Topics in Systems Engineering

0610-581 Communication Theory

0610-582 Spread Spectrum and Code Division Multiple Access

0610-583 Information Theory

0610-584 Communication Systems

0610-585 Two-Dimensional Signal Processing

0610-586 Detection of Signal in Noise

0610-587 Terrestrial and Space Communication Systems

0610-588 Optical Fiber Communication Systems

0610-589 Special Topics in Communications

0610-590 Special Topics in Electronics

6(9) FREE ELECTIVE COURSES

(A) For Non-thesis Students:

At least (6) credits should be taken from either College of Engineering

or College of Science (Applied Math. Or Physics Departments) with the approval of

the Program Committee.



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(3) credits may be taken from colleges other than College of Engineering and

Petroleum but with the approval of Electrical Engineering Committee.

(B) For Thesis Students:

-At least (3) credits should be taken from the EE graduate program.

-Up to (3) credits may be taken from either the College of Engineering or

College of Science (Applied Math or Physics Department) with the

approval of the advisor and program director.

Crosslisted Courses

The student is not allowed to register two crosslisted courses in the same semester. In case a

student completes two crosslisted courses in different semesters, only the first course will be

calculated towards the degree.

Course Title (Computer Engineering) Course Title (Electrical Engineering)

0612-575 Advanced Topics in Computer

Networks


0612-502 Digital Image Processing 0610-525 Digital Multimedia Compression

0612-574 Mobile Networking 0610-526 Mobile Networking

0612-576 Modern Cryptography and Network

Security


0612-573 Wireless Communication Systems 0610-528 Wireless Communication

Networks

0612-572 Principles of VLSI Digital 0610-537 Introduction to VLSI Digital

9 COMPULSORY

2000-597 to 599 Thesis (Thesis Option Only)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

0610-510: LUMPED SYSTEMS THEORY

CR: 3

Basic methods of modern system theory. Time

domain techniques for both linear and nonlinear

systems. Characterisation of both continuous and

discrete time linear systems in the time and

frequency domain. stability, controllability and

observability for linear and nonlinear systems.

0610-520: ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL

ELECTROMAGNETICS: FDTD

CR: 3

Finite differences representations of Maxwell’s

equations, Numerical dispersion and numerical

stability, Source implementations, Absorbing

boundary conditions, High-order schemes and

other recent advances in FDTD, Practical

applications.



0610-521: MICROWAVE CIRCUITS AND

MEASUREMENTS

CR: 3

Scattering parameters representation of microwave

circuits, directional couplers, microwave junctions,

attenuators, phase shifters, circulators, filters,

microstrip lines. Techniques of microwave

measurements.

0610-522: ANTENNA THEORY AND DESIGN

CR: 3

The far-field integrals, resiprocity, directivity.

Radiation patterns of dipoles and loops. Radiation

patterns of horn and slot antennas. Linear arrays:

analysis and synthesis. Self impedance and mutual

impedance of dipoles. The design of feeding

structures for antenna elements. Reflectors and

lenses.

0610-523: ELECTROMAGNETIC GUIDED

WAVES AND APPLICATIONS

CR: 3

Waveguides with metallic boundaries, Mode

orthogonality, Modal expansion Excitation by

simple sources. Constant impedance wall

waveguides. The corrugated waveguide as a low

crosspolar radiator. Waveguides with imperfect

walls: The earth Ionosphere guide and the Tunnel

Guide as examples of natural waveguides.

Dielectric waveguides: i) The Optical Fiber Guide,

ii) Millimeter waveguides. The Microstrip line and

the Coplanar Waveguide: Characteristics of single

and coupled lines. Numerical methods for

waveguide analysis.

0610-524: ADVANCED TOPICS IN

NETWORKING

CR: 3 PR: EE508 or

Permission of Instructor

Networking overview, Protocols, Multimedia

issues, Packet switching networks, Intelligent

Networks, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, Mobile

Networking, and current trends in high speed

networking.

0610-525: DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA

COMPRESSION

CR: 3 PR: 0600-508 or


Basics of lossless compression techniques,

Universal coding schemes, Dictionary based LZ

algorithms, Arithmetic coding, Lossless image

compression, G3/G4 facsimile coding, JBIG

standard, Scalar and Vector quantization. Lossy

image and audio compression, Predictive coding,

Transform coding, Subband coding, Multimedia

compression standards, JPEG2000, H.263 and

variants, MPEG-1,2 and 4.

0610-526: MOBILE NETWORKING

CR: 3 PR: 0600-508 or


Introduction and Fundementals, Medium Access

Control Protocols, Cellular Networks, Wireless

Internet, 4G Systems, and Pervasive Networking.

0610-527: DATA AND NETWORK SECURITY

CR: 3 PR: 0600-508 or


Introduction to networks and information theory,

Cryptography, Network secrity modeling, IP

security, E-business security, Network

management security, System security, Firewalls,

and Current trends in network security.

0610-528: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

NETWORKS

CR: 3 PR: 0600-508 or


Introduction to wireless communication principles,

the cellular concept-system design issues, signal

propogation and link budgets for wireless links,

communication over fading channels, modulation,

multiplexing, and multiple access techniquese,

channel coding for wireless systems, equalization

and diversity, wireless communication networks

and standards.

0610-530: SOLID STATE ELECTRONICS

CR: 3

Crystallographic properties of semiconductors,

Physical models of the atom including the

Quantum model, atomic structure and periodic

table, Energy bands, charge carriers and excess

carriers in semiconductors, Fermi-Dirac statistics,

Basic semiconductor equations, Optical absorption,

Quantitative theory of semiconductor devices: 1.

PN Junction diodes, 2. Bipolar Junction

Transistors, 3. MOS transistors, including steady

state and transient analysis, high frequency



properties, charge control model, Special devices

such as photo-diodes, Schottky diodes, CCDs, etc..

0610-531: MICROWAVE DEVICES

CR: 3 PR: 610-530

Varactor diodes, parametric amplifiers, pindiodes,

transferred electron devices. Transit time devices,

IMPATTS, BARITTS, travelling wave tubes,

klystrons, magnetrons, MESFET, harmonic

multipliers.

0610-532: INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS

CR: 3 PR: 610-432

Models for Integrated-circuit active devices. Basic

Integrated circuit building blocks. Bipolar MOS

and BICMOS operational amplifiers. Design and

Analysis. Frequency response of Integrated

circuits. Nonlinear analog circuits. Noise in

integrated circuits.

0610-537: INTRODUCTION TO VLSI DESIGN

CR: 3

Design and implementation of CMOS digital

circuits including: The inverter (complexity, static,

dynamic, power, delay, scaling effects).

Combinational logic gates and arithmetic building

blocks (static, dynamic, cascading, power, choice

of logic family). Sequential logic circuits and

memories (static, dynamic, non-bistable), RAM's

ROM's. PLASs, Introduction to stick diagrams, to

symbolic layout rules and to use layout editors. a

silicon CMOS design project leading to a complete

layout of a digital block designed and simulated

using HSPICE is an integral part of the course.

0610-538: COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN FOR

VLSI

CR: 3

Mixed analog and digital simulation techniques.

Symbolic layout and compaction techniques.

Simulated annealing Verification methods. Logic

and high level synthesis. Managing design

complexity.

0610-539: OPTICAL ELECTRONICS

CR. 3

Fundamentals of quantum electronics. Modulation

of light. Photoemitters and detectors. Display

devices. Theory of Laser Oscillators, specific

Laser Systems. Semiconductors Lasers; theory and

applications.

0610-541: ROTATING MACHINE DYNAMICS

CR: 3 PR: 610-551

Applications of dynamic network theory to

electromechanical energy conversion problems.

Linear transformations; power invariant

transformations, the generalized rotating machine;

dynamic and steady-state response of machines.

0610-542: POWER ELECTRONICS

CR: 3

Thyristor equivalent circuit, static and dynamic

characteristics, Power transistors. DC Choppers,

Pulse width modulated inverts. Resonant Pulse

Converters, Power Supplies, DC drives, AC drives,

Protection of devices and circuits.

0610-543: POWER ELECTRONICS

MODELING AND CONTROL

CR: 3

Direct power conversion circuit averaging state-

space average models, linear and piecewise linear

models, design of voltage-mode and current mode

regulators, sliding-mode control applications,

modeling electric machines, the theory of field

orientation and vector control in high performance

AC motor drives, application of the above

techniques in practice; case studies.

0610-551: POWER ENGINEERING ANALYSIS

CR: 3

Multiwinding power transformers design features,

the n-winding ideal transformer, 3-phase auto

transformers, the transformer as a control device.

High voltage direct current transmission HVDC:

General aspects and comparison with AC

transmission converter circuits, analysis of bridge

converters, converter charts, harmonics and filters,

ground return. Reactive power control. Reactive

power control: Load compensation, steady state

reactive power control in transmission System,

effect on power system. Dynamics, static

compensatory, series capacitors, syn. condensers,

reactive power coordination. Power system

harmonics, sources, system response to harmonics,

harmonic pollution in networks, methods of

analysis, standards and limits.



0610-552: PROTECTIVE RELAYING

CR: 3 PR: 610-551

Fundamentals of instrumentation. Design and

operation of protective schemes for equipment in

generation, transmission and distribution circuits.

Analysis of abnormal system conditions requiring

relay operation.

0610-553: OPTIMIZATION AND ECONOMIC

OPERATION OF POWER SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 610-551

Relevant factors in power system operation.

Theory of optimization under equality and

inequality constraints, computational methods and

application to generation scheduling.

0610-554: ELECTRICAL TRANSIENTS IN

POWER SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 610-551

Simple switching transients. Abnormal transients.

Transients in 3-phase circuits. Electromagnetic

phenomena of importance under transient

conditions. Traveling waves on lines. Lighting.

Behaviour of windings under transient conditions.

Protection against transient over voltages.

Transients in integrated power networks. Computer

aids to the calculation of transients.

0610-555: HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEERING

CR: 3 PR: 610-551

Ionization and decay processes, electric breakdown

in gases, liquid and solid dielectric, generation of

high DC, AC and impulse voltages, measurement

of high voltage.

0610-559: SPECIAL TOPICS IN POWER

ENGINEERING

CR: 3

An upper division of graduate technical elective

treating topics in Electrical Power Engineering not

included in other Electrical Power Engineering

courses.

0610-571 FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL

CR: 3

Fault tolerant control deals with the control of a

system where fault and system changes may occur.

First, a diagnosis of the system faults or changes

are derived. Then, the controller is reconfigured or

redesigned based on the information from the

diagnosis. The course covers model-based Fault

Diagnosis methods, Actuator and Sensor Fault-

tolerant control design, passive and active Fault-

tolerant control systems, redundancy in Fault-

tolerant control systems, and case studies.

0610-573: SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION

CR: 3

The identification of linear dynamic systems.

Problem formulation. Review of classical

techniques and their limitations. Least squares

techniques and their variations as applied to the transfer function and state space description of

linear discrete time systems. Recursive techniques

and Kalman filters. The maximum likelihood

estimators. Mode and structure identification.

Diagnostic methods. State estimation and

observers. The self tuning regulator.

0610-574: REAL-TIME COMPUTER

CONTROL

CR: 3

Real-time and on-line computers for control;

constraints imposed by real-time operation, real-

time control system elements: hardware

components and interface problems associated with

real-time control, applicable techniques and

algorithms, software problems, real-time

scheduling and coordination of user programs, real-

time control languages, reliability and speed of

recovery of real-time control systems.

0610-575: LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS

CR: 3

Modeling and model simplification methods: An

overview. Aggregation technique and properties of

the aggregation matrix. Introduction to time-scale

modeling and singular perturbations.

Decentralized control: Introduction to decentralized

control from the optimal control point of view.

Hierarchical optimization and control: Linear-

quadratic problems and non-linear systems.

Applications of these techniques to different fields

of Electrical Engineering will be presented.

0610-576: SYSTEM OPTIMAL CONTROL

THEORY

CR: 3

The dynamic optimization problem, calculus of

variations, dynamic programming and maximum



principle, optimal linear regulators and properties,

extension to servo mechanism, optimal stochastic

observers. Case studies.

0610-577: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

CR: 3

Nonlinear characteristics of models of physical

systems phase plane analysis. Describing function

approach. Stability and second method of

Lyapunov. Frequency domain stability criteria.

Linearization and its properties. Introduction to

operate theory and its application to the study of

nonlinearities.

0610-578: COMPUTER CONTROLLED

PROCESSES

CR: 3

Hardware and software aspect of computer-based

control systems. Discretization techniques in

frequency and time domains. Digital controller

design techniques. Optimal control. Adaptive and

self-tuning controllers.

0610-579: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SYSTEMS

ENGINEERING

CR: 3


treating topics in systems and control Engineering

not included in other systems and control courses.

0610-581: COMMUNICATION THEORY

CR:3 PR: 600-508

Review of probability and random processes.

Method of analog-to-digital conversion (PCM,

DM). Multiplexing. Optimum digital receivers.

Orthogonal and biorthogonal signal sets. Binary

and M-ary digital modulation, ASK, FSK, PSK,

DPSK, MSK, and QAM. Coherent and

noncoherent detection. Channel capacity and

intersymbol interference.

0610-582: SPREAD SPECTRUM AND CODE

DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS

CR:3 PR: 610-581

Introduction to spread spectrum systems, spread

sequences, code division multiple access (CDMA),

synchronization and PN code tracking, PN code

acquisition, communication over fading channels,

advanced detection techniques for CDMA, and

mobile cellular CDMA networks.

0610-583: INFORMATION THEORY

CR: 3 PR: 600-508

Information measures, asymptotic equipartition

property, source coding theorem, noiseless coding,

cryptography, channel coding theorem, Gaussian

channels, multiple user source and channel theory,

rate distortion theory.

0610-584: COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 600-508

Introduction to analog and digital communication

theory. Performance evaluation of communication

systems. Line of sight microwave communication

systems. Mobile communication systems. Satellite

systems for communication, navigation and

maritime applications. Fiber optic systems.

Comparison between different communication

systems.

0610-585: TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL

PROCESSING

CR: 3

Fundamental properties of 2-D digital systems.

Frequency representation of 2-D systems and the 2-

D sampling theorem. The 2-D z- transform and

stability of 2-D systems. Design techniques of 2-D

FIR digital filters: The window method, the 2-D

frequency sampling technique, optimal minimal

design, frequency transformations from 1-D to 2-D

filters. Design techniques of 2-D digital filters.

Quantization effects and noise in digital filters.

Application of digital signal processing to areas

such as image processing, processing of sonar

maps and biomedical images of maps.

0610-586: DETECTION OF SIGNAL IN

NOISE

CR:3 PR: 0560-508

Hypothesis testing and receiver operating

characteristics. Detection of known signals in

White Gaussian Noise. Detection of signals with

random parameters. Multiple pulse detection.

Detection of signals in colored noise. Estimation of

signal parameters. Sequential detection and

performance evaluation.

0610-587: TERRESTRIAL AND SPACE

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 600-508

Line of sight communication systems: Atmospheric

refraction. Effect of ducts on propagation.

Multipath effects and signal fading. Power budget



and system design. Satellite communication links:

Satellite orbits. Spacecraft equipment. Design of

down and up links. Satellite earth stations. Design

examples.

0610-588: OPTICAL FIBER

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: PR: 600-508

Light guidance on fibers. Cabling design. Light

attenuation and dispersion on fibers. Lasers, LED's

and photodetectors. Design of digital and analoge

optical fiber systems. Design of coherent light

systems.

0610-589: SPECIAL TOPICS IN

COMMUNICATIONS

CR: 3


treating topics in Communications and/or

Electromagnetics not included in other

Communications/Electromagnetics courses.


ELECTRONICS

CR: 3


treating topics in Electronics not included in other

Electronic courses.

0610-592: SEMINAR

CR: -

Following the directions of the graduate program

committee related to thesis or project.

0610-593: PROJECT

CR: 3

2000-597 to 599: THESIS

CR: 9



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MASTER OF SCIENCE

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Computer Engineering (College of Engineering and Petroleum) offers a

Master of Science Program in Computer Engineering. Part-time and full-time students are


The program is designed to strengthen and broaden the scientific and engineering capabilities

of participants. It is intended as a means of developing closer affinity to basic research and

solving applied problems. The philosophy of the program reflects an interdisciplinary nature

and embodies flexibility and choice variation to suit a multitude of needs. Specialization

within the Computer Engineering program may be attained by selecting among various

elective courses in areas such as networks and security, advanced database systems, computer

aided design, and software systems.



examination.


The program requirements are (non-thesis option in Parenthesis):

30 (33) TOTAL COURSE CREDITS


0612-592 Seminar (non-credit)

0612-593 Project (3) (non-thesis option only).


Students may take more than 9 credit hours of core courses. In this case, the credit hours

exceeding 9 count towards discipline (elective) course requirements.


0612-505 Advanced Operating Systems

0612-557 Advanced Algorithms

0612-568 Advanced Computer Architecture

0612-569 High-Performance Computer Networks



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12(21) ELECTIVE COURSES* (3 credits each)

The student chooses from the following courses with the approval of his/her supervisor.


0612-502 Digital Image Processing

0612-503 Pattern Recognition

0612-508 Advanced Topics in Software Engineering

0612-509 Advanced Computer Graphics

0612-511 Privacy and Data Protection

0612-514 Progress and Impact of Computing

0612-523 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

0612-527 Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence

0612-541 Database Management Systems: Design and Implementation

0612-543 Advanced Topics in Database System Design

0612-545 E-Commerce: Design and Implementation

0612-547 Digital Forensic

0612-548 Secure Software Systems

0612-549 Security Management, Policies and Risk Analysis

0612-551 Theory of Computation

0612-553 Distributed Computing

0612-555 Computer Security

0612-561 Parallel Computing

0612-562 Sequential Machine Theory

0612-564 Testing and Reliable Design of Digital Systems

0612-565 High-level Design of Digital Systems

0612-566 Wireless Computing Networks

0612-567 Modeling and Analysis of Communication Networks

0612-570 Physical Design Automation of Digital Systems

0612-571 Fault Tolerant Computing Systems

0612-572 Principles of VLSI Design

0612-573 Wireless Communication Systems

0612-574 Mobile Networking

0612-575 Advanced Topics in Computer Networks

0612-576 Modern Cryptography and Network Security

0612-580 Special Topics in Computer Engineering I

0612-581 Special Topics in Computer Engineering II

* Students may substitute up to 6 credit hours from outside the program (either

College of Engineering or College of Science [Applied Mathematics or Computer

Science department]) with approval of the program director. The 6 credits can include

a maximum of 3 credits from the department (400 level).



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Cross-listed Courses

The student is not allowed to register two cross-listed courses in the same semester. In case a

student completes two cross-listed courses in different semesters, only the first course will be

calculated towards the degree.

Course Title (Computer Engineering) Course Title (Electrical Engineering)

0612-502 Digital Image Processing 0610-525 Digital Multimedia Compression

0612-572 Principles of VLSI Design 0610-537 Introduction to VLSI Design

0612-573 Wireless Communication Systems 0610-528 Wireless Communication Networks

0612-574 Mobile Networking 0610-526 Mobile Networking

0612-575 Advanced Topics in Computer

Networks


0612-576 Modern Cryptography & Network

Security


9 COMPULSORY


COURSE DESCRIPTION

0612-502: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

CR: 3 PR: 0612-300 and 0600-304

or Consent of Instructor

Introduction to Digital Image Processing covering

digital techniques for image representation,

enhancement, compression and restoration.

Students will learn the fundamentals behind image

processing methods and algorithms. We assume

students have an understanding of linear systems

and calculus. In addition, it is also helpful to have a

familiarity with elementary probability theory and

linear algebra.

0612-503: PATTERN RECOGNITION

CR: 3 PR: 0600-304


Machine learning, statistical pattern classification,

feature extraction and selection, various learning

algorithms, cluster analysis, image processing,

syntactic approach and practical applications on

analysis of various biomedical data, character

recognition, and speech recognition.

0612-505: ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: Consent of instructor

Selected advanced Operating Systems topics;

control of disks and other input/output devices;

file-system structure and implementation; network

structures; distributed system structures and file

systems; introduction to distributed and real-time

systems; distributed algorithms; logical clocks;

reliability and security; case studies.


SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

CR: 3 PR: 0612-308 or 221

Selected topics in the area of software engineering

such as emerging areas of research in software

engineering; Object-oriented design and analysis;

Configuration management; Software testing;

Reverse engineering; Software reusability;

Distributed and web-based software development;

Fault-tolerant software development; Case tools for

design and analysis, configuration management,

and testing.



0612-509: ADVANCED COMPUTER GRAPHICS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-438

or Consent of Instructor Three-dimensional transformations and perspective

systems and techniques for displaying and shading

solid areas, hidden-element removal, display

device characteristics, device independent systems,

and user interface design.

0612-511: PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

CR: 3 PR: 0612-356


Introduction to the issues of privacy and data

protection, information collection, cookies,

profiling, traffic monitoring analysis, data mining,

data matching, surveillance technology, censorship,

encryption, identification, anonymity, codes and

policies, law, privacy in workplace, and ethical

issues.

0612-514: PROGRESS AND IMPACT OF

COMPUTING

CR: 3 PR: Consent of Instructor This course concentrates on recent research in

computing that affects future directions in science,

engineering and technology, hence upon modern

society. For example, studying standers (e.g., E-

Commerce technologies, and software life cycle

processes such as ISO/IEC 12207) have immense

effect on industry and society. Students explore

such topics through conducting research. The

course introduces skills necessary for research

including surveying, scrutinizing methods and

outcomes, designing tools, and preparing technical

manuscripts.

0612-523: INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE

CR: 3 PR: Consent of Instructor

Introduction to AI. History of AI. Knowledge

representation: First order logic, Predicate logic,

and Semantic net. Blind search. Heuristic search.

Machine planning. Machine learning. Agents.

Natural language processing.


ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE

CR: 3 PR: 0612-403, 0612-523 or

Consent of Instructor

Advanced AI topics will be discussed in-depth.

Student will survey recent research in topics such

as, but not limited to, natural language processing,

cognitive modeling techniques, machine learning

techniques, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic,

expert systems, robotics, knowledge system

engineering (knowledge-based software

engineering), and neural network computing.

0612-541: DATA BASE MANAGEMENT

SYSTEMS: DESIGN AND

IMPLEMENTATION

CR: 3 PR: 0612-341, or

Consent of Instructor Database management systems architecture;

conceptual database models; relational, semantic,

object-oriented, and object-relational databases;

implementation techniques for database systems;

file organization and data placement techniques;

query processing; concurrency control; rollback

and recovery techniques; integrity and consistency;

transaction processing.

0612-543: ADVANCED TOPICS IN DATABASE

SYSTEM DESIGN

CR: 3 PR: 0612-541, or

Consent of Instructor Design and implementation of database

management systems in support of advanced

technologies and applications, such as:

geographical information systems (GIS) temporal

and spatial databases, multimedia databases data

mining data warehousing, distributed database

systems, or other advanced topics in the area of

database and information systems. We will focus

on current issues in database and information

system design.

0612-545: E-COMMERCE: DESIGN AND

IMPLEMENTATION

CR: 3 PR: 0612-541,

or Consent of Instructor Fundamental and emerging technologies such as

networking infrastructures, data management tools,

application servers, design tools, security systems,

personalization tools, and electronic payment

systems; case studies dealing with the existing

business models and business processes; design

and implementation of a major E-Commerce

project using the state of the art tools. Proficiency

in an object-Oriented programming language (such

as Java) is expected from all students.

0612-547: DIGITAL FORENSIC

CR: 3 PR: 0612-505, 0612-508




Overview of data representation, hexadecimal

representation and different file type

representations. Review on assembly language and

code reverse engineering. Digital Forensics lab

requirements. Digital Forensic process: technical

and legal aspects. Types of Digital evidences.

Extracting evidences from different OS platforms.

Overview of network, Email, database and mobile

Forensics. Students will be exposed to reverse

engineering and code analysis. Students will do

exercises on several Forensics tools.

0612-548: SECURE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-454 or Consent of

Instructor

This course will study approaches, mechanisms,

and tools used to make software systems more

secure. We will motivate the study by discussing

common software security vulnerabilities such as

buffer overflows, cross-site scripting and injection

attacks. Then we will look at architectural

approaches to building secure software (e.g.,

confinement, virtual machines, trusted computing),

secure design principles and patterns, software

analysis, secure programming techniques, run-time

enforcement of security policies, code reviews and

security testing. The course will also cover topics

such as the importance of usability to building

secure software systems.

0612-549: SECURITY MANAGEMENT, POLICIES

AND RISK ANALYSIS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-453 or Consent of

Instructor

Overview of security management: assets,

vulnerabilities, threats, attacks, security tools,

models and procedures. Role of policy making in

the context of information security. Common

practices to risk management and analysis.

Fundamentals of cryptology, secure networking

and access control. Problems and potential

solutions associated with designing and

implementing operating system and application

security. Frameworks commonly used for

governance and compliance control. Incident and

disaster response.

0612-551: THEORY OF COMPUTATION

CR: 3 PR: 0612-300, or

Consent of the Instructor Reviews regular expressions and finite automata.

studies turning machines and equivalent models of

computation, the Chomsky hierarchy, context-free

grammars, push-down automata, and

computability. Machine models of effective

computability; sub-recursive hierarchies; P and NP

problems; effective and efficient reducibility; time,

space, and abstract complexity.

0612-553: DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

CR: 3 PR: 0612-300 and 0612-445,

or Consent of the Instructor

Distributed system examples, implementation

issues, parallel vs. distributed systems, review of

communication and networking, distributed system

models, message-passing vs. shared memory

models, synchronous vs, asynchronous systems,

guarded actions non-determinism, atomic

operations, scheduling and fairness issues, program

correctness, safety and liveness properties,

distributed mutual exclusion, distributed snapshot,

distributed reset, wave algorithms, termination

detetction, distributed deadlock, randomized

algorithms, synchronous message passing, Hoare's

CSP, clients and servers, faults in distributed

systems, classification of faults, fault masking vs.

fault recovery, self-stabilizing and adaptive

distributed systems, gracefully degradable systems,

waitfree systems, distributed consensus, leader

election, clock synchronization.

0612-555: COMPUTER SECURITY

CR: 3 PR: 0612-453

or Consent of Instructor Overview of computer security: security concepts,

threats, attacks, assets, security functional

requirements and security architecture.

Cryptographic tools: symmetric ciphers, public-key

encryption, message authentication, digital

signatures, key management and random number

generation. Authentication protocols. Access

control mechanisms. Security policies and models.

Intrusion detection and prevention systems.

Security auditing and assurance. Security

management, risk assessment and security controls.

0612-557: ADVANCED ALGORITHMS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-300 Selections from design, analysis, optimization, and

implementation of algorithms; Computational

complexity, complexity classes, randomized

algorithms, probabilistic algorithms, distributed

algorithms, parallel algorithms; algorithm

correctness and general theory of algorithms;

algorithms for particular application areas

including: Graphs and Networks; Cryptography.



0612-561: PARALLEL COMPUTING

CR: 3 PR: 0612-468


Introduction to theoretical issues in parallel

computation. Topics: Parallel machine models.

Design and analysis of algorithms for systolic

arrays: arithmetic operations, simple graph

algorithms. Algorithms for hypercube-related

networks: sorting, routing. PRAM model of

computation. Basic PRAM algorithms: prefix

computation, sorting, shortest paths, minimum-

weight spanning tree. Reducing the processor-time

product. simulation of stronger PRAM models by

weaker ones. Complexity issues: definition of NC

and P-completeness; some simple lower bounds.

0612-562: SEQUENTIAL MACHINE THEORY

CR: 3 PR: 0612-461


Structure of sequential machines, partition theory

and decomposition of machines, modular

realization of sequential machines, regular

expressions, information lossless machines and

linear sequential machines.

0612-564: TESTING & RELIABLE DESIGN OF

DIGITAL SYSTEMS

CR.: 3 PR: Consent of Instructor

Fundamentals of digital circuits test such as fault

modeling, automatic test generation, and testability

measures, Design for Testability (DFT), Built-in-

Self-test (NIST), Memory Test, emerging topics in

test and reliable design.

0612-565: HIGH-LEVEL DESIGN OF DIGITAL

SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-461

Topics include: High level synthesis, scheduling

and allocation techniques, architecture style

selection, two level logic minimization algorithms,

multiple-value minimization and multi-level circuit

synthesis. The course usually involves a project.

0612-566: WIRELESS COMPUTING

NETWORKS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-356

or Consent of Instructor Overview of the fundamental concepts in networks,

wireless technology, and mobile computing.

Energy-aware adaptation for mobile applications.

Understanding the current routing protocols for

studies of medium access control techniques for

wireless communications. Design principles that

are crucial for building the foundation for the

design, and construction of future generations of

wireless computing networks (wireless ad hoc,

sensor, and buipuitous networks).

0612-567: MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-454


Review of some important probability distributions

and their properties; Markovian processes;

Markovian queues; renewal theory; semi

Markovian processes and the M/G/1 queue; priority

queues; case studies: random access systems;

polling systems; multiplexers and switching

systems.

0612-568: ADVANCED COMPUTER

ARCHITECTURE

CR: 3 PR: 612-468

Classification of parallel processing system - SIMD

and MIMD machines - Multiprocessor systems and

interconnection networks - Case studies of parallel

processing systems - Parallel processing design

issues: Programming languages, operating systems,

user interfaces - VLSI computing systems: systolic

arrays, wavefront arrays.

0612-569: HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER

NETWORKS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-356 Alternative network architectures; study of the

network functions and protocols in high

performance networks; routing and switching;

transport protocols in high-performance networks;

integrated and differentiated service models and

protocols; congestion and flow control protocols;

broadbank ISDN and ATM; high-speed local and

metropolitan area networks; advanced topics in

high-performance networking.

0612-570: PHYSICAL DESIGN AUTOMATION

OF DIGITAL SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-300


Fundamentals of graph theory, partition, floor

planning, placement, and routing. Programming

techniques and algorithms; shortest/longest path,

all-pairs shortest path, dynamic programming,

linear programming, non-linear programming,



evolutionary approaches, simulated annealing, and

hyper-algorithms.

0612-571: FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTING

SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-471


Fault modeling, redundancy techniques and

reliability evaluation, error detecting and correcting

codes, self-checking circuits, fault diagnosis,

software fault tolerance, error mitigation methods,

partial concurrent error detection, online test,

reconfiguration and voting, software reliability and

redundancy, hardware fault tolerance, fault

detection in cryptographic systems.

0612-572: PRINCIPLES OF VLSI DESIGN

CR: 3 PR: 0612-368


The course will cover basic theory and techniques

of digital VLSI design in CMOS technology. We

use full-custom techniques to design basic cells and

regular structures such as data-path and memory.

There is an emphasis on modern design issues in

interconnect and clocking. Students will design

small test circuits using various CAD tools.

Circuits will be verified and analyzed for

performance with various simulators.

0612-573: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

SYSTEMS

CR:3 PR: Consent of Instructor

Wireless communication principles, the cellular

concept, radio propagation and modulation

techniques, channel coding and equalization,

multiple access techniques and wireless

communication networks, wireless systems

standards.

0612-574: MOBILE NETWORKING

CR: 3 PR: 0612-356


Introduction and fundementals. Medium Access

Control Protocols. Cellular Networks. Wireless

Internet. 4-G Systems and Pervasive Networking.

Security in Mobile Networks.

0612-575: ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPUTER

NETWORKS

CR: 3 PR: 0612-356 and 0612-445

The students will review the fundamental design

and analysis issues in computer networks,

especially at the physical layer to the transport

layer, including networking overview, multi-

protocol network, intelligent network, ad-hoc and

sensor network, mobile networking and current

trends in the high-speed networks. 0612-576: MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHY AND

NETWORK SECURITY

CR: 3 PR: 0612-453


Information theoretic security. Fundamentals of

secure networks and cryptography. Number theory

for cryptography. One-way hash functions.

Message authentication codes. Encryption and

privacy: public key and symmetric key. Digital

signatures schemes. Authentication and integrity

methods and protocols. Elliptic curves

cryptography. Firewalls. Virtual private networks.

Transport layer security.

0612-580: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMPUTER

ENGINEERING I

CR: 3 PR: Consent of the Instructor


treating topics in engineering mostly not covered in

other courses, chosen at the discretion of the

Graduate Program Committee.

0612-581: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMPUTER

ENGINEERING II CR: 3 PR: Consent of the Instructor


treating topics in engineering mostly not covered in

other courses, chosen at the discretion of the


0612-592: SEMINAR

CR: -



0612-593: PROJECT

CR: 3

2000-597 to 599: THESIS

CR: 9



174

MASTER OF SCIENCE

CIVIL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Civil Engineering (College of Engineering and Petroleum) offers a

Master of Science program in Civil Engineering. Part-time and full-time students are


The program is intended as a means of developing closer affinity to basic research and

solving applied problems. The philosophy of the program reflects an interdisciplinary nature

and embodies flexibility and choice variation to suit a multitude of needs. The Department of

Civil Engineering offers courses and research opportunities in the following fields: Water

Resources and Environmental Engineering, Construction Management, Geotechnical

Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Structural Engineering.



examination.


The program requirements are (non-thesis option in parenthesis):




0620-593 Project (3)






0600-505 Finite Element Methods

0600-506 Continuum Mechanics





175

12 SUBDISCIPLINE ELECTIVE COURSES (3 credits each)

I. WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING:

0620-510 Transport Processes

0620-511 Ground water Hydrology

0620-512 Coastal Hydromechanics

0620-513 Sediment Transport

0620-514 Coastal Engineering

0620-516 Unsteady Open Channel Flow

0620-517 Hydrology

0620-520 Chemical and Biological Aspects of Environmental Engineering

0620-521 Unit Operations and Processes of Environmental Engineering I

0620-522 Unit Operations and Processes of Environmental Engineering II

0620-524 Solid Waste Management

0620-525 Environmental Management and Impact Assessment

0620-526 Water Quality Modeling

0620-529 Special Topics in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

0640-552 Waste Minimization

0640-557 Industrial Water Treatment

II. CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

0620-530 Construction Management and Project Control

0620-532 Human Factors in Construction Engineering and Management

0620-533 Project and Company Organization in Construction

0620-534 Cost Management in Construction and Engineering Projects

0620-535 Construction Administration

0620-536 Decision Analysis in Construction

0620-537 Advanced Information Technology in Construction

0620-538 Advanced Building Construction Seminar

0620-540 Value Engineering

0620-541 Engineering and Construction Law

III. GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

0620-550 Soil Dynamics

0620-551 Rock Mechanics

0620-552 Stability of Slopes

0620-553 Geotechnical Aspects of Landfill Design

0620-555 Advanced Soil Mechanics

0620-556 Ground and Site Improvement Techniques

0620-557 Theoretical Soil Mechanics



176

IV. TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

0620-560 Land-Use Analysis in Transportation

0620-561 Public Transportation Planning and Operation

0620-562 Transportation Systems Management

0620-563 Airport Planning and Design

0620-564 Pavement Management Systems

0620-565 Transportation Economics

0620-566 Traffic Control

0620-567 Transportation Demand Analysis and Forecasting

0620-568 Analytical Techniques In Transport Planning and Management

0620-569 Evaluation of Investments in Public Projects

V. STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

0620-571 Structural Dynamics

0620-572 Design of Concrete Highway Bridges

0620-573 Finite Element Applications in Structural Analysis

0620-574 Inelastic Theory of Structural Design

0620-576 Structural Optimization

0620-577 Theory of Plates

0620-578 Reinforced Concrete

0620-579 Stability of Structures

0620-580 Analysis and Design of Wall Structures and Tall Buildings

0620-581 Special Topics in Structural Engineering

0620-582 Advanced Steel Design

0620-583 Advanced Topics in Reinforced Concrete Design

0620-584 Durability of Concrete Structures


A maximum of 6 units to be credited from outside the program

subject to the approval of the academic supervisor, and the program director.

9 COMPULSORY


COURSE DESCRIPTION

0620-510: TRANSPORT PROCESSES

CR: 3

Transport processes in water, turbulent diffusion

and longitudinal dispersion in rivers and estuaries,

mixing, transport of pollutants, self purification and

waste assimilation capacity, thermal pollution,

receiving water quality.

0620-511: GROUND WATER HYDROLOGY

CR: 3

Ground water and aquifers, well-flow systems,

measurement of aquifer parameters, modeling of



aquifer systems, surface-subsurface water relations,

subsidence and lateral movement of land surface

due to pumping.

0620-512: COASTAL HYDROMECHANICS

CR: 3

Fundamentals of fluid flow, small amplitude wave

theory, waves of finite height-Stokes theory,

solitary wave, wave propagation and refraction in

water of variable depth, wave generation and

forecasting techniques, statistical models for ocean

waves, long period waves, linear shallow water

wave theory, tidal flows, harbor oscillations, basic

theory and analysis of harbors of various shapes.

0620-513: SEDIMENT TRANSPORT

CR: 3

Sediment properties, initiation of sediment motion,

suspended load, bed load, total sediment load, bed

forms, resistance of movable beds, flow in alluvial

channels, stability to alluvial channels, aggradation

and degradation, instrumentation and measuring

techniques, modeling of fluvial processes, reservoir

sedimentation, sediment transport in closed

conduits.

0620-514: COASTAL ENGINEERING

CR: 3

Introduction to coastal engineering, coastal

environment and coastal structures. Fundamental

properties of waves, tides and tidal currents, their

analysis, predictions and transformations. Short-

and long-term wave analysis, and design waves.

Coastal structures: types, functionality, limitations,

and design factors. Waves. forces and moments

on structures: interia/drag forces and moments;

breaking, broken, and non-breaking wave forces

and moments. Design of coastal structures: design

water levels and wave heights; siting and layout;

design of seawalls, breakwaters and groins. Design

considerations for harbors and marinas. Modeling

and scaling laws in coastal engineering.

0620-516: UNSTEADY OPEN CHANNEL

FLOW

CR: 3

Review of basic concepts of steady uniform flow,

the energy and momentum concepts in open

channel, flow resistance for uniform and non-

uniform flow conditions, gradually varied flow,

rapidly varied flow, spatially varied flow, gradually

varied unsteady flow, rapidly varied unsteady flow,

spatially varied unsteady flow, flood routing,

channel routing, reservoir routing, method of

characteristics, finite difference formulation,

computer applications.

0620-517: HYDROLOGY

CR: 3

Hydrologic proccesses, precipitation, evaporation,

transpiration, infiltration, stream flow, hydrograph

analysis, flood routing, urban hydrology, statistical

concepts and stochastic hydrology, hydrologic

design.

0620-520: CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL

ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL

ENGINEERING

CR: 3

Principles of water chemistry: chemical

equilibrium; acid-base reactions; oxidation-

reduction reaction; colloidal system; chemical

precipitation. Basic concepts from Water

Microbiology: microbial growth; aquatic food

chains; indicator organisms. Water and

Wastewater analysis. Water quality standards.

Fundamentals of process kinetics: reaction;

catalysis, materials balance, biological kinetics.

0620-521: UNIT OPERATIONS AND

PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL

ENGINEERING I

CR: 3

Theory and application of biological treatment

methods, microbiological fundamentals, process

kinetics and reactor design, suspended and attached

growth systems, aerobic and anaerobic processes,

oxygen transfer, soil systems, sludge processing.

Laboratory assignments and design projects for

selected unit processes.

0620-522: UNIT OPERATIONS AND

PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL

ENGINEERING II

CR: 3

Reactor dynamics and mass transport processes;

theory and design of treatment systems for phase

and species transformation processes, particulate

separation processes, and solute separation

processes; laboratory assignments and design

projects for selected unit processes.

0620-524: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

CR: 3

Solid waste generation, handling, storage,

collection, transfer and transport, processing

techniques and ultimate disposal. Engineering



systems for materials and energy recovery.

Administration of solid waste systems.

0620-525: ENVIRONMENTAL

MANAGEMENT AND IMPACT

ASSESSMENT

CR: 3

Examination of alternative choices for the

management of environmental problems.

Ecological systems, natural processes, data

analysis. Legal, economic and planning

techniques. Decision making, measurements of

benefits and costs, normative evaluation

techniques, environmental risk analysis.

Preparation of environmental impact statements.

Lectures and seminars are presented by staff,

visiting speakers and students and case studies are

discussed.

0620-526: WATER QUALITY MODELING

CR: 3

Comprehensive overview of transport and fate of

pollutants in natural surface waters. An

introduction to modeling fundamentals along with

in-depth descriptions of how a variety of pollutants

move and react within a variety of water bodies. A

coverage of advanced modeling topics such as

protozoan pollution and sediment processes.

0620-529: SPECIAL TOPICS IN WATER

RESOURCES AND

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

CR: 3


treating topics in Engineering mostly not covered

in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the


0620-530: CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

AND PROJECT CONTROL

CR: 3

Introduction to construction management concept,

analytical techniques for bringing a project to

completion within budget, on time and according to

the specifications, including study of cost

engineering and control, schedule and resource

control, procurement and quality control.

0620-532: HUMAN FACTORS IN

CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING

AND MANAGEMENT

CR: 3

Seminar dealing with the problems of working and

communicating with individuals and groups.

0620-533: PROJECT AND COMPANY

ORGANIZATION IN

CONSTRUCTION

CR: 3

A survey of classical and modern organization

theory; concepts and functions of management, the

behavior of the individual, the work group, and the

organization, all linked to construction problems.

0620-534: COST MANAGEMENT IN

CONSTRUCTION AND

ENGINEERING PROJECTS CR: 3

Introduction to cost estimating, cost budgeting, cost

accounts, CPM cost loading, cost controlling, cost

forecasting, and cost accounting of construction

and engineering projects. The course also covers

feasibility studies, level of influence, cost

engineering, cost optimization, cash-flow analysis,

cost-schedule compression, and life cycle costing.

0620-535: CONSTRUCTION

ADMINISTRATION

CR: 3

Business and management aspects of construction:

Kuwait industry profile, company organization,

contracting methods, bonding and insurance,

subcontracts, cash flow, and markup.

0620-536: DECISION ANALYSIS IN

CONSTRUCTION

CR: 3

Procedures for deciding under uncertainty.

Fundamentals of the expected-utility rule with

personal subjective probabilities. Current

applications of decision analysis. Analysis of

problems using decision trees that include risk and

time preference. Determination of the economic

value of perfect and imperfect information on one

or several variables in a decision problem.

0620-537: ADVANCED INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY IN

CONSTRUCTION

CR: 3

Database management systems. Objective-oriented

programming. Expert systems and artificial

intelligence. Decision support systems.



0620-538: ADVANCED BUILDING

CONSTRUCTION SEMINAR

CR: 3

Seminar dealing with the problems of building

construction. Subjects include search patterns and

sortation, standard specifications and control,

systems safety, insurance and risk management,

materials and workmanship, R&D activities,

technological adaptation, development of

indigenous capabilities and requirements of the

construction industry.

0620-540: VALUE ENGINEERING

CR: 3

Systematic approach to control the quality and

performance of engineering projects while

maintaining minimum costs. Real projects are

studied by multi-disciplinary groups working in

teams to specify the real value of the project.

0620-541: ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION

LAW

CR: 3

Contract planning, construction procurement and

contract negotiations, contract formation and

agreement, contract administration and

management. Change orders administration, types

of claims and disputes, claims analysis, evaluation

and resolution. Alternative dispute resolution

(ADR), Litigation and arbitration.

0620-550: SOIL DYNAMICS

CR: 3

Introduction to soil dynamics, review of linear

vibration theory, earthquake engineering, dynamic

soil properties, response analysis and response

spectra, liquefaction, settlement, foundation design

for vibratory loads, isolation of foundation.

0620-551: ROCK MECHANICS

CR: 3

Behavior and properties of rock as an engineering

material, rock exploration, stress analysis in rocks,

failure of rocks, design and construction of

underground structures and slopes in rock, design

of rock abutments for dams, engineering

applications, laboratory and field rock testing

techniques.

0620-552: STABILITY OF SLOPES

CR: 3

Shear strength of granular and cohesive soils,

failure criteria in soils, lab/field tests selections,

types of slopes failure, methods of analysis, slope

stability of dams and embankments, infinite slope

analysis, finite slope analysis, computer

applications.

0620-553: GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF

LANDFILL DESIGN

CR: 3

The application of geotechnical engineering

principles and methods to site selection and design

of municipal solid waste landfills that include

settlement analysis, slope stability, liner

compaction, and leachate collection system, as they

relate to designing a landfill. Computer software is

used to assist in the design scenarios.

0620-555: ADVANCED SOIL MECHANICS

CR: 3

Consolidation theory and secondary compression.

Settlement Analysis. Basic strength principles.

Stress-strain-strength behavior of clays with

emphasis on effects of sample disturbance,

anisotropy and strain rate. Stress-strain-strength

behavior of granular soils. Engineering properties

of compacted soils. Laboratory on consolidation

and strength testing.

0620-556: GROUND AND SITE

IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES

CR: 3

Geotechnical properties of local soils (subsurface

desert sand, cemented sand, coastal ground). Soil

compaction. Subsurface water rise: causes and

remedial measures. Slurry trench cutoffs. Soil

grouting. Subsurface drainage of cohesive soils.

Soil reinforcement. Preloading. Instrumentations.

Case studies.

0620-557: THEORETICAL SOIL MECHANICS

CR: 3

Stress at a point. Strain at a point. Stress-strain

relationships in linearly elastic materials. Basic

equations of elasticity in solids. Critical state

concepts. Plasticity . Basic formulation of

viscoelastic materials. Viscoplasticity.

Constitutive equations. Applications.

0620-560: LAND-USE ANALYSIS IN

TRANSPORTATION

CR: 3

The urban system, urban activities and transport

system, spatial interaction modelling, optimization

models, econometric models, demographic models,



intergrated urban systems modeling and policy

analysis.

0620-561: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

PLANNING & OPERATION

CR: 3

Public transportation system technologies, urban

passenger transport modes, bus system, paratransit,

planning public transportation systems, rural public

transportation, comparing transit modes,

management and operations of public transit

systems, public transportation security and safety,

environmental impacts of transit systems.

0620-562: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

MANAGEMENT

CR: 3

Establishment of goals and objectives of a transport

system, the systems approach, methods of

identifying available options for management of a

transport system, control options versus non-

control options, network flow optimization,

flexible work hours, reversible lanes, priority

assignment to high occupancy vehicles, road

taxation, non-auto area restrictions, measures of

effectiveness, option-packaging analysis,

operations models, performance evaluation models.

0620-563: AIRPORT PLANNING AND DESIGN

CR: 3

Air travel demand-capacity analysis, planning and

design of an airport, airport site selection, airsite

activities and operations, land-side activities and

operations, terminal and airfield designs, facility

requirements and plans, environmental impacts of

airport operations.

0620-564: PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT

SYSTEMS

CR: 3

Basic components of pavement management,

systems-evaluation of pavement performance,

structural capacity, design objectives and

constraints, alternative design strategies and

applied economic evaluation techniques, analysis

of predicting distress performance and selection of

an optimal design strategy with respect to safety,

implementation and feedback data systems,

examples of working design and management

systems.

0620-565: TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS

CR: 3

Public systems evaluation, elements of supply and

demand, economic equilibrium, investment criteria,

vehicle operating costs. Value of travel time,

accident costs. Consumer surplus in transportation,

non-user impacts, evaluation methods of

investments in transportation systems.

0620-566: TRAFFIC CONTROL

CR: 3

Traffic control system strategies. Off-line signal

optimization and real-time traffic-responsive

control techniques. Control methods for single

intersections, arterial systems and area wide traffic

network. Evaluation of traffic control systems

using measures of effectiveness.

0620-567: TRANSPORTATION DEMAND

ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING

CR: 3

The demand for transportation. The supply of

transportation. Transportation cost and cost

functions. Urban passenger travel demand.

Intercity passenger travel demand. Air travel

demand. Commodity transport demand.

0620-568: ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES IN

TRANSPORT PLANNING AND

MANAGEMENT

CR: 3

Category analysis. General linear models. Linear

models with transformation. Input--Output

analysis. Cohort-Survival model. Multinomial

logic models. Time-Series analysis. Simulation.

0620-569: EVALUATION OF

INVESTEMENTS IN PUBLIC

PROJECTS

CR: 3

Principles of engineering economic analysis, price

theory and resource allocation, elements of supply,

elements of demand, economic equilibrium,

welfare economics, investment criteria, principles

of benefit-cost analysis. A flood control example,

a water pollution control example, a highway

transport example, evaluation of large scale

projects, other approaches to evaluation including

rating scale and goal achievement methods and

programming project investments. The course will

include case studies from Kuwait and students will

each conduct, present and submit a report

describing an analysis of a public project in

Kuwait.



0620-571: STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS

CR: 3

Numerical analysis of single degree elastic and

inelastic systems, analysis of single degree elastic

and elastoplastic systems, lumped-mass

multidegree freedom systems, structures with

distributed mass and loads, beams subject to

moving loads, consistent mass method, continuous

mass method, numerical applications.

0620-572: DESIGN OF CONCRETE

HIGHWAY BRIDGES

CR: 3

Common types of concrete bridges, design loads,

design of T-beam bridges, design of box-girder

bridges, design of continuous prestressed concrete

slab bridges with a variable cross-section (a

haunched or parabolic soffit).

0620-573: FINITE ELEMENT APPLICATIONS

IN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

CR: 3

Principles of structural mechanics, element

properties, solution techniques and programming of

the finite element method, analysis of framed

structures, three-dimensional stress analysis,

analysis of plate bending, analysis of shells,

formulation for dynamic analysis, formulation for

instability analysis.

0620-574: INELASTIC THEORY OF

STRUCTURAL DESIGN

CR: 3

Shear-friction concept, design of deep beams,

design of brackets and corbels, torsional strength

by the spacetruss analogy approach, limit design

method, rotation capacity of concrete plastic

hinges, columns subjected to biaxial bending,

yield-line theory of slabs, strip method for slab

design, design of earthquake-resistant structures.

0620-576: STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION

CR: 3

Applications of mathematical programming in

design and analysis of trusses, beams, frames, and

other structures. Optimization by calculus of

variation and optimal control theory.

0620-577: THEORY OF PLATES

CR: 3

Classical theory for bending of plates of various

shapes. Numerical methods in analysis of plates,

goemetric properties of shells. Curvilinear

coordinates, Membrane theory. Analysis of shells

of revolution, Bending theory, Introduction to

theory of thick plates.

0620-578: REINFORCED CONCRETE

CR: 3

Design of Slab-girder type bridges, design of

industrial buildings, roofs, composite construction,

arches, crane girders, transverse frames, design of

circular and rectangular tanks, shell roofs and

folded plates.

0620-579: STABILITY OF STRUCTURES

CR: 3

Eccentric compression of slender columns, beam-

columns, lateral buckling of beams, buckling of

thin plates, introduction to stability of shells.

0620-580: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF

WALL STRUCTURES AND TALL

BUILDINGS

CR: 3

Definition and Design Criteria of Tall Buildings,

General Planning

Considerations, Vertical Load Analysis,

Calculation of Lateral Wind and Earthquake Loads,

analysis of Frames; Shear Walls; Shear Wall-

Frame Structures, Lateral Load Distribution,

Design Consideration of Reinforced Concrete

Frames, Shear Walls and Reinforced Masonry

Shear Walls, Computer Applications.

0620-581: SPECIAL TOPICS IN STRUCTURAL

ENGINEERING

CR: 3





0620-582: ADVANCED STEEL DESIGN

CR: 3 Built-up sections, design of plate girders,

composite (steel and concrete) design, building

connections, design of multi-story buildings,

design of simply supported bridges.


REINFORCED CONCRETE

DESIGN

CR:3 Slab design by the strip method and yield line

theory, slenderness effects in long columns, design

of combined footings, cantilever footings, pile

foundations, and retaining walls, design for torsion.



0620-584: DURABILITY OF CONCRETE

STRUCTURES

CR: 3 Factors essential to the enhancement of durability

of concrete and structures, designing for durability

according to macro and micro climatic conditions,

role of supplementary cementitious materials, super

plasticizers, corrosion inhibitors, polymers, fibres

and structures. Design and use of high strength

lightweight concrete for off shore structures.

Durable concrete repair.

0620-592: SEMINAR

CR: -



0620-593: PROJECT

CR: 3

2000-597 to 599: THESIS CR: 9



183

MASTER OF SCIENCE

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a Master of Science Program in

Mechanical Engineering. Full-time and part-time students are admitted to this program.

Research requirements include either thesis or non-thesis options. The program is a balanced

combination of the theoretical and practical aspects of mechanical engineering with enough

flexibility to allow for interaction with the ever developing sciences and technologies and

with the changing needs of the region.

The program is designed to deepen and broaden the scientific and engineering skills in one of

the following two lines:

- Mechanical Design and Manufacturing

- Thermo-Fluid Engineering

The general research interests in the department are focused in these two lines. They include

works in mechanical vibration, dynamics and control, stress analysis, tribology, computer-

aided design, robotics, computer-aided manufacturing, mechanical behavior of materials,

composite materials, corrosion, thermodynamics, heat transfer, experimental and

computational fluid mechanics, energy management, combustion and combustion engines,

solar energy, heating and air-conditioning systems, desalination, aerodynamics, turbulence,

and dual-purpose power plants.



examination.


The program requirements are (non-thesis option in parenthesis)

33(33) TOTAL CREDITS (COURSES)

(3) COMPULSORY(credits in parenthesis)


0630-593 Project (3) (non-thesis option only)

6 CORE ELECTIVE COURSES(3 credits each)

0600-501 Engineering Analysis I (required)


0600-505 Finite Element Methods



184

0600-506 Continuum Mechanics



9 SUBDISCIPLINE ELECTIVE COURSES(3 credits each)

I. MECHANICAL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

0630-509 Analytical Mechanics

0630-511 Stress Analysis in Mechanical Design

0630-512 Mechanical Vibrations

0630-513 Dynamic Analysis and Design of Machines

0630-514 Computer-Aided Design

0630-515 Engineering Materials: Selection and Applications

0630-516 Reliability and Maintainability

0630-517 Optimal Design

0630-518 Special Topics in Design

0630-519 Stability of Structures and Systems

0630-542 Computer Integrated Manufacturing

0630-543 Fracture Mechanics

0630-554 Special Topics in Mechanical Design Robotics

II. THERMO-FLUID ENGINEERING

0630-520 Advanced Conduction Heat Transfer

0630-522 Radiation Heat Transfer

0630-523 Advanced Convection Heat Transfer

0630-524 Air-Conditioning

0630-525 Non-Conventional Energy Conversion Systems

0630-527 Power Plants

0630-528 Heat Exchangers Design

0630-529 Refrigeration Engineering

0630-531 Fluid Mechanics

0630-532 Gas Dynamics

0630-533 Computational Fluid Mechanics

0630-535 Mechanical Aspects of Desalting Systems

0630-538 Special Topics in Thermo-Fluid Engineering

0630-539 Advanced Thermodynamics

9(15) FREE ELECTIVE COURSES A maximum of 6 units to be credited from outside the program with the approval of

the graduate committee program.



185

9 COMPULSORY


COURSE DESCRIPTION

0630-509: ANALYTICAL MECHANICS

CR: 3

Review of Newtonian mechanics. The principle of

virtual work. D'Alemberts principle. Hamilton's

principle. Lagrange's equations of motion. Case of

impulsive forces. Conservation laws. Ralyleigh's

dissipation function. Hamilton's equations. Motion

relative to rotating frames. Rigid body dynamics.

Gyroscopic effects. Canonical transformations.

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation.

0630-511: STRESS ANALYSIS IN

MECHANICAL DESIGN

CR: 3

Stress and strain in two and three dimensions.

Plane theory of elasticity. Failure theories. Stress

concentration. Residual Stresses. Thermal stresses.

Contact stresses. Impact loading. Fracture

mechanics and design. Fatigue and cumulative

damage. Structural instability. Experimental stress

analysis. Energy approach and numerical methods.

Case Studies.

0630-512: MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS

CR: 3

Lagrange's equations. Response of multi-degree-

of-freedom systems. Vibration of continuous

systems. Approximate solutions. Introduction to

nonlinear vibrations. Introduction to random

vibrations. Spectral analysis.

0630-513: DYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND

DESIGN OF MACHINES

CR: 3

General concepts in the dynamic analysis and

design of machines, with reference to machine

tools. Structure compliance, integrity, static and

thermal deformations, structure design concepts.

Drive systems, slides and bearings. Feed drives.

Types of control systems; numerical, adaptive and

computer control. Steady and dynamic cutting

forces. Dynamics of machine tools. Receptance

concept. Interaction between cutting and structural

response. Machine tool stability. Vibration

reduction of machine tools in the design stage and

in the field. Design for fabrication by bonding.

0630-514: COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN

CR: 3

Computer Graphics including solid modeling and

image synthesis, curve and surface description, 3-D

transformations. Use of prepackaged software.

Review of optimization techniques: linear, non-

linear and dynamic programming. Design

applications in mechanical engineering systems.

0630-515: ENGINEERING MATERIALS:

SELECTION AND APPLICATIONS

CR: 3

Mechanical behavior of materials: elastic and

plastic behavior, yielding fracture, crack

propagation, fatigue, creep. Behavior at low and

high temperatures. Engineering properties of

metallic and non-metallic materials. Functional

requirements of engineering materials. Material

selection process, criteria and techniques. Aspects

of design for selection. Applications: material

selection for springs, fasteners, gears, bearings etc.

Material selection for abrasive-wear and corrosion-

resistance applications. Case studies.

0630-516: RELIABILITY AND

MAINTAINABILITY

CR: 3

Component factors in durability and reliability.

Reliability concepts and assessments. The

performance requirements. Static and dynamic

reliability models. Random variables in design.

Sampling estimation and confidence.

Maintainability down-time and repair-time. Design

factors determining down-time. Maintainability

prediction. Maintainability and reliability in

contracts. Maintenance handbook.



0630-517: OPTIMAL DESIGN

CR: 3

Survey of single-variable unconstrained

optimization methods. Multi-variable unconstrained

optimization. Single and multi-variable constrained

optimization techniques. Applications from

mechanical design, vibrations, solid mechanics, and

thermal fluid systems.

0630-518: SPECIAL TOPICS IN DESIGN

CR: 3





0630-519: STABILITY OF STRUCTURES

AND SYSTEMS

CR: 3

Concept of stability. Lejeune-Dirichlet criterion.

Nyquist criterion. Routh and Hurwitz criterion.

Liapunov second method. Examples from rigid

body dynamics. Effects of damping. Gyroscopic

effects. Elastic stability under static load: Beam-

columns, bars and frames, torsional buckling,

buckling of rings, curved bars and arches.

Dynamic instability: Divergence and flutter.

Instability under nonconservative forces.

Examples.

0630-520: ADVANCED CONDUCTION

HEAT TRANSFER

CR: 3

A generalized treatment of the solution of steady

and transient heat conduction in finite and infinite

regions. Approximate and exact methods of

solution of problems involving phase change,

variable thermal properties, heat generation, and

non-linear boundary conditions. Heat conduction

in composite media and in anisotropic solids.

0630-522: RADIATION HEAT TRANSFER

CR: 3

Exact and approximate methods of solution of

radiative heat transfer. Heat radiation of black

bodies and non black bodies. Radiation between

surfaces and through participating and non-

participating media. Experimental methods.

Radiation heat processes. Radiative properties of

surfaces and gases. Multimode heat transfer in

thermal systems. Numerical modeling.

0630-523: ADVANCED CONVECTION

HEAT TRANSFER

CR: 3

Differential forms of the balance laws of mass,

linear momentum, and energy, Boundary layer

theory, Scale Analysis, Similarity solutions, Forced

and free convention in laminar and turbulent,

internal and external flows. Analogy between

momentum and heat transfer. Heat and mass

transfer in compressible flow.

0630-524: AIR-CONDITIONING

CR: 3

Air-Conditioning systems and their physchrometric

process, analysis and performance of direct contact

heat and mass transfer exchanges: cooling towers,

analysis of extended surface heat exchangers,

analysis of cooling coils, air conditioning control.

0630-525: NON-CONVENTIONAL

ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS

CR: 3

Analysis and performance characteristics based on

thermodynamics and fluid flow of non-

conventional energy conversion systems.

0630-527: POWER PLANTS

CR: 3

Thermodynamics review, Availability,

Irreversibility, Entropy creation efficiency and

effectiveness. Rankine cycle: Ideal and real cycle,

effects of superheating, reheating, feed water heat

regeneration, condenser. Fossil-fuel steam

generations: water tube boilers, design of natural

and forced flow, furnace design with tube walls,

evaporators, superheaters, economizers, fans,

stacks. Rating of steam generators. Fuels and

combustion. Steam turbines: Impulse and reaction

turbines, analysis and sizing. Turbine rating

methods, turbine losses, gas turbines cycles (simple

open, regenerative and cooled), Combined cycle,

rating of gas and gas/steam cycles. Condensate-

feed water system: Condensers types and designs,

feed water heaters types and designs, dearators,

make up water. Circulating water systems.

0630-528: HEAT EXCHANGERS DESIGN

CR: 3

Double-pipe heat exchangers. Shell and tube heat

exchanger. Flow arrangements for increased heat

recovery in shell and tube exchangers. Gases

cooling and heating. Extended surfaces.



Condensation of vapors and condensers design.

Evaporation and evaporators. Steam generator

design: Furnaces, superheaters, economizers,

evaporators, cooling towers.

0630-529: REFRIGERATION ENGINEERING

CR: 3

Machinery for vapor compression systems:

Compressors (reciprocating, rotary positive

displacement and turbo), condensing equipment,

evaporators, expansion valves, cooling towers.

Equipment design, characteristic and rating

methods, equipment matching. Multistage vapor

compression systems. Ammonia absorption

refrigeration system design and characteristics.

Lithium bromide-water absorption system design

and characteristics. Steam jet regeneration systems

design. Cold storage. Defrosting methods.

0630-531: FLUID MECHANICS

CR: 3

Conservation laws and Navier-Stokes equations

closed-form solutions of standard viscous flow

problems. Boundary layer theory. Ideal-fluid flow

equations, potential flow. Elementary flows.

0630-532: GAS DYNAMICS

CR: 3

Basic concepts of gas dynamics and gas properties.

Subsonic flow. Supersonic flow. Hypersonic flow.

Shock-wave phenomena. Dimensional analysis.

Experimental techniques and other selected topics.

0630-533: COMPUTATIONAL FLUID

MECHANICS

CR: 3

Characteristics of different types of partial

differential equations. Scalar representations of

Navier-Stokes equations. Covarient and

contravarient base vectors and calculus.

Transformation of Navier-Stokes equations from

physical space to computational space; Grid

generation methods. Numerical methods for

inviscid flows. Numerical methods for

incompressible viscous flows.

0630-535: MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF

DESALTING SYSTEMS

CR: 3

Design of submerged and falling film evaporators.

Single and multi-effect desalting systems and

component design. Multi-stage flash (MSF)

desalting system design. MSF components design

(pumps, stages, brine heater, evacuating system,..).

Mechanical vapor compression desalting system.

Reverse osmosis desalting systems.

0630-538: SPECIAL TOPICS IN THERMO-

FLUID ENGINEERING

CR: 3


treating topics in mostly not covered in other

courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate

Program Committee.

0630-539: ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS

CR: 3

Availability analysis. Irreversible Thermodynmics

applied to engineering systems. Energy Analysis

for power plants, refrigeration systems.

Equilibrium and stability of thermodynamics

system. General relations.

0630-542: COMPUTER INTEGRATED

MANUFACTURING

CR: 3 PR: 0630-342

Fundamentals of manufacturing and automation,

production systems (types, analysis, automation,

simulation), numerical control production systems

(NC, DNC, CNC, ACO, ACC) - industrial robotics

(technology-programming, and application in

manufacturing systems). Materials handling

systems - flexible classification, coding machine

cells, workstations, computer control). Control

systems (feedback, optimal, sequence control).

Computer integrated manufacturing (fundamentals

of CAD/CAM computer planning of material

process, and capacity) shop floor control and

automation-order release, scheduling, identification

systems. Computer network.

0630-543: FRACTURE MECHANICS

CR: 3

Stationary crack under static loading. Energy

balance fracture mechanisms: Crack initiation and

growth. Fracture modes. Stress intensity factors.

Fracture toughness. Brittle and ductile fractures.

Dynamic crack growth. Fatigue. crack

propagation and component's life prediction.

Experimental methods. Case studies.




MECHANICAL DESIGN

ROBOTICS

CR: 3





0630-592: SEMINAR

CR: -



0630-593: PROJECT

CR: 3

2000-597 to 599: THESIS

CR: 9



MASTER OF SCIENCE

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Chemical Engineering (College of Engineering and Petroleum) offers a

Master of Science program in Chemical Engineering. Part-time and full-time students are


The program prepares qualified Engineers for an advanced professional career in three main

areas: Water & Environmental Engineering, Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals and

Process Engineering & Economics. Research interests in the department lie in these four

main areas: Environmental Process Engineering; Water technology, including Desalination

and Waste Water Treatment; Petroleum and Petrochemical and Process System Engineering

& Economics.



examination.






0640-593 Project (3) (non-thesis only)


0640-511 Advanced Mathematics in Chemical Engineering

0640-521 Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

0640-522 Advanced Reactor Design

0640-541 Advanced Momentum Transfer

0640-543 Advanced Heat Transfer

0640-544 Advanced Mass Transfer

0640-545 Advanced Transport Phenomena

0640-555 Chemical Process Dynamics and Control



9 SUB DISCIPLINE ELECTIVE COURSES (3 credits each)

I. WATER & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

0640-513 Food Processing

0640-551 Air Pollution Control

0640-552 Waste Minimization

0640-557 Industrial Water Treatment

0640-561 Advanced Desalination

0640-562 Multi-phase Flow

0640-565 Advanced Corrosion Engineering

0640-567 Membrane Technology

0640-569 Special Topics in Water Technology

0640-595 Special Topics in Pollution Engineering

II. PETROLEUM REFINING AND PETROCHEMICALS: 0640-512 Fluidization Engineering

0640-563 Advanced Natural Gas Processing

0640-565 Advanced Corrosion Engineering

0640-566 Catalytic Process in Petroleum Refining

0640-570 Polymer Engineering

0640-571 Energy Conservation

0640-572 Advanced Petroleum Refining

0640-574 Estimation of Fluid Properties

0640-575 Fluid Phase Equilibrium

0640-577 Special Topics in Petrochemical Engineering

0640-579 Advanced Petrochemical Engineering

III. PROCESS ECONOMICS AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

0640-540 Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering

0640-553 Computer Aided Process Design

0640-555 Chemical Process Dynamics and Control

0640-571 Energy Conservation

0640-581 Advanced Economic Analysis

0640-582 Process Optimization

0640-583 Innovation and Technology Management

0640-584 Analytical Tools for Investment Management

0640-590 Special Topics in Process System Engineering

0640-591 Special Topics in Techno-Economics


Courses can be taken from the program graduate courses. A maximum of 6 credit hours can

be taken from any other engineering graduate program with the approval of the Program

Director; and no undergraduate elective courses are allowed.



9 COMPULSORY


COURSE DESCRIPTION

0640-511: ADVANCED MATHEMATICS IN


CR: 3

First order differential equation. Partial differential

equations. Laplace transforms. Fourier transform.

Separation of variables. Similarity solution.

Pertubation analysis. Polynomial approximation.

Non-linear regression. Multiple regression.

Introduction to neural networks.

0640-512: FLUIDIZATION ENGINEERING

CR: 3

This objective of this course is to give students a

good grounding in fluidization technology, which

is widely employed in the petrochemical and other

industry sectors. Topics to be covered include:

basics of fluidization; types of fluidized bed (e.g.

dense-phase, fast-fluidized beds, three-phase beds,

etc.); industrial applications; gas distributors - their

importance and design; gas cleaning equipment,

e.g. cyclones, bag filters, etc., bubble mechanics;

heat and mass transfer; modelling and design.

0640-513: FOOD PROCESSING

CR: 3

Background to the food industry, food-processing

operations; brief descriptions of relevant food

chemistry and microbiology; heat-treatment

operations; sterilization and pasteurization

(retorting); UHT processing; refrigeration; and a

description of food processing sectors relevant to

Kuwait (e.g. milling and baking).

0640-521: ADVANCED CHEMICAL

ENGINEERING

THERMODYNAMICS

CR: 3

Review of first second and third laws of

thermodynamics. Applications of the first and

second laws. Fundamental equations and

thermodynamic relations. Gibbs-Duhem equation.

Partial molar quantities. Equations of state and

fugacity calculations. Thermodynamic departure

quantities. Intermolecular forces and property

estimations. Phase equilibrium calculations.

Chemical reaction equilibrium and effects of

temperature and pressure on reaction conversions.

Statistical thermodynamics and partition functions.

Use of statistical thermodynamics in estimating

thermodynamic properties.

0640-522: ADVANCED REACTOR DESIGN

CR: 3

Effect of temperature, pressure and mixing patterns

on conversion and product distribution in complex

homogeneous reactions. Theoretical models for

non-ideal flow and fluid mixing.

0640-540: ARTIFICIAL ENTELLIGENCE IN


CR: 3

History of artificial intelligence. Expert system

knowledge, computing and manipulation of

knowledge. Proces applications of expert systems

such as the co-operate intelligence network,

production management and supervision including

setpoint optimization, process sequencing and

production recipes. Process control applications in

intelligent operator interface, predictive control and

fuzzy control. Applications in safety systems and

alarm management.

0640-541: ADVANCED MOMENTUM

TRANSFER

CR: 3

Different patterns of flow: in an annulus, two

immescible fluids, creeping. Equation of

continuity, of motion and of change. Velocity

distribution in turbulent flow. Time smoothed

equations, eddy viscosity and friction factors for

different flows. Fluidized bed hydrodynamics.

Turbulance theory and applications to mixing.

0640-543: ADVANCED HEAT TRANSFER

CR: 3

Correlations of heat transfer coefficient. Unsteady

and two dimensional conduction: analytical

solution compared to numerical techniques and

where each method fits. Thermal boundary-layers

flow and temperature distribution in turbulent

flows. Application of different numerical

techniques in fluid flow-heat transfer problems.



Introduction to some topics in radiation. Two

phase heat transfer case study for design.

0640-544: ADVANCED MASS TRANSFER

CR: 3

Models for diffusion and dispersion. Mass transfer

with chemical reactions. Simultaneous heat and

mass transfer. Modelling of absorption, extraction

and adsorption systems. Energy requirements for

operations. Synthesis of separation sequences.

0640-545: ADVANCED TRANSPORT

PHENOMENA

CR: 3

Principles of molecular diffusion and measurement

and characteristics of diffusion coefficient. Flow

field induced by mass transfer. Heat and mass

transfer in absence of a flow field. Flow field

induced by body forces or external forces, finite

difference solution of transport problems. Moving

boundary problems.

0640-551: AIR POLLUTION CONTROL

CR: 3

Dispersion models of pollutants in the atmosphere.

Particulate matter and design of control equipment.

Gaseous pollutants and design of control

equipment. Atmospheric photochemical reactions.

Instrumentation, measurement and emission testing

equipment. Air pollution packages. Application.

0640-552: WASTE MINIMIZATION

CR: 3

Concept of clean technologies with minimal

emissions. Concept of waste minimization and its

applications in process design. Waste reduction

technologies such as in-plant modifications,

recycle, recovery and re-use and waste exchange.

Case studies will include examples from petroleum

refining, petrochemical and chemical industries.

0640-553: COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS

DESIGN

CR: 3

Introduction to Computer Aided Design (CAD).

Chemical Engineering Simulation Systems

(CHESS). Flow sheet synthesis. Distillation

column simulators (Distill). Absorption, extraction

and distillation simulators (ABDIS). Workshop

problems.

0640-555: CHEMICAL PROCESS DYNAMICS

AND CONTROL

CR: 3

Mathematical principles of process dynamics and

control. Derivation and solution of differential

equations describing the behaviour of typical

chemical engineering process units. Mathematical

analysis and design of control systems. Digital and

sampled data control systems.

0640-557: INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT

CR: 3

Application of chemical engineering principles to

selected operations encountered in industrial waste

water treatment. The course highlights the

removal of suspended solids biological treatment,

and chemical treatment methods.

0640-561: ADVANCED DESALINATION

CR: 3

Development of desalination technology. Basic

principles of desalination. Theory and practice of

the following desalination plants: Multistage flash

distillation, multiple effect boiling, Reverse

osmosis, electrodialysis, solar distillation, freezing.

Dual-purpose desalination plants. Main problems

in desalination (e.g. scale formations and

corrosion). Cost considerations, comparative

studies of some desalination plants.

0640-562: MULTI-PHASE FLOW

CR: 3

Gas-liquid systems, solid-liquid systems,

homogeneous slurries, heterogeneous slurries, long

distance transportation in pipelines, gas-solid

pneumatic transportation. Complex flow systems.

Modelling and computational aid in multiphase

flow.

0640-563: ADVANCED NATURAL GAS

PROCESSING

CR: 3

Layout of local petroleum industry, phase

equilibria concepts, water-hydrocarbon systems,

hydrate formation, amine treatment, carbonate

treatment, liquifaction, liquids recovery.

0640-565: ADVANCED CORROSION

ENGINEERING

CR: 3

Advanced treatment of corrosion engineering with

emphasis on industrial local problems.

Atmospheric and seawater corrosion. Cathodic and



anodic protection. Corrosion: Protection and

inhibition.

0640-566: CATALYTIC PROCESSES

IN PETROLEUM REFINING

CR: 3

This course focuses on the design and modeling of

various types of catalytic reactors used in

Petroleum Refining Industry. Emphasis will be

focused on the following refining operations:

Catalytic cracking, catalytic hydrocracking,

catalytic hydrotreating, catalytic reforming,

catalytic isomerization, catalytic alkylation, and

catalytic polymerization.

0640-567: MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY

CR: 3

Types of membrane separation processes. Gas

permeation in a membrane. Dialysis. Reverse

osmosis. Ultrafiltration membrane process. Gel

permeation chromatography. Membrane

manufacture. Membrane physical and chemical

properties.

0640-569: SPECIAL TOPICS IN WATER

TECHNOLOGY

CR: 3





0640-570: POLYMER ENGINEERING CR: 3

Introduction to statistical mechanical theories.

Borownian motion. Dynamics of flexible polymers

in ideal solutions. Multichain systems.

Visoelasticity theories. Dynamic of a Polymer in a

fixed network. Ridged rodlike polymers in ideal

solutions. Ridged rodlike polymers in semidilute

solutions. Ridged rodlike polymers in concentrated

solutions.

0640-571: ENERGY CONSERVATION

CR: 3

Thermodynamics and energy conservation, energy

and separation processes, optimization of heat

exchanger systems, thermally coupled distillation

systems, heat pumps, hybrid desalination systems,

economic analysis of technical solution to energy

conservation problems, term paper.

0640-572: ADVANCED PETROLEUM

REFINING

CR: 3

Refinery configurations. Characterizations of crude

oils and products. Coking. Catalytic cracking.

Catalytic hydrocracking. Hydroprocessing and

Hydrotreating. Reforming. Product blending.

Computer simulation of refinery processes.

0640-574: ESTIMATION OF FLUID

PROPERTIES

CR: 3

Estimation procedures for properties of gases and

liquids. Critical properties PVT, heat capacities.

Thermodynamic properties, vapor pressure, surface

tension, viscosities, thermal conductivities and

diffusion coefficients. Application to industrial

problems.

0640-575: FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIUM

CR: 3

Essence of the problem. Thermodynamics of phase

equilibrium. Fugacity calculation of

thermodynamic properties of fluids using equation

of state. Intermolecular forces and theory of

corresponding states. Property changes on mixing

phase rule. Gibbs Duhem equation. Fundamental

equations of, calculation of vapor liquid, liquid-

liquid-solubility stability. Application and impact

of data precision on design.


PETROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

CR: 3


treating topics in mostly not covered in other

courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate

Program Committee.

0640-579: ADVANCED PETROCHEMICAL

ENGINEERING

CR: 3

Selected topics in Petrochemical Engineering.

Production of alcohols, ethers, aromatics, ethylene,

propylene and glycols. Computer simulation of

one of the above topics.

0640-581: ADVANCED ECONOMIC

ANALYSIS

CR: 3

The project cycle. Financial statements and ration

analysis. Discounted cash flow analysis. Decision

rules for single and multiple alternatives. Inflation



and currency issues. Rate of return and leverage.

Cost/benefit analysis. Cost estimation. Sensitivity

analysis and risk management. Monte Carlo

simulation and decision tree analysis. Market

assessment and forecasting. Supply and demand

analysis. Project and case studies.

0640-582: PROCESS OPTIMIZATION

CR: 3

This course surveys basic computational tools and

theory for solving linear and nonlinear

optimization problems. The value of these tools

will be illustrated on applications including

chemical plant design, process operations and

scheduling, and parameter estimation. A main goal

of the course is to introduce students to the

philosophy underlying optimization and the tools

necessary to implement this philosophy. A large

variety of examples show the wide applicability of

optimization methodology.

0640-583: INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

MANAGEMENT

CR: 3

R&D environment. R&D communication and

virtual teams. Integration of R&D into corporate

strategy. Developing corporate competence area.

Managing competence. Technology acquisition

and transfer. Approaches to developing new

business areas and management of change.

Internal development, licensing, joint ventures,

alliances, venture capital and acquisitions.

0640-584: ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

CR: 3

The concept of technical analysis. Dow theory and

behavioral finance. Cycle theory and applications.

The long wave and technological issues. Business

and market cycles. Elliot wave theory. Fibonacci

numbers and applications. Pattern recognition and

time series identification. Input/output models and

multivariable modelling. Neural networks and

applications. Detrending techniques. Oscillators

and market timing. Statistical analysis applied to

investment management.

0640-590: SPECIAL TOPICS IN PROCESS

SYSTEM ENGINEERING

CR: 3






TECHNO-ECONOMICS

CR: 3





0640-592: SEMINAR

CR: -



0640-593: PROJECT

CR: 3

0640-595: SPECIAL TOPICS IN POLLUTION

ENGINEERING

CR: 3





2000-597 to 599: THESIS

CR: 9



195

MASTER OF SCIENCE

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Petroleum Engineering (College of Engineering and Petroleum) offers a

Master of Science program in Petroleum Engineering. Part-time and full-time students are




examination.







9(9) CORE COURSES (3 credits each)

0650-503 Advanced Reservoir Engineering

0650-504 Advanced Drilling Engineering

0650-556 Advanced Production Engineering

3(3) CORE ELECTIVE COURSES (3 credits each)


0650-505 Transport Phenomena in Petroleum Engineering

0650-506 Mathematical Methods in Petroleum Engineering

9(12) SUBDISCIPLINE COURSES (3 credits each)

I) RESERVOIR ENGINEERING

0650-501 Advanced Petrophysics

0650-507 Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery



196

0650-509 Advanced Enhanced Oil Recovery

0650-521 Numerical Reservoir Simulation

0650-525 Advanced Fluid Flow in Porous Media

0650-539 Advanced Well Testing

0650-557 Advanced Log Evaluation Techniques

0650-560 Thermal Recovery Methods

II) DRILLING ENGINEERING

0650-515 Drilling Fluid Hydraulics

0650-527 Directional and Horizontal Drilling

0650-529 Well Completions and Workovers

0650-565 Advanced Drilling Fluids

III) PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

0650-511 Formation Damage and Well Stimulation

0650-531 Natural Gas Engineering

0650-551 Phase Behavior of Reservoir Fluids

0650-555 Two-phase Flow Modeling in Pipes

0650-558 Advanced Artificial Lift Methods

3(6) FREE ELECTIVE COURSES* (3 credits each)


0650-541 Research Methods and Seminar

0650-543 Gas Condensate

0650-545 Economic Evaluation of Petroleum Reservoirs

0650-547 Characterization of Naturally Fract. Res.

0650-549 Geostatistics

0650-591 Special Topics in Petroleum Engineering

*A maximum of 3 or 6 credit hours for thesis option or non-thesis option successively may

be taken from any graduate program in the Faculty of Engineering and/or the Faculty of

Science subject to the approval of the academic advisor and the pogrom director.

9 COMPULSORY

2000-597 to 599 (Thesis option only)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

0650-501: ADVANCED PETROPHYSICS

CR: 3 PR: 0650-411 Correlation of Physical Properties of Rocks in

Terms of Parameters Obtained from Drilling, Log

Interpretation, Reservoir Engineering.

Fundamental concepts of petrophsics, Flow

through Porous Media, Mechanical, Electrical and

Thermal Properties, and Methods of Petorphysical

Measurements.



0650-503: ADVANCED RESERVOIR

ENGINEERING

CR: 3 This course is intended to explore advanced

concepts in reservoir engineering. It will start

with a brief review of the fundamentals of

reservoir engineering.

0650-504: ADVANCED DRILLING

ENGINEERING

CR: 3 Design of drilling operation, bit selection and

evaluation, mathematical modeling of bit wear and

penetration rate, drilling hydraulics, determination

of formation pore pressure and fracture pressure,

rock mechanics, selection of drill string and

casing, directional drilling, special design

consideration in horizontal wells, and introduction

to underbalanced drilling operation.

0650-505: TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN


CR: 3 PR: 0650-411 Shell Momentum Balance, Equations of Change

for Isothermal Systems and their Applications,

Macroscopic Balance and it Applications,

Macroscopic Balance and its Applications, Shell

Energy Balance, Multivariate and Unsteady

Conduction, Analysis of Heat-Transfer Problems,

Macroscopic Balance for Non-Isothermal Systems,

Diffusion and Shell Mass Balance, Unsteady

Diffusion, Mass Transfer Coefficients, Dispersion

in Flow Through Porous Media, Equations of

Change for Multi-Component Systems,

Macroscopic Balance for Multi-Component

Systems.

0650-506: MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN


CR: 3 Solving Petroleum Engineering models with an

emphasis on advanced solution methods including

Green’s function, series solution, Bessel function

method of characteristics and separation of

variable. Petroleum Engineering application of

scalar, vector and tensor variables and matrices.

0650-507: INTRODUCTION TO ENHANCED

OIL RECOVERY

CR: 3 PR: 0650-411

Properties and mathematical description of

enhanced oil recovery processes. Fractional flow

theory as applied to both miscible and immiscible

enhanced oil recovery methods. Dimensionless

Variables, Petrophysics, Relative Permeability,

Phase Behavior, Displacement Efficiency,

Volumetric Efficiency.

0650-509: ADVANCED ENHANCED

OIL RECOVERY

CR: 3 PR: 0650-507

Theory and applications of enhanced oil recovery

processes: Chemical Flooding; Polymer Flooding,

Surfactant Flooding, Micellar-Polymer Flooding

(MP), Foam Flooding, Alkaline Flooding, Miscible

Flooding,

0650-511: FORMATION DAMAGE AND

WELL STIMULATION

CR: 3 PR: 0650-501

Diagnosis of Formation Damage, Rate Decline

Analysis, Types of Formation Damage, Water

Injection Problems, Stimulation Methods,

Decision and Planning of Stimulation Operations,

Sand Control, Gravel Packing.

0650-515: DRILLING FLUID HYDRAULICS

CR: 3

Fluid Flow Principles, Fluid Models, Measurement

of Fluid Flow Properties Drilling Muds, Mud

Circulation System, The Drill-String, Motor,

Turbine and Bit, The Annulus, Swab and Surge

Pressures, Cutting Transport, Optimization of the

Hydraulics Program.

0650-521: NUMERICAL RESERVOIR

SIMULATION

CR: 3 PR: 0600-504

Steps involved in the development and application

of numerical reservoir simulator models to primary

and secondary recovery processes in reservoir

engineering. Model formulation, General Material

Balances, Single Phase flow, Overall Program

Structure, Finite difference Approximations, finite

Element Approximations, Boundary and Initial

Conditions, Well Model, Anisotropy, Error, Grid

Selection, Stability Analysis, Non-linear Problems,

Multiphase Flow Models, IMPES Solution,

Simultaneous Solution, Stability of Multiphase

Flow FDEs, Reservoir Framework, Relative

Permeability, Transmissibility in Multiphase Flow

Effective Relative Permeability, Capillary-gravity

Equilibrium, Model Initialization, Reservoir

Characterization.

0650-525: ADVANCED FLUID FLOW IN

POROUS MEDIA

CR: 3 PR: 0650-505

Traditional ways to describe flow through porous

media, Classical view of two-phase flow,



Introduction to Network Models, Effective

Medium Theory, Monte-Carlo Simulations, Recent

advances in using Percolation Theory.

0650-527: DIRECTIONAL AND

HORIZONTAL DRILLING

CR: 3

Planning Directional Well Trajectory, Calculating

the Trajectory of a Well, Planning the Kickoff and

Trajectory Change, Directional Drilling

Measurements, Deflection Tools, Principles of

BHA, Deviation Control.

0650-529: WELL COMPLETIONS AND

WORKOVERS

CR: 3

Data Requirements for Completion or Workover

Planning, Selection of the Best Completion,

Formation Damage: Identification, Prevention, and

Treatment Methods, Selection of well completion

and Workover Fluids, Perforation: Selection and

Design, Well System Behavior: Principles and

Testing, Well Inflow System Applications, Well

Outflow System: Tubing Performance, Well

Inflow at outflow Performance, Tubing and

Packer Systems: Types, Selection considerations,

Movement and Forces in Tubing Packer Systems,

Wireline Completions, Squeeze Cementing, Well

Stimulation, Sand Control, workover Planning and

Evaluation.

0650-531: NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING

CR: 3 PR: 0650-411

Types of Reservoir Fluids, Composition and

physical Properties, Phase Behavior, Equations of

State, Lash & differential Calculation, Gas

Reserve Estimate, Gas, Flow in Porous Media, Gas

Well Testing, Hydrate, Types, Formation,

Prediction and Preventions, Gas Flow in Pipes,

Estimation of Bottom Hole Pressure, Unloading

Gas Wells, Gas Composition, Analyzing

Performance of Gas Wells, Underground Storage

of Natural Gas.

0650-539: ADVANCED WELL TESTING

CR: 3 PR: 0650-411

Well Test Analysis, Naturally Fractured

Reservoirs, Use of transient Tests to Determine

Fractured Systems, Transient Rate Analysis &

Constant Pressure Production, Computer - Aided

Interpretation.

0650-541: RESEARCH METHODS AND

SEMINAR

CR: 3 Research methods, type of modeling, design,

theoretical, computational and interpretive issues

in applied research studies. Research components

and sequence. Typical research (and data

analysis) designs, rationale for use, computational

and/or computing procedures, interpretation and

validation of results and reporting. Attending

technical industrial seminar is part of the course.

Students will write and present their research

proposal at the end of the semester.

0650-543: GAS CONDENSATE

CR: 3 This course in designed to help Petroleum

Engineers involved in evaluation, reservoir

management and production planning to

understand behavior, recovery mechanisms, and

well productivity of gas condensate reservoir.

0650-545: ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS

CR: 3

Review of Principles of Economics, Cash Flow

analysis, Oil and Gas Reserve Estimates, Decline

Curve Analysis, profitability Criteria for

Investment in Petroleum Industry, Project

Analysis, in Terms of the Interrelation of

Technical And Economic Factors, Investment

Analysis in The Presence of Uncertainty and

Project Planning, Reservoir Unitizantion.

0650-547: CHARACTERIZATION

OF NATURALLY FRACTURED

RESERVOIRS CR: 3

Origin of Fracture, Classification of Fractures,

Petrophysical Properties of fractured Reservoirs,

Well Testing in fractured Reservoirs, Well Testing

in Fractured Reservoirs, Well Test Equations,

Detection and Identification of Fractured

Reservoirs, Reservoir, Processes. Modeling

Fractured Reservoirs.

0650-549: GEOSTATICS

CR: 3

The course is designed to provide students with a

firm foundation in Geostatistics. The participants

will be familiar with traditional and novel

geostatistical tools for mapping petrographic

properties. The first part of the course will focus

on Data Analysis, Development and Modeling of

Variograms. The second part of the course will



emphasize on various techniques for modeling

geological media such as Kriging, Sequential

Indicator Simulation, and Simulated Annealing.

0650-551: PHASE BEHAVIOR OF RESERVOIR

FLUIDS

CR: 3

Phase behavior of petroleum reservoir fluids plays

an important role in most oil recovery calculations.

Thus defining each type of reservoir fluids and

understanding their behavior is a vital step towards

description and modeling of reservoir performance

and future recovery processes. The use of

laboratory data and empirical corelations to obtain

PVT will be discussed. Characterization of the

reservoir fluids as well as predicting their physical

properties with EOS's will be performed.

Exercise of tuning and danger of tuning of the

EOS's parameters are covered. Methods of

lumping and splitting of the reservoir fluids for

EOS simulation will be presented.

0650-555: TWO-PHASE FLOW MODELING IN

PIPES

CR: 3

Theoretical treatment of two-phase flow.

Introduction to two-phase flow phenomenon.

Recent modeling approaches and a review of the

early models. Flow pattern transition prediction

and flow pattern modeling for vertical, horizontal

and inclined pipes. Unified models.

0650-556: ADVANCED PRODUCTION

ENGINEERING

CR: 3

Advanced study of the total system associated with

production and transportation of oil and gas.

NODAL TM system analysis. Steady state

multiphase flow through pipes and restrictions.

Comprehensive mechanistic models for multiphase

flow in wellbores and pipelines. Two phase flow

design.

0650-557: ADVANCED LOG EVALUATION

TECHNIQUES

CR: 3

Log Evaluation In Shaly Sandstones, Log

Evaluation In Carbonate Reservoirs.

0650-558: ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL LIFT

METHODS

CR: 3 PR: 0650-411 This course provides a thorough overview of the

artificial lift methods. Theory, application, and

design of the most important artificial lift methods,

including gas lift, beam pumping, and electrical

submersible pumping.

0650-560: THERMAL RECOVERY METHODS

CR: 3

This course provides students with the thermal

recovery concepts. It teaches students the Heavy

oil recovery by thermal techniques. The course

delivers advanced and detailed information on the

subject.

0650-565: ADVANCED DRILLING FLUIDS

CR: 3

This course is designed to provide a fundamental

background of drilling fluids design and functions.

The student will be familiar with the different

kinds of drilling fluids used in drilling operations.

The proper selection of drilling fluid will be

explained. The advantaged and disadvantages

each drilling fluid type will be discussed. The

student will be exposed to drilling fluid hysical

and chemical properties and how they affect the

drilled rock.



CR: 3





0650-592: SEMINAR

CR: -



0650-593: PROJECT

CR: 3

2000-597 to 599: THESIS

CR: 9



200

MASTER OF SCIENCE

SYSTEMS AND PROCESS CONTROL

INTRODUCTION

The College of Petroleum Engineering offers a Master of Science program in Systems and

Process Control. Full-time and Part-time students are admitted to this program. The program

is intended to fulfill the needs of the public and private process industries for engineers, who

are professional in dynamic modeling, simulation and control of systems and process. The

multidisciplinary nature of the program motivates research and development activities in

process control applications, and meets the technological and operational needs of process

industries in Kuwait and the Gulf region.



examination.







6(6) GENERAL CORE COURSES (3 credits each)






0600-508 Random Variables and Stochastic Process

12(15) CORE ELECTIVE COURSES (3 credits each)

0670-510 Linear Control Theory

0670-515 Modeling Dynamic Systems

0670-520 Optimal Control Theory



201

0670-525 Nonlinear System Control

0670-530 System Identification & Stochastic Control Theory

0670-533 Statistical Process Control

0670-535 Control Instrumentation

0670-540 Computer Controlled Systems

0670-545 Large Scale Systems

0670-550 Adaptive Control

0670-555 Special Topics in Control Engineering

6(9) FREE ELECTIVE COURSES (3 credits each)

Two courses for (thesis option), and three courses for (non thesis option) (3 credits each)

should be selected from any graduate program in the College of Engineering and Petroleum,

with the approval of the advisor and program director.

9 COMPULSORY

2000-597 to 599 Thesis (Thesis option only)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

0670-510: LINEAR CONTROL THEORY

CR: 3 Basic methods of modern control system theory.

Time domain vs. frequency domain analysis. State

space representation of linear continuous systems,

features extracted from time domain representation,

the concepts of stability, controllability,

stabilizability, observability and detectability of

linear systems. State space representation and

features of discrete time linear systems. Pole

assignments technique and Lunberger observer for

continuous time linear systems, separation

principle.

0670-515: MODELING DYNAMIC SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 0670-510 A unified approach to the modeling, analysis and

simulation of energetic dynamic systems.

Introduction to multi-domain systems. System

dynamic response in time and frequency domains.

Introduction to model reduction. Applications to

various dynamic systems such as mechanical,

thermal, fluid, electrical, electronic, chemical,

electromechanical systems, emphasis on modelling

and simulation of hybrid systems using modern

computer-aided tools.

0670-520: OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY

CR: 3 PR: 0600-507, 0670-510

Introduction to nonlinear programming for static

optimization, solution of static optimization

problems without constrains, with equality

constrains and with inequality constrains. The

dynamic optimization problem, calculus of

variation, maximum principle, dynamic

programming. Optimal linear regulation problem

and its properties, extension to servo-mechanism

problem.

0670-525: NONLINEAR SYSTEM CONTROL

CR: 3 PR: 0670-510 Characteristics of nonlinear system models, phase

plane analysis, describing function approach.

Stability of nonlinear systems, first and second

theory of Lyapunov, second method of Lyapunov.

Frequency domain stability criteria. Linearization

and its properties. Introduction to operate theory

and its applications to the study of nonlinearities.

0670-530: SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION &

STOCHASTIC CONTROL THEORY

CR: 3 PR: 0670-510 Introduction to Gaussian random variables,

conditional expectation and covariance matrices.



State estimation and observation of discrete

linear systems using Kalman filter. Systems

identification of linear dynamic systems, problem

formulation, least squares techniques and its

application to the transfer function and state space

description of linear discrete time systems,

recursive least square techniques, maximum

likelihood estimator, experimental method.

Optimal control of linear quadratic Gaussian

regulator problem.

0670-533: STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL

CR: 3 PR: 0600-503, 0670-510

Modeling of Process Quality. Inferences about

Process Quality. Methods and Philosophy of

Statistical Process Control. Control charts.

Shewart, CUSUM and EWMA charts. Process

capability analysis. Process Improvements with

Designed Experiments. Acceptance sampling.

Relation of SPC to Conventional Process Control.

0670-535: CONTROL INSTRUMENTATION

CR: 3 PR: 0670-510

Control instrumentation concepts, devices, and

systems. Sensing and signal conversion and

conditioning. Actuators and transmitters. Control

valves characteristics and sizing. Controller types

and tuning. Digital systems. Smart sensors and

transmitters.

0670-540: COMPUTER CONTROLLED

SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 0600-507, 0670-510

Hardware and software aspects of computer based

control systems. Discretization techniques in

frequency and time domain. Digital controller

design techniques. Optimal control. Adaptive and

self tuning controllers.

0670-545: LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS

CR: 3 PR: 0670-510

Concept of decomposition-coordination techniques.

Decomposition-coordination of large scale static

optimization problems, goal coordination

technique, model coordination and mixed method.

Optimization and control of large scale linear

quadratic problems, goal coordination method,

interaction-prediction approach, Tamura’s

algorithms, hierarchical optimal controller, the

concept of decentralized control. Optimization and

control of nonlinear systems. Introduction to model

simplification, aggregation technique. Introduction

to time scale modeling and singular perturbation.

0670-550: ADAPTIVE CONTROL

CR: 3 PR: 0600-507, 0670-510

Observer design, separation principle, elements of

estimation theory, least square estimation, extended

least square method, model follower technique, self

tuning, introduction to neural network for systems

modeling.

0670-555: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CONTROL

ENGINEERING

CR: 3 PR: 0670-510





0670-592: SEMINAR

CR: -



0670-593: PROJECT

CR: 3

2000-597 to 599: THESIS

CR: 9

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