| Section | Instructor | Project Title​ | Project
Description |
| 1 | Dr.
Maan Abdulgader Kousa
| Self Programming Robots​ ​ | Description: In this project, we let a robot program itself by training it for the task. The robot will be driven manually in a certain path or shape. The robot should be able to memorize and store the pattern of motions and actions during the journey, in order to reproduce it, or some modifies version of it, immediately after the training. The project will be demonstrated letting the robot trace a small-scale 2-D shape, and reproduce it at a large scale. The project has several useful applications. ​No specific pre-requisites (assuming senior standing only). |
| 2 | Dr. Husain
AL-Zaher | Wirless Helth Monitoringg Devices​ | This
project is in collaboration with KAUST. It involves several faculty members
from KFUPM and KAUST. It is in progress that will finish in two more
years.
The project idea is to design and implement a wearable monitor that senses
several vitals of the user and communicates these measurements to the user’s
mobile phone. The project will be implemented in incremental steps so that
always there is a success. Integration
of these developments will lead to the complete system.
Prerequisites: EE203 and the desire to design, implement and test
sophisticated flexible electronic circuits. |
| 3 | Dr. Abdallah
Al-Ahmari | Design
and Implementation of a Wireless Security Camera System | In
this project the students will design and implement a wireless security
camera system to monitor a certain location and send the images and/or video
to a specified homepage in the internet through a WiFi. The stored images
and/or videos could be used anytime for security purposes.
The prerequisite is good programming skills of microcontrollers and
electronics.
|
| 4 | Dr. Suhail Al-Dharrab | Analysis
and Design of Wireless Seismic Acquisition System | Seismic
surveys are essential in oil and gas explorations, where a source generates
elastic waves that travel deep underground and geophones (sensors) detect
their reflections at the surface. After proper processing, we will eventually
have an image of subsurface layers. Although current practices in seismic
land acquisition rely on cables with high-cost in deployment and maintenance
to transmit data, there is a tendency in the industry to have a real-time
wireless communication between the geophones to send the gathered seismic
data. In this project, students will analyze and design a small-scale
hardware testbed for real-time wireless transmission of seismic data between
nodes (geophones). They will investigate the path loss in outdoor
environment, estimate the path loss exponent for various scenarios, and come
up with a model based on their measurements. They will evaluate the energy
consumption in their prototype. They will investigate, in addition to the
required resources, the performance in terms of error rate and throughput
corroborating their hardware system with numerical simulations for a
large-scale sensor network. Pre-requisite: EE 370, Desirable: C/C++ language,
EE 315 |
| 5 | Dr. Mohamad Abido | Solar
Heliostat Dual Axes Tracking System | Nowadays,
most of research efforts focus on the renewable energy resources as potential
alternatives to fossil fuel to reduce the CO2 emissions and to obtain clean
environment. One of the most important energy sources on earth is the sun. A
huge amount of solar energy is received to earth every day.
One important renewable energy system is solar power tower (SPT) and
referred to as Heliostat. This technology used to concentrate sun beans at a
point of a solar collector. An accurate drive system for solar tracking is
required in this technology.
The "Solar Heliostat Dual Axes Tracking System" project aims to
develop the aforementioned prototype suitable for the environmental
conditions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The following steps will be
carried out.
For dual axes solar tracking group:
1. Design and implement a dual axis structure for solar tracking
system.
2. Design and implement DC chopper converter for actuators motion
control.
3. Design and implement a solar tracking technique.
4. Design a solar tracking controller based Microcontroller.
5. Test and evaluate the performance of the designed system |
| 6 | Dr. Hussain
Al-Duwaish | Identification
and Control of a DC Motor | In
this project, students will learn how to identify the transfer function of a
DC motor from step response data. Also, students will design a controller and
simulate the performance the closed loop system for different loading
conditions. Finally, the students will implement the designed controller on a
real DC motor. Prerequiste is EE 380 |
| 7 | Dr. Abdelmalek
Zidouri | Design
and Implementation of an inheritance distribution Device | Design
and Implementation of an Islamic inheritance distribution Device. This will
calculate the different shares from a given entered amount of wealth and
information about a given person or family. Implementation of a user friendly
interface that accepts information needed either in one go or interactively.
Eventual implementation as an App for Android or Apple store.
|
| 8 | Dr. Azzedine Zerguine | Create
a Bluetooth App and control the Arduino | You
will learn how to create an Android app in App-Inventor. Using a Bluetooth
client you will connect to a Bluetooth module of the Arduino. By sending data
you could control all the Arduino's outputs. Use this app to control robots,
things around your house, lights, etc.
Prerequisite is EE406 or
equivalent |
| 9 | Dr. Ali Muqaiebl | Design
of a Wireless Heliostat System | Harvesting
the sun's energy through solar thermal power concentration is an attractive
alternative provided by heliostat systems. However, installation and
maintenance of cabling for communication and control of a heliostat is
costly. In this project, a wireless network system is to be designed and
implemented. The system is able to communicate the tracking information and
cooperatively focus the sunlight onto a target plane using wireless
communication for signaling.
Prerequisite include EE370 , EE390 (At least some students) |
| 10 | Dr.Husain Masoudi | Design
of Non-Contact Infrared (IR) Temperature Measurement Device | The
aim of this project is to design and implement an efficient Non-Contact
Infrared (IR) Temperature Measurement Device. It is well known that
temperature is the most commonly measured physical quantity after time.
Accurate temperature measurement is one of the most important parameter in
many applications ranging from industrial manufacturing, health, maintenance
and monitoring purposes. The aim of this project is design detail device
level system that enables to measure and display surface temperature of
objects from reasonable distances within industrial accuracy level. The
system should be compact, easy to use and packaged using engineering standard |
| 11 | Dr. Mudassir Masood | Implementation
of Physical Layer Technique for Secure Wireless Communication | Due
to their broadcast nature, wireless systems are prone to eavesdropping
attacks. Cryptographic mechanisms, implemented in the upper layers of the
network protocol stack are unable to secure critical information in the form
of packet headers. Recently, physical layer-based security has gained
popularity. Physical layer security is an information theoretic approach that
utilizes the randomness in the attributes of wireless physical layer to
implement confidentiality. In this project, we aim to perform secure
communication between a transmitter (Tx) and a receiver (Rx) in the presence
of an eavesdropper (Ex). We would design artificial noise (to be generated by
Tx) based on the knowledge of channels between Tx-Rx and Tx-Ex. This
artificial noise will degrade the Tx-Ex channel and will not affect the Tx-Rx
channel thus allowing Tx and Rx to communicate securely in the presence of an
Ex. The students are expected to simulate this physical layer security system
using MATLAB or any other platform of their choice. If time permits, a
hardware implementation of this system could also be realized using
SDRs.Prerequisites are EE-207, EE-370, EE-417/EE-419. |
| 12 | Dr. Ali Arshad Nasir | Receiver
Diversity in Wireless Communication Systems | In
wireless communication, the use of multiple antennas at the receiver can
offer improvement in the received signal quality, known as diversity gain.
This is due to the independent channel (independent fading) associated with
different receive antennas. It requires to combine the signals received at
different receive antennas. There are different combining techniques; i)
maximum-ratio combining, ii) selection combining, iii) equal gain combining,
etc. In this project, will be design and implement these receiver diversity
techniques using USRP. Prerequisites are EE-370 (must), EE-419 (would be a
good plus) |
| 13 | Dr. Salim Ibrir | Design
of a control system for laser beam stabilization | Design
of accurate and high precision control system to stabilize the laser beam in
a small detection area. Prerequisitesn is Real-time systems, control,
Matlab/Simulink programming, electronics
|
| 14 | Dr. Mohammed Zahed
Khan | Bi-directional
Underwater Audio Communication | The
project will involve designing transreceiver circuits to send and receive
modulated audio signals employing two different wavelength light as carriers.
The system will consist of a two transreceiver circuits with water as a
communication channel between them.
The prequsite areEE 207, EE 203, and knowledge of LEDs and Lasers |
| 15 | Dr. Khurram Qureshi | Design
of a smart shopping cart | In
today fast-paced world, smart products are being developed that would ensure
convenience for the people. One of the convenience would be providing people
with comfortable shopping experience in the super markets. In this project,
students will design a smart shopping cart (SSC) that would provide customers
with efficient user interface so that the shopping experience can be
effectively promoted. Prerequisite is Microcontroller programming |
| 16 | Dr. Sharif Iqbal
Sheikh | Detection
and Removal of Black Powder from Petroleum Carrying Pipelines | Detection
and Removal of Black Powder from Petroleum Carrying Pipelines
Prerequisites are EE 340 or EE405 or EE407 |
| 17 | Dr. Ibrahim
Habiballah | Design
of Friendly-Interface Learning-Media for Power Transformers | This
project is meant to design friendly-interfaced program that can help
understanding the analysis of power transformers. This will include the
equivalent circuits, phasor-diagrams and the performance (voltage regulation
and efficiency) of transformers under different loading conditions and types.
Different exercises and solved problems will be designed in a
friendly-interfaced learning-media to help better understanding the function
of transformers, and how they behave under different operating conditions.
Prerequisite is EE360 |
| 18 | Dr. Mohamed Mohandes | Wearable
Electronic for pilgrims services | The
project is supervised also by Dr H. Alzaher, Dr Alaa Hussain, and Dr
Jhonathan Rojas and in collaboration with KAUST in . It involves the
development of sensors to measure vital signs of the user and detect any
abnormalities. Prerequistes are EE203
and EE390 |
