02 

Dr. HUSAIN MASOUDI 

Wireless Power Transmission

The objective of this project is to explore the Wireless Power Transmission technology and then design and implement a Wireless Power Transmission system capable in transmitting a house hold AC 110/220 V power wirelessly to charge an electrical device such as a mobile phone. Engineering design considerations such as efficiency, practicality and cost must be studied by this project.

Requirement: EE 340 B grade

03 

Dr. HUSAIN AL-DAWISH 

Identification and Control of a DC motor

In this project, students will identify the transfer function of a DC motor from step response data. Also, they will be required to design a controller to control the speed of the DC motor. Simulation of the closed loop control system should be also performed.

05 

Dr. MAAN KOUSA 

Laser Height Finder

This project will find the height of the nearby building tree or any elevation.
It consists of a laser pointer fitted to a stepper motor. The motor is moved up or down till the laser is pointing to the top of the building or the item of interest. At this moment the angle information is collected and then using the tangent theta of the angle and multiplying the distance of the building from the laser height pointer, one can get the height of building. The final value is shown as a  digital display of the height in meters or feet.

07 

Dr. M ABIDO 

Design and Implementation of a Frequency Converter for Power Systems Interconnection

Interconnection of power systems with either AC or DC links may offer important technical, economical and environmental advantages. In the future of liberalized power markets, these advantages will become even more important: pooling of large power stations, sharing of spinning reserve, use of most economic energy resources, as well as solar energy, and connection of large wind farms. Examples of large interconnected systems are the GCC interconnection project.
However, the frequency of interconnected systems may be different. Therefore, an interface stage should be designed to interconnect these systems.
In this project, interconnection stage for different frequency systems will be designed and implemented.
The following steps will be carried out.

1. Design AC/DC rectifier.
2. Design DC/AC inverter.
3. Design low pass filter.
4. Design the inverter controller.
5. Examining the performance of the designed inverter.

08 

Dr. SHARIF SHEIKH 

Design of Beam-scanable Corner-reflector-antenna

Investigate the beam shaping/scanning properties of a dipole antenna with corner reflectors.
Design steps will include:
- Design the dipole antenna
- Optimize the antenna radiation and reflection responses using simulator software
- Fabricate the antenna and experimentally verify the beam scanning properties.
Pre-requisite: EE340 and/or EE407.

09 

Dr. BELHAJ CHOKRI 

It will be posted soon

10

Dr. M LANDOLSI

Design and Implementation of a frequency converter for power

Interconnection of power systems with either AC or DC
links may offer important technical, economical and
environmental advantages. In the future of liberalized
power markets, these advantages will become even
more important: pooling of large power stations,
sharing of spinning reserve, use of most economic
energy resources, as well as solar energy, and connection
of large wind farms. Examples of large interconnected
systems are the GCC interconnection project.
However, the frequency of interconnected systems may
be different. Therefore, an interface stage should be
designed to interconnect these systems.
In this project, interconnection stage for different
frequency systems will be designed and implemented.
The following steps will be carried out:
•Design AC/DC rectifier.
•Design DC/AC inverter.
•Design low pass filter.
•Design the inverter controller.
•Examining the performance of the designed inverter.  

11 

Dr. K QURESHI 

Heart Rate Monitor Using a Microcontroller

The heart rate, also referred to as pulse rate, has been recognized as a vital sign since the beginning of medical science, and it is directly related to a person’s cadiovascular health. In this project the students will implement a heart rate monitor system using a microcontroller. An infrared pulse detecting sensor that uses the principle of transmission will be used to sense the pulse signal from a finger tip. The sensor output is read by a microcontroller, which then transfers the data to the PC through a serial interface.

12 

Dr. MESBAH WESSAM 

Machine control over the internet 

In this project we aim at controlling variety of machines, appliances, or utilities from anywhere in the world over the internet. We will use the ARDUINO micro-controller with WiFi shields as an interface between the intenet and the machine. At the same time students are supposed to build a website through which they will control the machine. There is a chance that the machine also feeds back some readings to the computer.  Students need to know or be able to learn ARDUINO micro-controller programming, C or Java programming, HTML.   They should also be interested in building some hardware circuits using basic concepts from Electronics I and II.

13 

Dr. ESSAM HASSAN 

Babies sound detection

This is a device to detect the sound of babies and transmit the signal to a receiver in the hand of the mother( any recipient). It is based on a microphone to pick up the baby sound, followed by an amplifier then an AM modulator followed by a transmitting antenna.  The transmitted signal is received by a similar antenna ,amplified,  demodulated and fed to a loudspeaker which alerts the recipient of the baby sound.

14 

Dr. A. HUSSEIN 

Design and Implementation of a Voltage Source Inverter for Renewable Energy Integration

Due to the worldwide population growth and industrialization the usage of electrical energy is likely to increase. According to recent studies net electricity generation of the world is expected to increase from 24.4 trillion KWh in 2015 to 33.3 trillion KWh in 2030. Energy generated from the fossil fuel cause the environmental pollution. To overcome this problem Renewable Energy Sources can participate in the generation of electrical energy.
However, the output of these renewable energy sources is varying with the environmental conditions such as wind and irradiation. Therefore, an interface stage should be designed to integrate the renewable sources with the electric grid.
In this project, voltage source inverter for renewable energy integration will be designed and implemented.
The following steps will be carried out.

1. Design AC/DC rectifier.
2. Design DC/AC inverter.
3. Design low pass filter.
4. Design the inverter controller.
5. Examining the performance of the designed inverter.

15 

Dr. HASSAN RAGHEB 

Design and Implementation of  reflect array antenna

a-The student will perform analysis for the following:
1- Reflect array surface.
2- Feed antenna.
b-Design:
1- Design of the reflect array surface.
2- Design of the feeding horn.
c-Implementation and test:
1- Implementation of both the reflect array and the feeding horn.
2- The radiation pattern of each antenna will be measured. 

16 

Dr. MAHMOUD KASSAS 

Design Maximum Power Tracking for Solar Panels

These two projects are capable of harvesting maximum power point tracking from the solar panels through the day, week, month, and year.

Project 1 (Sec. 16) will be in charged with the maximum power point tracking, MPPT, (software and hardware).

Project 2 (Sec. 27) will be in charged with building the electrical and environmental monitoring system of the MPPT using Labview (software and hardware).

As soon as projects assigned, both groups should contact Dr. Kassas by email.
Both groups should meet and start searching for equipment and specification and they should inform Dr Kassas immediately by email if the equipment are not available in the EE-store.
These two projects are capable of harvesting maximum power point tracking from the solar panels through the day, week, month, and year.

Project 1 (Sec. 16) will be in charged with the maximum power point tracking, MPPT, (software and hardware).

Project 2 (Sec. 27) will be in charged with building the electrical and environmental monitoring system of the MPPT using Labview (software and hardware).

As soon as projects assigned, both groups should contact Dr. Kassas by email.
Both groups should meet and start searching for equipment and specification and they should inform Dr Kassas immediately by email if the equipment are not available in the EE-store.

27 

17 

Dr. WAJIH ABU-AL-SAUD 

Design and Testing of a LiDAR System for 3D Space Representation

Professional LiDARs scan the target object by transmitting laser pulses and detecting the time it takes the pulse to hit the object and reflect back to determine the distance to different parts of the object. This method is relatively complicated as it requires high precession electronics to detect the time of arrival of the laser pulse. In this project a simple laser diode that is capable of generating a line of laser light is used to illuminate a vertical line of the target region. A simple camera is used to detect the laser line on the target region. The laser source and camera are rotated to scan the target region and capture its 3d information. A Matlab code to control the rotation of the camera/laser assembly, operating the camera, and converting the images captured by the camera into 3d information will have to be written.

Project Pre-Requisites
Every member of the team must have a VERY GOOD knowledge of Matlab. If your knowledge of Matlab is average or below, DO NOT REGISTER THIS PROJECT. You will be tested on using Matlab. If your Matlab level is found to be average or lower, you will be asked to drop the project.

18 

Dr. M A AL-ABSI 

Level measurement system for underground tanks

The project will focus on the design and implementation of an electronic system to sense and display the level of the material in  underground tanks and display the level in LCD screen .

19 

Dr.  S AL-DHARRAB 

FPGA Implementation of INDANE Algorithm

To get familiar with FPGA and simulation tools
Utilize the FPGA to implement an image enhancement system based
on INDANE algorithms.
Hardware and software implementation
Hardware and software Comparison  

20 

Dr. ALI MUQAIBEL 

Wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar

Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar whose defining characteristic is its use of relative motion, between an antenna and its target region, to provide distinctive long-term coherent-signal variations, that are exploited to obtain finer spatial resolution than is possible with conventional beam-scanning means. [Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_aperture_radar]

The project involves controlling a moving antenna and acquire reading. The acquired data will be used to construct an image about the target. This project is using radio frequency and not optical imaging. This is very useful in through the wall imaging.

21 

Dr.Mohammed K. Alghamdi

A fully prototyped Digital Direct Synthesizer (DDS) function generator

In this project, a fully prototyped Digital Direct Synthesizer
(DDS) function generator was designed and built. The aim is
to prove the concept of this product and to conduct a basic
sales analysis to decide if this product is feasible or not.

22 

Dr. AHMED MASOUD 

An optical maze solver

To construct a vision artificial
intelligence that can solve any
maze by connecting a humanspecified start point to an end
point.
• The main components in this system are:
• 1. Data acquisition using webcam and mouse.
• 2. Image processing, using edge detection.
• 3. artificial intelligence using Harmonic Potential Field  

23 

Dr. HASSAN RAGHEB 

Design and Implementation of  reflect array antenna

a-The student will perform analysis for the following:
1- Reflect array surface.
2- Feed antenna.
b-Design:
1- Design of the reflect array surface.
2- Design of the feeding horn.
c-Implementation and test:
1- Implementation of both the reflect array and the feeding horn.
2- The radiation pattern of each antenna will be measured.

24 

Dr. ESSAM HASSAN 

Babies sound detection

This is a device to detect the sound of babies and transmit the signal to a receiver in the hand of the mother( any recipient). It is based on a microphone to pick up the baby sound, followed by an amplifier then an AM modulator followed by a transmitting antenna.  The transmitted signal is received by a similar antenna ,amplified,  demodulated and fed to a loudspeaker which alerts the recipient of the baby sound.

25 

Dr. MA AL-ABSI 

LED drive for lightening application

It is well known, LED lighting is becoming more and more attractive as it will save a huge amount of power consumed in lightening applications. In this project, students will learn about different drives and compare between approaches. Implementation of current output /and or voltage output drive will be carried out.

29 

Dr. MESBAH WESSAM 

Machine control over the internet 

In this project we aim at controlling variety of machines, appliances, or utilities from anywhere in the world over the internet. We will use the ARDUINO micro-controller with WiFi shields as an interface between the intenet and the machine. At the same time students are supposed to build a website through which they will control the machine. There is a chance that the machine also feeds back some readings to the computer.  Students need to know or be able to learn ARDUINO micro-controller programming, C or Java programming, HTML.   They should also be interested in building some hardware circuits using basic concepts from Electronics I and II.