King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

    ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
 
 

Master of Science in Telecommunication Engineering

 
 

The Master of Science in Telecommunication Engineering is a unique graduate program designed to prepare highly trained professionals to practice in the fast-changing telecommunications industry.

The program is open to students holding a BS degree in EE, COE or equivalent. Students enrolled in this program are required to complete 24 credit hours of courses (eight 3-credit hour courses), plus a 6 credit hour of thesis, in excess of any remedial courses to rectify possible deficiency in a student undergraduate education. The eight courses include four required courses, three technical elective courses, and a non-technical elective course. The following list enumerates courses in each of the three categories:

 

 
 

Required Courses

All students are required to take the following four courses:

COURSE TITLE LT LB CR
EE 570 Stochastic Processes 3 0 3
EE 571 Digital Communications I 3 0 3
EE 573 Digital Communication II 3 0 3
EE 674 Telecommunication Networks, or 3 0 3
COE 560 Computer Communication Networks 3 0 3
    12 0 12

 

 
 

Technical Elective Courses

Each student must take three courses from the following list, which contains courses from the EE, COE and ICS Departments.  Courses not in the list are subject to the approval of the Graduate Program Committee.

EE Courses:

COURSE TITLE LT LB CR
EE 574 Detection and Estimation 3 0 3
EE 575 Information Theory 3 0 3
EE 576 Error Control Coding 3 0 3
EE 577 Wireless and Personal Communications 3 0 3
EE 672 Satellite Communications 3 0 3
EE 633 Optical Fiber Communication 3 0 3
EE 532 Antenna Theory and Applications 3 0 3
EE 563 Speech and Audio Processing 3 0 3
EE 578 Simulation of Communication Systems 3 0 3
EE 663 Image Processing 3 0 3
EE 679 Special Topics in Communications     3 0 3

COE and ICS Courses:

COURSE TITLE LT LB CR
COE 563 Design and Analysis of Local Area Networks 3 0 3
COE 590 Network Security (offered under special topics) 3 0 3
COE 591 Communication Protocol Engineering 3 0 3
ICS 555 Data Security and Encryption 3 0 3
ICS 583 Pattern Recognition 3 0 3

                         

 
 

Non Technical Elective

Each student must take one non-technical course from a set of courses related to the management of the telecommunication systems. The list of non-technical courses include:

COURSE TITLE LT LB CR
MIS 511 International Telecommunications Management 3 0 3
MIS 513 Information Systems and Telecommunications Strategies 3 0 3
MIS 502 Management Information Systems 3 0 3
MIS 510 Information Resource Management 3 0 3

                       

 
 

Thesis Advisor and Thesis Topic

A  thesis  is  required of  all candidates  for the Master of Science (M.S.). The graduate student must contact faculty members in his major field for  a  thesis  topic  as early as possible.  He  must select  a  thesis  topic and  a  thesis advisor  before completing his course  work.  A  thesis  committee shall  be  formed  in  consultation  with  the  thesis  advisor and approved by the Department Chairman and the  Dean  of Graduate Studies.

The  thesis  topic  must  be  in  the  major  field  of  the  student,  and must be formally  approved by the  thesis  advisor,  the  thesis committee,  the Department chairman and the Dean of Graduate Studies.

 

 
 

Thesis

Upon completion of the research, the written report  must   be   prepared  and approved.  The  thesis  must  be  written  in  conformity  with the general publication regulations of the University.

Completed copies of the thesis must  be  submitted  to  the  thesis  advisor,  the thesis committee,  and the  department not less than two weeks prior to the date of the thesis defense.

The thesis defense must be scheduled not less than two weeks  before  the Graduation Convocation.  Four copies  of  the  thesis  incorporating  any necessary corrections and approved by the thesis committee,  and  the  department  chairman, must be submitted to  the  College  of  Graduate  Studies not  less than  ten  days  before  the  Graduation Convocation. An additional copy must be submitted to the Department.

 

 
 

Oral Defence

 

An  oral examination to defend the M.S. degree thesis is required of all candidates for a M.S. degree.  The student shall, in consultation with his thesis committee and after the approval of the College of Graduate Studies, arrange the time and place of defending his thesis publicly.

 

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