
Electrical Engineering Laboratories
The Electrical Engineering Laboratories are mainly used for undergraduate courses. They include an inventory of state-of-the-art equipment that provides students with the required hands-on experience skills to help fulfill different course objectives. They also serve faculty and students’ research needs.
Electrical Engineering Labs
The Circuits and Electronics Laboratories are located on the third floor of the Engineering Building. This laboratory provides hands-on experience and services to the laboratory courses of
- Fundamental Circuits Lab (EENG 2105)
- Electronic Circuits Analysis I Lab (EENG 3106)
- Digital Circuits Lab (EENG 2110)
- Microprocessors (EENG 3307) (projects)
- Technical Elective Courses (projects)
- Senior Design (EENG 4460)
These labs include the design and implementation of solid-state analog and digital electronic circuits.
The laboratory is equipped with function generators, multifunction oscilloscopes, programmable power supplies, and multimeters, all equipped with GPIB communication and control capabilities. The lab equipment includes:
Description |
Model |
Desktop Computers |
DELL Precision 3430 |
NI ELVIS III software |
SX-SDMAN2 |
Oscilloscopes 100MHz |
MSOX2014A |
Digital Multimeters |
34460A |
Waveform Generators (20 MHz) |
33500B series |
Triple output Programmable DC Power Supplies |
E36311A |
Handheld Multimeters |
Fluke 115 |
The lab includes TI Development boards and Kits –ARM (Tiva Boards) for use in Microprocessors and technical elective courses. These development kits allow students to design using Tiva microcontrollers. The boards can function as either a complete evaluation target or with minor modifications as a debugger interface to any external Tiva C Series device.
Other specialized equipments in the Circuits and Electronics Laboratory includes analog/digital IC testers, breadboards, and a variety of training kits.
The department has recently acquired Keysight U3800 Series IoT training kits along with a system design applied courseware training kits. Each training kit (e.g.; U3800A-FG; Serial Number MY58380172) is constituent with the following major items:
- Sensor tag (U3800-60001)
- PCA, analog and digital temperature sensor along with relay actuator assembly U3800-60012
- ZigBee breakout board assembly (U3800-66507)
- Wire jumper male-to-female 15cm-LG (8150-6363)
- Cable, USB to micro-USB, 1m (5067-4895)
- 1819-0785GM IC flash 8GB microSD w/adapter and protected supply (1819-0785)
- China RoHS addendum for test accessories-RF and microwave (9320-6695)
The laboratory is also equipped with the following instruments:
Handheld Potentiostat/Bipotentiostat (Model 1200C Series): This is a Windows-based electrochemical instrument that has the flexibility to perform the following functions: i) Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), ii) Linear Sweep Voltammetry (LSV), iii) Chronoamperometry (CA), iv) Chronocoulometry (CC), and v) Open Circuit Potential - Time (OCP-t).
Formlab Form 3: Form 3 from Formlab is a high-end Stereolithographic (SLA) printer that uses a laser to zap liquid resin into a solid form. This printer produces functional and high-quality prototypes and end-use parts in record time. This is powered by Low Force Stereolithography which consistently delivers presentation-ready parts with quality surface finish. After printing, it has the flexibility to detach supports in seconds with the enhanced Light Touch Support structures that save post-processing time.
Form Cure (S/N: CinerousMau): The Form Cure provides the light and heat necessary to post-cure 3D printed parts to their optimal properties. The final performance characteristics of cured photopolymer resin may vary according to the compliance with the instructions for use, application, operating conditions, material combined with, end-use, or other factors.
Form Wash (S/N: FuchsiaArowana): Form Wash automates the print washing process for consistent, thorough, no-mess cleaning. Parts can be transferred directly from the printer to Form Wash and either rinsed directly on the build platform or removed and placed in the wash basket.
All computers in the lab have MATLAB/SIMULINK and MULTISIM software packages to support course simulation requirements.
The Electric Power lab is located on the 3rd floor of the engineering building. It includes Lab-Volt modules from Festo Didactic to provide in-depth coverage of basic topics related to the field of electrical energy such as ac and dc power circuits, power transformers, rotating machines, ac power transmission lines, industrial controls, and power electronics. The lab serves the following EE courses:
- Electric Power Systems Lab (EENG 4110)
- Power Electronics (projects in Design Methodologies-EENG 3314)
- Control Systems course (projects)
- Technical Elective Courses (projects)
- Senior Design (EENG 4460)
The modular three-phase workstations use computer-based data acquisition and control through the Four-Quadrant Dynamometer/Power Supply (Model 8960), and the Data Acquisition and Control Interface (Model 9063), two state-of-the-art USB peripherals which greatly enhance the learning experience of students.
The Data Acquisition and Management system (LVDAM-EMS) installed on the workstation computers is specially developed by Lab-Volt to perform electrical measurements and observations in an educational context. This computer-based approach makes it possible to significantly decrease the time required by the students to perform the exercises and to produce laboratory reports. Moreover, this new approach allows students to integrate modern measuring instruments which are not available in the modular system.
The lab includes the following Lab-Volt modular equipment:
Lab-Volt Module Description |
Model Number |
AC Power Network |
8622-00 |
Capacitive Load |
8331-00 |
Data Acquisition and Control Interface |
9063-00 |
DC Motor/ Generator |
8211-00 |
Filtering Inductors/ Capacitors |
8325-A0 |
Four-Pole Squirrel-Cage Induction Motor |
8221-20 |
Four-Quadrant Dynamotor/ Power Supply |
8960-30 |
IGBT Chopper/Inverter |
8837-B0 |
Inductive Load |
8321-00 |
Insulated DC to DC converter |
8835-00 |
Lead-Acid Battery Pack |
8802-10 |
Power Supply |
8821-20 |
Power Thyristors |
8841-20 |
Rectifier and Filtering Capacitors |
8842-A0 |
Regulating Autotransformer |
8349-00 |
Resistive Load |
8311-00 |
Synchronizing Module/ Three-Phase Contactor |
8621-A0 |
Synchronous Motor/ Generator |
8241-20 |
Three-Phase Transformer Bank |
8348-40 |
Three-Phase Transmission Line |
8329-00 |
Three-Phase Wound-Rotor Induction Machine |
8231-B0 |
Three-Phase Filter |
8326-00 |
Transformer |
8353-A0 |
Universal Motor (4 with clear glass covers) |
8254-00 |
In addition, the lab includes the following Keysight equipment
Description |
Model Number |
Oscilloscope 100MHz |
MSOX2014A |
Digital Multimeter |
34460A |
Waveform Generator (20 MHz) |
33500B series |
Triple output Programmable DC Power Supply |
E36311A |
Handheld Multimeter |
Fluke 115 |
All computers in the lab have MATLAB/SIMULINK and MULTISIM software packages to support course simulation requirements.
The 3rd floor of the engineering building has one computer lab. This laboratory is equipped with the latest and up-to-date high performance DELL computers to service the computer programming-related courses and for general use by EE students and faculty.
The lab includes high-level language programming, MATLAB/SIMULINK, Java as well as numerous software packages for student and faculty use.
The Electrical Engineering faculty members are active in their respective research areas and involve undergraduate students in their research activities to help provide them with long-life learning skills.
The research laboratory is located on the first floor of the engineering building and includes the following equipment:
- 5 G testbed equipment
- Rohde & Schwarz (RF Test Equipment) that includes
- FSVA3000 Signal and Spectrum analyzer - 44 GHz
- Arbitrary Waveform Generator with 14-bit resolution,
- HMF2550 Function Generator
- FSVA3000 Signal and Spectrum analyzer, 10 Hz to 44 GHz
- RTO2024 Digital Oscilloscope, 4 channel, 2 GHz, sampling rate 10 Ga/s per channel
- Keysight – Handheld Spectrum Analyzer
- Software-Defined Radios
- NI- Software Defined Radio USRP X310 KIT
- 584-ADALM-PLUTO Handheld software-defined radio
- RF Transmitter/Receiver Testing systems
- TMYTK-Beamformer System Box 31 GHz (4*4)
- Analog devises RF Development Tools, 584-EK1HMC6350 - Transmitter and Receiver for 5 G testbed
- PEM009-KIT - 60 GHz Development System, Transmit / Receive (Tx/Rx)
- Four High-end Laptops
- Four High-end tablets
- Keysight Test equipment (Oscilloscopes, Multimeter, Power supplies with different voltages, Signal Generators)
- DGX Station from Nvidia Four Tesla V-100 blades
- Jackal J100 Robotic Research Platform (Clear Path Robotics) Autonomous System
- Power electronics test bench from OPAL-RT
- Exata for Cyber-physical System and cyber-attack test simulator (from OPAL-RT and Scalable Network Technologies)
- Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) test bench (from Typhoon HIL and dSpace Inc.)