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F05

S06

F06

S07

F07

S08

F08

S09

F09

Faculty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Traveling US-Based Faculty (T)

1

1

1

1

1

-

1

-

1

MENA-Based Faculty (M)

1

2

3

3

4

4

4

4

4

Adjuncts on Sabbatical in US

3

2

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Courses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F2F US-Based Faculty (T)

2

2

4

2

2

-

2

-

2

F2F MENA-Based Faculty (M)

2

4

3

4

6

8

8

8

8

Videoconference courses (V,VS)

2

2

3

4

4

4

2

4

2

Total Courses

6

8

10

10

12

12

12

12

12

F2F = Face-to-face faculty-in-class lectures
 Video Conference courses = Courses taught at VT in USA and transmitted via the internet to MENA

 
 

 
Tentative MENA Course Offerings    
 

Link to ECE Dept Courses

 
   

Link to CS Dept Courses

 

F 05

S 06

F 06

S 07

F 07

S 08

 

3

3

3

4

Communication Engineering

 

 

 

 

Every Year

T

 

T

ECE 5605: Stochastic Signals & Systems I 

 

M

 

M?

ECE 5654: Digital Communications.

 

 

 

 

Communications - Rotate

 

M

 

 

ECE 5604: CAD of Communication Systems

 

 

 

 

ECE 5614: Fiber Optic Communications

M

ECE 5620: Adv Digital Signal Proc & Filter Design

V

ECE 5655: Communication System Design

 

 

M

 

ECE 5660: Spread Spectrum Communications

 

V

 

 

ECE 5664: Cellular Radio Communications

VS

ECE 5674: Software Radios

 

 

 

 

ECE 5984: Digital Communications II 

 

 

 

 

ECE 4644: Satellite Communications 

 

 

 

T

ECE 6604 or 6624: Advanced Topics in Comm

 

 

    Other (Electronics and Electromagnetics)

 

 

   

ECE 4104: RF & Microwave Engineering

 

 

 

 

   

ECE 4605: Radio Engineering I 

 

 

V

 

    ECE 5105: Electromagnetic waves I

 

 

 

V?

    ECE 5106: Electromagnetic waves II

 

 

 

V?

    ECE 6115: Antenna Theory & Design I

 

 

 

 

    ECE 6116: Antenna Theory & Design II

 

 

         

 

 

         

VS

VS

ECE 5944: Graduate Seminar

3

5

7

6

Computers Engineering & Computer Science

 

 

 

Every Year

 

M

 

M? 

CS/ECE 5504: Computer Architecture 

T

T

 

CS/ECE 5565: Network Architecture & Protocols I 

 

 

 

 

Computers - Rotate

VS

ECE 5514: Design of Systems on a Chip

 

T

 

 

ECE 5524: Pattern Recognition

 

 

 

 

ECE 5544: Coding Theory 

 

 

V?

ECE 5545: Advanced VLSI Design I 

ECE 5546: Advanced VLSI Design II

 

 

T

 

ECE 5560: Computer & Network Security

 

 

M

 

    ECE 5564: Wearable &Ubiquitous Computing

 

 

 

?

    ECE 5566: Network Architecture & Protocols II

 

 

 

M?

   

ECE 5575: Object-Oriented Software Dev. I 

 

 

 

 

    ECE 5576: Object-Oriented Software Dev. II 

 

 

M

 

   

CS 5014: Research Methods in Computer Science

 

 

 

?

   

CS 5114: Theory of Algorithms

V

 

 

 

   

CS 5204: Operating Systems

 

V

 

 

   

CS 5314: Programming Languages

 

T

 

 

   

CS 5554: Computer Vision Systems

 

 

 

?

   

CS 5604: Information Storage and Retrieval

 

 

 

?

   

CS 5614: Database Management Systems

M

 

 

 

   

CS 5704: Software Engineering

 

 

T

 

   

CS 5714: CS5714: Usability Engineering

 

 

T

 

   

CS 5764: CS5764: Information Visualization

 

M

 

 

   

CS 5804: Artificial Intelligence

 

 

 

 ?

   

CS 6604: Data Mining

 

 

 

 

   

CS 4604: Intro. To Database Management Systems 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

     


 T-      Traveling US-Based Faculty

M-     MENA-Based VT-Adjunct Faculty

V-      Video Conference (VTEL) from USA --> Egypt

VS-    Recorded and video streamed later (USA --> Egypt with no live broadcast)

OL-    OnLine USA --> Egypt

 

ECE 5944: Graduate Seminar (stream via video—must send e-mail to the ECE Graduate Counselor to register)