University Program Information

The Islamic University of Madinah offers a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. The program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in electrical engineering, including the fundamentals of electrical engineering, skills, tools, and design practices.

Program Description

The Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering is a 5-year program that consists of 15 levels, with each level lasting 13 weeks. The program requires students to complete 220 credit hours, including coursework, laboratory work, and a senior design project.

Program Objectives

The program objectives are to:

1. Successfully integrate the fundamentals of electrical engineering, skills, tools, and design practices to develop innovative solutions to complex technological problems within a context of economical, societal, ethical, and environmental constraints.
2. Advance their careers as measured by leadership, communication skills, ability to work with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, promotions, salaries, career satisfaction, awards, recognitions, entrepreneurial activities, development of products or processes, patents, and/or publications.
3. Participate in life-long learning to acquire new expertise, as measured by postgraduate education, continuing education, and/or licensure, registration with professional societies.
4. Contribute to the society, profession, and economic development of the local and global community/industry as measured by professional/community service, applied and basic research, recognition in their chosen fields for leadership, integrity, and sensitivity to global societal issues within the context of Islamic values.

Program Requirements

To graduate, students must satisfy the following requirements:

1. Complete 220 credit hours.
2. Successfully complete the Senior Design Project courses.
3. Successfully complete the Summer Training course.
4. Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 out of 5.00.
5. Complete 60% or more of the coursework/credit hours at the Islamic University.

Course Plan

The 5-year Bachelor's degree plan consists of the following courses:

• First Year: University Skills, Computing and Information Technology, Algebra & Geometry, English Language 1, Calculus 1, General Chemistry 1, and other courses.
• Second Year: English Language 2, General Physics 1, General Statistics, Entrepreneurship, Calculus 2, and other courses.
• Third Year: Advanced English Language, Linear Algebra, Calculus 3, Introduction to Programming, Engineering Graphics, and other courses.
• Fourth Year: Technical English and Report Writing, Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis 1, General Physics 2, Creativity in Engineering Design, and other courses.
• Fifth Year: Renewable Energy Systems, EE Elective 1, Senior Design Project 1, EE Elective 2, Controls Theory, and other courses.

Electives

The program offers various electives in electrical engineering, including:

• Introduction to Optical Fiber Communications
• Digital Communications
• Wireless and Mobile Communications
• Communication Electronics
• Data Communications
• Digital Control Theory
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Power Converters
• Electrical Machines II
• Electrical Machines and Drives
• Power Electronics
• Power Systems Operation and Control
• Digital Signal Processing
• Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

Key to Course Code Numbers and Department Codes

Each course is referred to by an alphabetical code and a three-digit number, where:

• The thousands digit refers to the degree plan (3 for Bachelor's Program and 5 for Master's Program).
• The hundreds digit refers to the academic semester level.
• The tens digit refers to the specialty group within the department.
• The ones digit refers to the course serial within the same specialty.

Department Codes

The Electrical Engineering Department is referred to by the code "EE". The tens digit in the course code number refers to the specialty group within the department, as follows:

• 0: General Electrical Engineering
• 1: Electronics
• 2: Communications
• 3: Instrumentation and Controls
• 4: Electrical Machines and Drives
• 5: Electrical Power Systems
• 6: Computer Systems
• 7: Digital Signal and Image Processing
• 8: Electromagnetics
• 9: Summer Training, Co-op, Special Topics, and Senior Design Projects