Dr. Ahmad N. AL-Omari

Communication Process: functions, models, noise, climate, and tools. Diversity: Intercultural interdependence and communication, principles of intercultural communication styles. Listening skills: types, listening habits nonverbal behaviors. Interpersonal Relationship: workplace relations, conflict types and styles, conflict strategies and tools. Presentation skills: Workplace presentations, preparation steps, delivery styles, presentation tools. Teamwork skills: Benefits of workplace teams, analyzing effective teams, stages of team development, positive participation skills. Written Communication skills: Role, importance, and tools. Technical and other forms of writing related to employment trends. Professional Ethics and Etiquette, Leadership Skills

Systems Approach: Effect of RLoad and Rsource, Two-Port System, Frequency Response of BJT and FET multistage amplifiers (upper, lower, and bode plot), Compound configurations: devices (Darlington and feedback pairs), Circuits (cascode and cascade amplifiers, differential amplifiers, current mirrors and current sources), Operational Amplifiers: Construction, Operation, Characteristics and Applications (Integrator, differentiator, log, anti-log…etc). Frequency response of amplifiers, Power amplifiers: (class A, class B, class AB and class C amplifiers, distortion in power amplifiers), Power Supplies (Voltage regulators): discrete and IC voltage regulators.

Metal/ semiconductor contacts and the Schottky barriers diodes, tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, microwave transistors (BJT and MOSFET), heterojunctions, introduction to HBT, HEMT and quantum well devices.

Principles of Measurement, Instrument types and characteristics, measurement errors and noise, Signal processing (amplification, attenuation, filtration, linearization…etc.), Variable conversion elements, Smart sensors, Sensor technologies, thermal sensors (RTD, thermistors, thermocouples, bimetal strips, gas thermometer, vapor-pressure thermometers, liquid-expansion thermometers, solid state temperature sensors, design considerations), mechanical sensors (displacement sensors, strain sensors, motion sensors, pressure sensors, flow sensors and their applications), optical sensors (photodetectors, pyrometer, optical sources, and their applications), final control element( operation, industrial electronics, actuators, control), Temperature, Pressure, Flow, Level, Mass/Force, Translation, PH,  and Rotational measurements. Data presentation. Measurement reliability. Design Project.

Theoretical investigation and practical implementation of special projects

What is engineering, introduction of engineering as a profession/career, keys to success in engineering study, hardware, structure, engineering theory, design, analysis and organizations, foundation and system, skill and knowledge, ethics and compliance, engineering process and procedure, problem definition and process design, Investigation, problem solving, Root cause Analysis and communication, engineering project and team presentation, lessons learned, projects success.

Circuit I,
Electronics I,
Electronics II,
Electronic Design and Manufacturing,
Digital Electronics,
Integrated Circuits,
Instrumentation /Specialized measurements,
Electronic Maintenance.

Introduction to project management and quality control, project types and stages, project selection and evaluation, planning, and scheduling. Cost analysis (feasibility, time value of money, present worth, and rate of return) and risk management, methods of quality control and key concepts, standards, codes, and specifications, quality engineering, auditing quality, modern statistical methods for quality control and improvement.