University Selective Courses

1.Environmental and Public Safety              

The concept of the environment, its laws and relation to other sciences, primary and secondary components, cycle of elements in the natural environment, environmental problems, pollution of the environment, the problem of the depletion of environmental resources, principles of public health and diseases: the concept of public health, pathogens, viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, insects. The environment and pathology: organic, genetic, reproductive and psychological pathology. Nutrition and public health: types of food, malnutrition diseases, undesirable eating habits. The environment and public health from an Islamic perspective: Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet.

2.Transportation Engineering        

Introduction to transport and transportation engineering; types passenger and freight transportation; transportation systems and elements) highway, railway, airport and harbours); design criteria for transportation systems; traffic flow theory and queuing theory; introduction to capacity analysis and quality of service; logistic in transportation; transportation environmental impact; introduction to transportation planning.

3.Environmental and Sanitary Engineering              

Definitions of the environmental engineering concepts; Pollution sources and types; Pollution prevention; Air pollution, sources and causes; Principles of water chemistry and Microbiology; Design of water distribution systems; Drinking water treatment; Wastewater characteristics and treatment. Contemporary issues.

4.Treatment of Liquid and Solid Wastes    

Wastewater conveyance systems; Design of sewers; Wastewater management; Advanced wastewater treatment and reuse; Sources, types, and composition of solid wastes; sanitary landfills; landfill techniques for domestic, industrial, and hazardous wastes; landfill rehabilitation. Contemporary issues.

5.Public Transportation Engineering           

Role of public transportation; urban public passenger modes; transport network types; methods of estimating public transportation demand; public transport facility capacity and quality of service; network and route planning and design; terminal design.

6.Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation        

Introduction to pavement maintenance management process; pavement networks definitions and classifications; pavement distress evaluation and rating procedure; Pavement testing types (destructive and non-destructive tests); pavement condition forecasting; overview of maintenance and rehabilitation techniques; network level management; project level management; computer applications in pavement maintenance and rehabilitation.

7.Water Resources             Hydrologic and hydraulic design concepts for water resources systems;

Functions and design of hydraulic structures; Storm water systems design; Groundwater occurrences and Darcy's law; Equations of groundwater flow; Well hydraulics; Flow in confined and unconfined aquifers; Engineering economy concepts in planning and management of water resources systems; Computer applications in water resources; Contemporary issues.

8. Irrigation, Drainage, and Dam Engineering           

Sources of irrigation water; Long term storage; Design of dams and reservoirs; Design of irrigation structures and drainage canals; Design of culverts and measurement structures; Contemporary issues

Faculty of Engineering - Electronics & Communications Engineering

9.Power & Power Electronics Lab.               

This course teaches how to work with high voltage power elements and power electronics components.

10. Design of Lighting and Electrical Installations       

Residential and Commercial building wiring: blueprint reading, branch circuit and feeder installations, service entrance installations; Lighting: Illumination basic concepts, parameters and units, types and characteristics of lamps and luminaries, Indoor lighting design and public road lighting design; Low-voltage installations with TT earthling system of panels and boards; Single line diagram electrical safety; Special electrical installations: Fire alarm systems, Closed-Circuit Television.

11. Design of Lighting and Electrical Installations Lab               

Identify structural equipment; Training on domestic and industrial installations; Fault detection; safety systems and electrical protection installations; phone system for the entrances of buildings combinations; Fire alarm systems; Closed-Circuit Television; Lighting design and evaluation of lighting devices combinations.

12.Renewable Energy Systems