Course Description - Bachelor of Acoustics Engineering

  • 15200106: ُEnglish (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    English 1 is a theoretical, 3-credit hour university requisite, and a general English Course which is designed to serve all BA and BSc Students of (PTUK) in all faculties. This course aims at developing students’ repertoire of the English language main skills as well as sub-skills through providing them with broad varieties of language patterns, grammatical and structural rules, and vocabulary items that can enable them to communicate meaningfully within ordinary and real-life contexts and situations. This course is also oriented towards equipping students with the skills they need to comprehend texts, contexts, and situations that are related to ordinary and real-life topics. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a wide and various aural inputs in order to broaden and deepen their skills in listening, judgment, and critical thinking. Students of this course are expected to acquire and practice the skills they need to maximize their capabilities to express opinions about ordinary and real life topics both orally and in a written format, which will help in widening the students’ academic horizon.


  • 13020003: German Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020007: English language III [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020013: History of Jerusalem [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020029: My Career II [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020030: Individual and Society [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020031: Contemporary Global Issues [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020033: Child Rearing and Family Upbringing [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15010325: Numerical Analysis [3 Credit Hours]

    Numerical errors and their estimation, approximation and interpolation, roots of equations, solution of linear and nonlinear simultaneous equations, differentiation and integration, ordinary and partial differential equations, statistical methods


  • 12160407: Audio Systems [3 Credit Hours]

    "This course will introduce you to a broad range of audio systems including microphones, transmission, digital audio and loudspeakers. You will learn how to make sound effects for a computer game.


  • 12160512: Computer Simulation for Acoustics [3 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces the fundamental principles of computer simulation techniques including: geometric room acoustics, finite element method, and boundary element method using specialized computer simulation software. The student is required to show the ability of practical problem-solving using computer modeling of acoustical systems and assess the field of application, accuracy and limitations of the computer simulation methods.


  • 12160513: Transducers design [3 Credit Hours]

    The course discusses the Loudspeakers and Microphones design principles. The analysis of the design of electro-dynamic and distributed mode loudspeaker systems, including the interaction of the electrical, mechanical and acoustical properties and to determine sensitivity, frequency response and directionality. Also, the course includes the study of two-port networks methods and the method of analogues. Practical issues such as radiation efficiency and non-pistonic vibration will be considered also the analysis of vented, transmission line and band-pass systems


  • 13010006: Computer Skills and Applications [1 Credit Hours]


  • 13020021: History of Science Among the Arabs [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020022: Library and Research Methods [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020025: Agriculture in Palestine [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020028: My Career I [2 Credit Hours]


  • 12210137: Engineering workshop [1 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to provide students with Workshop principles basics, safety measures and precautions. Also it aims to provide students with basic manual skills in dealing with measuring equipments, manual sheet cutting operations, manual metal sawing and filing, Riveting process, manual threading, electrical metal welding, and Lathe cutting processes.


  • 15020102: General Physics II [3 Credit Hours]

    Charge and matter, electric field, gauss's law, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, current and resistance, electromotive force and circuits, the magnetic field, ampere's law, faraday's law of induction.


  • 12210444: Introduction To Research Methodology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to promote the breadth of scientific endeavour, the integrated nature of scientific disciplines, the importance of scientific process and critical thinking. The course includes discussions about how data, information, knowledge and decision-making relate to research. The course also focuses on the theoretical considerations involved in the first stage of the research process: formulating the research problem and research questions, hypotheses or objectives. Tips on writing research questions and developing hypotheses are provided. Students are expected to examine a series of scientific issues, dealing with medical, environmental, social and other issues. This course is taught using a combination of scientific discussion, self-directed learning, student presentations, class activities and a research assignment.


  • 12110203: Electrical Circuits 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    Units. The unit of charge. Current voltage and power, types of circuits and circuit elements. Ohms law. KVL and KCL, single –loop and single node – pair circuits resistance and source combination. Nodal and mesh analysis, source transformations, superposition, Thevenins and Norton. The inductor, V-I relationships for the inductor, capacitors, V-I for the capacitor. Source free RL and RC. Step response for RL and RC. Natural and step response of RLC circuits


  • 12120205: Electronics [3 Credit Hours]

    Provides a broad introduction to the fundamentals of Electronics. The atom, materials used in semiconductors, current in semiconductors, N-type and P-type semiconductors and the PN junction. Diodes and its applications with emphasis on half-wave rectifiers, full wave rectifiers, filters, regulators, limiters clampers and multipliers. Special-purpose diodes with particular emphasis on Zener diode and its applications. Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) including BJT bias circuits and BJT amplifier configurations with a focus on common-emitter amplifier. Filed-Effect Transistors (FETs), JFET, MOSFET, characteristics, parameters and biasing.


  • 12160405: Industrial Studies and Career Managements [3 Credit Hours]

    Sound insulation Absorption and reverberation time sources of external noise (rain noise, traffic, etc.); sources of noise within buildings (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning noise sources; fans; Absorption of seats, audience, variable absorption. Scattering and diffusion. Absorption materials Measurement of impulse responses; determination of room acoustic parameters. Sound source characteristics (musical instruments, speech, singing; sound power, directivity). Prediction methods (image sources, ray tracing, beam/cone tracing, finite differences, modal methods, physical scale modelling).


  • 12160409: Acoustic Waves Propagation [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces acoustics by using the concept of impedance. The course starts with vibrations and waves, demonstrating how vibration can be envisaged as a kind of wave, mathematically and physically. They are realized by one-dimensional examples, which provide mathematically simplest but clear enough physical insights. Then the part 1 ends with explaining waves on a flat surface of discontinuity, demonstrating how propagation characteristics of waves


  • 12160337: [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15200101: Palestinian Issue [3 Credit Hours]

    The course deals with the events of the Palestinian issue through the most important ages from the Canaanites until the year 2021. It focuses on the Islamic conquest of Palestine in the year 15 AH 636 AD, the Crusader torch from 1099 to the liberation of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi of Palestine in 1187, and it talks about the Ottomans in Palestine from 1516 to 1917. The course is concerned with the Palestinian issue during the British occupation in 1917, until the Nakba in 1948, and the establishment of the occupation state .It deals with the Palestinian resistance and revolutions during 100 years, and Arab-Israeli wars from 1948 to 2021.The course talks about Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian resistance movements and parties, Palestinian Authority and the peace negotiations projects since the 1978 Camp David Accords until 2021.The course talks about attempts to Judaism Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque since the Palestinian setback in 1967 until 2021, and the issue of Palestinian refugees since 1948. It also anticipates the future of the Palestinian issue.


  • 15200102: Arabic Language [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to develop the students’ cognitive abilities and communication skills in Arabic language by introducing Arabic dictionaries, spelling and grammatical errors, and familiarizing them with ancient and modern Arabic literary models including models from the Holy Qur’an.


  • 13010007: Communication Skills [1 Credit Hours]


  • 13020002: French Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020004: Russian Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020011: Contemporary Problems [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020026: Leadership and Creativity [2 Credit Hours]


  • 12130201: Electromagnetism [3 Credit Hours]

    Review of vector analysis, electrostatic fields, magneto-static field concepts, EM fields in vacuum and material bodies, dielectric properties of materials, electro static energy and forces, steady currents and conductors. Static magnetic fields in vacuum and in materials, magnetic energy and forces. Maxwell’s equations in time varying fields.


  • 12130302: Signals & Systems [3 Credit Hours]

    Representation of signals and systems, Basic continuous and discrete time signals, Continuous and discrete time systems, Memory, causality, stability, inevitability, linearity, and time invariance. LTI systems, impulse response, Time domain analysis of CT systems convolution integral, Fourier series analysis of CT signals. Fourier transform analysis of CT signals , Properties of Fourier transform , Fourier transform of periodic signals , Frequency response , Energy and power spectral densities, Hilbert transform.


  • 12140101: Computer Programming [4 Credit Hours]

    Computer Programming is an introduction to the automated processing of information, including computer programming. This course gives students the conceptual background necessary to understand and construct programs, including the ability to specify computations, understand evaluation models, and utilize major constructs such as functions and procedures, data storage, conditionals, recursion and looping. At the end of this course, students should be able to read and write small programs in the language of C++ in response to a given problem or scenario, preparing them to continue on to Object Oriented Programming. The knowledge and skills acquired and practiced will enable students to successfully perform and interact in a technology-driven society. Students enhance reading, writing, computing, communication, and reasoning skills and apply them to the information technology environment.


  • 12160304: Analog Electronic Circuits [3 Credit Hours]

    Transistor power supply systems. Transistor amplifiers in various configurations, DC amplifier. Linear applications of operational amplifiers


  • 12160406: Medical Acoustics Devices [3 Credit Hours]

    The course is aiming at the design, development and marketing devices employing acoustic technologies including auditory and ultrasonic that are used for diagnostic and therapeutic medical applications


  • 12160515: Noise Control [3 Credit Hours]

    Mixing engineering enables practical and theoretical knowledge of the tools used in music production. During This course provides the knowledge and understanding of noise control design processes and methodologies. Furthermore, the course provides the fundamentals necessary for appropriate selection of noise control options for realistic environmental and industrial noise scenarios, and to justify their selections. In addition, the course gives a thorough understanding of current best practice in noise control, and how to apply appropriate acoustical analysis to assess limitations and/or adapt them for application in unfamiliar situations.


  • 12160338: [3 Credit Hours]


  • 13020005: Turkish Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020010: Islamic Econmic System [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020014: Political Science [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020017: E-government Legal Framework [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020034: Introduction to Automotive Engineering [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020035: Professional Communication Skills [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020036: Software Applications [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15010102: Calculus (2) [3 Credit Hours]

    antiderivatives; the indefinite integral; the definite integral; the fundamental theorem of calculus ; the area under a curve; the area between two curves.Techniques of integration: integration by substitution; integration by parts, integrating powers of trigonometric functions, trigonometric substitutions, integrating rational functions, partial fractions, rationalization, miscellaneous substitution; improper integrals; application of definite integral: volumes, length of a plane curve, area of a surface of revolution infinite series: sequences, infinite series, convergence tests, absolute convergence, conditional convergence; alternating series; power series: Taylor and Maclurine series, differentiation and integration of power series:


  • 12110204: Electrical Circuits 2 Lab. [1 Credit Hours]

    Resistors and resistive circuits; potentiometers; KVL, KCL, superposition principle; Thevenin’s theorem and maximum power transfer; RLC current and voltage characteristics; frequency response of RL, RC and RLC circuits; series and parallel resonant circuits; transient response.


  • 15010229: Engineering Mathematics 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    Linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces and subspaces, linear transformation, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, similarity of square matrices, diagonalization. First order differential equation. The existence and uniqueness theorem differential equation of Higher order. Using lab face transform in solving differential equation. Power series solution of differential equations.


  • 12120208: Logic circuits design Lab. [1 Credit Hours]

    Practice on the following topics: : basic Logic gates, bistable multivibrators with focus on lateches and flip-flops. Code converter circuits, arithmetic circuits, counting circuits including synchronous and asynchronous counters, register circuits, multiplexers,demultiplexers, and Arithmatic Logic Unit(ALU).


  • 12000599: Graduation Project [3 Credit Hours]

    Complement of the ' Introduction to Graduation Project' where a final report and presentation is required. A theoretical as well as practical discussion will be performed.


  • 12310599: Engineering Projects Management [3 Credit Hours]


  • 12160502: Wireless techniques [3 Credit Hours]

    Basic concepts of wireless systems. Wireless local area networks. Radio and television. Antennas.


  • 12160301: Programming in Matlab environment [3 Credit Hours]

    Use the MATLAB program to visualize data and calculation results in two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics and by means of animation


  • 12160501: Audio Networks [3 Credit Hours]

    The course covers the audio media content over point-to-point dedicated cabling. The methods of media audio content transmission over networks, in particular Ethernet, LANs and IP based WANs. The course also explores the latest developments in methods, protocols and applications of all things networked audio. From low latency media distribution to command and control of networked audio devices. From Audio over IP to coding and error correction.


  • 12160408: Audio Systems Lab I [1 Credit Hours]

    Lecture with practical hands on lab exercise directly supporting lecture materials, introductory overview of the recording studio, includes basic electronics and acoustic principles, waveform properties, microphone concepts and mixing techniques, studio set up signal flow, recording console theory, signal processing concepts, recorder principles and operation, and an overview of mixing and editing,


  • 12160536: [3 Credit Hours]


  • 13020006: Italian Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020008: Physical Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020018: The Palestinian Captive Movement [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020020: Anti-Corruption [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15020101: General Physics I [3 Credit Hours]

    Measurement and system of units, vectors, motion in one and two dimensions, particle dynamics and Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, conservation of energy, dynamics of system of particles, center of mass, conservation of linear momentum, collisions, impulse, rotational kinematics, rotational dynamics, conservation of angular momentum.


  • 15020105: Lab. For General Physics I [1 Credit Hours]

    Experiments on balance of forces, motion, free fall and motion of projectiles, force and motion, Newton's laws, friction, rotational motion, work, the principle of conservation of energy, the principle of conservation of linear momentum, the moment of inertia of bodies.


  • 12160401: Acoustic signal processing [3 Credit Hours]

    This course gives a thorough grounding in the techniques and applications of digital technology in the acquisition, processing, storage and transmission of acoustic signals.


  • 12160402: Electroacoustic [3 Credit Hours]

    Electroacoustic combines elements of acoustics and electronics, dealing with the conversion of acoustic waves into electric current and vice versa using electroacoustic transducers.


  • 12160404: Environmental Noise Measurements [3 Credit Hours]

    This course discusses the measurement of environmental sound using appropriate sound measuring instrumentation. The course develops the ability to describe and explain the main provisions of current environmental noise legislation, and to interpret the requirements in order to carry out reliable measurements and apply acoustic theory to decisions about when, how and where to measure environmental sound.


  • 12160514: Psychoacoustics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course provides an understanding of how the auditory system allows humans to perceive different attributes of the surrounding acoustic environment, and to develop a detailed understanding of how low-level percepts such as pitch arise from the physiology of the ear. Also, the course links the acoustic attributes to emotional response that drives good subjective experiment design.


  • 15200099: Pre-English [3 Credit Hours]

    Remedial English: The course is a compulsory service course offered for first year students. It is a prerequisite for E1 and it focuses mainly on the language learning skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course is intended to equip the students with basic skills necessary for successful communication in both oral and written forms of the language. In addition to grammar and how to use vocabulary in a meaningful context.


  • 13020024: Environmental Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020032: Economy in the Third World [2 Credit Hours]


  • 12210136: Engineering Drawing [2 Credit Hours]

    This course is to teach students the tools and techniques for making engineering drawings. Students will gain the knowledge of hand drafting instruments and their use; orthographic projection; and principal views. Applications will include two-dimensional drawings using CAD software.


  • 12120206: Electronics Lab [1 Credit Hours]

    This course is an introductory experimental laboratory that explores basic topics in electronics: Rectifier diodes, characteristics representation of diodes of different semiconductor materials, half-wave rectifier and bridge rectifier. Special purpose didoes, LED, Zener characteristics, Series and series-opposed circuit of Zener diodes, DC and AC voltage limitations and overload protection with Zener diodes. Bipolar transistors, testing and rectifying behavior, control characteristics, feedback characteristics and amplifier circuits. JFET and MOSFET.


  • 12160303: Introduction of Acoustic [3 Credit Hours]

    Digital information recording. Numeric and alphanumeric PTUK EQUIVELANTs. Arithmetic operations on binary numbers. Logical functions and their notation. Methods of minimizing logical functions. Mathematical description of combinational circuits.


  • 12160307: Ecoacoustics [3 Credit Hours]

    Tasks of eco-acoustics. The role of sound in the environment. Sound as a landscape value


  • 12160308: Digital and Microprocessor Technology [3 Credit Hours]

    Digital information recording. Numeric and alphanumeric PTUK EQUIVELANTs. Arithmetic operations on binary numbers. Logical functions and their notation. Methods of minimizing logical functions. Mathematical description of combinational circuits.


  • 12160516: Microphone and Loudspeaker Design [3 Credit Hours]

    this course introduces the electro acoustic transduction mechanisms and the modeling techniques used in the design of microphones and loudspeakers.


  • 13020016: Law in Our Lives [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020027: Health Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15010101: Calculus (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    Functions: domain, operations on functions, graphs of functions; trigonometric functions; limits: meaning of a limit, computational techniques, limits at infinity, infinite limits ;continuity; limits and continuity of trigonometric functions; the derivative: techniques of differentiation, derivatives of trigonometric functions; the chain rule; implicit differentiation; differentials; Roll’s Theorem; the mean value theorem; the extended mean value theorem; L’Hopital’s rule; increasing and decreasing functions; concavity; maximum and minimum values of a function; graphs of functions including rational functions (asymptotes) and functions with vertical tangents (cusps);


  • 15020106: Lab. For General Physics II [1 Credit Hours]

    Experiments on Galvanometer and its uses, Ohm's law, electric field, electric potential , capacitor, Wheatstone bridge, potentiometer, electromotive force, Kirchoff''s laws.


  • 15050101: General Chemistry (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    This is the first of two general chemistry courses. It introduces the basic principles of chemistry and shows students how chemists describe matter. It revolves around bonding, the most central concept in chemistry. Material covered includes introduction to chemical calculations, stoichiometry and simple reactions, gases, thermochemistry, atomic structure, the periodic table, types of bonding, liquids and solids.


  • 12130527: Digital Signal Processing [3 Credit Hours]

    Discrete convolution, Fourier transform analysis of discrete time signals and systems, DTFT, DFT and FFT. Z-transform analysis of discrete time signals and systems, implementation of discrete time systems, FIR systems, IIR systems, design of IIR filters from analog filters


  • 12000598: Introduction to Graduation Project [1 Credit Hours]

    A group of students apply their theoretical knowledge gained throughout their study to design and build a certain circuit/device to perform a specific function under the supervision of one of the instructors at the department. A final report and presentation are required.


  • 12160506: Making Recordings and Mixing Engineering [3 Credit Hours]

    Mixing engineering enables practical and theoretical knowledge of the tools used in music production. During the course, an independent mix of an entertainment track is carried out. As part of the recordings, sound productions of classical and popular music are made using modern microphone techniques in a recording studio.


  • 12160403: Room Acoustics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to provide the students with a thorough grasp of room acoustics principles, including theoretical models for both low and high frequencies to analyze existing rooms or design new ones. Including the study of wave theory and statistical theory for acoustic enclosures, the objective descriptions of acoustic human perceptions. Techniques for designing and applying sound absorbing and scattering treatments will be covered, and the consideration of the effectiveness and limitations of these in important application areas such as musical performances spaces and critical listening rooms.


  • 15200104: Social Services [1 Credit Hours]

    Students perform voluntary work such as donating blood, repairing homes, tourist trails, or holding educational workshops at the university, and the student is committed to training or working for 40 hours.


  • 15200107: Islamic Studies [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15200112: English 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is designed to serve PTUK students in the faculties of Science and Engineering as well as the students of Educational Technology (ET); it offers a broad overview of the English language learning skills in reading, writing, speaking that will enable them to communicate meaningfully in scientific contexts and situations. It also offers a broad variety of scientific language grammatical patterns and vocabulary items that are needed to comprehend scientific contexts and trends. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a variety of scientific topics, aural input in order to broaden and deepen their critical thinking skills and to help them express opinions about modern scientific topics and problems.


  • 13020001: Hebrew Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020009: Islam and Contemporary Issues [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020012: Islamic Civilization [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020015: International Relations [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020019: Democracy and Elections [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020023: Astronomy [2 Credit Hours]


  • 12110101: Electrical Circuits 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    The unit of charge. Current voltage and power, types of circuits and circuit elements. Ohms law. KVL and KCL, single –loop and single node – pair circuits resistance and source combination. Nodal and mesh analysis, source transformations, superposition, Thevenins and Norton. The inductor, V-I relationships for the inductor, capacitors, V-I for the capacitor. Source free RL and RC. Step response for RL and RC. Natural and step response of RLC circuits


  • 12110102: Electrical Circuits I Lab. [1 Credit Hours]

    Resistors and resistive circuits; potentiometers; KVL, KCL, superposition principle; Thevenin’s theorem and maximum power transfer; RLC current and voltage characteristics; frequency response of RL, RC and RLC circuits; series and parallel resonant circuits; transient response.


  • 12130303: Probability and Random Variables [3 Credit Hours]

    Axiomatic definition of probability spaces, combinational methods, conditional probability, product spaces, random variables, distribution and density functions, multivariate distributions, conditional distributions and densities, independent RVs, functions of RVs, expected values, moments and characteristic functions, joint and marginal distributions, generating functions.


  • 12120207: Logic Circuits Design [3 Credit Hours]

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  • 15010230: Engineering Mathematics 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    Higher order differential equations using Laplace transform in solving differential equations.  Power series. Solution of differential equations. Fourier transforms complex numbers and the complex plane, Polar coordinates and graphing in polar coordinates. Multiple integral


  • 12160302: Measurement Analysis and Assessments [3 Credit Hours]

    This course presents the scientific principles underlying acoustic measurement techniques, and techniques of standardized acoustic measurements, while considering the uncertainty introduced by the measurement process. The students are required to gain the skills to perform appropriate analysis of measured data, and communicate findings effectively to a specialist audience.


  • 12160503: Audio Systems Lab II [1 Credit Hours]

    Combined lecture and some hands on application of the techniques listed, deeper detailed look at the recording studio processes and practice implementation of the recording process, microphones, audio console, multi-track recorder, and signal processing devices through hands on application.