Course Description - Diploma of Intelligent systems in buildings

  • 3102109: Electric Control Lab [1 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces practical applications of mechanical and electromechanical properties of DC motors and methods of reducing the starting current of DC motors in practice. The course also introduces methods of controlling the speed of induction motors in practice, and ways to reduce the starting current of induction motors in practice


  • 3102107: Applied Engineering Drawing [2 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces drawing symbols for electronic and electrical elements, methods of electronic drawings using computer. The course also enables the students to study electrical and mechanical drawings and their symbols, the use of computer graphics such as AutoCAD and mechanical plans.


  • 3101111: Measurements and Sensors [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the principles of electrical measurements, and the basic types of proximity sensors, optical and radiation sensorsas well as the applications of different types of sensors.


  • 3102114: Air Conditioning Workshop [1 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the basic mechanical cycle of refrigeration, its applications and accessories.


  • 99992061: English Language [3 Credit Hours]

    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.


  • 3102212: Computer Programming and Networking [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce programming algorithms and their input and output statements, variables, constants, control statements, iterations, associations, arrays, pointers, and structures. In addition to the basics of networks, their different types, their physical and logical structures and protocols


  • 3081071: Electrical Circuits [3 Credit Hours]

    Components of direct current circuits, theories and methods of analysis of circuits (parallel, parallel and composite). Types of power sources and their transformations, equivalent circuits, capacitors, coils and their transient conditions in direct current circuits, magnetic circuits, star and triangle couplings and switching between them. AC power, sinusoidal signals, AC power elements, induction, capacitance and resistance.


  • 3101206: Basics of Electrical Machines and Transformers [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the students to direct current machines, their installation, working principle, types, connection methods and operational properties. The course also teaches the students about three-phase transformers and their connection methods parallel losses Transformer and cooling methods for transformers.


  • 3101221: Conditioning [2 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces the principles of air conditioning, definitions and conventions for air conditioning, biometric processes that occur on moist air, determination of air conditioning supply conditions, ventilation and fans, calculation of cooling load, design and manufacture of air ducts, methods of installing air ducts, air distribution within air-conditioned places for air, units used in air conditioning, in addition to identifying the refrigeration cycle and its various stages.


  • 3102226: Field Training 2 [2 Credit Hours]

    This course covers practical applications, which seek mainly to support the student information in appropriate practical applications of theoretical aspects. The student is followed up by the faculty, and is to submit periodic reports weekly on the topics in which s/he has received training.


  • 3101102: Principles of Electrical Circuits/Practical [1 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to familiarize the students with the methods of connecting resistors to DC circuits, DC theories, simplification of circuits, Kirchhoff's law, the use of an oscilloscope for electrical capacitors, applications to single-phase AC circuits, induction circuits, electrical transformers, resonant circuits, and three-phase circuits.


  • 99991051: Physical Activity [1 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces the basic concepts of physical education, its objectives and its relationship to general education, defining the most important skills and basic principles of some group and individual games.


  • 3102117: Professional Ethics [1 Credit Hours]

    The course is intended to provide students with the ability to analyze ethical situations within their profession. The course includes lectures, discussions, case analyses, the study of codes of ethics, and individual projects.


  • 3102227: Graduation Project [2 Credit Hours]

    The course covers directed readings in the literature of smart buildings, introduction to research methods as well as seminar discussions dealing with special topics of current interest.


  • 99992013: Anti-corruption "Challenges and Solutions" [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the concept of corruption, its forms and definition as well as the role of civil society institutions and local bodies in combating corruption.


  • 99992011: Arabic & Islamic Thought [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to solidify the concept of Islamic culture, and to introduce students to sound cultural and intellectual concepts about the sources of Islam, the Islamic faith and its’ pillars, and the Islamic Shariah, which regulates all aspects of life: social, economic and political. It also clarifies the position of Islam on a number of contemporary intellectual issues, and introduces the most important challenges facing Islam and its’ culture.


  • 3101210: Electrical Workshop [1 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to acquaint the students with the tools used in electric actuators and industrial wiring schemes, types of electric motors, methods of their operation, reverse rotation, and star-delta connections. The course also teaches the students to design control and power circuits in industrial panels, magnetic switches and time relays as well as transformers


  • 3101223: Microcontrollers [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to acquaint the students with knowledge about controllers, the content of microprocessors, input and output ports and how to use them as well as timers memory, scanning and programming and their applications.


  • 3102125: Field Training 1 [2 Credit Hours]

    This course is tailored to train the student on specific skills both in the university laboratories, and on the field, in cooperation with hotels, institutions, and relevant companies and institutions specialized in applications of building management and automation systems


  • 3102119: Energy Management in Buildings [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the techniques of calculating and distributing loads in electrical and mechanical services systems in different establishments.


  • 3101129: Engineering Workshop [1 Credit Hours]


  • 3102104: Digital Electronics [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to acquaint the students with the logic of circuits, digital and analog quantities, and the fields of use of different logic circuits. It also aims to introduce basic number systems, conversion methods between different systems in addition to deducing Boolean equations and De Morgan's theorems.


  • 3102116: Basics Of Control and Management Systems [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to introduce the students to communication protocols used for building systems and installing control and monitoring systems in buildings such as sensors, actuators, switches, timing clocks, PLC devices, and others.


  • 99991031: 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.


  • 3102218: Management and Programming of Advanced Building Control Systems [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the principles of connecting different control devices, and their programming methods. In addition to introducing the students to the methods of distributing and installing control devices according to engineering plans.


  • 3102213: Computer Programming and Networking Lab [1 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to equip the students with the knowledge and practical skills necessary to implement and design a practical software applications on networks, methods of connection and network hardware components.


  • 3102215: Programmable Logic Controller Technology (PLC) [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims at introducing the students to the hardware components of the programmable logic controller, digital and analogue inputs, the central processing unit, connecting sensors, switches and compressors as well as relays and signal lamps with PLC inputs and outputs.


  • 3102108: Electric Control [2 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces the students to mechanical and electromechanical properties of DC motors, the methods used to control the speed of DC motors as well as the mechanical and electromechanical properties of induction motors.


  • 99991061: [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enhance and enrich students’ skills with modern concepts of information technology, as well as skills in dealing with computers, digital devices, modern computer applications in practical life, the Internet, information security concepts, and data analysis. The student applies the concepts and skills he acquires using appropriate programs.


  • 3101205: Electronics Lab [1 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to qualify the students with the necessary practical and mathematical methods to fix problems with electronic circuits and enable them to understand the operational amplifie's principles and its applications.


  • 3101124: Technical Mathematics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course tackles the exponential, trigonometric and logarithmic functions and their properties as well as connected and unconnected functions, the derivative and the relationship of the derivative with the properties of the coupling and the rate of change, drawing curves, integration and its relationship to area and practical applications.


  • 3101220: Alternative Energy Technology [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the student to the energy situation at the global level, in addition to studying different types of alternative energy sources, such as wind energy, thermal energy, tidal energy, geothermal energy, and solar energy (Photovoltaic Cell). Moreover, the course introduces the students to the various methods of installing and maintaining systems of alternative energy sources.


  • 3101122: Lighting and Electrical Wiring [1 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the requirements of modern artificial lighting in order to be able to read blueprints, make preliminary calculations necessary to determine the lighting requirements. The course also aims to introduce the students to the theories and laws related to lighting calculations through various examples and applications.


  • 99991112: Entrepreneurship 2 [2 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the main concepts in entrepreneurship and focuses on providing the student with the ability to write business plans, study their feasibility, start an entrepreneurial project.


  • 99991110: Entrepreneurship 1 [1 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the basic concepts in entrepreneurship and focuses on equipping the students with the ability to write business plans, study their feasibility and start an entrepreneurial project.


  • 3071402: ُُElectronics [3 Credit Hours]