Electrical Engineering Laboratories

Overview:
This laboratory provides the practical application of the fundamental laws and phenomena studied theoretically in the electrical circuits courses. Students build and connect circuits, measure voltage, current, and power, observe the behavior and response of circuit elements under both direct and alternating current conditions, and then analyze their results against theoretical calculations to verify them.
Skills developed:
Competent use of basic measurement instruments, the ability to assemble circuits and diagnose faults, documentation of experimental results in technical reports, and teamwork within a safe laboratory environment.
Courses served: 
Electric Circuits (I) – EE 2010
Electric Circuits (II) – EE 2020
Location:
Male Campus: Room (G201), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-9)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Emad Younis.
Female Campus: Dr. Fatimah Bin Salem.
 

Overview:
This laboratory supports the department's logic design courses. Students apply what they have studied theoretically by designing, building, and testing combinational and sequential logic circuits, examining their timing behavior, and verifying correct operation. The laboratory also serves undergraduate students working on capstone projects that involve digital circuit design or prototyping. The laboratory holds the instruments and electronic equipment required for logic circuit experiments, including oscilloscopes, logic probes, and measurement instruments, together with software and hardware development tools.
Skills developed:
The ability to translate a logic specification into a working circuit, to build and test combinational and sequential circuits, to diagnose design and wiring faults, and to document designs and test results in technical reports.
Courses served: 
Logic Design – EE 2111
Location:
Male Campus: Room (G201), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-9)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Brahim Mrabet.
Female Campus: Dr. Iram Malik.
 

Overview:
This laboratory provides hands-on training in microprocessor programming and interfacing. Students write, develop, and debug assembly language programs using debugging tools, and work with memory organization and memory maps, input and output interfacing, interrupt handling, and parallel and serial data communication.
Skills developed:
The ability to write and debug assembly language programs, interface a microprocessor with memory and peripheral devices, design input and output interfaces, handle interrupts, and build small-scale applications combining hardware and software.
Courses served: 
Microprocessors and Microcontrollers – EE 3540
Location:
Male Campus: Room (G204), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-10)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Abdallah Benselama.
Female Campus: Dr. Iram Malik.
 

Overview:
This laboratory provides the practical application of the communication theory concepts studied in lectures. Students carry out experiments on analog and digital modulation and demodulation techniques, examine signals in both the time and frequency domains, and study the effect of noise on transmission and reception quality, alongside experiments in electromagnetics using specialized instructional trainer equipment. The laboratory also supports undergraduate capstone projects related to communication systems.
Skills developed:
The ability to build and test a simple transmitter and receiver chain, measure and analyze signal characteristics, relate practical results to the mathematical models studied, identify sources of distortion and loss along the communication path, and document findings in technical reports.
Courses served: 
Communications Principles – EE 3200
Digital Communivcations – EE 4210
Location:
Male Campus: Room (G203), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-10)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Abdullah Al-Janah.
Female Campus: Dr. Roayat Ismail.

Overview:
This laboratory is dedicated to the practical component of the electrical machines courses. It houses a range of machines including direct current machines of various types, alternating current machines, and transformers. Students carry out characterization tests under no-load and loaded conditions, measure performance and efficiency, and study methods of starting, speed control, and reversing the direction of rotation.
Skills developed:
The ability to connect and operate electrical machines safely, derive performance and characteristic curves from practical measurements, relate results to the corresponding theoretical models, and distinguish between machine types and their suitability for particular applications.
Courses served: 
Electromechanical Energy Conversion – EE 3350
Electrical Machines – EE 4430
Location:
Male Campus: Room (B105), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-10)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Abdeljelil Chammam.
Female Campus: Dr. Erhab Youssef.
 

Overview:
This laboratory introduces students to the components and circuits used in the conversion and regulation of electrical power. Students carry out experiments on rectifier circuits, which convert alternating voltage to direct voltage, and inverter circuits, which convert direct voltage to alternating voltage, as well as DC-to-DC converters and regulators. They observe and measure the resulting waveforms and study the effect of firing angle and duty ratio control on the output.
Skills developed:
The ability to connect and test power conversion circuits safely, measure and interpret voltage and current waveforms, assess circuit efficiency and output quality, and appreciate the role of power electronics in motor drives and renewable energy systems.
Courses served: 
Power Electronics – EE 4420
Location:
Male Campus: Room (B104), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-10)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Abdullah Noman.
Female Campus: Dr. Erhab Youssef.
 

Overview:
This laboratory provides the practical component of the power systems courses. Students carry out experiments covering the generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical power, and study transmission line characteristics, voltage regulation, and power factor correction. They also use computer-based analysis through specialized power system simulation software, enabling them to study large networks that cannot practically be represented within the laboratory.
Skills developed:
The ability to perform and interpret power system measurements, relate practical results to simulation output, analyze network behavior under different loading conditions, and understand the operational requirements of an electricity system from the generating station to the consumer.
Courses served: 
Power Systems Analysis – EE 4410
Location:
Male Campus: Room (B103), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Malek Alduhaimi.

Overview:
This laboratory houses a range of applied systems and models that allow students to grasp the fundamentals of automatic control engineering in practice, including speed and position control systems, temperature control systems, and traffic signal control models. Students carry out experiments on system time response and stability, tune controller parameters and observe their effect on performance, and are introduced to modern control approaches such as fuzzy logic and neural networks.
Skills developed:
The ability to represent a system mathematically and validate its model experimentally, measure performance indicators such as settling time, overshoot, and steady-state error, tune controllers to achieve a required performance, and compare conventional and intelligent control approaches.
Courses served: 
Automatic Control Systems – EE 3511
Digital Control Systems – EE 4511
Location:
Male Campus: Room (B106), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Fayez Elsousy.
 

Overview:
This laboratory covers the practical component of the electronic devices and circuits courses. Students carry out fundamental experiments on diodes, transistors, biasing, and amplifier circuits, measure their characteristics and performance curves, and study frequency response together with operational amplifier circuits and their applications. Using the computers available in the laboratory, students simulate circuits before building them and compare calculated results with measured ones. The laboratory is also used for capstone projects in the field of electronics.
Skills developed:
The ability to build and test electronic circuits, extract device characteristics from practical measurements, diagnose faults in analog circuits, and compare simulation with physical implementation while accounting for the differences between them.
Courses served: 
Electronic Circuits (I) – EE 3121
Electronic Circuits (II) – EE 3171
Location:
Male Campus: Room (G202), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-10)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Jaouhar Mouine.
Female Campus: Dr. Mariem Bouraoui.
 

Overview:
This laboratory provides undergraduate students with practical training in very-large-scale integrated circuit design, following the digital design flow from hardware description language coding, through functional verification by simulation, logic synthesis, and timing analysis, to physical layout and verification against fabrication design rules. Students work with specialized electronic design automation software and use the laboratory for capstone projects involving digital system design.
Skills developed:
The ability to describe and verify digital circuits in a hardware description language, carry a design through the standard design flow, evaluate trade-offs between area, speed, and power consumption, and interpret verification results and resolve the violations they reveal.
Courses served: 
Low Power VLSI Design – EE 4180
Location:
Male Campus: Room (G202), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-10)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Fawwaz Hazzazi.
Female Campus: Dr. Mariem Bouraoui.

Overview:
This laboratory trains students in the fundamentals of electrical and electronic measurement and in laboratory technique. Students become familiar with the various measuring instruments, their operating principles, and their correct use; take measurements of voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, inductance, and frequency; and study sources of measurement error, instrument accuracy limits, and the estimation of uncertainty in result.
Skills developed:
Selecting the appropriate instrument for a given purpose and using it safely, reading results and estimating their errors, documenting and presenting measurements properly, and observing disciplined laboratory practice.
Courses served: 
Industrial Instrumentation – EE 4190
Location:
Male Campus: Room (G202), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-10)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. .
Female Campus: Dr. .
 

Overview:
This laboratory covers the practical component of the radio frequency communications and high-frequency engineering courses. Students are trained in generating, measuring, and analyzing radio signals in the frequency domain; studying high-frequency circuits and their components, including amplifiers, filters, and mixers; measuring antenna characteristics and radiation patterns; and examining wave propagation and the effect of the environment on wireless link quality. Students also carry out experiments on modern digital transmitter and receiver systems, measuring link performance indicators and relating them to the theoretical models studied. The laboratory further supports capstone projects and graduate research in wireless communications, antennas, and sensing systems.
Skills developed:
Competent use and interpretation of high-frequency measurement instruments, the ability to diagnose the performance of a wireless link and identify sources of loss and interference, measurement of antenna characteristics and impedance matching, and the design, testing, and documentation of a simple transmitter and receiver system.
Courses served: 
Antenna Theory and Applications – EE 4310
Microwave Engineering – EE 4320
Location:
Male Campus: Room (B107), College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Female Campus: Room (A(2-10)), College of Engineering Building – Female Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Maged Aldhaeebi.
Female Campus: Dr. Roayat Ismail.
 

Overview:
This laboratory supports the department's applied research across three complementary tracks, serving graduate students, advanced capstone projects, funded research projects, and partnerships with industrial and research organizations:
Autonomous Systems: design, build, and integration of embedded control units with onboard computing platforms, sensor data fusion, and the testing of autonomous systems in simulation environments and practical trials.
Guidance, Navigation and Control: motion and trajectory modeling, development of navigation and state estimation algorithms, and the design and validation of control laws through simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Smart Material Science and Design: design, modeling, and characterization of materials and structures with tailored electromagnetic properties, including their applications in sensing systems and electromagnetic compatibility.
Skills developed:
The ability to take a research idea from modeling and simulation through to a testable prototype, integrate hardware with software into a working system, design experiments and analyze and document results in peer-reviewed output, and work within multidisciplinary research teams.
Courses Supported:
Graduation Project I – EE 4980
Graduation Project II – EE 4990
Applied Project in Communication Technology I – EE 0670
Applied Project in Communication Technology II – EE 0672
Laboratory Location:
Male Campus: Room G205, College of Engineering Building – Male Campus.
Lab Supervisor:
Male Campus: Dr. Faroq Razzaz.