Electrical Engineering Laboratories

Lab Name

Basic Electrical Engineering Lab

Room

Building R-05 / Room 005

Courses Taught in the Lab

Electronics Lab (EEN 211), Digital Logic Design Lab (EEN 213), Electronics II (EEN 314), Communications Lab (EEN 351), and Embedded Systems (EEN 415).

Major Equipment

• DDS function generator: Generates sine, square, ramp and saw-tooth signals with variable amplitudes and frequencies.
• Mini analog training Kit: includes of fixed power supply with TTL levels, variable DC supply (0 to 18v, 0 to -18v, 0 to 36 v), AC supply 12 V, breadboard to fix components.
• 40 MHz Analog Oscilloscope: 2 channels dual beam
• Com3lab master Unit: consists of main board that contains power supply, interface to PC and interface to the desired kit, it also contains Function Generator, Oscilloscope.
• Transmitter Kit
• Receiver Kit
• Digital Technology II Kit
• Operational Amplifier Kit

Skills Acquired in the Lab

• Knowledge of the electronic devices, digital circuits, communication systems modules, operational amplifiers applications, microcontrollers, applications of embedded systems, software frequently used by the electrical engineers …etc.
• Familiarity with the functioning, operation, and fault’s location of digital and analog electronic systems.
• Ability to understand the basic principles of electrical engineering.
• Understanding electronic devices, digital electronics and microcontrollers and its theoretical concepts with the practical knowledge gained during experimentation in the lab.
• Operate effectively with teamwork in carrying out laboratory experiments.
• Learn how to conduct and report experiments in a proper manner.
• Understanding the importance and necessity of safety measures in the laboratory.
• Analysis of experimental results and interpret them.

Lab Manual

The manuals are delivered to the students before the lab works.

Lab Name

Advanced Electrical Engineering Lab

Room

Building R-05 / Room 006

Courses Taught in the Lab

Power Systems Lab (EEN 331) and Automatic Control (EEN 304).

Major Equipment

• Transmission line Model 150km/300km (93.2miles/186.4miles): It is used for experiments investigating three-phase overhead power line, Parallel and series connections of lines, Line with earth fault compensation and Transmission systems with a synchronous generator.
• Magnetism/Electromagnetism: It is used for experiments Investigation of permanent magnets and magnetic materials, Investigation of magnetic force, Analysis of magnetic, Investigation of field lines, Explanation of electromagnetic induction, how induction works with a conductor in motion and a core in motion, Effects of switching an inductor on and off and Explanation of the Lorentz force.
• Transient processes in DC and AC networks: It is used for experiments switch-on and switch-off responses of R-, RL-, RC- and RLC line simulations fed with direct voltage, switch-on and switch-off responses of R-, RL-, RC- and RLC line simulations fed with alternating voltage and static and compensatory processes.
• Temperature, speed, and light regulator line: Temperature, Speed and Light Control includes three typical controlled systems found in automatic control technology, namely temperature, speed and light controlled systems.
• 2 and 3 position action controller: It is used for Control loops with discontinuous controllers (two and three-position controllers).
• PID controller: It is used for Design and operation of a PID controller and its sub-classes and Designing PID controllers based on optimization rules in the time domain.
• Filling level and flow-controlled system: It is used for experiments Automatic liquid level and flow rate control in a tank system.

Skills Acquired in the Lab

• Ability to understand the basic principles of electrical engineering.
• Understanding electrical machine and automatic control by correlating core theoretical concepts with the practical knowledge gained during experimentation in the lab.
• Operate effectively with teamwork in carrying out laboratory experiments.
• Learn how to conduct and report experiments in a proper manner.
• Understanding the importance and necessity of safety measures in the laboratory.
• Analysis of experimental results and interpret them.

Lab Manual

The manuals are delivered to the students before the lab works.

Lab Name

Advanced Electrical Engineering Lab

Room

Building R-05 / Room 008

Courses Taught in the Lab

Electrical Machines Lab (EEN 341), and Electrical Measurements (EEN 202),

Major Equipment

• Exciter voltage regulation unit: It is used in the control of the excitation voltage in synchronous machine in the experiments automatic reactive power regulation and automatic cos φ power regulation.
• Star / delta switch: It is used for experiments starting asynchronous and synchronous motor.
• Transformer trainer: It is used for experiments single phase transformer, autotransformer, and three-phase transformer.
• DC multi circuit compound wound machine: It is used for experiments DC shunt wound motor, DC shunt wound generator, DC separately excited generator, DC series wound motor and compound wound motor.
• Three-phase Asynchronous motor / squirrel cage: It is used for experiments asynchronous motor connection, starting, rotation reversal, load characteristics, reactive power compensation and dynamic load experiments.
• Three-phase multifunction machine: It is used for experiments asynchronous motor connection, starting, rotation reversal and operation points and used for experiments synchronous motor connection, starting, rotational reversal, phase-shifter operation and V- characteristics and used for experiments synchronous generator connection, starting, load characteristics and synchronization.
• Isolating transformer three-phase 1KW: It is used for experiments three phase power transformer no load operation, short circuit and transformer behaves under a resistive load, inductive load, capacitive load and asymmetric loan is connected
• Three-phase synchronous machine with smooth core rotor, 1 kW: It is used for experiments three phase synchronous machine manual synchronization, automatic synchronization, automatic active power regulation and automatic cos φ power regulation.

Skills Acquired in the Lab

• Knowledge of the electrical machine-like DC shunt wound motor, DC separately excited generator, synchronous generator, asynchronous motor etc.
• Familiarity with the functioning, operation and maintenance of DC machine, AC machine, transformer etc.
• Operate effectively with teamwork in carrying out laboratory experiments.
• Learn how to conduct and report experiments in a proper manner.
• Understanding the importance and necessity of safety measures in the laboratory.
• Analysis of experimental results and interpret them.

Lab Manual

The manuals are delivered to the students before the lab works.

Lab Name

Computer Lab

Room

Building R-05 / Room 102

Courses Taught in the Lab

EEN 170, EEN 271

Serves most of the core courses that need software applications.

Major Equipment

• Desktop computers.
• Lab Internal Network.
• Internet access.
• Installed software (Office, MATLAB, Multisim).

Skills Acquired in the Lab

• Ability and knowledge to work on windows and Microsoft office.
• Familiarity in network sharing.
• Ability to define and solve engineering problems.
• Knowledge fundamentals of programming.
• Ability to identify computer algorithm, flow charts and programs.
• Knowledge of basic MATLAB commands and their syntaxes.
• Recognizing looping and branching.
• Define decisions and logical operation.
• Ability to identify the fundamental electric quantities.
• Knowledge of applying theorems to simplify a resistive circuit.
• Knowledge of the essential tools of Multisim circuit design software.
• Ability to draw and analyze an electric circuit using Multisim.

Lab Name

High Voltage Lab

Room

Workshop Building

Courses Taught in the Lab

High voltage lab (EEN 432)

Major Equipment

• Three stage Cascade Transformer
• Rectifiers
• Capacitors
• High Value Resistors
• PLC based data collection cabinet

Skills Acquired in the Lab

• Ability to understand the basic concepts of High Voltage engineering.
• Understanding the principle of generation of HVAC and HVDC and able to gain practical knowledge.
• Ability to gain practical knowledge on impulse generation and Insulation testing technique.
• Understanding the significance and the need of safety techniques to handle high voltage equipment's.
• Able to work as a team to perform experiments.
• Able to learn to conduct and report in a proper manner.

Lab Manual

The manuals are delivered to the students before the lab works.

Lab Name

Electrical Engineering Workshop

Room

Building R-05 / Room 007

Courses Taught in the Lab

B.Sc. Senior Projects (EEN 498, EEN 499)

Major Equipment

• Power supply
• Function generator
• Oscilloscope
• Measuring instruments (Ammeters, voltameters, Ohmmeters)

Skills Acquired in the Lab

• Project prototypes manufacturing, assembly, and testing.

Lab Manual

The manuals are delivered to the students before the lab works.