Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Departmental Facilities
Laboratory Facilities
Virtually every course offered by the department includes laboratory experiments
and projects designed to enable the students to obtain hands on experience
and as a mean to verify classroom theoretical development. As a result,
the laboratory facilities of the department are quite extensive. All labs
are equipped with a variety of measuring equipment, computers and specialized
instrumentation. Specific facilities include the following:
Power Systems Lab
Fractional and small horsepower synchronous, direct current, induction
(6 wound rotor and 4 capacitor run) and generalized (6 Westinghouse
and 1 Universal) rotating machines; Lab-Volt transmission line (3),
power system (3) and power-electronic (3) modules and a complete Inverpower
Power Electronic Laboratory Module; A screened high voltage generator;
and computer equipment which includes PC-ATs complete with English and
French versions of Cyme Power System Analysis software and 10 68HC11
Microcontrollers. A wide selection of 10 and 30 R, L and C load elements
is also readily available.
Control Systems Lab
7 Lab-Volt AC/DC servomechanism experimental units, 8 Feedback DC
servomechanism units, 6 EA1-180 analogue computers, 10 Pentiums based
analogue to digital acquisition systems for real-time measurement and
closed-loop control.
Communications Lab
The lab contains 10 Lab-Volt communications set-ups as well as various
analog equipment such as signal generators, filters, multipliers/summers
and spectrum analyzers allowing for experimentation with various analog
and digital modulation schemes. The Lab-Volt set-ups also allow for
a comparative study of several binary signalling schemes including baseband,
ASK, FSK and PSK.
Microwave Lab
The Microwave lab is equipped to carry out basic microwave measurements,
such as impedance, power, frequency, VSWR, etc., using waveguide technology.
As well the lab has two state of the art Vector Network Analyzers which
allow for microwave circuit measurements from 300 KHz to 20 GHz. There
are also 6 Pentiums in the lab with CAD packages allowing for
microwave circuit design, antenna analysis and so on.
Advanced Electronics Lab
This lab includes 20 Pentium computers and 20 targets microprocessor
boards. It also includes a large-screen projection TV, various serial
data analyzer, PROM "burners", printers, noise generator and analogue
electronics equipment.
Introductory Circuits and Electronics Lab
This lab includes 20 positions consisting of oscilloscope, signal
generators, multimeters, frequency counters and power suppliers. 20
Pentiums running WINDOW NT.
Programming Lab/Digital Signal Processing/Computer graphics
This lab includes 30 Pentium computers with specialized Digital Signal
Processing Hardware/Software as well as specialized computer language compilers software (ADA, C++, Case Tools, etc).
Robotics Lab
1 Excalibur and 3 Atlas robot arms and computer control systems, 7
digital motor control experiment kits and 6 Thunder-S100 MS-DOS computers.
5 Pentium computers.
