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S.90-9

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

To: ?

Senate

From:

L. Salter

Chair, SCAP

Subject:

School of Engineering Science-

Date:

November 16, 1989

Changes to M.A.Sc. and M.Eng.

Programs

SCAP 89-57

Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Graduate

Studies Committee gives rise to the following motion:

Motion:

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors

as set forth in S. 90-9 , the changes to the Master of Applied Science Program

and the Master of Engineering Program in the School of Engineering Science."

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE 

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ? 

MEMO 

TO: ? 

Senate Graduate Studies Committee 

FROM: ? 

Vladimir Cuperman, Director, Graduate Programs 

School of Engineering Science 

DATE: ? 

October 10, 1989 

SUBJECT: PROPOSED CALENDAR CHANGES 

Enclosed please find the proposed Calendar Changes for the 

graduate program in the School of Engineering Sdience. These 

changes include: 

1. M.A.Sc. 

Graduate Program Policies 

Change: New regulations regarding (1) Thesis Work in 

Industry and (2) Transfer from M.Eng. Program to M.A.Sc. 

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Justification: 

We needed written, regulations in the 

calendar formalizing our internal policy on these two 

activities. 

2.

Degree Requirements - 

M.Eng. Program 

Change: 6 credits have been assigned to the M.Eng. 

project and these 6 credits are included within the total 

minimum requirement of 30 credit hours. 

Justification: There 

and not enough on the 

offer some courses ev 

made it difficult for 

within 5 years. With 

to take 8 courses and 

was too much emphasis on courses 

project. Also, we are only able to 

ery second year and this situation 

students to complete 10 courses 

this new requirement the student has 

complete a project worth 6 credits. 

These changes were approved at a meeting of the Faculty of 

Applied Sciences Graduate Studies Committee on 4 October 1989. 

Vladimir Cterman 

Attachments 

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE 

Calendar Change 

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(to be inserted after the M.A.Sc. Degree Requirements pp.222) 

i)

M.A.Sc. - Thesis work in Industry 

In addition to the Degree Requirements for the M.A.Sc. 

Program the following conditions will apply if a student 

wishes to undertake thesis work in industry. 

a)

Proposal. The proposal must be approved by the 

Supervisory Committee and by the Graduate Committee. 

The proposal must include the following: 

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justification for undertaking the work in industry 

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agreement regarding intellectual property and 

publications 

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funding arrangement 

b)

On Campus Presence. During the thesis work in industry 

the student must spend one day per week (or equivalent 

as approved by the Graduate Committee) on campus to 

meet with his/her supervisor and attend regular 

seminars. This is in addition to time spent on campus 

for course work. 

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C) ?

Oral Presentations. A minimum of two oral presentations 

for the Supervisory Committee (not including the thesis 

defence) on the progress of the student's work will be 

given during the duration of the thesis. 

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d) ? 

Failure to Comply. See General Regulations 

pp.

208 1.8 

Transfer from M.Eng. Program to M.A.Sc. 

Normally transfer from M.Eng. Program to M.A.Sc. Program 

will be considered under the following conditions: 

a)

Undergraduate CPA. Minimum undergraduate cumulative 

CPA. of 3.3 required 

b)

M.Eng. CPA. On at least 2 courses, a minimum cumulative 

GPA of 3.5 

222 Graduate Applied

Sciences

Engineering

Science

Diane

V. Ingraham ?

Adaptive systems including neural network

theory, flexible manufacturing systems

John D. Jones Applications of artificial intelligence to engi-

neering design, design for manufacturing,

finite element analysis, heat transfer and

thermodynamics

Albert M. Leung ?

Microelectronics, integrated circuit technol-

ogy, integrated sensors

B.T. (Tad) McGeer

Robotics, automatic control, aircraft design,

bipedal locomotion

Andrew H. Rawctz Reliability physics and engineering, VLSI

reliability, physical transducers, Integrated

sensors, film, technology, nonlinear optics,

materials processing in microelectronics

Mehrdad Self Control theory, large scale systems, opti-

mization theory and application to engineer-

ing systems

Shawn Stapleton Passive microwave circuits, GaAs mono-

lithic microwave integrated circuits, nonlin-

ear microwave devices, active microwave

circuits

Marek Syrzycki ?

microelectronics, semiconductor devices,

• digital and analog VLSI design, integrated

circuit technology, sensors, production de-

fects, yield and reliability

Degrees Offered

Engineering Science offers two distinct programs of study, leading to a

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), or Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.). The

M.Eng. program is designed for part-time study by practicing engineers and

Is based on a set of courses, normally offered in the evenings, plus a project

performed in industry. The principal areas of study offered in the M.Eng.

program are electronics, communications and signal processing. The M.A.Sc.,

on the other hand, is a full-time program in which primary emphasis is on the

thesis, rather than course work. It is more exploratory than the M.Eng., and

hence the areas of study cover a greater range.

Admission

The normal admission requirement to the M.Eng. and M.A.Sc. program is

a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, engi-

neering science or a related area, with a cumulative GPA0f at least3.0 (B) from

a recognized university, or the equivalent. Note that the size of the faculty limits

the number of M.A.Sc. students,

Degree Requirements - M.Eng. Program

Course Work

M.Eng. candidates are required to complete a minimum of 30 semester

hours course work, at least 20 of which must be at the graduate level, plus a

project. Of the courses listed below, ENSC 805,810,815 anda2O are required.

The prerequisite ENSC 800 will be waived if the student has equivalent

preparation.

A key component of the M.Eng. program is a significant industrial project

which integrates knowledge gained during the course of the student's grad-

uate studies. This project is to be performed in the workplace, typically in

industry or government laboratories. An appropriate level of design, docu-

mentation and reporting responsibility is required. The project would be ex-

pected to lake a minimum of one person-month.

During the project, the student will receive academic supervision, as re-

quired, from the student's senior supervisor at the university, and day-to-day

supervision from the student's manager, or a designated associate, in his or

her place of work. These industrial supervisors, who will sit on the student's

Supervisory Committee, will be appointed by the Faculty. in the case of very

small companies, alternative arrangements will be made for supervision.

In addition to submission of a technical report at the completion of the pro-

ject, the student will make an oral presentation to at least the Supervisory

Committee and one other facult

member.

minimum of 12 semester hours course work, plus a thesis with a weight of 18

Degree Requirements - M.A.Sc. Program

M.A.Sc. candidates are required to complete 30 semester hours work as a

semester hours. The course will, in consultation with the senior supervisor,

normally be selected from the list below. Additional courses may be required

to correct deficiencies in the student's background. The M.A.Sc. thesis is to be

based on an independent project with a significant research component The

student is required to defend the thesis at an examination, in accordance with

general University regulations.

Graduate Courses

ENSC 800-3 Linear Systems Dynamics

A unified presentation of systems and signals analysis techniques. Linear

algebra up to Caytey-Hamilton. Linear systems: superposition, convolution for

differential and difference equations. State variables: canonic forms, model

decomposition. Transforms: Fourier, Laplace, Z. Random processes discrete

time processes, AR and ARMA models, least squares estimation. Communi-

cation signals andtheir representation.

Prerequisite: undergraduate degree in

engineering, mathematics or physics.

ENSC 805-3 Techniques of Digital Communications

Modulation, detection and synchronization techniques for digital transmission.

Decision theory and optimum detectors. Channel impairments: random phase,

random gain, restricted bandwidth, nonlinearities. Comparison of signal

sets.Carrier and bit synchronization. Precoding for dispersive channels.

Adaptive equalization. Sequence decoding by Viterbi algorithm.

Prerequisite:

ENSC 800.

ENSC 810-3 ?

Digital Signal Processing

Techniques for digital processing of one and two dimensional signals. Alter

design. Finite word length effects. Canonical forms, lattice filters. Estimation

of power spectrum. Homomorphic signal processing.

Prerequisite: ENSC

800.

ENSC 815-3 Signal Processing Electronics

Hardware implementation tools and design techniques. CODs, switched ca-

pacitor filters. Noise and dynamic range in sampled analog circuits. Special

purpose and general purpose digital signal processors. Signal processing

architectures: pipeline, systolic arrays, data flow architectures.

Prerequisite:

ENSC 800.

ENSC 820-3 Engineering

Management

for Development Projects

This course focuses on the management and reporting activities of typical

engineering development projects. Through seminars and workshops it builds

the student's skills at estimating project cost and schedule, keeping a project

on track, and handing over the completed project to a customer or another

team.-A writing workshop emphasizes techniques for writing proposals, and

writing and controlling documentation.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

ENSC 832-3 ?

Mobile and Satellite Communications

Propagation phenomena, modulation techniques and system design con-

siderations for mobile and satellite networks. Topics include: fading and

shadowing, noise and interference effects, analog and digital transmission,

cellular designs, multiple access techniques.

Prerequisites: ENSC 800.

ENSC 833-3 Network Protocols and Performance

Practical techniques of design and performance analysis of data networks up

to layer 301 the Open System Interconnection protocol hierarchy. Pointtopoint

and polling data links. Networks of queues: stochastic and mean value

analysis. Packet networks: loading, transittime, routing strategies.

Prerequisite:

ENSC 800.

ENSC 834-3

Optical Processing and Communications

This course will give an overview of fibre optics communications and inte-

grated optics, with emphasis on the latter. The discussion will include mul-

timode and single-mode technology, semiconductor sources, photo detec-

tors, communications systems and fibre optic sensors.

Prerequisite: ENSC

800.

ENSC 836-3 Error Correcting Codes

Introduction to error detecting and correcting codes and their implementa-

tions. Prerequisite: undergraduate courses

in probability and discrete mathe-

matics.

ENSC 851-3 ?

Integrated Circuit Technology

Review of semiconductor physics. Technology of semiconductor devices and

integrated circuits: material evaluation, crystal growth, doping, epitaxy, ther-

mal diffusion, ion implantation, lithography and device patterning, and thin film

formation. Design and fabrication of active and passive semiconductor de-

vices, packaging techniques and reliability of integrated circuits.

Prerequisite:

Permission of the instructor.

ENSC 852-3 ?

Analog Integrated Circuits

Integrated circuit (IC) technology, IC component models and analog circuit

configurations. Computer aided design tools for circuit simulation and physical

layout of ICs. Students are required to complete a project in which he/she Will

design, lay out, fabricate and test a sernicustom IC using the fast turn-around

IC fabrication facility at the School of Engineering Science.

ENSC 853-3

Digital Semiconductor Circuits and Devices

MOS device electronics. Second Order Effects in MOS transistors. BJT device

electronics. Static and transient analysis of inverters. Digital gates, circuits and

circuit techniques. Speed and power dissipation. Memory systems. Gate

arrays, semicustom and customized integrated circuits. CAD tools. Students

are required to complete a project.

Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

ENSC 861-3 Source Coding for Speech and images

Source characterization and rate-distortion functions. Sampling and quan-

DECREE REQUIREMENTS - M.ENC. PROGRAM 

(Replaces Degree Requirements - M.Eng.Program on pp.222) 

Course Work 

M. Eng. candidates are required to complete a minimum 

of 24 semester hours course work, at least 20 of which must 

be at the graduate level. Of the courses listed below, ENSC 

805, 810 and 820 are required. The prerequisite ENSC 800 

will be waived if the student has equivalent preparation. 

A key component of the M.Eng. program is a significant 

industrial project which integrates knowledge gained during 

the course of the student's graduate studies. This project 

is to be performed in the workplace, typically in industry or 

government laboratories. An appropriate level of design, 

documentation and reporting responsibility is required. The 

project would be expected to take a minimum of two person- 

months. 

During the project, the student will receive academic 

supervision, as required, from the student's senior 

supervisor at the university, and day-to-day supervision from 

the student's manager, or a designated associate, in his or 

her place of work. The industrial supervisors, who will sit 

on the student's Supervisory Committee, will be appointed by 

the Faculty. In the case of very small companies, 

alternative arrangements will be made for supervision. 

Degree Requirements - M.Eng. Program

GQurse Work

M.eNq candidates are required to complete a minimum of 30 semester

hours coDr$

e work, at least 2001 which must be at the graduate level, plus a

project. Of thqurses listed below, ENSC 805,810,815 and 820 are required.

The prerequisitNSc 800 will be waived if the student has equivalent

preparation. ?

N,,

A key component of tlteM.Eng. program is a significant industrial project

which integrates knowledgO"gined during the course of the student's grad-

uate studies. This project is td performed in the workplace, typically in

industry or government laboratoribs

An appropriate level of design, docu-

mentation and reporting

resp

onsibilits.required. The project would be ex-

pected to take a minimum of one person- nth.

During the project, the student will receiv

cademic supervision, as re-

quired, from the student's senior supervisor at th"bojversity, and day-to-day

supervision from the student's manager, or a design associate, in his or

her place of work. These industrial supervisors, who will

'biton the student's

Supervisory Committee, will be appointed by the Faculty. In

case of very ?

small companies, alternative arrangements will be made for suEyision.

In addition to submission of a technical report at the completion of pro-

ject, the student will make an oral presentation to at least the Super7rv

Committee and one other faculty member.

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