Electrical and Computer Engineer

Baraa Alyusuf

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Bridgeview, IL 60455

Phone: 312-***-****

E-mail: *.*******@*****.***

Objective

To secure an Electrical/Electronic Engineer position, where my background and experience can be fully utilized

Education

University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan

Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering

Graduated: May 2009, GPA: 3.86 / 4.00

University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria

Post-Graduate Diploma in Telecommunications Engineering

Department of Electronic Engineering

Graduated: September 2005

University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Department of Electronic Engineering

Graduated: September 2004

License

Engineer-In-Training (EIT), Michigan

Passed: June 2009

Academic Experience

University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan

Digital Logic/FPGA Lab Assistant

Jan. 2009 – May 2009

Worked as a part-time Lab assistant for digital logic class (EE264-EE265.) I helped students use their knowledge in digital logic to design and implement digital circuits on PLD as well as FPGA chips. We used Quartus 8.1 software, Altera FPGA evaluation boards (Cyclone II), and 74xx chips along with breadboards to cover the lab materials.

Electric Circuits Lab Assistant

Sept. 2008 – Dec. 2008

Worked as a TA and Lab assistant for electrical circuit class E320-E321. Assisted students in understanding the advanced features of lab equipments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzer, function generator, DMM meters, and others. Tutored students having difficulties with course content.

Research Assistant

Sept. 2007 – Current

•Worked on a funded research project to develop FPGA-based Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) transceivers. The design environment is Matlab/Simulink with Xilinx SysGen software. This prototype was generic to match the IEEE802.11p standard, once it is finalized. This work involved different telecommunication techniques, such as OFDM, coding/scrambling/interleaving, FFT/IFFT, digital modulation schemes (BPSK, QPSK, 16/64QAM), and others.

•Worked as a member of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) funded research group. My responsibilities included evaluating the performance of WLAN protocols in Inter-Vehicle Communications (IVC) environments. This includes measuring distance and speed impacts on the performance metrics, such as throughput, jitter time and delay time. Moreover, I developed and evaluated a new low-cost test bed for evaluating WLAN protocols.

Baath University, Homs, Syria

Adjunct Faculty Member

Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2007

•Drafted, developed, and taught complete networking lab sessions. The sessions covered the following: building Ethernet cables, planning and setting up a workgroup network, setting up and configuring a windows-based server to be added to the network, configuring the domain name controller and a domain name server, configuring the DHCP protocol to assign IPs dynamically, upgrading the network to become a domain instead of a workgroup, users' permission and privileges.

•Taught advanced networking lab topics, including the CISCO-routers’ configurations, remote access capabilities in the network.

•Taught telecommunication labs for both junior and senior courses. The labs covered baseband as well as broadband signals processing such as, filter design, sampling techniques, Pulse Code Modulation (PCM), Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM), and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), analog and digital modulation/demodulation technologies (AM, FM, DSB, SSB, FM Stereo, ASK, FSK, MSK, PSK, DPSK, QPSK, QAM, GSM)

Industry Experience

Department of Telecommunications, Damascus, Syria

Telecommunication Engineer

Jan. 2006 – Aug. 2006

•Worked on the Maconi Project in the Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) center. This project enabled TMN-center engineers to administrate the microwave network that covered the entire country. My responsibilities included: Monitoring and reporting the network performance, following up with maintenance technicians to enhance performance and resolve problems, and assigning free frequency channels with different bandwidths to clients.

•Worked on the WLL-CDMA Project. The project extended the land-phone network by adding Wireless Local Loop (WLL) capabilities. The project provided suburbs with CDMA-based wireless ISDN services. My responsibilities included: Network monitoring and resources management, activating/deactivating ISDN services including internet access, and technical support to customers and technician in field.

BARADA Refrigerators Manufacturing, Damascus, Syria

 Electrical Engineer

Aug. 2005 – Dec. 2005

•Worked in the department of maintenance.

•Completed training course for electrical safety procedures

•Worked with team of Engineers and Technicians to maintain the lighting system of the factory.

Relevant Class Projects

University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan

Embedded thermo-sensing module

Followed specifications to design, develop, assemble and test a thermo-sensing module which was part of a Data-Logger team project. The module was able to monitor the temperature of the system board and the charger/batteries. Moreover, it was capable of acquiring the temperature of different locations through six thermocouples of type J, K and T. Afterwards, the module formulated a message that could be broadcasted on the CAN bus and/or stored in an SD card for offline processing. The temperature was converted into a digital-format representation through analog-to-digital converters (ADC). Both I2C and SPI protocols were deployed in this module to communicate the temperature between the ADCs and the microcontroller. Our team developed multiple modules, e.g. thermocouple, SD card, CAN bus, compass, GPS modules. One of the dsPIC33 microcontrollers was shared among all the designed modules by using its DMA features. All modules were programmed using Embedded C; however, assembly language was used for time critical function, such as, Interrupt Service Routine (ISR).

MIPS Microprocessor using FPGA and VHDL:

Designed, developed, and implemented a MIPS-architecture microcontroller using HDL language. The design included writing the code to implement RAM, dual-port register file, ALU, Multiplexers, control unit with moor’s state machine sequencer. I used VHDL language to write the code, ModelSim and Xilinx ISE and Spartan3 board to simulate then implement the design.

LIN master node:

Programmed and implemented a Local Interconnect Network (LIN) protocol master node. The master node probes a LIN network and establishes a connection with all slave nodes that are alive and ready to communicate. Moreover, the master will detect any slave node that tries to join the network and will establish a connection with it. The software was developed in assembly language, and it was loaded and tested using HC12 UDM-EV-board.

Professional Skills

•Embedded system design: Microcontrollers and microprocessors, such as FreeScale, Microchip (PIC/dsPIC) and Atmel

•Hardware development: Circuit simulation using PSpice, Printed Circuits Boards (PCB) design using EagleCAD. Integrated Circuits (IC) design using Hardware Description Language (VHDL), schematic capture and Finite State Machine (FSM) to program CPLD as well as FPGA chips.

•Analog and digital signal processing: Designing both analog and digital filters.

•Wireless technologies: IEEE 802.11b/g/a/p, DSRC

•Network Configuration: CISCO routers and switches configuration.

•Programming Languages:

Embedded Applications: Assembly and Embedded-C languages.

Desktop Applications: Pascal and C languages.

Matlab/Simulink

Xilinx software suite including Xilinx ISE and System Generator

ModelSim software simulation tool for VHDL design

Altera software suite, i.e. Quartus software

•Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 2000 (Professional & Server),Windows2003 server, Windows XP, Windows Vista, LINUX (Ubuntu)

•Software: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), SmartDraw.

Publications:

“Computer Network Laboratory Development for ECE students,” published in the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2009 conference proceedings. The paper presents a full set of networking lab sessions including Ethernet and WLAN protocols.

“Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11b/g for Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC),” accepted for presentation at 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2009) in Oct. 2009.

References

Will be furnished upon request

Legal Status

Green Card Holder

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