Perhaps the most in-demand skillset in today’s tech-centric world, Computer Engineering and its application across all industries is changing the way we experience life and is evolving rapidly. We want to place our students at the forefront of the telecommunications, networks, and electronics industries. Our versatile graduates can go on to a multitude of careers in the technological development of practically any sector.
In the first year, this program tackles core principles of engineering mechanics, calculus, algebra and physics, homing in on the basics of computer organization and operation. As students advance, more complex elements of digital systems, electronics, networking and security are examined. Computer Engineering is one of our most flexible programs, giving students the opportunity to select from their choice of professional electives, with innovative options such as Web Programming, Circuit Design, Safety Engineering and Materials Science.
A key element of this program is the internship, which allows students to apply their learning in a real-world scenario, spending one month with one of AUBH’s partner organizations. Graduates of this course will find themselves as work-ready computer scientists, with potential careers in every area of life and commerce.
This 4-year undergraduate program produces dynamic computer engineers who enjoy working collaboratively and can adapt to the constant change of the industry. If you love to experiment and have a passion for technology, then computer engineering is for you. Applicants to this degree program will need a strong basis in mathematics, sciences, electronics and computing basics, and need to be able to self-evaluate throughout their studies.
1. Identify, formulate and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of knowledge of science, mathematics and electrical & computer engineering.
2. Ability to Apply engineering and IT design to design reliable systems, devices or processes from initial specifications to a deliverable system, that meet specified needs but always with care and consideration for public health, safety and welfare, as well as for global, cultural, social, environmental.
3. Communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
4. Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering and IT situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering and IT solutions to global, economic, environmental and societal contexts.
5. Function effectively as part of a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks and meet objectives.
6. Develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analysis and interpretation of data, and use scientific judgment to draw conclusions.
7. Acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
This course is an overview of expository writing, including the development and revision of paragraphs and essays using various rhetorical strategies, as well as reading and discussion of selected essays, short stories and poems. In addition, the course introduces writing about literature, incorporation and documentation of material from primary sources.
*This course is aligned with the CSUN Curriculum.
This course introduces the conventions of research writing and teaches the process of producing well-planned research papers using critical thinking and analytical skills in response to a variety of academic texts. The course is designed to provide guidance in all steps of the research process including choosing a topic, designing a research methodology, analyzing data, and writing up and presenting results.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
*This course is aligned with the CSUN Curriculum.
ARHG 101 Arabic for non-Arabic speakers (3 credits)
This course develops reading and writing skills in Modern Standard Arabic with active speaking and listening skills in both formal Arabic and various Arabic dialects. Authentic materials from the Arabic media will be used in addition to text-related video and audio materials.
Prerequisites: None
ARHG 104 Arabic for Arabic Speakers (3 credits)
A practical language course which aims at developing the language skills of native speakers of Arabic. This course provides the students with a comprehensive knowledge of the linguistic system. It is intended to help learners reach a superior level of proficiency by expanding vocabulary and providing paragraph-level activities in reading, writing, and speaking; through a selection texts by writers from across the Arab world address literary themes and represent a range of genres, styles, and periods, where each text is followed by exercises that measure understanding and comprehension, vocabulary and language applications, including grammar, morphology, spelling, stylistic applications and composition.
Prerequisites: None
The course covers the Modern History of Bahrain since 1500 till 2002. It contains: Chapter I: Introduction geography. Chapter II: A Short History of Bahrain until the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chapter III: Bahrain between European and regional ambitions. Chapter IV: Utub tribe and the establishment of political entities in the Arabian Gulf. Chapter V of Bahrain and British protection. Chapter VI: Bahrain after independence.
Prerequisites: None
This course covers human rights historical development, major human rights laws, treaties, and conventions. To learn obligations as citizens and residents of Bahrain as well as a member of the international community and to understand Human Rights Enforcement Mechanisms in Bahrain.
Prerequisites: None
This course aims to enhance understanding of concepts and the development of problem-solving skills in the areas of single variable differential calculus and single variable integral calculus. Topics include limits, differentiation, curve sketching, optimization, and introductory integration. Functions studied range from simple algebraic and radical expressions to more sophisticated rational, logarithms, exponentials, and trigonometric functions.
Prerequisites: MATH 099 or placement exam score
This course involves applications and techniques of integration, including substitution, by parts, trigonometric substitution, and by partial fractions. The course also introduces improper integrals, numerical integration, sequences and series, geometric series formula, criteria for convergence, power series, and Taylor expansion.
Prerequisites: MATH 153
This course is designed to provide students with the core competencies of computing literacy and computational thinking, which are essential skills in the digital information age. The course provides an overview of computer systems—hardware, software and networks. Students will practice using essential computing programs, and will develop computational solutions to basic problems. The course also covers social and ethical issues related to computing.
Prerequisites: None
This course is designed to help students function as independent learners within a university environment. The course teaches students various transferable study skills, including time management, dealing with group projects, test preparation, and critical reading. It also intends to raise students’ understanding of themselves as learners.
Prerequisites: None
This course introduces the basic principles and the definition of human rights with an emphasis on the International Convention of human rights. It aims to reflect current developments and questions arising in international human rights law, to communicate debates and arguments concerning human rights, and to analyze the application of international human rights principles in the context of Bahrain.
*This course is aligned with the CSUN Curriculum.
Psychology is a field focused on scientifically understanding how humans think, feel, and act. This course will introduce you to the basic concepts and research within the field of psychology and hopefully it will allow you to gain a better understanding of the self and others. The course will cover a wide range of topics such as research methodology, biological bases of behavior, perception, motivation and emotion, learning and memory, development, intelligence, personality and social influence.
*This course is aligned with the CSUN Curriculum.
This course provides a broad overview of sociology and how it applies to everyday life. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts are presented, including sociological imagination, culture, deviance, inequality, social change, and social structure. Students also explore the influence of social class and social institutions, such as churches, education, healthcare, government, economy, and environment. The family as a social structure is also examined.
*This course is aligned with the CSUN Curriculum.
The American University of Bahrain recognizes the importance
of curricular and non-curricular activities in developing graduate attributes.
Hence, students are required to compile a portfolio of evidence showing their
development throughout their educational journey. The portfolio is expected to
include just a sample of activities that the student considers significant to
his/her learning. The graduation portfolio aims to:
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Provide an insight into the
student’s personality and areas of interest
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Showcase the student’s work
and development over time
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Encourage students to
engage in their wider academic and social context
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Encourage students to
reflect on their own learning and development
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Promote AUBH graduates to
employers
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). Students will learn how to design, implement, and test software using the OOP paradigm. The course covers topics such as encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, and object-oriented design patterns. The course will be taught using a programming language.
Prerequisites: COSC 101
Data structures are essential building blocks for designing efficient algorithms. This course will introduce the fundamentals of data structures and will provide a thorough understanding of how to systematically organize data in a computer system. In addition, this course will introduce students to analytical tools for comparing data structures in terms of their time and space complexities. Students will appreciate the importance of programming structures, abstractions, and algorithms for improving the efficiency of computer programs. Topics include linked lists, stacks, trees, queues, graphs and analysis of efficiency. The course also covers searching, sorting, and hashing techniques.
Prerequisite: COSC 102
This course focuses on logic, methods of proof, set theory, number theory, equivalence and order relations, counting (combinations and permutations), and solving recurrence relations.
Prerequisite: MATH 151 or MATH 153
The aim of the course is to understand the principles of operation and design choices of communication networks, as well as to learn the basic characteristics of the prevailing network technologies. The focus of the course is the Internet, covering issues related to the planning, implementation, and operation of communication networks with emphasis on fundamental concepts and principles.
Prerequisites: COSC 125
This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to research methods used in various engineering fields. The course covers quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches, and their application in engineering research. It also introduces students to ethical considerations and data analysis techniques specific to engineering research.
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
This course focuses on systems of linear equations and matrices, Gauss elimination, matrices, determinants vectors in 2- and 3-dimensional space, norm, dot product, cross product, lines, planes, Euclidean vector spaces, general vector spaces, and matrix diagonalization.
Prerequisites: MATH 153
This course is an introduction to probability and statistics. It emphasizes on operations of sets, counting problems, definition of probability, conditional probability, Bayes’ theorem, one- and two- dimensional random variables, mathematical expectation and variance, basic discrete and continuous probability distributions, moment generating functions, law of large numbers, and central limit theorem. It also includes aspects of descriptive statistics, statistical intervals, hypothesis testing and simple linear regression and correlation.
Pre-requisites: MATH 152 OR MATH 154
Digital technology has become the core business of almost every manufacturing industry. This course gives an overview of circuitry, logic, and system design for understanding the impact of electrical and computer engineering solutions in a global, economic, and societal context. It focuses on modeling, analysis, and design of digital systems, primarily at the logical design level.
Prerequisite: MATH 153
This course focuses on practical modelling, analysis, and design of digital systems, primarily at the logic design level. Digital electronic topics include: the basic logic gates, Boolean algebra, number systems, digital arithmetic, combinational logic circuits, multiplexers, decoders and flip-flops, counters, and registers
Co-requisite: CMPE 270
In our lifetimes, we have seen unprecedented expansion of computational capabilities fueled both by advanced processing and architectural innovations to exploit that processing capability. As a result of these capabilities automatic computation is having a huge impact on the way we live, work, communicate, and especially how we do science and engineering. This course examines in-depth the inner-workings of modern digital computer systems and the tradeoffs present at the hardware-software interface. It provides insights in the design process of complex hardware systems. A digital design background is considered fundamental, and it is mandatory.
Prerequisite: COSC 102, CMPE 270
This course introduces the fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database systems and database applications. It will teach students about data modeling techniques, relational database design, use of normalization to design normalized relational databases, Structured Query Language’s (SQL), data definition (DDL), data manipulation (DML), and web database development.
Prerequisite: MATH 203 and COSC 125
This course provides an in-depth understanding of modern operating systems, covering core concepts and principles. Key topics include operating system structures, process management, thread management, CPU scheduling, process synchronization, deadlock handling, memory management, virtual memory, mass storage, and file system management. The course aims to teach students about the operating system’s role as an interface between the user and computer hardware, focusing on both high-level functionality and low-level implementation details of CPU scheduling, processes, memory management, file system management, and virtualization. It emphasizes how operating systems act as a critical bridge in computer systems, delving into the intricate workings of these components at a detailed level.
Prerequisite: CMPE 271
This course covers the Unix system administration and practical concepts and principles that underlie modern operating systems including Processes, Threads, Synchronization, Inter-Process Communication, Deadlock and Disk Scheduling.
Co-requisite: COSC 372
This course provides students with an overview of Software Engineering, introducing theory and practical exercises with main focus on practical work in teams and individually. Concepts and techniques for systems engineering, requirements analysis, design, implementation and testing of computer systems. Principles of software engineering for production of reliable, maintainable and portable software products. Emphasis on object-oriented analysis and design techniques. This is a lecture portion of a course in software engineering involving the design and partial implementation of a software system as a group project.
Prerequisite: COSC 125
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills required to start and manage their own technology-based ventures. The course covers topics such as ideation, business model development, market research, intellectual property, and funding. The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the entrepreneurial process and to develop their skills in identifying, evaluating, and pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities.
Prerequisite: ENGR 205
The course provides an overview of the fundamental principles of physics in the areas of electricity and magnetism. Topics include electric field, Gauss law, electric potential, capacitance and dielectrics, current and resistance, direct current circuits, magnetic fields, sources of magnetic fields, Biot-Savart Law, Ampere’s Law, Faraday’s law, and Lenz’s Law. The course is designed for students requiring calculus-based physics.
Prerequisite: PHYS 101 and either MATH 152 OR MATH 154
This course is designed to reinforce topics presented in PHYS 102 lectures. Through scientific experimentation, students will improve their understanding of basic concepts in electricity and magnetism while developing their foundation of the scientific process. Laboratory work includes the setting up and running of physics’ experiments, whether hands on or online. Regular activities include data taking, data presentation, data visualization, data analysis, fitting, and drawing of conclusions.
Pre-Co-requisite: PHYS 102
This course involves selected topics—from ordinary differential equations, the Laplace transform, Fourier series, and Linear Algebra—with engineering applications using mathematical software.
Prerequisite: MATH 154
This course introduces students to the principles and techniques of DC and AC circuit analysis. The circuit analysis is performed in both time and frequency domains. The students are also introduced to the transient and steady-state behaviour, with a focus on first order and second order passive circuits. The Laplace transform is introduced to solve circuit analysis problems with a variety of input functions, illustrating the use of electrical circuits as frequency-selective filters. An Illustrative use of computer simulation software is adopted in parallel with classical problem-solving approaches.
Prerequisites: PHYS 102, MATH 154
This course prepares students for a globally recognized professional certification that establishes the needed credentials in IT support and computer hardware. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the essential knowledge and skills required to become a proficient computer technician. Students will learn about hardware and software troubleshooting, networking, operating systems, and security, gaining the necessary expertise to excel and launch a successful career in the IT industry.
Prerequisite: Senior Level (90 credits)
This course emphasizes on business design, memory design, interrupt structure and input/output for microprocessor-based systems. Topics include memory map and addresses, low-level/assembly language programming, bus architecture, input/output systems, interrupts, and other related topics. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, verify, and troubleshoot fundamental microprocessor circuits and programs using appropriate techniques and test equipment.
Prerequisites: CMPE 271
With the rapid development in digital Hardware technology, digital design needs to be adaptive and fast to implement. This course introduces the design of digital systems using programmable logic devices such as memories, SPLDs, CPLDs and FPGAs. In this course, students acquire the knowledge to describe the behavior of logic systems, using finite state machine and ASM charts, and design methodologies for partitioning a digital system into a Datapath and controller. The course emphasizes modelling digital systems with VHDL and their implementation with FPGA. Students will learn to use industrial EDA tools such as Intel Quartus/Xilinx Vivado and ModelSim.
Prerequisite: CMPE 270
This course focuses on embedded system architecture. Topics include IO programming using parallel ports, serial ports, timers, and D/A and A/D converters, as well as interrupts and real-time programming, program development and debugging tools and C language and assembler.
Prerequisites: CMPE 412
This course serves as the first part of a two-semester sequence. It provides students with the opportunity to apply their accumulated knowledge and skills in computer engineering to a substantial, real-world project. Emphasizing teamwork, project management, and interdisciplinary collaboration, this course lays the foundation for the completion of a comprehensive engineering design project in the subsequent semester.
Prerequisite: Senior level (90 credits), CGPA 2.0, SWEN 360, CMPE 470
Building upon the foundation established in Capstone Project I, this course focuses on the implementation, testing, and refinement of the engineering design developed in the earlier phase. Working in teams, students will apply their technical knowledge and skills to design, build, and evaluate a solution to the identified problem or opportunity. Students are expected to follow a systematic approach to prototype development, perform rigorous testing, and iterate on the design based on feedback and evaluation results. Throughout the course, students will engage in critical analysis, problem-solving, and effective project management to address any challenges that arise during the implementation phase. Successful completion of this course will culminate in a fully functional and validated engineering solution, along with comprehensive documentation and a final presentation.
Prerequisite: CMPE 499A
The rapid evolution of electronics has revolutionized every aspect of human life. This course develops the principles and the applications of solid-state electronic devices such as diodes, JFETs, MOSFETs, and BJTs in typical electronic circuits. The students are expected to acquire a full analysis and design of circuits such as AC signal rectifiers, filters, and simple amplifiers using diodes, transistors and operational amplifiers. Theoretical understanding will be consolidated using a dedicated software for circuit design and analysis.
Prerequisite: ELEC 320
This is a supervised internship course that provides computer engineering students with the opportunity to gain practical, hands-on experience in a professional work environment. The internship allows students to apply and further develop their knowledge and skills acquired throughout their academic studies. Under the guidance of industry professionals and academic supervisors, students engage in real-world projects, tasks, and responsibilities relevant to the field of computer engineering.
Prerequisites: Senior level (90 Credits), CGPA 2.0
This course focuses on the study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversaries. The course covers topics such as classical ciphers, modern symmetric and asymmetric key cryptographic systems, cryptographic protocols, and cryptanalysis. The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the principles and techniques for designing and analyzing secure communication systems.
Prerequisite: MATH 203
This course provides students with a solid foundation in the field of robotics, with a focus on essential concepts of construction and programming of robots using Robotics Operating System (ROS) which provides an effective platform for robot software development. This course covers a variety of topics, such as: current state of the art research and applications in robotics, as well as designing, building, programming, and controlling robots. (Prerequisite: COSC 372L)
Prerequisite: COSC 372L
This course is a broad and comprehensive introduction to computer vision. The course covers computational techniques and methods for extracting meaningful information from visual inputs. Topics include image analysis, object detection, image segmentation, feature extraction and pattern classification. Students will also be introduced to modern real-world applications of computer vision in various fields such as robotics, graphics, medicine, and manufacturing.
Prerequisites: MATH 260, COSC 125
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a networking paradigm consisting of sensors embedded in devices and in the environment. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of IoT systems and their applications. Topics include IoT devices programming, wireless network design and optimization, edge-cloud IoT platforms, and IoT security. The course also covers applications of IoT such as smart cities, smart homes, environmental monitoring and health monitoring.
Prerequisite: CMPE 412
This course covers the concepts and principles related to network management including network operation, security, and troubleshooting. The aim of the course is to give students the knowledge needed to securely establish, maintain, and troubleshoot the essential networks that businesses rely on.
Prerequisite: CMPE 215
Students pursuing the Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering must complete a minimum of 6 elective credits from general education course or any other programs at 200 level or above.
Career Progression
Graduates of BSc in Computer Engineering program possess expertise in both electronic circuits and programming languages, enabling them to pursue careers in various fields such as:
· Network Administrator: who manages an organization’s network and ensures that the organization’s computer networks are operating to meet the needs of the organization.
· System Administrator: who configures and manages an organization’s entire infrastructure to support the running of the business.
· Network Architect: who designs and manages data communication networks for organizations.
· Technical Support Specialist: who resolves any problems and questions regarding computer systems that customers, employees, or organizations have, and keeps computers and technology working smoothly for individuals and organizations.
· Robotics Engineer: who designs and builds robotic systems and technologies.
· Embedded Systems Engineer: who develops software and hardware for devices like drones, medical equipment, and smart cars.
· Software Developer: who designs, implements, and tests software and applications using different programming languages.
Learning Progression
Graduates of BSc in Computer Engineering program are prepared with a strong foundation to progress to graduate studies (MSc or Ph.D.) within their field of study or relevant one as well as obtain professional qualification such as Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), CompTIA A+, and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
