Teaching the Teachers (A Concepts Workshop): Electronic Circuits for Instrumentation and Measurement

Department of Electrical Engineering, SSE LUMS Presents

Teaching the Teachers (A Concepts Workshop):

Electronic Circuits for Instrumentation & Measurement

Dates: 4th to 7th June, 2012 Venue: School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore Instructor: Prof. Dr.Asad Abidi Electrical Engineering Department University of California, Los Angeles

About the Workshop:

Much of the art of analog circuits has developed around the wide-ranging needs of instrumentation and measurement, whether for industry, for sensor interfaces used in environment monitoring or medical applications, or for a broad range of uses in laboratories for R&D or higher education. This workshop will use case studies of recent and classic circuits to demonstrate a curriculum for an Electronics III course, that would follow the standard sequence of two semester-long sequence which introduces analysis (though seldom design) of single stage and multistage amplifiers and oscillators. Electronics III will take the student, who may be in the 4th year of a BS degree or in an MS degree, from cell-level analysis to practical subsystem design. It is not a cookbook course consisting of recipes of purportedly useful circuits; nor is it the collection of lectures that might accompany a teaching laboratory. Rather, it is a theory-based design-oriented course on fundamental circuit concepts in instrumentation, measurement, and interfacing that have remained largely unchanged for more than 50 years, but when using integrated circuits enriched by digital signal processing they do what they are intended to more accurately, with smaller size and at lower cost. Apart from circuits that compute, these analog circuits underpin the electronics age. Participants must have a strong background in basic circuit theory and in signal processing. Attendees of the previous two teach-the-teachers workshops taught at LUMS should be particularly well prepared.

Workshop Syllabus:
A unique syllabus is now under development for this four-day long workshop. Roughly it will contain these topics: Waveform probing, display, and analysis using oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers, with focus on system principles and key circuits Impedance, and the simultaneous measurement of RLC Fundamentals of noise and dynamic range in electronic circuits Sensor interface amplifiers with very low noise, offset, and drift Low voltage, low power circuits capable of operating from a single cell Stable clock circuits, quartz crystal resonators Modeling A/D and D/A converters and their associated interface circuits Problems of high frequency circuit design and measurement PC board design for high frequencies: art and science

The registration fee will cover the nominal cost of a textbook, The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill, which may be used to teach this material in the classroom, and a voluminous collection of printed material compiled by the presenter to be distributed to attendees as a bound volume. As in past workshops, attendees will have to take detailed notes if they are to capture many insights, analysis methods and practical tricks not to be found elsewhere.

LUMS School of Science and Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering

Teaching the Teachers (A Concepts Workshop): Electronic Circuits for Instrumentation and Measurement

About the Instructor:

Dr. Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc.(Hon.) degree from Imperial College, London in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and 1981. He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1981 to 1984 as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles where he is Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories during 1989. His research interests are in the design of CMOS RF integrated circuits, high-speed analog circuits, and data converters. Dr. Abidi served as the Program Secretary for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990 and as General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991, and from 1992 to 1995 he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He has received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, and is co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Jack Kilby Best Student Paper Award at the 1996 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997 ISSCC, and the Design Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation Conference, and the 2001 ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award. In 2007, the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science recognized him with the Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has received an IEEE Millennium Medal, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was named one of the top ten contributors to the ISSCC. He is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. Dr. Abidi is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Registration Procedure:
Interested applicants should send their CVs latest by Monday, 14 May 2012 to: Mr. Ahmad Mahmood Tahir Assistant Manager, Electrical Engineering, SSE, LUMS Email: ahmad.tahir@lums.edu.pk CVs should include the applicants Designation and Work/Teaching Experience in the area of Electronic Circuits and Signal Processing. Limited accommodation space is available at HEC Hostel, Lahore at additional cost. Please mention if you would require accommodation or not at the time of applying to the workshop. Applicants will be shortlisted according to their qualifications and experience. Preference will be given to: Candidates who have a strong background in basic circuit theory and in signal processing. Candidates who have attended previous workshops by Prof Asad A. Abidi. Faculty members who have taught courses related to Electronic Circuits at least once. Candidates from industry who have at least two years professional experience in Electronic Circuit design.
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Registration Fee:
Each workshop participant will be required to pay a nominal registration fee which will be used to cover part of the expenses of the workshop such as photocopied material, refreshments, etc. Registration fee is as follows: Rs 1000/- for workshop participants belonging to academia. Rs 5000/- for workshop participants belonging to industry.

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For further information please contact: Dr. Shahid Masud Dept. Chair, Electrical Engineering, SSE LUMS Email: smasud@lums.edu.pk
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Shahrukh Athar Teaching Fellow, Electrical Engineering, SSE LUMS Email: shahruh.athar@lums.edu.pk
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