School of Electronic Engineering
Postgraduate Programmes
Information for Existing Students
This page contains information, which is applicable to students who have already registered. Various resources will be placed online here throughout the year.
Online Module Links
All active modules have been listed below, with online notes linked where applicable. Module descriptor links have been provided for your convenience:
Important Note: Access to notes will be provided during the first week of each semester to provide a level playing field to all students. It will
be provided on the day of the first lecture in that module - please check your DCU email during the first week. Please do not request access to notes before this time.
Access will be granted based on your DCU username and password. More information will be provided to your via your DCU email accounts.
| Module Title | Online Notes | Module Descriptor | Mailing List |
| EE402: Object-oriented Programming for Engineers | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE449: DSP (Digital Filters & DFT) | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE450: Communications Theory | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE453: Image Processing & Analysis (with Project) (Note: Contact ghitao@eeng.dcu.ie for login details) |
Online Material (See Note) |
Description | List Home |
| EE509: Data Network Protocol Analysis & Simulation | Online Material (Moodle*) | Description | List Home |
| EE535: Renewable Energy: Systems, Technology and Economics | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE540: HDL/High Level Logic Synthesis | Online Material (Moodle*) | Description | List Home |
| EE541: Nano & Microelectronic Device Manufacturing | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE554: Image and Video Compression | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE559: Fundamentals of Nanoelectronic Technology | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE562: Network Programming | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE417: Web Application Development | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE451: Mechatronic System Simulation | Campus Only - Material | Description | List Home |
| EE452: Wireless and Mobile Communications | Online Material (Moodle) | Description | List Home |
| EE454: Optical Communications System Design | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE500: Performance of Data Networks | Online Material (Moodle) | Description | List Home |
| EE502: DSP (Signal Modelling & Compression) | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE506: Fundamentals of Photonic Devices | Online Material (Moodle) | Description | List Home |
| EE507: Entrepreneurship for Engineers | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE538: Secure Sys Admin & Internetwork Security | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE550: Characterisation Technology for Nanomaterials | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE552: Broadband Networks | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE544: Computer Vision | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE558: Advanced RF Circuit Modelling | Online Material | Description | List Home |
| EE563: Graphics and Visualisation | Online Material | Description | List Home |
Induction/Continuing Students
- Induction - New Students Semester 2 2011/2012 - New students on any of the Masters programmes are invited to an Induction Session, scheduled to take place in XG15 on Monday 6th of February at 1pm-2pm. The induction session will consist of a short presentation on the programmes, followed by a question and answer session with the programme chair. In total it should take less than an hour, as some students will be attending their first lecture at 2pm (depending on subject selections). XG15 is located on the ground floor of the Science building. See the campus map for location details.
The presentation slides have been made available here, particularly for remote students who can not attend:
- PowerPoint Slides
- Semester 2 2011/2012 - - Semester 2 lectures begin on Monday 6th February 2012. The *draft* timetable can be found here - Semester 2 Timetable. When reading the room numbers of a timetable, the first letter relates to "which building", the second character relates to "which floor" (B-basement,G-ground, 1-2-3 for floors) and the remaining two characters relate to the room number on that floor. The character keys to the buildings can be found at: Campus Map
Note: The lecture for EE417 on February 6th is canceled - more information can be found at the EE417 course website.
- Induction - New Students Semester 1 2011/2012 - New students on any of the Masters programmes are invited to an Induction Session, scheduled to take place in C114 on Monday 26th of September at 9am-10am.
The induction session will consist of a short presentation on the programmes, followed by a question and answer session with the programme chair.
In total in should take less than an hour, as some students will be attending their first lecture at 10am (depending on subject selections).
C114 is located on the first floor of the Henry Grattan Building. See the campus map for location details.
Update: This presentation has taken place and the resources can be found here:
- PowerPoint Slides
- Screencapture and Audio from Presentation - Semester 1 2011/2012 - Lectures begin again on Monday 26th September 2011. The *draft* timetable can be found here - Semester 1 Timetable.
This timetable is a work-in-progress and will only be finalised approximately two weeks before the beginning of semester. When reading the room numbers of a timetable, the first letter relates to "which building", the second character relates to "which floor" (B-basement,G-ground, 1-2-3 for floors)
and the remaining two characters relate to the room number on that floor. The character keys to the buildings can be found at: Campus Map
- New Students Semester 1 2011/2012 - Welcome to our new students who are registering for the first time.
Information will be sent to these students from the school in relation to a range of aspects of the programme. The chair of the taught masters
programmes is Dr. Gabriel Muntean and he has responsibility for dealing with any academic issues
you might have during your studies in DCU.
Postgraduate Student Calender/Lecture Timetable
- Semester 2 *Draft* Timetable
- DCU General Timetable & Calenders Information
- Academic Calendar 2011/2012 - provides general date information for the University academic year, including the scheduled weeks for examinations and results.
Access to Notes
When you register, a number of things happen:
- You are added to a 'Gdmeng' mailing list, which is the global mailing list for all taught postgraduate programmes
within the School (next day). Note: This is your DCU email address (not that which you may have specified to the application system) - all correspondance with students is performed
using their DCU email addresses.
- You are added to the password files for each of the online modules for which you are registered. (next day) However, please note that lecture material will *NOT* be made available
until the first lecture takes place on campus. Please do not request access to notes in advance of this time, as many lecturers are working on their course material, updating their notes.
- At the beginning (ie. in the first week) students are added to
the module mailing lists for which they are registered.
However, after this time, if you have registered late or if you
have completed a change of module form, you should manually
subscribe or unsubscribe lists appropriately. This is
your responsibility. You can find links to module mailing
list homepages above.
- As there is a two week 'change-of-mind' period at the beginning of each Semester, during which students may change module selections, 'Guest' passwords are set up for some of the modules. However, for the majority of modules you should be able to access course material regardless of the modules for which you are registered. If you are having any problems regarding access, then please contact David Molloy directly to request access.
- If you are registered incorrectly, you should contact the Registry at DCU to get your registration details amended.
- If you are correctly registered, and/or are having problems with accessing notes, please contact David Molloy directly.
Masters Project Information
For full details regarding the Masters project please follow the link below:
The template below should be followed by all students submitted a Masters project. In details how the project report should be written in terms of structure, layout and content.
Assignment Coversheet
The following attachment *must* be completed and attached to all assignment submissions:
Final Result Calculations
The following links provide information regarding the calculation of final result marks:
- Masters Overall Result Calculations
- Graduate Diploma Overall Result Calculations
- Graduate Certificate Overall Result Calculations
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Still haven't found the information that you are looking for? Check out the FAQ page and if that fails please don't hesitate to contact us.
General Postgraduate Information
The primary source of information about the taught postgraduate programmes offered within the School can be found here. If you have any further questions, which aren't answered at this location, then please contact us.
