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The course is a study of imperative stored program control architecture and application in an embedded environment. An initial series of exercises teaching principles and techniques is followed by two application project phases. The students use C programming language as an example only to program an embedded processor built on a high performance Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform. There is no need for prior knowledge of the C language as students are provided with pre-built modules and guidelines for integration.

This course provides an introduction to philosophical issues in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. These include questions such as: What is the relation between the mind and the material world? Is the mind a part of the scientific, law-governed material world? If so, can I really act freely? If the mind is part of the material world, how could a material thing be conscious? What, fundamentally, are material things and their properties? What is it for one event to cause another? What is time, and what is change? How can physical objects persist through change? Can a person persist through time and change and still be the same person?

This course explores the full data analytics cycle and big data analysis. Topics include: models and technologies for decision-making; descriptive analytics; predictive analytics and data mining; fundamental concepts of neural networks and deep learning; big data specific technologies; emerging trends and impact of business analytics. Students are expected to have previous knowledge of statistics and basic programming skills.

This course covers key features and key processes of strategic management of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), about main characteristics of SMEs, including those owned and run by families (small and medium family businesses), and about factors and decisions impacting SMEs' sustainable competitive advantage. Through multiple cases, examples and guest speakers sessions, students develop a comprehensive knowledge about strategic decision making for small or medium businesses, with a focus on international and digital growth strategies. Prerequisites: prior knowledge of key concepts, terminology and frameworks of general management.

This course examines the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human life and inquiry. This course looks at philosophy by taking up questions about the nature of knowledge, the human mind and its relation to the body, the principles of right action and of a good life, and freedom and constraint in a just political order. It examines both contemporary and historically influential approaches.

This course examines the emergence of cities from the urban revolution around 5,000 BC to 4,000 BC first in Western Asia, through the key milestones of our urban evolution, to the current era of megacities and megaregions. The issues covered in this course include the birth of cities as a part of urban lifecycles; the projection of power; order and governance; disruption and reconfiguration; humanistic cities; building cities for mass populations; conflict, community, and faith; trends and competitions; unprecedented societal changes and urban growth; contemporary urbanism and our planetary future. We will focus on the development of a particular urbanism with its constituent cities as we expound each of these issues, while seeking to bring comparative case studies to illustrate how these issues have been unravelled in similar and diverse ways in other urbanisms and historical periods.

This course explores public and personal health infrastructure with a focus on Egypt. It includes an optional service-learning component in which students become aware of their role in community health issues. The course discusses the effect of cultural and social-economic conditions on public health, community and governmental services to protect and improve the health of populations, and methods of transmission and prevention of selected diseases. It considers current and emerging health concerns in the region and worldwide, preventive measures for current and emerging health concerns, and how health issues impact society. It also practices efficiently writing and presenting health issues to the public.

 

FinTech (Financial Technology) has revolutionized how traditional financial services can be provided to the general public and prompted financial service providers to re-consider how they should do business across an expansive, and expanding, range of commercial enterprises. This course will trigger students to think about how FinTech can tackle important global issues, both social and financial, and open up new and emerging markets.

This course familiarizes students with the fundamental semantic notion of cohesion. Indeed, it is cohesion that makes it possible to form a discursive whole, whether written or oral. The main cohesive links defined by Halliday and Hasan's COHESION IN ENGLISH (1976) are reviewed, defined and discussed: reference, substitution, ellipsis, the main types of reiteration and comparison. Conjunction and collocation are omitted. Each lesson is devoted to recognizing, locating, and activating these various links.