Hasan Abuhilal

 2012/2013 academic year – Present: Assistant. Prof at the at Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT)

• United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
• My current job since December 2012

Faculty of Electrical and Electronics engineering. I am teaching and participating in the Curriculum Development through the discussion within the team members. I am also involved in writing The FWA exams for some courses. I also bridge the gap of theoretical and practical engineering studies by sending my students to Etisalat Sites and understand clearly the basics of communication engineering. At HCT, I am teaching the following courses (at both teaching and lab level):

• Electric Circuits 1
• Electric Circuits 2
• Signals and Systems
• Communication Systems
• Digital Communication Systems
• Control Systems
• Mobile Communication
• Data communication
• Health and Safety
• Design thinking in engineering
• Machines and Power
• Design projects for graduating students
• Intelligent systems
• Solar Systems

 In addition to teaching, I am assisting in some administrative committees, such as exam monetoring committee, students misconduct committee, program development committee, and council committee. I am also participating in some renewable energy
Project events in UAE and outside, I have established some connections in the Solar Area mainly. 

 September 2008 - 2012: Dhofar University. The following duties
Are delivered:

1. Faculty member. Serving at the electrical engineering department.
2. Helping in Teaching math for all levels especially for Engineering Students.

Assist Prof at higher colleges of technology

• United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
• My current job since February 2013

Participates in the classroom-based teaching of undergraduate, engineering students in accordance with college needs and requirements.
Participates in the design, co-ordination, execution, evaluation and refinement of the study plans for engineering programs in accordance with accreditation requirements.
Participates in the engineering courses and instructor coordination and assessment process.
Participates in the student learning outcomes and competencies assessment process in accordance with accreditation requirements.
Works cooperatively with senior college administration and other course coordinators to design, implement and evaluate remediation programs aimed at students who are not progressing on schedule.
Establishes relationships with other faculty within the College and other institutions to promote development and assessment of the academic and research programs.
Serves on local professional and/or scientific associations as appropriate.
Coordinates and teaches the assigned courses. Serves on other College and Institutional committees as appropriate.
Participates in scholarly activity as a principal for funded and non-funded research projects within the identified area(s) of specialty and in alignment with college and college expectations.
Participate in graduation ceremonies.
Comply with policies and procedures. Other duties as assigned by the Head of Department.

RF and Operation manager at LCC

• United Arab Emirates - Dubai
• January 2009 to January 2010

RESEARCH at EMU

• United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
• January 2004 to March 2009

PhD Thesis And Current Research: ( Multi Input Multi Output CDMA Systems)

The current research activities include research in the field of communication engineering. The Research focuses on CDMA systems. Multi Input Multi Output Antenna Communications. Receive diversity. Space and Time diversity. Multipath fading channels, Signal to noise ratio and carrier to interference ratio. Wireless communication, Signal Processing and mathematics modelling for signal processing and communications. The thesis investigated the effects of impulsive channels
in MIMO CDMA systems in adverse conditions. My current research is revolving arount multi cell MIMO systems.

•Master Thesis and Current Research : ( Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction in OFDM Systems)

My Master thesis topic was about signal processing and multiple access systems in communications. More specifically, the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple access systems. We have carried out a clear study in employing wavelets as a signal processing technique. And replace it as orthogonal carriers. All simulation results such as Bit Error Rate (BER), PAPR…etc.
The simulations are done under different types of modulations. Power Distribution of the signal, and the Frequency spectrum of the carriers, were carried out using Matlab software package. Wavelets and signal processing techniques were used to minimize the peaks that occurs in OFDM signal.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment Expertise :

PD (professional development) Activities, Workshops & Courses

Technical Consultant at Telecom

• Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
• September 2007 to January 2008

 Technical Engineering Experience (LCC Operations Manager ).
 Model Tuning Project Manager. Have delivered 14 models for DU operator: Dense Urban Urban Suburban and Rural Models for 3 different cities.(2G, 3G)
 Managing all Telecom Projects in UAE for LCC. Team Organising, Projects follow up… etc.
 RF Engineer for MSI Consultancy, (KSA): Performed Site audits, Perform site survey, walk test and drive test using TEMS and Swissqual. Providing reports for network expansion capacity and coverage using Swissqual diversity benchmarking tool.

(2G & 3G)
RF Network Planning and Optimization

• Performed UMTS & GSM model tuning Project, Main Role: Project Manager for model tuning project for GSM and UMTS, Planning drive test team, analysis of survey, Site selection, Tool configuration, Model tuning and calibration, excellent client customer interfacing.

• Performed UMTS design, GAIA model tuning, and 3G coverage and traffic arrays on different loads in the system, scrambling code Planning and RFDS for different configurations in the system. Performed measurement integration and propagation using PLANET, and GAIA. Performed RF planning and link budget calculations for different sites.

• Planned indoor coverage sites, Perform coverage prediction, providing presentations and reports for client as required, Proposal preparation and link budget preparation, and network trouble shooting.

• Performed Site audits, Perform site survey, walk test and drive test using TEMS and Swissqual. Providing reports for network expansion capacity and coverage using Swissqual diversity benchmarking tool.

• Performing benchmarking for optimization purposes, drive test for Mobile-to-Mobile 2G and 3G, Mobile to land 2G and 3G, video and data tests. Presenting the log file results (data throughput rate, blocked calls, dropped calls, failed calls).

• Generating reports for the clients and investigating the network KPI’s with the optimization team, cooperating with the optimization engineers to reach the required KPI’s. (Data Throughput, Voice quality, Video quality, accessibility, retainability, handover success rate, drop and fail calls, interference analysis, pilot pollution … etc. Radio maps, identifying low or poor coverage areas).


• The Link (or Power) Budget, Frequency Hopping, Equipment Enhancements and settings. Cell and Network Coverage Capacity Planning, Spectrum Efficiency and Frequency Planning, Handover issues, Discontinuous Transmission, Parameter Planning for Radio Network Optimization. Collected and processed drive test data. Performed measurement integration and propagation. Performed antenna selection and site configuration. Analyzed candidate sites. Preparing Link Budget analysis for 2G, and 3G Using tools GAIA, TEMS, Swissqual Performing site survey visits and prepared Technical Site Survey report. Validating site’s configuration Managing GSM 2G, 3G Network Roll Out, implementation, commissioning, testing & acceptance Analyzing drive test measurements Using MAPINFO. Applying The Okumura-Hata model propagation model for a macro cell environment to predict median radio signal attenuation, based on field measurements. investigate the propagation conditions in the planning area, in a way to customise the used propagation model for the area.

• Managing a team engineers to perform the benchmarking project for multiple operators in different countries. Mainly, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Nigeria, and KSA. Writing and training engineers on GAIA which is a network planning and prediction tool, mainly utilized for planning and tuning purposes. Collected and processed drive test data. Prepared final pre-design report for client. Planned cell count and issued search rings for candidates’ location. Issued report for coverage and capacity study. Managing the reporting mechanism of the benchmarking process. Dividing the tasks for the corresponding engineers.

Instructor

• September 2003 to January 2007

Eastern Mediterranean University/Department of electrical and electronic engineering. Turkey. ( Courses and Lab Work).
 Microprocessors: Assembly language programming and interfacing devices with computers.
 CMOS Integrated Electrical Circuits: Pspice simulation for integrated electronic circuit design and analysis.
 Antenna Theory: Measurements on Signals, Signal Attenuation problems, testing various types of Antennas Parabolic Antenna, Antenna parameters. Radar equation.
 Signals and Systems: Discrete time signals, time domain and frequency domain representation of signals.
 Communication Systems (1 & 2