ECE 360/220

Signals and Systems (I)

Fall 1997: Tuesday & Thursday, 4:30 - 5:45 p.m., David King Hall, Rm. 2053, Dr. Beale
Graduate Teaching Assistant: astroupe@gmu.edu
Office Hours: Monday, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., S&T II, Rm. 265, and
Wednesday, 3:00 - 4:30, S&T II, Rm. 265.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in ECE 286; Math 203; Math 214
Text: Signals and Systems, Continuous and Discrete, Third Edition, R.E. Ziemer, W.H. Tranter, and D.R. Fannin, Macmillan Publishing, 1993

Recitation (360): Monday, 4:30 - 5:45 p.m. in S&T I, Room 128.

Lab (220): Tuesday, 6:00 - 7:50 p.m. in S&T II, Room 133 and
Wednesday, 2:30 - 4:20 p.m. in S&T II, Room 133

Objectives:

Introduce the students to the basic types of signals and systems encountered in engineering and to the important properties of these systems.
Introduce the students to methods of characterizing and analyzing continuous-time signals and systems in the frequency domain.
Introduce the students to methods of characterizing and analyzing continuous-time signals and systems in the time domain.

Course Requirements:

Important Dates:

Test #1, Chapters 1, 3, 4 -- Thursday, October 2
Test #2, Chapters 5, 6 -- Tuesday, November 4
Final Exam, all material covered, but emphasizing Chapters 2 and 7 -- Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 4:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m., David King Hall, Room 2053.
Last day to drop classes without Dean's permission -- Friday, September 26.
No Class on Tuesday, October 14 due to Columbus Day Recess!!

Course Outline, Fall '97:

Chapter 1 -- Introduction to signals and systems, properties of signals and systems, special types of input signals - 3 class periods.
Chapter 3 -- Periodic signals and their representation, trigonometric and exponential Fourier series, line frequency spectra - 4 class periods.
Chapter 4 -- Aperiodic signals, the Fourier transform, steady-state frequency response, filtering of signals - 4 class periods.
Chapter 5 -- Properties and theorems of the Laplace transform, partial fraction expansion - 3 class periods.
Chapter 6 -- Laplace transform applications, transfer functions and frequency response, Bode magnitude and phase plots, block diagrams - 4 class periods.
Chapter 2 -- Input/output analysis of signals and systems in the time domain, the convolution integral and the impulse response, stability of linear systems - 3 class periods.
Chapter 7 -- State space analysis of systems, the concept of state, the form of state equations, writing state equations, solving state equations - 4 class periods.

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