Introduction to Signals and Systems

4 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: Preceded or accompanied by MATH 216. Enforced Prerequisite: EECS 215 or EECS 314 or BIOMEDE 211; No OP/F. Minimum grade requirement of “C” for enforced prerequisite. (4 credits). Theory and practice of signals and systems engineering in continuous and discrete time. Continuous-time linear time-invariant systems, impulse response, convolution. Fourier series, Fourier transforms, spectrum, frequency response and filtering. Sampling leading to basic digital signal processing using the discrete-time Fourier and the discrete Fourier transform. Laplace transforms, transfer functions, poles and zeros, stability. Applications of Laplace transform theory to RLC circuit analysis. Introduction to communications, control and signal processing. Weekly recitations and hardware/Matlab software laboratories.