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EECS 246 --- Signals and Sy stems

Fall 2014

 Instructor :M. Cenk Cavusoglu

Professor

Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Mechanical and Aerospace

Engineering; Biomedical Engineeringmcc14@case.edu

Office:  517C Glennan Bldg., Phone: 368-4479

Office Hours:  M 3-5pm, or by appt.

Teaching Assistants:

TBA

Office Hours: TBA 

 Lecture:  MWF 2:00pm-2:50pm,

 Room:  312 DeGrace Hall

Course web page:  CASE Blackboard website

Please regularly check the website for important course announcements

Course Description and Goals

Signals are all around us. They are sent through media to carry information, energy or power to

communicate, energize or control devices, machines or systems. In the process, signals are acted

upon by the systems they pass through and are in turn changed to output signals. For example, in

telecommunication, cellular frequency signals are encoded by a sending cellular phone (asystem), transmitted as packets through a network of antennas (network of systems), and

received and decoded by a receiving cellular phone (another system) to create voice or audio

signals that contain messages. It is essential that engineers know how to create and characterizesignals, as well as to design and analyze systems that process those signals. The analytical tools

to do these tasks will involve (1) a good understanding of how to represent and characterizesignals mathematically, (2) the ability to develop mathematical models to describe systems and

apply mathematical methods to analyze those models to characterize the properties of thesystems they represent, and (3) the knowledge and skills to bring about the desired interplay

 between signals and systems. The specific goals of this course are to:

  Develop an understanding of mathematical representations and characterizations of

signals (for all important engineering applications)  Develop mathematical models of the systems to process signals including filters and

modulation

  Apply mathematical tools to analyze the system properties and evaluate their responses toinput signals.

Course Prerequisites

ENGR 210 and MATH 224

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Tentative Course Schedule:

Week # Topic

1 Introduction to Signals and Systems (Ch. 1)

2 System Models

3 Time Domain LTI System Analysis (Ch. 2)

4 Time Domain LTI System Analysis cont’d (Ch. 2) 5 Time Domain LTI System Analysis cont’d (Ch. 2) 

6 Fourier Series (Ch. 3)

7 Fourier Series cont’d (Ch. 3) 

8 Fourier Transform (Ch. 4)

9 Fourier Transform cont’d (Ch. 4) 

10 Sampling (Ch. 5)

11 Sampling (Ch. 5)

12 Laplace Transforms (Ch. 6)

13 Laplace Transforms cont’d (Ch. 6) 

14 Basics of Feedback Control Systems (Ch. 6 and Ch. 7)

15 Basics of Feedback Control Systems (Ch. 6 and Ch. 7)

Textbook

Signal Processing and Linear Systems, B.P. Lathi; Oxford University Press, 1998

(Course coverage will be Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Supplementary material on modeling of dynamic systems in engineering

Grading (tentative):

Quizzes (65%), Final Exam (35%)

Course Policies

Quizzes will be held during last 25 minutes of the Friday lectures. There will not be a quiz

during the last week of classes. Lowest three grades in the quizzes will be excluded in grade

calculations. Missed quizzes will count towards these.

In class exams are closed book and closed notes. You must work alone on all exams. You can

use calculators during exams; however, you are not allowed to use programmability functionalityof calculators. Discussion and/or communication with anyone, except the instructor, during

exams are forbidden. Any student who willingly provides information to another student during a

quiz or exam is as guilty as the student that receives the information is.