EE 410
Signals and System

Catalog Description:

Linear time-invariant systems, Fourier analysis, Continuous and Discrete signals and systems, filtering, Sampling and z-transform techniques.

Credits: 3.0

Class Schedule:  3 lectures/week.

Prerequisites by course: EE 310, EE 300.

Course Objectives:
To develop analytical tools and techniques needed for analysis of:

  1. Continuous-time systems
  2. Convolution
  3. Fourier series
  4. Fourier transform
  5. Sampling theory
  6. Laplace transform.

Textbooks and References:

“Continuous and Discrete Time Signals and Systems”, M. Mandal and A. Asif, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Topics Covered: 

  • Introduction to complex numbers and phasors
  • Continuous-Time and Discrete-Time signals and signal manipulations
  • Continuous-Tine Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems and convolution
  • Fourier series representation of signals
  • Fourier transform
  • Analysis of LTI systems by Fourier transform
  • Laplace transform
  • Analysis of LTI systems by Laplace transform and transfer functions
  • Introduction to sampling

Prepared by: Dr. Ashkan Ashrafi
Date of Preparation: 09/24/2008