Monday and Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm, Enterprise Hall,
room 178.
Office Hours
Tuesday 3:00-4:00 pm and Wednesday 1:30-2:30 pm or by
appointment.
Required Textbook
J.H. McClellan, R.W. Schafer, and Mark A. Yoder,
DSP First-A Multimedia Approach, Prentice Hall, 1997.
Lab
Three lab sections meet once a week in Science&Tech I. Lab experiments
are designed and intended to complement material discussed in class.
Students are expected to be well prepared for the lab sessions to maximize
the use of time in the lab.
Recommended Further Reading
The Student Edition of MATLAB.
Homework
will be assigned every week and is due the following week. You are
encouraged to work on the assignments in small groups.
One Midterm Exam and a Final Exam
will be given during the semester.
Make-up exams are rarely given. In case of an emergency, contact the
instructor as soon as possible and always before the exam. Failure to take
an exam, will result in no credit for the exam.
All exams are conducted under the rules and regulations of the HonorCode (see University Catalog).
Teaching Assistant
Keerat Brar (kbrar@gmu.edu)
On-line Class Material
Class and lab material will be
distributed electronically via the World-Wide Web. Use a browser to find
the ECE 201 homepage at URL:
http://www.spec.gmu.edu/~pparis/classes/ece201.html. I will also
correspond with you through your Mason e-mail account - check your
e-mail regularly.
Final Grades
are determined by a weighted average of homeworks, projects,
exams, and labs in the following manner:
Homework and in-class work
20%
Midterm Exam
20%
Final Exam
40%
Labs
20%
Tentative Class Schedule
Week 1:
Introduction to DSP; Sinusoids
Week 2:
Sinusoids; Introduction to MATLAB
Week 3-4:
Complex Numbers; MATLAB plotting and programming
Week 5:
Complex Exponential Signals and Phasors; MATLAB programming
and file I/O
Week 6:
Phasor Addition Rule
Week 7:
Review and Midterm Exam
Week 8:
Frequency domain and spectrum representation of signals