ELEC1200 |
A System View of Communications: From
Signals to Packets
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Spring 2012 |
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Instructor: |
Office: 2531 Tel: 2358-7079 email: eebert@ust.hk |
Office: 2421 Tel: 2358-7044 email: eermurch@ust.hk |
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Teaching Assocaite |
Dr. Jeff Au Yeung Office: 2466 Tel: 2358-8538 email: eejeffay@ust.hk Office hour : Anytime (except Lecture/Tutorial/Lab period) |
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Teaching Assistants: |
Miss Wang Xi Sissi Mr. Cheung Hei Victor Miss Peng Qiuyan Miss. Zhu Wenjing Julie |
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Technical Officer: |
Mr. Leo Fok, Office Rm3114, email: eefok@ust.hk Mr. Fred Kwok, Office Rm3130, email: eefred@ust.hk
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Lecture: |
Mondays, 17:00-17:50 in Room 3006 Fridays, 12:30-13:20 in Room 3006 |
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Tutorial: |
Tuesdays, 15:00-15:40 in Room 4480 Wednesdays, 9:30-10:20 in Room 3007 |
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Lab: |
LA1 Wednesdays, 13:30-16:20 in Room 2134. LA2 Thursdays, 09:00-11:50 in Room 2134 LA3 Thursdays, 16:30-19:20 in Room 2134 Reference material |
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Reference Book: |
(F) Frenzel, Louis E, "Principles of electronic communication systems." McGraw-Hill, 2008(OWN) Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky and S. H. Nawab, Signals and Systems, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1997. |
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Course Learning Outcomes of ELEC1200: (download)
Course
Description
Have you ever wondered what technologies go into your mobile phone or a WiFi hotspot? Through hands on work with a simple but fully functional wireless communication system, you will understand the basic engineering tools used and tradeoffs encountered in the design of these systems. This course is centered on weekly laboratories, each designed to introduce an important concept in the design of these systems.The course is divided into three major sections dealing with issues at three levels of abstraction: volt-by-volt (analog), bit-by-bit (digital), and packet-by-packet (network architecture).The lab sessions are supported by two one hour lectures and a tutorial that introduce the concepts for the next laboratory, as well as reviewing and expanding the concepts learned in the previous laboratory.
Course Philosphy
Based on a highly successful course at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we feel that this course is exciting
because it takes a dramatically different approach to teaching:
1. Learning
is hands on. While in many other courses, the labs are designed to
supplement materials learned in lecture and on your own outside of class, in
this class we expect most of your learning to take place inside the lab by
working on a team with real equipment and signals, rather than on your own
working with problem sets. Although there are lectures and tutorials, these are
designed to support and help you prepare for the labs, rather than the other
way around. No written lab reports are required.
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A broad integrated viewpoint. Many other courses you have taken will be an in-depth study of a
particular technology that might be only a part of a larger system. On the
other hand, this course examines how different technologies interact within a
system designed to transmit information wirelessly. Thus, it ties
together many of the concepts you have seen or will see in your other ELEC
classes. However, each of these technologies will be introduced from
first principles, and thus there are no specific ELEC pre-requisites for this
course, as we expect students from a wide range of backgrounds and interests to
benefit from this course
This course will be an important part the
core of our new curriculum when we transition to a four-year system. However,
because we feel that this integrated viewpoint and hands on learning style are
so important, we are offering it to you now.
If you are interested in this course, please
don't hesitate to contact one of the instructors in person or by email.
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Prerequisite: |
AL Pure Mathematics, AL/AS Applied Mathematics, or AS Mathematics and Statistics; (For students without AL Pure Mathematics) MATH021/MATH022/MATH023/MATH024 or equivalent background knowledge. |