EECS 246 --- Signals and Systems

Fall 2014

Instructor:
M. Cenk Cavusoglu
Professor
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
mcc14@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 (a
system), 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 characterize
signals, 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 characterize
signals mathematically, (2) the ability to develop mathematical models to describe systems and
apply mathematical methods to analyze those models to characterize the properties of the
systems 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 to
input signals.
Course Prerequisites
ENGR 210 and MATH 224
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 contd (Ch. 2)
5 Time Domain LTI System Analysis contd (Ch. 2)
6 Fourier Series (Ch. 3)
7 Fourier Series contd (Ch. 3)
8 Fourier Transform (Ch. 4)
9 Fourier Transform contd (Ch. 4)
10 Sampling (Ch. 5)
11 Sampling (Ch. 5)
12 Laplace Transforms (Ch. 6)
13 Laplace Transforms contd (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 functionality
of 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.