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Lecture Schedule:

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<aside> <img src="/icons/warning_red.svg" alt="/icons/warning_red.svg" width="40px" /> If school is canceled due to a "significant weather event" (e.g., "snow day", included cases where the campus is closed as well as days where travel is discouraged… or just plain silly)) or class is canceled due to an unforeseen event; I expect to use zoom online classes (see the Lecture Notes section of this web page) to fill-in for any missed lecture. If an exam is canceled, expect it to be rescheduled for the next class meeting.

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Website:

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All course materials, problem sets, solutions, announcements, and other useful tidbits will be available via the ECE2312 CANVAS website. The official site of the course will not have the problem sets and their solutions.

Online Lectures – In this course, all lectures will be recorded and posted online via the ECE2312 CANVAS website. It is expected that all students review and study these online lectures such that they are prepared for an interactive in-class discussion. Furthermore, quizes will cover the material from these online lectures and classes.

Course Textbook:

• This course will follow two main books

  • “The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing” by Steven W. Smith. This book can be found online for free at https://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

  • “Digital Signal Processing : Principles, Algorithms, and Applications” by Proakis & Manolakis, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall (ISBN: 9780137348244). If you own or have access to the fourth edition of this text (ISBN-13: 978-0131873742; ISBN-10: 0131873741), it contains nearly identical material (at least for what is covered in this course). Thus, the fourth edition is also recommended.

    In any case, none of the homework problems are taken from the text. Thus, several alternative texts are likely acceptable, particularly if you already own them:

    • Lathi: "Linear Systems and Signals": This text has rather complete coverage of this course. Many students will already own this text since several ECE professors use it for ECE 2311.
    • Oppenheim, Willsky, and Nawab, "Signals and Systems" Class notes, combined with open-access sources such as Wikipedia, might provide the additional reading necessary. Thus, this text is likely a reasonable alternative, so long as you are willing to complete a little extra searching for materials in a few limited areas that we will cover in the course but are not covered in the text.

<aside> ℹ️ We will Practice by coding what we have learned in the Theory of Discrete-Time Signal and System Analysis using MATLAB or PYTHON. Feel free to choose either language based on your comfort level.

While Python is open-source, MATLAB only comes in paid format. Fortunately, MatLab is supported by WPI and can be accessed through the WPI software resources.

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Programming Resources

Recommended Background:

• Undergraduate continuous-time signal analysis.
• Computer science course in any structured language
  • Should understand if-then-else, loops, variables, variable scope, etc.
  • Use functions in both Matlab and Python; do NOT use scripts. Structured programming is essential for science and engineering.