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<aside> <img src="/icons/calendar-month_green.svg" alt="/icons/calendar-month_green.svg" width="40px" /> MTWRF 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM, Room AK219

<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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Slack Channel — All students and TAs can communicate through the ece2312_a25 Slack channel under the WPI ECE Lounge Slack Workspace. Email Correspondences – When sending an email to the course instructor or other course personnel, please remember the following:

• All emails regarding questions about the course content and materials must be sent to [email protected] without exception. Such emails sent to the individual personnel will go unanswered.
• Subject headings for all emails must begin with [ECE2312A25], or they will go unanswered.
• The expected email response time is normally one business day. For example, if an email is sent on Friday afternoon, it is possible that you could get a response by Monday (assuming Monday is not an official holiday).
• Emails with attachments greater than one megabyte in size will automatically be deleted without being read. </aside>

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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.

Theory:

Class Notes — Before every class a pre-note will be released in this site. This is a pre-filled handwritten note that will be filled up during the class. The post-notes will be posted after the class. Please feel free to bring the pre-notes if you want to take notes in them.

Lectures – In this course, all lectures will be in person. The lectures will be recorded and posted online via the ECE2312 CANVAS website. THIS IS NOT AN ONLINE CLASS, ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE CLASS IN-PERSON. The recordings are intended for further review or lookup.

Worksheets — The last class of every week will include a worksheet for the last 20 minutes that will focus on solving problems we learned during that week. The worksheets will not be scored but they will be practice problems for the upcoming exams and assignments.

Assignments — Four theory assignments will be given throughout the courses to assess the understanding of the topics learned.

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Textbooks — 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, 4 or 5th Edition, Prentice Hall (ISBN: 9780137348244).

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>

Practice:

Labs — 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. We will have weekly lab sessions to work on this. 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.

GitHub Link for Sample Codes: https://github.com/BASHLab/ECE2312

Programming Resources

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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. </aside>

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Evaluation:

Assignments (40%) -- Four assignments (all equally weighted) will be assigned throughout the course. Assignments should be scanned and handed in on the assigned date via Canvas as a SINGLE PDF file. Full credit for homework handed in before 5 P.M. on the due date. There is no guarantee of any credit for assignments submitted after this time. (Contact Bashima Islam immediately for an exception, preferably before the due date.)

Exams (30%) -- Two exams will be administered. The exams will be open-book/notes. No laptop/phone is allowed. There is to be no collaboration with other individuals. No ‘make-up’ Exam will be permitted.

Labs (30%) — Every week there will be a lab that focuses on coding the topics we have learned previously. The lab will be conducted by the TA. In the lab, the students need to work on a small coding problem which requires 30 minutes. Additional 20 minutes will be used for evaluation and problem explanation. Please bring your laptop with Python/Matlab installed. If you do not have access to a laptop please let the instructor know immediately. Best 6 will be taken into account.

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