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Signals and Systems I -- Spring 2008

Time:Monday/Wednesday 3:00-4:15pm
PlaceEast Building, Room 201
Instructor:Prof. Kathleen E. Wage
Science and Tech II, Room 243
703-993-1579
kwage [at] gmu.edu
Prerequisite:Grade of C or better in ECE 201 or permission of instructor
Corequisites:MATH 203 and MATH 214

Staff office hours:

  • Kathleen Wage (lecturer)
    Monday 1:30-2:30pm, Tuesday 5-6pm, Wednesday 11am-12pm
  • Mahmoud Lababidi (recitation TA)
    Tuesday 5-7pm
  • Keerat Brar (lab TA)
    Tuesday 9am-12pm and Wednesday 6-7pm
  • Vaibhav Vora (lab TA)
    Monday 4-5pm and Tuesday 2-5pm
TA office hours are held in Science & Tech II, Room 265. Prof. Wage's office hours are held in Science & Tech II, Room 243.

Textbooks:

  1. Signals and Systems, 2nd Edition by A. O. Oppenheim and A. S. Willsky with S. H. Nawab, Prentice Hall, 1997 (same textbook used for ECE 320)
  2. Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, Third Edition by C. K. Alexander and M. N. O. Sadiku, McGraw-Hill, 2007 (same textbook used for ECE 280)

Course objectives:

  • Introduce students to the basic types of signals and systems encountered in engineering and to important properties of these systems.
  • Introduce students to methods of characterizing and analyzing continuous-time signals and systems in the time and frequency domains.

Grading, homework, and exam policies are summarized in the course information packet. A PDF version of the syllabus, including a detailed lecture schedule is available here.

Last updated: 19 February 2008