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EE120 - F'08 Outcomes List - Babak Ayazifar: Course Learning Objectives and Outcomes

This course trains students in signals and systems concepts like linearity, time-invariance, and stability in both continuous and discrete time. Students will learn to analyze signals using vector spaces and transforms like the Fourier, Laplace, and Z transforms. They will also learn about sampling theory, modeling systems using differential and difference equations, and analyzing interconnected linear time-invariant systems in both time and transform domains. The course aims to prepare students for more advanced topics in fields like digital signal processing, communications, and control systems.

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EE120 - F'08 Outcomes List - Babak Ayazifar: Course Learning Objectives and Outcomes

This course trains students in signals and systems concepts like linearity, time-invariance, and stability in both continuous and discrete time. Students will learn to analyze signals using vector spaces and transforms like the Fourier, Laplace, and Z transforms. They will also learn about sampling theory, modeling systems using differential and difference equations, and analyzing interconnected linear time-invariant systems in both time and transform domains. The course aims to prepare students for more advanced topics in fields like digital signal processing, communications, and control systems.

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EE120_F'08 Outcomes List Babak Ayazifar

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES:


This course trains students for an intermediate level of fluency with signals and systems in both
continuous time and discrete time, in preparation for more advanced subjects in digital signal
processing (including audio, image and video processing), communication theory, and system
theory, control, and robotics.
Upon successful completion, a student should:

Be able to classify systems based on their properties: in particular, to understand and


exploit the implications of linearity, time-invariance, causality, memory, and boundedinput, bounded-out (BIBO) stability.

Know the principles of vector spaces, including how to relate the concepts of basis,
dimension, inner product, and norm to signals.

Learn to treat signals as vectors in a vector space and ascribe geometry to that space by
defining an appropriate inner productin both discrete-time and continuous-time, and
for both periodic and aperiodic signals.

Know how to analyze, design, approximate, and manipulate signals using vector-space
concepts.

Determine Fourier transforms for continuous-time and discrete-time signals (or impulseresponse functions), and understand how to interpret and plot Fourier transform
magnitude and phase functions.

Understand the sampling theorem and how it links continuous-time signals to discretetime signals. In particular, know how to derive the sampling theorem from first
principlesfrom the basic properties of the Fourier transform; how the spectrum of a
sampled signal relates to the spectrum of the original signal; how to use the sampling
theorem to understand aliasing phenomena in the real-world (e.g., the carriage wheel
effect), and how to reduce or prevent aliasing; and how to perform discrete-time
processing of continuous-time signals, and vice versa, using C/D and D/C converters.

Understand the need to define two new transformsthe Laplace and Z transformsto
treat a class of signals broader than what the Fourier transform can handle.

Understand the combined implications of linearity and time invariance in the Laplace and
Z transform domains. In particular, know how to represent the response of an LTI system
to a more general form of complex exponentialest in continuous time or zn in discretetimeand understand that complex exponentials are eigenfunctions of LTI systems; use
the Laplace transform to determine the transfer function of a continuous-time LTI system;
solve for a response given the input, system description and initial conditions; and answer
questions related to BIBO stability, including the central role of the i-axis in the
transform-domain representations of continuous-time signals and systems; use the Z
transform to determine the transfer function of a discrete-time LTI system; solve for a
response given the input, system description and initial conditions; and answer questions
related to BIBO stability, including the central role of the unit circle in the transform-

domain representations of discrete-time signals and systems; represent an LTI system by


its transfer function; determine the input-output behavior of an LTI system entirely in the
transform domain, using relationships between time-domain and the frequency-domain
(e.g., convolution in the time domain corresponds to multiplication in the frequency
domain); understand the conditions under which the transfer function of a system (or the
Laplace or Z transform of a signal) is rational, and know that a continuous-time LTI
system with a rational transfer function can be represented by a linear, constantcoefficient differential equation; and a discrete-time LTI system with a rational transfer
function can be represented by a linear, constant-coefficient difference equation.

Understand the relationships among the various representations of LTI systemslinear


constant-coefficient difference or differential equation, frequency response, transfer
function, and impulse responseand infer one representation from another (e.g.,
determine the impulse response from the difference equation, etc.).

Understand the conditions for a time-domain function to have a Fourier transform, and
know how to relate the Fourier transform to its Laplace or Z transform.

Understand the various properties of the four Fourier transforms, the Laplace transform,
and the Z transformincluding time-shift, modulation (frequency shift), duality,
symmetry and anti-symmetryand exploit them to analyze and design signals and
systems.

Understand the properties, as well the analysis and design implications, of


interconnections of LTI systemsparallel, series (cascade), and feedbackin the time
and transform domains.

Know how to derive and exploit basic concepts in communication theory, including
amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.

Understand how to use the unilateral Laplace or Z transform to decompose the response
of an LTI system into a zero-state component and a zero-input component, and solve
linear, constant-coefficient differential or difference equations, with possibly non-zero
initial conditions.

Develop reasonably-accurate mathematical models for physical systems, find LTI


approximations to the models, produce block-diagram implementations of the
mathematical models, and analyze the block diagram realizations with a view toward
designing more complex systems or more sophisticated models.

Learn to develop and analyze state-space models of linear and nonlinear systems. This
includes drawing qualitative plots of state trajectories; determining internal stability
including the stability of equilibrium points; determining the modes of LTI systems,
especially second-order systems, by performing eigenanalysis of the state transition
matrix; and developing an aptitude for modeling a multidisciplinary array of systems in
state-space form.

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