New Undergraduate Course for Spring 2003 - "EE 379K - Introduction to Digital Information"
November 21, 2002
Prof Bill Bard of the WNCG is introducing a new course in EE. This is the first time this course is being taught. For ECE students with Basic sequence standing, this course can count as an Approved Elective. For more information, please see your ECE advisor. Applications covered include video conferencing, desktop printers, 3-D sonar beamforming, seismic surveys, and 3-D medical imaging. Multidimensional signal processing has many suprises that do not appear in one dimension, eg. sampling on non-rectangular grids, non-seperable processing, and matrix-valued filer coefficients.
The course will consist of lectures MW 10-11, and laboratory sessions F 9-11. The following material will be taught in this course:
Analog and digital system fundamentals: Signals, sinusoids, and waveforms, sampling, digital information representations
Digtal Audio: Physics of sound, digitizing sound, sound synthesis/ superposition, waveform synthesis
Digital Images: Physics of light, digitizing images, image transformation
Digital Communications: Communication system fundamentals, communication system errors, information coding, entropy and compression, cryptographic techniques
Networks and the Internet: Internet history and structure, network functions, circuit and packet switched designs
