ECE 3250

Signals and Systems

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Course aims to provide students with a rigorous treatment of the fundamentals of discrete- and continuous-time signals and systems. The course makes use of sophisticated tools such as vector spaces of signals (e.g. bounded, summable, and square-summable signals) and orthogonal expansions in Hilbert space in addition to covering standard material on time- and frequency-domain analysis of signals and systems, including discrete- and continuous-time convolution, Fourier series, continuous- and discrete-time Fourier transforms, sampling theory, the DFT and FFT, and spectrograms. Homework assignments include a computational component where appropriate.

Last 3 terms offered 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

Learning Outcomes REF-FA25

• Help students achieve a sophisticated understanding of fundamental signals and systems concepts.
• Help students achieve a facility with sophisticated signal-analysis tools useful in applications to ECE and beyond.
• Help students attain an appreciation of the central role that advanced mathematics plays in modeling, analysis, and design of engineering systems.

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