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ECE 390 Introduction To Communication Systems - Course Outline Winter 2005
ECE 390 Introduction To Communication Systems - Course Outline Winter 2005
Lecture Schedule
M W F 1100-1150, Section B2 in room: ETLE2-002. Section B3 in room ETLE2-013.
Labs will begin mid-January. Details to be announced in class and posted at course web site.
The Lab Instructor is Steve Drake <sdrake@ece.ualberta.ca>
Contact Information
Section B2 Wayne D. Grover, Professor, W2-115 ECERF 492-2532 (UofA) , 441-3815 (TRLabs) grover@ece.ualberta.ca
Section B3 Behrouz Nowrouzian, Professor, W2-084 ECERF 492-5148 (UofA) nowr@ece.ualberta.ca
Consult Hours
Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-2 PM in the ECE Consult Room (ETLE 2-040 E). TA’s will be on duty and if your question isn’t
adequately addressed a meeting with the instructor will be arranged.
Course Objectives
1. An introduction to and overview of modern communications systems.
2. A review of linear systems and signal processing techniques.
3. An introduction to analog modulation techniques; amplitude modulation (AM) and “angle” modulation (FM and PM).
4. An introduction to digital communications; sampling, quantization, coding.
Required Text: Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 3rd ed., B.P. Lathi, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Other course materials: Selected lecture-note materials will be available from each instructor for download from the course
web site(s).
Exam Details
Midterm: 50 minute exam, March 2, 2005 during scheduled lecture time, closed-book, approved calculators allowed. A formula-
sheet will be provided. No other notes sheets are allowed.
Final: Three hour final exam. Date/time as scheduled by the Registrar’s office. Closed-book. A two-sided formula-sheet will be
provided and calculator allowed. No other notes sheets are allowed.
Anti-cheating measures will be designed into both mid-term and final exams and suspected cases of cheating will be treated
seriously and passed on to the Dean’s Office.
Marking Policy: Raw marks will be ranked and converted to grade assignments using the standard University of Alberta
historical grade distributions as a guideline.
Policy about course outlines can be found in Section 23.4(2) of the University Calendar.
Policies on Missed Examinations
Exemption will be granted only for students with acceptable cause (see Section 23.5 of the University of Alberta calendar). If
the mid-term exam is missed without acceptable medical documentation a course grade of zero will be assigned. If the mid-term
exam is missed with acceptable medical release documentation then the weight of the mid-term will be shifted to the final exam.
If a student misses the final exam with approved medical release, or, if a student qualifies for a deferred final exam, the deferred
final exam will be administered by the ECE department in June.
Email Communications
Students should send e-mail to instructors or TAs from their official U of A account. Mail from yahoo or hotmail, etc. may be
blocked by our anti-spam filters. In addition, in email correspondence please identify yourself by your plain name spelled out in
full. E-mail received with anonymous nickname identifiers only may not be responded to.
Policy about course outlines can be found in Section 23.4(2) of the University Calendar.