Course
Description

ECE 359 - Communications I

Semester: Fall '99

Course Instructor: Christoforos Hadjicostis
TA: Hedi Krichene

Credit: 3 hours or 3/4 unit

Topics:
- Representation of Signals and Systems (4 lectures)
- Analog Modulation Schemes (6 lectures)
- Random Processes (12 lectures)
- Noise in Analog Modulation (3 lectures)
- Digital Communications (5 lectures)
Prerequisites by Topic:
- Fundamental circuit analysis
- Fourier and Laplace transform
- Probability theory (ECE 313)
Required Text: S. Haykin, Communication Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 1994 (3rd edition).

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared this course description:
Engineering Science: 2 credits or 67% Engineering Design: 1 credit or 33%

Contacts:

Christoforos Hadjicostis / 265-8259 / 148 C&SRL / chadjic@control.csl.uiuc.edu

URL:black.csl.uiuc.edu/~chadjic/
 
Hedi Krichene / 333-5860 / 125 C&SRL / krichene@uiuc.edu

URL:www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~krichene/

Course Time & Place:

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30-2:50 pm, 161 Everitt Lab

 

 
 
 
 
 

Office Hours:

Hadjicostis: Tuesdays, 3-5pm, Room 368 Everitt
Krichene: Wednesdays, 3-5pm, Room 330N Everitt

 

 
 
 
 
 

Grading:

Homework (10 %), Two Midterms (25 % each), Final Exam (40 %)

Exam Dates:
Exam 1:  Thursday, Sep. 30,  1:30-2:50 pm,   room 151 Everitt

Exam 2:  Thursday, Nov. 11,    1:30-2:50 pm,   room 151 Everitt

Final: Saturday, Dec. 18, 1:30-4:30 pm,   room 165 Everitt
 

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