Enhancing Student Hands-on Experience in Electrical Engineering (Signals and Systems)

The course covers a variety of topics related to signal and systems analysis. Our experience from the last three offerings of the course is that the students have a hard time understanding the theoretical concepts as the course offers no means of physical understanding of those concepts. Implementation of the course topics in practice requires some degree of creativity for which we found additional technologies useful. To understand signals and systems and their role in engineering, students will use their programming skills to implement their knowledge from the course in simulation (MATLAB) and engineering design (Arduino). Students will be responsible for hands-on assignments that involve signals and systems analysis. The redesign will substantially help the students to experience engineering design and analysis, and go beyond the limits of classic theoretical discussions.