EE 1382:  Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

Term:  Fall 2011
Class Times:  MWF 11-11:50
Room: Junkins 113
Textbook:  Engineering Our Digital Future, Orsak, Wood, Douglas, Munson, Treichler, Athale, and Yoder, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2003.
Prerequisites:  none
Course Objective:
To provide an introduction to the topics and methods used in electrical engineering.  
Course Website: engr.smu.edu/ee/1382
Grading: 25% Homework,

30% Tests (Best 2 of 3),

10% Laboratory,

5% Participation (attendance is not participation)

30% Final Exam

Instructor:  
Marc P. Christensen
Office:  Junkins Room 311 (inside #308)
Telephone:  x81407
Email:  mpc@engr.smu.edu
Office Hours: T 10:30-11:30, R 10:30-11:30, F 1:30-2:30 and by appointment (drop by or email me and copy sbailey@lyle.smu.edu)

Teaching Assistants:
Bryan Rodrigez brodrigu@mail.smu.edu

Vinny LaPenna vlapenna@mail.smu.edu

Matt Tonnemacher mtonnemach@mail.smu.edu

Laboratory Session:  Junkins 202 W 2:00-3:20, W 3:30-4:50, R 3:30-4:50

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Relationship to EE Program Outcomes

This course includes, but is not limited to, content that supports the Electrical Engineering Program educational objectives and outcomes. Specifically, this course furthers the student's knowledge and skills involving the following outcomes

a. an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering,

b. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data,

c. an ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs,

d. an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams, and

j. a knowledge of contemporary issues,

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Disability Accommodations: If you need academic accommodations for a disability, you must first contact Ms. Rebecca Marin, Coordinator, Services for Students with Disabilities (214-768-4563) to verify the disability and to establish eligibility for accommodations. Then you should schedule an appointment with the professor to make appropriate arrangements.  (See University Policy No. 2.4.)

Religious Observance: Religiously observant students wishing to be absent on holidays that require missing class should notify their professors in writing at the beginning of the semester, and should discuss with them, in advance, acceptable ways of making up any work missed because of the absence. (See University Policy No. 1.9.)

Excused Absences for University Extracurricular Activities: Students participating in an officially sanctioned, scheduled University extracurricular activity will be given the opportunity to make up class assignments or other graded assignments missed as a result of their participation. It is the responsibility of the student to make arrangements with the instructor prior to any missed scheduled examination or other missed assignment for making up the work. (University Undergraduate Catalogue)

Unexcused Absences are tracked via a sign in sheet passed around during lecture. ATTENDENCE IS NOT GRADED. Attendance sheets will be used to help identify students who are at risk. Three consecutive absences will result in me informing your academic advisor of the situation. They will determine your attendance in your other classes and speak with your resident advisor. They may then require to you meet with them. Help is available for a variety of common problems affecting college students. The purpose of the attendance sheet is to make sure you get help if you need it.

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Course Schedule (subject to change):

Dates	Topic / Handouts
8/22	Chapter 1:  The World of Modern Engineering (Slides)
8/24	1.1  What Exactly Do Scientists and Engineers Do? (Student Questionaire)
8/26	1.2  Birth of the Digital Age (Binary Number Appendix)
8/29	1.3  Moore's Law
8/31	1.4  Block Diagrams
	Chapter 2:  Creating Digital Music
	2.1  Introduction
	2.2  Music, Sounds, and Signals
	2.3  Making Music From Sines and Cosines
	2.4  Improving the Design - Making Different Instruments
	2.5  Using Our Ability to Create Signals for New Applications
9/5	Stereoscopic Vision (3d Google Sketchup Drawing and viewer application) Text Revision PPTs
	Chapter 3:  Making Digital Images
	3.1  Introduction
	3.2  Digitizing Images
	3.3  Putting it Together
	3.4  Better Design within the Bit Budget
	Chapter 4:  Math You Can See
	4.1  How Can We Use Digital Images
	4.2  A Digital Image is a Matrix
	4.3  Digital Darkroom Tools
	4.4  Understanding Images from Robot Eyes Filtering Images Powerpoint
	4.5  Designing Simple Vision Systems (Test Ch 3,4)
	Chapter 5:  Digitizing the World Slides
	5.1  Introduction
	5.2  From the Real World to the Digital World
	5.3  Binary Numbers - The Digital Choice
	5.4  Using Bits to Store Samples:  Quantization
	Chapter 6:  Coding Information for Storage and Secrecy
	6.1  Introduction
	6.2  Principals of Compression
	6.3  Lossless Compression Huffman Encoding Example Powerpoint
	6.4  Lossy Compression
	6.5  Coding to Detect and Correct Errors
	6.6  Coding for Secrecy
	6.7  Simple Encryption Methods
	6.8  Encrypting Binary Sequences
	Chapter 7:  Communicating with Ones and Zeros
	7.1  Introduction
	7.2  A Simple Communication System
	7.3  Sources of Error in a Communications System
	7.4  The Craft of Engineering -- Improving the Design
	7.5  Extensions
	7.6  Other Transmission Channels (Test Ch 6,7)
	Chapter 8:  Networks from the Telegraph to the Internet
	8.1  What is a Network?
	8.2  Relays
	8.3  The Internet