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Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering

ENG BE 401 Signals and Systems in BME


Fall 2017 - Section A3 - Steve Colburn

GRADING: Weekly Homework (20%), Three exams (20% each), Cumulative Final (40%).
Homework must show all work to receive full credit. The above percentages total 120%. To
compute the final grade, we will drop the lowest scoring 20%, which could be the
homework average, a single in-class exam, or half of the final. Choice made to
optimize score for each student individually.
RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK: Oppenheim, Willsky, & Nawab Signals and Systems,
2nd Edition

DRAFT schedule as of 9/7/2017:

Week Topics Text Section


Sept 5-10 Signals; matlab Computations 1.0-1.4
Sept 11-17 Systems; LTI and Convolution; Applications 1.5-1.6; 2.0–2.3
Sept 18-24 Impulse Responses from Diff. Eqns.; 2.4–2.6
Sept 25 - Oct 1 Convolution Applications; Eigenfunctions
Oct 2-8 Review; Exam I on Wednesday, Oct. 4
Oct 9-15 Orthogonal Signals; Fourier Series 3.0–3.12
Oct 16-22 Continuous-Time Fourier Transforms 4.0–4.8
Oct 23-29 Discrete-Time Fourier Transforms 5.0–5.8
Oct 30-Nov 5 Spectrograms; Windowing; Sampling Theorem 6.0–6.6; 7.0–7.6
Nov 6-12 Examples; EXAM II on WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8;
Nov 13-19 DFT (FFT in Matlab); Comm. Sys. Applications pp. 417–422; 8.0–8.9
Nov 20-26 Laplace Transform; Poles and Zeros 9.0–9.10
Nov 27-Dec 3 Bode Plot Review; z-Transform; Poles and Zeros 10.0–10.10
Dec 4-10 EXAM III on Dec. 6; Applications
Dec 11-15 Last Class Monday; Reading Period Wednesday-Friday
Dec 16-21 FINAL EXAM PERIOD
Class Date Topics Text Section
Sept 6 Signals, discrete and continuous; Examples; Operations 1.0-1.4
Homework: complex plane, calcuating and plotting signals in Matlab
Sept 11 Systems (linear and non-linear, time-invariant ... LTI); Conv.Sum 1.5–1.6; 2.0–2.1
Sept 13 Impulse responses; convolution integral 2.2–2.3
Sept 18 Impulse Responses from Differential Eqns. 2.4–2.6
Sept 20 Impulse responses from Difference Eqns. 2.4–2.6
Sept 25 Convolution Applications; Review
Sept 27 Convolution Applications; Review
Oct 2 Review for Exam I; Eigenfunctions
Oct 4 Exam I
Oct 9 Orthogonal Signals; Fourier Series 3.0–3.12
Oct 11 Fourier series applications
Oct 17 (“Monday on Tuesday”) Fourier Transforms 4.0–4.5
Oct 18 More Continuous-Time Fourier Transforms 4.6–4.8
Oct 23 Discrete-Time Fourier Transforms 5.0–5.9
Oct 25 Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) pp 417-422
Oct 30 Spectrograms; Windowing 6.0–6.6
Nov 1 Sampling Theorem; Review of Fourier applications 7.0–7.6
Nov 6 Example problems with Fourier Transforms
Nov 8 EXAM II on Nov. 8;
Nov 13 FFT in Matlab; Comm. Sys. Applications 8.0–8.9
Nov 15 Applications
Nov 20 Laplace Transform as Generalization of Fourier; ROC 9.0–9.10
Nov 27 Laplace Transform Poles and Zeros; Bode Plot Review
Nov 29 Discrete-time z transforms; poles and zeros in z-plane 10.0–10.5
Dec 4 Applications of Laplace- and z- transforms 10.6–10.10
Dec 6 EXAM III on Dec. 6
Dec 11 Last Class; Reading Period Wednesday-Friday
Dec 16-21 FINAL EXAM PERIOD

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