EECS 316	Signals and Systems			REVISED!!!!
	Winter 1999	Room EECS 1200, MWF 10:30-11:30 PM
			

    Instructor:	Professor Jeff Fessler		Email: fessler AT umich DOT edu

		Office:		4431 EECS	Phone:	763-1434
		Office Hours:	see web site

    GSI:	Styliani Petroudi, styliani@engin.umich.edu
		Office Hours:	(see web site)	2420 EECS (TA room)
		Recitation:	T 12:30-1:30	1200 EECS

    Text:	Signals and Systems
		Oppenheim, Willsky, Nawab, 2nd Edition, 1997, Prentice Hall
		Portions of Chapters 1-9, and, as time permits, Ch. 10

    Objective:	Fundamentals of continuous-time signals and systems.
		(See ABET form for more details.)

    Topics:	Complex numbers, signal classes, system classes,
		impulse response, LTI systems, convolution,
		eigenfunctions, frequency response,
		Fourier series, Fourer transform, Laplace transform,
		filters, Bode plots, bandwidth, sampling,
		pole-zero plots, stability, applications,
		introduction to discrete-time signals and systems

    Prereq.:	EECS 211 (Electrical Engineering 2), and hence Math 216
		(complex numbers, signals, circuit analysis, diff. eq's., etc.)
	
    Grading:	Homework/Computer	16%	(see policies below)
		Exam 1			27%	Thur. Oct. 14, 6-8 PM, 1013 DOW
		Exam 2			27%	Tues. Nov. 16, 6-8 PM, 1109 FXB
		Exam 3			30%	Mon. Dec. 20, 4-6 PM !!!!!!!!!!
		Rooms TBA.  In all of the above, legibility counts.
		Exam and homework scores may be standardized before computing
		the final score if the means and standard deviations vary.

	Requests for re-grades of exams must be submitted in writing within
	one week of exam return.  All questions may be re-graded.
	Letter grades will be assigned using a curve, but lower cutoff for
	A- will be no higher than 90%, and 80% for B-, etc.

    Web:
	WWW page: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/ will have extra copies
	of some handouts, scores, textbook errata, m-files, etc.






    Notes:

	1. Some subset of the problems from each assignment will be graded,
	although solutions will be provided for all problems.

	2. ABSOLUTELY NO LATE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
	However, we will drop your lowest homework score when computing grades,
	which gives some flexibility if you become ill etc.


	3. Homework policy.  You must attempt to solve all homework problems
	by yourself.  Copying homework solutions from another student or from
	solutions from previous semesters will be considered violations of the
	engineering honor code.  However, after making a genuine attempt to
	solve the homework problems, you are encouraged to discuss the answers
	with other students currently enrolled in 316 to check the answers and
	compare solution approaches.  After such a discussion, you may rewrite
	your answer as long as you do so individually, without referring to
	the solutions of other students or to solutions from previous terms.
	Basically, the answers you turn in should reflect your own level of
	understanding, not someone elses.  All solutions submitted must be
	generated by the person whose name appears on the assignment.

	Some problems (on homework and exams) will be identified as "skill"
	problems.  Your answers to these problems will generally be graded as
	right or wrong, with no partial credit given.

	4. All students must take all exams during the scheduled times.  Any
	exceptions must be approved by Prof. Fessler in writing by 9/22/1999.

	5. No course incompletes will be given, except per UM regulations.

	6. Textbooks available at library:
    	Signals, Systems, and Transforms
	by Phillips & Parr, 2nd Edition, 1999, Prentice Hall

	You may also want to look into the following:
	Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Signals and Systems
	(by Hwei P. Hsu, Hwel P. Hse, McGraw-Hill, 1995)
	(466 pages for $11.96 at amazon.com) (ISBN: 0-07-030641-9).


   Answers to frequently asked questions.

	1. Where are extra copies of the handouts?  If any are left, they will
	be in a rack on the wall outside of 4234 EECS.
	Otherwise, check web, or Media Union (for homework solutions).

	2. No, you cannot turn in your homework late for credit.  See above.

	3. I didn't do so well on the first exam.  Is there anything I can
	do to recover?  Yes!  By request, I am willing to compute your final
	score two different ways and give you whichever score is higher.
	One way is according to the 27/27/30 percentages for Exams as given
	above.  The second way is to weight Exams 1/2/3 by 18%/33%/33%.
	So if you improve your 2nd and 3rd exam scores, then your first exam
	score will have much less affect on your grade.  If you want to elect
	this option, you must tell me, in person, before the 2nd exam.

	4. No, no other variations on the percentage distributions are options.

	5. Anything else I can do to improve my exam scores?  Make sure you
	carefully study the homework solutions, even for the problems where
	you got full credit!  The graders make mistakes, so you may have made
	errors even though you didn't lose any points, and you want to avoid
	making those same errors on the exam.  And even if you did the problem
	correctly, you may have done it a "hard" way, and the solutions may
	have a more efficient approach.  Being efficient can help on an exam.

	6. What sections are covered?  On the web page I will frequently update
	a lecture-by-lecture list of what topics I cover each lecture.