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This hands-on laboratory course complements Coursera's Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. The course develops basic skills in constructing and measuring electrical circuits using modern laboratory instruments.
Syllabus
Lab One: Simple DC Circuits. Using a DMM (Digital Multi-Meter) to measure voltage, current, and resistance; an oscilloscope to display time-varying voltages; a power supply to produce constant (DC) voltages; and a function generator to produce time varying (AC) voltages.
Lab Two: AC Measurements. Characterization and measurement of waveforms using an oscilloscope. Grounding issues. Electro-acoustics—conversion of sound to voltage and back—and opto-electronics—conversion of light to voltage and back.
Lab Three: Signal Processing I: Amplifiers. Using the op-amp in various modes for creating amplifiers.
Lab Four: Signal Processing II: Filters. Building passive and active filters and measuring their transfer functions.
Lab Five: Signals and Systems I. Time-domain and frequency-domain characterization of signals, especially speech.
Lab Six: Signals and Systems II. A/D and D/A conversion.
Lab Seven: Digital Signal Processing I. Implementing digital filters.
Lab Eight: Digital Signal Processing II. Advanced digital filtering. Generating signals digitally. "Fancy" signal processing: speech scramblers, digital music.
Lab Nine: Final Project. A combined optical communication/pulse monitor system.
Instructors
- Don Johnson
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Rice University is a private American research university located in Houston, Texas. It is located in the city's Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. It was founded by William Marsh Rice (en) in 1891 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art, and was inaugurated in 1912 with Edgar Odell Lovett as its first president.
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