ES 101A: Communication in Digital Age
Course Syllabus
- Lecture 1: Introduction to Early Communication
- Lecture 2: What is Communication?
- Lecture 3: Engineering and Moore's Law
- Lecture 4: Signals: Analog and Digital
- Lecture 5: Electricity and Magnetism
- Lecture 6: Waves
- Lecture 7: Telegraph and Telephone
- Lecture 8: ADC and DAC Conversion
- Lecture 9: Data Communication Networks
- Lecture 10: Channel Transmission Media
- Lecture 11: Multimedia
- Lecture 12: Communication over the Internet
- Lecture 13: Internet Access
- Lecture 14: GPS and Satellite Communication
- Lecture 15: Wireless Cellular Telephone Networks
- Lecture 16: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and WiMAX
- Lecture 17: Network Security
- Lecture 18: Smart Grid and Smart Meters
- Lecture 19: Personal Computers
- Server Data Centers
- Homework 1 (Solutions)
- Homework 2 (Solutions)
- Homework 3 (Solutions)
- Homework 4 (Solutions)
- Homework 5 (Solutions)
- Homework 6 (Solutions)
- Homework 7 (Solutions)
- Homework 8
Book Chapters
- Chapter 1: Communication, Information and the Information Age
- Chapter 2: Analog and Digital Signals
- Chapter 3: Physical Waves - Mechanical, Electrical and Electromagnetic Waves
- Chapter 4: Audio/Visual Mass Media
- Chapter 5: Computers and Their Importance
- Chapter 7: Networks - Circuit-Switched Versus Packet-Switched Networks
- Engineering and the Contribution of Engineers
- Binary Code
- Moore's Law for Digital Integrated Circuits