Introduction to Signal Processing (ECE 2026)
Summer 2025 (GT Metz)

Course Material Overview

The class is divided into two exams, one final, six MATLAB based projects, and eight Homework assignments.

Topic
Exam
Proj
HW
On-Line Lectures
Week 1
(May 13,15)
Sinusiods (Ch. 2)
& Linearity
May 22:
lab1
May 20:
Ch 2: 4, 5,
11, 15, 17,
20, 25(a,b)
SP First Intro
a + jb
Basic Euler
Sinusiod Signal
Sinusoid Addition
Linearity
Slides
Week 2
(May 20,22)
Spectrum (Ch. 3),
Fourier Series (Ap. C)
May 29:
lab
May 27:
Ch 3: 6, 8, 12,
16, 20, 22,
26, 27

Fourier Series
Square Wave Series
Triangle Wave Series
Spectrogram
Slides
Week 3
(May 27,29)
Sampling and
Aliasing (Ch. 4)
June 5: Chirp, Spectrograms, and Sampling June 3:
Ch 4: 1, 8, 12,
16, 22, 23

Periodicity
C2D Mechanisms
Data Converter Linearity
Single cos( )
Sinuoid Sampling

Week 4
(June 3,5)
FIR I (Ch. 5),
Convolution,
Freq. Response I
June 10:
Ch 5: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 18

FIR Implement
Step & Impulse
Convolution Intro
Convolution 01
Convolution 02
Freq. Resp. I
Triangle Wave Items

Week 5
(June 10,12)
Exam Prep June 12:
F2022
Su2023
Discrete SP Items
Averaging FIR
Difference FIR
Unit1 Slides

Week 6
(June 17,19)
Freq Resp (Ch. 6)
Transforms
z-Trasform (Ch. 9)

June 26: 1st Image SP June 24: Ch. 6: 4, 6, 8, 9 10, 11,
Ch. 9: 1, 3 4,

Transform Intro
Signals & Transforms
Boxcar
Conv, Z, and Freq 1
Conv, Z, and Freq 2
Conv, Z, and Freq 3
Slides
Week 7
(June 24,26)
Freq Resp III (Ch. 6)
z-Trans III (Ch. 9)
IIR Intro (Ch. 10)
Other Trans (Ch. 7,8)
July 3: Color Image Processing July 1: Ch. 6:
12, 14 15, 16, 20
Ch. 9: 6, 7 8 9 10
IIR Structure
Why IIR?
IIR Example
Step Resp I
Freq Resp I
Step Sine I

Week 8
(July 1,3)
IIR (Ch. 10)
DTFT (Ch. 7)
Generalized Transforms
July 8:
Ch. 7: 3, 4, 8
Ch. 10: 1, 2, 3, 5
DT & CT IIR I
Laplace Intro
Laplace & 1st ODE
Laplace & 2nd ODE
Laplace & Freq Resp
1st ODE Freq Resp

Week 9
(July 8,10)
Exam Prep July 12:
F2022
Week 10
(July 15,17)
DFT & Freq.
Transforms (Ch. 8)
IIR Filters (Ch. 10)
Filter Design (Ch. 7, 8)
July 24: FIR Filter Design July 22 : Chp. 7: 17, 19
Chp. 8: 2, 3, 6, 9, 11, 12
Chp. 9: 12, 13, 18
Chp. 10: 13, 15, 20, 22, 28
Filter Specs
Classical ASP
Fourier Trans
Matrix DFT
DFT Filter
4pt DFT Filter

Week 11
(July 22,24)
ANC Introduction
ANC Feedforward
ANC Feedback
ANC Hybrid

Week 12:
(July 28,)
Final Exam 3rd exam
/ Final
F2022
Su2023

1: It is recommended that you also work through the concepts in this computer experiment prliminaries Documents.

Matlab resources

  • MATLAB Primer: pdf or pdf

  • MATLAB helpful information from Jim McClellan: 2 or pdf

Projects are due on Thursdays, submitted electronically by 11:59pm Metz time

Project signoffs must be done by Wednesday, the day before the project is due, during normal business hours.

Homework (paper) is handed in during class on Mondays.

Some additional useful links: One original site around Signal Processing First (hosted at Rose-Hulman): link

David Anderson's Fundamentals of DSP channel and related course material videos.

Some DSP first material: link
MATLAB files

John Barry's Previoius Signal Processing First material such as old exams, and labs

Additional Sites with useful material