NOC | Networks and Systems

Course abstract

Networks, signals and systems form the basic foundations of electrical engineering. Any electrical engineering product handles signals using electrical networks and circuits, which are called systems. Having a good understanding of signals and their time/frequency domain characterization is an absolute must for any electrical engineer. This course is a basic introduction to discrete and continuous-time signals, Fourier series, Fourier transforms and Laplace transforms.

Course Instructor

Prof. Andrew Thangaraj

Received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1998 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 2003. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the GTL-CNRS Telecom lab at Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz, France from August 2003 to May 2004. From June 2004, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, where he is currently an associate professor. Since Jan 2012, he has been serving as Editor for the IEEE Transactions on communications.
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Prof. C.S.Ramalingam

Studied at the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, where he did his BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering (degree awarded by the University of Madras). He obtained his M.Tech degree in Satellite Communication and Remote Sensing Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and Ph.D from The University of Rhode Island, (Kingston, RI, USA).

During 1995--2001 he was with the DSPS R&D Centre of Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX, USA), where he was working in the areas of Speech Recognition and Speech Coding. In 2001 he joined IIT Madras, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. His area of interest is Signal Processing, with applications to Speech Recognition, Synthesis, and Coding.
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