ELEC1010 Electronic & Information Technology

ELEC1010 Electronic & Information Technology

Course Introduction

Department of Electronic and Computer

Engineering
 Power of Information Technology in a single handheld device

Apple Pay Face ID Animoji

(Near Field (Facial (TrueDepth
Communicat recognition) Camera)
ion )

Siri (Speech
recognition)

Wireless Charging
(Inductive charging)

Display (OLED)

Multitasking
(Gesture
recognition)

Game (Augmented reality) P.2

Electronic and Information Technology & Us

• Modern electronic products used in every aspect of daily

life

• Information technologies (IT) are drivers of productivity

and the economies

• Electronic and information technologies often enable

scientific and technological progresses in many
disciplines (e.g. broadband Internet enables tele-
medicine; wireless sensor networks enables earthquake
and tsunami detection)

• Huge investment and job market $$$

Course Schedule and Website
Lecture :
L1: Tuesday and Thursday (09:00am – 09:50am) LTA

Tutorial : T1: Thu (04:00 pm - 04:50 pm) Rm 2306

T2: Thu (11:00 am - 11:50 am) Rm 1104
T3: Fri (11:30 am - 12:20 pm) CYT-G010
T4: Tue (11:00 am - 11:50 am) Rm 1104
T5: Thu (01:30 pm - 02:20 pm) Rm 6591

(**Tutorial will start from Week 2, Sep 7-10**)

Detailed weekly schedule is posted under syllabus on Canvas.

Course Materials will be uploaded to Canvas accordingly.
Course Instructor

L1: Prof. George YUAN

Email: [email protected]
Office: Rm 2522, lift 25/26
Telephone No. : 2358-8029
 Support Teaching Team
Teaching Associate:
Raymundo Saijong TANG TANG
Email: [email protected]
Office: Rm 2395 (lift 17/18)

Teaching Assistants:
CHEN, Huayang [email protected]
CHENG, Yan [email protected]
FAN, Yifei [email protected]
HUANG, Qifeng [email protected]
KHALATBARI, Leila [email protected]
LI, Anran [email protected]
SHI, Dongmin [email protected]
TAM, Siu Ting [email protected]
XIONG, Annan [email protected]
ZHANG, Qianni [email protected]
ZOU, Wulin [email protected]
 Grading
• 55% Final Exam (2 hours, face-to-face)
• 35% Midterm (50 minutes, face-to-face) (week 9, Oct 30,
Sat 4:30-5:20pm, TBA)
• 10% Homework (There will be 5 homework assignments)
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Total: 100%

• Grading is based on your Final Exam, Midterm and Homework.

• Optional group project (full mark is 10)

• If your project score is 8 or above, your grade will be one sub-grade up.
Example:
Suppose your grade is “B” based on your homework, midterm and final
exam performance. If your project score is 8 then your grade will be
upgraded to “B+.” If your project score is 7, then your grade is still B.
• The top groups will be invited to present during the lectures.
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Optional Group Project
• Guidelines
– A group of 2 students.
– Project topic: based on the study of Information
Technology
– Project presentation slides (10 marks, Max. 15 pages)
– Oral Presentation (0 mark, by invitation)
• Information technology topics from previous semester:
1. 3D Printing
2. Facial/Voice/speech recognition
3. Augmented/Virtual Reality
4. Cloud Computing
5. Near Field Communication
6. Blockchain
7. Autonomous car, etc.
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Course Materials

• No textbook
• Midterm and final exams will be based on the lecture
notes, tutorial notes and homework

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Course Description
• This general-education course introduces the basics of
electronic and information technology and their
applications to daily-life consumer electronics and
communication devices. BIG IDEAS include:
– the representation of signals in the time and
frequency domains;
– digitization of information;
– coding for data compression and error protection;
– transmission of signals;
– cellular mobile phone and wireless
communications; and
– the Internet.

• No prerequisite
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 Course Outline
The course consists of six chapters:

• Chapter 1: Signals and Systems

• Chapter 2: Digital Systems
• Chapter 3: Digitization
• Chapter 4: Coding of Digital Information
• Chapter 5: Communications
• Chapter 6: The Internet

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 Course Outline
Chapter 3: Digitization
Chapter 2: How to convert a
Digital Systems continuous waveform to a
Represent signals sequence of 0 and 1. iPhone is a
in 0 and 1. System digital system
Digitization Input signal
Will it be sunny
this weekend in
Chapter 4: Coding of Miami?
Digital Information
How to reduce information
size?
How to protect information?
Chapter 1: Signals and Systems
How to represent a signal?
Matching with Siri’s database What components are contained in
a signal?
Miami, FL will see some
sunshine for this weekend.

Output signal
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 Course Outline
Chapter 5: Communications
How phone signals are transmitted?
Why multiple mobile users can make phone
calls in the same cell at the same time?
Chapter 1: Signals and Systems
AM is also introduced in Chapter 1.

Alexander Guglielmo
Graham Bell Marconi 1G 2G
Analog Digital 3G
4G
system system Spread
OFDMA
FDMA FDMA spectrum
TDMA technology

Long distance
radio
transmission

Telephone Smart phone 5G

Mobile phone today
then

1844 1876 1901 1979 … Now 2020

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 Course Outline
Chapter 6: The Internet
What is the internet?
What are the networks required?

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 Some Engineering Notations (Prefix)
• In engineering and science we often encounter dimensions that can be
very large or very small. So let us introduce some engineering prefixes
for convenience of our future technical discussions

Prefix Symbol Value

tera T 1012
giga G 109
mega M 106
kilo k 103
(no prefix) 100
milli m 10-3
micro  10-6
nano n 10-9
pico p 10-12
• Examples: “4 GB” USB flash memory, “10M Pixels Digital Camera”, “1 Gbps broadband
service.”
• You have probably heard about “nanotechnology.” “Nano,” in fact, is an engineering
notation for 10-9.
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Intended Learning Outcomes
• On successful completion of this course, you will be able
to
– Recognize the key technological developments of
electronic and information technology
– Identify the fundamental principles related to
electronic and information technology
– Use MS Excel to solve simple engineering problems
– Acquire engineering knowledge on up-to-date
electronic and information technology

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Outcome-based Assessment

• Multiple-choice / short questions for students to

demonstrate their recognition of the key technological
developments of electronic and information technology

• Problem sets / written-exam questions for students to

apply their knowledge of electronic and information
technology to solve simple engineering problems

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Some Frequently Asked Questions about ELEC1010
Q: Do science-stream students get big advantage on this course?

Ans: Yes and No. Science-stream students may get little benefit in the
very beginning of the course because some materials are related to
basic Math and Physics. However, no evidence from previous years
show that there are significant difference between Science- and Art-
stream students in terms of their exam performance or course
grades.

Q: Does this course require advanced mathematics?

Ans: No. Only Junior Level mathematics is needed (+,-,x,/ ….)

Q: Does the course only talk about technology and nothing else?

Ans: We will include some historical contexts and as far as possible,

relate the technologies to our daily life. Optional project will
encourage you to relate the materials to contemporary enterprises
and markets.

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