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ELEC1010_Fall 21-22

ELEC1010 is a 3-credit general-education course that introduces students to the fundamentals of electronic and information technology, focusing on their applications in consumer electronics and communication devices. The course covers topics such as signal representation, digitization, coding, and wireless communications, with no prerequisites required for enrollment. Students will engage in lectures, tutorials, and assessments including homework, midterms, and a final exam, with intended learning outcomes aimed at recognizing key technological developments and using software tools for presentations.

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ELEC1010_Fall 21-22

ELEC1010 is a 3-credit general-education course that introduces students to the fundamentals of electronic and information technology, focusing on their applications in consumer electronics and communication devices. The course covers topics such as signal representation, digitization, coding, and wireless communications, with no prerequisites required for enrollment. Students will engage in lectures, tutorials, and assessments including homework, midterms, and a final exam, with intended learning outcomes aimed at recognizing key technological developments and using software tools for presentations.

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ELEC1010 Electronic and Information Technology

Course code: ELEC1010


Title: Electronic and Information Technology
Credits: 3

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. Contents 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 Internet.
Enrollment requirement: No prerequisite
Course objectives: Introduces the basics of electronic and information technology and their
applications to daily-life consumer electronics and communication devices. On successful
completion of this course, students will be able to recognize the key technological developments
of electronic and information technology; identify the fundamental principles related to electronic
and information technology.

Intended Learning Outcomes


CO1: Recognize the key technological developments of electronic and information technology.
(PO6)
CO2: Identify the fundamental principles related to electronic and information technology.
(PO1)
CO3: Use MS Excel to solve simple engineering problems. (PO2)
CO4: Use MS PowerPoint to create an interactive presentation on up-to-date electronic and
information technology. (PO4, PO6, PO7)

Teaching and Learning Activities:


Lectures (mixed-mode): Delivered by the instructor on key concepts (CO1, CO2)
Tutorials (mixed-mode): Delivered by the instructional assistant to reiterate and strengthen key
concepts through daily examples and worked problems (CO1, CO2)
Homework assignments (through Canvas) /exams (face-to-face): For students to apply their
knowledge of electronic and information technology to solve simple engineering problems (CO2,
CO3)
Optional group projects: Conducting a group term project for students to
 apply their knowledge on electronic and information technology to
illustrate an up-to-date electronic and information technology (CO4)
 use MS PowerPoint to create an interactive presentation (CO4)

Assessment Tasks and Their Respective Weighting


5 Homework assignments: 10%
Midterm: 45% (face-to-face on campus, closed-book)
Final Exam: 45% (face-to-face on campus, closed-book)
Bonus group project (10 marks with 8/10 or above, one sub-grade up)

Weekly Course topic


Week Lecture LECTURE SCHEDULE (mixed mode)

1 1 Chapter 0 – Course Introduction

2 2 Chapter 1 - Introduction to Signals and Systems

3 Chapter 1 - Sound Signal, Frequency and Harmonics

3 4 Chapter 1 - Signals as Sum of Sine Waves

Chapter 1 - Spectrum - Representation of Signals in the


5
Frequency Domain

4 6a Chapter 1 - Systems as Filters of Signals


6b
Chapter 1 - Systems as Filters of Signals

5 7 Chapter 1 - Frequency Translation


Chapter 2 – Benefits of Digitization
8
6 9 Chapter 2 - Logic with Bits and Bytes HW1 - up to
Chapter 3 - Introduction to Analog to Digital Conversion filtering
10
7 11 Chapter 3 - Quantization

Public Holiday

8 12 Chapter 3 - Claude Shannon and Information Theory HW2 - up to


Chapter 2
13 Chapter 4 - Introduction to Source Coding
9 14 Chapter 4 - Huffman Code and MPEG

15 Chapter 4 - Error Detection Codes


MT Review
10 16 Chapter 4 - Error Correcting Codes HW3 - up to
Chapter 4 - Channel Capacity Chapter 3
17
Midterm Exam
(face-to-face)
(Chapter 1-3)
11 18 Chapter 5 - Introduction to Wireless Communications
Chapter 5 - Cellular Network Basics
19
12 20a Chapter 5 - Multiple Access Technologies HW4 - up to
Chapter 5 - Multiple Access Technologies Chapter 4
20b
13a 21 Chapter 6 - Nuts and Bolts View of the Internet Networks
Chapter 6 – Content Distribution Networks & Peer-to-Peer
22

13b 23 Course Review HW5 - up to


Chapter 6
14-15 Final exam (face-to-face)

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