Using multimedia to teach the theory of digital multimedia signals

Author

Schodorf, Jeffrey B. ; Yoder, Mark A. ; McClellan, James H. ; Schafer, Ronald W.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

39

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

336

Lastpage

341

Abstract

A new digital signal processing (DSP) course designed to build students´ intuition about signals and systems is presented. The course makes extensive use of multimedia demonstrations to relate real-world signals and discrete-time systems to their mathematical descriptions. In addition to the numerous in-class demonstrations, weekly laboratory exercises have been developed to further strengthen the ties between DSP theory and real-world signals and systems. Many of the in-class demonstrations have been captured on the World Wide Web (WWW), so the students can explore them outside of class. In the near future, the WWW-based demonstrations will be packaged on a CD-ROM as an integral part of a new text

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; laboratories; multimedia systems; signal processing; student experiments; teaching; CD-ROM; DSP course; World Wide Web; digital multimedia signals; digital signal processing course; discrete-time systems; in-class demonstrations; laboratory exercises; multimedia; real-world signals; CD-ROMs; Digital signal processing; Laboratories; Multimedia systems; Packaging; Process design; Signal design; Signal processing; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.538756

Filename

538756