DSP instead of circuits?-transition to undergraduate DSP education at Rose-Hulman

We assert that digital signal processing (DSP) can and should be taught early (sophomore-junior) in the electrical and computer engineering curricula. This paper looks at the impact this has on the rest of the curriculum, both in electrical and computer engineering and in other engineering curricula. While the early introduction of basic DSP makes it possible to offer better senior electives and graduate courses in DSP, the biggest benefit is the ability to build on DSP core concepts just as we have traditionally built on circuits core concepts in the past. Further, motivational examples in DSP lend themselves to multimedia and are often more familiar to today´s students than basic circuits