Understanding DSP by versatile means

DSP has wide applicability and suitable graduates are in demand. Courseware can be created centrally. Technology is a tool to implement educational ideas. In designing courseware, interests, aptitudes and learning requirements of students and backgrounds and motivations of instructors should be taken into account. The general aims should be to awaken awareness and enthusiasm for an unfamiliar subject, to provide students with desirable skills and techniques and to cater for expectations of the course. The specific aims for students being to understand DSP concepts, to apply the above to a new situation, to obtain and process experimental data and to work as a team and communicate effectively at all levels. The concept of modularisation eases course design enabling course objectives to be met, allows additions to courses, increases students´ options enabling them to design a programme suited to their interests and widens the scope of their experience, As technology has developed, system design has changed from analog to digital signal processing. With subsequent development engineers need to be adaptable, not tied to a particular implementation and having a sound broad technical and theoretical base which requires a scientific/engineering background with applicability to the real world. It is essential that students are exposed to modern DSP facilities. These should capture students´ interests early on, exposing context and particular application