Teaching fundamentals of telecommunications technology

This article is about the laboratory stands and teaching program of telecommunications technology allowing our third-year students (from Electrical Engineering Department) to know the operation principles of basic telecommunication schemes. Telecommunication plays an increasingly important role in many fields of technology, as a tool to meet specific targets. This situation forces specialists in different fields to acquire the basic knowledge about the functioning, possibilities and limitations of telecommunication. Telecommunication technology is an important part of education of electrical engineering students. Future electrical engineer will have to deal with different data systems, starting with communication systems realized in the workplace and ending up with transferring data to supervisory units in electric power systems. The laboratory of fundamentals of telecommunications technology enables students to realize schemes using virtual and real devices. During first exercises students simulate various systems using LVSIMO-COM and LVSIM®-ACOM programs. Students begin from familiarizing themselves with basic devices, such as: signal generator, oscilloscope. During the last exercise they are using Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK). Then, students become familiar with the real network devices. They create and configure wired and wireless networks, examine the capacity of each connection and analyze the network using sniffer-type programs.