TITLE: Telecommunications Electronics II

1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
   A continued theoretical overview of the electronic building blocks involved in the field of telecommunications.
   
   
2. PURPOSE:
   Build a good foundation for the student to understand the functions of the telecommunications electronic components in use today.
   
   
3. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
   To provide the student with the concepts necessary to readily understand the underlying principles behind the functions of telecommunications equipment.
   
   
4. CONTENT OUTLINE:
   
   1. Review of Basic Electronics
      
   2. Amplitude Modulation Systems
      
   3. Sideband Systems
      
   4. Frequency and Phase Modulation Systems
      
   5. Television Systems
      
   6. Pulse Communication Systems
      
   7. Digital Communication Techniques
      
   8. Transmission Lines and Antennas
      
   9. Waveguides and Satellite Communications
      
   10. Fiber Optics and Lasers
       
   
   
5. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
   Lecture, Discussion, and Demonstration.
   
   
6. FIELD, CLINICAL, AND/OR LABORATORY EXPERIENCES:
   None.
   
   
7. RESOURCES:
   Web-Page references.
   
   
8. GRADING PROCEDURES:
1. GRADING FACTORS: Four exams, equally weighted.
   
   
2. GRADING SCALE

   Average		Grade
   90 or above		A
   80 - 89%		B
   70 - 79%		C
   60 - 69%		D
   Below 60%		E

   
   
9. ATTENDANCE POLICY:
   This course will adhere to the policy published in the MSU Undergraduate Bulletin. Attendance will not be recorded each day, but students are expected to be regular in attendance. Provisions will be made for making up necessary absences from labs. Late homework or lab reports without valid reason will have a grade reduction. No make-ups are given for pop tests. The lowest one-hour exam grade will be dropped, and normally no make-up exams will be given. Any make-up exams will be at the discretion of the instructor, and will require that advance notice be received before a test is given, stating the reasons for the absence. Supporting documentation will be required.
   
   
10. ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY:
    Cheating, plagiarism (submitting another person's material as one's own), or doing work for another person which will receive academic credit are all impermissible. This includes the use of unauthorized books, notebooks or other sources in order to secure or give help during an examination; the unauthorized copying of examinations, assignments, reports or term papers; or the presentation of unacknowledged material as if it were the student's own work. Disciplinary action may be taken beyond the academic discipline administered by the faculty member who teaches the course in which the cheating took place.
    
    
11. TEXT AND REFERENCES:
    The Physical Layer: Electronics for the Telecom Manager, (online text) by McLaren
    
    
12. PREREQUISITES:
    TSM 118.