About the book:

Signals and Systems: A Primer with MATLAB^® provides clear, interesting, and easy-to-understand coverage of continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems. Each chapter opens with a historical profile or career talk, followed by an introduction that states the chapter objectives and links the chapter to the previous ones. All principles are presented in a lucid, logical, step-by-step approach. As much as possible, the authors avoid wordiness and detail overload that could hide concepts and impede understanding.

In recognition of the requirements by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) on integrating computer tools, the use of MATLAB^® is encouraged in a student-friendly manner. MATLAB is introduced in Appendix B and applied gradually throughout the book.

Each illustrative example is immediately followed by a practice problem along with its answer. Students can follow the example step by step to solve the practice problem without flipping pages or looking at the end of the book for answers. These practice problems test students’ comprehension and reinforce key concepts before moving on to the next section.

Toward the end of each chapter, the authors discuss some application aspects of the concepts covered in the chapter. The material covered in the chapter is applied to at least one or two practical problems or devices. This helps students see how the concepts are applied to real-life situations.

In addition, thoroughly worked examples are given liberally at the end of every section. These examples give students a solid grasp of the solutions as well as the confidence to solve similar problems themselves. Some of the problems are solved in two or three ways to facilitate a deeper understanding and comparison of different approaches.

Ten review questions in the form of multiple-choice objective items are provided at the end of each chapter with answers. The review questions are intended to cover the "little tricks" that the examples and end-of-chapter problems may not cover. They serve as a self-test device and help students determine chapter mastery. Each chapter also ends with a summary of key points and formulas.

Designed for a three-hour semester course on signals and systems,Signals and Systems: A Primer with MATLAB^® is intended as a textbook for junior-level undergraduate students in electrical and computer engineering. The prerequisites for a course based on this book are knowledge of standard mathematics (including calculus and differential equations) and electric circuit analysis.

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About the Authors:

Dr. Matthew N. O. Sadiku received BSc in 1978 from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, and his MSc and PhD from Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. From 1984 to 1988, he was assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he did graduate work in computer science. From 1988 to 2000, he was at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became a full professor. From 2000 to 2002, he worked with Lucent/Avaya, Holmdel, New Jersey, as s system engineer and with Boeing Satellite Systems as a senior scientist. At present, he is a professor at Prairie View A&M University.

He is the author of over 240 professional papers and over 50 books, including Elements of Electromagnetic (Oxford University Press, 6^th ed., 2015), Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (McGraw-Hill, 5^th ed., 2013, coauthored with C. Alexander), Numerical Techinques in Electromagnetics with MATLAB® (CRC Press 3^rd ed., 2009), and Metropolitan Area Networks (CRC Press, 1995). Some of his books have been translated into French, Korean, Chinese (and Chinese long form in Taiwan), Italian Portuguese, and Spanish. He was the recipient of the McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award in 2000 for outstanding contributions in the field of electrical engineering. He was also the recipient of the Regents Professor award for 2012-2013 given by the Texas A&M University System.

His current research interests are in the areas of numerical modeling of electromagnetic systems and computer communication networks. He is a registered professional engineer and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for contributions to computational electromagnetic and engineering education.” He was the IEEE Region 2 Student Activities Committee chairman. He was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Education. He is also a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Dr. Warsame H. Ali received his BSc from King Saud University Electrical Engineering Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his MS from Prairie View A&M University, Prairie view, Texas. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Dr. Ali promoted to associate professor and tenured in 2010. Dr. Ali joined NASA, Glenn Research Center, in the summer of 2005, and Texas Instruments (TI) in 2006.