Use of MATLAB in the Classroom (ECE)

October 6, 2010

Welcoming Remarks

Prof. Jan Allebach

Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Use of MATLAB in ECE438: Digital Signal Processing with Applications

• Scope and Structure of the ECE438 lab, by Jordan Kisner

• Current Students' perspective: ECE438 Lab 6.2 (on the FFT)

Vinayak Gokhale	Janam Jhaveri

Other Uses, by Prof. Mimi Boutin

Students Playing Music With MATLAB

• Playing "Hail Purdue" in MATLAB (from HW1 ECE301- Fall 2008 with Prof. Boutin)

• Looking for the subbliminal message in a Judas Priest song

Use in Decision Theory

• Experimenting with Bayes rule (from ECE662)

Creating synthetic sound signals in Matlab (from ECE301)

• ECE 301 exercise
• Mario Bros Theme Tune

Understanding convolution using Matlab (from ECE301)

• ECE 301 exercise
• Custom, illustrative convolution function

Understanding Fourier expansions of periodic signals (from ECE301)

• ECE 301 exercise
• Approximation of square wave with finite number of Fourier terms

Understanding sampling and aliasing (from ECE301)

• Mario Bros Tune with variable sampling

Use in graduate student's research

• Landis Huffman, PhD student in ECE