Lessons Learned from Implementing Application-Oriented Hands-On Activities for Continuous-Time Signal Processing Courses [SP Education]

Understanding the relationship between frequency and time domains using Fourier theory is crucial to engineers in many disciplines. In electrical and computer engineering, students usually first see this material in an introductory continuous-time signals and systems (CTSS) course and then apply it in many follow-up courses such as controls, digital signal processing (DSP), communications, and electromagnetic waves. Unfortunately, for such a crucial course, both faculty and students share longstanding concerns about the students' performance in these types of CTSS coursess.