A two-week ISTE workshop on ‘Signals & Systems’ during January 2-12, 2014 was organized at GIST in association with IIT Bombay and IIT Khargapur sponsored by MHRD under NMEICT.

The program is aimed at upgrading the technical expertise of the faculty by providing them exposure to quality training program imported by experts. The workshop served as a useful platform for the transfer of knowledge and ideas through interactive with experts from IITs, besides facilitating the up gradation of technical skills, through interactive teaching methodologies.

Prof. Vikram M. Gadre, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay and Prof. Somnath Sengupta, Department of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, were the resource persons for the workshop and they gave the faculty useful insights into Signals and Systems and their effective applications to Digital signal processing, Digital image processing.

The following topics were extensively covered during the 2 week workshop.

  • Introduction to Signals and Systems.
  • Properties, Definitions and Examples of Signals.
  • Continuous Time and Discrete Time Linear shift Invariant Systems.
  • System responses, Fourier Series, Fourier Transform, DTFT and DFT.
  • Laplace transforms, Eigen functions, Poles and Zeroes.
  • Z-transforms.
  • State-space analysis, state transition matrix.
  • Sampling Theorem.
  • Application of Signals and Systems in Filtering and Communication.
  • Advanced topics : Short-time Fourier Transform and Wavelets.

About 60 Faculty members from various colleges in the JNTUA region participated at the workshop. Regular tutorials were conducted, Quizzes were organized with the Aakash tablets for every session and a final test was conducted for all the participants. A group assignment was given to the team for solving the problems and uploading to IIT Bombay.
Signals and System Workshop Brochure