Telecommunication and Sensing

The aim of this course is for you to gain basic insight and understanding of modern telecommunication and sensing systems with a unique combination of physics and signals and systems theory. The course starts with the description of fundamental concepts in telecommunication and sensing including channel capacity, received signal power and noise, link budget, signal modulation and detection, and range-doppler profile. Baseband techniques and bandpass signals with analog and digital modulation methods are discussed in detail. The last part of this course provides an introduction to wireless communication system's aspects. The lectures are supported by practical numerical problems throughout the course as weekly homework exercises and weekly instruction lectures, in order to make you skilled in solving system related problems supported by calculations.

The list of topics and distribution over the lectures can be found on Brightspace.

The course Telecommunications and Sensing is completed with a 3-hour closed-book written exam covering the full course content at the end of the 2nd or 3rd quarter (resit).

The final grade of the course Telecommunications and Sensing is based solely on the grade obtained for the exam, which is is rounded to the nearest half.

During the exam you are allowed to use the following materials:
- a non-programmable electronic calculator,
- the overview “Tables and Figures to be used at the exam Telecommunications and Sensing (EE2T1)”, as made available on Brightspace, without annotations,
- an original self-handwritten equation form: 1 page A4, written on both sides, (not type-written, not copied and it should not contain worked out exercises or examples).

In case of insufficient results a repair option may exist in accordance with Article 2, Examination requirements, Clause 4, of the Implementation Regulations 2024-2025.

Disclaimer: information may change depending on unforeseen circumstances or measures (see: TER Art 29, sub 4).