Engineering Mathematics B3a

Overview

Credits points: 9


Workload:
75 hours course attendance; 195 hours self-study


Semester:
summer and winter


Language: English


Module type: compulsory


Module usability: M.Sc. Electrical Communication Engineering, M.Sc. Functional Safety Engineering


Module duration: one semester


Required qualifications:
undergraduate math (linear algebra, calculus, probability, random variables)

Competences to be acquired

Using mathematical frameworks in view of design objectives based on quantitative system specifications


Simulating and validating communication systems


Making deterministic and statistical inference

Courses

Content

  • Fundamentals of linear algebra, basics in probability and statistics
  • Generalized functions and linear systems
  • Fourier transforms and Shannon-Kotelnikov (sampling) theorem
  • Bounded-input bounded-output stability in time-discrete linear time-invariant systems
  • Probability, stochastic processes, stationary processes and the central limit theorem
  • System description based on linear / non-linear operators (deterministic andstochastic)
  • System design and simulation using numerical methods
  • Monte-Carlo simulations
  • Single-/multi-variable calculus
  • Ordinary and partial differential equations
  • Optimization problems

Learning outcomes

  • Formulation of deterministic and stochastic mathematical models for systems and algorithms using linear and non-linear operators
  • Interpreting functions as elements of Hilbert spaces
  • Recap of undergraduate math topics

Details

  • Lecturer: Dirk Dahlhaus, Nour Mansour
  • Teaching method: lecture and exercises
  • SWS: 5
  • Credit points: 9
  • Examination: written exam (120 minutes)
  • Course identifier: FB16-4915