Course Outline

This required course covers basic circuit theories that are needed for understanding the operation, as well as the design of many biomedical devices. It also provides a theoretical and mathematical foundation for analyzing and processing electrical signals. Students will learn the parametric concepts commonly used for the representation, analysis and transformation of continuous-time and discrete-time signals, and the principles of processing time-varying signals in linear systems. This course emphasizes using mathematical methods to analyze and to solve engineering problems.

Specific topics of this course are: basic circuit laws and theorems, mesh and nodal analysis, superposition and source transformation; analysis of operational amplifier circuits and their biomedical applications; concept of phasor and impedance; AC analysis, introduction to transient analysis; inductors and transformers for biomedical devices; Basics of biomedical signals; continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems; Fourier series and Fourier transform for analysis of signals and systems; convolutions/filters; sampling.