Philip D. Cha is a Professor in the Department of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He gained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan before working as a senior research engineer at the Ford Motor Company prior to joining Harvey Mudd College. In 2000, he received the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers as one of the top ten mechanical engineering educators in the US. John I. Molinder is a Professor in the Department of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and went on to work as a project officer in the USAF at Norton AFB in San Bernardino, California, and a senior engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before joining Harvey Mudd College. He has also worked as a principal engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego, California and, most recently, as a contractor for Boeing Satellite Systems in El Segundo, California.

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• 1. Introduction to signals and systems; 2. Constructing signals from building blocks; 3. Sampling and data acquisition; 4. Lumped element modeling of mechanical systems; 5. Lumped element modeling of electrical systems; 6. Solution to differential equations; 7. Input-output relationships using frequency response; 8. Digital signal processing (DSP); 9. Applications; 10. Summary; Laboratory exercises.