Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

TEE 102 — Introduction to Telecommunications Engineering

2 units · TEE department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• explain the field of telecommunication and its relationship with other branches of Electrical Engineering
• describe the various types of signals and waveforms
• explain the concept of time and frequency representation of signals
• compare various transmission media for telecommunication signals
• appreciate networking services and their impact on society;
• discuss the basic switching schemes.

Course contents

Introduction to Telecommunication; relationship with other fields of Engineering. Taxonomies of telecom systems; signal waveforms and information, audio, data, video; conversion of sound to electrical signals; amplitude, frequency, phase, wave-shape, the relationship between velocity (v), frequency (f) and wavelength (λ). Analog and digital signals, time and frequency domain representations of signals; transmission of signals through various media; copper pairs, coaxial, waveguides, radio, optical fibres and satellite. Introduction to networks services and their impact on society, LANs, MANs, and WANs. Data networks; the internet, global navigation. Electromagnetic spectrum and frequency allocation for various services; basic principles of switching; space and time division switching networks; store-and-forward switching; examples of switching systems. 200 Level

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study TEE 102.

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