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ECE 398 MA “Introduction to Modern Communication with Python and SDR“ submitted by Thomas Moon and Juan Alvarez for first time offering in Spring 2025, was discussed next. There was general agreement that it is a good time to refresh the portfolio of courses in the communications area and that it is opportune to have a new course to introduce this topic earlier in the curriculum. In particular, Chris Schmitz provided his assessment of the proposed course, as expert in the field. It is likely that this would open up the opportunity to restructure high level communications courses, in particular ECE 459. There was also a brief discussion on the possibility to create direct synergy with existing laboratory courses. One further comment was that it would be nice to have a more detailed syllabus with more definition of topics covered in individual lectures. It will be expected to have this in a future request and the chair will relay the feedback to the instructors. The course was approved for offering in Spring 2025 with unanimous content.
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