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School of Engineering and Computer Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Gerald R. Edelstein, MS

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Knudson 112
2390 South York Street
Denver, CO 80208

Gerald.Edelstein@du.edu

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Information & Technology

Technology 21 is a three course sequence designed to provide students with an awareness of the technological challenges of the twenty-first century and an understanding of the scientific principles upon which the technology is based. The first quarter begins with a review of numeracy, the language of science and technology. The course explores our dependency on energy; the amount we consume is staggering and most comes from non-renewable fossil fuels. The second and third quarters are concerned with information technology and the relation between technology and global issues.  

Co-requisite: None Prerequisites: None

Textbook: Information &Technology,Inside & Out.
David Cyganski: ISBN 0-13-011496

Lecture Topics:
  1. What is Information
  2. Information Systems
  3. The World Wide WEB
  4. Binary mathematics
  5. Organizing Information
  6. Data Protocols
  7. Information Entropy
  8. Image Compression
  9. Audio Compression
 Laboratory Topics:
  1. Analog to Digital Conversion
  2. Discrete Binary Display of Continuous Information
  3. Binary Coding the Seven Segment Display