Communication Design Clinic

Students work collaboratively in small groups to implement and optimize components in a modern communication system or network with the goal of supporting a targeted application. To meet this goal students will need to: determine system requirements based on the target application and additional constraints; propose and evaluate multiple solutions through theoretical analysis and detailed simulations; implement, integrate, verify, and iterate on their selected solutions. Lectures will cast content from prerequisite subjects into the context at hand and cover additional topics relevant to the task. Each student group is expected to demonstrate initiative and independence while pursuing the goal of designing and optimizing their communication system or network, with a key focus being that students learn through hands-on experience.