S.96-2
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To:
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Senate
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From:
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D. Gagan, Chair
Senate Committee on
Academic Planning
Subject:
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Curriculum Revisions
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Date:
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December 11, 1995
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies and the Senate
Committee on Academic Planning gives rise to the following motion:
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Motion:
"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors
the curriculum revisions for the Faculty of Applied Sciences as set forth in
S.96-2
as follows:
S.96-2a
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School of Engineering Science
For Information:
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SCUS approved revisions in
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School of Communication
S.96-2c
School of Computing Science
S.96-2d
School of Kinesiology
Agreement has been reached between the Faculty and Library in
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the assessment of library costs associated with the new course.
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S.96-2a
School of Engineering Science
SCUS Reference:
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SCUS95-21 b
SCAP Reference:
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SCAP 95-65 c
New course:
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ENSC 474-4 Multimedia Communications Engineering
Changes to the wording of admission criteria
For Information:
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SCUS has approved the following
revisions as detailed in SCUS 95 - 21 b:
Renumbering of: ENSC 103-1 to ENSC 204-1
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ENSC 104-1 to ENSC 203-1
ENSC 105-1 to ENSC 305-1
ENSC 106-1 to ENSC 306-1
ENSC 107-1 to ENSC 407-1
ENSC 108-0 to ENSC 408-0
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NEW COURSE PROPOS
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Calendar Information
Course Number (e.g. CHEMI50):
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ENSC 474
Course Title:
MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
Credit Hours: 4
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Vector: 3-0-2
Course Description (for Calendar). Attach a course outline to this proposal.
See Attached
Prerequisite: ?
ENSC 21
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Corequisie:
Special Instructions:
Course(s) to be dropped if this course is approved:
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None
Rationale for Introduction of this Course: Will this be a required or elective course in the curriculum;
probable
enrolment when
offered?
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Multimedia communications is an important and growing technological area and
students need a solid technical understanding of the field. We would expect
approx.
10 students per year to be enrolled in
this optional course.
Scheduling and Registration Information
thereafter.
Indicate Semester and Year this course would be first offered and planned frequency of
offering
It will be offered once
per year, starting
in 96-3.
Which
sessional
of
or
your
limited
present
term
CFL
instructors?
faculty
have the
expertise to offer this course? Will the course be taught by
Bird, Cuperman and Vaisey can all teach this course.
Are there any proposed student fees associated
with
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his course
other than tuition fees? NO
Is this course considered a 'duplicate' of any current or prior course under the University's duplicate
course policy? Specif
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, as appropriate.
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NO
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NEW COURSE ?
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Course Number (e.g. CHEM 150):
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ENSC 474
Resource Implications:
Note: Senate has approved (S.93-11) that no new course should be approved by Senate until funding
has been committed for necessary library materials. Each new course proposal must be accompanied b
a library report and, if appropriate, confirmation that funding arrangements have been addressed.
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Provide details on ho\\' existing instructional resources will be redistributed to accommodate this new
course. For instance, will another course be eliminated or will the frequency of offering of other
courses be reduced; are there changes in pedagogical style or class sizes that allow for this additional
course offering.
This course will be an elective. Including it in our list of courses will mean
that other electives will not be offered quite as frequently.
Does this course require specialized space cr equipment not readily available in the department or
universit y
, and if so, how will these resources be provided?
No, specialized equipment will not be required.
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Does this course require computing resources (e.g; hardware, soft'are, network wiring, use of
computer laboratory space) and if so, describe how they will bç provided.
Yes, some computng resources will be required, but these are currently available
within the school.
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ENSC 474 - Multimedia Communications Engineering
Calendar description
This course covers
the
technical bases for multimedia communications systems. The main topics are
as follows: methods for audio and visual signal compression and processing; the communications
requirements of multimedia systems, such as synchronization, quality of service and bandwidth; the
architectures and protocols associated with multimedia communications networks.
Scope
This course provides a
close
look at strategies and technolgies for
communicating
multimedia infor-
ma.tion over networks. It is not a general overview of "multimedia", nor does it cover other advanced
(and important) material such as filesystems and operating systems for multimedia.
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1) System Definition [1 week].
a)
multimedia information: audio, video, text, graphics, hypermedia, trans-
mission requirements (bit rates), synchronization requirements.
b)
requirements for interactive multimedia and continuous media transmission.
2)
Audio visual analysis and processing [2 weeks].
a) signal transforms (DCT, Karhunen Loéve, Haar etc.)
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1)) signal processing (filtering, zooming, morphing, etc.)
c) signal models
3) Compression algorithms for audio and visual information [5 weeks].
a) lossy and lossless coding
b) transform coding
c)
temporal and spatial prediction
(1) wavelet and subband expansions
e)
scalable coding and progressive transmission
f)
applications to modern compression standards such as H.324, CELP, JPEG
and MPEG, et cetera.
4) Multimedia networks and their protocols [4 weeks].
a)
network architectures for multimedia
b)
protocols for multimedia transmission
c) synchronization issues
d)
quality of service
e) ATM, ISDN and wireless nets
5) Applications [1 week].
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Laboratory
The laboratory equipment required for this course consists of.PCs and UNIX workstations. We
will install "free" and "homegrown" software for audio/visual codecs and image processing and will
use programs such as netscape for the demonstration of multimedia documents. Existing network
simulation software will be used for the networks part of the course.
Pre-requisites
The basic concepts of linear systems analysis using the Fourier transform; i.e., ENSC 281 or a
suitable equivalent.
Textbook
John Buford, "Multimedia. Systems", Addison Wesely, 1995.
Reference Materials
1) Books
• Tony Feldman,
Multimedia, 1994
• Anil Jam, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, 1989
• Murat Tekalp,
Digital Video Processing,
Prentice Hail,
1995.
L.R. Rabiner and
R.\V. Schafer,
Digital Processing of Speech Signal,
Prentice
Hall, 1978.
2) Journals
• Communications of the ACM
• IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
• IEEE Communications Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Multimedia
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2)
Re-numbering of the Engineering Communication courses
Proposal
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It is proposed to re-number the Engineering Communication sequence in the following
manner:
ENSC 103-1 to ENSC 204-1
ENSC 104-I to ENSC 203-1
ENSC 105-1 to ENSC 305-1
ENSC 106-1 to ENSC 306-1
ENSC 107-1 to ENSC 407-1
ENSC 108-0 to ENSC 408-0
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The major reason for this change is that it reflects the year and the level at which the
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course is taught while maintaining the-sense oLasequenceof related courses. The
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courses also build upon earlier ones, allowing for a higher levels of problem solving and
place more demands in terms of critical thinking.
Note that the order of the ENSC 103 and ENSC 104 is also reversed in this re-numbering
exercise. The rational for it is that this reversal of the order of the material creates a more
logical sequence of course within the ENSC Communication Program in relation to what
is being taught in ENSC 222, an electronics lecture/lab course that covers material best
taken before undertaking ENSC 103. On the other hand ENSC 104 does not build upon
knowledge from other ENSC courses and could easily be handled by the students at the
beginning of the second year.
As a result of the above change all references to ENSC 101-108 on pages 71-73, as well
as 208 should be revised along the above line.
Rationale
Remark
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Changes to the wording of the admission criteria
Proposal ?
To change the admission criteria on page 71 of the Calendar, second paragraph under
the topic "Admission"
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Applicants from BC high schools will be expected to have the following subjects at the
Grade 12 level: English, Algebra, Physics, Chemistry. It is strongly advised that students
complete Grade 12 Computing. Admission to the program is limited and selective, based
on previous academic performance.
Note:
The recommended date of receipt of all applications for admission by those whose
goal is the BASc Engineering Science program is June 30.
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Applicants from the BC high schools are required to have taken the following subjects:
English-12, Mathematics-12, Physics-12, and Chemistry-12. Students are also strongly
advised to complete Computer Science- 12. Admission to the program is limited and very
competitive: an "A" standing in Math, Physics, and Chemistry and at least a "B" standing
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in English are expected. Non-academic components such as work experience, extra
curricular activities and science fair participation are also considered during the
admission process.
Note: Students interested in the B.A.Sc. Engineering Science program should apply as
early as possible since the program usually fills early. At the very latest, applications
should be received by June 30.
Rationale Nick Heath in the Registrar's office has suggested that we change our Calendar infor-
mation in the "Admission' section to indicate more clearly the criteria that we use. The
UCC agrees.
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S.96-2b
FOR INFORMATION
School of Communication
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SCUS has approved the following
revisions as detailed in SCUS 95 - 21 a:
Change of prerequisite: CMNS 473-4, CMNS 498-10
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is FOR INFORMATION ?
S.96-2c
School of Computing Science
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SCUS has approved the following request as
detailed in SCUS 95 - 21 d:
Waiver to permit offering of CMPT 212-3 (Object-Oriented Applications
Design in C++) in Summer 96-2
(New course approved by Senate November 6, 1995)
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S.96-2d
School of Kinesiology
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SCUS has approved the following revisions as
detailed in SCUS 95 - 21 c
KIN 207-3 Change of description
KIN 467-3 Change of title, description and prerequisites
KIN 485-4 Change of title and description
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