Student Resources

Laboratory & Activities Manual
A major change with this third edition is the availability of a new laboratory manual. The Lab Manual developed for the second edition will be retained for those of you who use it. This new Laboratory & Activities Manual provides more actual hands-on hardware experiments with modern circuits and components. While many circuits are still explored, the attempt is to push toward more systems-level experiments. Building a practical, affordable but meaningful lab is one of the more difficult parts of creating a college course in communications. This new manual provides practice in the principles by using the latest components and methods. Affordable and readily available components and equipment have been used to make it easy for professors to put together a communications lab that validates and complements the text.

Many of the exercises in the Laboratory & Activities Manual involve web access and search to build the student's ability to use the vast resources of the Internet and World Wide Web. The practical engineers and technicians of today have become experts at finding relevant information and answers to their questions and solutions to their problems this way. While practicing this essential skill of any communications engineer or technician knowledge, the student will be able to expand his or her knowledge of any of the subjects in this book, either to dig deeper into the theory and practice or get the latest update information on chips and other products.

Online Learning Center (OLC) website
This text-specific site includes a number of student-oriented resources, including:

• Chapter outlines and summaries.
• MultiSim version 9 Primer, for those who want to get up and running with this popular simulation software. The section is written to provide communications examples and applications.
• MultiSim circuit files for communications electronics.
• Web Links to industrial and educational sites of interest.
• Link to the Work-Ready Electronics; these activities, created by the MATEC research center, show the practical skills needed in various areas of interest--including communications--in the context of modern industry.

Instructor Resources

Instructor Productivity Center CD-ROM
This CD includes the following resources for adopters of the text:

• Answers and solutions to all text problems.
• Answers and information for the Lab & Activity Manual.
• Electronic test banks with a mix of questions for each text chapter.
• PowerPoint presentations for all chapters of the text.

Online Learning Center (OLC) website
The OLC contains student resources, plus the following instructor resources:

• Answers and solutions to the text problems and lab activities, under password protection.
• PowerPoint presentations for each chapter online.
• Additional quiz questions for each chapter, which can be assigned or used for student self-study.
• Blackboard and WebCT cartridges for use with these popular classroom management systems.

Classroom Performance System (CPS) from eInstruction is available for adopters; its "clicker" system provides a vehicle for in-class quizzing and concept reinforcement, and classroom management.