APTPUO Part Time Professor 2026 Fall ELG4176A

Posting Reason:

New Position

Location:

Main Campus

Academic Period:

2026 Fall Semester

Faculty:

Faculté de génie / Faculty of Engineering

Academic Unit:

École de science informatique et de génie électrique \\ School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Course Title:

Communication Systems

Course Code:

ELG4176

Section:

A

Course Description:

Review of random signals and system concepts, and modulation and detection. Basic antenna equations. SNR link calculations. Analysis of linear modulation in the presence of noise. Analysis of angle modulation in the presence of noise. The threshold effect, threshold extension, and preemphasis and deemphasis in angle modulation. Digital modulation techniques. Detection principles for digital communication signals in noise: matched filter receivers, signal space concepts, maximum a posteriori receivers, maximum likelihood receivers. Partial response signalling. Channel coding. Coherent and noncoherent detection. Maximum likelihood sequence estimation receivers for modulation with memory and the Viterbi algorithm. Channel capacity.

Posting limited to:

Professeur à temps-partiel régulier / Regular Part-Time Professor

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/06/25

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/07/26

Expected Enrolment:

N/a

Approval date:

2026/06/25

Number of credits:

3

Work Hours:

52

Hourly Rate:

Enseignement / Teaching: $239.47 (2024-2025)

The academic year starts on September 1 and ends on August 31.

These rates do not included vacation pay nor statutory pay.

These rates will be applied until a new collective agreement is ratified. Retro will be paid after the ratification.

Course type:

B

Posting type:

Régulier / Regular

Language of instruction:

Anglais | English

Competence in second language:

Passive

Course Schedule:

Mardi | Tuesday 17:30-19:00 Jeudi | Thursday 17:30-19:00 -

Requirements:

Excellent knowledge of course subject matter, demonstrated by having taught similar or related courses, or demonstrated by relevant work experience. Applicants must also be licensed as a Professional Engineer. Regular applicants must have a doctorate and it should be in a field related to the course (especially in the case where the course is more specialized), if not, they must have a relevant work experience in a field related to the course, after having obtained their Ph.D.

Please include your P.Eng. License number and province of registration when applying.

Please note that the teaching method for this course will be delivered: IN PERSON.

The contract for this course will include a payment for 52 hours (instead of 39 hours), as it is required that the part-time professor teaching this course attends tutorials at least one hour per week (on average).

Additional Information and/or Comments:

An acceptable level of education and/or experience could be viewed as being equivalent to the educational required and/or demonstrated experience. If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any adaptive measures you might require. Information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence. Employees are required under provincial law to successfully complete all mandatory legislated training. The list of training may be modified by provincial law.

The hiring process will be governed by the current APTPUO collective agreements; you can click here for the main unit, here for the OLBI unit, or here for the Toronto/Windsor unit to find out more.

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