This text contains a comprehensive discussion on continuous and discrete time signals and systems with many MATLAB® examples. It is written for junior and senior electrical engineering students, and for self-study by working professionals. The prerequisites are a basic course in differential and integral calculus, and basic electric circuit theory. This book can be used in a two-quarter, or one semester course. The material of this text can be covered in one semester, 16 weeks, with 2½ lecture hours per week. To get the most out of this text, it is highly recommended that Appendix A is thoroughly reviewed. This appendix serves as an introduction to MATLAB, and is intended for those who are not familiar with it. The Student Edition of MATLAB is an inexpensive, and yet a very powerful software package; it can be found in many college bookstores, or can be obtained directly from The MathWorks™ Inc., 3 Apple Hill Drive , Natick, MA 01760-2098 Phone: 508 647-7000, Fax: 508 647-7001 http://www.mathworks.com e-mail: info@mathwork.com The elementary signals are reviewed in Chapter 1, and several examples are given. The purpose of this chapter is to enable the reader to express any waveform in terms of the unit step function, and subsequently the derivation of the Laplace transform of it. Chapters 2 through 4 are devoted to Laplace transformation and circuit analysis using this transform. Chapter 5 discusses the state variable method, and Chapter 6 the impulse response. Chapters 7 and 8 are devoted to Fourier series and transform respectively. Chapter 9 introduces discrete-time signals and the Z transform. Considerable time was spent on Chapter 10 to present the Discrete Fourier transform and FFT with the simplest possible explanations. Chapter 11 contains a thorough discussion to analog and digital filters analysis and design procedures. As mentioned above, Appendix A is an introduction to MATLAB. Appendix B contains a review of complex numbers, and Appendix C discusses matrices.