本书选材兼顾经典题材和新兴技术,在编写中力求改革创新,摈弃从语法到语法、死记硬背的陈旧教学方法,强调大量实践,注重培养学生以较高准确性和足够的速度阅读专业资料和文献的能力,兼顾一定的专业英语表达能力。
全书共20单元,各单元包括课文、词汇、难点注释、课外阅读资料、习题。课文内容涉及电子技术、通信工程、信息处理、计算机应用等领域的基础知识和新技术进展,每一单元包括2~3篇科技文章或技术资料,注意较广的科技英语基本词汇和不同的语言难度。对部分科技术语和重要概念提供简要的英文辅助资料,以便于理解课文,并在学习科技英语的同时扩大专业知识面。书后附有关于科技英语阅读、写作、克服中式英语等问题的指南和讨论。
本教材可供高等院校信息科学、通信工程、电子技术、计算机应用等专业的本科生和研究生学习专业英语之用,亦可供广大英语学习爱好者参考。

Preface
Unit 1 Electronics: Analog and Digital
Text
Part Ⅰ: Ideal Operational Amplifiers and Practical Limitations
Part Ⅱ: Data Registers and Counters
Part Ⅲ: Nature of Phase Lock
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Bridging the Gap between the Analog and Digital Worlds
Exercises
Unit 2 Integrated Circuits
Text
Part Ⅰ: The Integrated Circuit
Part Ⅱ: Application Specific Integrated Circuit
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. Integrated Circuits: the Past and the Future
2. A Top-Down Approach to IC Design
Exercises
Unit 3 EM Fields, Antenna and Microwaves
Text
Part Ⅰ: Electromagnetic Field
Part Ⅱ: Microstrip Antenna
Part Ⅲ: Microwaves
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: What Are Microwaves?
Exercises
Unit 4 Communication and Information Theory
Text
Part Ⅰ: Telecommunication
Part Ⅱ: Data Transmission
Part Ⅲ: Information Theory
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. Telephone
2. Radio and Television
3. The Internet
Exercises
Unit 5 Multiple Access Techniques
Text
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Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
Exercises
Unit 6 Mobile Communications
Text
Part Ⅰ: Mobile Communications
Part Ⅱ: Third Generation Wireless Networks
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Beyond 3G
Exercises
Unit 7 Satellite Communications
Text
Part Ⅰ: Applications of Communications Satellite
Part Ⅱ: Satellite Intemet Access
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: History of Communications Satellite
Exercises
Unit 8 Optical Communications
Text
Part Ⅰ: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Part Ⅱ: Optical Fiber
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Optical Systems
Exercises
Unit 9 Digital Signals and Signal Processing
Text
Part Ⅰ: Digital Signal Processing
Part Ⅱ: General Concepts of Digital Signal Processing
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Designing Digital Filters
Exercises
Unit 10 Digital Audio Compression
Text
Part Ⅰ: MPEG Audio Layer 3
Part Ⅱ: Digital Audio Compression Standard AC3
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Audio Compression Algorithm Overview
Exercises
Unit 11 Dig
Text
Part Ⅰ: Two-Dimensional Digital Images
Part Ⅱ: Digital Images -- Definition and Applications
Part Ⅲ: Introduction to Image Processing
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. Medical Image Processing
2. Video Surveillance: Challenge and Solutions
3. Digital Video to Come Alive
Exercises
Unit 12 Biometrics Technology
Text
Part Ⅰ: Fingerprint Identification
Part Ⅱ: Introduction to Speaker Identification
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Biometrics Overview
Exercises
Unit 13 Information Security
Text
Part Ⅰ: Information Security - Introduction and a Brief History
Part Ⅱ: Basic Principles of Information Security
Part Ⅲ: Intrusion Detection System
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Hidden Communication
Exercises
Unit 14 Telemedicine and Biomedical Signal Processing
Text
Part Ⅰ: Telemedicine
Part Ⅱ: Computerized Tomographic Imaging
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Biomedical Signal Processing
Exercises
Unit 15 Remote Sensing
Text
Part Ⅰ: An Overview of Remote Sensing
Part Ⅱ: Using Remote Sensing to Monitor Global Change
New Words
Notes on the Text Text
Part Ⅰ: Take Care of Your Computer
Part Ⅱ: Computer Buying Guide - PC vs. Macintosh
Part Ⅲ: Object-Oriented Programming Languages
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. Parallel Processing
2. High Performance Computers
Exercises
Unit 17 Computers and Networks
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Part Ⅰ: Evolution of Computers
Part Ⅱ: Local Area Networks
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings
1. The Information Based Society
2. Google Unveils’Universal Search
Exercises
Unit 18 Iuternet and Multimedia
Text
Part Ⅰ: Multimedia
Part Ⅱ: Networks in Multimedia Applications
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: Impacts of the Internet
Exercises
Unit 19 Artificial Intelligence
Text
Part Ⅰ: What Is Artificial Intelligence
Part Ⅱ: Approaches of AI
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Supplementary Readings: History of Artificial Intelligence
Exercises
Unit 20 Human Errors and System Design
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Part Ⅰ: Learning from Disasters
Part Ⅱ: The Lessons of Human Errors
New Words
Notes on the Text
Technical Tips
Appendix II. Writing Technical English
1. Writing in Plain English
2. Examples of Diseased English and the Cure
Appendix III. Avoid Pidgin English
1. Avoid Influence of Mother Tongue on Technical English Writing
2. Examples of Chinese English in Technical Writing
Appendix IV. How to Write Abstract
1. Types of Abstract
2. Length of Abstract
3. Styles
Bibliography

本书是对2004年版《信息与通信工程专业科技英语》的全面改编,扩大了适用范围,充实了电子科学与技术、计算机技术和应用等方面的内容;加强了反映信息和电子学科新技术的课文;提供了不同难度的课文,适当增加了阅读材料以适应更广泛的要求,便于学生扩大阅读量。