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COVID-19 pandemic hit has raised new challenges for Outcome-Based Education (OBE) system since the normalization of the online education delivery. Still, this era of endemic imposes challenges in satisfying OBE requirements, especially the students’ practical assessments. As an essential part of Communication Engineering, Frequency Modulation (FM) fundamental can be theoretically and mathematically explained during the online classes. However, its practical assessment needs to be done experimentally. Since buying the real devices and tools needed to create a complete FM system consumes high cost, software simulation is the best solution to accommodate the learning processes for all students. Hence, aided by the MATLAB simulation and analysis approaches, this paper presents the implementation of FM practical assessment at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) as an institute of higher education. For this task, students have built the FM system by using both mathematical and Simulink model. The model also emphasized students on the association between FM’s important parameters: modulating frequency, modulation index, frequency deviation, and bandwidth, with the type of FM, Narrow Band FM (NBFM) or Wide Band FM (WBFM). Results for all model configurations are recorded and analyzed accordingly. From this practical activity, students have demonstrated a better attainment for this course’s Program Outcome (PO) as compared to the conventional assessment methods.
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In-Text Citation: (Zin et al., 2023)
To Cite this Article: Zin, N. A. M., Mohamad, S., Latiff, Z. I. A., & Sidik, N. (2023). Simulation and Analysis of Frequency Modulation System in MATLAB as Practical Assessment Method for Communication Engineering Course. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 12(1), 187–196.
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