The basic concepts and analysis techniques of signals and systems are important fundamentals for communication, control and signal processing fields. With the rapid development of modern science and technology, it is sure that more and more disciplines will take the signals and systems course into their undergraduate eduactional programs. By means of the internet, we investigated the signals and systems course offered by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT. The course orientation and the basic course structure including the basic information, teaching methods and basic requirements as well as grading were objectively introduced, which is an useful reference for the teaching reform of alike courses in our country.