Lecture EE321 Time: MWF 2:10-3:00 Location: Sloan 5
Spring 2006
P. Pedrow
Instructor: Name: Patrick Pedrow Office: EME 235 Phone: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail] Office Hours for EE321: T, Th 12:30-1:30 pm and by appointment. Instructor's web page for this course: www.eecs.wsu.edu/~pedrow/classes/ee321 Teaching Assistant: Name: Jianjie Ma Office: EME B31 Phone: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail] TA office hours will be posted at their office door. Text Books: The mandatory text book for EE321 is J.W. Nilsson and S. A. Riedel, Electric Circuits, Seventh Edition, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. Grading: Exam 1 Exam 2 Exam 3 Homework Project Final 17% 17% 17% 5% 14% 30% 100%
(Final exam is comprehensive.)
Homework: There will be regular homework assignments that will include the use of Spice and Matlab software. By turning in a homework assignment, you are claiming that the work is original and uniquely yours. Discussing homework fundamentals with colleagues is encouraged; however, copying homework solutions is considered cheating.
Project: Each student will complete a unique project. The project will allow the student to demonstrate mastery of many of the circuit analysis tools studied in EE321, including the software packages Spice and Matlab. The project will be assigned on March 22 and it will be due on April 14. By turning in a project assignment, you are claiming that the work is original and uniquely
yours. Discussing project fundamentals with colleagues is encouraged; however, copying another's project work is considered cheating.
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Exam Policies: Exams will have the following restrictions: Closed Books Closed Notes No Crib Sheets No Electronic Devices. This includes but is not restricted to: Calculators, Laptop Computers, Handheld Computers, Wrist Watch Computers, Headphones, Cell Phones, Pagers, Ipods, PSPs, Xbox 360s, etc. No Hats No Guests or Visitors During Exams Note 1 on Exam Policies: Make-up exams will be given only if the instructor approves them before the regular exam is administered. Arranging for a make-up exam is not a casual process. For all but medical emergencies requiring hospital care, make-up exams must be approved in a face-to-face office visit with the instructor before the missed exam is administered. In the case of medical emergencies requiring hospital care, permission to take a make-up exam may be granted after a face-to-face office visit with the instructor within 7 days of the missed exam. Make-up exams can't be arranged via email messages or via phone calls or via short conversations in the classroom or hallway. Arrangements for a make-up exam must be supported by hardcopy documentation-please bring it to your office visit. Note 2 on Exam Policies: When exams are graded and returned in lecture, you are given time to review the grading of the exam. For those wishing to discuss the grading with the instructor, you will be given a chance to return your exam to the instructor so the discussion can take place in the instructor's office at a later time. When you make your initial inspection of the exam, it is important that no additional notations are placed on the exam; therefore, you will be asked to clear your desks and stow pens and pencils when exams are returned. This procedure for returning exams is considered an integral part of administering the exam. Consistent with other instructors, grading errors in favor of the student will also be corrected during the subsequent office visit. That is, all aspects of the exam grading are re-visited with the student during the office visit. Academic Integrity: The EECS academic integrity policies are listed at the following web site: (www.eecs.wsu.edu/~syllabus/eeungrad/academic-integrity.html). policies These will be strictly enforced. All work that you submit for grading is to be your own original work. If you wish to turn in material that is not original then you must cite the origin of that work. Cases of documented plagiarism will be treated according to the procedures described at (www.eecs.wsu.edu/~syllabus/eeungrad/academicintegrity.html). When a significant portion of work on an exam or homework assignment is found to be common among two or more students then all students involved will receive zero points for that entire assignment. No effort will be made to establish legitimate authorship for the copied work. This includes instances of copying solutions directly from homework keys that might be available on the web or might be circulating from previous semesters. In addition, procedures described at the web site (www.eecs.wsu.edu/~syllabus/eeungrad/academic-integrity.html) will be initiated when cheating is documented. Grade Cuts: The only firm grade cut is that students receiving a course average less than 70% will receive a letter grade below C. That is, F, D, D+, or C-. Other grades will be assigned by considering the histogram and ranked listing of course averages and looking for "natural" cuts where there is a clear difference between "groups" of students. (Note: the correlation between course average and letter grades becomes very "nonlinear" for course averages less than 70% and students wishing to avoid letter grades of F, D, D+, or C- should keep their course average well above 70%.)
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EE321 Approximate Schedule for Spring 2006.
Meeting Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Date 1/9 1/11 1/13 1/18 1/20 1/23 1/25 1/27 1/30 2/1 2/3 2/6 2/8 2/10 2/13 2/15 2/17 2/22 2/24 2/27 3/1 3/3 3/6 3/8 3/10 3/20 3/22 3/24 3/27 3/29 3/31 4/3 4/5 4/7 4/10 4/12 4/14 4/17 4/19 4/21 4/24 4/26 4/28 5/3 Wed. Study Material pp. 1-535 pp. 262-379 pp. 235-246 pp. 415-427 pp. 498-535 Handouts Handouts Handouts pp. 536-579 pp. 536-579 pp. 536-579 Exam 1 pp. 536-603 pp. 536-603 pp. 536-603 pp. 603-649 pp. 603-649 pp. 603-...