Course Policies
- Announcements will be made in class or by
e-mail. I have
an e-mail
list of all registered students structured as "uniqname@umich.edu" -
please
make sure that this address properly forwards to your account. If
for
some reason, you require a different address, please send me a note.
- Access to Matlab is a requirement for this
course - this is
generally available through CAEN labs.
- Course grades will be assigned on a curve,
though in general
achieving a 90% or higher should earn a least an A- and 80% of higher
should earn at
least a B-. No incompletes will be given except as specified by
UM
policy.
- If you find small mistakes in the grading, I
will try to fix
those
immediately. For a substantial regrading of you homeworks,
projects
or exams, I may request that you submit your entire assignment/exam for
regrading and your resultant grade may be higher or lower than you
initially received.
- I will discard your lowest homework
grade. I recommend
that
you complete all assignments, but this gives you some flexibility if
you
need to travel, become ill, etc.
- All homework sets are due at the end of class
on the due date,
though
in general, I will allow a grace period until 8 am the next
morning. You should push the complete assignment under the door
at 1119 Gerstacker so
that it is there by 9 am (Gerstacker is locked from 6 pm to 7
am). Beyond this grace period, absolutely no late
assignments will be accepted.
- Homework policies:
- You should attempt to do all homework
problems yourself.
- Only after you have made an attempt to solve
the problem on
your own
may you discuss it with your classmates.
- After this, you must still write up your own
solutions.
- Actual copying of matlab code, etc. is
strictly forbidden.
- For computer (e.g. matlab) assignment, you
should hand in the
all
.m files as well as plots and figures.
- Project policies
- You may choose a partner for each
project. There will be
three
projects assigned in this class – you must have a different partner for
each
project. You may choose not to work with a partner. If you
do,
please put your partner’s name on your solutions.
- I expect you to do your own work, but when
you get stuck, you
may
ask your partner or the instructor for help. Think of this as an
exam,
but one in which on may ask for help from one other person (and the
instructor).
- Getting help from anyone other than the
instructor or your
partner
or copying solutions (even from your partner) will be considered a
violation
of the engineering honor code.
- Each person must hand in his/her own solution.
- Hand in answers to questions below, all
requested
plots/graphs/images
and copies of your final “.m” files. Grading is based on correct
implementation of the the assignment and also based on the quality of your
written discussion of the project. For each question/task
please
write a small paragraph about what you did, what equation you
implemented,
and about the appearance of the resultant images, etc. Say
something
interesting!
- Title and label the axes on all plots and
images (do this by
hand
if you like). I deduct points for unlabled figures and graphs.
- The "grace period" for homeworks (see above) does not
apply to projects.
- Final Exam
- The final exam will be a take home exam.
- You may use your notes, web resources,
computers, etc.
- You may not seek assistance or work with
anyone else.