ECE 352 Syllabus
ECE 352 Engineering Probability and Statistics

SIUE Syllabus



352-3 ENGINEERING PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS. Probability, random variables, probability distributions, statistics, Monte-Carlo simulations, estimation theory, decision theory, hypothesis testing, random processes, linear system response to random processes. Corequisite: 351 (from Undergraduate Catalog; counts as 3 credit hours).
Instructor: Dr. Andy Lozowski, http://www.ee.siue.edu/~alozows; Office hours: Engineering Building 3075, Monday and Wednesday, 11-1:30
Textbook: R. D. Yates and D. J. Goodman, Probability and Stochastic Processes. Wiley, 2 ed., 2005

Class policy:

Class attendance is essential for successful completion of the course. The material will be covered in the sequence identical to that of the textbook. The instructor will consistently use the textbook during lecture, therefore possessing the textbook is inevitable. Book contents not directly addressed by the instructor are still considered mandatory reading. Students are obligated to gain and retain understanding of all the book contents up to the point covered in the lecture.
Class meetings will be structured as follows: recitation (15 min), lecture (30 min), and problem session (30 min). During the recitation, student preparation will be verified. One or two students will be asked to solve problems relevant to the material covered. Partial grades will be assigned during recitation sessions. Students will be expected to be familiar with all the problems included in the textbook at the end of the chapter even though no homework will be explicitly assigned. Nevertheless, it is recommended to work the problems which don't seem to have an obvious solution.
The tests and the final exam will be closed-book, however a few sheets of hand-written definitions will be allowed. Grades will be based on written evidence in the submitted work. Always show your work. Answers without sufficient supporting work will be awarded zero score. If you provide multiple answers to a problem that has a unique solution, only one of your solutions will be picked for grading: top-most or left-most, not necessarily the correct one. Grades assigned are not negotiable. However, if adjustment of grade is needed because of erroneous totaling of points, address the disputes no later than a week after the assignment has been returned.
The final course grade will be determined based on partial scores R, T1, T2, T3, and E according to the following percentages:
R (Recitations): PR =25%
T1 (Test 1): PT1=15%
T2 (Test 2): PT2=15%
T3 (Test 3): PT3=15%
E (Final exam): PE =30%
The above percentages and partial scores R, T1, T2, T3, and E will be used to calculate the course score G:
G =  PR R + PT1 T1 + PT2 T2 + PT3 T3 + PE E
PR + PT1 + PT2 + PT3 + PE
The final letter grade will be an A, B, C, D, or F based on your course score G relative to maximum attainable Gmax calculated as the average of 100% and the course score of the best student. The thresholds for the letter grades are: A > (7/8)Gmax, B > (3/4)Gmax, C > (5/8)Gmax, D > (1/2)Gmax, and F < (1/2)Gmax. Note that at any time it is possible to determine your course grade "to date" if the percentages for unassigned grades are set to zero.
According to the Catalog, the following grading symbols are used by SIUE: A-Excellent, B-Good, C-Satisfactory, D-Poor, and F-Failure (see Academic Policies and Requirements). The letter grades will strictly comply with these definitions.


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