1. Prerequisite: EE231. Registering for EE271 without having successfully completed EE231 is considered to be an academic offense and is subject to disciplinary action.

2. Lectures: Tuesdays at 1:00pm, Thursdays at 11:30am and Fridays at 1:00pm. New material will be covered at the Tuesday and Thursday meetings. At the Friday meetings we will have a 10-15 minute miniquiz based on the previous week’s homework assignment; the remainder of the time will be a Q & A session.

Your attendance record will weigh heavily in determining your final grade in borderline cases.

3. Homework: A homework will be assigned each week. There will be a 10-15 minute miniquiz based upon the previous week’s homework assignment at the Friday meetings. The miniquizzes will count for approximately 30% of the final grade.

4. Midterm: There will a 1 1/2 hour midterm exam in the 7th week which will count for approximately 30% of the final grade.

There is absolutely no provision for makeup tests.

All quizzes and exams are closed book and no notes.

Bring a straightedge to each exam.

Haggling for grades is vehemently discouraged, and will very likely result in a lower grade.

5. Final exam: To pass the course you must pass the comprehensive final exam which will then count for approximately 30-35%. You cannot pass this course if you do well on the minimizes and the midterm but fail the final.

6. General remarks: This is a very demanding course that is the foundation for many of your subsequent courses and that requires a dedicated and conscientious effort on your part, as well as ours. You must be prepared to spend a good deal of time on this course. If you are carrying a full academic load and also working part time, it is not likely that you can devote sufficient time to master the large amount of material that we are required to cover. Almost all the students that failed to complete the course in the past had misjudged the amount of time required for this course. The application of some plain common sense and goodwill will alleviate a lot of stress, and we shall all be a lot wiser and enlightened at the end of the semester than we are at the beginning.

Dr. Peter E. Engler                                                                                                                                             Top

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