Purdue University
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 302 Probabilistic Methods in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fall 2009, Section 2 (TTh 3-4:15pm in ME 261)
Prof. Ilya Pollak
Amit's office hours will be held in EE 238 for the remainder of
the semester.
To compensate for the evening exams, three classes need to be canceled.
The second canceled class is Tuesday November 24. In addition, because
of the Thanksgiving break there will be no office hours, no help session,
and no homework due during the week of November 23-27. The next homework
will be posted by November 26 and will be due Thursday December 3.
If you need to talk to me before December 1, please send me
an email or post a question on the course forum.
You can pick up your graded Exam 2 from MSEE 330 on weekdays
between 10am and 6pm. You will need to show your ID.
Recommended text:
Introduction to Probability, by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and
John N. Tsitsiklis. Athena Scientific,
Belmont, Massachusetts, 2008, ISBN 978-1-886529-23-6.
This text has many examples and practice problems. The solutions
to all the problems, as well as some other materials, are available
here.
The text is not
available at the bookstore but can be ordered online from the publisher.
Help session: Tue 6-7pm in MSEE B012 except November 17;
in ME 156 on November 17.
Office hours:
Ilya Pollak (MSEE 334): Tue 4:30-5:30pm, Wed 5:30-6:30pm.
Amit Agarwal (EE 238): Tue 10:30-11:30am,
Wed 2-5pm, Thu 10:30-11:30am.
Email and discussion board:
You can ask questions by email. However, if you have a question, chances
are that many other students in the class have the same question. Instead of
emailing your question, please consider posting it on our
course discussion board on
Project Rhea.
This will enable everyone to see the discussion and participate in it.
Course discussion board.
Course information as of September 6, 2009.
Homeworks.
Homework solutions.
Homework mean/total-possible (standard deviation) among
the currently enrolled students (as of 11/05/09):
HW1 9.9/15 (5.3), HW2 14.7/25 (7.7), HW3 8.9/18 (7.0), HW4 16.3/27 (10.4)
HW5 8.1/17 (7.2), HW6 14.7/32 (11.5), HW7 6.7/22 (7.5), HW8 5.6/30 (6.8)
Lecture notes.
Exam 1 Solutions.
Exam 1 grade
distribution (mean 30, median 30, standard deviation 10, average
absolute deviation 8.4, min 14, max 50).
Exam 2 Solutions.
Exam 2 grade
distribution (mean 31.7, median 32, standard deviation 8.4, average
absolute deviation 6.3, min 9, max 50).
Final Exam: Friday December 18 10:20am-12:20pm in PHYS 112.
Supplementary materials: recommended books,
articles, websites, etc.