Welcome to ECE Explorations!

• We generally meet in the Grainger Auditorium in ECEB at 5 PM on Wednesdays, although there will be additinal meetings during Senior Thesis presentations near the end of the semester.
• See Explorations Calendar for the seminars — you may need to click the Semester button on the top to see the upcoming presentations for the current semester.
• Zoom links will be provided in Explorations Calendar in the unlikely situation any seminars need to be delivered online.
• Attendance is mandatory and you are expected to join all the non-senior-thesis meetings with no more than two exceptions and to attend, as a guest, one session of Senior Thesis presentations [for which you are not a presentor...we want your undivided attention!].
• Your engagement in the class is also expected by responding to queries coming from the speakers as well as by your participation in discussions and Q&A sessions following the presentations.
• There is an end-of-the-semester assignment on our GradeScope page that you will complete, details below.

ECE 200 students are required to write an end-of-semester report describing briefly:

1. Their favorite ECE Explorations presentation of the semester
   • include the reasons you liked the presentation most, and
2. Their favorite presentation in the ECE Research Symposium (Senior Thesis presentations to take place on multiple dates throughout the last month of the semester),
   • include the reasons why you liked this presentation most.

The report described above should be limited to 2 pages and be submitted to GradeScope by 5 PM, May 15, 2026, https://www.gradescope.com.

Failure to submit the assignment by 5 PM, May 15, 2026, will result in a U grade in this S/U course. To complete the requirement that ECE James Scholars complete ECE 200 once per year, the course will need to be repeated in the spring semester to maintain James Scholar status.

Poorly written submissions (overly "generic," for example, will receive similarly poor grades.