ECE329
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ECE 329 - Fields and Waves I

Spring 2025

Homework Policies

  • There will be 14 sets of homework. The three lowest-scoring homework sets will be dropped (excluding those zeroed out due to Academic Integrity violations).

  • Homeworks will be posted on Gradescope. They are due Tuesdays at 11:59:00pm, one week after posting.

  • A late deadline on Wednesdays at 7:59:00am (yes, in the morning) serves as a grace period to account for mishaps. Course staff will not respond to emails asking for further extensions.

  • When you submit your homework on Gradescope, put your name and netid on top of every page. Start new problems on new sheets of paper and tag problems on Gradescope. Failure to follow ANY of the these directions will result in -5% per homework.

  • You must write your own independent solutions. You can work together on homework to discuss solution techniques, but you cannot copy solutions (an Academic Integrity violation) or submit another student's solutions as your own (an Academic Integrity violation).

  • Using online calculators such as Wolfram-Alpha is permitted, provided that you cite them. This can be as simple as “Using Wolfram-Alpha, I got xyz”.

  • Using websites/chatbots such as ChatGPT, Chegg, or Course Hero while completing any course assignments without citing them is an Academic Integrity violation.

Homework

Homework will be posted by every Wednesday at 12:00:00am on Gradescope.
Solutions to the previous homework will be posted on Canvas by 12pm on Thursdays.

Does working hard on homework and attending class matter?

Your understanding of a topic, performance on exams, and thus final letter grade, is positively correlated with the effort you put into your homework sets and with your attendance/participation in class. We analyzed past data to quantify these correlations. In Fall 2023, the average A student scored 96% on HWs and missed 2 or fewer classes. One full letter grade decrease was observed per 7% decrease on HW scores (R^2 = 0.74, i.e., strong correlation) or per additional 5 absences (R^2 = 0.34, i.e., some correlation).