ECE 210/211 - Fall 2019

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Friday, October 4, 2019
ECE 210 Honors section

ECE 210 Honors will introduce students to Python programming with 5 weekly lab sessions to apply concepts they learned in ECE 210. More information is here


Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Exam 1 room assignment

The first exam will be given on Thursday, September 26, 8.45-10pm. Please get there early to receive instructions and get ready.

Students with last names starting with:
Aa - Mj will go to room ECEB 1002
Mk - Sd will go to room ECEB 1015
Se - Vb will go to room ECEB 2017
Vc - Zz will go to room ECEB 1013

The exam will cover up to the end of section 3.4.2 and homeworks 1-4.

The exam will be closed book and closed notes (no formula sheets, no cheat sheets, etc.). Calculators will not be allowed during the exam.

Those of you who have a conflict with this time and were allowed to take the conflict exam should have already received an email with the time/location.


Friday, August 23, 2019
Welcome ECE 210/211 students!

To get started with the course, you can start reading carefully this website. You can find information about lecture, office hours, homework, exams, grading, labs, etc. Please check this section for further announcements regularly.

Best wishes for the semester.


Textbook: Kudeki & Munson, Analog Signals and Systems Prentice Hall, 2009. Daily reading assignments are shown in the Course Calendar..
Corrections to the text book (errata)

Useful tables (Fourier series, Fourier transform, convolution, delta function, and Laplace transform)

Additional Notes

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Instructor: Juan Alvarez
slides & figures
recorded lectures
Yang Shao Wei He Zhen Peng
Lectures:
1013 ECEB
ECE210 AL2
ECE211 C
MTW F 11-11.50 a.m.
1013 ECEB
ECE210 AL3
ECE211 E
MTW F 12-12.50 p.m.
1013 ECEB
ECE210 AL4
ECE211 F
MTW F 2-2.50 p.m.
1013 ECEB
ECE210 AL1
ECE211 B
MTW F 3-3.50 p.m.
1013 ECEB
Contact: ECEB 3046
alvarez@
ECEB ???
yangshao@
ECEB 3058
weihe16@
ECEB 5058
zvpeng@


TA's: Michael Collins, John Harvill, Dariush Kari, Binghui Wang, Yulun Wu, Shiyi Yang.

For questions on homework, labs, Compass grades and website please contact the TA in charge :

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Faculty and TA Office Hours (Sept. 3 - Dec. 11):
Open office hours
Office hours strictly for small study sessions (need to sign up in order to attend). See more info below the table.
Hrs. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Friday
9-10am Dariush Kari
3034 ECEB
Binghui Wang
3034 ECEB
10-11am Michael Collins
3034 ECEB
John Harvill
3034 ECEB
11am-12pm Juan Alvarez
3034 ECEB
Michael Collins
3034 ECEB
12-1pm Shiyi Yang
3034 ECEB
1-2pm Shiyi Yang
3034 ECEB
2-3pm Yulun Wu
3034 ECEB
Binghui Wang
3034 ECEB
3-4pm Shiyi Yang
3034 ECEB
Wei He
3034 ECEB
4-5pm Yulun Wu
Zhen Peng
3015 ECEB
Yulun Wu
Michael Collins
3015 ECEB
Dariush Kari
Elizabeth Atkinson
Yang Shao
WECE
3015 ECEB
Zhen Peng
3034 ECEB
Yang Shao
3034 ECEB
5-6pm Yulun Wu
Juan Alvarez
3015 ECEB
Yulun Wu
Dariush Kari
3015 ECEB
John Harvill
Wei He
3015 ECEB
6-7pm John Harvill
Shiyi Yang
3015 ECEB
John Harvill
Dariush Kari
3015 ECEB
John Harvill
Binghui Wang
3015 ECEB

Open office hours

Office hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are open hours where all types of questions are allowed, and we have found that students mostly use them to ask about the upcoming homework. Notice that we will not give you the answers nor check if your answer is correct.


Small study session office hours

We also have additional office hours each week of support for you by having small study sessions with course staff members to answer conceptual questions, provide additional examples, etc. but nothing related to that week's HW.

These sessions will be available on Thursdays and Fridays by signing up via this online form using your Google Apps @ Illinois account.

The signup is voluntary but we do expect your attendance and participation regularly if you do sign up for a slot. More than one missed attendance will deduct one point from your final grade and prevent you from signing up for the remainder of the semester.

You can remove yourself from the timeslot at any time before 7pm on Wednesday of the corresponding week. You can also signup for a timeslot (if there are spots available) at any time before 7pm on Wednesday of the corresponding week. Once you sign up for a slot, it will be assumed that you will attend that slot from then on, so please remember to unregister if you will no longer attend.



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Labs (only ECE 210 students):

Five bi-weekly laboratory assignments will be given, beginning on Septemnber 25th. More information about the labs can be found on the following link: Lab Syllabus and Assignments

Lab Times (4072 ECEB) (Sept. 25 - Dec. 11):
Hrs. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
10am-12pm AB1
Dariush Kari
AB2
Shiyi Wang
12-2pm AB3
Yulun Wu
AB4
Yulun Wu
2-3pm AB5
Yulun Wu
AB6
Dariush Kari
Open lab
John Harvill
3-4pm
4-5pm AB7
Binghui Wang
AB8
Binghui Wang
Open lab
John Harvill
5-6pm Open lab
Shiyi Yang
6-8pm AB9
Binghui Wang
ABC
Binghui Wang
ABE
Michael Collins
ABA
Dariush Kari
ABB
Dariush Kari
ABD
John Harvill


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About the course

ECE 210 is the first mathematically oriented course in the electrical and computer engineering curricula. The course begins by building on the circuit analysis concepts you learned in ECE 110 and then progresses into the more abstract world of Fourier and Laplace transforms. Much of what we will do will rely on your background in calculus. Our goal will be to apply mathematical tools to the analysis and design of signal processing systems, culminating in a thorough understanding of an AM radio receiver and the ability to design simple filters. ECE 210 deals with the processing of continuous-time, or analog signals. The follow-on course, ECE 310, covers the processing of sampled, or digital signals.

ECE 210 course description
ECE 210 class schedule


ECE 211 is the first half of ECE 210. Students in ECE 211 should attend lectures approximately through Friday, October 18 (Chapters 1 through 6 in the course textbook).

ECE 211 course description
ECE 211 class schedule


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Exams

Exams will be combined for all sections of ECE 210 and 211.
ECE 210 students will take three evening tests and a final exam.
ECE 211 students will take just the first two tests. The second test will serve as the final exam for ECE 211 students.
To compensate for the evening tests, class will be canceled on the Tuesday previous to each exam. An optional review will be given during lecture time instead.

  • Exam 1:
    • Thursday, September 26, 8:45-10 p.m.
    • Review: Tuesday, September 24, 7-9 p.m., 3015 ECEB.
    • HKN Review: Saturday, September 21st, from 1-3pm in ECEB 1013.
    • Exam, solutions
  • Exam 2:
    • Thursday, October 24, 8:45-10 p.m.
    • Review: Tuesday, October 22, 7-9 p.m., 3015 ECEB.
    • HKN Review: Saturday, October 19, from 1-3pm in ECEB 1013.
    • Exam, solutions
  • Exam 3:
    • Thursday, November 21, 8:45-10 p.m.
    • Review: Tuesday, November 19, 7-9 p.m., 3015 ECEB.
    • HKN Review: Saturday, November 16th from 1PM-3PM in ECEB 1013.
    • Exam, solutions
  • Final Exam:
    • Regular exam: Monday, December 16, 1.30-4.30p.m.
    • Conflict exam: Friday, December 13, 7-10p.m.
    • Review: Wednesday, Dec, 11, 7-9 p.m., 3015 ECEB.
All exams will be closed book, closed notes. Calculators, laptop computers, cell phones, tables of integrals, etc. are neither necessary nor permitted. Electronic devices of any sort such as calculators, laptops, PDAs, cellphones, pagers, iPods or other MP3 players etc. are not permitted.

Absences from Hour Exams:

If you miss an hour exam due to illness, injury, family emergency or other reasons beyond your control, you will be asked to provide your professor with an absence letter from the Student Assistance Center in the Office of the Dean of Students. Documentation which validates the absence is required by the Dean's Office to provide the absence letter. The absence letter will serve to verify the reason for your absence from the exam. Your ECE 210 professor will then take an appropriate action that may include offering an oral examination or written examination.

Regrades:

If when you receive your graded exam, and after looking at the posted solutions, you feel there was an inaccuracy in the grading of your exam, fill out this exam regrade request form and staple it to your exam BUT do not write on or alter in any way your original exam paper. Turn in such regrade requests before 4pm on the Friday of the week when your exam is returned, in the ECE 210/211 Exam Regrade box (not the HW regrade box) located on the northwest corner of the 3rd floor of ECEB, next to the service elevator. If you pick it up late you do not get an extension.

Old Exams

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Grading scheme:
Grading for ECE 210:
3 Midterm exams........ 45%
Final Exam................... 30%
Written HW.................. 15%
Labs.............................. 10%
Grading for ECE 211:
1 Midterm exam........ 35%
Exam 2 (final)............. 45%
Written HW................. 20%
You can check your grades in Illinois Compass 2g

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Homework:

Written assignments will be made weekly on the link "Homework Assignments and Solutions" and will be due on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the homework boxes located on the northwest corner of the 3rd floor of ECEB, next to the service elevator.
The lowest homework mark will be dropped for 211 students and the lowest two homework marks will be dropped for 210 students.
You can check your homework marks on Illinois Compass 2g.

Homework format: The HW solution should be readable, clearly written. In the case it isn't, students will be penalized with reduction of points or zero credits (see policy below). The header should be in a format, left side up corner: course number, section, and semester; right side up corner: student name and netID; and in the middle HW1,2, etc. See the following picture as an example:


Homework Policy:

  1. Written assignments are due every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the homework boxes located on the northwest corner of the 3rd floor of ECEB, next to the service elevator. Late homework (even by a minute) will receive no credit. Each section has its own box.

  2. When you submit your homework, be sure that your name, section, and NetID are printed neatly at the top of the page. This will ensure that your score is recorded correctly. Note that your NetID is not your UIN. If you fail to write your section, you will lose 10% of the total allocated score for that assignment. Homeworks with missing or illegible name and netID will be deducted 50% of the allocated score.

  3. All homework must be stapled. If you fail to staple your homework, you will lose 10% of the total allocated score. If you fail to staple and your pages become lost only the pages with your name on them will be graded. There is a stapler in undergrad lounge and the advising office.

  4. As the semester goes on, you may find that you attend a different lecture than you are enrolled in. If you want to get back your HW from the section that you are attending, you can submit your homework to the box corresponding to the lecture you actually attend. When using this option, you must make a note saying "Enrolled in ALX, Please return to ALZ". Otherwise, 10% of the total allocated score will be deducted.

  5. Make sure that your HW is neat enough to read. Graders has the flexibility to deduct up to 20% for lack of neatness. Doing things like boxing your answers, showing ALL of your work, and generally making it easier for the graders to grade will overall increase your scores on HW.

  6. Homework assignments in ECE 210 constitute an essential component of your learning experience in the course and prepare you for your mid-term 'hour exams’ and the end-of-semester ‘final exam’ in most effective ways — investing time to do your homework with care will pay off when you are taking your exams.
    You will be expected to provide detailed explanations of your solutions in order to obtain full credit in your homework assignments. Conversely, solutions lacking full explanations will receive zero credit even when the answer provided may be correct and furthermore incorrect answers without any work shown may lead to 'academic integrity violation' cases being opened against you. Some of the homework problems you will be assigned will resemble problems from previous semesters but with modified parameters and/or inputs. Your comprehensive homework solutions will naturally be expected to match the versions of the problems assigned during the current semester, whereas solutions or answers matching the versions from previous semesters will once again lead to 'academic integrity violation' cases being brought against you.
    Please keep these cautionary remarks in mind as you are working out your homework assignments and avoid submitting unsubstantiated solutions to avoid any misinterpretations as explained above.

  7. You will be notified by email when your homework scores are posted to Compass2g. It is your responsibility to verify that your score was recorded correctly. If you notice an incorrect or missing score, you must notify me within one week after the scores are posted. The faster you let me know, the more likely it is that your issue can be resolved.

  8. If you miss lecture on the day that assignments are handed back, they will be kept in the card box next to the wooden cabinet in 3030 or with your professors

  9. Regarding regrades: if you want to request a regrade for your assignment, you must do so within a week of getting your assignment back. The regraded assignments will be returned with the assignment due the coming Wed after you submitted your regrade. To request a regrade, on a separate piece of paper, write which problem you would like regraded as well as why you think it is correct. Staple this paper to your assignment and then turn it in to the regrade requests box, located on the northwest corner of the 3rd floor of ECEB, next to the service elevator.



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Honors:

ECE 210 Honors will introduce students to Python programming with 5 weekly lab sessions. Programming will be done in Jupyter Notebook. It is designed for students who aren't familiar with Python, to apply concepts they learned in ECE 210 into Python programs. Students will attend an hour of lecture, followed by an hour of individual coding session, where they will complete their weekly programming assignments. Two identical sections will be offered every week, tentatively scheduled for 5:30-7:30PM on Mondays and Thursdays, starting on October 14. Students only need to attend one of the sessions. Topics to be covered are: Intro to Python and Numpy, Image I/O, Fourier series, Array Operations, Fourier transform, Convolution, and Pole-Zero plots.

Interested students must fill in this form by Tuesday October 8.

If you have any questions, please reach out to dohunj2@illinois.edu or aio2@illinois.edu



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Tentative course schedule for ECE 210/211 - Fall 2019

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Aug. 26
Introduction & voltage, current power, KVL, KCL 0, 1.1-2
Aug. 27
Elements, sources, solutions of circuit problems, 1.3
Aug. 28
Complex numbers review 1.4, App. C, Resistor combinations 2.1
Aug. 29
Aug. 30
Source combinations, node voltage method 2.1-2
Sept. 2

Labor day
NO CLASS
Sept. 3
Node voltage method 2.2
Sept. 4
Loop current method 2.3
Sept. 5
Sept. 6
Linearity & superposition 2.4
Sept. 9
Thevenin & Norton 2.4
Sept. 10
Available power & max power transfer 2.5
Sept. 11
Op-amps & ideal op-amp approximations 3.1
Sept. 12
Sept. 13
Linear op-amp ckts 3.1
Sept. 16
Differentiators & integrators 3.2
Sept. 17
Introduction to LTI systems 3.3
Sept. 18
1st order RC ckt response to constant inputs 3.4.1
Sept. 19
Sept. 20
RC & RL ckts with constant inputs 3.4.1-2
Sept. 23
RC & RL ckts with time-varying inputs 3.4.3
Sept. 24
NO CLASS
Optional review session during lecture time
Sept. 25
Transient & steady-state response in LTI systems 3.4.3, 3.5
Lab 1
Sept. 26
Midterm Exam I
8.45-10pm
Sept. 27
Phasors & sinusoidal SS solutions of linear ODEs 4.1.1-2
Sept. 30
Impedance & phasors in sinusoidal steady state ckts 4.1.3, 4.2.1
Oct. 1
Post-review of Exam I
Oct. 2
Phasor ckt analysis 4.2.2-3
Oct. 3
Oct. 4
Avg and available power 4.3
Oct. 7
Resonance 4.4
Oct. 8
Frequency response of dissipative LTI systems 5.1-2
Oct. 9
LTI system response to co-sinusoids & multi-frequency inputs 5.3-5
Lab 2
Oct. 10
Oct. 11
Periodic signals 6.1
Oct. 14
Fourier series & its forms 6.2
Oct. 15
Fourier series examples 6.2
Oct. 16
LTI system response to periodic inputs 6.3.1
Oct. 17
Oct. 18
Avg signal power, Parseval's thm, harmonic distortion 6.3.2-3
Last day for ECE 211
Oct. 21
Fourier transform of aperiodic signals 7.1
Oct. 22
NO CLASS
Optional review during lecture time
Oct. 23
Fourier transform pairs and properties of FT 7.1
Lab 3
Oct. 24
Midterm Exam II
8.45-10pm
Oct. 25
Signal energy and bandwidth 7.2
Oct. 28
LTI system response using FT 7.3
Oct. 29
Post-review of Exam II
Oct. 30
Modulation property, AM signal, coherent demodulation 8.1-2
Oct. 31
Nov. 1
Envelope detection, superhet AM receiver 8.3-4
Nov. 4
Convolution & FT convolution properties 9.1.1-2
Nov. 5
Graphical convolution 9.1.3
Nov. 6
Convolution examples 9.1.3
Lab 4
Nov. 7
Nov. 8
Impulse & its properties 9.2
Nov. 11
FT of power signals 9.2-3
Nov. 12
Sampling & analog signal reconstruction 9.4
Nov. 13
Impulse response & BIBO stability 10.1-2
Nov. 14
Nov. 15
Causality & LTIC systems 10.3-5
Nov. 18
Transfer function & Laplace transform 11.1
Nov. 19
NO CLASS
Optional review during lecture time
Nov. 20
Properties of LT 11.1
Lab 5
Nov. 21
Midterm Exam III
8.45-10pm
Nov. 22
Inverse Laplace transform & PFE 11.2
Nov. 25
Thanksgiving break
NO CLASS
Nov. 26
Thanksgiving break
NO CLASS
Nov. 27
Thanksgiving break
NO CLASS
Nov. 28
Thanksgiving break
NO CLASS
Nov. 29
Thanksgiving break
NO CLASS
Dec. 2
s-domain ckt analysis, general response of LTIC systems 11.3, 11.4.1
Dec. 3
Post-review of Exam III
Dec. 4
Zero-input response in LTIC ckts & systems 11.4.1-2
Dec. 5
Dec. 6
Ckt initial value problems 11.4.3
Dec. 9
LTIC system combinations 11.5
Dec. 10
Ideal filters, 2nd order systems, 12.1-2
Dec. 11
Review
Dec. 12
Reading Day
Dec. 13


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