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Leo Lam © 2010-2011
Welcome
This is EE235
BackHuskies!
Leo Lam © 2010-2011
Today’s menu
• Introductions• Class logistics and expectations• Help available• Course material starts!
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Introduction
• Who is this bozo?– Email: [email protected]– Anonymous message welcome– Office: 253D
• Performance guarantee– You are my customers– 12-hour email response– Reasonable– Candy bar challenge!
• Five questions!
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Introduction
• TA: Xiang Chen– Email: (Will post online)– Office hours: Friday 10:30-11:30– Sieg 232
• TA: Hossein Safavi– Email: safavi@uw– Office hours: Monday 12:30-1:30 /Thursdays 1:30-
2:30– TA Office in Sieg– MATLAB wiz
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Introduction
• You!
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Goal
• Introduction to the “language” of “signals”• Manipulating the language (the “system”)• Using MATLAB to play with it• Preparation for DSP etc.• System level thinking• Engineering “sense”• Communicating with each other technically• Discipline in practicing engineering
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Logistics• Four lectures• One lab per week• Lab begins next week (need EE account)• Grading
– 60% consistent work– 40% “exams” (1 week-5 midterm/1 Final)– Fair, consistent, not “mean”
• Website (EEAcademicsClass Homepage): wp.ee.washington.edu/ee235aut2011/
• Pre-req: Math 136,307,Amath 351, PHY 122 or CSE 142 etc.
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Textbook: $$$• Not required, but recommended• Two books recommended
– Matlab Primer– Schaum's Outline of Signals and Systems– Advanced Engineering Mathematics
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Expectations
• Active, curious, question• Practice, Practice, Practice• Work together• Integrity, honor & discipline
• Lab (six labs)– Read the manual beforehand– Communicate clearly– Collaborate
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Help?
• Facebook Group! – Your learning social media• Me and TA (office hours)• Each other (and meet new friends!)• HKN help for 215, 233, 235
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Questions?
• Before the launch…
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Definition: Signal
• A signal is a set of information or data that can be modeled as a function of one or more independent variables.
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Examples of a “signal”?
• Electrical parameter over time• Radio over time and space• Sound/Pressure over time• Medical parameters over time• Images• Video• Stock prices (discrete time)• People in a room daily (discrete variable/time)
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Today
• What is a signal• Some examples
