ECE 110 Announcements

Nominate an excellent ECE 110 teaching assistant for the department's Olesen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Students. Go to https://my.ece.illinois.edu/nominate. The deadline for nominations is December 2.

Were you interested in Prof. Carney's presentation of ECE 445 (senior design projects)? No clue what you will do later in ECE? Attend some of the presentations!! To register for a presentation, go to https://my.ece.illinois.edu/ece445/index.asp

In Mallard, you now have access to scores on Exam 3, to statistics on Exam 3, and to an estimate of your current letter grade for the course. The estimate is based on the three hour exams and homework so far. See the course syllabus for the full policy on course grades.

Exams will be returned to you on Wednesday, November 18.

Regrade Policy: To request reconsideration of the grading of one or more problems on the exam, please staple a sheet to the front of the exam, with your name, and write a full explanation and your reasoning; "please regrade" is not sufficient. Regrade requests will be accepted in class on Wednesday November 18, and Friday, November 20; requests after the break will not be considered. Please write neatly.

Solutions will be posted after Friday. Meanwhile, do go to office hours (posted on the Web site) if you have questions about exam problems.

The Combined final exam for ECE 110 is Monday Dec 14, 7-10pm. There is a conflict exam Tuesday Dec 15, 1:30-4:30pm. To take the conflict, you must qualify AND register by filling out the form at http://courses.ece.illinois.edu/ece110/ConflictRequest.pdf

No lab Monday (will be postponed). there is an optional review session as planned for the exam3.

As a result of the strike, some of the (TAs only) office hours may not be covered. We are trying to cover those for which we (instructors) are free.

Thank you for your feedback. I changed the missing link for the lab, and I added an hint in Practice exam #1 of Hour exam #3, for Question #4.

Dear Anonymous Student.

I am sorry to be forced to post the following, but there is abuse on the anonymous feedback.

The anonymous feature on the website is conveniently provided for all to send constructive feedback to the ECE 110 team, not to spam our mailboxes with requests that we cannot accommodate (since we do NOT know who you are), and upset emails. If you have issues that we can help you with, it will be best addressed by coming forward in a non anonymous way! If you do not stop sending email that way, we will be forced to remove a privilege that the class quite enjoys.

I am happy to sign this post. Please stop sending useless emails.

Prof Brunet

The third exam is Monday November 16, 7-8:15 pm. Rooms are as follows:
Last Names A-Cha: Digital Computer Lab 1310 (no longer A-C, and Everitt Lab 269)
Last Names Che-Ke: Roger Adams Lab 116 (no longer D-Ke, and Everitt Lab 151)
Last Names Kh-Pa: Digital Computer Lab 1320
Last Names Pe-Z: Siebel 1404

The topics covered are from Lectures 23 to 33 (check schedule), homework 12 to 16 (i.e. NOT Encryption). You will be asked to SHOW YOUR WORK (i.e. all steps you are taking to provide your answer). Answers without work will be graded zero. Check website with past exams solutions to see what it means (examples). This will allow us to give you partial credit if applicable, and allow you to recheck your work before giving your test back.

You are allowed to bring one standard size sheet of personal notes (writing on both sides ok), a palm-size calculator (graphic ok). You must use pencils on your exam.  You will be given the decimal/binary/hexadecimal table, the flip-flop Characteristic tables, the ASCII, Morse, USPS tables, and the log2 numbers and properties.

If you have a conflict, we will accommodate you (we can give a make-up after 8:30pm, right after the exam); You must inform Prof. Brunet asap - we need to reserve a room, and  if you are registered in DRES and need accommodation, let us know asap. Notify instructor by Wed. November 11 at 5 pm.

There are practice exams (actual past exams) in Mallard and others on the ECE 110 website (under Exams). HKN (243 EL) sells past exams packages.

Monday November 16 lecture will be replaced by a (non-mandatory) Q&A session.

In Mallard, you now have access to scores on Exam 2, to statistics on Exam 2, and to an estimate of your current letter grade for the course. The estimate is based on the two hour exams and homework so far. See the course syllabus for the full policy on course grades.

Exams will be returned to you on Wednesday, October 21. Students who participate in supervised study sessions may review the exam at the sessions on October 25.

Regrade Policy: To request reconsideration of the grading of one or more problems on the exam, please staple a sheet to the front of the exam, with your name, and write a full explanation and your reasoning; "please regrade" is not sufficient. Regrade requests will be accepted in class on Friday, October 23, and on Monday, October 26; requests after Monday will not be considered. Please write neatly.

Solutions will be posted early next week. Meanwhile, do go to office hours (posted on the Web site) if you have questions about exam problems.