Programming for Electrical Engineers II

EEL 4930

Meeting Time: Tue 3:00-4:55pm, Thu 4:05-4:55pm

Location:  Weil 0273

Academic Term:  Spring 2020

Instructor:

• Name: Sandip Ray
• Email Address: sandip@ece.ufl.edu
• Office Phone Number: +1 (352) 392-1605
• Office Hours: Tue 2-3pm  BEN 323

Teaching Assistants:

• Name: Gokul Devarajan and Raghul Shivakumar
• Email Address: gokuldee.devaraj@ufl.edu, shivakumarraghul@ufl.edu 
• Office Hours: Fri 12-1pm , Office: NEB 222

Please contact the TA/instructor through Canvas. We may not be able to respond to emails sent to our individual email addresses.

Course Description

3 credits

Programming has become an essential component of virtually every aspect of Engineering. However, writing efficient program requires understanding of the underlying foundations, including implementation, manipulation, and analysis of structured data, understanding how algorithms are built on top of such data, and approaches and trade-offs involved between program performance and resource constraints. This course covers the underlying foundations of programming specifically targeted towards Electrical Engineers. It will cover implementation and use of data structures for use in solving programming problems, including queues, trees, tables and graphs. Algorithm development including recursive techniques will be discussed, and several algorithmic techniques (e.g., greedy, dynamic programming, branch and bound) will be presented. The course will include several excursions illustrating the use of these techniques on a variety of Electrical Engineering domains.

Course Pre-Requisites / Co-Requisites

EEL 3834 Programming for Electrical and Computer Engineers, or equivalent proficiency in programming

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students will:

• Have grasp of fundamentals of data structures and algorithms, e.g., lists, queues, stacks, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, etc.
• Be able to assess the impact of data structures and algorithms on program performance
• Have hands-on experience on implementing some of the important data structures and algorithms
• Have experience on the role of various specific data structures in various applications from Electrical Engineering

Materials and Supply Fees

None

Professional Component (ABET):

This course consists of 3 credits of Engineering Science;

Relation to Program Outcomes (ABET):

The table below is an example.  Please consult with your department’s ABET coordinator when filling this out.

^*Coverage is given as high, medium, or low.  An empty box indicates that this outcome is not covered or assessed in the course.

Textbooks and Software

• Mark Allen Weiss: Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ 4^th Edition, Addison-Wesley (Required)
• Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni,Susan Anderson-Freed. Fundamentals of Data Structures in C, 2^nd Edition, W. H. Freeman (Recommended)
• Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein: Introduction to Algorithms 3rd Edition, MIT Press (Optional)

Course Schedule (Tentative)

The course will include theoretical material on data structures and algorithms and excursions that enable the students to dive deeper into specific application areas. Each excursion will be due two weeks after it has been discussed/presented in class, and will involve implementing algorithms involved in the target domain.

Attendance Policy, Class Expectations, and Make-Up Policy

• Excused absences must be consistent with university policies in the graduate catalog (http://gradcatalog.ufl.edu/content.php?catoid=11&navoid=2486#attendance) and require appropriate documentation.
• The class is interactive. Feel free to interrupt and ask relevant questions. However, questions not directly related to the topic under discussion or requiring elaborate answers may be relegated to office hours.
• Cell phones may not be used as calculators. Cell phones must be turned off at all times including exams and lectures.
• The communication functions including text messaging on all devices must be turned off during exams.
• Students are not allowed to sell or distribute notes provided for this class.
• All late assignments receive zero credits no matter what the reason. This means students must plan to finish their work before deadline to avoid delays due to “technical difficulties”. Online assignments (on Canvas) will timeout at the deadline and cannot be made up. Canvas gets very busy around common due times, such as midnight, so all assignments will be due at 4 AM for this reason. Emailed assignment will have an arrival timestamp. All emails received after the deadline will be considered late submission.
• The instructor reserves the right to interpret the class policies if confusions occur.

Evaluation of Grades

Grading Policy

The class is not curved. If everyone does well, everyone can get an A.

More information on UF grading policy may be found at: https://catalog.ufl.edu/ugrad/current/regulations/info/grades.aspx

Students Requiring Accommodations

Students with disabilities requesting accommodations should first register with the Disability Resource Center (352-392-8565, https://www.dso.ufl.edu/drc) by providing appropriate documentation. Once registered, students will receive an accommodation letter which must be presented to the instructor when requesting accommodation. Students with disabilities should follow this procedure as early as possible in the semester.

Course Evaluation

Students are expected to provide professional and respectful feedback on the quality of instruction in this course by completing course evaluations online via GatorEvals. Guidance on how to give feedback in a professional and respectful manner is available at https://gatorevals.aa.ufl.edu/students/. Students will be notified when the evaluation period opens, and can complete evaluations through the email they receive from GatorEvals, in their Canvas course menu under GatorEvals, or via https://ufl.bluera.com/ufl/. Summaries of course evaluation results are available to students at https://gatorevals.aa.ufl.edu/public-results/.

University Honesty Policy

UF students are bound by The Honor Pledge which states, “We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honor and integrity by abiding by the Honor Code. On all work submitted for credit by students at the University of Florida, the following pledge is either required or implied: “On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment.” The Honor Code (https://sccr.dso.ufl.edu/policies/student-honor-code-student-conduct-code/) specifies a number of behaviors that are in violation of this code and the possible sanctions. Furthermore, you are obligated to report any condition that facilitates academic misconduct to appropriate personnel. If you have any questions or concerns, please consult with the instructor or TAs in this class.

Commitment to a Safe and Inclusive Learning Environment

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering values broad diversity within our community and is committed to individual and group empowerment, inclusion, and the elimination of discrimination.  It is expected that every person in this class will treat one another with dignity and respect regardless of gender, sexuality, disability, age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, and culture.

If you feel like your performance in class is being impacted by discrimination or harassment of any kind, please contact your instructor or any of the following:

• Your academic advisor or Graduate Program Coordinator
• Robin Bielling, Director of Human Resources, 352-392-0903, rbielling@eng.ufl.edu
• Curtis Taylor, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, 352-392-2177, taylor@eng.ufl.edu
• Toshikazu Nishida, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, 352-392-0943, nishida@eng.ufl.edu

Software Use

All faculty, staff, and students of the University are required and expected to obey the laws and legal agreements governing software use.  Failure to do so can lead to monetary damages and/or criminal penalties for the individual violator.  Because such violations are also against University policies and rules, disciplinary action will be taken as appropriate.  We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to uphold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity.

Student Privacy

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