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Rhea Section for ECE 438: Digital Signal Processing with Applications Professor Boutin, Fall 2009
Course statistics: GPA 2.52
7 As, 9 Bs, 10 Cs, 3 Ds, 2 Fs.
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Course Info
Course Related Material
- Course Notes
- Some material for the lecture on DFT (re:leakage effect)
- Graph of the magnitude of the DFT of a windowed filter
- Plots of some basic 2D functions
- Plot of CSFT of some basic 2D filters
- Definitions
- Table of Formulas
- Student Questions
- MP3 Basics
Homework
Note that it is perfectly ok to discuss the homework questions on Rhea. In particular, you are allowed to post your own solutions at any time.--Mboutin 09:40, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
- Homework 0: Statement, Discussion.
- Homework 1: HW1, Discussion, Solution.
- Homework 2: HW2, Discussion, Solution
- Homework 3: Hw3
- Homework 4: HW4, Discussion,Solution
- Homework 5: HW5, Discussion, Solution
- END OF HW RELATED TO TEST 1
- Homework 6: HW6, Discussion, Solution
- Homework 7: HW7, Discussion, Solution
- Homework 8: HW8, Discussion, Solution
- LINKS TO PAGES FOR BONUS: (Read Rhea's disclaimer, then write a comment on at least one page in each row. Copy and paste your comments in an email and send to Prof. Mimi]]
Labs
Lab related links and comments
Exams
- Test 1 (out of 145)
- Stats: mean=69.7, median=70, std=28.3, grade histogram:
- Please give exam feedback here.
- Stats: mean=69.7, median=70, std=28.3, grade histogram:
- Test 2 (out of 115)
- Stats: mean=86.7, median=85, std=19.98, grade histogram:
- Please give exam feedback here.
- Stats: mean=86.7, median=85, std=19.98, grade histogram:
- Final (out of 220)
- Stats: mean=126.9, median=126, Max=195, Min=48
- gradelines: $ A \geq 170 $, $ B \geq 139 $, $ C \geq 100 $, $ D \geq 72 $
- Final Exam Discussion
Student-Led Recitations
- Student-Led Recitation Guidelines
- There will be up to two recitations on each subject: one on Monday 6-7pm, EE115, and one on Tuesday 6-7pm, EE115.
- Please specify M or Tu next to your name, so we know which day you are available to lead the recitation.
| Topic Number | Topic Description | Leader | Recitation Date | Recitation Time | Room Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CT and DT Fourier transform | Hamad Al Shehhi, Tue | 9/1/2009 | 6-7pm | ee115 |
| 2 | z-transform | Carlos Leon | 9/8/2009 | 6-7pm | ee115 |
| 3a | sampling part 1 | Michael Wei - Tu | Sept. 15 | 6-7pm | ee115 |
| 3b | sampling part 2 | name - M/Tu | Sept. 21/22 | 6-7pm | ee115 |
| 4 | Discrete Fourier transform | Kelli Hacker - M | Sept. 28 | 6-7pm | ee115 |
| 5 | Fast Fourier transform | Emily Thompson | skip | TBD | TBD |
| 6 | DT Systems | Ryan Taylor - Tu | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 7 | Filtering-Recap | Dhruv Lamba | Tu, Nov 17 | 6-7pm | EE 115 |
| 8 | Speech | - Mo
Peter Clay - Tu |
Nov. 3 | 6-7pm | EE115 |
| 9a | Spectral Analysis of 2D signals | Ryan Scheidt - Tuesday | Dec. 1st, Tuesday | 6-7pm | EE115 |
| 9b | Spectral Analysis of 2D signals | Ren Pan -Mo | Nov. 16(Mo) | 6-7pm | EE115 |
| 10a | Image Processing | Ananya Panja-Tuesday | Dec 8th,Tue | 6-7pm | EE115 |
| 10b | Image Processing Recitation | Michael Nolte | TBD | 6-7pm | EE 115 |
| 11 | Quantization (if time permits) | Your Name | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 12 | Encoding (if time permits) | Your Name | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Useful Links
- http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~allebach/ece438/supplements/ for the Essential Definitions and Relations Formula Sheet
- Prof. Allebach's Lecture Notes
- Prof. pollak's Note - Useful for the FFT.
- Flash-based 438 tutorials:
- Link Here is a link with a variety of hearing tests, take a look!
Miscellaneous
- VIP callout!
- Are you considering a career in research? Do you want to know more about the kind of opportunities available for people with a graduate degree? We just had a great talk by Dr. Ken Tobin from Oak Ridge National Lab. His abstract, bio as well as a link to his slides can be found here. Take a look!
