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Rhea Section for ECE 438 Professor Boutin, Spring 2009

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Course Details

ECE 438: Digital Signal Processing with Applications

Instructor: Prof. Mimi Boutin (mboutin@ you know where)
Office: MSEE342, tel. 4-3538
Office Hours: M 13:30-14:20, W 13:00-14:20 F 15:30-16:20

TAs: Sean Hu (hu@ecn. you know where) and Liang Liu (liangliu@purdue. you know what)
Sean's Office Hours in MSEE184: T 11:30a-12:30p, Th 10:30a-11:30a
Liang's Office Hours in MSEE184: F 10:30a-11:30a

• Syllabus
• Schedule

Message Area

• It is expected that the grades will be ready this Thursday afternoon.
• If you bought the book this semester, please feel free to offer it for sale on Rhea. If there is a need, we could create a "book wanted/for sale" section on the course page.

Prof. Mimi's Corner

Prof. Mimi will use this space to share material with the class

• Homework Statements and due dates - Last hw posted!
• Food for thoughts
• Link to speech processing course by Mike Brooks. Look at section 1, page 1.5-1.6 for "my speech" example.
• Link to article about whether Neil Armstrong said "for man" or "for a man".
• Link to video footage of Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the moon.
• Some material for the lectures on image filtering
• Suggested reading for final exam prep

Discussions

• Questions & Answers
• Questions for Prof. Mimi Area to posts your questions to Prof. Mimi
• Exam 1 Student Review
• Exam 2 Student Review
• Exam 3 Student Review
• Final Student Review
• Course evaluation and revamping Please use this page to tell Prof. Mimi how you think this course should be taught in the future. In particular, what material should or should not be covered and in what order, what topics should be discussed, etc. Please no whining: be contructive!

Course Related Material

• Course Notes
• Prof. Allebach's Lecture Notes
• Prof. pollak's Note - Useful for the FFT.
• Definitions
• Table of Formulas
• http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~allebach/ece438/supplements/ for the Essential Definitions and Relations Formula Sheet
• List of Symbols
• Some additional information on MSQE from NYU
• SDR Related
  • Excuse my ignorance but what is SDR?" --Alibaba 18:49, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
  • It is short for "Software Defined Radio", which is a software level application based version of modern day digital communications radios. Its main advantage is that it offers a tremendous amount of flexibility and compatibility--Ekavurma 10:33, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
  • For more information, click Software Defined Radio--Kim415 16:12, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
• Link Here is a link with a variety of hearing tests, take a look!

Homework Related

Note that it is perfectly ok to discuss the homework questions on Rhea. In particular, you are allowed to post your own solutions. --Mboutin 17:01, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Homework 0: Student Intros,TAs Comments
• Homework 1: Please discuss hw1 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution
• Homework 2: Please discuss hw2 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.
• Homework 3: Please discuss hw3 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.
• Homework 4: Please discuss hw4 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.
• Homework 5: Please discuss hw5 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.
• Homework 6: Please discuss hw6 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.
• Homework 7: Please discuss hw7 here, TAs Comments,TA's solution.
• Homework 8: Please discuss hw8 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.
• Homework 9: Please discuss hw9 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.
• Homework 10: Please discuss hw10 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.

Exam Related

• Test 1
  • Useful Information for Exam 1(Feburary 18th): Please contribute here, TAs Comments
  • Exam 1 Student Review
  • Here are the stats: Average 69.4, standard Deviation 18.5
  • TA's solution
• Test 2
  • Useful Information for Exam 2(March 27th): Please contribute here,TAs Comments
  • Here are the stats: Average 71.47/90, standard deviation 13.41.
  • TA's solution
• Test 3
  • Useful Information for Exam 3(April 24th): Please contribute here,TAs Comments
  • Here are the stats: Average 67.4/90 with a std deviation of 13.9.
  • solution
• Final
  • Here are the stats: Average 148.09/205 with a standard deviation of 33.10. The gradelines for the exam itself are: A>=171 (12 students), B>=158 (7 students), C>=131 (13 students), D>=125 (5 students), F<=124 (7 students). Note that the actual grade distribution is actually better than the final exam distribution. In fact the class GPA this semester is 2.61.

• General Info
  • Here is the link that you can find out the previous exam. It is for the students who may have difficult time to search Prof. Allebach's previous exam.--Kim415 15:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
    • Prof. Allebach's previous mid-term & final exam lists

Miscellaneous

• Queer or ally? Interested in a career in the oil industry? Please attend this Shell Oil Career Forum, Wednesday, April 8th, 6pm Lily 3102.
• Interested in digital communications? Please consider attending this Tektronix presentation on Friday February 6, 2009.
• Wondering if the course material would be useful in real life?, go to VIP (Vertically Integrated Projects) and read about research projects related to this class. Whenever you see the VIP logo in the course notes, it means that there is related information on VIP that you may find interesting. Contact the TA of VIP if you would like to join one of the teams. The first VIP meeting will take place on Wed (01/14/09) at 4:30pm in MSEE 184.
• LaTex Equation Editor:
  • http://thornahawk.unitedti.org/equationeditor/equationeditor.php

• Flash-based 438 tutorials:
  • http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/VISE/ee438/demos/flash/