Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 313

PROBABILITY WITH ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS


Credit : 3 hours or 3/4 unit.
Graduate students in the ECE Department cannot receive unit credit for ECE 313.

Prerequisites : ECE 210 or ECE 309

ECE 313 is an undergraduate course on probability theory and statistics with applications to engineering problems primarily chosen from the areas of communications, control, signal processing, and computer engineering.

ECE 313 is semi-required in the new BSEE and BSCompE curricula --- all students must complete one of the three courses ECE 313 (3 hours), IE 230 (3 hours), and Stat 310 (4 hours).


MWF Sections: SPRING 99

Meeting times : Section C: 10 a.m. MWF in 245 Everitt Laboratory

Meeting times : Section D: 11 a.m. MWF in 260 Everitt Laboratory

Click here for the web page of the TuTh section.

Instructor : Professor Dilip V. Sarwate

Offices : 109 C&SRL (Phone: 3-7473) and 326B Everitt Lab (Phone: 3-0387)

Email : sarwate@uiuc.edu

Professor Sarwate's Office Hours :
Tuesdays 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Room 326B Everitt Lab
At other times by appointment in 109 C&SRL

Teaching Assistant : Zukui Song

Office : 321 Everitt Lab (Phone: 333-4208)

Email : zsong@uiuc.edu

Zukui Song's Office Hours : Mondays 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 pm in Room 330N Everitt Lab


Text : Sheldon Ross, A First Course in Probability, 5th edition, Prentice Hall, 1997.

Optional Reading: D. V. Sarwate, Probability with Engineering Applications, Lecture Notes for ECE 313, Fall 1997 (available for purchase through the IEEE Student Branch Office, 54 Everitt Laboratory)

Hour Examinations: Evening hour exams are scheduled for

  • Wednesday March 3, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, 269 Everitt Laboratory

  • Wednesday April 14, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, 269 Everitt Laboratory

You are allowed to bring one 8.5" by 11" sheet of notes to each Hour Exam -- both sides may be used -- but the exams are closed-book and closed-notes otherwise. Calculators, laptop computers, Palm Pilots and the like are not permitted.

Final Examination: Thursday, May 13, 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., 124 Burrill Hall

You are allowed to bring two 8.5" by 11" sheets of notes to the Final Exam -- both sides may be used -- but the exam is closed-book and closed-notes otherwise. Calculators, laptop computers, Palm Pilots and the like are not permitted.

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