Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 313

PROBABILITY WITH ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

SPRING 2000


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).

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

Prerequisite : ECE 210


Meeting times : Section C: 10 a.m. MWF in 165 Everitt Laboratory

Meeting times : Section D: 11 a.m. MWF in 245 Everitt Laboratory

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 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room 109 C&SRL
At other times by appointment in 109 C&SRL

Teaching Assistant : Shaojun Wang

Email : swang@ifp.uiuc.edu

TA's Office Hours : Mondays 3 pm to 6 pm, Room 369 Everitt Laboratory
and Tuesdays 7 pm to 10 pm, Room 330N Everitt Laboratory


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

Hour Examinations: Evening hour exams are scheduled from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on

  • Monday February 28 in 151 Everitt Laboratory
  • Monday April 10 in 314 Altgeld Hall
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: The Final Exam is scheduled for Saturday May 6, 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 269 Everitt Laboratory.

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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Alternative Courses
IE 230 and Stat 310

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