2019-01-01
Lectures start January 3.
2019-01-06
The tentative schedule for labs and lectures for the term is given below.
We'll skip the Thursday morning lecture that falls on the first week of each lab. Thus students in set 8S will do the lab first but won't have a lecture on the day of the lab.
During the lab session on January 10 we will view and discuss an antenna lecture and demo by John Kraus.
| ELEX7860 Tentative Schedule for Winter 2019 | |||||
| Week of | Mon 11:30 | Thurs 1:30 | Thurs 8:30 Lab |
Fri 10:30 | Hours |
| Dec 31 | Holiday | Lec | Lec | ||
| Jan 7 | Lec | Lec | Video | Lec | 7 |
| Jan 14 | Lec | 1 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Jan 21 | Lec | Lec | 1 - 8T | Lec | 8 |
| Jan 28 | Lec | 2 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Feb 4 | Lec | Lec | 2 - 8T | Lec | 8 |
| Feb 11 | Lec | 3 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Feb 18 | Holiday | Lec | 3 - 8T | Lec | 7 |
| Feb 25 | Lec | 4 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Mar 4 | Lec | Lec | 4 - 8T | Lec | 8 |
| Mar 11 | Lec | 5 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Mar 18 | Lec | Lec | 5 - 8T | Lec | 8 |
| Mar 25 | Lec | 6 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Apr 1 | Lec | Lec | 6 - 8T | Lec | 8 |
| Apr 8 | Lec | Lec | Lec | 3 | |
| Apr 15 | Exam Week | 3 | |||
| total | 60 | ||||
2019-02-02
There will be a two-part midterm exam during the scheduled lecture times on Thursday, February 21 and Friday, February 22. Location TBD.
2019-02-16
The Marking Scheme shows how things were marked. You can retrieve your marks using the password attached to Lab 1 as a feedback file called "MarksPassword.txt". If you did not submit a Lab 1 report, please e-mail me for your marks password.
2019-02-19
The midterm exam will be held at the following dates and locations:
Note that these are not the regular lecture rooms. The exam will cover the material listed in the Learning Objectives - Part 1 (to the end of Lecture 8). There will be two questions in each session. You must attend both sessions.
2019-02-21
Since so many people have asked... Midterm 1 will cover Lectures 1 to 5 (Propagation and Diversity) and Midterm 2 will cover Lectures 6 to 8 (Information Theory and Coding).
2019-02-27
If possible, bring your laptop to Lab 4. We will be programming the TI CC3200 Launchpad IoT boards using the Energia IDE (a 183 MB download) and the CC3200 board support package which can be installed from the IDE. You might also have to install OS drivers so that the CC3200 board's USB interface will appear as a serial port for uploading code and as a virtual serial port.
2019-03-04
The previous course schedule did not take into account Spring Break. To (partly) make up the missed lectures we will hold lectures every Thursday morning until the end of the term. The lab dates have also been delayed by a week. The final lab will not require a lab report.
| ELEX7860 Tentative Schedule for Winter 2019 | |||||
| Week of | Mon 11:30 | Thurs 1:30 | Thurs 8:30 Lab |
Fri 10:30 | Hours |
| Dec 31 | Holiday | Lec | Lec | ||
| Jan 7 | Lec | Lec | Video | Lec | 7 |
| Jan 14 | Lec | 1 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Jan 21 | Lec | Lec | 1 - 8T | Lec | 8 |
| Jan 28 | Lec | 2 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Feb 4 | Lec | Lec | 2 - 8T | Lec | 8 |
| Feb 11 | Lec | 3 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Feb 18 | Holiday | Lec | 3 - 8T | Lec | 7 |
| Feb 25 | Lec | 4 - 8S | Lec | ||
| Mar 4 | Lec | Lec | 4 - 8T | Lec | 8 |
| Mar 11 | |||||
| Mar 18 | Lec | Lec | 5 - 8S | Lec | 6 |
| Mar 25 | Lec | Lec | 5 - 8T | Lec | |
| Apr 1 | Lec | Lec | 6 - 8S | Lec | 8 |
| Apr 8 | Lec | Lec | 6 - 8T | - | 2 |
| Apr 15 | Exam Week | 3 | |||
| total | 57 | ||||
[Corrected to show the labs at are 8:30 and the lecture at 1:30.]
[Modified to show April 12 is an exam day.]
2019-03-22
As discussed in class, I will not mark Question 3 on Assignment 2.
2019-04-01
The ELEX 7860 final exam has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 17th from 9:30-12:30 in NE1-239.
2019-04-11
I'll be in my office (SW1-3061) to answer questions from 9:30 to 11:00 (not 11:30) on Monday, April 15 and from 9:30 to 11:30 on Tuesday, April 16.
You can also ask questions on the course discussion forum.
2019-04-14
All items except the final exam have been marked and corrections have been applied for any absences excused by a medical certificate.
Please check your marks and let me know if you notice any discrepancies or have any questions. The password to check your marks is available as a feedback file to your Lab 1 report. If you did not submit Lab 1, I can supply it by e-mail.
2019-04-19
The final exam has been marked and the unofficial final marks for the course have been computed and posted under Content/Course Information/marks. The final exam and solutions have been posted to Content/Exams. The marking scheme has been posted to Content/Course Information/Marking Scheme. The distribution of the final exam and final course marks is shown below. The min/mean/median/max for the final exam were 14.5, 22.3, 23 and 27.5 out of 28. For the course they were 58, 79.1, 79.5 and 96 percent. I can e-mail you a scan of your final exam if you want to review it. Please let me know as soon as possible if you have any questions about the marking.
