ECE65 (Winter 2008)

NOTICES:

Final Scores and Course Grades are posted. You can pick up your final as well as your Lab reports from my office (457 EBUII).

Click here for the distribution of final scores and the distribution of course grade.

Click here for corrected solution to the final. (I invardently made diode problem in the final simpler by dropping an element, new solution is for the circuit in the final).

Final: Average: 33/70
Course Grade: Average: C

Observations on the Final:

General
1) This class was one of my wrost classes in term of student prepartion. Most students have difficulties with fundamentals of circuit theory (Writing KVL, doing node-voltage method, etc.) although they have taken and passed one or two courses in the subject. You cannot be an electrical engineer if you do not grasp circuit theory.
2) Grades tremendously suffered because a lot of students do sloppy work: messy write-up leading to forgetting terms, decimals moving around, etc. It appears some students like to turn in the most "unreadable" finals. A large portion of the class would have got a better grade if they had not made sloppy mistakes in their final!
3) Some students still quote numbers with many digits and/or 23 micro A was quoted 0.000023 A (What would you say if the lab instructions says set the amplitude of the signal to 0.000023 V? or go to market and ask for 0.0004 pound of something!). Invariably these students made math mistakes carrying these extra zeros and digits around. More importantly, some students still quote numbers without any UNITS. These numbers are meaningless.




Click here for distribution of midterm scores.

Click here for solution to midterm.

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