EE278: Course Information

Instructor

• Professor Tsachy Weissman, tsachy at stanford.edu

• Office hours: Thursday, 1:30pm-2:30pm in Packard 256

Course Assistant

• Abhiram Gorle, abhiramg at stanford.edu

• Office hours: Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30pm in Packard 107

Grading

• Weekly Quizzes (on Gradescope): 10%

• Homework: 25%

• Midterm: 25%

• Final: 40%

Homeworks

• Assigned each Friday 6pm and due the following Friday at 6pm.

• Submissions will be made on Gradescope (see Canvas for access).

• Late homework will not be accepted but the homework with the lowest score will be dropped.

Quizzes

• There will be a weekly quiz available on Thursday (after the lecture) and due the following Tuesday at 12:00 pm.

• The quizzes will be on Gradescope. They will be untimed and allow multiple submissions until the deadline.

• No late submissions will be accepted.

Exams

• There will be an in-class midterm and a final. SCPD students can take the exams either in-person or offline within a 24-hour window with a proctor.

  • Midterm: Thursday, April 30th, 12:00 - 1:20 pm in Gates B3 (during class hours).

  • Final: Wednesday, June 10th, 12:15 - 3:15 pm in Gates B3.

Course Policies

• Prerequisites: EE178 (Probability) or equivalent, some basic linear algebra, and knowledge of a language like MATLAB or Python to do some simple simulation exercises. Basic knowledge of signal processing and fourier transforms is helpful but not required.

• EdStem: The main mode of electronic communication between students and staff, as well as amongst students, will be through EdStem. It is intended for general questions about the course, clarifications about assignments, student questions to each other, discussions about material, and so on. We strongly encourage students to participate in discussion, ask and answer questions through this site. The course staff will monitor discussions closely. We will use the Canvas website for general announcements.

• Collaboration: You are encouraged to work on homework problems in study groups of no more than 3 people; however, you must always write up the solutions on your own, and you must never read or copy the solutions of other students. Similarly, you may use books or online resources to help solve homework problems, but you must always credit all such sources in your writeup and you must never copy material verbatim. However collaboration is not allowed in the midterm and final exams.