CSE 200 - Engineering And Scientific Computing - Spring 2008

Notice 1) we extend the labs to 2 hours for each session, 2) TA office hours change

TAs and their email: Gaziihan Alankus (gazihan AT cse), Ashley Davis (aed2 AT cec), Dustin Griesemer (dustin.griesemer AT sbcglobal.net), Matt Watkins (wopkins AT gmail.com)

Textbook: Amos Gilat, MatLab: An Introduction with Applications, 3rd edition, Willey, 2008
Reference book: E.B. Magrab, et al., An Engineer's Guide to MatLab, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2005

Time and locations

Lectures - Lab Sciences Building 300 (the Auditorium): Tuesdays, 10-11:30am
Labs - Whitaker Hall 130: Thursdays

Session A: 9:30-11:30am - TAs: Gazihan Alankus, Dustin Griesemer and Matt Watkins
Session B: 11:30am-1:30pm. - TAs: Gazihan Alankus, Ashley Davis and Dustin Griesemer

Office hours - Please notice the time change

Instructor - Jolley Hall 506

M: 11am-12pm, W: 3-4pm, or by appointment.

TAs - (notice a location change)

Gazihan Alankus. Th: 1:30-2:30pm, Whitaker 130
Ashley Davis. M: 3-4pm, Whitaker 130
Dustin Griesemer. W: 12-1pm, Lopata 401
Matt Watkins. Th: 4:00-5:30pm, Lopata 401

I will provide solutions to homeworks, labs and quizzes as we go along. A good way to learn is to study the solutions and compare that to what you did. If you didn't do a particular problem correctly, try to understand why by studying the solutions. If you still don't understand, get help from the TAs and the instructor.

Reading assignement (Checkpoint quiz will be based on what we have covered in classes, labs and homeworks)

April 15-22: Chapter 10.
Feb 26 - March 4: if you haven't finish reading Chapter 5, finish it
Feb 19 - 26: Chapter 5
Feb 12 - 19: Chapters 7 and 3 (by Gilat)
Feb 5 - 12: Chapter 4 of the textbook (by Gilat)
Jan 29 - Feb 5: Chapter 6 of the textbook (by Gilat)

Homeworks and solutions

HW12, Due before 11am on April 29.
HW11, Due on April 22, in class
HW10, Due on April 17, before your lab session
HW9 and solution. Due on April 1, in class
HW8 and solution. Due on March 25, in class
HW7 and solution. Due on March 18, in class
HW6 and solution. Due on March 4, in class
HW5 and solution. Due on Feb. 26, in class
HW4 and solution. Due on Feb. 19, in class
HW3 and solution. Due on Feb. 12, in class
HW2 instruction and SOLUTIONS, actual problems are here1, here2 and here3. Due on Feb. 5, in class.
HW1 solutions.

Quizzes and solutions

Quiz 9; Quiz 8; Quiz 7; Quiz 6; Quiz 5; Quiz 4; Quiz 3; Quiz 2; Quiz 1;

Solutions to labs

Lab 12, Labs 9 and 10, Lab 8, Lab 7; Lab 6; Lab 5; Lab 4; Lab 3; Lab 2; Lab 1;

Grades as of 4-22-08

Lab/Lectures Topics and notes

Lab 0. Introduction to matlab.
Lecture 1. Notes.
Lab 1.
Lecture 2 - Decomposing problems, defining functions, logical operations in matlab and some more syntax.
Lab 2 - Diffusion.
Lecture 3 - Functions and scripts
Lab 3 - Functions for regression.
Lecture 4 - Function function and flow control.
Lab 4 - Flow control and function function
Lecture 5. More matrix operation, more funcitons and flow control
Lab 5 - Curve fitting
Lecture 6 - Taylor expansion, time series simulation
Lab 6 - Intro to simulation
Lecture 7 - Finding Zeros, Newton's Method, and stopping conditions
Lab 7 - Intro to Physical Simulation II Solution to the Wave Equation
Lecture 8 - Recursion: Tower of Hanoi, Fibonacci number and tail recursion
Lab 8 - Intro to Physical simulation III Elastic string
Lecture 9 - Divide-and-conquer and recursion again
Lab 9 - Sorting and nearest pair using divide-and-conquer and recursion
Lecture 10 - More divide-and-conquer and recursion
Lab 10 - Sorting and nearest pair using divide-and-conquer and recursion (continue)
Lecture 11 - Examples of divide-and-conquer (e.g., sequence alignment, slides are here)
Lab 11 - Finishing lab 9 and lab 10 - Note: we will only consider to take off one of labs 9 and 10 from the final grading. You get 3 units of lab scores (one extra is a bonus unit) if you correctly finish both labs.
Lecture 12 - Numerical Method: integration and ordinary differential equations.
Lab 12 - Back to simulation: Choosing parameters for physical simulations
Lecture 13 - (some slides and a C program we used in lecture) Example of solving ODE, debugging using simple programs, simple illustration of a C program on buying/selling stocks
Lab 13 - no lab, you may use the time to finish lab 12 - everyone has a good final stage of the semester.

Topics addressed include interpolation, integration, linear systems, least-squares fitting, nonlinear equations and optimization and initial value problems. Basic procedural programming concepts (procedural and data abstraction, iteration, recursion)

Grades

We will take away two lowest lab scores and three lowest quiz scores before computing your final grade. This should be able to accommodate requrests for missing classes due to various reasons.
Each HW, quiz and lab will be counted as 100 points of its own, regardless of how many face points specified for it. In other words, each of HW, quiz and lab will carry the same weight toward the final grade.
Grades will be determined by approximately: 30% HW 40% LABS 30% QUIZES. The grade for this class will be determined based on a numerical threshold for your score, with the common grading scale:

        [90-100] = A
    [80-90): = B
    [70-80): = C
    [60-70): = D
    [ 0-60): = F

Other useful information.

Getting started in matlab:

in the cec labs, you can run matlab from Start, Engineering, matlab (orange icon). Accessing matlab from elsewhere:

You can find this in: start menu/ programs/ accessories/ communications/ remote desktop connection.
In the window, type: "mirage.cec.wustl.edu"
Remote Desktop Connection may then ask you for your username and password before showing you the login window for your cec account. If so, just use your cec account logon ID and password.