Late homework cannot be accepted
CAETE students only: we can accept assignments by email as long as they're in pdf format.

TA: Jeries.Shihadeh
email Jeries.Shihadeh@Colorado.EDU
Office: Student Resource Center, EE-1B08
(Knock on window if door is locked)
FAX: 303-492-2758
Phone TBA
Office Hours 5:15-6:15 M or by appointment
Address fax to: Jeries.Shihadeh ECEN5503TA
Address Snail Mail to him at
ECEN5503TA
c/o Professor Heuring
Department of Electrical and Computer Enginering
Campus Box 425
Boulder CO 80309-0425

Some Words about Reasonable Answers

1. An answer to any problem is an estimate. As such, you should not express the answer with greater precision than is warranted by the problem statement and means used to obtain the solution. A good rule of thumb is to use no more than 3 significant figures unless there is a good reason to do so. Where gross, ballpark-type estimates are used, limit the answer to 2 signficant figures.

Examples: bad: 2.81242329. good: 2.81, or even 2.8 if there is only 1 signficant figure of accuracy or precision.

2. Use the appropriate units. Generally accepted practice is to have 1, 2, or 3 signficant figures before the radix point. This usually means frequent use of K, M, G, T, m, etc. suffixes.

Example: bad: 2,123,000,000. Good, 2.13 Billion. Bad: .00000213 seconds. Good: 2.13 microseconds.

3. Wherever possible and reasonable, use dimensional analysis to check your answers.

Notes about Homework Grading

1. Show your work. Partial credit can only be awarded when there is a visible effort.

2. Clarity is your responsibility. If a solution is not clear (cannot be understood), it will be marked as so with no credit being given for the answer. If you want to receive credit for the problem, come to office hours (bring your graded assignment with you) and explain your solution.

3. State the assumptions you made in solving the problem. Don't assume that the grader knows what you are doing/thinking (See comment on clarity).

4. The total points for the homework as well as the point value for each problem will vary from assignment to assignment. Some problems/assignments require more work than others and therefore will have a higher point value.

5. With the exception of the clarity problem, most grading issues can be resolved by attaching a note to your assignment and re-submitting it.