Engineering Applications

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Engineering Applications

• Dr. Darrin Leleux
• Lecture 1 Introduction

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Introduction

• Background
• Course Goals
• Syllabus
• Text
• MATLAB
• Course Web site
• Assignments

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Background

• Tell us about yourself
• Name
• College degree(s)
• Employment experience
• Anything else you want to share about yourself
• I encourage teamwork and participation
• Survey

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About Myself

• Instructor Darrin Leleux
• Education
• B.S. Electrical Engineering,
• Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette (1989)
• M.S. Computer Engineering,
• Univ of Houston Clear Lake (1998)
• Thesis Embedded Control and Data
  Acquisition with a Motorola 68HC16
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering,
• Rice University (2002)
• Thesis Miniaturization of Laser Spectroscopy
• Sensors for Spaceflight Applications

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About Myself

• Work Experience
• Teaching Experience (part-time)
• 5 years experience as an Adjunct at UHCL
• Taught CENG 5131 four times before this semester
• Also, 5 more years as a graduate Teaching
  Assistant
• Total of 18 years experience in the aerospace
  industry
• 7 years with the US Air Force working
  communications and satellite programs
• 11 years with the Space Shuttle Program working
• with NASA
• Currently work full-time as the Navigation Lead
  for Mission Operations with NASA

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About Myself
If you advance confidently in the direction of
your own dreams and endeavor to live the life
that you have imagined, you will meet with
success unexpected in common hours. -- Thoreau

• Favorite Hobby
• Running with friends
• Trail Running San Antonio 10M, Huntsville State
  Park 25K/50K/50M, Seabrook Trail Marathon, Warda
  50M, Rocky Hill Ranch 50K, etc.
• Road Running Houston Marathon, Dallas White
  Rock Marathon, USA 10-miler, 10Ks and 5Ks
• Academic Inspiration
• Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
• If I have ever made any valuable discoveries,
  it has been owing more to patient attention than
  to any other talent.

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Course Goals

• Increase Engineering Problem Solving Skills
• Develop mathematics skills needed for future
  Computer Engineering course work
• Vector Manipulation
• Matrix algebra
• Curve fitting, interpolation and least-squares
  methods
• Differential Equations
• Integral Calculus
• DSP tools such as Fourier Analysis
• Re-introduce study skills to new graduate
  students
• Develop student skills in the use of MATLAB
• Introduce students to SIMULINK

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Syllabus

• Instructor
• Dr. Darrin Leleux,
• Email leleuxd_at_uhcl.edu
• Website
• http//coursesite.cl.uh.edu/NAS/Leleux
• Office Hours
• Delta 222
• By appointment (set up by email or in-class)
• Th 500 PM - 700 PM

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Fall Schedule
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MATLAB
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Book

• T.L. Harman, J. Dabney, and N. Richert, Advanced
  Engineering Mathematics, Brooks/ColePacific
  Grove, 2000.
• Supplemental Text (optional)
• Mastering Simulink, J. Dabney and T. Harman

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MATLAB Availability

• Student Version Release 14 includes MATLAB 7 and
  Simulink 6
• Available from www.mathworks.com
• Link on class website links.htm
• Academic Computing Lab D205
• Hours of Operation
• lt web site gt

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Course Web Site

• URL http//coursesite.cl.uh.edu/NAS/Leleux
• Course Info
• Contact Info (Instructor and Student)
• Syllabus
• Outline
• Homeworks
• FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Useful links
• Errata for 2nd Edition

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Assignments

• Where When Due in class on due date
• Collaboration
• You are encouraged to work in groups on homework
  problems, BUT you must ultimately formulate
  your own solution.
• You may help one another by providing guidance in
  the method or approach to solving a problem.
• You may not copy solutions from another student,
  and you are expected to understand any solution
  you turn in or present!
• Homework, tests, and solutions from previous
  offerings of this course are OFF LIMITS!

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Course Project

• Research an engineering application involving an
  advanced mathematical technique
• Classroom presentation 10-15 minutes
• DO NOT go over 15 minutes!
• Choose something interesting
• Can begin presenting anytime after mid-term exam
• Written Report 3-5 pages, double-spaced
• Include formulas, algorithms, applications, who
  might use the application, why might the
  application be used, when would the application
  be used, how would you apply it

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Course Project (Cont.)

• References,
• include reference page properly cited with 3-5
  references, journals, books, etc.
• View graphs for presentation, 5-8 slides
• Send me your proposed topics before mid-term exam
  for approval, give me some background not just a
  title

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Grading
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Graduate Grading
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Academic Standing