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ENGR/CS 101
Syllabus
Fall 2015
Blandford & Randall and Roberts
Web sites:
http://csserver.evansville.edu/~blandfor/EN101/index.htm
Text: None. Reference material provided.
This course has two sessions dealing with computer science and computer and electrical
engineering topics. Each session has seven weeks (19 class days) of instruction. The EE/CoE
session meets in KC-137 with Dr. Blandford and Mr. Randall, the CS session meets in KC-267
with Dr. Roberts.
The class is divided into two groups with mixed majors. See the web site for the group
assignments.
Aug 26-Oct. 9
Oct. 14-Dec. 4
Group 1
EE/CoE
CS
Group 2
CS
EE/CoE
In addition, these dates have been set aside for special topics:
• August 26 – First day of classes – organization and introduction
• November 18 – ENGR/CS Freshman class lecture on Harlaxton from Harlaxton (room
TBA)
• November 2 – ENGR/CS Freshman pre-registration for Spring semester by major. EE
majors will meet in KC-136, CoE majors will meet in KC-137, and CS majors will meet
in KC-267. (Students who are not EECS majors are excused from this class.)
• Dec. 4 – Final Class mingle.
Grading: The most important component of the final grade in this course is participation and
attendance. There is no final exam for this course. Each session has individual assignments and
quizzes, and students receive a grade for each session. The final grade for the course is an equally
weighted average between the three sessions.
Topics:
The Computer and Electrical Engineering session covers the following topics in 19 lectures:
1. Intro to MATLAB®.
2. MATLAB® programming constructs
3. MATLAB® plotting
4. Fourier series
5. Fourier analysis
6. Sound files in MATLAB®
7. Speaker construction
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8. Speaker construction
9. Speaker/amplifier construction
10. Speaker analysis
11. COE and Micro Controllers
12. Keil MicroVision and MBED Dev Kit (Simulate Hello World)
13. Conditions and loops (Basic Micro Controller Program Structure)
14. Device I/O - Port Configurations - C++ Classes
15. Serial Communications (Terminal "Hello World")
16. Frequency VS Time and Creating a Square wave.
17. Musical Notes (frequency, and period)
Begin Project Write a Song
18. Project (Write a Song)
19. Show off Projects (Explain/Demo keyboard Piano)
The Computer Science session covers the following topics in 19 lectures
1. Introduction to binary representation
2. Introduction to the software lifecycle. Introduction to Python. Types and variables, assignment and
expressions, output
3. Functions, input, simple loops
4. More functions and loops
5. Introduction to cryptography
6. Characters, strings, counting loops
7. Conditions and if-statements
8. More conditions and if-statements, error handling
9. Files
10. Project work day
11. Introduction to algorithm analysis
12. Introduction to arrays (lists)
13. More arrays
14. Project work day
15. GUIs (Graphical user interfaces)
16. More GUIs
17. Project work day
18. Social media and privacy.
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ENGR/CS 101
Monday
Fall 2015
Friday
Aug. 28
Aug. 31
Wednesday
Aug. 26
Organization and overview
Sept. 2
Sept. 7
Sept. 9
Sept. 11
Sept. 14
Sept. 16
Sept. 18
Sept. 21
Sept. 23
Sept. 24
Sept. 28
Sept. 30
Oct. 2
Oct. 5
Oct. 7
Oct. 9
Oct. 12
Fall Break
Oct. 19
Oct. 14
Oct. 16
Oct. 21
Oct. 23
Oct. 26
Oct. 28
Oct. 30
Nov. 2 Advising and
Preregistration
Nov. 9
Nov. 4
Nov. 6
Nov. 11
Nov. 13
Sept. 4
Switch Rooms
(Last day to withdraw with W)
Nov. 16
Nov. 18
Harlaxton Group Lecture
Nov. 25
Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 2
Nov. 23
Nov. 30
Dec. 7
Mingle
Dec. 9
Reading/Study Day
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Nov. 20
Nov. 27
Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 4