ECE 600: ECE GRADUATE ORIENTATION
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
NC STATE UNIVERSITY
Fall 2015
Instructor: Huaiyu Dai (EBII2108; 513-0299; Huaiyu_Dai@ncsu.edu)
TA: Srinjoy Chattopadhyay (EBII3034, schatto4@ncsu.edu)
Classroom: Hunt Auditorium, Room # 1103
Time: Wednesday, 3:50-5:05 pm
Introduction
This is a required course designed to introduce incoming graduate students to two
important topic areas:
1. Information about the graduate program, the department, and the university,
relevant to all incoming graduate students
2. A description of the ongoing research and curriculum for technical areas in the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Students will acquire useful information about the graduate program in electrical and
computer engineering department, the computer facilities, the university library system as
well as reviewing databases specific for science and engineering, professional conduct,
and intellectual property issues. Students will also meet people responsible for managing
these resources.
Some lectures involve presentations by department faculty associated with specific
research areas. Each faculty member will introduce the technical areas and courses they
are associated with, discuss their research interests, and describe one or more research
projects they are conducting. This is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about
ongoing work in the department in preparation for choosing graduate courses, areas of
interest, thesis or independent topics, or supervisors.
Web Page
Email and class web page will be used to make announcements. The course web page is
accessed through https://wolfware.ncsu.edu by clicking “My Wolfware” in the main
part of the page. You will need to login with your unity ID and password. If you are
registered for the class, you are automatically given access to the web page using your
unity ID.
Updating Your Email Address:
For all students, your Unity email address is your official university address. You are
responsible for monitoring email sent to this address. In particular, course-related email
messages are automatically sent to your Unity email account. All messages and
announcements will be sent by the course or posted on the course web page. Usually
postings are immediately sent out if there is any change in schedule or if there is
university announcement.
Attendance and Grading
The course is a Pass or Fail (S/U) course and is MANDATORY for incoming graduate
students to the ECE Department. Attendance will be taken either by student signing
attendance list or through a summary sheet, where students are asked to fill in short,
simple facts/comments about each week's presentation. Note: Attending less than 80% of
one lecture will not be counted as "fully attending the lecture." Because of this, we will
provide attendance lists or summary sheets up to 10 minutes after a lecture begins.
Emergency Absences:
Students should report as soon as possible to the instructor personally but no more than
one week after returning to class. Examples of emergency absences consist of illness
certified by an attending physician, injury, or death/serious illness in the family (with
appropriated documentation): http://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-02-20-03 Not
justified absences may include projects/homework for other disciplines, or not waking up
for lecture.
Academic Integrity
All students at the university are expected to understand and agree to
http://policies.ncsu.edu/policy/pol-11-35-01. This document explains the various types of
behavior that are not allowed, including cheating, plagiarism, aiding and abetting,
disorderly conduct, and so on. On assignments: “the words you hand in must be your
own. Duplicate answers constitute a violation of the Code of Student Conduct”.
For ECE 600, common examples of academic integrity violations include (but are not
limited to):
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Claiming attendance for a class that a student did not fully attend
Knowingly assisting another student to claim attendance for a class he/she did not
fully attend
Being disruptive during a lecture in a way that impacts the lecturer's ability to
present material, or that impacts other students' ability to follow the lecture. The
instructor or the DGP reserves the right to remove any student(s) from the
classroom in this case.
If you need to be absent or have any issues related to inability to attend a lecture, please
let the instructor know the earliest you can. However, apart from university-allowed
exceptions, we normally will not waive the attendance requirement. For confirmed cases
of academic integrity violations, in addition to any university-mandated sanctions,
students may also have their registration in ECE 600 restricted or cancelled.
Classroom Rules
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No laptops, tablets or similar computing devices are allowed to be used during the
lectures: students will be told when to bring them for use.
Cell phones should be put in the silent mode during the lectures. Remember that
the room has been designed so all sounds are carried to the front, so be courteous
to the speakers and peers!
For Students with Disabilities
Reasonable accommodations will be made for students with verifiable disabilities. In
order to take advantage of available accommodations, students must register with
Disability Services for Students at the Student Health Center. Students must register with
Disability Services for Students at 1900 Student Health Center, Campus Box 7509, 5157653. http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/offices/affirm_action/dss/
For more information on NC State’s policy on working with students with disabilities,
please see http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/hat/current/appendix/appen_k.html
ECE Graduate Student Association
If you would like to participate or learn more about the ECE department Graduate
Student Association, check the web page (http://students.engr.ncsu.edu/ecegsa/ ) with
information about current and future graduate student events.
Instructional Objectives
This course aims to introduce students to the ECE Department in general, and specifically
to the ECE Graduate courses, resources that are available for graduate students from
computer and library services, courses materials, laboratories, and administration. As
most electrical and computer engineering students have minimal exposure to the
technical research groups and ECE graduate courses correlation before entering graduate
school, this course will provide the necessary background with department overview,
how to identify courses divided by technical areas, and apply the procedures of the NC
State University Graduate School and in particular the ECE Graduate Handbook for
completion of the plan of work studies.
Schedule for ECE600 Fall 2015 Hunt Auditorium, Room # 1103
Wednesday, 3:50-5:05
1st Week
Dr. Huaiyu Dai, Introduction Dr. Daniel Stancil (ECE Dept. Head), Dr.
Jason Rhode (CEO of Cirrus Logic), Department Overview and Welcome
Aug. 19
2nd Week Dr. Mike Devetsikiotis and Dr. Ginger Yu, (DGP) Graduate Program
Information Aug. 26
3rd Week Dr. Wes Snyder IEEE Ethics Sept. 2
4th Week
Mr. Greg Tourino Library resources Sept. 9
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Mr. Dan Green Introduction to Computing Facilities Sept. 16
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Dr. Dinesh Divakaran Intellectual Property and Patent Issues Sept. 23
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Dr. Mike Devetsikiotis (DGP): POWs and procedures Sept. 30
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Dr. Omer Oralkan/Dr. Alper Bozkurt Bioelectronics Engineering, Oct. 7
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Dr. Rhett Davis Electronic Circuits and Systems Oct. 14
5 Week
6 Week
7 Week
8 Week
9 Week
10th Week Dr. Alex Dean Computer Architecture and Systems Oct. 21
11th Week Dr. Mo-Yuen Chow Control Systems Oct. 28
12th Week Dr. Do-Young Eun Networking Systems Nov. 4
13th Week Dr. Mike Kudenov Nanoelectronics and Photonics Nov. 11
14th Week Dr. Edgar Lobaton Communications and Signal Processing Nov. 18
15th Week Thanksgiving
16th Week Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya Power Electronics and Systems Dec. 2