Information Engineering @ St. Mark's School of Texas

Assignment Calendar 2004-2005

Instructor: Doug Rummel

1ST TRIMESTER 2004-05 (8/25/04-11/19/04)
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8/31/2004 9/1/2004Daily AssignmentRead Chapter 1.0-1.3 in the text. Do Exercises #1-18 on p. 21
8/31/2004 9/1/2004Daily Assignment Read Syllabus and get normal class materials.
9/1/2004 9/2/2004Daily Assignment Read "Intro to VAB" off web
9/1/2004 9/7/2004Daily Assignment "Breaking Through" Engineering Case Studies
9/1/2004 9/7/2004Daily Assignment Brief outline of "Breaking Through" website themes
9/2/2004 9/3/2004Daily Assignment Read "Paradise Lost" article
9/7/2004 9/8/2004Daily Assignment Top 20 engineering achievements of the 20th century
9/8/2004 9/9/2004Daily Assignment "Deep Dive" Design Process
9/9/2004 9/10/2004Daily Assignment "Deep Dive" Team Examples
9/10/2004 9/13/2004Daily Assignment Do Exercises 1.3 on p. 21,22 in book on notepaper or in an email
9/13/2004 9/14/2004Daily Assignment Do Exercises #18-29 on p.22; Read 1.4; Do Ex. #1b.
9/14/2004 9/16/2004Daily Assignment Read Ch. 2 from p. 33- 45.
9/15/2004 9/16/2004Daily Assignment Read p. 46- top of p. 54. Be ready to discuss Exercises 2.1 on p. 42
9/17/2004 9/20/2004Daily Assignment Read p. 55- 58. Do Exercises 2.2 #1-14
9/21/2004 9/22/2004Daily AssignmentReview p. 59- 69. Be able to plot and manipulate sinusoids on your TI-83 calculator.
9/22/2004 9/23/2004Daily AssignmentReview p. 70-80 in text. See section 2.3 exercises here.
9/27/2004 9/28/2004 Daily Assignment Read p. 81- 93 in book; Do Exercises 2.4
9/28/2004 9/30/2004 Daily Assignment Ch. 2 VAB's #2.1-2.7 done by end of Thursday
9/30/2004 10/1/2004 Daily Assignment Chapter 2 Outlines
10/6/2004 10/7/2004 Daily Assignment Chapter 2 finished being read; Spectrograms
10/7/2004 10/8/2004 Daily Assignment Finish Spectrogram Matching lab
10/8/2004 10/14/2004 Daily Assignment Ch. 2 Audio Objectives.
10/13/2004 10/30/2004 Daily Assignment BEST Competition Participation Grading
10/24/2004 10/28/2004 Daily Assignment Lab Grade- VAB analysis of motor sounds
10/27/2004 10/31/2004 Daily Assignment Dallas BEST competition Details
11/5/200411/13/2004 Daily Assignment Championship Week Expectations
2ND TRIMESTER (11/20/04-3/4/05)
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11/29/200411/30/2004Read the Audio packet. Look for these items.
11/29/200412/6/2004LaboratoryBuild a Basic Speaker- see details
12/6/200412/7/2004Daily AssignmentRead this IBM Research Paper on Sound in communications
12/10/200412/13/2004LaboratoryLabs at Home: Wave calculations
12/13/200412/14/2004Daily AssignmentStanding Waves reading
12/14/200412/15/2004Daily AssignmentResonating Chambers
12/15/200412/16/2004Daily AssignmentTank Circuits and Radio Receivers
1/3/20051/7/2005TestChapter 2 Test on Fri. 1-7
1/4/20051/5/2005Daily AssignmentLook over the Exercises in Ch.2
1/6/20051/6/2005TestPractical Audio Engineering Problem
1/10/20051/11/2005Daily AssignmentRead Ch. 3.1 (through p. 125). See rest here.
1/12/20051/13/2005Daily AssignmentRead Ch. 3.2. Do Exercises #1-12.
1/13/20051/14/2005Daily AssignmentRead 3.3 & 3.4. See Rest here
1/14/20051/18/2005Daily AssignmentRead Ch. 4.0 and part of Section 4.1 (p.181-189) in the book.
1/18/20051/19/2005Daily AssignmentRead Ch. 4.1 through p. 194; See rest here.
1/19/20051/21/2005Daily AssignmentSatellite imaging problem: a Quiz grade
1/20/20051/21/2005Daily AssignmentImaging Problem: Safer Kevlar vests
1/21/20051/24/2005Daily AssignmentPlease read the 3 page Imaging packet. See rest here.
1/24/20051/25/2005Daily AssignmentCMOS/CCD Imaging Tutorial
1/31/20052/1/2005Daily AssignmentVAB 4.8 finished. Motion Tracker VAB started.
2/1/20052/2/2005Daily AssignmentRead section 4.2 from p. 196-211.
2/2/20052/2/2005Daily AssignmentMotion Tacker VAB- "blob" detection refinement
2/2/20052/3/2005Daily AssignmentRead Section 4.3. See rest here.
2/3/20052/4/2005Daily AssignmentPlease read the "Meet the eye cam" packet.
2/7/20052/8/2005Daily AssignmentRead 4.4: Robotic Eyes
2/8/20052/9/2005Daily AssignmentMatrix graphics primer pdf
2/15/20052/16/2005Daily AssignmentMachine vision links
2/22/20052/23/2005Daily AssignmentTest prep links
2/23/20052/24/2005Daily AssignmentFinish Test Question #18 on the scanjam block diagram. Question has been emailed.
2/25/20052/28/2005Daily Assignment You can work on the Scanjam Camera VAB or on the XBC robot
3/2/20053/3/2005Read Ch. 5 through p. 263
3/3/20053/4/2005Read p. 268-273; 276-277;281-295
3rd TRIMESTER (3/08/05-5/30/05)
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3/8/2005 3/9/2005 Daily Assignment Ch. 5 Selected Exercises. See rest here.
3/15/2005 3/16/2005 Daily Assignment 2D FFT tutorials
3/17/2005 3/18/2005 Daily Assignment FFT filtering primer
3/29/2005 4/1/2005 Daily Assignment MIDI sequence controllers
3/30/2005 3/31/2005 Daily Assignment MIDI sequence command structures
4/5/2005 4/6/2005 Daily Assignment Next generation interfaces: Audio "clouds" give feedback on postional data
4/18/2005 4/19/2005 Daily Assignment MIDI hamster project
4/19/2005 4/20/2005 Daily Assignment Read Ch. 6.1- 6.3.
4/20/2005 4/21/2005 Daily Assignment Read 6.4 & 6.5. See rest here.
4/21/2005 4/22/2005 Daily Assignment Read 6.6 & 6.7. See rest here.
4/22/2005 4/25/2005 Daily Assignment Encryption work- Revised!!
4/25/2005 4/27/2005 Daily Assignment Communications & encryption using fiber optics
4/26/2005 4/27/2005 Daily Assignment Shannon's Information theory and public/private keys
4/27/2005 4/28/2005 Daily Assignment Read Chapter 7 through p. 378. See rest here.
4/28/2005 5/2/2005 Daily Assignment Read the remainder of Chapter 7. See rest here.
5/2/2005 5/3/2005 Daily Assignment Read 8.1 & 8.2. Take the Routers web tour
5/3/2005 5/4/2005 Daily Assignment Read 8.3- see rest here.
5/4/2005 5/5/2005 Daily Assignment 1st challenge on getting the Final Key.
5/12/2005 5/13/2005 Daily Assignment Choose an individual who fits all of the clues
5/13/2005 5/16/2005 Daily Assignment And the winner is...
5/23/2005 5/24/2005 Daily Assignment No IOn class, Monday, 5-23