The University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Electrical Engineering
EE 2347 Computer Methods for Electrical Engineering

Fall 2009

Oct 30th 2009. Motivational event: participation in a charity evening with Buzz Aldrin to promote science education and space exploration.


Buzz Aldrin, July 20th, 1969 on the surface of the Moon.	More than 40 years after Buzz Aldrin's Moon Walk , I am interviewing him at Adolphus Hotel in Dallas on the future of nuclear propulsion in near-future astronautics (project Orion), on the Mars exploration and other "life-motivating" ideas. We may talk about in the class.

Specific ideas relating these photos to our EE2347 course: Success of the Apollo's navigational system is due to "cutting edge" numerical methods of radio guidance using Kalman filters (elaborated Taylor time extrapolation {Projects 7 and 8}).

EE2347 course will make you famous!!! Nice promotional effort of team 5.

Instructor: Dr. Nikolai Stelmakh ( http://www.uta.edu/faculty/nstelmakh ) if you write an e-mail to me please make sure to put "ee2347" in the subject line.

TA001: Sheldon Fernandes sheldon.fernandes@mavs.uta.edu Office hours: T and Th from 2:00PM to 5:00PM, IEEE Mentoring Office

TA002: Dhatchaini Rajendran dhatchaini.rajendran@mavs.uta.edu Office hours: M and W from 10:00AM to 1:00PM, IEEE Mentoring Office

For office hours you can go to any TA who is the most convinient for you. For HW grading questions you have to relate to TA of your section.

Updated syllabus: EE2347syllabus

W1 Lecture notes: L1 Aug 25th (ml exmpl, mat exmpl, sound file), L2 Aug 27th (sfrCtoA prog, CtoA sound), HW1 assignment, HW1Sol

W2 Lecture notes: L3 Sept 1st (final peak detection program, sound, excel output), L4 Sept 3rd (PD3_L4, L4, fit), HW2 assignment, HW2Sol

Extra material W2: Physics of a Jumping Ball or why a relation between the jump period and time is linear, Mathematica program to solve system of equations for momentums and energy of a ball.

W3 Lecture notes: L5 Sept 8th (max, min, means, peaks, fpeaks, ratiocal, avdata, ACDC), L6 Sept 10th (dcacsep, dcav, acav, rms) , HW3 assignment, HW3Sol

W4 Lecture notes: L7 Sept 15th (simgen, ttongen, sndload, sndloadA) , L8 Sept 17th, HW4 assignment, HW4Sol

Additional readings for this week : B.P. Lathi: "Linear systems and signals", Chapters About Fourier Transforms, 2e, Oxford ,2005.

W5 Lecture notes: L9 Sept 22^nd (mathematica file, maxnum, minnum), L10 Sept 24^th(cumulativeE, totalE, DecToBin), HW5 assignment, HW5Sol

W6 Lecture notes L11 Sept 29th (linnn, linnnR), L12 Oct 1st (linPow, PolFit, GaussFit), HW6 assignment*

W7 Lecture notes L13 (Q1) Oct 6^th, (Pop-up eval quiz Sol), L14 Oct 8^th, (incr, bisec, falpos), HW7 assignment, HW7Sol

W8 Lecture notes L15 (RQ1) Oct 13th (P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6.4), L16 Oct 15th (open methods), HW8 assignment, HW8Sol

W9 Review Oct20th, Midterm Oct 22nd MidTerm Solutions

W10 Lecture notes L17 Oct 27th (sounds: FMmod, LFMod, SWmod), EqSol L18 Oct 29th (Doppler project: set , 10k , rec, anprog), HW10 assignment

W11Lecture notes L19 Nov 3rd (GauEl), Lecture L20, (examples lens, unitary, pivot), HW11 assignment

W12 Lecture notes L21 Nov 10th (GS1), Lecture L22 Nov 12th (trapez), HW12 assignment

W13 Lecture notes L23 Nov 17^th (Derivations, Simp1p3, Simp3p8), Lecture L24, (Euler), Project Presentation Example, (Pr1, Pr2, Pr3, Pr4) Nov 19th

W14 Project defense
W15 Review 3 Dec 1st Review 4 Dec 3rd
W16 Final exam Tuesday Dec 8th

Important message: HW12 is due by review R4 Thursday Dec 3rd 2009.
Monday 23rd after you complete your check with TAs, I will post the schedule presentation

MATLAB useful links: - A practical introduction to MATLAB MatLab operators you must know: list (check if you know them all )

Assigned project list for Fall 2009 (section 001 and section 002) Loudspeaker 1 Suggestion: Measurement of Transfer function of a Loudspeaker Roso, Michael David 001 Quinn, Samuel 0001 Fannin, Alexander 001 Leffingwell, Todd Daniel 001 Carter, Danielle 001

FFT 2D: Manipulation of images using 2D FFT: Noise removal from images, Onyekere, Obinna Charles 002 Ndouba, Kablan D 002 Naqvi, Munajj M 002 Bampende, David 002 Dejene, Ashenafi Zerihun 002

Speed from Audio recording 1: Suggestion: Speed of a car from Audio recording 1 Gallagher Jr, Brian Francis 002 Qurashi, Mohammad 002 Hussein, Marwan N 002 Singh, Nona 002 Chinaka, Ugo Michael 002

Speed from Audio recording 2: Suggestion: Slow Speed measurements using Acoustic Doppler Effect Ionita, Mihai 002 Kang, Jonathan 002 Huynh, Thomas 002 Islam,Tasriqul 001 Khan, Md Rezaur Rahman 002

Speed from Audio recording 3: Numerical methods: Fast Fourier Transform: Evaluation of speed and air drag of a soccer ball using Acoustic Doppler Effect

Speed from Audio recording 5: “Measurement of the new-generation baseball bat speed using acoustic Doppler effect”

Allen, Oliver Daniel 002 Mathew, Dennis T 002 Maynard, Joseph 002 Quisenberry, Amanda Irene 002

Extrapolation 2: Suggestion: Temporal extrapolation Luong, Danny 002 Riggle, Cody J 002

Triangulation Seo, Joosuk 001 Bui, Cong N 001 Leal, Armando 001 Oseng, Matthew Lee 001 Guerrero, Michael 001

Lens tracing of optical systems Venegas, Lorenia S 001 Mojsak, Patrick S 001 Tello, Erika 001 Omololu Akimrodoye 001

Dual tone Multi frequency (DTMF), Tamrakar, Sandeep 002 Tripathee, Janak Raj 001 Kafle, Baikuntha Raj 001 Kaphle, Shashanka 001 Pandey, Anuja 001

Calculation of the observation coordinates of any sky object by cataloged celestial coordinates Hackett, Erik John 001 Acree, Andrew G 001 Fatka, Cody D 001

James Andrew Reed James Nguyen, Oluwaseyi Allen, Joseph Hearron, "The intonation of an instrument". Abstract: "The intonation of an instrument based upon an algorithm that checks the change in the intonation with one full turn of the tuning screw. Then take that value and plug it into the main program to determine how far to turn the tuning screw to get the perfect intonation." presentation, program

Jessica Harris, Robert Schafer, Aaron Nunnally, Jason Gonzales, "Study of probabilities. Dice, poker, jackpot..( I am OK if it is not related to gambling, but could you come up with more practical examples?): Probability of a tornado passing through your lot , etc. Abstract: "The name of our project will be Blackjack Helper. The summary of this is a blackjack player can use this program to find out how they can bet (if they want), and whether they should hit or stand. All of this will be based on statistics. The user will type in the type of cards they are given as well as the dealer's top card." presentation, program

Justry Weir, Samuel Simmons, Eduardo T Moya, Abubakr Mohamed, "Phone number from audio recording in noisy enviroment. Abstract: Analyze a sound file including a number dialed and noise. Fast Fourier will be used to pick out the specific frequencies corresponding to each unique dial tone which will in turn eliminate noise. The number can then be found and a frequency spectrum will be created for a visual representation of the analysis." After a discussion of today with one of the team members I found some good links: number encoding by two-tone combinations: click here :optimum detection algorithms: FFT or Goertzel algorithm. presentation

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