It’s All Over But the Crying…

…and there will be plenty of crying.  Grading is going slower than usual this semester, but I’m almost done. (more…)

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Plagiarism and the Art of the Email

Desiree doesn’t think my Signals and Systems class is humerous enough, since my humor section is so small.  That isn’t true, but what goes on in Signals and Systems pales in comparison to what happens in my graduate Project Management course at times.  The big problem is plagiarism. 
Many students don’t see a problem with copying [...]

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Using the Tablets

I finally got the tablet PCs working in the classroom.  We use two access points connected by a small network switch.  That, however, only seems to cover about 15 or 16 computers.  The 17th seems to need to be on the campus network.  I’m wondering what the actual capacity of an access point is. 
In the [...]

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Virtual Lecture

I’ve begun to record lectures for my Signals and Systems class using Lecturescribe.  Lecturescribe is a free program that works with the Tablet PC to create flash lectures.  I can record audio and write on an electronic whiteboard to cover material.  The production quality isn’t great, (partly me, partly the program being cumbersome), but for [...]

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Why Do Engineers Prefer Laplace

It is interesting to see how people come to this blog. One of the things I can see is what search terms brought them to this blog. The title of this post is a search term that brought someone to my blog.
So, to whoever is wondering, here goes:

The Laplace transform is an easy way of [...]

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Signals and Systems

The first of the classes I will be teaching. I teach this class in the fall.
This class is one of the cornerstone junior year Electrical Engineering courses, and is a difficult one conceptually. Students have a difficult time thinking in terms of time versus frequency domains, and moving between the domains. We teach the Fourier [...]

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