ECE431 labs

Labs will mostly be done as take-home assignments, but the lab rooms are available, with prior arrangements of at least one teaching assistant.

LaTeX is the preferred format for writing reports, etc., and it will be very useful to learn it if you're going to write a thesis or publish a scientific paper in the future. Here is a link to a website where anyone can publish scientific papers: Why use TeX (LaTeX)?

lab1: Learning Octave, what's a signal; what's noise (signal avgeraging).
The schedule is as follows:

PRA 01 1   Tue     15:00   18:00   BA3114      Sep 27
PRA 02 1   Mon     15:00   18:00   BA3114      Sep 19
PRA 03 1   Fri     15:00   18:00   BA3114      Sep 23
PRA 04 1   Fri     15:00   18:00   BA3114      Sep 30

Labs can be completed in groups of no more than two students. The lab mark is based on a lab report. Each group may submit a single report. The hard copy of the lab report must be handed in for grading by Friday, Oct 7, for all, regardless of official lab section.

Octave should be on all the ECF computers. If you're having trouble with imread.m (e.g. if you're having trouble with popen), here's a version modified to make a system call and use temp file temp.pnm. Octave is preferred to be used for the labs, however, Matlab is also allowed.

LIFE LIBERTY & the PURSUIT of SCIENCE: The nice thing about open science, such as Octave, is that you can easily "stand on the shoulders of giants" and extend or modify its functionality. If your install of Octave is not done right, you may have trouble with imread, etc., in which case you can easily write your own. Also, to save images, it's easy to write a short script; here's a quick example written in a few minutes after class.