| Utah State University |
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| Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| ECE 6040 Convex Optimization - Fall 2017 |
| Course title | ECE 6040 Convex Optimization |
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| Instructor | Prof. Jake Gunther (jake.gunther@usu.edu) EL 149 |
| Office hours | TBD |
| Textbook | Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe, "Convex Optimization," Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
| Class time | 8:30 - 9:20 AM, Monday, Wednesday, Friday |
| Class location | EL 107 (ENLAB) |
| TA | TBD |
See chapter 1 of the textbook.
Students are expected to read and re-read the textbook. We will cover the entire textbook during the course of the semester. Students may be assigned sections of the textbook to present in class. These presentations should not be a regurgitation of the text. The presentations should be either a timely presentation on those ideas that are most important or an explanation of those concepts that are most difficult to understand.
Homework assignments will be given approximately weekly and will be posted on the class web page. These assignments will involve traditional pencil-paper work and may also involve some Matlab computer programming.
In the last third of the class, students will select a problem (related to their research) and develop numerical interior-point algorithms for solving their problem. Students will present their projects in class and turn in their code and a final report.
Questions on exams may be taken from material covered in lectures, homework assignments, computer assignments, the textbook, or supplementary materiasl provided to students.
Students who miss lectures are responsible to find out what they missed from their classmates. The instructor will not repeat the lecture during office hours.
Assignments will not be accepted late without prior instructor permission.
Don't do it! Everything you turn in must represent your own thinking and work. The instructor reserves the right to fail any student who can be justifiably be accused of cheating.
The following is taken from the USU Academic Honesty and Integrity Policy.
Each student agrees to the following Honor Pledge: “I pledge, on my honor, to conduct myself with the foremost level of academic integrity.” Violations of the Academic Integrity Standard (academic violations) include, but are not limited to: Cheating: (1) using or attempting to use or providing others with any unauthorized assistance in taking quizzes, tests, examinations, or in any other academic exercise or activity, including working in a group when the instructor has designated that the quiz, test, examination, or any other academic exercise or activity be done “individually”; (2) depending on the aid of sources beyond those authorized by the instructor in writing papers, preparing reports, solving problems, or carrying out other assignments; (3) substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for oneself, in taking an examination or preparing academic work; (4) acquiring tests or other academic material belonging to a faculty member, staff member, or another student without express permission; (5) continuing to write after time has been called on a quiz, test, examination, or any other academic exercise or activity; (6) submitting substantially the same work for credit in more than one class, except with prior approval of the instructor; or (7) engaging in any form of research fraud. Falsification: altering or fabricating any information or citation in an academic exercise or activity. Plagiarism: representing, by paraphrase or direct quotation, the published or unpublished work of another person as one’s own in any academic exercise or activity without full and clear acknowledgment. It also includes using materials prepared by another person or by an agency engaged in the sale of term papers or other academic materials.
In cooperation with the Disability Resource Center, reasonable accommodation will be provided for qualified students with disabilities. Please meet with the instructor during the first week of class to make arrangements. Alternate format print materials (large print, audio, diskette or Braille) will be available through the Disability Resource Center.
In the Fall semester of 2011, USU's Office of Analysis, Assessment and Accreditation (AAA) launched a new course evaluation system called IDEA. This system attempts to evaluate student progress on specific learning objectives selected by the instructor from the predefined list of twelve objectives listed below. I have selected the first three objectives for this course (highlighted in blue).
Three weeks before the end of the semester you will be sent a personal e-mail from the IDEA syste with a link to an on-line evlauation form with these questions. My goal is for students to make "exceptional progress" and "outstanding gains" in the three highlighted areas as they apply to communication systems.
This class is designed to help students (1) gain factual knowledge and (2) learn fundamental principles, generalizations and theories. Implmenting communication systems in the computer assignments is designed to help students (3) apply course materials.
The electrical engineering program in the ECE department periodically seeks re-accreditation by ABET. As part of the accreditation process, each course in the program is built around a few fundamental course outcomes. Course outcomes are narrow statements that describe what students should know or be able to do by the end of the course. The course outcomes for this course are listed below.