Brian Gonzalez web site courses

Welcome to the lectures site!

The courses taught this Sprint 2016 are:

• Linear Systems

Looking beside you will find the page for every course.

For all courses, please remember:

• Learn Matlab as soon as possible, if you do not already know it (one way to do this is to start solving many of your homework problems with it).
• And for your write reports take into account the following:

Before you write, construct a detailed outline (often it is best to do it down to the paragraph level). Often, getting the logical organization established is half the battle of writing a clear document. very carefully about how to produce a concise (and short) document. It is more difficult to write a short document, but a short document that gets to the point is much more valuable (we have a serious problem with the information explosion - do not contribute to it).
Is often good to print out your first draft, get away from it for a little while, then return to the paper copy and edit it with a pencil, and put the resulting changes in. Practically speaking it is probably not good to use only electronic editing.
Use a spell-checker regularly (there are spell-checkers for word documents that ignore some grammatical facts).
Captions of figures go on the bottom of the figure, and captions for tables go on the top. Captions start with the first word with an initial capital letter, and the remainder of the words are not capitalized (unless, of course there is, e.g., an acroymn) and the end of the caption should have a period (this is IEEE style).
Figures and tables should be placed near the point they are first referenced. You should use an automatic referencing scheme so that if you later add more figures, it automatically numbers them, and refers to them properly. You should also use auto-numbering for equations, and refer to them via that number also. You should use a bibliographic database. Try not to use "first person" (never say "I", not good to say "we" although many people do).

Policy: Work entirely on your own for all assignments. Turn in your code for programming assignments. When working in team (for labs and projects), take into account that the final grade is equal for all team integrants. Consigns about presentation of labs and projects will be further given.

Good luck!

For visualisation of document files you should need a PDF viewer and a DJVU viewer. For the first one you can surf on the net in order to get a free one. A really nice djvu viewer is windjview, for the plugin click here. More? See here.