Administrative matters Instructors: Eytan Modiano Meeting times: Tuesdays and Thursdays Text: Communications Systems engineering Proakis and salehi Grading 10% weekly Homework Assignments 30% each of 3 exams Final exam during final exam period

Final exam Very good performance overall Essays were particularly good ·Mean-88.5%0 Standard deviation -5.7%

The mahalanobis distance in Character Recognition Authored by Dan Frey 31 July 98 This sheet explores the use of the Mahalanobis Distance in character It defines a letters a.b.c. and d It creates a population of distorted letters to train a classifier

Objectives Review the format and expectations for the final exam Review material needed to succeed on the final exam Set the material from the course in the context of the product realization process Answer questions

Final Project Questions Let's take up to an hour to Review progress answer questions Referencing sources in the term project Direct quotes-- Place in quotes or indent and cite source in footnote or reference

Term Project Final presentation Isual aids available on-campus Computer projection Document camera

Plan for the session Quiz on Constructing Orthogonal Arrays (10 minutes) Complete some advanced topics on oas Lecture on Computer Aided robust design Recitation on hw#5 Robust system design

Plan for the session Q Questions Complete some random topics Lecture on design of dynamic systems (Signal/Response Systems Recitation on hw#5? 16.881

Plan for the session Guest lecture by Eric Feron(1 hour) Quiz on Design of Dynamic Systems(15 minutes Review of reliability Improvement Case Study --Router Bit Life(35 minutes) 16.881

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