Welcome to 2nd-Year Computer Engineering

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Welcome to 2nd-YearComputer Engineering

• Professor Manoj Sachdev
• Department Chair
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University of Waterloo
• January 20th, 2009

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Welcome!

• Youve finished 1st year
• Only another
• 10 terms
• 32 courses
• 41 months
• 1263 days
• to Convocation!
• Welcome to ECE!

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Outline

• We will look at
• What is Computer Engineering?
• Your Department
• Undergraduate Web Site
• Your Program
• Your Responsibilities
• Your Opportunities

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What is Computer Engineering?

• Computer Engineers apply algorithmic and digital
  design principles to design, build, and test
  computer software or hardware components used for
  information processing, communication, and
  storagetypically embedded in larger engineered
  systems and in distributed, networked environments

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What is Computer Engineering?

• Computer Engineers apply algorithmic and digital
  design principles to design, build, and test
  computer software or hardware components used for
  information processing, communication, and
  storagetypically embedded in larger engineered
  systems and in distributed, networked environments

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What is Computer Engineering?

• Computer Engineers apply algorithmic and digital
  design principles to design, build, and test
  computer software or hardware components used for
  information processing, communication, and
  storagetypically embedded in larger engineered
  systems and in distributed, networked environments

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What is Computer Engineering?

• Computer Engineers apply algorithmic and digital
  design principles to design, build, and test
  computer software or hardware components used for
  information processing, communication, and
  storagetypically embedded in larger engineered
  systems and in distributed, networked environments

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What is Computer Engineering?

• Application areas include
• Communication
• Automation and robotics
• Power and energy
• Health care
• Business
• Security
• Entertainment
• And many more...

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What is Computer Engineering?

• By your choice of electives, you may specialize
  in the following broad domains
• Systems for communications, control, or power
• Digital hardware design and embedded computation
• Software systems and software engineering

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Your Department

• Your cohort is joining the ECE Department
• 1700 undergraduate students
• 500 graduate students
• 75 faculty

Prof. Manoj Sachdev Department Chair
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Your Department

• The University was founded in 1957
• First and Largest Co-op program in the world
• Electrical Engineering was one of five founding
  programs
• Computer Engineering introduced in 1985

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Your Department

• Waterloo has 25 000 students in 110 programs

Operations Research Pure Mathematics Software
Engineering Statistics Biochemistry Biology Biome
dical Sciences Biotechnology/Chartered
Accountancy Biotechnology/Economics Chemistry Comp
utational Science Earth Sciences Environmental
Sciences Honours Science Life Sciences Mathematica
l Physics Physical Sciences Physics Psychology Sci
ence and Aviation Science and Business Optometry P
harmacy Social Work

• Health Studies
• Kinesiology
• Recreation and Business
• Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Therapeutic Recreation
• Accounting and Financial Management
• Anthropology
• Arts and Business
• Classical Studies
• Computing and Financial Management
• Cultural Management
• Digital Arts Communication
• Drama
• Economics
• Literature
• Literature and Rhetoric
• Rhetoric and Professional Writing
• Fine Arts
• French Studies

Philosophy Political Science Psychology Religious
Studies Russian and East European
Studies Sexuality, Marriage, and Family
Studies Social Development Studies Sociology Spani
sh and Latin American Studies Speech
Communication Women's Studies Architecture Chemica
l Engineering Civil Engineering Computer
Engineering Electrical Engineering Environmental
Engineering Geological Engineering Management
Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics
Engineering Nanotechnology Engineering Software
Engineering
Honours Arts Human Resources Management Independen
t Studies Church Music and Worship Cognitive
Science East Asian Studies Environmental
Economics Fine and Performing Arts Human
Resources Management International Studies Jewish
Studies Legal Studies and Criminology Management
Studies Mennonite Studies Peace and
Conflict Studies in Spirituality and Personal
Development International Trade Italian
Studies Legal Studies Liberal Studies Medieval
Studies Music Peace and Conflict Studies
Systems Design Engineering Environment and
Business Environment and Resource
Studies Geography Geography and
Aviation Geomatics International
Development Knowledge Integration Planning Actuari
al Science Applied Mathematics Bioinformatics Busi
ness Administration and Mathematics Combinatorics
and Optimization Computational Mathematics Compute
r Science Computing and Financial
Management Mathematical Physics Mathematics Mathem
atics/Business Administration Mathematics/Chartere
d Accountancy Mathematics/Financial Analysis and
Risk Management Mathematics Teaching Option
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechatronics Engineering
Nanotechnology Engineering
Software Engineering
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Your Department

• Largest Faculty of Engineering in Canada
• 6 departments, one school, one centre
• 13 undergraduate programs
• Largest department on campus
• 7 of all undergrads
• 75 faculty members
• 20 of all graduate students

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Your Department

• ECE provides and nurtures leadership
• Last two Deans of Engineering
• Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
• Other current and former Associate Deans

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Your Department

• A premiere ECE department in Canada
• Excellence in teaching and research
• Very entrepreneurial
• 20 of all Canadian spin-offs
• Many spin-offs are from students
• 4th-year design projects

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Your Department

• We have a full Undergraduate Office

• Prof. Jim Barby, P.Eng.
• Associate Chair
• Undergraduate Studies

Prof. David Nairn, P.Eng. Academic
Advisor Computer Engineering
Douglas Wilhelm Harder, M.M. Academic
Advisor Electrical Engineering
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Your Department

• And an excellent support staff

• Vacant
• Supervisor Records and Communications
• Undergraduate Studies

Dawn Gosse Undergraduate Advisor/Co-ordinator Comp
uter Engineering
Irena Baltaduonis Undergraduate
Advisor/Co-ordinator Electrical Engineering
Deborah Perchaluk Receptionist
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Your Department

• For personal academic issues

Step 1. Read and search the ECE
Undergraduate Web site and the
Undergraduate Calendar
Step 3. Arrange an appointment with
your Academic Advisor
Step 2. Contact your Undergraduate
Advisor/Coordinator
ceuga_at_ece.uwaterloo.ca
ceaa_at_ece.uwaterloo.ca
All email must be from
UWUserID_at_engmail.uwaterloo.ca
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Your Department

• For your cohort issues
• Talk to your class representative
• They should take appropriate actions
• Numerous other resources available
• Engineering counselling
• Study Skills Centre
• Office for Persons with Disabilities

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Undergraduate Web Site

• After the UndergraduateCalendar, your
  primarysource of information
• http//ece.uwaterloo.ca/Undergrad/

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Become familiar withthis web site

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Following the left menu

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Undergraduate Web Site

• About Us gives overall information
• Welcomes from the Associate Chair
• Stories from previous students
• Contact information

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Most students here should not be too
  keenly interested
  in these pages

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Become familiar with this web site
• Degree requirements
• Program summary
• A Class of 2012 (4S) sequence term-by-term

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Here is the 2A site

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Undergraduate Web Site

• And a link to a full schedule

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Many issues relevant to students are here
• General resources includes
• Who Do I Talk To?
• When Things Go Wrong
• Enrollment
• Dropping Courses
• Forms

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Many issues relevant to students are here
• The Forms page is most relevant
• List of most forms
• Step-by-step instructions for filling in various
  forms
• Course Override Forms
• Plan Modification Forms
• Sequence Change Forms

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Many issues relevant to students are here
• Cohort issues
• Time tables
• Progression of all related programs

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Many issues relevant to students are here
• Includes program, course, and milestone
  requirements

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Many issues relevant to students are here
• Other issues
• Exchange
• Switching streams

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Undergraduate Web Site

• Some links related to Student Life
• On-campus organizations
• Engineering-related clubs

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Undergraduate Web Site

• And the Undergraduate Office
• Includes various coordinators
• Work-term reports
• 4th-year Design Projects
• International exchanges
• ECE 499 Project Course
• TPM

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Undergraduate Web Site

• The most important feature?
• The search box
• A question about a course in particular?
• Or a degree requirement?

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Undergraduate Web Site

• The next important feature?
• The site map
• Alphabetical
• Easily searchable

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Your Program

• Beginning with ECE 100 and four core mathematics
  courses, you will take
• Four Academic Terms of core courses
• Two Academic Terms of technical electives
• In your last year, you will do a 4th-year design
  project
• Your masterpiece and moment of glory

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Your Program

• Your core program is carefully designed
• You have exposure to all aspects of electrical
  engineering
• From your core, you may choose technical
  electives in one of many fields

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Your Program

• The 2nd digit in each course number indicates the
  field e.g., ECE 250
• A 5 refers to Computer Software and Software
  Engineering
• The 50s courses

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Your Program
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Your Program

• In just two years, you will take ECE 391
• The start of your 4th-year Design Project
• In 4A you will
• Develop
• Implement
• Test
• Demonstrate
• your project

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Your Program

• In January of each year, the 4th-year students
  present their design projects in the DC ...
• Plan to attend!
• Three years ago, those graduating students having
  the same pizza welcome you are having today
• Will move to March in 2010

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Your Program

• In 2012, this will be your moment of glory...

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Your Program

• TV, parents, professors, friends, etc. will be
  watching...

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Your Program

• You get to justify almost five years of study
• Most of these students started in 2003

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Your Program

• You will have fun!

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Your Program

• And in June of 2012, you will become
• The Graduating Class of 2012
• Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Your Responsibilities

• Engineering at Waterloo is an accredited program
• Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board
• Each and every course, milestone, elective, etc.
  you take satisfies some requirement of the CEAB

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Your Responsibilities

• You must clear all requirements to graduate
• No student will be permitted to graduate who
  does not meet these requirements because this
  would jeopardize accreditation for the program
• The Undergraduate Calendar

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Your Responsibilities

• You must clear
• Six more academic terms with 60 averages
• All core courses
• 5 Complementary Studies Electives
• 6 Technical Electives
• 2 Technical Breadth Electives
• The TPM
• 5 Co-op Work Placements
• 4 Work-term Reports (1B, 2B, 3A, 3B)
• 5 PDEng courses

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Your Responsibilities

• To this point, you have cleared
• The 1A and 1B Academic Terms
• At least one Co-op Work Placement
• WHMIS and ELPE
• Check Quest!
• You should clear failed courses as soon as
  possible!
• Through a supplemental examination (if you got 40
  or above), or
• Retaking the course or an equivalent course

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Your Responsibilities

• Your academic promotion responsibilities
• You may not carry more than two un-cleared failed
  courses at any time
• Includes work-term reports
• Does not include PDEng or other milestones
• You carry a full course load each academic term
• You must achieve a term average of 60 in each
  Academic Term

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Your Responsibilities

• We will communicate with you through your engmail
  account or UW-ACE
• Your responsibility to read these daily
• You must communicate with us through your engmail
  account

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Your Responsibilities

• You must watch your Quest account
• Keep your contact phone numbers and addresses
  up-to-date
• Read your Unofficial Undergraduate Transcript
  after each fully-graded date
• Watch for Service Indicators
• Looks like
• Click it to determine the problem!
• Links to a contact UWUserID

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Your Responsibilities

• All your ECE mid-term examinations will nominally
  be scheduled in the 2nd month of the term from
  now to 4B
• Do not ignore your other courses while preparing
  for mid-term examinations

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Your Responsibilities

• You must write all final examinations when
  scheduled
• Missing an exam is an academic offence
• Without a Verification of Illness Form or other
  suitable documentation, you will be Required to
  Withdraw from Engineering

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Your Responsibilities

• If you miss an examination
• You must contact your Academic Advisor and the
  instructor as soon as possible
• Before and by phone or e-mail
• Documentation must be at the ECE main office
  within 24 hours (unless hospitalized)
• You must be available the full exam period
• The Department may reschedule missed examinations
  at any time during the exam period

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Your Responsibilities

• Plagiarism will not be tolerated
• All cases will be reported to the Associate Dean
  of Undergraduate Studies
• Penalties
• 0 on project/lab/examination and -100 off of the
  final grade
• Four extra courses in ethics to be completed
  before graduation
• suspension
• expulsion

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Your Responsibilities

• Finally, it is your responsibility to read the
  Undergraduate Calendar
• Ignorance is not an excuse
• The relevant sections could be read in one
  afternoon

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Your Opportunities

• The Co-op Program
• Allows you to secure your future employment
  before you finish your studies
• Takes one year off your accreditation
• Some 4th-year design projects are patented
• All Intellectual Property (IP) remains in the
  hands of the students!!!

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Your Opportunities

• Other opportunities include
• Taking an option
• Management Science requires no extra courses
• Many other possible options
• Work with a professor
• URAs and USRAs
• Combined B.A.Sc.-M.A.Sc.
• Get a head start on your graduate studies
• Graduate studies at Waterloo
• M.A.Sc. M.Eng. Power M.Eng.

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Your Opportunities

• Join an engineering-related club
• ASIC Design Team
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
• Engineering Society
• Women in Engineering
• The Iron Warrior
• Midnight Sun Solar Race Car Team
• Engineers Without Borders
• Alternative-Fuels Team (UWAFT)
• Waterloo Aerial-Robotics Group (WARG)

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Your Opportunities

• Where are our grads?
• Many are here!

B.A.Sc.
M.A.Sc./Ph.D.
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Summary

• Welcome to ECE
• What is Electrical Engineering?
• Your Department
• Undergraduate Web Site
• Your Program
• Your Responsibilities
• Your Opportunities

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Questions and Answers

• Any Questions?