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Lecture 0: Introduction EEN 112: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Eric Rozier, 1/13/2013
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Welcome to EEN 112!
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Who am I? BS in Computer Science from William and Mary
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Who am I? BS in Computer Science from William and Mary Studied models of agricultural pests (flour beetles).
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Who am I? BS in Computer Science from William and Mary Studied models of agricultural pests (flour beetles). And load balancing of super computers.
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Who am I? First job – NASA Langley Research Center
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Who am I? First job – NASA Langley Research Center Researched problems in aeroacoustics
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Who am I? First job – NASA Langley Research Center Researched problems in aeroacoustics – Primarily on the XV-15
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Who am I? First job – NASA Langley Research Center Researched problems in aeroacoustics – Primarily on the XV-15 – Precursor to the better known V-22
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Who am I? PhD in CS/ECE from the University of Illinois
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Who am I? PhD in CS/ECE from the University of Illinois Studied non-linear dynamics of transactivation networks in economically important species…
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Who am I? PhD in CS/ECE from the University of Illinois Studied non-linear dynamics of transactivation networks in economically important species… aka corn…
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Who am I? PhD in CS/ECE from the University of Illinois Worked with the NCSA on problems in super computing, reliability, and big data.
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Who am I? PhD in CS/ECE from the University of Illinois Worked with the NCSA on problems in super computing, reliability, and big data. Research led to patented advances with IBM
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Who am I? Postdoctoral work at the Information Trust Institute – Worked on Blue Waters Super Computer
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Who am I? Assistant Professor at UM ECE
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Who am I? Assistant Professor at UM ECE – Head of the Trustworthy Systems Lab
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Introduction
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How to get in touch with me? Office – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Fifth Floor, Room 517 Contact Information – Email: e.rozier@miami.edue.rozier@miami.edu – Phone: 8-9752 Currently looking for motivated students – Research projects and papers
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Office Hours Office – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Fifth Floor, Room 517 DayHours Thursday10:00am – 11:30am Friday10:00am – 11:30am Or by appointment
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Enough about me! Why are you here?
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So what are the goals of this class? To help you understand the field electrical and computer engineering – Its past – Its present – Its future To introduce you to the fundamental ideas of our field To provide hands-on experience in the laboratory To discuss topics related to the broader field To introduce the process of research and design To build skills for collaborative work, problem solving, and communication
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Training Good Engineers EE and CE aren’t our only goals! – Critical Reading – Critical Reasoning Ask questions! Think through problems! Challenge assumptions!
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Active Learning After 2 weeks we tend to remember: – Passive learning 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we hear and see – Active learning 70% of what we say 90% of what we say and do
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Bloom’s Taxonomy Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Comprehension Knowledge
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Course Outline Monday 1/14Introduction 1/21Monday – MLK, no lecture. Continued Introduction 1/28 Systems Engineering 2/4 2/11 2/18 Signal Processing 2/25 3/4 3/11Spring Break 3/18Computer Engineering 3/25 4/1Electrical Engineering 4/8 4/15Course Wrap up and review
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WHAT IS ECE?
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What is Electrical and Computer Engineering? Break into groups…
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Some History 1750 – Benjamin Franklin and the lightning rod, realizes electricity as a fluid 1785 – Coulomb discovers electrical charges 1800 – Volta (re)invents the electric battery 1816 – Henry discovers inductance 1820 – Ampere discovers current-induced magnetism
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Some History 1827 – George Ohm quantifies the relationship between electric current and potential difference 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction 1837 – Morse invents the telegraph 1854 – Boole introduces the algebra of logical functions
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Some History 1873 – James Clark Maxwell published a unified theory of electricity and magnetism. 1876 – Bell invents the telephone 1877 – Edison invents the phonograph 1879 – Edison invents the incadescent lamp
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Some History 1882 – Edison switches on the first large-scale grid in NYC – Darmstadt University forms an EE department – MIT begins offering an EE specialization in physics 1886 – The University of Missouri opens the first EE department in the US
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Some mistakes along the way
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And also some wonders
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Some history 1888 – Henrich Hertz demonstrates the transmission of radio waves with a spark-gap transmitter 1897 – Karl Ferdinand Braun introduces the cathode ray tube 1904 – John Fleming invents the diode 1907 – Robert von Lieben and Lee De Forest invent the triode
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Some history 1920 – Albert Hull develops the magnetron 1936 – The invention of radar – Turing’s thesis on computation 1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3 a fully functional and programmable analog computer 1943 – Tommy Flowers designs the Colossus, the first digital computer 1946 – The ENIAC begins the era of computing
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The biggest break through… 1947 Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain invent the transistor
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So where are we now? ECE – As physics begat EE, EE has begotten CE. CS? – CS and ECE have a lot in common, in many places they are taught in unified departments. – CS differs in its background, typically pure CS departments are derived from Mathematics
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CS and CE What are the disciplines? – Computer Engineering? – Computer Science?
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What it isn’t "What would we like our children- the general public of the future—to learn about computer science in schools? We need to do away with the myth that computer science is about computers. Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools, it is about how we use them and what we find out when we do." -- Ian Parberry
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What it isn’t A confusion of even longer standing came from the fact that the unprepared included the electronic engineers that were supposed to design, build, and maintain the machines. The job was actually beyond the electronic technology of the day, and, as a result, the question of how to get and keep the physical equipment more or less in working condition became in the early days the all-overriding concern. As a result, the topic became —primarily in the USA— prematurely known as "computer science" —which, actually is like referring to surgery as "knife science"— and it was firmly implanted in people's minds that computing science is about machines and their peripheral equipment. -- Edsger Dijkstra
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What it really is Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. Computer scientists invent algorithmic processes that create, describe, and transform information and formulate suitable abstractions to model complex systems. Computer engineering is the process of analyzing, designing, and integrating the hardware and software systems needed for information processing or computation. Computer engineers are saddled with the difficult tasks of modeling, designing, and analyzing cyberphysical systems which solve interdisciplinary problems in a wide variety of domains.
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