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Proof of Skills

Proof of skills is meant to prepare everyone to be able to complete the laboratory assignments that will comprise the bulk of the work this semester. These skills form the foundation of your work as an EE or CSE and as a student at RPI in general. Below you will find documents to guide you in obtaining these skills and keeping track of your progress.

Lab Documents

After Proof of Skills days, the main focus of the course is completing laboratories. There are three laboratories that focus on different aspects of the fundamentals of EE and CSE, which will teach you how to apply the concepts you have learned in lecture to hands-on projects. To demonstrate that you have mastered each of these concepts, you will have to submit a Proof of Concept, in which you will have to show consistent results between mathematical analysis, functional simulations and experimental measurements to prove that you have applied the concept correctly. An overview of Alpha Labs (more guided lab experiences) and Omega Explorations (open-ended lab experiences), along with lab-specific instructions are linked below. Documents for your project plan, proof of concepts, and omega explorations are also linked below.

Resources by Class Day

In this section you will find links to documents related to a particular class day, such as instructions for in-class activities or slides from a guest speaker. Slides and notes from lectures are posted in a Box folder, linked below (also linked on the main Intro to ECSE page):

Lecture Notes


Class 01 - Course Overview and Introduction
Class 02 - Outcomes, Goals, and Personal Goals, Proof of Skills: Professional Accountability and Development
Class 03 - Circuit Fundamentals I: Circuit Quantities
Class 04 - Circuit Fundamentals II: Nodes, Loops, Combining Resistors

Class 05 - Circuit Fundamentals III: Nodal Analysis
Class 06 - Alpha/Omega Lab Planning Day
Class 07 - Introduction to Proof of Concepts and Ethics Conversations
Class 08 - "Good Failure" and Lab Documentation Submission Requirements
Class 09 - Review of First Proof of Concepts Document
Class 10 - Quiz 1
Class 11 - Overview of Lab 02, Linear and Non-linear Devices. Proof of Skills: Lab 02
Class 12 - EE vs. CSE vs. CS, Plan of Study Review, and Operational Amplifier Basics
Class 13 - Operational Amplifier Circuits
Class 14 - Transfer Functions and Cascaded Op-amp Circuits
Class 15 - Filters I: Circuits in the Frequency Domain
Class 16 - Filters II: Frequency Response of 1st Order Circuits
Class 17 - Filters III: Frequency Response of 2nd Order Circuits
Class 18 - ECSE Guest Lecturer: Prof. Santiago Paternain: Feedback Control Systems
Class 19 - Quiz 2
Class 20 - Open Source IC Design Day 1
Class 21 - Open Source IC Design Day 2
Class 22 - Open Source IC Design Day 3
Class 23 - ECSE Guest Lecturer: Prof. Rich Radke: Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Class 24 - Lab 03 Part A: Image Processing
Class 25 - Lab 03 Part A: Image Processing
Class 26 - Lab 03 Part B: Machine Learning
Class 27 - ECSE Guest Lecturer: Prof. Ish Jain: Communication and Networking
Class 28 - Lab 03 Part C: Alpha Experiments/Omega Explorations