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IMPORTANT(2025-11-02) This is a WORK IN PROGRESS, and not finalized.
We will use Ed as the 'one-stop shop' throughout the semester: for a Q&A forum and for official announcements.
Enrollment in Ed is mandatory. It is your responsibility to regularly check Ed for important announcements. Failure to do so may result in severe consequences for your ability to succeed in this course.
If you have questions about anything related to the course, please post them on Ed rather than emailing the instructor or TAs. Please do not post anything resembling a solution to a homework problem before it's due. If in doubt, you should make your post private (visible to instructors only). We always welcome any feedback on what we could be doing better.
To join the class Ed: after you have officially enrolled in the course and are added to the bCourses, you will be automatically added to the course Ed. If you are not able to access the Ed, please email the course instructors: ekim555@berkeley.edu.
All homework will be submitted through Gradescope, and all grades will be returned through Gradescope.
To join the class Gradescope: after you have officially enrolled in the course and are added to the bCourses, you will be automatically added to the course Gradescope. If you are not able to access the Gradescope, please email the course instructors: ekim555@berkeley.edu.
Lecture videos will be available from the bCourses site, under the "Media Gallery" section. We will not use bCourses for any other content.
Attendance for lectures/discussions will not be tracked, nor part of your grade. With that said, we encourage you to attend as much of the course in-person as possible (including attending the Zoom lectures "live"), as we believe consistent active engagement leads to positive outcomes in terms of learning and course grades.
There will be one midterm, and a final exam. Both exams will be on campus, in-person, paper and pencil, and proctored by course staff.
For the midterm, you are allowed one page (double sided) of notes. For the final exam, you are allowed two pages (double sided) of notes.
The midterm exam date will be: TBD. The final exam date will be: TBD.
We will grant alternate midterm and final exam times for only for extenuating circumstances.
Discussion worksheets are released the day before the first discussions of the week. The discussion sections will give you additional practice solving problems. You may attend whichever, as many, and as few discussion sections you like.
There are 4 homeworks for this class, which are released roughly 3 weeks at a time. You will submit your assignments on Gradescope. Grades will be released on Gradescope.
Doing the homeworks and reading the solutions is vital for your learning. You are expected to show your work and justify all of your answers.
Homework and projects will be graded by correctness, typically via Gradescope autograder. There will be unlimited autograder attempts allowed.
Homework late policy: homework assignments have a 24 hour late submission grace period, where students can submit up to 24 hours late without any deduction in points. However, after this 24 hour grace period, late submissions will not be accepted, and students will instead receive 0 points for the late (25+ hours) assignment).
Ethical behavior is an important part of being an engineer. It is a part of our responsibility to act ethically and honestly, and moreover, ethical behavior is what helps you learn best. Cheating is fundamentally dishonest and antisocial behavior. We have a zero-tolerance policy for cheating. Any unconfessed offense will result in negative points for the category that the offense occurs in, with no bound on how negative it can go, and a referral to the Center for Student Conduct.
You are not permitted to upload any of our problems, solutions, or your own solutions to our problems to any site that is accessible by other people. Use Ed to discuss content. The only limited exceptions to this are online communication mediums between you and the collaborating individuals explicitly listed on your homework assignment. Looking at online solutions from previous semesters or other students is forbidden, as is sharing of your solutions with others. Furthermore, students all have an affirmative duty to report possible cases of cheating or unauthorized communication to the course staff, immediately. Acknowledgement of and failure to report cheating implicates the bystander since this is academic misconduct. Cheating hurts us all and engineering ethics requires us to point out wrongdoing when we are aware of it.
You are encouraged to collaborate on homeworks with others; however, this collaboration must be limited to high-level discussion. All coding must be done on your own, and you should not discuss specific solutions or look at another’s code. Similarly, you may use books or online resources to help solve homework problems, but you must always credit all such sources and you must never copy material verbatim. You must explicitly acknowledge everyone whom you have worked with or who has given you any significant ideas about the homework.
The grading breakdown is as follows:
- Homework: 25%
- Final Project: 15%
- Midterm Exam: 20%
- Final Exam: 40%
Participation/attendance will not be graded or tracked for lectures/discussions.
Final course grades will be subject to a curve to meet university and departmental guidelines.