The computer engineering faculty expects that students will:

• Watch the instructor presentations during lecture and laboratories.
• Take notes during presentations so that the material can be reviewed during study.
• Read the assigned textbook chapters. The reading supplements the instructor presentations and rounds your exposure to an engineering discipline that has matured over a century.
• Practice the course material by working textbook problems, assigned homeworks, and laboratory exercises. Practice reinforces the key concepts and helps form questions.
• Simulate example digital circuits using the classroom software. Simulation builds software skills, reinforces key concepts, and helps form questions.
• Question the instructor during lecture, laboratory, or office hours. Questions improve the learning process by helping learners remove doubts about classroom material.
• Submit all work by the due date. Learners build organization and professionalism by meeting due dates.

The computer engineering faculty will:

• Start class promptly and end on time.
• Post office hours on their door or the web.
• Attend posted office hours for student questions.
• Work examples of class material in every class.
• Integrate homework and laboratory exercises to help students practice the material.
• Return graded items within two lecture periods.
• Add comments to graded items to help students improve their work.
• Communicate clear expectations for student work.
• Communicate mid-quarter (midterm) grades to students at the end of week 5.

• Use your laptop computer in lecture for appropriate activities such as notetaking and classroom examples. assignments.
• Use your laptop computer during your study times to complete laboratory assignments, practice course material and simulate example circuits.
• Do not instant message, manage Facebook accounts, or play games during lecture or laboratory. These activities are important parts of modern life but distract other students around you. There are more appropriate times for these activities.

• Course activities include weekly homework, weekly laboratory exercises, weekly quizzes, and a comprehensive final exam.
• Homework is assigned on Friday of each week. It is due the following Wednesday by 5:00 p.m.
• Complete preliminary laboratory work before coming to lab. Students will be selected in random order to demonstrate their work. Late preliminary laboratory work will not be accepted without advanced notice and approval.
• Complete the weekly comprehensive quiz given during the first 15 minutes of each laboratory period. Unexcused absences will result in a 0% grade.
• Complete the comprehensive final exam given in week 11. Unexcused absences will result in a 0% grade.
• Request RCAS accomodations before the first quiz.
• Use calculators during quizzes to assist in number crunching.
• Do not use equation sheets or note sheets during quizzes or the final exams.
• Note that no mid-term exam will be given.
• Note that this table is subject to change. Some graded activites may be removed. No graded activities will be added. For example, you may only have 3 or 4 homework assignments. Or, you might only have 7 quizzes instead of 9. In all cases, the weightings will hold. In other words, your averages on all four components will be averaged to form your course grade.

FINAL GRADES

Item	Total Number	Quality Points Each	Item Points Possible
Homework Sets	9	10	90 points
Quizzes	9	10	90 points
Laboratories	9	10	90
Final Exam:	1	100	100
Total:			370

• Note that your lowest quiz, homework, and lab scores will not be dropped before calculating your final grade.
• Calculate your current grade during the quarter by summing the total points achieved so far and dividing by the total points possible so far.
• Calculate your final grade at the end of the quarter by summing the total points achieved and dividing by 300 total points.
• Use the official MSOE grading scale to determine your letter grade based on your course average.