MAE 143B: LINEAR CONTROL

Homework Guidelines

 

1.                  Each assignment will include around 10 problems. Only 5 of them (selected by the instructor) will be graded.

 

2.                  Each problem MUST begin on a new page and should include the following:

 

(a)   A brief statement of the problem including any necessary given information or assumptions you decide to make

(b)   Figures

(c)   Mathematical analysis

(d)   EXPLANATION

(e)   Your final answer with a box drawn around it.  This is essential.

 

3.                  Be sure to show your work on all homework problems; the answer alone is never responsive, and points will be deducted if important steps are missing from your development. Make liberal use of carefully drawn and labeled diagrams in your homework. Since significant partial work is usually given some credit on homework, it is a sound strategy to hand in what you can do on each homework problem. 

 

4.                  Homework should be presented on clean paper (8.5 x 11 inches) in a professional manner meaning neat and legible.  Work handed in with excessive scratch marks and/or arrows will not be graded.

 

5.                  No homework will be accepted late (homework is due in class on due dates before class begins).  A late entrance into the class does not provide an excuse for handing homework in late. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS DURING THE LECTURE. THESE WILL NOT BE GRADED.

 

6.                  Assignments will be announced in class, typically one week before the due date. Check the course schedule for homework due dates.

 

7.                  Homework will be returned to you within a week.  Regrades on homework will be considered for a week after that homework is returned to you.

 

8.                  Please discuss problems concerning grading of homework with your TA before you come to the instructor. The instructor will only entertain discussion on homework grades after the TA has had an opportunity to discuss your problems with you and has marked out his decision.

 

9.                  Be sure that your name and student ID number are at the top of every page.   Also, PRINT your name in block letters, LAST NAME FIRST.

 

10.             It must be your own work! Cases of copying, cheating and fraud will be treated as ACADEMIC DISHONESTY. You can talk with other students, but you must then do the problem yourself.