Archived-Announcements-2014

Prior announcements -- from most recent to earliest

• 24 Jan: grades for all tutorials and Quests are now uploaded to Avenue. Please sign in to verify they match your expectations.

• 22 Jan: A new Quest has been posted. Check your McMaster email addresses for a sign in code. It closes by Friday, at 14:15.
• 21 Jan: just to emphasize again, because I've had emails about this topic, that if you need to review the 3E4 material, please see the tutorial I have posted last week. It contains all the tools you need to solve the simulations in the assignment.
• 19 Jan: the next assignment has been posted. It is due on 27 January. We will work on these topics during the week, and in tutorial. One person in your group should bring a laptop with MATLAB to tutorial to gain maximum benefit from that time.
• 17 Jan: Grades for the second tutorial and the first Quest are posted on Avenue. To see the full solutions to Quests, simply sign in anytime after the cut-off time. Have a good weekend!
• 16 Jan: The bookstore has more copies of the prescribed textbook in stock.
• 15 Jan: the first weekly quiz has been emailed to your McMaster email. If you didn't receive the email it is because you are not on my registration list for the course. Each quiz counts approximately 1% of your grade. You have until 2pm on Friday to complete it (I've extended the time).
• 13 Jan: a short software tutorial on ODEs in MATLAB. This is what you just covered in 3E4 a few weeks ago, and we will use it in tutorials all the time. Ask questions in tutorial to make sure you get it to work and that you understand what the code does.
• 10 Jan: grades for the first tutorial are posted on Avenue now.
• 09 Jan: please make sure you can see the 3P4 course in Avenue if not, please do a search for the course and add it. If I can't see your name over there, then you are not on my class list, and will be missing out on the on-line quizzes (and grades for them).
• 10 Jan: get a head start for next week: we will be looking at dynamic models.
• 09 Jan: a new handout is posted for Friday's class and assignment 1 is posted (due on 20 Jan).
• 09 Jan: please make sure you can see the 3P4 course in Avenue if not, please do a search for the course and add it. If I can't see your name over there, then you are not on my class list, and will be missing out on the on-line quizzes (and grades for them).
• 08 Jan: your TA, Mudassir, has found an interesting Wall Street Journal article on an emerging trend in process monitoring. Here's the article in PDF (updated link).
• 08 Jan: the classes on 8 and 10 January carry some of the most important new material for this course. Please make sure you catch up by (re)watching the videos.
• 07 Jan: a short handout is posted. Print and bring to class on Wednesday morning.
• 06 Jan: the midterm dates are below. Midterms will start at 18:30.

• Thursday, 06 February
• Thursday, 13 March

• 31 Dec: stay up to date with everything related to 3P4: follow our Twitter account @3p4control.
• 31 Dec: Please read the course outline before the first class.
• 31 Dec: We get going right away ... the first class is on Monday, 06 January. There will also be a graded tutorial on Monday day for the half of the class that has tutorials that day.