ECE 3991-001 Fall 2025 CE Junior Seminar

This course meets Mondays 3:00pm to 4:00pm in Warnock Engineering Building (WEB), Room 2230.

This course allows students pursuing the Computer Engineering degree to gain basic skills as well as perspective to succeed in their profession. The course material will be published via course Modules (one per week, roughly).

We will begin with tools for creating technical documents and later tips for effective writing. The bulk of the course will be seminars where experienced Computer Engineers will offer their words of wisdom. For further details, please see the schedule of talks (not all weeks have talks).

Work assigned to you will appear under Assignments. Generally, the assignments will consist of submitting a summary of a presentation that you heard. Other assignments will be to help build your background in the field.

Grading: The talks in this class are crucial to attendance. Roll will be taken each lecture by passing around a signup-sheet or through other means.

Missing lectures is not permitted, unless prior arrangements are made at least by the previous Thursday 5:00pm through a 1-1 Canvas Email request to the instructor. Instructions on how to make-up for the missed lectures will then be provided.

Unexpected absences (e.g., sickness) requires evidence of the event plus a discussion on makeup arrangements.

Office Hours: I will be able to meet you 1-1 through appointment (please email via Canvas). The best times are Monday afternoons.

Grading Scale : The best grade under these constraints:

> 0 = default grade lower than C- TBD

> 55 = C-

> 60 = C 

> 70 = C+

> 75 = B-

> 80 = B

> 83 = B+

> 85 = A-

> 88 = A