ESI
6321: Applied Probability Methods in Engineering
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Course Syllabus:
The goal of this course is to
apply probabilistic and statistical techniques to actual engineering
situations.
The emphasis is on
understanding how and when to apply certain techniques. This course should be
viewed
as a second elementary course
in probability and statistics.
Instructor:
Farid AitSahlia
Room 472, Weil Hall
Tel:
e-mail: farid@ise.ufl.edu
Office
Hours: Thursday, Period 9 (4:05 PM –
Teaching Assistant:
Valeriy Ryabchenko
Room 473, Weil Hall
Tel:
e-mail: valeriy@ufl.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and
Thursday, Period 4 (10:40 AM –
Textbook: Applied
Statistics and Probability for Engineers, by Douglas C. Montgomery and
George C. Runger, 4th edition.
Exam Schedule:
Exam
1: February 8
Exam 2: March 22
Exam 3: April 24
Final Grade Weights:
Average
Homework Score ---- 10%
Exam 1
------------------ 30%
Exam 2
------------------ 30%
Exam 3
------------------ 30%
Lecture slides:
Homework 2 (Due Tuesday, January 30):
2-91, 2-92,
2-94, 2-95, 2-97, 2-103, 2-104, 2-112
Homework 3 (Due Tuesday, February 6):
Read
Sections 3-4, 3-5, and 3-6;
Do exercises
3-15, 3-19, 3-20, 3-22, 3-23, 3-29, 3-32, 3-36, 3-48, 3-61, 3-79.
Homework 4 (Due Thursday, March 1):
Read Section
4-7;
Do exercises
3-114, 3-125, 4-30, 4-31, 4-56, 4-58, 4-68.
Chapter 4 (including Homework #4)
solutions
Homework 5 (Not graded – solutions provided below)
Suggested
exercises: 5-6, 5-12, 5-17, 5-24, 5-25
Solutions for
exercises in Section 5-1
Solutions for
exercises in Section 5-2
Homework 6 (Due Friday, April 20):
Section 8-2:
8-4, 8-5, 8-6, 8-7, 8-12, 8-36, 8-42, 8-47;
Section 9-1:
9-1, 9-4,9-20;
Section 9-2:
9-39, 9-56 (not need to compute P-value).