<p>How can I sign on to SEASnet in the dorms? and access Matlab?
thanks!</p>
<p>Remote access</p>
<p>you have matlab? i have matlab class...</p>
<p>that class was full today by hkn. are matlab classes usually that full? ppl sit on the floor and hover the door. i didn't know matlab's that popular</p>
<p>more like we need it for class and most professors don't teach you how to use the tool.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's absolutely necessary for class to do programming projects. SOME smart department chairs decided to replace the MATLAB class with CS 31 .... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>So anyone following the '06 catalog and after is going to have to learn MATLAB on their own. It's not too bad, but there's still extra effort. Luckily, at least for MAE, it isn't used for much complicated cases, mostly just plotting data, designing, solving complex systems, and creating responses to simulation data.</p>
<p>Why don't they add a MATLAB course? Most classes require a project that has to be written using MATLAB, seriously.</p>
<p>i took a MATLAB course last year (without me knowing it was a MATLAB class). learned the ins-and-outs of MATLAB</p>
<p>CS170A</p>
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Why don't they add a MATLAB course? Most classes require a project that has to be written using MATLAB, seriously.
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<p>The school is trying to reduce the amount of units for the B.S, thus making it easier to achieve the degree in 4 years (and not more ... trying to get you out). They already have taken out a few classes from the curriculum in the '06 catalog.</p>
<p>That's why it was a dumb decision to replace MATLAB with C++. Although C++ is a tool used, there are some students of certain major who will hardly use it, and when they program, they will use MATLAB instead of C++.</p>
<p>Also, the school should cut down on repeat classes, where material in some introductory classes are somwhat similar to subsequent classes. They should also either move labs earlier in the undergraduate schedule, or later. Probably later (like 4BL) so people can learn the theory in classes before doing hands on work without knowing what's going on the lab.</p>
<p>I also have to say at least an experiment using breadboards should be taught in 4BL or another required lab. Or else people will take EE 110L and the professor will get mad when you set it up the circuit wrong ... or worse ... some groups will not know what a breadboard is and what it does .</p>
<p>Learning how to use a breadboard is not hard at all. It shouldn't take you more than a couple of minutes. If it does, then you should start packing your things and walk out of that lab.</p>
<p>we used breadboards in CSM152A/EEM116L</p>
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Learning how to use a breadboard is not hard at all. It shouldn't take you more than a couple of minutes. If it does, then you should start packing your things and walk out of that lab.
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<p>You're right, it just takes some snythesis and logic to figure out what to connect. But there's hardly any introduction to it in EE labs, the instructions say get a breadboard from the stock room and create this RC Circuit. They expect you to know how to connect , that resistors connected in the same row are in series .... non EEs who haven't done any club projects won't know ... there's just something flawed in the way UCLA teaches hands on stuff.</p>
<p>Same thing with o-scopes. In 4BL, people just watched the TA turn some knobs, switch the menu functions, and repeat what he/she does. Then write/copy long B.S reports from friends. </p>
<p>I think all labs should have a lecture beforehand to explain what is going on, and the theory behind it (like Chem 20L). Otherwise, people just know what to do (or maybe not some of the times) in certain situations and have no idea why or how it worked (technicians).</p>
<p>When I took EE 110L, the instructor gave a brief lecture before each lab. He didn't spend more than three minutes on the breadboard. Then again, I went to a CC so I took some vocational classes in electronics.</p>
<p>The oscilloscope is more difficult to master. I agree that UCLA should have more required labs like its CSU counterparts. Something I did for EE 110L was to go to another lab section and redo some of my labs so that I know what the hell I did.</p>
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Also, the school should cut down on repeat classes, where material in some introductory classes are somwhat similar to subsequent classes.
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<p>Suffering from this right now... EE101 is the same freaking class as EE1!!! Atleast for the first 5 weeks or so, but thats half the quarter! Sooo boring (EE1 was the same **** as Physics1B!!)</p>