Instructor
Michael Gastpar
(gastpar at eecs dot berkeley dot edu)
OH: Mondays, 11-12, in 258 Cory Hall
OH: Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30, in 258 Cory Hall
GSI
Mark Johnson
(markgsi at gmail dot com)
OH: Wednesdays, 1-2, in 197 Cory Hall

Wei Wang
(weigsi at gmail dot com)
OH: Fridays, 1-2, in 197 Cory Hall
Lecture
Mondays and Wednesdays, 2-4, 4 Leconte Hall
Section
Section 101: Mondays, 12-1, 293 Cory Hall
Section 102: Wednesdays, 9-10, 293 Cory Hall
Section 103: Thursdays, 4-5, 293 Cory Hall
Section 104: Fridays, 10-11, 293 Cory Hall
Note: You may attend any of the sections
Newsgroup
EE 120 Newsgroup
Announcements
12/22/05: Happy Holidays! It's been a pleasure teaching all of you.
12/22/05: Final Exam Historam
12/12/05: GSI Office Hours schedule for this week is as follows. Mark: Wed. 1-2, and Thurs. 3-4. Wei: Fri. 10-11, and Fri. 1-2. (All of these OH will be in room 197 Cory.)
12/11/05: Prof Gastpar will hold his regularly scheduled office hours on Monday and Tuesday this week.
12/09/05: Review session locations. The review session on Wednesday (8 - 10 PM) will be in 120 Latimer. The review session on Thursday (10 AM - noon) will be in 141 Giannini.
12/08/05: The sample final exam is now available on the "Exams" page. THE SOLUTIONS TO THIS SAMPLE EXAM WILL NOT BE POSTED. Please come to one of the two review sessions if you want to see how to solve the problems.
12/07/05:

Final Exam Note Sheets and Tables.

At the final exam, you will receive a copy of the following pdf file of tables, and also a photocopy of Table 10.3 in the OWN textbook. You are also allowed to bring three (3) double-sided, handwritten (not photocopied) sheets of notes (8 1/2 x 11 paper).
12/07/05: The final is scheduled for Saturday, December 17, at 5 - 8 PM, in the Bechtel auditorium.
12/06/05: There will be two review sessions for the final: Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 8 - 10 PM, and Thursday, Dec. 15, at 10 AM - 12 noon. We will cover the same sample problems at both sessions. Locations will be posted soon.
11/26/05: An errata for the OWN textbook is located here. (This contains the typo in Table 9.1, among other things.)
11/24/05: In some versions of the textbook, the Initial and Final Value Theorems in Table 9.1 contain typos. (You might see an obvious error in the subscript of the limit.) Please check Table 9.1 against Equations 9.110 and 9.111 on page 690.
10/12/05: Prof. Gastpar will be using the following Grading Guidelines to assign letter grades at the end of the semester.
Course Information
One of the key abilities of an engineer is system-level thinking. Taking EECS 120 will help you develop this skill. In particular, you will see how the math and physics you have learned in other courses help you understand rather complex systems that occur in engineering and computer science (with applications to communication systems, biomedical imaging, control, and robotics), but also in other disciplines such as neuroscience. The knowledge and skills that you will acquire in EECS 120 are at the heart of an entire series of senior-level and graduate classes, including 121, 123, 125, 128, 192, 221A, 224, and 226A. EECS 126 (Probability and Random Processes) is not required for this course and gives a complementary set of tools needed for advanced material, especially in the areas of communications and signal processing. We assume that you have familiarity with lower division physics and circuits since these are the source of many examples.
Prerequisites: EE 20, Math 53 and 54.
Course information sheet
Course Textbooks
A. V. Oppenheim and A. V. Willsky with S. H. Nawab, Signals and Systems. Prentice Hall, 1997. Second Edition. (Make sure you get the second edition!) (errata)
E. A. Lee and P. Varaiya, Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems. Addison-Wesley, 2003. (errata)
Related Links
Grading Guidelines for Undergraduate Courses
EE 120 Webpages from Previous Semesters
EECS Instructional Unix Accounts
EECS Instructional Labs
Information on Accessing the Newsgroup
EECS Dept. Policy on Academic Dishonesty