Experiential Learning "Active" learning opportunities

This page collects together all of the “experiences” associated with individual modules.

The experiences sometimes give you a different perspective on the material than lectures and problems. Sometimes they take you beyond the course syllabus. Not all are mandatory, I will indicate which ones are.

Module: Introduction to EE 342

Other resources

YouTube

Module: Sets, Logic and Functions

Logicomix*

A graphic novel

Cantor Set*

Bizzare sets and many sizes of infinity

Cartesian Products

Problems in class

Indicator Functions

Problems in class

Module: Probability Space

Countability and Uncountability*

Cantor’s Diagonalization Argument

Sets of real numbers with no length*

Does NOT mean zero length

Lectures

Setup of a Probability Space

Coin Tosses

Problems in class

Communication channels

Problems in class

Quicksort

Problems in class

Machine learning: classification

Problems in class

Module: Conditional Probabilities and Independence

Prosecutor's Fallacy

Law, Fairy Tales, Overzealous bureaucrats

Simpson's Paradox

A famous lawsuit that never happened

Module: Random Variables

Measurable functions

Not all functions are random variables

Module: Bernoulli and Friends

Python Illustration

Illustration of the Bernoulli Family

Problems in Class

Illustration of the Bernoulli Family

Module: Geometric and Poisson

Problems in Class

Geometric and Poisson random variables

Module: Continuous Random Variables: Exponential

Problems in Class

Continuous RV: exponentials

Module: Conditional Expectation

Problems in Class

CHANGE ME

Module: Gaussians

The Central Limit Theorem

Simulate the Central Limit Theorem

Tour of applications

Some common application contexts for Gaussians