Day: Tuesdays
Time: 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Location: ESB 1003 (On the first floor of the Engineering Sciences Bldg.)
Enrollment Code: 66449
Description:
Engineers constantly use computers to solve design optimization
problems. Matlab is the standard computing tool in the engineering
curriculum. This seminar will use college football computer polls
to introduce students to the Matlab programming environment and convex
optimization problems readily solvable through Matlab. We will discuss
the mathematical ideas behind several popular computer football polls,
and implement them in Matlab as the 2008 major college season unfolds.
In addition, we will create novel computer polls based on our own
optimization criteria. A passing grade will be based on classroom
attendance together with generating and justifying a novel computer poll.
Professor Andrew Teel, Electrical & Computer Engineering, his research area is dynamical systems and control design. He teaches senior level linear control systems design, and he teaches graduate courses on nonlinear dynamical systems, nonlinear control, and hybrid systems and control.
Email: teel@ece.ucsb.edu
