COURSE INFORMATION:

ESI 4933,6933- Spring 2013, Engineering Analytics I, 3 cr.

LOGISTICS: Spring, T 6:20-9:05, ENC1002, On-Site Lecture/Recitation

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION: Professor- Peter J. Fabri MD, PhD, MDC-1120A (medical school office), officer hours in ENC1207 are available upon request as there is a scheduled recitation session to review material each week. Phone 813-974-4790. Email: pfabri@health.usf.edu. Dept- IMSE, College of Engineering. Contact professor directly by e-mail or phone message.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a 3 credit hour course offered to upper division undergraduate and graduate students. Students from other engineering disciplines may take this elective with advanced permission of the professor. Prerequisites include calculus, linear algebra, engineering statistics, linear programming, design of experiments. If some prerequisites have not been taken yet, approval must be obtained for the course. Blackboard will be used to post course materials, provide course communications, submit homework and examinations. Elluminate will be used for synchronous teletransmission as well as archiving. Software used is either freeware (R, RExcel) or available through USF (apps.usf.edu).

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering 2. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems 3. Ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
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STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:

For Objective 1) Articulate principles and describe methods, and demonstrate use of statistical methods to model analytics problem as measured by written examinations. For Objective 2) Demonstrate the use advanced computer software to understand, visualize, analyze, and interpret large datasets and to develop analytical approaches to solve engineering problems. This will be measured by performance in graded projects.

For Objective 3) Demonstrate the ability to explain interrelationships in data to individuals who are not expert in analytics. This will be measured from answers to relevant questions using free text in written examinations.

READINGS: An Introduction to Data Mining, by Tan, Steinbach, Kumar. Addison-Wesley, Boston. Supplementary Texts These are available electronically at the USF library website 1. The Elements of Statistical Learning. Hastie T, Tibshirani R, Friedman J. Springer 2009 2. Statistics: An Introduction Using R. Crawley, MJ Wiley 2011 3. Introductory Statistics with R. Daalgard, P. Springer 2008 4. The R Book. Crawley, MJ. Wiley 2007 Required software includes Advanced Excel, R, R-Excel, MiniTab. R and R-Excel are freeware and will already be loaded on classroom computers. The other software is already present and available at apps.usf.edu.

GRADING POLICY: Grades will be based on students performance on:

Two Exams 25%,30% (Exam dates are March 13th and April 23rd) Three Case Studies 15% each Points will be deducted for each missing homework (-5) and late homework (-3). The following grading scale will be used 97 to 100% 86 to 89% 76 to 79% 66 to 69% Below 60% A+ B+ C+ D+ F 93 to 96 % 83 to 85% 73 to 75% 63 to 65% A B C D 90 to 92% 80 to 82% 70 to 72% 60 to 62% ABCD-

Grades will be posted on Blackboard; additional credit may be available on examinations but will be clearly stated on the exam. There is no other extra credit available.

EVALUATION ITEMS: This is an advanced, hands-on course which requires practice. Homework will be assigned for each class session but will not be graded (except if not submitted); the case studies provide more advanced experience with the techniques learned in this course and provide formative evaluation. The examinations provide summative evaluation of the material covered in the course.

ATTENDANCE POLICY: This is an advanced class and attendance at all class sessions is expected

At the completion of this course, the student will be able to evaluate a large database, reduce dimensionality, identify appropriate solution approaches, apply methods of supervised and unsupervised datamining, visualize data and outcomes, and assess the quality and usefulness of the developed models. The course is specifically designed to equip the student with a skillset needed in large data driven engineering decision making.

UNIVERSITY POLICIES: See www.ugs.usf.edu/ugc/standard_policies.htm