David Shea Vela-Vick
email: shea@math
office: DRL 3C11
office phone: 215.573.6255
office hours: T: 10:00 - 11:00, R: 3:00 - 4:00
where: DRL 4C2
when: MTWR 1:00 - 3:10

Homework, Exams, and Grades:

Homework Policy: If it is ever due, homework is to be turned in promptly by the end of class on Thursday. Turn in homework either

1. to me personally in class;
2. under my personal office door;
3. front and center on my personal office desk; or
4. by special arrangement approved in advance by me (for example, you might need to email me a homework if you are detained in another city).

Late or improperly submitted homework will never be accepted. Late or improperly submitted homework will never be accepted. Late or improperly submitted homework will never be accepted. If you know in advance you will be unable to turn in homework when it's due, you should plan to turn it in ahead of time. If you are unavoidably prevented from submitting homework for a good reason, you still may not turn it in late. Religious holidays are not an excuse for late homework!!! If you know that there is an impending religious holiday, it is your responsibility to make arrangements to submit homework early. Since homework is only due once a week, this should be manageable. I will drop your lowest homework score to allow for missed assignments or for assignments that pose special difficulty.

Homework must be neat, well-organized, and legible. Ragged margins, multi-column and otherwise over-dense formats, and unstapled sheets are unacceptable. If your handwriting is difficult to read (as mine can be), type your homework (as I do). If you tend to scratch out or erase incorrect parts of solutions (as I do), do a rough draft or type your homework (as I do). Write in paragraphs, sentences, and English words. Use punctuation and conjunctions to indicate your flow of thought rather than arrows or telepathy. Shoot for lucidity rather than terseness.

Exam Policy:
In all likelyhood, there will be two exams in this class. One will be a midterm, given sometime in the middle of the summer term. The other will be your final, administered on the last day of class.

Final Course Grades: Your grade will be determined by your preformance on the various assignments and exams throughout the term. As for a "grade rubrik", you should roughly expect the following: Homework: 30%, Midterm: 30%, Final: 40%.


The text for the course will be "Advanced Engineering Mathematics", by Zill and Cullen.

Day Sections And Homework                   Quiz Over                
5/21/07 8.1: 3,12,13,15,18,23,28,33,36 8.2: 5,7,9 None!
5/22/07 8.3: 1,5,9,13,17 8.4: 3,7,21,29 8.5 4,7,12,15,21,31,39 None!
5/23/07 8.6: 1,5,9,11,21,27,49 8.7 1,9,11 8.8 1,7,15,21 None!
5/24/07 8.9 3,9,13 8.10 1,7,15,19 8.1 - 8.5
5/29/07 8.12 5,15,25,37 8.6 - 8.9
5/30/07 8.15 3,5,7 9.1 13,15,17,25,29,33,39 9.7 9,13,27,33,39 None!
5/31/07 9.8 3,5,9,15,19,25,33 8.10 - 9.7
6/4/07 9.9 3,13,17,23,27 9.10 9,11,17,23,37,45 9.11 3,5,9,10,13, 27,31 None!
6/5/07 9.12 1,3,9,13,15,18,23,25 9.13 1,5,11,19,27,33,37 9.8 - 9.10
6/6/07 9.14 1,3,5,11,15,17 None!
6/7/07 9.15 1,5,11,17,21,53,77 9.16 3,7,11,15,17 None!
6/11/07 9.17 1,3,5,11,17,25 9.11 - 9.14
6/12/07 2.1 1,19,39 2.5 5,10,13,19,25,33 3.6 1,9,11,15,27 9.15 - 9.17
6/13/07 3.7 1,5,17 3.8 3,7,17,25,31 None!
6/14/07 Midterm Exam over Chapters 8 and 9! None!
6/18/07 3.9 9,15,22,27 4.1 1,7,15,19,25,31,37 None!
6/19/07 4.2 5,11,17,23,33,39 4.3 5,9,11,15,23,27,43,47,55,63 2.1 - 3.9
6/20/07 4.4 5,11,15,23,31,41,49,55 4.5 5,7,11 None!
6/21/07 10.1 5,7,13,19,25 10.2 5,11,21,33 4.1 - 4.5
6/25/07 10.3 1,5,10 10.4 3,17,21,31,37
6/26/07 11.? 11.? 10.1 - 10.4
6/27/07 11.? 11.? None!
6/28/07 Final!!! None!