Professor Robert Levinson (levinson -at- soe.ucsc.edu)

Grad Student Assistants:

• David Ilstrup (davei -at- soe.ucsc.edu)
• Foaad Khosmood (foaad -at- ucsc.edu)

Lectures: MWF 930-10:40am Engineering II 194
Formal Labs: (You must register for one and attend it weekly)

• Monday 2-3:45pm Ming Ong 108
• Wednesday2-3:45pm Ming Ong 108
• Friday 2-3:45pm Ming Ong 108 (will be open but have no tutor)

Instructor Office Hours: Th 2-6pm, after class, or by appt.

Office location: Engineering II 255, Phone: 459-2087

Newsgroup on UCSC servers: ucsc.class.cmp80b

Syllabus, Class Material, Class Schedule with due dates

• High school algebra or instructor's permission.
• The course *does* use mathematics so you should have a genuine desire to use and improve your math skills.
• No programming experience is required.

• A linear Regression tool applet (by Dr. Philippe B. Laval, Kennesaw State University)
  • A Quadratic Regression tool from the same source.
• An Online Exponential Regression tool (xuru.org)
• A java applet function plotter (UBC Mathematics)
• An average and standard deviation tool (Biokin Ltd.)

• WRITTEN HOMEWORKS 20% 5
• SIMULATION LAB REPORTS 20% 6
• QUIZZES 20% 4 30 minute inclass exams.
• FINAL EXAMINATION 20% 180 minute in class exam.
• TERM PROJECT 20% Turned in day of final. (Three progress checks and a final report).

Homework (not labs or projects) may be done with 1-3 other students in

the class. guaranteed grade levels!  (these levels may be lowered  and definitely  will not be raised.)

• 90.0% A-
• 82.5% B-
• 75.0% C-
• 65.0% D

In addition, at least
25% work on EACH of the five basic course components, homework, 
labs, quizzes, final, project is required for passing the course.

LAB ASSIGNMENTS (from the DM CD and the handout)

For each lab part from DM:
(optionally build) and run the models and answer the following questions:

Answer the following six questions:
( a couple of sentences each will do)

1. What is the basic idea behind the model? (how does it differ from others)

2. What are the stocks? Flows?

3. Does the model behave as you would expect?

4. Does anything unusual happen at extreme settings?

5. The most useful or interesting thing I learned about STELLA
from this lab part.

6. The most useful or interesting thing I learned about mathematics or
systems or science from the lab part. 

In addition to DM lab parts, perform the lab exercises from lab handout 
and turn in your answered worksheet.

Reading

Homework

Labs and Project

Quizzes

Sections 1-2 in STB.

Chapter 1 in FST

(thus 9 exercises in all)

pg 290-291 exercises 9-13
pg 338-339 exercises 23-24
pg 343 exercises 15-16
(thus 9 exercises in all)