AME 437 Control Systems Engineering Exam 2
Read the following instructions carefully. The exam does not
start until you hit the "Submit" button on the bottom of the page.
Examination Instructions:
- This is an open book exam. You may consult the course text,
your own class notes and any documents provided on the course
homepage and use Matlab to whatever extent it proves useful.
- Your grade on this exam will constitute 25% of your total
grade for the course.
- You have 60 minutes to complete the exam. The time for the
exam starts when you hit the "Submit" button below and is
automatically recorded. For every increment of 5
minutes that you exceed 60 minutes, you will be
penalized one point (out of 100) on the exam.
- After you complete the exam, you must submit the
written or printed portions of your work in person to the
instructor as soon as is practically possible.
This means that you must submit the written and printed
portions immediately
after you finish if you are taking the exam during the day,
or early the next morning if you take the exam in the evening
or night. If the instructor is not in his office, you can
put your written work under his office door or in his mailbox
in the AME department office.
- Partial credit for incorrect answers will be based
on the written work that you submit, so make your written
work organized and legible. If a question asks for a root
locus plot, for example, partial credit for an incorrect
plot will be based on computations showing asymptote angles,
departure angles, etc. If such work is missing, and all you
submit is the plot, if it is wrong, you will receive
little, and possibly no, partial credit.
- It will be difficult to complete the exam in a reasonable about of
time if you double-check everthing from Matlab by hand. Use your best
judgement whether or not to check Matlab's results by hand.
- After you complete the exam, you may print copies of your
work, but you may not modify any plots or other written work
after you have submitted the information via the web form.
- Problem 1 is worth 30 points. Problem 2 is worth 20 points. Problem 3 is worth 50 points.
Things I shouldn't have to tell you, but will anyway:
- Frequently save all of your work.
Keep all the saved files and do not modify them at least
until you have received your graded exam.
- Your goal is to maximize your score. Don't do anything like
spend one hour
extra (which costs 12 points) to do a problem that is only
worth 10 points.
- Be careful when using the computer. Excuses such as
"I accidentally saved the plot for problem 2 over the plot for
problem 1"
will not help increase your grade too much. Be sure to write down
anything you enter into a form box so you can double check
things at the end.
- If you suffer a computer failure which is beyond your
control and not caused by you, then you must
immediately contact the instructor.
First attempt to call him (office: 631-3283, or home:
273-1732 (after 7:00pm)). If you do not contact him
in person, leave a detailed voice mail at his office number
describing the
incident, and after that immediately attempt to continue the
exam on another computer.
- Have Matlab running before you start. The university has
a site license that only allows a fixed number of people to
run Matlab at once, and so you are not guaranteed to be able
to run the program whenever you want.
Academic Code of Honor:
Your conduct with regard to this exam is governed by the
Academic Code of Honor. You are expected to adhere to the
ethical conduct required by the Code of Honor, and in particular
with regard to this exam, you are expected to abide by the
following rules:
- No collaboration of any kind is allowed.
- You may not discuss any aspect of this exam with
anyone except the instructor, until April 11, 2002 (after everyone has completed the exam). As an example, you may not
tell anyone whether you considered the exam "hard" or "easy."
- If you take the exam in an public setting, such as the
Fitzpatrick computer cluster, you must take care to use a
computer with a monitor which is not within the general
viewing area of other individuals in the room, i.e. you
must use a computer with a monitor which faces a wall.
- After you submit your answers via the web form, you may not
modify or otherwise alter the content of any of the printed
portions of your work. You are allowed to print
paper copies to submit to the instructor after you submit the
information via the web form.
To start, you must complete all entries in the following form: