Schedule overview

The schedule information on this page is subject to changes.

All meetings are in B127 Kerckhoff.

  • Lab: Tuesdays and Thursdays (except Thanksgiving), 10:30 am–noon Pacific time

  • TA office hours

    • Mondays 7–8 pm with Heather

    • Wednesdays 2–3 pm with Tom

    • Fridays 4:30-5:30 pm with Kevin

Tuesday and Thursday lab meetings are required, unless arrangements have been made in advance with the instructor.

Due dates

The due dates below may change. They will not be moved to an earlier date, but may be moved later.

  • Pulse oximetry demo: 10:30 am PST, November 11 (accepted without penalty until noon on November 16)

  • Pulse oximetry write-up: due 10:30 am PST, November 16 (accepted without penalty until 11:59 pm on November 16)

Weekly activities

In each lab session, which are Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-11:55, you will be working on your exercises or projects. Dates with special activities are shown below with more to be announced as the term progresses.

  • Tu 09/28: Welcome, safety, introduction to Arduino

  • Th 09/30: A tour through available components

  • Tu 10/05: A tour of Arduino Uno

  • Th 10/07: Lecture on design approaches

  • Th 10/14: Guest lecture from Daniel Wagenaar

  • Tu 10/26: Guest lecture from Sina Booeshaghi, Anne Kil, and Kevin Marx from the Pachter lab

  • Th 10/28: Time series analysis

  • Tu 11/02: Guest lecture from Lev Tsypin from the Newman lab about cyclic voltammetry in the study of microbial metabolism and Jihong Min from the Gao lab about wearable, on-body detection

  • Tu 11/09: Guest lecture from Amir Behbehani

  • Th 11/26: Thanksgiving Day: no class

  • Th 12/09: Tear down and clean up