People and Open Lab Hours
We encourage you to post questions on the course Piazza page so that other students can also benefit from these questions or answer them. But when you need individualized help, feel free to attend staff office hours or open lab hours
All open lab hours by teaching assistants (TAs) and course producers (CPs) are held in VHE 205 and the hours they will be there are posted via the calendar below. They may change periodically so just check it before you go to VHE for help.
Open Lab Hours Policies
Please be aware of and follow some basic procedures with open lab hours:
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The TAs and CPs are not responsible for doing your lab assignments for you. Their job is to provide help and advice but ultimately you are responsible for working on your own circuit and code and solving problems that arise.
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Typically, we will spend 5-7 minutes before moving on to help other students.
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While we will do our best to help, sometimes errors are buried under a lot of code. We likely cannot dig fully into your specific implementation. So, you should be prepared to say what you’ve done to try to find the source of the issue and/or the solution.
- Always check for compile errors and warnings. A compile warning won’t prevent the program from compiling but it may still be very important as to whether it will execute correctly.
- Have you compared your syntax to examples in the slides?
- If you have a bug as the program runs, can you make use of test equipment like the oscilloscope to see what is happening?
- Have you commented out sections of code until you can get something to work and then added portions back in? If the answer is no, our staff may ask you to do that first.
Calendar
Note that we may change the listed hours as needed, or add more before homework deadlines or examinations. For an up to date listing please see the Google Calendar
Instructors
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Gandhi Puvvada gandhi@usc.edu EEB 238/203 Zoom link |
Office hours: M: 4:05-5:00pm in OHE 336 and Zoom T: 9:00-9:45am by Zoom only TTh 5:55-6:30pm in OHE 100D and Zoom W: 3:55-5:00pm in OHE 230 and Zoom Th: 5:55-6:30pm in OHE 100D and Zoom |
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Mark Redekopp redekopp@usc.edu EEB 222 Zoom link - if needed |
Office hours: M/W: 9:30 - 11 am (EEB-222 only), T/Th: 1:30-3pm (EEB-222 only) |
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Allan Weber weber@usc.edu EEB 410 Zoom link |
Office hours: (in EEB 410) M: 10-11:30am, W: 11am-12pm, Th: 4-5pm |
Teaching Assistants
The EE109 teaching assistants (TAs) hold office hours in VHE 205. Their office hours are posted on the calendar above and also by the door inside VHE 205. Temporary changes to the office hours will be posted to the class Piazza site.
 | Chaoyi Jiang chaoyij@usc.edu |
 | Wing Ko wcko@usc.edu |
 | Jonghyun Lee leejongh@usc.edu |
 | Murale Ramakrishnan mramakri@usc.edu |
 | Tara Renduchintala trenduch@usc.edu |
Course Staff
The EE109 course producers (CPs) are often present in VHE 205 to help students with their lab assignments. The times they will be there are posted on the calendar above and also by the door inside VHE 205. Temporary changes to the lab hours will be posted to the class Piazza site.
 | Ryder Baez rbbaez@usc.edu |
 | Jad Barmada barmada@usc.edu |
 | Nate Boxer nboxer@usc.edu |
 | Arda Caliskan acaliska@usc.edu |
 | Baran Cinbis cinbis@usc.edu |
 | Erin Coulon coulon@usc.edu |
 | Shirin Jain shirinj@usc.edu |
 | Andre Jia asjia@usc.edu |
 | Pooja Kowshik pkowshik@usc.edu |
 | Linus Lei linuslei@usc.edu |
 | Adam Lewczuk lewczuk@usc.edu |
 | Iris Li ifli@usc.edu |
 | Anoushka Narayan an82316@usc.edu |
 | Conner Nguyen connerng@usc.edu |
 | Anton Ramirez antonram@usc.edu |
 | Katherine Randall kqrandal@usc.edu |
 | Alexandra Somodi asomodi@usc.edu |
 | Angela Steinmetz awsteinm@usc.edu |
 | Grace True gtrue@usc.edu |
 | Michael Wasson mrwasson@usc.edu |
 | Sonia Zhang skzhang@usc.edu |
