ET 603 RESEARCH METHODS AND DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Spring 2008

Syllabus and General Announcements:


ET 603 Syllabus -- Spring 2008

Course Notes

Introduction to DOE .
Planning a DOE .
Statistics Review and Basic Experiments .
Statistics Review II and Relevant Distributions .
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) .
Two-Level factorial Designs .
Blocking and Confounding .
Fractional Factorial Designs .
Regression and Empirical Modeling .
Interpreting Excel Regression Output.
Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD).

In-Class Example Files

In Class Example 1 - Three Experiments on Car Engine Fuel Efficiency .
In Class Example 2 - T-Test and Paired T-Test.
In Class Example 3 - One-way ANOVA.
In Class Examples 4 - Two-way ANOVA and N-way ANOVA .
In Class Example 5 - Regression: Brake Horse Power (BHP) Example .
In Class Example 6 - Regression: Non-Linear Example .
In Class Example 7 - Regression: Dummy Variable Coding Example .
In Class Example 8 - Randomized Complete Block Design Example .

Exercise Files

Example 1 - Curve Fitting - Corrected!!! .
Example 2 - One-way ANOVA UPDATED!!! PLEASE CHECK!!!.
Example 3 - One-way ANOVA .
Example 4 - Factorial Dessign Examples .
Example 5 - Randomized Complete Block Design Examples .
Example 6 - Latin Squares Design Examples .

Homework & Solutions


HOMEWORK #1 -- Due: Feb. 7, 2008.
HOMEWORK #2 -- Due: Feb. 14, 2008.
HOMEWORK #3 -- Due: Feb. 21, 2008.
HOMEWORK #4 -- Due: Feb. 21, 2008.
HOMEWORK #5 -- Due: March 11, 2008.

MIDTERM EXAM

Midterm Exam.

DUE: MARCH 13, 2008

HOMEWORK #6 --Part I Due: March 27, Part II Due: April 11, 2008.
HOMEWORK #7 -- Due: April 17, 2008.
HOMEWORK #8 -- Due: April 24, 2008.

FINAL EXAM

Final Exam.

DUE: May 8, 2008 during the scheduled final exam time

READING MATERIALS

Planning a DOE .
ET 603 DOE Intrduction.
ET 603 Discussion 1.
ET 603 Discussion 2.
ET 603 Discussion 3.
ET 603 Discussion 4.

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