Final exam

 

.. rubric:: Special instructions

-	The duration will be 3 hours. -	You may bring any printed materials to the final exam - any textbooks, any papers, *etc*. -	You may use **any calculator** during the exam. -	The exam *covers all material* from the course. -	Please answer the questions in any order in the examination booklet, in pencil or in pen. -	*Time saving tip*: please use bullet points to answer, where appropriate, and do not repeat the question in your answer. -	If anything seems unclear, or information appears to be incomplete, please make a *reasonable* assumption and continue with the question. -	**400-level students**: please answer all the questions, except those marked as 600-level questions. You will get extra credit for answering the 600-level questions though. The distinguishing feature for 600-level students in this exam is that a higher level of technical accuracy is expected. -	**Total marks**: 100 marks (spread over 11 questions) for 400-level; 108 marks (12 questions) for 600-level students. Question 13 in the exam is an optional question (zero grades). I'm posting it here ahead of time. Please only answer it on the 18th if you have spare time.

''Should you have time, I'm curious as to your opinion on allowing future students to use tablet computers, such as iPads or even cell phones, in engineering midterms and final exams. Especially in courses, such as this one, where open book exams are used. We expect university textbooks to be available almost exclusively in electronic form, in the very near future. And since the internet and wi-fi capability on these devices cannot not be turned off (or at least enforced), does this affect your opinion given?''

Other notes
 * 1) There are practice questions from exams prior to 2010 - to help you prepare for the exam.
 * 2) Updated: I strongly suggest you go through the DOE examples in the Box, Hunter and Hunter book (either 1st or 2nd edition is fine). Go through the full factorial and fractional factorial examples, and attempt some of the problems. The book is available on reserve in Thode Library.
 * 3) For your reference, the [[Media:4C3-6C3-written-final-exam-2010.pdf|final exam from 2010]].
 * 4) Some other advice would be to treat the exam like a closed book exam but write up a cheat sheet.
 * 5) Don't forget to bring your copy of statistical tables and the DOE tradeoff sheet to the exam. These are not provided with the exam.