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The large enrollment and the difficulty of finding enough staff have necessitated some changes to this course. The purpose of this email is to alert you to this and to other things you should be aware of.

The course LECTURE will be increased to twice a week. Some lectures will be omitted because of travel, etc. so the net result will be an increase in the amount of lecture time and the amount of academic content. Lectures are scheduled for 3-4:20 PM, Tuesday and Thursday, WEH 5310.

The course LABORATORY will be modestly reduced in the number of labs. At present I anticipate 5 processing labs, one supervised characterization lab, and one optional characterization lab. The coverage will be more or less the same (I think) but the activities will be organized more tightly.

NOTE that the laboratory time is not scheduled yet. You should anticipate that each of the 6 scheduled labs will require approximately a 3 hour period. Scheduling will be organized during the first week of the semester. Be prepared to be flexible and be prepared for possibly irregular/ strange scheduling. If you have a very tight course schedule otherwise then it may be difficult or impossible to accomodate you. Attendance at the laboratories is a required part of this course. If you do have problems with the laboratory schedule you may want to consider registering as an audit.

Because of the uncertainties about staffing, I have not yet completed a syllabus for the course. When it is complete (which I expect will be in a few days) it will be linked from my webpage at http://www.ece.cmu.edu/%7Edwg/teachingf.html. (Don't bother looking for this on Blackboard).

Be aware that this course requires some laboratory work with chemicals. If you know of any reason (allergies, disabilities including difficulty with lab access and/ or ability to perform fine manipulations, unwillingness to work with chemicals) that you cannot participate in the laboratory you should contact me immediately.

DWG