ENGR 371 – Section S

Probability and Statistics in Engineering

Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
FALL 2024
Course Instructor Office Email Office Hours
Dr. Sam Eskandarian EV3.127 sam.eskandarian@concordia.ca Tue Fri 10:00AM - 11:30AM
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Section Day Time Location TA / Email
Lecture Mon. Wed. 1:15PM - 2:30PM FG - C070
Tutorial SA Tuesday 1:15PM - 2:05PM H565 Maziyar Layegh
<maziyar.layegh@concordia.ca>
Tutorial SB Thursday 1:15PM - 2:05PM MB2.430 Maziyar Layegh
<maziyar.layegh@concordia.ca>
Tutorial SC Tuesday 1:15PM - 2:05PM MB3.265 Maedeh Hajiparvaneh
<maedeh.hajiparvaneh@mail.concordia.ca>
Project TA Golnoosh Sarkandi
golnoosh.sarkandi@concordia.ca

COURSE CALENDAR DESCRIPTION

Axioms of probability theory. Events. Conditional probability. Bayes theorem. Random variables.
Mathematical expectation. Discrete and continuous probability density functions. Transformation of
variables. Probabilistic models, statistics, and elements of hypothesis testing (sampling distributions and
interval estimation). Introduction to statistical quality control. Applications to engineering problems.

PREREQUISITES: The following courses must be completed previously: ENGR 213, ENGR 233.
CO-REQUISITES: N/A
TEXTBOOK AND ADDITIONAL COURSE MATERIALS
Required textbook: Douglas C. Montgomery and George C. Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability
for Engineers, 7th Edition, Wiley
Other Course Material: Moodle website
COURSE ASSESSMENT
GRADING POLICY Scheme A Scheme B
Weekly Assignments 5% 5%
Quizzes 10% 10%
Midterm Exam 20% 0%
Project 15% 15%
Final Exam 50% 70%
Total 100% 100%
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Note: Your grade will automatically be calculated under both schemes and the higher one will be
selected. No action on your part is needed. If you miss midterm, for any reason, you will be
automatically graded according to Scheme B.

ASSIGNMENTS
One of the most important skills that you can have as an engineer is the ability to read a technical
document and get something out of it. One of the best techniques to get more out of what you read is to
make notes and formulate questions and hypothesis as you read. This takes passive activity of reading
and makes it active.
Before the first lecture of each week, you should have read the sections in the textbook for the upcoming
week. You should prepare the followings and submit it in Moodle on each Friday:
• Up to three pages of “jottings”. This is original handwritten material concerning the material you
have read. It can take any form, for example: summary, questions that occurred to you, insights, etc.
• Three paragraphs (2-3 lines each) that summarize what you’ve read.

A teaching assistant will do two things:

• Check that you submitted the jottings. You should submit your jottings in Moodle.
• Give you a mark on your three paragraphs (2-3 sentences each). You should also submit your
paragraphs in Moodle.
• You may submit the electronic file created on your device or simply scan your paper version.
We will do this for the weeks of Sept 9, 16, 23, 30, October 7, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18. Note that
there was no reading assignment in week 1. This is a total of 10 reading assignments. We will take the
best 9 of these which will count for 5% of your final grade.

QUIZZES
Four quizzes will be given and the best three will be counted. The questions on the quizzes will be
related and similar to the suggested problems. Your best three quizzes will be used for 10% of your grade.
The quizzes will take place in tutorials. Students are ONLY allowed to write their quizzes in their own
section. Required formulas will be given in quiz paper.

TERM PROJECT
The project will be a team project with 3 students per group. This will count for 15% of your grade. See
the project document for more details.

EXAMS
One midterm and one final exam will be given. All exams will be closed book. The midterm exam will
be prepared by the instructors of the 3 sections and will be on Monday October 21. Students are NOT
allowed to write exams in other sections. If you miss the midterm, you will be graded according to
Scheme B

There is no fixed number to letter conversion for the final grade in engineering. This will only be
determined after the final exam is graded and all data is assessed.

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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs): By the end of this semester, students are expected to be able to
Course Learning Outcome Related Graduate Attributes
Have knowledge and facility in Probability and Statistics Knowledge Base / Knowledge Base of
Mathematics KB1
Use the tools like distributions and moments for a number of Knowledge Base / Knowledge Base of
discrete and continuous random variables to calculate things Mathematics KB1
like the probability of a particular event.

Recognize when a particular random variable type is an Knowledge Base / Knowledge Base of
appropriate model for a given engineering problem. Mathematics KB1
Knowledge Base of in specific domain KB3

Use tools to quantify the relationship between two random Knowledge Base / Knowledge Base of
variables. Mathematics KB1

Develop, recognize and use sampling distributions to make Knowledge Base / Knowledge Base of
point and interval estimation. Mathematics KB1
Knowledge Base of in specific domain KB3

Test the statistical validity of hypothesis. Knowledge Base / Knowledge Base of

Mathematics KB1
Knowledge Base of in specific domain KB3

Form an hypothesis. Investigation / Background and Hypothesis

Formulation IN1
Design and experiment to test the validity of a given Investigation / Designing Experiments IN2
hypothesis.

Gather data for a statistical experiment. Investigation / Conducting experiments

and collection of data IN3

Analyze data to test the validity of a hypothesis. Investigation / Analysis and Interpretation
of data IN4

GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES: SKILLS TO LEARN, UTILIZE AND ASSESS

Graduate Attribute: Knowledge Base
Indicators: Knowledge Base of Mathematics KB1 - Level: Advanced
Indicators: Knowledge Base of in specific domain KB3 - Level: Advanced

Graduate Attribute: Investigation

Indicators: Background and Hypothesis Formulation IN1 - Level: Introductory
Indicators: Designing Experiments IN2 - Level: Introductory
Indicators: Conducting experiments and collection of data IN3 - Level: Intermediate
Indicators: Analysis and Interpretation of data IN4 - Level: Intermediate

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TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE
Week Topic Description Assignment Tests
Week 1 (Sept 2) Sample Spaces, Events, Counting, Axioms of
Sec. 2.1-2.5 Probability, Addition rules, conditional probability.
Week 2 (Sept 9) Multiplication rule, Total Probability Rule, 2.1 – 2.5
Sec. 2.6-2.9 Independence of events, Bayes Theorem, Random
Variables.
Week 3 (Sept 16) Discrete Random Variables, pmf’s, cdf’s, Mean and 2.6 – 2.9 Quiz 1
Sec. 3.1-3.5 Variance for discrete random variables, discrete uniform 3.1 – 3.2 Sections
distribution, binomial distribution. 2.1 – 2.7
Week 4 (Sept 23) Geometric distribution, negative binomial distribution, 3.3 – 3.5
Sec. 3.6-3.8 hypergeometric distribution, Poisson Distribution. 3.6 – 3.8
Week 5 (Sep 30) Continuous Random Variables, cdf’s, Mean and 4.1 – 4.5 Quiz 2
Sec. 4.1-4.5 Variance of Continuous random variables, continuous Sections
uniform distribution, normal distribution. 2.8 – 2.9
3.1 – 3.8
Week 6 (October 7) Normal approximation for binomial and Poisson 4.6 – 4.7,
Sec. 4.6-4.7, 5.1 distributions, exponential distribution. Bivariate 5.1
distributions, Joint distributions, marginal distributions.
Week 6 Reading week
(October 14)
Week 7 Conditional distributions and independence of two 5.2, Midterm
(October 21) random variables, covariance and correlation, Common 5.4 – 5.5 Chapters
Sec. 5.2, 5.4-5.5 Joint Distributions: bivariate normal distribution. 2 and 3
Week 8 Linear functions of random variables. Numerical 5.6,
(October 28) summaries of data. Point estimation. Sampling 6.1,
Sec. 5.6, 6.1,7.1,7.2 Distribution, Central Limit Theorem. 7.1,7.2
Week 9 Unbiased estimators, variance of a point estimator, Sec. 7.3 Quiz 3
(November 4) mean squared error. Confidence Intervals on the mean (excl. Sections
Sec. 7.3 (excl. of a normal distribution both with variance known and 7.3.4), 8.1- 5.1 – 5.6
7.3.4), 8.1-8.3,8.5 unknown. Confidence intervals on the variance and on 8.3,8.5 6.1
the standard deviation. Guidelines for confidence
intervals.
Week 10 Hypothesis Testing, Tests on the mean of a normal Sec. 9.1, 9.2 Quiz 4
(November 11) distribution with variance known. Chapters 7
Sec. 9.1, 9.2 and 8
Week 11 Tests on the mean of a normal distribution with variance Sec. 9.3, 9.4
(November 18) unknown. Tests on the variance and standard deviation
Sec. 9.3, 9.4 of a normal distribution.
Week 12 Review if time permits.
(November 25)

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SUGGESTED PROBLEMS
Week Tests
2.1.10, 2.1.15, 2.2.4, 2.2.11, 2.2.14,2.2.15, 2.3.1, 2.3.6, 2.3.11, 2.4.3, 2.4.11, 2.5.3,
Chapter 2 2.5.6, 2.5.9, 2.6.7, 2.6.10, 2.7.3, 2.7.10, 2.7.11, 2.7.13, 2.8.3, 2.8.7, 2.8.8, 2.9.2, 2.S.8,
2S.13, 2.S.17, 2.S.31
3.1.2, 3.1.9, 3.1.10, 3.1.17, 3.2.4, 3.2.8, 3.3.2, 3.3.7, 3.3.8, 3.4.2, 3.4.4, 3.5.1, 3.5.4,
Chapter 3 3.5.12, 3.5.14, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.8, 3.7.4, 3.7.6, 3.7.10, 3.8.3, 3.8.6, 3.8.12, 3.S.16,3.S.20,
3.S.25
4.1.2, 4.1.8, 4.1.10, 4.2.4, 4.2.6, 4.3.6, 4.4.4, 4.4.6, 4.5.6, 4.5.8, 4.5.12, 4.5.20, 4.6.3,
Chapter 4 4.6.5, 4.6.8, 4.6.11, 4.7.4, 4.7.8, 4.7.9, 4.7.11
5.1.4, 5.1.8, 5.1.10, 5.2.1, 5.2.6, 5.2.8, 5.3.2, 5.3.4, 5.4.5, 5.4.10, 5.5.2, 5.5.6, 5.6.4,
Chapter 5 5.6.8, 5.6.11
6.1.6, 6.1.12, 6.7.2, 6.7.5
Chapter 6

7.2.5, 7.2.11, 7.2.12, 7.3.5, 7.3.9

Chapter 7

8.1.6, 8.1.12, 8.1.13, 8.2.3, 8.2.7, 8.3.4, 8.3.7

Chapter 8

9.1.2, 9.1.6, 9.1.10, 9.1.12, 9.2.2, 9.2.6, 9.2.8, 9.3.6, 9.3.7, 9.3.10 9.4.2, 9.4.3
Chapter 9

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