Lakehead Engineering Course Review: EVIC5113
Subject: Engineering Optimization & AI. An introductory course on optimization algorithms and machine learning, touching the surface only. There are just four or five algorithms in total, and the overall difficulty is not high. The professor grades leniently. There is no midterm; Assignments and Project each account for 25%, and the Final is 50%. It is also friendly to students without a background, as the first two or three classes are spent on installing MATLAB and learning basic syntax. In Fall 2024, the Project involved writing a report on related optimization algorithms and recording a video presentation, requiring a team of four. The Final is closed-book and includes













