Course Content and Goals

There are two sections for this course. They are being taught by different instructors. We are following the same schedule and covering similar content each week in lecture, but our lectures are not the same. If you are unable to attend a class please get a copy of the lecture notes from a student in your section.

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Assignments and Expectations

Lab Reports should include (see the Prof. Ray sample report, circuit diagrams and plots omitted):

• Circuit description
• Drawings of circuits you used, including values and part names (either hand-drawn or use Pspice)
• Breadboard diagrams on graph paper (or using a drawing program)
• Data (raw) and Analysis (Oscilloscope images)
• Answers to the question posed in the manual, in a separate results section clearly labeled.

I will consider grammar and spelling. A lab report is not a creative writing project. It is a scientific document of your work. Its purpose is to clearly and plainly state exactly what your experiment was, and the results you've observed. Please keep your sentences short, and clear. A hardcopy of the lab reports is due by 5 pm on Thursdays in person, in my office, on the dates shown on the Class Schedule.

Lab partners will be reshuffled for each lab.

Skunk Work (sample 1 | sample 2 | sample 3)

The Skunk Work proposal is due November 6th. This is the week of Lab 9. By that time you will have worked with every other student in the lab. By the week of Lab 7 you should start to consider who you want to work with on your final project, and begin to make plans for your project.

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Laboratory Access

For safety reasons, more than two students should be working in the laboratory at any time. If you are found working alone in the lab you will be given an automatic failure for that week's lab. More than two students does not mean you with a friend. You should always be evenly splitting the lab work with your partner. Any after hours work should be done with your partner.

updated August 26, 2008