ECE 2006 UMD Fall,
2007
Lab
Schedule
Date Performed:
Lab
1: Digital Multimeter
September 11
15 Points
Lab
2: Oscilloscope Basics
September 18
15 Points
Lab
3: PSPICE September 25
15 Points
Lab
4: Instrument
Impedance
October 2
15 Points
Lab
5: Operational
Amplifiers
October 16
SPICE Required
20 Points
Lab
6: Operational Amplifiers
II
October 23
SPICE Required
20 Points
Lab
7: Oscillataors
October 30
SPICE Required
20 Points
Lab
8: RC & RL Transient Response
*
November 6
SPICE Required
Pre-Lab Required
25 Points
Lab
9: RLC Transient Response
*
November 13
SPICE Required
Pre-Lab Required
25 Points
Lab 10:
RLC Frequency Response
*
November 27
SPICE Required
Pre-Lab Required
25 Points
Lab 11:
AC
Circuits
December 4
No Report Required
15 Points
*1st Hour of lab
is to assist those who have questions with the pre-lab. Pre-lab is due
and experimental section begins during the 2nd hour of lab.
Grading
Attendance (5 Points)
Report
Presentation (4 Points)
Report Content (6 Points)
SPICE (5 Points if required)
Pre-Lab (5 Points if required)
Report Presentation is
graded by the following metric:
Lab reports are due the week
following the lab exercise at the beginning of the lab section. Late lab
reports will not be accepted. A student must notify the professor or
teaching assistant prior to the lab exercise if he/she will not be able to
attend. Although data is taken in groups, reports presented must reflect
individual effort. Any plagiarized work will r
Pre-Lab
Several of the final labs
require a pre-lab that is to be completed and presented prior to beginning the
lab exercise. Difficulty may be encountered, and for this reason lab is
postponed an hour on days with a pre-lab to provide opportunity for students to
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Report Header
Each lab report must contain
a header or title page that specifies the following: student name and
partner name, course number, lab number and title, date of lab exercise.
Introduction
An introduction must be
presented at the beginning of the report that provides a brief overview of the
procedure and introduces any objectives.
Equipment
List all equipment used in
report in bullet format. This should include a listing of instruments,
specific passive components with values and any integrated circuits.
Results
The results section should provide
a brief overview of the procedure that was followed during the course of the
lab; narrating what was performed and presenting data collected, calculations
required, screenshot taken and schematics of circuits constructed.
Any table or in a lab report
is provided to temporarily record information that must be presented in the
report. Present this information and required calculations in a clean,
easy to read manner. Do not vital this vital information within a
paragraph.
Oscilloscope and SPICE screenshots
must be rotated and cropped accordingly in the report. These figures,
along with any other figure or table in a lab must be labeled.
Pre-Lab calculations and
results are not required to be submitted in the lab report as they are done so
at the beginning of lab. However, if the lab asks for comparisons between
this data and experimental or simulated data, the pre-lab data that is being
compared must be presented.
SPICE is required for
several labs and is to be included in the lab report. Regardless of what
the lab exercise states, the SPICE netlist or a schematic screenshot must be
included as corroboration of your efforts. Results obtained by SPICE may
be presented as data within the report. Voltage or current traces with
respect to time or frequency are sometimes required. Screenshots of these
traces should be cropped and labeled.
Conclusion
All questions asked at the
end of the lab exercises should be answered in full sentence form. These
answers must reiterate the question in a manner that provides background of the
question that was asked. Please insert paragraph breaks where n
An overall impression of the
lab should be presented that also describes any difficulties encountered.
Deductions may be r
Lab reports must be
submitted as a word processed document with all figures and calculations
included within the document’s content. Sheets may not be attached to the
end of the report.
Brief Sample Report
Full Name
Partner: Partner’s Name
ECE 2006
Lab #: Title
Date of Lab
INTRODUCTION
A very brief overview of the lab procedure. Describe any objectives. What is to be
done? What is to be learned? Three sentence minimum.
EQUIPMENT LIST
Digital Oscilloscope
DC Power Supply
Resistors (51Ω, 51Ω, 120 k Ω)
Capacitor (0.1 uF)
RESULTS
Should provide overview that summarizes procedure for
an individual not familiar with lab. Describe the results of each step. Include diagrams of
circuits constructed, oscilloscope screen shots of key waveforms and tables
with data observed and recorded. Must be word processed and presented in
chronological order.
CONCLUSION
Summarize
the data and analyze the results. What did you learn? Answer any
questions at the end of the lab instructions. Should be a
paragraph with a minimum of 5 sentences.
…….
Andrew Dommer
(218) 310-4399