Lab Schedule Date
Performed:
Lab 1: Digital
Multimeter January
24
15 Points
Lab 2: Oscilloscope
X & Y Axis January
31
15 Points
Lab 3: Oscilloscope
Sweep Controls February
7
15 Points
Lab 4: PSPICE February
14
15 Points
No Lab:
February 21
Lab 5: Operational
Amplifiers February
28
SPICE Required
20 Points
Lab 6: Astable
Multivibrator March
7
SPICE Required
20 Points
SPRING BREAK: March 14
Lab 7: Equivalent
Equipment Circuits March
21
SPICE Required
20 Points
No Lab:
March 28
Lab 8: RC
& RL Transient Response * April
4
SPICE Required
Pre-Lab
Required
25 Points
Lab 9: RLC
Transient Response * April
11
SPICE Required
Pre-Lab
Required
25 Points
Lab 10: RLC
Frequency Response * April
18
SPICE Required
Pre-Lab
Required
25 Points
Lab 11: AC
Circuits April 25
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 (5 Points)
Report
Content (5 Points)
SPICE
(5 Points if required)
Pre-Lab
(5 Points if required)
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 r
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.
SAMPLE LAB REPORT FOR
ECE2006 (Scott Norr)
Full Name
Partner:
Partner’s Name
ECE 2006
Morning/Afternoon/Evening Section
Lab #: Title
Date of Lab
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
A brief overview of the lab procedure. Describe any
objectives in your own words. What is to
be done? What is to be learned? Which concepts are applied? Three sentence minimum.
EQUIPMENT LIST
Provide
a list of equipment that was used. You
don’t need to include EVERYTHING (i.e. connectors, wires, computers, printers,
etc.), but just the key elements such as electronic tools in the lab, specific
software programs, or electrical components.
For example:
o Digital Oscilloscope
o DC Power Supply
o Resistors (51Ω, 51Ω, 120 k Ω)
o Capacitor (0.1 uF)
RESULTS
You
should provide an overview that summarizes your procedure for an individual who
is 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. Figures
that are included in your report should be large enough to see and read, but
rarely need to exceed about 5 x 7” maximum—don’t use full sheets of paper for
individual images (this will save you ink and paper!!). Must be word processed and presented in chronological
order.
Along with the results, include:
SAMPLE
CALCULATIONS/EQUATIONS
Some
(but not all) of the labs will require theoretical calculations using several
equations. If this is the case, include
the equations that you are using. Also,
show your work for at least one instance of each equation involved (in other
words, if several calculations use the same equations but different sets of
values, you only need to show the calculations for one set of values). It’s
much easier to give partial credit for your work if the work is shown! This work can either be included within
the Results section, or if there is a lot of hand-calculation, it’s good to
attach a separate sheet of calculations, neatly organized and written in ink.
CONCLUSION
Summarize
the data and analyze the results. What
did you learn? Also, answer all
questions that appeared at the end of the lab instructions, if any. The conclusion should be a paragraph with a
minimum of 5 sentences. Note: if there are questions at the end of the lab
instructions, the answers to the questions are only a PART of the
conclusion. Additional comments are
required.
ATTACHMENTS:
A
pre-lab worksheet will be required for several of the labs later in the
semester. If this is the case, you can
attach the pre-lab worksheet to the back of your lab report.
*** Be sure to ask your TA for help or tips on
formatting your lab report. Some general tips are:
·
Images and
figures should be kept to a maximum size of about 5”x7”
·
Be sure that any
plots and graphs that are included are easily visible. Plots with black backgrounds are often
difficult to see.
·
Clear
communication is very important in lab reports, so read things over to ensure
that everything is clear and concise.
·
Put everything
in your own words. Although the work is
done in pairs or groups in the lab, the lab reports are meant to be completely
individual. Only data and images need to
be shared.