Lab Material For EE100/EE43 Fall 2005

Lab Assignments and Grading

Lab grades: .xls

The basic purpose of this laboratory course is to teach students how to use electronic test equipment, to familiarize them with the characteristics of basic circuit elements (resistors, capacitors, diodes and transistors), to give them experience in designing, building, and debugging circuits, and to illustrate how electronic principles relate to modern digital systems.

Each lab is graded pass/fail, and all labs (both prelab and report) must be passed in order to receive a passing grade in the course. If you come to lab prepared, and give your best effort, passing should not be a problem. We want this to be an interesting and fun exploratory experience.

There will be a prelab assignment for each of the experiments.  Each lab group must submit the prelab assignment before beginning the experiment in lab.

There will be a lab report assignment for each of the experiments.  Each team should complete the lab report during lab.

Turn in lab assignments on time--late assignments can jeopardize your grade (and make things difficult for your GSI). If you need to miss a lab, let your GSI know in advance, and you can attend another section that week. If you need more time to complete a lab, check the Lab Schedule. You may work in the lab at one of the extra lab stations in the back of the room, as long as the GSI on duty gives you permission to do so. You may not be present in the lab when there is no staff member on duty.

Lab Documents

Please print these out before coming to lab. Appendices are listed below the table.

Date Topic PreLab


Notes

Lab 1
9/6-9/9, 9/12

Introduction PreLab Lab Guide Lab Report Solutions Please see Appendix 1: About Resistors. Erratum: page 5 of Lab guide: strike out -DMM- at end of line 4 and replace with -current limited power supply-
Page 1 of lab guide, figure 1, should be V=IR!

Lab 2
9/13-9/16, 9/19

Oscilloscope PreLab Lab Guide Lab Report  

  Lab 3
9/20-9/23, 9/26
 Equivalent Circuits PreLab Lab Guide Lab #3 Report Solutions
Lab 4
9/27-9/30, 10/3		 RC circuits PreLab Lab Guide Lab Report Solutions Please see Appendix 2: About Capacitors

Lab 5
10/10-10/14

RC filters PreLab

PreLab pdf

 Lab Guide

Lab Guide pdf

Lab Report

Lab Report pdf


Here is the log-log graph that you need for plotting the graphs, or in pdf format.

Here's the information you need to understand phasors (they're easy, I promise)

Here are two screenshots of signal express to help even more: 1 2

Lab 6
10/17-10/21		 Smart Dust Prelab, Guide, and Report

Prelab, Guide, and Report pdf

   Pdf version now available.


Lab 7
10/24-10/28

Op-Amp PreLab Lab Guide Lab Report Solutions See appendix 3 (link below) for op-amp data sheet. Here is additional op-amp theory to help you understand the prelab and lab.
Lab 8
10/31-11/4, 11/7		 MOSFET Lab Pre-lab Lab Guide Lab Report  

Lab 9
11/7-11/11

Final Project: Audio Amplifier (Part 1) Pre-lab Guide Report   Additional info on full-wave rectifiers.
 Veteran's Day 11/11
Lab 10
 11/14-11/18
Final Project: Audio Amplifier (Part 2) Prelab Guide Lab Report   Schematic  
11/22-11/23
  catchup/ work ahead



Thanksgiving 11/24-11/25
Lab 11
11/28-12/2
 Final Project: Audio Amplifier (Part 3)