McMaster University

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lab Schedule and Policies for ECE 2EI4

   Schedule

Weeks 1 & 2             No Lab.
Weeks 3 & 4             Lab1 - Introduction to Instruments. January 19 and January 26, 2004
Weeks 5 & 6             Lab2 - Diodes and Diode Circuits.  February 2 and February 9,  2004
Weeks 8 & 9             Lab3 - CMOS Devices and Circuits. February 23 and March 1, 2004
Weeks 10 & 11         Lab4 - MOSFET Amplifiers.   March 8 and March 15, 2004
Weeks 12 & 13         Lab5 - BJT Devices and Circuits. March 22 and March 29, 2004
Weeks 14                   No lab. April 5, 2004

* Lab Policies

     * Lab instructions are posted on the web.

* Students have been assigned to one of 10 sections by the Registrar and they will work in groups of two at one of several lab stations.

* Each group will use a lab notebook (Physics A90, available at bookstore).

* Each student will sign an attendance sheet during her/his lab period.

* Each group will do the PREPARATION section in the lab instructions and hand-in their results at the beginning of the lab period.

* Each group must hand in their pre-lab at the beginning of the lab period. It will be graded and returned to them.

* Each group must get their lab notebook graded at the end of the lab period.

* Each student will submit a completed question sheet for each lab experiment the following Monday after they have done their lab.  The submitted question sheet will constitute the Lab Report.  Questions similar to those on the question sheet may appear on the quizzes or the final examination.

* The lab period ends at 5:30pm.

* Lab GRADING - there are three components

1. Lab PREPARATION                                 33% This will be graded during the lab period.
2. Lab PERFORMANCE                               33% This will be graded at the end of the lab period.
3. Lab Report/QUESTION SHEET              33% Each student must hand in a separate question sheet.

For each of components 1 and 2 (done as a group of two students who will receive the same grade for these two components), TAs will assign one of the following grades
    0     non-attendance/non-existence.
    2     less than satisfactory.
    3     satisfactory.
    4     outstandingly excellent.
For component 3, the grade will be determined by the number of correct answers to the questions. Each student must hand in a separate question sheet with their answers.
 

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