McMaster University

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lab Schedule and Policies for ECE 2EI5

Schedule

• Lab 1: DC Analysis Using PSpice (Software) (Monday January 17^th-Friday January 21st)
• Lab 2: AC Analysis Using PSpice (Software) (Monday January 24^th-Friday January 28^th)
• Lab 3: Time-Domain Analysis Using PSpice (Software) (Monday January 31^st-Friday February 4^th)
• Lab 4: Introduction to Instruments (Hardware) (Monday February 7^th-Friday February 11^th)
• Lab 5: Diodes and Diode Circuits (Hardware) (Monday February 14th –Friday February 18th)
• Lab 6: CMOS Devices and Circuits (Hardware) (Monday March 7^th-Friday March 11^th)
• Lab 7: MOSFET Amplifiers (Hardware) (Monday March 14^th-Friday March 18^th)
• Lab 8: BJT Devices and Circuits (Hardware) (Monday March 21^st- Friday March 25th)
• Lab Test: (Software) (Monday March 28^th- Friday April 2nd)

Lab Policies

Lab instructions are posted on the web.

Students have been assigned to one of 5 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 group 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 midterms, lab test or the final examination.

The lab period ends at 5:30pm.

Lab GRADING - there are two components

1. Lab PREPARATION 50% This will be graded during the lab period.
2. Lab Report/QUESTION SHEET 50% Each group hand in a question sheet a week later.

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.
    0     less than satisfactory.
    5     satisfactory.

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