EE 330 Integrated Electronics
Spring 2007
Jake Sloat
e-mail: cutsloat@iastate.edu
office: 310
Phone: 294-8343
Office
hours: To Be Determined
Tuesday
8:00-10:40 AM in Coover 1212
Thursday 6:00-9:00 PM in Coover 1212
All labs must be attended and completed. In the event that you cannot attend a lab, prior approval must be obtained. In such case, make arrangements with the TA to make up the lab at another time.
Satisfactory completion of all the labs is required for passing the course. If you are unable to complete the lab in the assigned lab time, it is expected that you would complete the lab on your own.
At the beginning of a lab session, the instructor will collect the report for the previous week's lab. Any late lab report will have its grade reduced by 20% per day. If, for any valid reason, you are not able to meet the deadline, let the instructor know well in advance of the start of the lab.
You are responsible for keeping track of your e-mail. In case of difficulty with any specific lab or any other problem concerning the lab, please come and talk to the lab instructor or use e-mail.
The lab report should be brief and have the following sections:
Cover page: Name(s), section, and lab number.
Introduction: A small paragraph describing the intent of the lab. This should NOT be a rephrasing of the lab objective in the lab handout but a description from the student's own experience.
Discussion and results: This section should discuss the lab results (if any) and, as part of the report dialogue, answer all questions (if any) that are posed in the lab handout. In all cases, compare the simulations results with hand calculations and comment on any discrepancies. Any substantive discrepancies between measured results and simulated results should be resolved in the laboratory, not in the laboratory report.
Lessons learned: Share the lessons learned from the lab. This includes anything related to circuits, Cadence, etc. You are also encouraged to include any suggestions for improving the lab handout.
Attachments: All attachments must have a clear title and page number for cross referencing. Include only the results that support you discussion earlier in the report.
All laboratory reports should be stand-alone documents. That is, one reading the laboratory report should be able to understand what you are doing and repeat your results without consulting the laboratory manual. All figures should be titled and any voltage or current discussed in the report should be labeled on an appropriate figure in the report.
The lab reports must be typed and should be the student's original work. Do not copy and paste material from the lab handouts to your lab report. If you use any material by another author (a paper, a book etc.), give proper credit to the original author. Not only is this professional courtesy to do so but is required of you in order to avoid any appearances and occurrences of plagiarism.