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This document provides suggestions for writing reports for the ME4232 course. It recommends that students illustrate the main learning points of the laboratory by explaining how the experiment answered questions and supported hypotheses. Students should include analysis where appropriate, discuss additional experiments conducted, and assumptions made. Graphs should be clearly labeled and parameters found using the method of least squares. Reports should discuss differences between expected and obtained results and keep a succinct focus on analysis rather than raw data or procedures.

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This document provides suggestions for writing reports for the ME4232 course. It recommends that students illustrate the main learning points of the laboratory by explaining how the experiment answered questions and supported hypotheses. Students should include analysis where appropriate, discuss additional experiments conducted, and assumptions made. Graphs should be clearly labeled and parameters found using the method of least squares. Reports should discuss differences between expected and obtained results and keep a succinct focus on analysis rather than raw data or procedures.

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Suggestions for writing ME4232 reports

1. Make sure you understand the main learning points of the laboratory. Write the report so that it illustrates and supports these learning points. How you learned them, and so what. 2. For the experiments on the hydraulic workbench, the main points usually involve testing a hypothesis, and figuring out some constants. In the electrohyraulic control experiments, the main points are about the properties of the various controllers. 3. Explain how the experiment you did answer the question. 4. Include analysis whenever appropriate 5. Discuss the extra experiments that you did 6. Discuss assumptions and whether they are satisfied or violated, How do you know that? 7. Make sure you label the graphs (axes, title and units). 8. When finding parameters, try to use the method of least squares (usually involves plotting something and finding the slope and intercepts). So, you need to know how to manipulate the data so that least squares method can be applied. 9. Discuss the differences between expected results and obtained results, and propose explanations (this means that your original assumptions are violated somehow) 10.Keep the reports succinct repeating the lab procedure in the handout is meaningless. You can summarize the procedure focusing on the rationale of the procedure (point 3). Also, reporting the raw data is not needed when you already plot the data. 11.A picture and/or an equation paint a thousand words.

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