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Fall19 Lab Syllabus

This document provides the syllabus for the ECE 210 Lab for Fall 2019 which focuses on building an AM radio receiver over 5 lab sessions. It lists the lab teaching assistants and their sections. The lab meets biweekly on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays depending on the section. Students must complete a prelab assignment due at each lab session and a lab report due one week later. The document outlines the lab policies on attendance, academic integrity, grading and use of protoboards.

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Fall19 Lab Syllabus

This document provides the syllabus for the ECE 210 Lab for Fall 2019 which focuses on building an AM radio receiver over 5 lab sessions. It lists the lab teaching assistants and their sections. The lab meets biweekly on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays depending on the section. Students must complete a prelab assignment due at each lab session and a lab report due one week later. The document outlines the lab policies on attendance, academic integrity, grading and use of protoboards.

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ECE 210 Lab Syllabus (Fall 2019)

Lab Teaching Assistants:


Name Email Section
Binghui Wang [email protected] AB7, AB8, AB9, ABC
Yulun Wu [email protected] AB3, AB4, AB5
Shiyi Yang [email protected] AB2, OL(W5-6)
Dariush Kari [email protected] AB1, AB6, ABA, ABB
John Harvill [email protected] ABD, OL(W4-5,F2-3)
Michael Collins [email protected] ABE

About the Laboratory:


AB1,AB3, AB5, AB2, AB4, AB6 ABA ABB ABE ABD
AB7, AB9 AB8,ABC
Lab 1 Monday, Monday Wednesday, Wednesday Tuesday, Thursday,
Sep.30 Oct. 7 Sep. 25 Oct. 2 Oct. 1 Oct. 3
Report 1 Monday Monday Wednesday Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday,
due Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 2 Oct. 9 Oct. 8 Oct. 10
Lab 2 Monday Monday Wednesday, Wednesday Tuesday, Thursday,
Oct. 14 Oct. 21 Oct. 9 Oct. 16 Oct. 15 Oct. 17
Report 2 Monday Monday Wednesday Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday,
due Oct. 21 Oct. 28 Oct. 16 Oct. 23 Oct. 22 Oct. 24
Lab 3 Monday Monday Wednesday, Wednesday Tuesday, Thursday,
Oct. 28 Nov. 4 Oct. 23 Oct. 30 Oct. 29 Oct. 31
Report 3 Monday Monday Wednesday Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday,
due Nov. 4 Nov. 11 Oct. 30 Nov. 6 Nov. 5 Nov. 7
Lab 4 Monday Monday Wednesday, Wednesday Tuesday, Thursday,
Nov. 11 Nov. 18 Nov. 6 Nov. 13 Nov. 12 Nov. 14
Report 4 Monday Monday Wednesday Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday,
due Nov. 18 Dec. 2 Nov. 13 Nov. 20 Nov. 19 Nov. 21
Lab 5 Monday Monday Wednesday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday,
Dec. 2 Dec. 9 Nov. 20 Dec. 4 Dec. 3 Dec. 5
Report 5 Thursday Thursday Monday Monday Friday, Tuesday,
due Dec. 5 Dec. 12 Dec. 2 Dec. 9 Dec. 6 Dec. 10

This lab is designed to give the student the opportunity to verify theoretical
concepts introduced in lecture (such as frequency response, filtering, modulation,
etc.) and to understand how these concepts relate to real-world systems. It does so
by leading the student through the design of a simple AM radio receiver and
allowing the student to get hands-on experience with equipment common to any
electronics laboratory. Each section meets every other week for 5 lab sessions as
outlined below at the lab room (4072 Electrical and Computer Engineering
Building). The prelab is due in lab. The lab report is due at 6 pm a week after lab
is completed. (Except for report 5)

Lab Time Table:


Section AB1, AB2 AB3, AB4 AB5, AB6 AB7, AB8 AB9, ABC ABA, ABB ABD ABE

Date&Time M 10-12 M 12-2 M 2-4 M 4-6 M 6-8 W 6-8 R 6-8 T 6-8


Turn in lab report:
Reports are turned in the boxes (circled below with blue) on the East Wing of third
floor of ECEB. Each box is assigned to certain sections; details are shown in the
table below.
Section AB1, AB2 AB3, AB4 AB5, AB6 AB7, AB8 AB9, ABC ABE ABA/ABB ABD

Box # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Laboratory Policy:
Lab Reports and Pre-labs:
For every lab session, each student must bring the corresponding lab-handout, that
can be found in the course website (you have to print them out). It contains detailed
instructions for each experiment, along with a prelab assignment. The handout has
space allotted for all necessary data, calculations, graphs, explanations and
comments for both the in-lab and pre-lab exercises. The writing should be clear
(print if needed). Prelabs are due in the lab. Lab reports are due at 7 pm on the
day according to the schedule table, into the dropbox of the TA in charge of
your section (Dropboxes are located on third floor next to Undergraduate lounge,
TAs name and sections are marked on the boxes). Turning into wrong dropbox
will deduct 5 points.
Basic rules of courtesy must be followed when in the lab. Please do not remove any
lab equipment from the lab at any time. Do not bring food or drink into the lab.

Open lab:
Open Lab hour is not meant to be an extension of regular lab hours. Open Lab hour
is dedicated for students who HAVE NOT completed the lab and need additional
help and time.

Demo signature:
Students have to make demo to the TA or lab assistant to show that they have
finished the lab in order to get demo signature. Demo signature is required to
receive full credit. Half credits will be given to the report if no demo signature.

Attendance and arriving late Policy:


Attendance is mandatory; in case of absence ZERO CREDIT will be given for that
lab assignment. Students arriving more than 4 minutes late for a laboratory
session will be deducted 10 points of that lab. Students arriving more than 25
minutes late for a laboratory session will be counted as absence. In case of
illness or any other officially approved reason notify your TA ahead of time and
make arrangements to work in the lab at another time. You will have to provide
documentation of this fact to your TA (e.g., a note from your doctor). Students may
leave early only if finishing lab and agreed by their TA. Penalty will be given to
leaving early without notification.
Student has an exam conflicts with the lab should apply for conflict exam

Academic Integrity:
Although all lab work is done in teams of two or three students, each student has to
turn in their own pre-lab and lab report. If total or partial copy of others work is
detected, you will receive a lower score. The score will be calculated dividing it by
all the students involved in cheating. In case of cheating (make sure use your own
experimental data and let your TA to check your data make sense), ZERO CREDIT
will be given for that lab assignment, and the academic authorities will be noticed.
Experimental data can be shared among the members of the same team, but
comments and explanations should be written individually.
Grading and Late Policy:
Your labs will be graded by the TA's supervising your sections. Any requests for
missing grades, re-grades, etc. should be sent to them. Please try to check your lab
grades on Compass regularly. All late lab reports will be deducted 20 points.
Zero credits will be given if not submitted within two weeks the report was
due.

Protoboards:
Each group of students will be assigned a 2.2 X 6.5 INCH protoboard (see in figure
1), you should keep on yours until the last lab. You are responsible of keeping it in
good shape and bringing it every time your section meets. To keep it inside a little
box (not provided) during transportation is recommended. If you damage or lose the
protoboard, you will be charged the cost of a new one in your student account.

Figure 1. Each thick blue line shown in the protoboard picture above indicates a
common node in the circuit.
Assembling the radio receiver:
In figure 2 we can see each of the subsystems that are part of the AM radio
receiver. Each of the subsystems will be built during lab time. In this diagram it is
indicated the corresponding lab associated to each component. (e.g. the envelope
detector will be built during lab #1, while the IF and the Audio amplifiers will be built
during lab #2 ). Further instructions will be provided in each lab printout.

Figure 2. Schematic of different subsystems of the AM radio receiver

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