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Brief guidelines for a Lab report EEET2493

Title of the session (you can be creative highlighting your findings)

Student name 1, s123456, Student name 2, s123456, Student name 3, s123456, Names are to be centered in Times (or
Times Roman) 12-point nonboldface. Leave two blank lines before your Abstract

Abstract—Provide a summary of the session. What was done, spacing, in the two-column format. The first line of each
what measurements were taken, brief methods, what calculations, paragraph is to be indented approximately 1/4 inch (approx.
brief conclusion. The Abstract should be approximately 250 0.7 cm), and the entire text is to be justified – that is, flush
words or fewer, italicized, in 10-point Times (or Times Roman.)
Please leave two spaces between the Abstract and the heading left and flush right. Please do not place additional line spacing
of your first section. It should briefly summarize the essence of between paragraphs. Figure and table captions should be
the paper and address the following areas without using specific Helvetica 10-point boldface; callouts should be Helvetica
subsection titles. Objective: Briefly state the problem or issue 9-point nonboldface.
addressed, in language accessible to a general scientific audience.
Technology or Method: Briefly summarize the technological inno-
vation or method used to address the problem. Results: Provide TITLE AND HEADINGS. The main title should be in
a brief summary of the results and findings. Conclusions: Give Times (or Times Roman) 14-point boldface centered over both
brief concluding remarks on your outcomes. Detailed discussion columns. In the main title, please initially capitalize nouns,
of these aspects should be provided in the main body of the pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; do not capitalize
paper. articles, coordinate conjunctions, and prepositions (unless the
Index Terms—keywords, temperature, xxxx equation, etc. title begins with such a word). Initially capitalize only the first
word in first-, second-, and third-order headings. Leave two
I. I NTRODUCTION blank lines before author names(s)/affiliation(s).

W RITE why is important to do this experiment, what

background is needed, what technology has been used
in this session, you can also talk briefly about what other
II. M ATERIALS AND M ETHODS
List of materials used and how these were used / connected
technology exist but was not used here. Then explain briefly (good opportunity to present block diagrams to show connec-
how the experiment was conducted, what measurements were tions). Use good drafting practice when producing figures,
taken, what technology is used (acquisition system, sensors, graphs, drawings, or schematics and label them for easy
software), if calculations were done, what calculations were reference. Include schematics for any circuits. If using latex
done, what decisions were made, and what the final result use ” cite” command to cite references [1].
was (explained in a concise way with words). Writing good What calculations were done. List and number your equa-
reports requires much thought, organization and editing tions (Eq. 1) to be able to referred them in the text. Equations
but the rewards are great. Those students who can master are centered and the equation numbers are right justified. The
good technical writing skills will find greater success and equation number is placed in ( ). Be sure that the symbols in
opportunity as professionals in industry. your equation have been defined. See example Equation 1.
You should become proficient at using your word processor
for such items as page numbers, formatting tables, creating F = ma (1)
graphs, inserting Greek symbols, and using superscripts and
Where F equals to force, m to mass and a to acceleration.
subscripts.

Remember that once you graduate, industry will require III. R ESULTS
you to write well. In some cases, you will be involved Show plots of any data collected and describe with words
in writing proposals or possibly final design reports. It is what your plots are showing. Describe the relationship
possible that you will be required to assist in writing user or between variables and time. Remember to number all your
maintenance manuals. Certainly, you will always be required figures. This is the most critical part affect the technical
to write short reports and memos detailing your activities. It achievement.
is our objective to train you to write well by the time you No picture, table, schematic, or graph should appear without
have graduated. An excellent style manual for science writers a name (generally of the form Fig.1 o Table 1). None should
is [3]. appear without a reference to them by name in the main
You should become proficient at using the equation editor body of the writing. All figures and tables must be discussed
(Word has a built-in equation editor that can be accessed by in the text, including what it is, significant observations, and
inserting object. or you can use Latex editor). analysis.
Capitalize Table and Fig. any time they are accompanied by
Normal text is to be single-spaced in 10-point Times specific table or figure numbers. Examples: The measured data
or Times Roman (or similar font), with 12-point interline are plotted in Fig. 2. The figure shows a linear relationship
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in..... The table shows vs. The data of Table 3 A PPENDIX A

H AND CALCULATIONS ( OR NAME YOUR TITLE FOR
APPENDIX SUBTITLE )
Student Max Temperature
aabbbccc 35◦ List any extra evidence such as photos of the session, that
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TABLE I calculations, extra graphs and plots, simulation results, etc.
T EMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS PERFORMED FOR SESSION 1.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors would like to thank...
Use your word processor to make real tables (i.e., boxed in,
etc.). Center all tables and include a heading and caption with
the appropriate table number below each table. For example, R EFERENCES
Table 1: Temperature measurements performed for session 1. [1] R. S. Kulkarni, S. L. Chavan, and D. B. Talange,
Figures must be centered, and the figure number and caption “A green house electricity and heat generation: Solar
is centered beneath the figure. For example, Figure 1. PV/thermal panel-review,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Industrial
Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), May 2015, pp. 680–
682. DOI: 10.1109/IIC.2015.7150828.
Examples of references:

Example of data book:

[2] National Operational Amplifiers Databook. Santa Clara:
National Semiconductor Corporation, 1995 Edition, p. I-54.
Example of textbook:
[3]M. Young, The Technical Writers Handbook. Mill Valley,
CA: University Science, 1989.
Example of scientific journal paper:
[4] J.W. Smith, L.S. Alans and D.K. Jones, An operational
Fig. 1. Illustrations, graphs, and photographs may fit across both columns, if amplifier approach to active cable modeling, IEEE
necessary. Your artwork must be in place in the article.
Transactions on Modeling, vol. 4, no. 2, 1996, pp. 128-
132.
Always spell out table or Table. Give abbreviation of Example of conference paper proceedings:
Figure, i.e., Fig., when used in the middle to end of sentence,
but spell it out when used at the very start of the sentence. [5] J.W. Smith, L.S. Alans and D.K. Jones, Active cable
models for lossy transmission line circuits, in Proc. 1995
All graphs must be done with a computer (i.e., spreadsheet IEEE Modeling Symposium, 1996, pp. 1086-89.
software such as Microsoft Excel or even Matlab.). Do not
include hand drawn graphs unless specifically instructed to do Example of Internet web page:
so.
Include a leading zero when a numbers magnitude is less than [6] Approximate material properties in isotropic materials.
1 (use 0.83 instead of writing .83). Milpitas, CA: Specialty Engineering Associates, Inc. web site:
Use your word processor for Greek symbols for common www.ultrasonic.com, downloaded Aug. 20, 2001.
engineering quantities as β, π, γ ,Ω . List and number all bibliographical references at the end
of your paper in 9 or 10 point Times, with 10-point interline
spacing. When referenced within the text, enclose the citation
IV. D ISCUSSION AND S UMMARY number in square brackets, for example [1].
Use IEEE format. Cite any external work that you used (data
Discuss any interesting result related to the materials used sheets, text books, Wikipedia articles, . . . ). If you get a
or to any claim from the introduction. Discuss your measure- formula from a Wikipedia article, you must cite the article,
ments using engineering terms (accuracy, precision, resolution, giving the title, the URL, and the data you accessed the
etc). Give technical conclusions. Restate the main objectives article as a minimum. If you copy a figure, not only must you
and how or to what degree they were achieved. What prin- cite the article you copied from, but you must give explicit
ciples, laws and/or theory were validated by the experiment? figure credit in the caption for the figure: This image copied
Describe some applications of your results and comment any from . . . . If you modify a figure or base your figure on
possible recommended future work. one that has been published elsewhere, you still need to give
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credit in the caption: This image adapted from . . . .