CL-333 UG Lab
General Instructions
Sanjay Mahajani
Jhumpa Adhikari
Partha Sarathi Goswami
Rahul Nabar
Documents on Moodle
• Student instruction
• List of experiments along with names of faculty and staff.
• Lab schedules for experiments.
• Student Batches and Groups
• Lab manuals (one per experiment)
• Experiment videos
• Report and presentation guidelines
General
• Time table Mon and Thu afternoons
• 8 Experiments
• Groups are formed as per the CGPA (average 6.5+-0.2)
• TAs will assist in conducting the experiments
• Be prepared before you come to the lab.
On-line Quiz
• Each experiment has an associated online quiz in moodle.
• This quiz must be attempted by every student before his/her lab session for that
experiment. There will be a penalty if it is attempted after completion of the experiment.
• For an experiment, the quiz can be attempted only once, so make sure you click on the
right experiment.
• Each quiz will have a short duration of about 15 to 30 minutes to complete from the
start.
• The quiz can be attempted anytime before the lab session, but once begun it will
automatically end after the specified duration (15 to 30 minutes).
• Since it is based on the reading material and videos, the students must be well prepared
before starting the quiz.
• The quiz should be attempted in the same week (but before) the experiment day.
• If student fails to score 60% or more then he/she would lose the credit for the
experiment.
Carrying out Experiments
• In the first day the group (of three or four) will perform the experiment and
record data in an observation sheet (in duplicate) given to you by the staff/TAs.
• It is important that each person of the group knows every step in an experiment.
Two examinations (details follow) will assess how each person is able to
independently formulate the solution, set up the experiment, measure, analyse,
interpret and conclude.
• During the experiments faculty will be present to interact with you and clarify
your doubts. They may also quiz you on your preparedness.
• Once you have recorded all your data, be sure that both copies of your datasheet
are signed by all your group members, and by the TA, before you leave the lab.
File the original copy of the observations sheet in the group file maintained by
the Lab Staff, and take the duplicate copy with you (a scan copy subsequently
emailed to all your group members would be most convenient way for you to
share the data) .
• Read safety instructions.
Guidelines for reports
• One report per sub-group needs to be prepared.
• Reports have to be handwritten (no electronic word processing). The graphs must be
hand drawn on an appropriate graph paper (linear, semi-log or log-log). You may use
spreadsheets for calculations, but the tables in the final report must be handwritten.
• Please be sure that your report has the structure and quality described in the report
writing guide. Reports not meeting standards may be rejected leading to a loss of credit.
Please see the report and presentation guide for guidelines on preparing a report.
• You will have to submit the report to the TAs in the following lab day, who will assess it
first. The report will also be reviewed by the faculty.
• You may clarify any doubts regarding the analysis or conclusion with the respective
faculty, who will then be with the next group doing the same experiments.
• Submissions between 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm only. Early or late submissions will not be
accepted.
• Plagiarism strictly not allowed
Final Exam
• Each person will be randomly assigned one of the few (five or six) experiments they have
performed over the previous lab sessions.
• The task will be to carry out an experiment to address the problem posed.
• The task will involve some small activity that has to be completed within one hour.
• After the completion of the task, the student will be provided additional dummy data to
analyse.
• This will be followed by a personal viva (oral examination) conducted by the faculty in
charge.
• In some experiments the viva may be conducted by the faculty during the course of the
experiments as well.
• A report of the analysis has to be submitted after this.
• A common written exam will also be conducted
Few more instructions
• The lab starts at 2.00 pm sharp, so be on time. Even if you are late, you must be present in the lab before
2:05 pm. Students arriving after this will be considered late and will not be allowed to perform the
experiment that day. You will lose credit for that experiment. No exceptions.
• Faculty will spend time with the students during the start of the experiment explaining and quizzing the
preparedness. If a student is found to be unprepared they will be sent back and will miss the turn for doing
the experiment.
• Lab reports must be submitted between 2:30 and 3:30 pm
• The 80% attendance rule of the institute will be strictly followed. Any student with a lower attendance will
get an DX grade (with or without medical certificate).
• The make-up turn is meant for students with genuine medical reasons and with the IITB medical certificate
for absence during the lab turns.
• If you miss an experiment for any other reason, you may be permitted to perform the experiment on an
alternate session subject to the following conditions
• You may do the experiment on your report submission days with another group that has only three other students doing it
• You will, however, not get any credit for the report submission of that group.
• This make-up session is meant only for your practise and learning.
Evaluation policy
Item Weight
Online Quizzes 20%
Reports and Viva 40%
End Sem (Exp) 24%
End Sem (written) 16%
Total 100%
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through digitalization (Industry 4.0)
• Industry 1.0 (Start of 1800):
Production facilities from water and steam
• Industry 2.0 (Start of 1900):
Mass production powered by electrical energy
• Industry 3.0 (1970s):
Introduction of Electronics and IT for automation
• Industry 4.0 (2014+):
Production based on cyber-physical system
Features
• Augmented reality for training and safety
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• Data Analytics
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