Instructors:

• • Robert Bond (rhb@ee.nmt.edu)

  • Andrew Tubesing (tubesing@ee.nmt.edu)

TA's:

• • Eric Makarewicz

  • Nicholas Targhetta
    

Location:

• • A brief introduction for most labs will be held in Workman 116 on the day of the lab. Please be on time.  If a pre-lab was required, turn it in at this time.  Then we will either stay in the digital lab (Workman 116) or possibly  move to the analog lab (Workman 183).  We ask that students refrain from bringing any food or drinks into the EE labs.   You may place drink containers on the bookshelf outside the digital lab.

Lab Notebooks:

• • All laboratory exercises are to be completed in a Comp Book, which will be required starting with  the first lab session. A brief introductory lab will be held during the first lab session.

    Starting with Lab 1, no lab work will be graded unless it is in a proper lab notebook. All lab work is to be completed in ink (either black or blue).

    Mistakes should be crossed out with one line only, not scribbled out. This is standard procedure in industry or academia.  When looking at your lab book at a later time, you may want to know what mistakes you made as well as what you did correctly. Also, you may find out that what you scribbled out is actually not a mistake.

    Only one side of the pages in the lab book should be used for actually writing up the lab. The other side can be used, however, as scratch paper for calculations.

    You must turn in your notebook by the end of each lab session. Your laboratory notebook is to be stored in the wooden cabinet located in the digital lab (Workman 116).

    Before turning in your lab notebook for grading, each section of your just completed exercise should be verified and initialized by a lab assistant.

Format for Lab Notebooks:

• • The first page of your lab notebook is to be reserved for a table of contents. You will add to this table as you complete each lab exercise. Your grade for each lab will be recorded on this page, along with the initials of the grader. After the first week, your table of contents will look something like the following.
     
     
     

    EE101 Lab Table of Contents	Grade
    Lab 1: Ohm's Law, Kirchoff's Laws, and Conservation of Power	8.5/10 cal
    Lab 2: More Resistive Circuits	9/10 cal

    Questions or concerns about lab grades should be brought to the attention of the Lab TA's. If there are any unresolved differences after first doing this, the matter may be brought to the lab instructor.

    Your lab reports should be broken down into the following sections. Each of these should have its own label in the lab write-up.

• • 1. Title to be completed before arriving to the lab
    2. Data should include what the lab asks for, and your findings
    3. Questions should include the questions and answers
    4. Summary

• • Title - the name of the lab exercise

    Data - the data you collect in the lab, along with any calculations you are asked to perform. It is advisable to literally cut out the lab requirements and tape them into your lab notebook, and to complete the data gathering and calculations under these cutouts. You are responsible for providing your own tape and scissors.

    Questions - if applicable, answer the questions following the lab exercise in this section. Again, cut and paste from the lab notebook.

    Summary - required! Write a few sentences summarizing, in your own words, what you did and learned in the lab. Furthermore, if you have any insights on how to make the lab better, please note them here.

    Pre-lab - Pre-labs should be completed on separate paper before you come to lab. Pre-labs that are not completed prior to lab will not receive any credit (which can vary from 10 to 30 percent of the lab grade).

Hints

• • When working with the computers in the EE labs, be sure to save your work often! Any one of a million things could result in you losing your files. Furthermore, if you can't afford to lose something, it is best to have copies of your files on floppy disks. Keep this in mind throughout your career here at New Mexico Tech.

    Do not leave personal items unattended in the lab. We are not immune to theft in the labs.

    Be sure to completely log out of your computer when you are done.